As fierce battles erupted on the battlefields of the First Division and Fifth Division alike, within the Allied Shinobi Forces' main camp...
Houka lay in his tent, devoid of breath, like a meticulously crafted... wax figure.
Yet beneath that tranquil exterior, his spiritual world was a raging sea!
At one moment, towering waves crashed; the next, flames blazed into the heavens; then the earth shook and mountains trembled, gales howled, and thunder roared with terrifying force!
Houka's spiritual projection sat amid this apocalyptic scene, his eyes closed as he breathed slowly and felt it all. He seemed detached from the horrifying spectacle, yet also seemed to stand at the very heart of the apocalypse.
After a long while, Houka's spiritual projection slowly opened his eyes. At last, he understood what the Sage of Six Paths' so-called insight into power truly was.
At first, Houka had thought the Sage of Six Paths' power was simply the Sage's Eyes and the Sage Body. But Houka possessed neither the Rinnegan nor a Sage Body, so there had been no reason for the Sage of Six Paths to give him insights into either the Sage Body or the Sage's Eyes.
Yet after passing through life and death, Houka suddenly understood!
The Sage Body and the Sage's Eyes were merely manifestations of power after it had taken form. The true essence of power was "principle"—the principles of all things!
"Touch the principles of all things, and control the myriad phenomena!"
The Sage of Six Paths' insight into power that had been given to Houka was, in essence, an insight into the principles of all things!
The moment he realized this, Houka instantly felt as though he had become refined, sophisticated, and high-class—like he had been reborn, risen from poverty, and bought a two-hundred-square-meter villa in