Mechanism

Within the turbulence of spacetime, purple light twisted frantically.

I know not how much time passed, followed by a sudden, violent sensation of weightlessness.

"Bang!"

The four of them slammed heavily into a patch of mud, the air thick with the pungent scent of blood and the rot of a primeval forest.

What met their eyes were ancient, towering trees that blotted out the sky, and a bleak crescent moon hidden behind lead-gray clouds. The chakra fluctuations permeating the air were wild, primitive, and saturated with the iron-blooded aura of slaughter and turmoil.

This is the Warring States Period!

Moreover, judging by the scattered corpses of ninjas clad in ancient laminated armor, this is the end of the Warring States Period!

The eve before Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha would end the chaotic era and establish Konoha!

The exact year remains unknown.

"Cough, cough... Pfft!"

The moment Yue landed, he spat out a large mouthful of blood.

His left eye was dim to the extreme, and blood smeared most of his mask, but he could not spare a thought for his own injuries. Instead, he immediately closed his eyes to perceive the "Law of Rules" that was omnipresent in the surroundings.

One second, two seconds.

Quiet.

Deadly, absolute silence.

The malice that had felt like needles on his back in the 51st year of Konoha, as if the entire world were locked onto him, had—the moment he crossed the spacetime channel and landed on this Warring States soil—vanished without a trace, like ice melting in the sun!

Probability of successful survival: 100%!

"Hahaha... Hahahahaha!"

Yue Uchiha tilted his head back, leaning against a rough tree trunk, and laughed wantonly, uncaring that the exertion tore at his internal injuries.

"Yue? Are you alright? Your eye is bleeding so much..."

Hikari knelt on the ground, worried, her hands moving in a flustered mess as she used her sleeve to wipe the blood from his face.

"I am fine, Hikari. I am better than fine!"

Yue grabbed Hikari's hand, his single eye burning with extreme madness and ecstasy.

"I have verified it! I have thoroughly verified the underlying logic of this World Correction Force!"

"The 'World Correction Force' of different spacetimes has independent erasure mechanisms! It is a dead program that only targets the script of the current era!"

"In the 51st year of Konoha, they were untouchable core NPCs; the World Will had to watch them die."

Yue lowered his head, looking at the couple lying in the mud, whose souls he had forcibly locked with Yin Release to prevent them from dissipating.

"But! When we bring them to the end of the Warring States Period decades ago, they become 'stowaways' not governed by the script of this era!"

"In the historical script of the Warring States, the names 'Minato Namikaze' and 'Kushina Uzumaki' do not exist, so the World Will does not care whether they live or die, nor will it descend with malice to erase us!"

This meant that as long as one took "those destined to die" away from their original spacetime, one could perfectly exploit the bug in the Correction Force!

As long as he did not return the couple to the 51st year of Konoha to influence the plot, this world would not cross the river of time to hunt him down!

"Hikari, do you understand what this means?"

Yue steadied his rapid breathing and moved the bodies of the couple into a relatively dry tree hollow. His hands immediately lit up with pale green medical chakra and the glow of Yin Release, beginning to stabilize their shattered physical and spiritual forms.

"It means..." Hikari gripped her short blade, scanning the forest of the late Warring States Period with vigilance, "that we can 'snatch people' from other eras whenever we want?"

"Exactly! Not just snatching people; we can go to any time node to 'restock'!"

Yue looked at Minato's golden hair, a dangerously sharp curve forming at the corner of his mouth.

"We can rescue those geniuses destined to die and seize those Kekkei Genkai fated to be destroyed. As long as we drag them into the spacetime channel at the final moment, we can build an 'Undead Legion' unbound by any destiny!"

Furthermore, this would not be the neutered Impure World Reincarnation, but the complete physical bodies capable of exerting 100% of their strength.

Having survived multiple life-and-death crises, he had also discovered three rules of the "Correction Force."

First, the Absolute Mainline and Fault Tolerance Mechanism (verified multiple times).

The core nodes of the main plot are iron laws; forcibly obstructing them will inevitably lead to ruthless erasure by the Correction Force.

However, provided the "established outcome" is not altered, a certain degree of "wool-gathering" is permitted.

As long as the deviation does not cross the line, this world program will automatically apply patches, using various coincidences to "round out" the plot.

Second, the Independent Spacetime Erasure Law (currently being proven).

The Correction Force of different spacetimes is not interconnected; it only monitors the script of the current era.

A person destined to be "deleted" in one spacetime becomes a legal "black household" that the Correction Force cannot identify once they cross into another. The Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki before him are the perfect living proof.

Third, the Non-Plot Sandbox Blind Spot (verified multiple times).

For non-mainline plots (such as the Rōran theatrical version or side plots that do not affect the main story) or corners and fragments not recorded by the "plot," the Correction Force is as blind as a bat.

