The Era Had Finally Become Unrecognizable to Me...

After releasing the Spirit Transformation Technique, Uchiha Ensei felt memories surfacing in his mind. He looked at the original owner of the body Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had prepared, and his gaze gradually cleared...

Without hesitation, Uchiha Ensei controlled the nearby clone implanted with a Rinnegan and pulled the other man's soul straight out.

For a moment after the soul left his body, traces of chakra around it kept it stable.

But as that chakra ran out, the soul gradually vanished before Uchiha Ensei's eyes.

"The Pure Land... Hagoromo Otsutsuki's resting place. The final destination of souls..."

Countless thoughts rose in Uchiha Ensei's mind as he watched the soul disappear, but he soon dismissed them one by one.

The soulless body looked as though it had fallen asleep. It showed no other reaction.

Normally, a body without a soul would gradually lose its vitality. Though the process wasn't quick, it shouldn't remain this unchanged.

It seemed something Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had left inside the body was keeping it alive.

This simplified form of Karma was indeed a treasure to Uchiha Ensei now.

Before he could study it, however, he sensed a disturbance from a Flying Thunder God mark.

Uchiha Ensei sealed the body away again and returned to Konoha.

The moment he landed, he sensed violent chakra fluctuations.

Someone was clearly attacking Konoha. The chakra of Minato Namikaze, Hashirama Senju, and Kushina Uzumaki stood out in particular.

Hashirama Senju and Kushina Uzumaki stood out because of their enormous chakra reserves, while Minato Namikaze gave off space-time fluctuations similar to his own.

"So I've finally driven you into a corner..."

A faint smile touched Uchiha Ensei's lips. Seeing that Konoha could still hold off the attackers, he closed his eyes and focused all his senses on finding Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

By Uchiha Ensei's reckoning, Ōtsutsuki