Tianyi slowly descended onto the sand, his boots touching down without stirring any excess dust.
His gaze locked onto Jiraiya. "Just as I thought-it's the power of Yang Release. Looks like the Sage of Six Paths intervened."
Jiraiya's brow twitched slightly, surprise flashing in his eyes. "How do you know? Could it be-you've met the Sage of Six Paths before?"
Tianyi did not answer immediately. He looked up, as though studying some distant point in the sky.
His perception spread outward for several seconds, encompassing the surrounding air currents and traces of chakra, but it detected nothing unusual-
No lingering traces of techniques, no signs of spatial disturbances, no sense of being watched.
The Sage of Six Paths certainly lived up to his name. He had clearly moved beyond the reach of Tianyi's current sensory abilities.
Jiraiya stepped forward, looking confidently at Tianyi. "Hyuga Tianyi, I'm no longer the man I was before.
"As long as I'm here, you won't drag the entire Ninja World into the mire of war."
He glanced at Uchiha Itachi.
"Peace in the Ninja World isn't something you can establish through brute force. Even if you now have the strength to unify the Ninja World, peace imposed by force will never truly be stable.
"The greater the oppression, the fiercer the resistance. As long as you keep letting your fists do the talking, someone else will always rise to oppose you. Besides, the Leaf Village's young seedlings are still growing. They need someone to guide them-not someone like you, who puts strength above everything!"
After listening, Tianyi shook his head, a note of resignation in his voice. "I've never been one for empty talk.
"But you always love preaching your own beliefs. Anything that doesn't match your ideals is heresy, an abyss, tyranny. Aren't the