Fire Province.
The Imperial Palace, council hall.
As Chiba's words fell.
Everyone filed out, hurrying back to their respective departments.
In the blink of an eye.
The vast conference room was left with Chiba alone.
He slowly rose to his feet and strode out of the palace.
Night fell.
The night sky above the Imperial Capital was exceptionally clear.
The Milky Way glittered like crushed diamonds spilled across black velvet.
Chiba arrived at the observatory atop the Imperial Palace.
After breaking through to the Six Paths Realm.
Chiba's five senses had already transcended mortal limits.
Even the faint rustle of a leaf falling to the ground a thousand meters away could clearly enter his mind.
But he was not gazing up at the stars to admire the night scenery.
The Otsutsuki Clan!
Momoshiki, Kinshiki, Isshiki.
Those venomous snakes lurking in the shadows were the sword hanging over the Ninja World.
Although Chiba now considered himself invincible within the Ninja World, and was even confident he could grind those aliens into the dirt.
What he wanted was not merely to repel them.
He wanted to follow the trail back and launch a direct counterattack against the Otsutsuki home planet.
Before that.
The Empire's overall strength still needed to be raised further.
Suddenly.
Chiba's brows knitted sharply.
The Six-Tomoe Rinnegan emerged, glowing with a cold, ghostly purple light in the darkness.
"Something's wrong."
Chiba murmured.
He had detected an extremely subtle fluctuation of spatial energy.
But that fluctuation did not come from the starry sky above, but from the vast earth beneath his feet!
Direction.
Wind Province!
Chiba did not hesitate in the slightest.
The space around him instantly warped.
The Flying Thunder God combined with the spatial laws of the Six Paths Level.
Whoosh—
Chiba's figure vanished directly from the observatory