Devour and Merge

"Where am I? Didn't I die?" Chen Feng looked at his surroundings and spoke.

It looked like outer space, pitch black, yet surrounded by many points of light swirling around him. Chen Feng clearly remembered that he had died—struck by lightning.

Chen Feng was a man with memories of two lifetimes. In his first life, he was a hitman who had killed many, only to be murdered by the person he loved—a woman who sought vengeance for the parents he had killed.

His final moments made him deeply realize the horror of human nature; that a person could spend eight years living as a spouse with their enemy just for the sake of revenge was truly terrifying.

He thought death would be the end of it, but after reincarnating, he retained the memories of his past life. This made him unable to trust anyone easily, until she appeared.

She was a girl who lived in fantasies. They met at a trade fair, as her father, Huang Biao, had business dealings with Chen Feng's company.

Huang Yun was a girl who loved anime and romance stories. Ever since they met, she had always dragged Chen Feng along to watch various touching anime, novels, and movies.

Seeing her laugh and cry over the stories in those films, Chen Feng's heart slowly thawed, and he began to find joy and happiness with her. But just as they were preparing to get married, Huang Yun was kidnapped.

During the rescue, Chen Feng nearly died, but Huang Yun shielded him and saved his life, only to die in his arms. This drove Chen Feng to madness. He exhausted every resource to track down the mastermind, only to discover it was Huang Yun's own father, who had orchestrated the scheme to annex Chen Feng's company.

After Chen Feng infiltrated Huang Biao's home, planted explosives, and detonated them, he was escaping in a plane when the sky suddenly seemed to tear open, accompanied by thunder and lightning.

Seeing the weather, Chen Feng prepared to find a suitable place for an emergency landing. He barely managed to land, but the lightning grew more frequent. Chen Feng muttered, "Damn it, so noisy. If you've got the guts, strike me!"

Who would have thought that he hadn't gone far before he was actually struck. In that instant, ten thousand "grass mud horses" galloped through his heart. He lost consciousness, but before he did, he felt himself being sucked into that tear in the sky.

Thinking back to being struck by lightning, Chen Feng muttered, "I must be dead, so I must be a soul now. But what are these points of light?"

Chen Feng touched a point of light with his finger, and unexpectedly, it rushed toward his forehead and merged into his body. Then, all the other points of light followed suit, merging into his brow.

With each point of light that merged, a scene flashed through Chen Feng's mind, and his soul was strengthened. He felt his soul growing more powerful with every integration.

When all the light points had merged, Chen Feng felt his soul had ascended to an unprecedented level of strength. He also realized these points were actually the soul fragments of someone named Otsutsuki Koshiki.

From the fragmented memories, Chen Feng learned that Koshiki was a prince of the Otsutsuki Clan. While traveling through space to find his sister, Princess Kaguya, he was ambushed by someone named Otsutsuki Momoshiki and fell into a space storm, dying with his soul shattered.

At this moment, his brow split open, forming an eye. Once formed, the eye emitted a white light, which then generated a black hole. Before Chen Feng could react, he was sucked in and lost consciousness again. At that moment, the eye on his forehead carried his soul into the Naruto World.

It found the unborn Asura, a blood relative of Koshiki's sister, Princess Kaguya, and entered the body of Uzumaki Kushina, merging with Asura's soul.

It turned out that a technique originally cast by Otsutsuki Koshiki had activated. This was a technique that used his own bloodline to activate the White Eye to search for his closest kin. It was within his White Eye, but he had been ambushed and killed halfway through the casting, causing the technique to go dormant. However, when Chen Feng devoured Otsutsuki Koshiki's soul and generated the White Eye, the dormant technique began to function again.

It pulled Chen Feng into the world where Otsutsuki Kaguya currently resided—the Naruto World.

However, even after devouring Otsutsuki Koshiki's soul fragments, Chen Feng did not have enough power to perform space travel in a soul state. It was a miracle he could keep his soul from being destroyed by the spatial turbulence; some damage was inevitable.

Therefore, upon arriving in the Naruto World, the bloodline within the White Eye instinctively sought out the unborn reincarnation of Asura, whose bloodline and soul were the most similar, merging with him to repair the deficiencies in his own soul and allow for reincarnation.

Kushina paused for a moment and muttered, "It felt like something just entered my body, but I don't feel anything wrong. Hmm, it must be the Nine-Tails being jealous because I'm going to be a mother. That must be it. Forget it, no point arguing with a grumpy fox. Better get to cooking; Minato will be home soon, I need to give him a surprise." With that, she continued preparing dinner.

