In Konoha Year 54, the young rookies were about to enroll in school and were excitedly preparing. Meanwhile, in that same chaotic space, someone was looking utterly miserable. Tsk, tsk...
Qing Wu was shriveled all over, his eye sockets sunken.
He looked like a dried corpse, lying there with black blood seeping from the corner of his mouth. He was motionless, as though he had been dead for ages, except for the occasional faint rise and fall of his chest.
"Fuck... I nearly got myself killed."
After who knew how long, Qing Wu finally regained consciousness. He was terribly weak, but the first thing out of his mouth was a curse. Well, if he could curse, he was fine.
"I really went looking for death this time. I nearly ended up completely finished—reduced to dust!"
"I can't do that again."
"But damn, did I hit the jackpot this time! Hahaha!"
After receiving the inheritance, Qing Wu had rushed home and immediately announced that he was going into seclusion to cultivate.
Although Qing Wu was good-natured, the Main Family's authority was deeply ingrained in everyone. The household servants and branch family guards hurried to prepare his supplies.
Qing Wu's body had been refined from a fragment of the Ten-Tails and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's remains, along with some Chakra scavenged from Six Paths' two fine sons who loved fighting each other. Through the Demon Refining Pot's power, most of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's abilities had been preserved.
The Otsutsuki's pure Byakugan, Byakugan Pressure, the power of Yin-Yang Release, levitation and flight, Daikokuten, Sukunabikona, Space-Time Portal, and so on had all been mentioned before.
The Ten-Tails had also given him two trump cards: the Rinne Sharingan on his forehead and the power of the Tailed Beast Bomb. Unfortunately, since it had only been a fragment of the Ten-Tails, what he inherited was limited.
He had not fully inherited the ultimate technique, Infinite Tsukuyomi. He had only inherited a limited Tsukuyomi world that required a vessel.
"I think this is the real miracle technique. Creating a world... maybe it even connects to a parallel world. Or perhaps it creates a mirror world."
That was what made it truly incredible: a technique that created a parallel world. Obito Uchiha's trial run in Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie had absolutely blown Qing Wu away.
"What would happen if I used the Rinne Sharingan as the vessel?"
At that moment, Qing Wu had a sudden idea. What would happen if he used the Rinne Sharingan between his brows, which had no Dojutsu, as the vessel?
Just like the parallel world containing Menma that Obito Uchiha had created. Once that idea appeared, he could no longer suppress it. It kept circling through Qing Wu's mind.
Qing Wu knew this experiment would be dangerous. But if it succeeded, he would have a pocket world. A pocket world! Just thinking about it was irresistible!
The Demon Refining Pot also gave an affirmative answer: it was possible, and the sooner, the better. Once he grew up and the eye between his brows matured, its Dojutsu would become fixed. Trying to change it then would cause the eye to collapse. Besides, creating a "Boundary" was only relatively easy in a lower-dimensional world like this.
"Let's do it! If I die, I die. If I survive, I'll live forever!"
Finally, Qing Wu gritted his teeth and decided to go through with it! He would use the Rinne Sharingan without a Dojutsu as the vessel for the limited Tsukuyomi world. Little Qing Wu really knew how to push his luck.
With the Demon Refining Pot there to back him up, Qingwu was no longer afraid.
He studied the Refinement method the Demon Refining Pot had provided.
And so, he tried inching closer to the core of the Rinne Sharingan between his brows. Merely attempting to approach it had already consumed a tremendous amount of his mental energy.
"I've killed countless brain cells lately. If this keeps up, I'm seriously afraid I'll work myself to death."
Qing Wu was soon drenched in sweat, his face deathly pale. He had exhausted too much mental energy! There was nothing he could do; he was still young. It seemed that today's attempt would have to end there. And so his days became a cycle of recovering, trying, and resting.
In fact, without realizing it, Qingwu had repeatedly awakened his Otsutsuki bloodline, and his body had steadily grown stronger.
A month later, Qing Wu finally reached the core of the Rinne Sharingan. Over that month, he had become many times stronger.
He had shown his face occasionally during that period to let everyone know he was still alive. But Qing Wu also knew he was running out of time. The Ninja Academy would be recruiting new students in the second half of the year. Naturally, he had already received his admission notice!
He therefore had to finish his experiment before the new students enrolled. Once school began, it would be difficult to find so much free time again. Suddenly requesting a long leave would attract far too much attention!
Because he belonged to the Hyuga Main House!
That day, Qing Wu's consciousness finally reached the place he had dreamed of for the past month. A great blood-red sphere of light! The core of the Rinne Sharingan.
"This thing? I spent a month fighting it, and I nearly couldn't beat it!"
In the end, he spent another week successfully connecting to the great sphere of light. Using the supernatural ability Refinement method within the Demon Refining Pot, he completely refined the Rinne Sharingan and gained control of it. Then he began inscribing its sole supernatural ability: Limited Tsukuyomi!
