On a quiet afternoon two days later, Ian quietly passed through Konoha Village's layers of ANBU defenses and appeared in front of Tsunade again.
"What are you doing here again?" Tsunade sat behind a desk full of documents and raised his head, with a hint of lingering fatigue and vigilance on his beautiful face.
"Are you still angry with me?" A faint smile appeared at the corner of Ian's mouth, and there was a hint of joking in those Abyss-like eyes.
"Do you think this is a question that needs to be asked?" Tsunade turned over Byakugan angrily and crossed his arms.
"I know you are angry, but you have to give me a reason, right?"
"You are preparing to conquer my hometown with great fanfare and trample Konoha under your feet. Isn't that enough?" Tsunade gritted his teeth and retorted.
"If we really want to dig deeper, on a technical level, you Shinobi World attacked me first." Ian shrugged, with a hint of innocence in his tone.
"You actually use such strong logic as an excuse to start a war?" Tsunade laughed angrily, his plump chest rising and falling violently.
"Why not?"
"You are just an adult trying to bully a group of defenseless children!" Tsunade exposed his disguise mercilessly.
"This metaphor is very subtle, I like it very much." Ian smiled softly while stroking his hands, not caring about the other party's sarcasm. He slowly opened his long legs and walked in front of Tsunade. Regardless of the other party's struggle, he forcibly held her hands that were slightly rough from practicing medicine for many years and rubbed them gently.
"Don't call me that." Hearing the affectionate name coming out of the other person's mouth, Tsunade wanted to pull his hand away like an electric shock, but found that the other person's power was as unshakable as an iron pincer.
"Tsunade, I could have used countless Diadem grandiose hypocritical rhetoric to brainwash you and prove to you how many countless supreme gifts this cross-dimensional conquest will bring to this backward planet. Those Fawley There are so many clauses that even this room can't fit in." Ian's gaze suddenly became extremely deep, as if it contained endless stars, "However, if you peel off all the gorgeous coats, the essence of aggression is still aggression after all."
"Just like your grandfather Senju Hashirama, who was revered as the 'God of Ninja'. Back then, he relied on the absolute force that could crush the entire era, and used brutal means to suppress countless rebellious ninjas, and finally established Konohagakure, did you bring a brief and fragile peace to this bloody world? In essence, I am also a conqueror. I am just replicating your grandfather's great achievements - and I will do it more perfectly and thoroughly than he did."
"I don't allow you to insult my grandfather like this! He is a great man with great love, and everything he does is for Shinobi World to usher in true peace!" Tsunade Wrath retorted.
"Yes, he is a great man. And I am a selfish tyrant suffering from a severe god the Chosen One complex. I launched this conquest in the final analysis to satisfy my Limitless ambition." Ian frankly admitted his selfishness, but then changed the subject, "However, the final results I have achieved will be the same as your grandfather's original intention: absolute peace, unprecedented prosperity, and a jump in the dimensions of the entire world."
"Once the ninjas of Shinobi World are completely integrated into the system of the Arcane Empire and become the sharpest assassination blades under my command, my political and military chips in Multiverse will surely experience explosive growth. With this power, I will be able to better protect my people and protect them from the threats of unspeakable terrifying existences deep in the universe."
Ian's fingers were clasped tightly with hers, and he looked directly into her eyes, with a rare sincerity in his eyes.
"When I first established Empire, I was purely looking for knowledge to enrich my magical heritage. But as the years passed, a heavy burden called 'responsibility' gradually appeared on my shoulders. You can understand it as an unshirkable mission."
"No matter how bloody the road ahead is, I will do everything I can to protect my people. I value my identity as 'Empire Overlord' very much."
Ian sighed lightly, let go of Tsunade's hand, and turned to look out the window at the vibrant village.
"During my long journey of crazy exploration on the road of Arcane Truth, constantly challenging the limits of dimensions, there are two things that are always like anchors, pulling me tightly and preventing me from completely falling into the bottomless madness Abyss: that is my family, and my billions of people."
