Sage Mode 2

Massive, sharp snake fangs pierced Sasuke's body. He could feel an inexplicable energy appearing within him.

After entering Sasuke's body, this energy began rampaging wildly through him!

Sasuke felt an indescribable pain in his heart!

Sasuke collapsed to the ground, constantly resisting the violent energy within him.

Matatabi's voice rang out. "Sasuke, do you need to transform into a Tailed Beast?"

Sasuke said, "No need. I can handle it!"

As time passed second by second, Sasuke could feel his body slowly beginning to adapt to this energy.

Purple energy began to emerge around Sasuke's body. It was as thin as mist, gathering over the surface of his body!

Sasuke opened his eyes, and they turned into vertical snake pupils. However, when Sasuke activated his Mangekyo, the snake pupils were instantly covered by his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!

Yet the purple energy around Sasuke's body did not diminish in the slightest!

It even began forming a layer of armor resembling snake scales over his body.

These snake scales did not look disgusting at all. Instead, they looked incredibly imposing. With a thought from Sasuke, the purple armor turned into energy and vanished!

This was perfect Sage Mode!

Sasuke's compatibility with natural energy was: 100%!

In truth, Sasuke understood that learning Sage Mode had been inevitable.

Because his physique was that of an "Indra reincarnation."

So it had been inevitable that Sasuke would learn Sage Mode. And Tailed Beast transformation could greatly increase his physical strength and reduce Sasuke's negative conditions.

Therefore, with the Two-Tails, Sasuke was not worried at all about the White Snake Sage playing dirty!

Sasuke stood up and waved his hand. The purple energy scattered away like shards of glass.

Sasuke said to the White Snake Sage, "Thank you, Senior!"

The White Snake Sage stared at Sasuke in disbelief. In a daze, she saw the shadow of "Indra" in Sasuke.

The White Snake Sage could not remember how many years it had been. She only remembered that long, long ago, when she was still young, she had met that man of unparalleled glory.

Indra, son of the Sage of Six Paths!

As a snake who had lived for countless years, the White Snake Sage had met Indra and had been drawn in by his charm.

Time flew by, and everything had changed.

Now, the White Snake Sage had become incomparably old, while Indra had long since passed away.

Yet on Sasuke, the White Snake Sage saw Indra's shadow once more.

The White Snake Sage said to Sasuke, "Haha, back then, that big toad from Mount Myoboku had a prophecy. He said, [A blue-eyed boy who frolics with Tailed Beasts will bring peace to the ninja world.] But in my view, that big toad was full of shit."

Puffing out smoke, the White Snake Sage said, "In my view, the one who can truly bring peace to the ninja world is you!

Uchiha Sasuke!"

The White Snake Sage's enormous body began to shrink, then turned into a kindly old woman. The pipe in her hand shrank as well.

The White Snake Sage said to Sasuke, "Go, boy. Leave Ryuchi Cave. The outside world is the battlefield where you belong!"

The moment the White Snake Sage finished speaking, everything before Sasuke shattered and vanished like an illusion reflected in water.

Sasuke hurriedly activated his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, wanting to see what had happened.

Yet under his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, what he saw was still a real forest.

Was it illusion or reality?

Genjutsu or reality?

Could even Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan not distinguish between them?

Or had the White Snake Sage used some kind of "spatial" ability to move him here?

But it did not matter. Sasuke felt the surging energy within his body.

This was different from so-called chakra. This was another kind of energy.

This energy could empower chakra, allowing ninjutsu to unleash even greater power.

In other words: senjutsu.

Sasuke had a guess. If the "chakra" of this world had been brought by the Otsutsuki, and all ninjutsu was ineffective against the Otsutsuki, then could senjutsu be the cultivation energy that had originally existed in this world?

Had chakra merely become widespread because of the Otsutsuki's arrival?

Natural energy was different from chakra.

Senjutsu could inflict effective damage on the Otsutsuki. If that was true, then natural energy was the original energy cultivation system of the ninja world.

Just as Sasuke was lost in thought,

he suddenly heard the sound of something cutting through the air in the surrounding forest!

Sasuke looked over and saw a handsome man dressed in blue fleeing in panic.

Five or six ninja were chasing after him!

Sasuke sensed violent chakra within him. He was also a jinchuriki!

It was Utakata, the Six-Tails jinchuriki of the Hidden Mist Village!

Sasuke: How the hell did I end up in the Hidden Mist Village?

"Stop running! You can't escape!"

The Hidden Mist ninja shouted at Utakata.

Utakata's face was filled with panic. Just moments ago, Utakata had killed his teacher!

Because his teacher had wanted to seize the Six-Tails inside him, Utakata had gone berserk and killed him!

Utakata believed he had done nothing wrong. He had merely been protecting himself.

As a jinchuriki, it did not matter that the people of the village feared and hated him.

But Utakata could not bear the fact that even his master, whom he had regarded as a father, had designs on him!

Utakata was on the verge of collapse.

He really had not meant to kill his master, but these Hidden Mist ninja would not listen.

Their mission was to capture Utakata and bring the so-called "rampaging jinchuriki" back to the Hidden Mist Village. They could not allow the Tailed Beast to fall into the hands of another village!

As long as Utakata transformed into the Tailed Beast, he could easily kill the ninja chasing him. But Utakata no longer wanted to kill anyone.

The people behind him were getting on his nerves.

He turned around and pulled a bubble blower from behind him. As Utakata blew out a breath, colorful, dazzling bubbles appeared and trapped every Hidden Mist ninja pursuing him inside a bubble.

Utakata said, "Sorry."

Then Utakata blew a huge bubble, entered it, and floated away from the Hidden Mist Village.

Seeing this, Sasuke immediately shouted, "Hey, wait for me! Wait for me!"

When Utakata saw someone else in the grass, he was startled.

Then he quickened his pace to leave. Sasuke said to Utakata, "Wait for me! Take me with you! I'm not from the Hidden Mist Village!"

Only after hearing that Sasuke was not from the Hidden Mist Village did Utakata relax his guard.

He floated down from the air and said to Sasuke, "I'm a jinchuriki. Aren't you afraid of me?"

Blue-black flames ignited in Sasuke's palm as he said to Utakata,

"Jinchuriki? Who isn't one?!"