In these sandbox blind spots, no matter how much he stirs up trouble or courts death, he will not trigger any alarms.

"However, there is still a core loop in the second rule that needs verification..."

Yue narrowed his eyes slightly, a flash of fanatical thirst for knowledge gleaming in their depths.

What if he brought Minato and his wife back to the original timeline of Konoha Year 51?

Once the established "death node" had passed, would this rigid program still issue a deletion command to two ghosts who had already been marked as "cleared" in this spacetime?

Would it ignore them, or would it trigger an even more terrifying logical collapse?

"There is no opportunity to investigate this just yet."

Yue withdrew his gaze, temporarily suppressing this dangerous conjecture in the back of his mind.

At the very least, he had to wait until these two figures were out of mortal danger before he would have the capital to initiate this final experiment.

"First, find a safe place to settle them. Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki... these two will be our top-tier combat reserves in the future. Besides, my left eye needs to recover."

The recent Night of the Nine-Tails had not only exhausted all the ocular power stored in his left eye, but the Yin Seal was also completely drained; if not for the tiny bit still stored in his right eye, he would be completely blind by now.

In short, he had become a blind man once again.

Under collisions of this magnitude, his ocular power depleted far too quickly.

Even with the large amount stored in the Yin Seal, it was still a drop in the bucket.

As for the World Malice, even though he had reduced it significantly by returning the Nine-Tails' chakra, the shift in survival rate from 99% to 100% had still cost him the majority of his ocular power.

Yue stood up and put his mask back on.

Yue Uchiha's original plan had been to shuttle to any random timeline and then use the Dragon Vein to travel back, but since he was in this era, he had a reason to linger.

Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha!

The two strongest individuals below the Six Paths level in the pre-ninja era (excluding Boruto).

He just didn't know if this was their childhood or their middle age.

"Hikari, take that red-haired woman. Be gentle; the vitality within her could dissipate at any moment."

"Understood." Hikari nodded obediently, biting her heavy short sword in her mouth as she carefully hoisted Kushina Uzumaki onto her back. Yue, meanwhile, shouldered Minato Namikaze.

The two traveled through the dense primeval forest for about an hour.

The natural environment of the Warring States Period was extremely harsh, but precisely because of that, there were plenty of hidden places. Relying on the remaining insight of his right eye, Yue found a deep, natural limestone cave behind a secluded waterfall.

"Earth Style: Earth Wall!"

Yue performed hand seals with one hand, raising two flat stone beds in the depths of the cave, and then set up three layers of concealment barriers at the entrance to block chakra and scent.

After finishing all this, Yue leaned against the rock wall, panting heavily, nearly drained of all strength.

He laid Minato and Kushina flat on the stone beds and, by the faint light of a Fire Release flame ignited at his fingertips, carefully examined the condition of these two "corpses."

The situation was even worse than he had imagined.

The Nine-Tails' massive claws had pierced through both of their chests, causing severe damage to their internal organs; if they were ordinary ninjas, they would have been dead long ago.

Because Kushina was of the Uzumaki Clan, her constitution was special; even with the Tailed Beast extracted and her chest pierced, there was still a trace of extremely weak cellular activity holding on.

Minato Namikaze was in an even worse state. Although Yue had forcibly severed the connection between his soul and the Death God and pulled it back into his body, he had still been eroded by the Death God's aura, not to mention the massive wound on his body.

If not for Yue's high proficiency in Yin Release, their souls would have already dissipated into the Pure Land.

"Such heavy injuries..."

Hikari stood to the side, looking at the shocking blood holes in their chests.

"Yue, even if you used Yin Release to lock their souls and their final breath, this physical body is already 'dead.' How do you plan to revive them?"

"Conventional medical ninjutsu is useless, of course. Even the Mystical Palm Technique cannot bring the dead back to life."

Yue took a sealing scroll from his robes, which contained the "Hashirama Cell Serum" he had traded from Orochimaru.

"Fatal wounds on the physical body must be filled with extreme vitality—that is, Yang Release."

Just like Naruto saving Guy after the Eight Inner Gates, Chiyo's One's Own Life Reincarnation, or the Rinnegan's Samsara Heavenly Life.

Extreme Yang Release could truly resurrect a dead body.

Yue looked at the green serum in his hand, his brows furrowing tightly.

"Although Orochimaru's Hashirama Cell Serum has been improved, it possesses extremely strong aggression."

"Minato and Kushina are currently in a near-death state and have absolutely no resistance."

"If I inject this directly, the most likely outcome isn't the healing of their wounds, but them being instantly devoured by the Wood Release Cells and turning into two large trees."

Hikari tilted her head: "Then what should we do?"

"We need top-tier Yang Release. This depends on whether the Senju Clan is willing to wade into these muddy waters, and time is very tight."

He hoped that Hashirama Senju had already grown up by this point in time.