"I have questioned myself countless times late at night. For a god who pursues ultimate power, having such a fatal weakness is an unforgivable mistake. Should I completely cut off these bonds and transform into the ruthless law of the great road?"
"Then have you found the answer?" Tsunade was affected by his heavy words and couldn't help but ask softly.
Ian was silent for a moment, and a relieved smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, "Whenever Empire achieves some breakthrough milestones in the fields of magic, technology, archeology and even literature, a great joy that cannot be described in words will emerge from the depths of my soul. Whenever I see the seeds of civilization sown by myself a long time ago finally blossoming and bearing fruit, I will understand... the answer to that question has long been self-evident."
Tsunade exhaled a long breath, his eyes extremely complicated. "Even if everything you said is true, it is still difficult for me to accept this earth-shaking change with peace of mind in a short period of time."
"I understand very well. But the carving knife of time will eventually heal all conflicts and scars." Ian said with relief.
Tsunade sat back on the chair and fell into deep thought for a long time. After a few minutes, she sorted out her chaotic thoughts and raised her head to look at Ian again. "You came to me specially today, you didn't come to give a long speech, right? What else do you need me to do?"
"That's right, I'm here to take you back to the laboratory today." Ian said bluntly.
"What are you doing back there?"
"For the future destiny of this planet, I need you to lead a crucial top-secret scientific research project."
"What exactly?"
"Before you officially start work, you must first have a comprehensive and thorough understanding of the Arcane Empire." Ian said, as if by magic, he took out a cyberpunk science fiction story from Void. A sexy helmet and two bottles of weirdly colored Potions. "I'm warning you in advance that the following process of knowledge instillation will be accompanied by heartbreaking pain. But the reward is that your spiritual energy will experience an exponential surge in terror."
Looking at this outfit, Tsunade frowned deeply, but in the end he reached out and took the helmet and Potions.
"Wait a minute," just as she was about to uncork the bottle and drink the first bottle of Potions, Ian raised her hand to stop her. "You'd better find a more comfortable place to lie down first, and arrange a few absolutely trustworthy guards to guard the door."
"Although we haven't known each other for too long, I still have a little trust in your character." Tsunade looked at him deeply, and then without any hesitation, he raised his slender swan neck and drank Potions in one gulp.
Ian stood aside with an appreciative smile on his lips.
Three whole days and three nights passed.
When Tsunade opened her eyes again, she felt an exploding headache that seemed to split her skull open, sweeping through every nerve in her body! She groaned in pain, and her clothes were instantly soaked in cold sweat.
With quick eyes and quick hands, Ian immediately poured the second bottle of Potions into her mouth. The cool liquid flowed down her throat, and the sharp pain that tore apart her soul quickly receded like a tide.
"This... this is simply Hell-like torture." Tsunade gasped for air, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead with lingering fear.
"You just forcefully crammed ten years of knowledge into your brain in three days. This level of rejection is really normal." Ian explained without any surprise.
Tsunade closed his eyes and spent a while to straighten out the new memories in his mind that were like a vast ocean. "The civilization system you created... can be said to be an astonishing masterpiece that is unprecedented in history."
The vast knowledge about the Arcane Empire she obtained from the helmet - Floating City that can annihilate stars, universal magic education, and interstellar navigation across dimensions - completely overturned her poor view of the universe and made her feel deeply shocked like never before.
"I know very well how great my empire is, but you'd better restrain your praise for me. I am easily inflated by other people's praise." Lin An joked half-jokingly. "Let's go, it's time to take you to meet your future team members."
"Team? Are there other people involved in this project?" Tsunade was stunned for a moment.
Ian did not answer, but just typed the Snap. The surrounding space was instantly distorted, and when the sight became clear again, they were already standing in the spacious and bright underground laboratory. At this time, several figures were busy around the experimental table.
"You should be familiar with many of the people here. For example, your former fellow senior brother - Orochimaru." Ian pointed at a man with a pale and sinister face not far away and introduced.
"You disgusting poisonous snake!" After seeing the person clearly, Tsunade's old and new hatreds welled up in his heart, and he immediately gritted his teeth and cursed angrily.
