The roar of the storm is the last cry of the earth.
Xuan stood on the top of the cliff, his clothes rustling in the crazy air current, like an eternal stone statue.
The air around him was no longer an invisible object in his field of vision, but a vast ocean composed of countless rushing and intertwined energy lines - Chakra Tide.
That is the Ten-Tails embryo sleeping deep in the earth's veins. The energy ripples set off by every unconscious breath are so large that they can shake the foundation of the entire Shinobi World.
In this violent sea of energy, five weak but extremely pure light points are being pulled by an invisible gravity from the five corners of the continent, struggling but irresistibly converging towards the center of the battlefield.
Those are the chakra afterimages that remain after the five Tailed Beasts were stripped away. They are the last five fragments that are pieced together into the doomsday myth.
"Master Xuan," the voice of Saori behind him was very low, but it clearly penetrated the wind. "According to the intelligence, Five Kage has deployed 'Five Elements Sealing Formation' at the predetermined location. They are trying to forcibly cut off the energy path at the moment when Tailed Beast Chakra merges to prevent the final formation of Ten-Tails."
The corner of Xuan's mouth curled up in a cold arc, and the half-broken pattern of reincarnation slowly flowed in his eyes, reflecting an abyss that no one could understand.
"Five Kage... They are still using mortal wisdom to speculate on God's game. They want to cut off all the 'causes', but they don't know that what I want is always the sweetest 'fruit'."
Before he finished speaking, another figure beside him, Baba Tesshin, knelt on one knee, and a miniature scroll unfolded in his palm, projecting a dynamic sand table image.
In the image, the densely packed Allied Shinobi Forces main force is engaged in a brutal strangulation with the endless tide of White Zetsu army.
At the highest point of the battlefield, on top of a piece of meteorite debris smashed out by Tengai Shinsei, the figure of Madara Uchiha stood aloof and cold.
With his hands Hand Seals, a huge and illusory outline of a demon slowly emerged behind him, opening its mouth greedily as if it wanted to swallow the entire sky.
"Time is running out." Xuan's voice was without any waves, as if he was stating an established fact.
He slowly closed his eyes, and his mind sank into the spiritual universe that belonged exclusively to him.
A huge system interface unfolded in his consciousness, and countless data flows passed by like a waterfall.
With a thought, he accurately called out a special sound wave frequency that he devoured and perfectly analyzed from the vast sea of information - Word Spirit belonging to Gyūki.
A strange chakra flowed upstream along his meridians and injected precisely into the throat chakra.
His lips moved slightly, and what came out was not human language, but a very low and deep sound, as if it came from the deep sea.
Buzz--
Sound waves are intangible and qualityless, but they contain some kind of resonance power that transcends the laws of space.
It spread instantly, penetrated hundreds of miles of yellow sand, and accurately hit a hidden lake surrounded by mountains.
Deep in the center of the lake, a huge sealing stone pillar that had long been forgotten by the world was trembling violently at this moment. The ancient runes engraved on the surface of the stone pillar lit up instantly, and then dimmed quickly.
There is the place where Isobu sleeps. A coordinate has been firmly anchored by him.
At this moment, a sudden change occurred!
Root Tongue, who had been standing silently beside him, suddenly stiffened, and then twitched violently as if he had been struck by an electric shock. His knees softened, and he knelt down heavily. A hoarse and ancient voice that did not belong to him came out of his throat. "...Scarlet Eye... walking between the broken monuments... the five fires have not yet burned out... eat them first..."
Saori's expression changed, and he quickly took out a small scroll and quickly recorded the intermittent murmurs, frowning. "This is not like the code word of the 'Akatsuki' organization, but more like... some kind of forgotten prophecy fragment."
Xuan Que slowly opened his eyes. Instead of being surprised, he showed a trace of clear joy.
He knew that this was not a simple possession or curse, but that the "Myriad Phenomena Devouring System" in his body, after digesting a large amount of Kekkei Genkai knowledge and ninjutsu intelligence, began to touch the laws of higher dimensions, actively analyzing and grabbing key information fragments related to him from the river of destiny.
