Dead silence is the only melody in this broken land.
Xuan Jing was suspended quietly in mid-air, and the huge crater beneath him was like a scar crushed by the finger of the god, tearing apart the territory of Shinobi World ferociously.
The hustle and bustle of the battlefield, the roar of the ninja army, and the roar of Tailed Beast Bomb, all have settled into silence at this moment.
But under the dead silence, a pulse that only he could feel was beating weakly but tenaciously.
His perception was like an invisible spider web, penetrating through the layers of scorched earth and rock formations, and accurately locked into the deepest part of the earth's veins, in the interlayer of the disintegrated altar talisman bricks.
There, a white light thread, thinner than hair, was gently squirming in a weird rhythm.
That's not debris, nor is it the aftermath of energy.
That is [Ten-Tails Core], the ultimate creation that he used the power of the system to forcibly peel off from the body that was huge enough to explode the world, and lurked in the disguise of "reverse devouring state".
The earth-shattering devouring before, the despair that swept everything, were just a cover-up to cover up this behavior.
This seemingly fragile thread of light is the "final fire" he truly left for himself.
The moment his consciousness touched the light filament, a cold electronic sound quietly emerged in his mind.
"Severe fluctuations in the Yin and Yang balance of Six Paths were detected..."
"The judgment conditions are met..."
"[Kekkei Mōra·Prototype Activation] Current progress: 38%"
The corner of Xuan's mouth raised an imperceptible arc.
Thirty-eight percent, even smoother than expected.
This grand performance that swept the entire Shinobi World was not in vain after all.
A hundred miles away, on a hidden ridge.
Chiyo Saori's slender fingertips shook slightly, and the last Chakra Threads, which was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, was severed from a collapsed sonic puppet, and she quietly took it back between her fingers.
As her last handprint was completed, the internal self-destruction programs of dozens of Resonance Steles buried in nearby mountains were instantly released.
"It's all taken care of," she said softly, her voice as cold as moonlight.
Standing next to her is Baba, who has a resolute face and is as silent as a mountain.
He looked at the Allied Shinobi Forces on the distant horizon who were retreating hastily like frightened birds, frowning. "Do they really believe that it is all over? The 'victory' created by Master Xuan is too complete, and it is like a trap."
"Master Xuan doesn't need them to believe that he won." Chiyo Saori's"
"But what about Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha?" Baba's voice was deep, "Those two guys are a collection of variables, and they will never give up."
"Then let them chase." Chiyo Saori sneered and turned to look at the endless wasteland in another direction. "Go in the wrong direction and chase desperately. When they exhaust their efforts and think they have finally caught Master Xuan's tail, they will find that what they are chasing is just a phantom that has been abandoned long ago."
The center of the battlefield.
Xuan slowly raised his left hand. In the palm of his hand, a ball of golden False Yang Seed, which was previously condensed from the nine Tailed Beast Chakra, was emitting light and heat like the sun.
Without any hesitation, he suddenly closed his fingers.
The "sun" did not explode, but was quickly compressed and restrained in a way that violated the laws of physics, and finally sank into his palm and disappeared.
Almost at the same time, another fragment of Yin Power, which he had extracted from Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and compressed to the extreme, also emerged from his body.
One gold and one black, two completely opposite forces met in his body, but the expected annihilation and explosion did not occur.
They were like two swimming fish chasing each other, forming a miniature Tai Chi pattern that slowly circulated in his chakra circulation system.
He didn't want to fuse this power now. The energy fluctuations produced in that way would be enough to allow sentient ninjas thousands of miles away to instantly lock onto his position.
What he wants is "disguise".
Although Allied Shinobi Forces had previously deployed Four Red Yang Formation, Six Red Yang Formation, and even the various super-standard Sealing Jutsu techniques used at the last moment, although they were forcibly broken by him, the "regular inertia" that constituted the techniques still remained in this space.
What Xuan has to do at this moment is to use this "regular inertia" to disguise the nascent Six Paths Power in his body as "the energy residue after being sealed and purified".