"Why do you have to speak ill of each other as soon as you meet, Tsunade." Orochimaru stuck out his long and slender tongue and let out a creepy hoarse laugh, "After all, from now on, we are colleagues working for the same great master."
"Can I punch his head to pieces right now?" Tsunade turned to look at Ian, his fists clenching loudly.
"After he successfully completes the scientific research task in his hand, you can do whatever you want with him." Ian gave a very fair promise, and then pointed to the young man wearing round glasses next to Orochimaru. "That's Kabuto Yakushi, Orochimaru's former right-hand man. Although he is extremely talented, he has always been suppressed by the shadow of Orochimaru, resulting in his talent being buried. However, if we look at scientific research potential alone, he is even above a certain poisonous snake."
Upon hearing this, Kabuto Yakushi immediately stopped what he was doing, pushed up his glasses, and bowed to Tsunade very humbly. But Tsunade didn't have a good attitude towards him. After all, anyone who had anything to do with Orochimaru was not a good person in her eyes.
"The next one is, Katasuke Tono." Ian pointed to another researcher wearing a white coat, "He is a very outstanding scientific research talent. However, in the normal historical trajectory, his talent will not show up until three years." The final Fourth Shinobi World War will really shine after the end. If I had not given you the technical drawings of the mechanical prosthesis in advance, that invention that was enough to change the medical landscape of Shinobi World should have been his masterpiece."
(Note: Katasuke Tono is a character in Boruto, who was recruited in advance by Ian as a cross-era scientific research talent.)
"Fourth Shinobi World War? What is that?" Katasuke Tono scratched his hair with a confused face.
"This is none of your business, stop asking." Ian ruthlessly cut off his curiosity.
"Thank you for joining this great cause." Tsunade looked at Fang Zhu's clear and stupid eyes, thinking that there was finally a normal person in this laboratory who was not contaminated by Orochimaru.
"Don't be deceived by his innocent and harmless appearance. Twenty years later, this guy will secretly engage in a lot of shady and dirty deeds because he fell into someone else's Genjutsu." Ian revealed the truth mercilessly.
Tsunade and Katasuke Tono were instantly petrified, and the atmosphere was once very embarrassing.
"At least... he was controlled by Genjutsu, so his intentions are not too bad, right?" Tsunade dryly tried to smooth things over.
"I can barely be considered a good person." Ian curled his lips noncommittally. "Finally, I would like to introduce you to a heavyweight guest at the finale."
Following the direction of Ian's finger, Tsunade's eyes suddenly widened and he exclaimed, "Second Grandpa?!"
"Xiao Gang? How come you were involved in this too?" Second Hokage Senju Tobirama, who was pulled out by Edo Tensei, looked at his granddaughter with a gloomy face.
"Is it really you? But why did you appear here?" Tsunade was full of questions.
"It's not because of this crazy Demons!" Senju Tobirama pointed at Ian angrily, "He actually used the Edo Tensei technique I invented to force me back from Pure Land to work as a coolie for him!"
Tsunade turned to look at Ian, asking with his eyes what was going on.
Ian shrugged helplessly. "Conscience of heaven and earth, I am polite before fighting. I offered tempting bargaining chips at the beginning, such as Resurrection's big brother, and also threatened to completely destroy Konoha, which can be said to be both soft and hard. In the end, this stubborn old man refused to cooperate obediently. In desperation, I had no choice but to make this move."
"You Demons! Just wait for me. Sooner or later I will find a way to break this spell and escape!" Senju Tobirama roared through gritted teeth.
"Don't waste your efforts. Even if this Edo Tensei is your original creation, under the improvement of my Arcane Laws, it has already evolved to a supreme dimension that you cannot understand at all. Want to break free from the confinement of my soul? In the next life." Ian shattered his illusions mercilessly.
"Anyway, you brought it upon yourself. Who made you the top researcher on this planet that is rare to see in a century?" Ian's lips curved with a hint of sarcasm. "You probably don't know yet, right? The forbidden techniques and research results you developed back then have transformed the entire world in the decades after your death. What a disaster Shinobi World caused. Especially the Edo Tensei you invented, in the future Fourth Shinobi World War, almost wiped out the entire Allied Shinobi Forces army! It is simply a waste of resources to leave people like you who can destroy the world unused."
