The Power of Time

Enveloped in purple light, Naraku, who was supposed to travel through time and space, absorbed and devoured all the power of time travel, fusing it into the Golden Core within his body.

"The Mangekyō Sharingan, after so many years of hard training, has only just reached the fifty-year limit of the time river. In just a short while, time has doubled to a hundred years!"

This eruption of the Dragon Vein contains the power of spacetime, which is the most precious treasure to me!

Naraku's Mangekyō Sharingan, with its power of Dōjutsu, had already glimpsed the mysteries of time. This absorption and distortion of time's power further strengthened Naraku's control over time.

Bathed in purple light, Naraku ignored Tsunade and the others' calls, sat cross-legged, and began to absorb the Dragon Vein Chakra to fill his Golden Core.

The original Golden Core was only the size of a mung bean, but with the infusion of Dragon Vein Chakra, it grew rapidly to the size of a soybean.

The soaring purple light was quickly absorbed by Naraku, and the ancient well was filled with purple liquid. This purple liquid was formed from the condensation of Dragon Vein Chakra and was no longer in a gaseous state, but in a liquid state.

The purple liquid in the ancient well continuously vaporized and gathered on Naraku's body, where Naraku was absorbed and integrated into the Golden Core in his dantian.

"The Fourth Hokage... truly worthy of being called the greatest Hokage of all time! Such a ferocious surge of the Dragon Vein didn't even harm the Lord Hokage in the slightest!"

Among the group watching from outside the ancient well, Si Nong noticed Naraku cross-legged in meditation, looking like he was cultivating himself, and uttered a word of sincere admiration.

"Is this... absorbing the power of the Dragon Vein? Such concentrated and dangerous Chakra, even absorbing a little of it could burst the body, yet the Fourth Hokage can absorb it for his own use?"

Hatake Kakashi watched as the vaporized Chakra coalesced around Naraku, realizing that Naraku absorbing the Dragon Vein Chakra, and was incredulous.

"The power of the Uchiha..."

Uchiha Tekka's eyes shone brightly; the incredible abilities of the clan leader Naraku filled him with pride, a testament to his Uchiha heritage.

Tsunade's initial worries dissipated. As a powerful legendary ninja and medical-nin who was proficient in the human body's meridians, Naraku's actions were beyond Tsunade's imagination and beyond her comprehension.

It's a pity Tsunade doesn't have the Sharingan or Byakugan; otherwise, she could have used Byakugan to observe and detect the ever-growing Golden Core in Naraku's Sharingan.

"The Hokage may have encountered some mysterious situation. We are here to protect him and must not be negligent!"

Tsunade simplified the complex situation, and as the Hokage's wife and secretary, she gave a stern order to the three people around her.

"Hi!" X3

Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Tekka, and Si Nong leaped onto the platform around the well, forming a four-way encirclement of Naraku, with Tsunade to the east.

Naraku, engrossed in absorbing the dragon Dragon Vein's Chakra on the stone platform, paid no attention to the situation outside, greedily absorbing the Dragon Vein's power.

After an unknown amount of time, the Golden Core within Naraku's body became saturated, growing from the size of a mung bean to the size of a fist, filling his entire dantian.

"If I keep absorbing this, I'll explode! Let's stop here for today!"

Feeling that he had reached his limit in absorbing and devouring, Naraku opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in his black pupils.

"Call!"

Naraku a deep breath, twisted his neck, felt comfortable all over, and stood up.

Is it already dark?

Naraku noticed that the sky above Ishii was filled with nebulae, realizing that he might have been training for quite some time.

"The Dragon Vein have only decreased this much?"

Below, the ancient well was previously filled with purple Chakra liquid, almost overflowing. However, after Naraku absorbed it, the water level dropped by about twenty meters, which was somewhat beyond Naraku's expectations.

I thought that after this absorption, the Dragon Vein would be cleansed, but I didn't expect that the pressure emanating from the purple Chakra liquid below the ancient well was still intense and seemed to be still very abundant.

"Naraku! You bastard!"

A sharp shout rang out, and Naraku finally looked up at Tsunade was standing outside the well.

Tsunade had been guarding the place for three days. If Naraku didn't wake up soon, she was even prepared to summon Namikaze Minato to check on him.

Unexpectedly, after Uchiha Nara up, he looked at the sky and the ground, but not at himself, which infuriated Tsunade.

"Ah, Tsunade, wait a minute! I'm going to seal the Dragon Vein!"

Naraku gave an embarrassed smile, scratched the back of his head with his right hand, and then a swirling wind appeared in his left palm, forming a Flying Thunder God Kunai.

Naraku's Flying Thunder God Kunai is similar in design to Namikaze Minato's, except for the inscription on the handle. Namikaze Minato's is "Sword of Shinobi Love," while Naraku's is "Peace Under Heaven."

Naraku crouched down, aiming his Flying Thunder God Kunai the eye pattern on the stone platform with his left hand, while forming a hand Hand Seals with his right.

"Seal!"

As the right hand Hand Seals, the left hand inserts Kunai into the center of the stone platform's eye, and the freed left hand immediately Hand Seals together with the right.

In about thirty hand seals in five seconds, Naraku his hands on the stone platform. Black runes surged, and the dazzling purple light of the dragon Dragon Vein Chakra instantly dissipated.

The massive amount of Dragon Vein Chakra liquid, like well water, slowly receded until it completely disappeared into the bottom of the well, and the dazzling purple light also vanished.

"Mission accomplished, this trip was worthwhile."

Naraku clapped his hands and swaggered back along the stone path connecting the stone platform to the edge of the ancient well.

Tsunade crossed her arms and calmly watched Naraku approach. As Naraku nearer, she Naraku a punch at his cheek.

Puff!

"You little brat, trying to ambush me?"

Naraku easily caught Naraku's Tsunade, and even playfully reached out his other hand to gently touch the back of Tsunade.

"You bastard! Do you know how scary you are?!"

Tsunade's cheeks flushed slightly with anger at Naraku's mischievous behavior.

"Oh dear, from noon to dark, it's only about ten hours at most! Why worry so much? Really."

Naraku Tsunade seemed genuinely angry, Naraku Tsunade into his arms and patted Tsunade back.

"Ten hours? More than three days! I was even preparing to send a message to Namikaze Minato to check on things! You bastard! Don't you know how important the Hokage is?! Why did you take such a risk!"

Three days? Is that a long time?

Naraku somewhat surprised. He had thought it would take a few hours or ten hours since it was already dark, but it turned out to have taken more than three days.

In just over three days, the initial stage of the Lesser Golden Core reached its peak. Naraku couldn't imagine what would happen if he absorbed and devoured the entire Dragon Vein.

What do you think...?

Tsunade's voice trailed off, but the worry in her words warmed Naraku's heart.

"Don't worry, I'm just cultivating."

Naraku gently patted Tsunade's back, thinking to himself:

"Perhaps it's time to start promoting my unique cultivation technique..."

No, condensing it into a solid pill form is not enough; it needs to advance to the next realm to absolutely rule this world...