Naruto Uzumaki, Dead!

Naruto had activated Impure World Reincarnation. The Pure Land had already shattered. After he killed the Sage of Six Paths, the Pure Land lost its support and completely collapsed.

All souls in the Ninja World now fell under the jurisdiction of the Soul Society.

The Soul Society captain Naruto had killed possessed a technique in his memories—the Soul Society's highest secret, Takamimusubi Nest, true Root-Level Infinite Energy.

The method to activate that technique was hidden within Chitetsu Kusajishi's memories.

The souls of the Soul Society, combined with Takamimusubi Nest's Infinite Energy, combined with the immortal body of Impure World Reincarnation.

"Impure World Reincarnation!"

He formed hand seals. The seals were simple, only a few movements.

But those few movements drained away the last trace of his existence. The Ōtsutsuki God's power of disintegration completely devoured him.

"I really am a pathetic transmigrator..." His lips moved, but his voice was already too faint to hear. "To actually die just like this..."

His body shattered.

His soul scattered.

Naruto died.

Impure World Reincarnation was complete.

A rift split open in the void. Grayish-white scraps of paper poured from the crack, spinning, gathering, and taking shape in space.

It looked like someone had torn an entire phone book to pieces and scattered it into the vacuum, only for the scraps to assemble themselves into a living person.

Blond hair, blue eyes, and a neurotic smile at the corner of his mouth. A little clay still clung to his lips, though he had not noticed it himself.

Deidara...

He lowered his head and looked at his hands. His body was made of paper, light and weightless, yet a power he had never felt before surged within it.

That power flowed without end, like magma erupting from a volcano forever, like someone had installed a