As a result, in the exploration of any sentient ninja, he will be an "empty shell whose chakra response is constantly attenuating."
A perfect deception.
The real devouring never stops.
It just changed from a violent situation that swallowed up the world, to a more secretive and efficient absorption in a "sealed" posture.
What floated in the air, escaped from the earth's veins, what was unconsciously leaked by the ninjas who fled in panic... Every ripple of chakra was silently absorbed and transformed by this rotating miniature Tai Chi diagram.
However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred!
Deep underground, the white light strands lurking in the interlayer of the talisman bricks seemed to sense something.
It was originally just squirming unconsciously, but the crack suddenly expanded. A wisp of more slender white tentacles actively extended out like a living vine, and wrapped around a reverse beacon that Xiang Xuan had buried for positioning with incomparable accuracy!
Almost at the same time, the system's alarm sounded sharply in his mind.
"Warning! Warning! The target has an unknown mutation!"
"Primary mind mimicry capabilities detected... Attempting to backlink system beacon..."
"Gene sequence comparison... the similarity is 9.7%... suspected to be an autonomous evolutionary branch of Kaguya Otsutsuki cells!"
What does it want to do? Borrow its own system to reverse parasitize?
Xuan's eyes did not change at all, as if he had everything under control.
He didn't even show a trace of surprise. He just whispered to himself in an almost pitiful tone:
"Did you react? Unfortunately, it's too late. Do you think this 'Myriad Phenomena Return to the Eye' system appeared out of thin air? You have no idea that its core analysis module was originally reverse engineered bit by bit from the fragments of bloodline left by your Ōtsutsuki Clan in the world."
Before he finished speaking, his hands quickly Hand Seals in front of his chest, but this time, no earth-shattering chakra fluctuations occurred.
[Void Devour·Return to Ruins·Silent Form]!
It is no longer about releasing the terrifying suction force that devours all things outwards, but doing the opposite.
Xuan instantly transformed his own existence into a conceptual "negative space anchor point."
The next moment, the Sealing Jutsu-like residual currents belonging to Allied Shinobi Forces that had not yet completely dissipated in the earth veins seemed to be attracted by some irresistible fatal attraction, and rolled back crazily, turning into torrents of energy, along the tentacles extending from the white light filaments, and pouring back into the interior of the talisman brick!
"Zizzi--!"
The white light filament let out a silent scream, twitched and twisted violently, as if it had encountered the most terrifying natural enemy in the world.
It was forced to release a massive amount of the most primitive and pure chakra in an attempt to resist the erosion of this "sealing power".
And this is exactly the result Xuan wants.
A series of dense system prompts, like the most pleasant symphony, played in his mind one after another.
"Capture undifferentiated Divine Tree protoplasm x1! Can be used for gene sequence optimization!"
"Unlock the special ability [Regeneration III] (Effect: Instantaneous recovery of broken limbs, if the core is not destroyed, the body will not be destroyed)!"
"Multi-source fusion progress +12%! The current total progress is 50%!"
Xuan slowly opened the right eye that had been closed.
The strange five-color light wheel flashed in Eternal Mangekyō's pupils, and then disappeared without a trace, returning to ordinary pitch black.
He knows better than anyone that a real "reset" is never about completely destroying the world.
But the moment when everyone thinks that the end has come is the signal of the real beginning that he has prepared for this world.
A remote, unknown underground base.
Madara Uchiha, who was sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes suddenly. He subconsciously covered his chest. There, on the white face composed of Hashirama Cells, there was a closed eye-like mark, and a scarlet blood droplet oozed out without warning.
An incomprehensible vision burned his nerves like a soldering iron.
In that endless void, a giant snake's pupil made of stars, linked head to tail, was slowly, slowly... devouring an icy full moon.
Above the ruins where the war ended, the wind began to rise.
It blew away the last smoke, and also blew the clothes of the lonely figure.
The wailing of this land has ended, but a greater storm sweeping across destiny itself has just begun.