"The one on your left is Fourth Shinobi World War, and the one on your right is Fourth Shinobi World War. Shinobi World has obviously just experienced three wars!" Senju Tobirama was confused by what he said.
Ian was really too lazy to explain to these natives one by one what would happen in the future. He simply typed the Snap, and a huge mental wave swept the entire audience instantly, and the entire core plot of <Naruto> and <Shippuden> was forced into the minds of everyone present!
After digesting these shocking future trends, everyone's eyes instantly focused on Kabuto Yakushi and Senju Tobirama.
"It's such a pity...Konoha Collapse Plan, which I worked so hard to plan, ended miserably in this way." Orochimaru licked his lips, with a trace of unwillingness flashing in his eyes.
"I know it! In the final analysis, all disasters are caused by the evil brats of the Uchiha Clan!" Senju Tobirama saw the Cataclysm caused by Madara Uchiha and Obito in the future, and immediately roared with anger.
"Can we put aside your narrow racial prejudice for a moment? If we really talk about responsibility, most of all this tragedy must be attributed to the extremely high-pressure policy you adopted against the Uchiha Clan!" Ian replied unceremoniously.
"What do you mean by that? Everything I did back then was for the village!"
"That's enough! I didn't call you here today to hold a history seminar!" Ian interrupted the quarrel that was about to break out sharply, and the powerful pressure instantly silenced the entire audience. "Now, immediately focus your attention on my next words. Everyone here has more or less understood the basic concepts about the Arcane Empire, the nature of magic, and energy levels."
"Your next ultimate task is to reverse engineer for me a perfect chakra training system from Zero Tier all the way to Sixth Tier!"
Ian waved his hand, and dozens of densely packed data holographic projections were instantly projected in mid-air. "The upper limit of Chakra System is firmly locked on the user's genetic ceiling. What you have to do It is to combine our Arcane Empire's most cutting-edge gene recombination technology to open up an evolutionary path that allows ordinary people to break their own genetic shackles and Infinity expand the chakra capacity in their bodies!"
"In order to assist in your research, I have prepared for you a top-notch living sample - the physical body of the ancestor of chakra, Kaguya Otsutsuki! Her strength is conservatively estimated to be between Fifth Tier to Sixth Tier. As for the one behind the Otsutsuki Clan, it may have reached Eighth Tier (Tier 8)'s so-called 'god', after you have set up the basic framework, I will naturally go to the stars to hunt him back and provide you with advanced materials."
There was a dead silence in the whole place, everyone was shocked speechless by this crazy plan that could subvert the understanding of the entire universe.
"I have a little question." Orochimaru's hoarse voice broke the silence.
"Say it, Orochimaru."
"If this research succeeds... will I be lucky enough to switch to arcane magic and become a distinguished arcanist?" Orochimaru's golden snake eyes shone with unconcealable greed and fanaticism.
"Chakra can obviously give you a long life, why do you bother with it?" Ian asked knowingly.
"I know the wonderful uses of chakra, but in comparison, I am more obsessed with exploring the ultimate mystery of magic that touches the universe Truth." Orochimaru's tone revealed a kind of obsession that will lead to death by the day he hears the truth.
"As long as you can deliver the results of this research perfectly, Empire's door will always be open to you. You can switch to any power system you want." Ian made a generous promise.
"This is... so perfect!" Orochimaru was so excited that he couldn't control himself. His long tongue stretched out involuntarily and licked his pale lips excitedly.
"Stop your disgusting perverted behavior immediately! At least in front of me, restrain your perverted habits!" Ian scolded with disgust on his face.
"As you wish, the supreme emperor." Orochimaru immediately lowered his head respectfully, but the madness in his eyes became more intense.
This grand god-making project, which is enough to rewrite the history of the starry sky, officially kicked off in this underground laboratory that never saw the light of day.