Inside her, the Nine-Tails thought, "..."

In truth, when Chen Feng entered Kushina, the Nine-Tails felt as if it had been invaded. But when it probed with its spiritual energy, it sensed nothing unusual, leading the Nine-Tails to believe its perception had been affected by that crazy woman, Kushina.

The more it thought, the angrier it became. Today's bad mood was Kushina's fault, today's poor perception was Kushina's fault, and today's sluggish chakra was all Kushina's fault. In short, everything bad was Kushina's fault.

Though unwilling, it was helpless and could only curse fiercely, "That damn crazy woman." In a fit of rage, it released its chakra to disrupt Kushina's.

However, the Nine-Tails soon discovered more chains emerging from Kushina, feeling the seal on its body grow heavier. After its released chakra was suppressed back, it heard Kushina's voice.

"Nine-Tails, what are you going crazy for? Don't act up for no reason and disturb my cooking. Who does this grumpy personality take after! Ah... it's already so late, I need to hurry, Minato is coming back."

Afterward, Kushina said to the Nine-Tails, "That's enough, Nine-Tails, don't make any more trouble. I'm going to cook, we'll talk next time, bye." Silence followed, and the Nine-Tails could only let out a frustrated roar beneath the reinforced seal.

As Chen Feng entered the fetus of Asura's reincarnation, the White Eye on his brow went dormant, which was why the Nine-Tails and Kushina had not discovered anything unusual.

Chen Feng's soul wanted to merge with Asura's because it was too incomplete to reincarnate, and Asura's soul actively merged with him because it, too, was incomplete.

Between these two broken souls lay a third, complete little soul, though it was new and blank.

Chen Feng and Asura's souls could only merge by integrating into this little soul, so the two fragments merged into it together.

Once the two broken souls entered the little soul, the tiny, newborn spirit grew rapidly and became powerful.

During this process of soul strengthening, the memory fragments deep within the soul were also being merged and processed.

These fragments contained Chen Feng's two lifetimes and Otsutsuki Koshiki's thousand-year memories.

They also held Asura's thousand-year reincarnations and his thousand-year fate with Indra.

These fragments held sorrow, joy, hatred, and love... Although these fragments lacked consciousness, the impact on Chen Feng was immense, causing his consciousness to become unstable and on the verge of annihilation.

Just as Chen Feng was about to collapse, the White Eye on his brow protected his soul and consciousness.

It extracted the emotions from the memories within the fragments—feelings of joy, being moved, saving lives, killing, hatred, and so on.

Once these emotions were extracted, only the memories remained, devoid of feeling, no longer causing him to experience the pain or joy firsthand.

Chen Feng only absorbed the memories, like watching a movie, and they could no longer affect his consciousness. His consciousness finally stabilized, allowing him to absorb the vast amount of information.

The extracted emotions, however, split into two extremes, swirling and merging.

The positive, joyful emotions gathered on one side, emitting a faint white light, while the negative, hateful emotions gathered on the other, emitting a faint dark light.

When all the emotions had merged, they formed two small figures with the same appearance as the fetus, yet they were two distinct individuals: one gentle and refined, the other filled with malice.

At this point, Chen Feng's own appearance had changed drastically. Once his consciousness stabilized and fully merged with the newborn soul, his appearance and physique became perfectly aligned with the fetus.

The two small figures looked at each other; the refined one smiled and nodded at the malicious one, who ignored him entirely, turned away, and dove into Chen Feng's soul, disappearing. The refined one didn't get angry, just shook his head helplessly and followed, disappearing into Chen Feng's soul as well.

As Chen Feng's soul merged with the fetus, the fetus's body slowly began to change. First, a crack slowly formed between its brows, and an eye began to gestate. As the fusion progressed, the crack widened, and the eye within became increasingly distinct—it was a White Eye.

The cells within his body grew increasingly active, carrying a potent aura of vitality; this immense life force made the fetus appear as robust as a strong young man. No, it was even more powerful than the vitality of someone in their prime.

Beyond this supercharged life force, the blood cells within his body also carried a formidable sealing power, one that was constantly strengthening as a chain faintly began to take shape.

As time slowly drifted by, this chain gradually formed and pierced through his entire body, causing his blood to flow as if a chain were circulating endlessly within his veins.

Furthermore, the level of activity and the intensity of the life force within his cells were such that even if he were stabbed, he would recover instantaneously.

The White Eye on his forehead, between his brows, had also fully gestated and taken form. At this moment, Chen Feng awoke, and simultaneously, a force began to push him upward.

He knew then that his new life was about to begin.