Kaleidoscope Sharingan is not as good as Six Tomoe Rinnegan!

The next moment, Uchiha Ruri had already appeared in a distant forest, carrying Itachi Uchiha with her.

This forest was dense and deep, its canopy blocking out most of the sunlight and casting the interior into a dim gloom. Itachi looked at his surroundings with a hint of surprise.

Despite his reservations about this other "Uchiha Clan" survivor before him, Itachi chose to trust.

He knew that, true or false, the stranger before him—this Sasuke of the Six Paths—possessed immense power; even Pain had fallen at his hands.

Itachi decisively took a large step back from Ruri, his hands beginning to weave signs; this was his combat stance.

His hand seals were rapid and precise, every subtle movement imbued with formidable power.

Chakra surged wildly within Itachi's body, like an unstoppable, torrential flood.

He opened his hands slightly, and that powerful force, as if finding an outlet, surged out from his fingertips, instantly saturating the surrounding air.

Immediately after, he let out a soft cry: "Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!" As the words fell, he slammed his hands together, and the surging chakra instantly condensed into a massive fireball, whistling toward Ruri with scorching heat and an aura of destruction.

"So, a fight is unavoidable after all! Big brother! Let me show you the ocular power of the Six Paths Rinnegan!" Ruri's voice echoed in the air, carrying a sense of delight.

Ruri's figure moved like a ghost, tracing a nearly imperceptible path through the air before vanishing from the spot.

With extraordinary speed, she dodged the incoming Great Fireball Technique, a ninjutsu burning with raging flames that seemed intent on consuming everything in its path.

However, to Ruri, this was nothing more than child's play.

Just as the fireball was about to strike her, Ruri's form suddenly blurred, as if she had merged into the air, becoming untouchable.

Itachi's pupils contracted sharply; he felt a wave of intense unease.

When Ruri reappeared, she was already standing right in front of Itachi. In that moment, time seemed to freeze.

Itachi only had time to glimpse the strange light flickering in Ruri's eyes—a color so deep it was intoxicating, as if it contained the infinite mysteries of the universe.

"Six Paths Illusion!" Ruri whispered, and a powerful, mysterious force surged from her Six Paths Rinnegan.

This was the power of the Six Paths Rinnegan, a mysterious energy originating from the Sage of Six Paths, hailed as one of the most powerful ocular techniques in the ninja world.

If the Six Paths Rinnegan could instantly control the nine Tailed Beasts from the original story, then Itachi being controlled in an instant was a matter of course.

The power of the Six Paths Rinnegan was displayed to its fullest extent in Ruri's hands.

Itachi's body began to tremble involuntarily; he felt his consciousness being stripped away bit by bit.

It was a sensation he had never experienced before, as if his soul were being torn into countless fragments and then reassembled into an entirely new existence. He wanted to scream, but found his throat blocked by something, unable to emit a single sound.

Within Ruri's Six Paths Rinnegan, the light connecting the tomoe grew increasingly brilliant.

The power of the "Six Paths Illusion" acted like an invisible blade under Ruri's control, slicing through Itachi's consciousness.

She did not attack Itachi's body directly, for that would have been far too simple for her.

What she wanted was to completely destroy Itachi's inner world, to make him question whether his actions on the night of the clan's massacre were truly right.

Itachi only felt waves of powerful force pouring into his body, only to dissipate in an instant.

He struggled to grasp those forces, but found himself utterly powerless.

It was a despair he had never known, as if the entire world had abandoned him in that very moment.

Before long, Itachi's consciousness was completely dominated by Ruri's "Six Paths Illusion."

Under that overwhelming power, his resistance appeared so feeble, like a tiny ant attempting to shake a giant mountain.

His eyes, those Sharingan that had once been filled with resolve and determination, had now transformed into deep, six-tomoe Six Paths Rinnegan.

Under the scorching sun high above, Itachi's figure stood silently before Ruri.

The sunlight spilled onto him, dyeing his originally black robes gold.

His expression remained frozen in the shock of the moment he was controlled by Ruri; he stood dumbfounded, just like those controlled by the God Tree in the original Naruto series.

Within his mental world, Itachi felt as if he had merged into a different, special realm.

This power felt both strange and familiar, like a long-lost sense of belonging.

However, this sense of belonging did not last long. As Ruri's control deepened, Itachi began to gradually lose his own consciousness.

He seemed to have become a soulless husk, with only the power of the Six Paths Rinnegan remaining to command him.

Ruri controlled Itachi, her gaze locked tightly onto the kidney on the left side of his body.

There, something she craved seemed to be hidden. She looked down at her own body, seemingly making a difficult decision.

She slowly raised her hand, clutching a sharp Kunai. To stab, or not to stab? This question echoed repeatedly in her mind.

She knew that if this blade went in, Itachi's body would suffer severe damage, perhaps even endangering his life.

"A grudge over a kidney, brother Itachi, why did you have to stab others in the kidney when you killed them? That is truly absurd."

A trace of hesitation and struggle flashed in Ruri's eyes; she took a deep breath, trying to calm the turmoil within.

In the end, she made up her mind and slowly aimed the Kunai at Itachi's kidney.

However, just as she was about to strike, an inexplicable emotion welled up in her heart, causing her to stop involuntarily.

"Tsk, Sasuke's memories and body won't allow me to do it, so I'll just play around in your mental world instead."

Ruri muttered to herself, a strange light flickering in her eyes. She knew well that for someone like Itachi, who possessed the Sharingan and Six Paths Rinnegan, the mental world was one of his weaknesses.

As Liuli's voice fell, a powerful surge of chakra erupted from within her body. That chakra danced and burned in the air like purple flames, eventually coalescing into a massive shroud of light. The shroud took on a deep purple hue, as if it contained an endless, mysterious power.

"Susanoo!" Liuli let out a low cry.

The shroud expanded rapidly, completely enveloping both him and Itachi.

Inside the shroud lay a space independent of the real world, as if it were an existence from another dimension.

Here, Liuli was the master; she could manipulate everything within this space at will.

Itachi only felt a powerful force pulling him into an unknown world.

He looked around and found the surroundings filled with purple light, as if he were submerged in a sea of violet.