"Scarlet Eye" undoubtedly refers to him, and "before the five fires are ignited, eat them first" is the most accurate description of his upcoming plundering operation.
Just at this moment, a sharp crow pierced the sky.
A silver-white crow hovered down from the sky like a bolt of lightning. In its sharp claws, it tightly grasped a piece of talisman paper with burnt edges and a strange texture.
On the talisman paper, a faint breath of Nine-Tails Chakra was slowly dissipating.
Xuan stretched out his hand to take the piece of talisman paper, and lightly crushed it with his fingertips, and the seemingly tough talisman paper turned into a handful of fly ash.
At the same time, a cold system prompt sounded in his mind, "Sealing Jutsu type residue detected" "Source analysis: Konohagakure·Four Symbols Sealing Formation·Peripheral alert layer".
"Ha, Tsunade..." Xuan let out a contemptuous sneer, "Does she think that by sticking a few more innocuous charms on Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, she can prevent real predators? She is naive."
As soon as he finished speaking, the half-reincarnation pattern in his right eye suddenly lit up with a faint light!
[Void Devour·Return to Ruins]!
An invisible devouring force followed the Nine-Tails Chakra that was about to dissipate in reverse direction.
In an instant, a clear energy flow diagram was constructed in his mind.
The final direction of the Nine-Tails Chakra that was stripped from Jinchūriki was not the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path where Madara Uchiha was, but was quietly guided to another unknown location by another more secretive and more treacherous mechanism in an extremely slow and almost traceless way.
The whole process is like dropping a drop of blood into a rushing river. If he didn't have the ability to see into the origin of [Void Devour], he wouldn't be able to detect it at all.
At the moment when he understood all this, an ethereal, majestic, gender-neutral voice seemed to have traveled through endless time and space, ringing directly in the wind and sand, echoing on the cliff. "Nine Crow Calls is about to fall, and the warning bell has sounded three times - if you take one more step forward, you will never return."
Xuan suddenly raised his head and looked at the dim sky.
I saw that the thick cloud layer had been torn open at some point, and a huge annular gap was opened. The edge of the gap was as smooth as a mirror, like a giant eye across the sky, peeping indifferently at the world.
Facing this warning from an unknown existence, Xuan's face showed no fear at all.
He slowly raised his right hand, and in the palm of his hand, the space began to distort, and a miniature black hole that swallowed all light quietly took shape.
He flicked the ashes of the talisman remaining on his fingertips into the black hole.
The system interface was instantly flooded with massive data streams, and there was a violent roar, "Tailed Beast Chakra guidance path captured!" "Reverse analysis successful!" "Five residual image energy transmission nodes have been locked!"
That warning pointed out the most precise path for him!
Xuan turned around suddenly, murderous intent and determination intertwined in his eyes.
He issued the order in an unquestionable tone, "Saori, immediately deploy 'Shadow-Erosion Puppet Formation' here, use it to simulate my chakra fluctuations, and attract all the observation sights of the coalition forces here!"
"Yes!"
He turned to Baba Tesshin again. "You, immediately take Root Tongue to the abandoned altar thirty miles southeast. I want you to make sure that at the moment the ceremony starts, let him retell the entire dialogue of 'Valley of the End''s final battle, from beginning to end, verbatim!"
Although Baba Tesshin was full of confusion, he accepted the order without hesitation, picked up the still twitching Root Tongue, and disappeared instantly.
After the order was issued, Xuan no longer stayed for a moment.
He took a step forward and jumped off the cliff. His entire figure was like a drop of ink blending into the storm of yellow sand that covered the sky and the sun, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
At the same moment he disappeared, thousands of miles away, in the center of the battlefield that had turned into a flesh and blood mill, the Ten-Tails embryo was being forcibly extracted from the earth's veins by Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and the ground at its heart suddenly cracked.
The first ray of chakra, as scarlet as blood, finally broke out of the ground, like a bloody vine with life, winding and climbing crazily toward the sky with a breath of destruction.
Ten-Tails, I'm about to open my eyes.