Just as crystalline matter developed self-organizing characteristics under specific conditions, genetic fragments always tended to undergo mutations beneficial to their own continuation...
Everything in nature followed its own laws, resisting the cosmic law of ever-expanding entropy even as it reproduced and passed on its legacy.
Though this "will," which objectively influenced the course of matter's development, seemed fundamentally different from the consciousness carbon-based lifeforms had grown accustomed to, when Director Yamada, as a pioneer, first attempted to touch upon those "ultimate truths" hidden in the smallest details, a powerful, heartbeat-like throb instantly seized his soul, making him shudder uncontrollably!
—Through the temporary interface opened during Uchiha Fugaku's soul transfer, Soji's gaze instantly crossed endless ages. For the first time, he caught hold of chakra's pulse, as well as the past and present stretching across a thousand years of history!
The soul mark created by the Otsutsuki Clan had long since evolved into some kind of natural law permeating the entire Shinobi World. It not only altered the objective world, directly or indirectly, but even affected the patterns of thought of every independent individual.
Including Soji himself, no one could accurately define this "mark" using their familiar worldview. But one thing was certain: compared with the likes, dislikes, benefits, and harms perceived by short-lived species, the "chakra will" created by Kaguya more closely resembled the formless, vast process through which all things evolved as seas turned to fields and white clouds became pale dogs.
Over the past thousand years, countless people caught up in the situation had often regarded it as part of changes in the natural environment. Thus, even when standing amid periods of violent historical upheaval, they had merely glimpsed a leopard through a tube, utterly unaware of the truth behind events.
Only people like Director Yamada, who through