This drained even more mental energy than approaching the core had. Fortunately, his mental strength had improved tremendously over the previous month. Better still, having completely refined the Rinne Sharingan, he could now control it as naturally as moving his own fingers.
Of course, that only applied within his mental space. In the outside world, little Qing Wu was still far too weak. He probably could not even activate the eye. It was not merely that his body was too weak at present; he could not possibly supply enough Chakra either. The instant he tried to activate it, it might drain him into a dried husk!
Another month of dull, monotonous days passed like that. At last, the inscription was finished. Through the supernatural ability refinement method, he had completely inscribed this ability. But one final step remained: activating it once to test it.
To see its ultimate effect!
He had never expected that a single test would go horribly wrong!
At that instant, it felt as though a vacuum cleaner had appeared inside him, sucking dry the vast amount of Chakra his awakening physique had produced over the past few years. Then it moved on to other targets, draining every last drop of his vital essence. Apparently, even that was not enough. It was still drawing out the very source of his life.
"Holy shit... is this thing going to suck me dry...?"
Qing Wu could already feel his life force steadily slipping away. But he no longer had the strength to stop it. All he could do was frantically stuff supplements and soldier pills into his mouth.
He hoped they would slow the loss of his life force. Unfortunately, it was futile! Qing Wu's efforts accomplished nothing.
For a moment, the fear of death filled his heart.
"The Immortal Emperor died before his great undertaking was even half complete..."
Qing Wu had collapsed on the ground, little more than skin and bones. He truly seemed close to death! In an instant, hunger and exhaustion overwhelmed him.
With tremendous difficulty, he wriggled toward his final hope: the Akimichi Clan's Secret Medicine, though it was only a Curry Pill.
After barely managing to swallow it, drowsiness swept over him. Qing Wu could no longer hold on! He passed out completely!
"I can't fall asleep..."
A tiny golden figure floated amid a stretch of chaos. As he surveyed the surrounding chaos, Qing Wu's spiritual form surged with power. "I never imagined that creating an Inner Heaven and Earth would consume so much energy.
"If not for that last wisp of creation power from the Demon Refining Pot... I really would've croaked. That was close..."
With the Rinne Sharingan serving as its vessel, he had unexpectedly managed to create his own world, giving it physical substance. But this world was extremely fragile, as though it might shatter at any moment, its source power deficient.
"Forget it. As long as I've created a world, that's enough. I shouldn't get greedy. Keeping it as stable as possible is best. A solid foundation is what lets you develop properly later. I can't chase size..."
Qing Wu gritted his teeth and stamped his foot, abandoning any further expansion of the world and concentrating instead on solidifying the physical world he already had.
The world was a little small: 1,296.00 meters in diameter, just over a kilometer. It did not even meet the minimum size requirement for the very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very smallest Ganges-sand world.
It fell short of even many spaces, hyperspaces, minor dimensions, secret realms, and half-worlds. Still, its classification was genuinely that of a world.
At its center grew a sapling half a meter tall—the God Tree.
Qing Wu had created the world, so the consciousness of the world-supporting divine tree was also his. Just like Zhong Shan's root consciousness in Immortality, they were two beings sharing one existence. Was this the "Heavenly Dao"?
"Fuck it! Who cares if this world is tiny? I started out with a whole world! Who else can say that? Hahaha..."
(The Demon Refining Pot: Pah! If I hadn't given you a wisp of world source power, you think you could've created a world? Dream on.)
Now I've got nothing to fear.
At worst, I can hide in the Small World Boundary and lie low.
Once I've built myself up...
I'll steamroll the Ninja World.
Ahahahaha...
(The Demon Refining Pot: ...With ambitions this pathetic, can this old man get a different host?)
Most importantly, all the Chakra Qingwu extracted would be stored in the Small World. He had no need to extract it only when he wanted to use it, so his Chakra reserves were constantly growing...
When the Ninja World's ninja used Chakra, they extracted it as needed. Apart from the Tailed Beasts, the speed and quantity of Chakra extraction generally varied according to physique and strength.
The so-called Chakra extraction method was a process of continuously combining mental energy and physical energy, allowing the body to gradually adapt—or, in other words, allowing Chakra to permeate the body and its cells.
It was a little like a wizard's radiation.
The more deeply Chakra permeated the body, the faster Chakra could be extracted. That was how powerful individuals emerged. Chakra itself was an extension of mental will and physical constitution.
That was also why, through the Byakugan, the stronger a person was, the more fiercely the blue flames of Chakra around their body burned.
Aside from Tsunade's Yin Seal, the Ninja World also had other methods of storing Chakra, such as vessels: Sunagakure's Sealing Cauldron, the Cloud Village's Amber Purifying Pot and Treasure Gourd...
There was also the Guardian Ninja Kazuma, who had collected Chakra leaked by the Nine-Tails and sealed it inside his son Sora, creating a pseudo-Jinchūriki.
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