Hokage: Starting with Dual Kamui
Chapter 1138

The Tale of the Progenitor, the Flaw of the Deva Path

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At Jeta Grove, Void Yu, poisoned by the Yellow Springs Affliction within his body, invoked the power of the "Zengpo Jiali" Shikigami.

Zengpo Jiali was Yu's innate Rinne Tenseigan ocular technique, capable of freely manipulating "entropy," the highest law of nature.

Entropy was the degree of disorder in things. Put simply, the Entropy Increase Law meant that all tangible things in the universe always moved from order toward disorder—from existence toward nonexistence. Humanity's birth, aging, sickness, and death were manifestations of "entropy increase." Seeking medicine, strengthening the body, pursuing longevity or immortality—all of it was a process of resisting entropy increase.

Prosperity turned to decline, and extremes reversed themselves. This was the universally acknowledged law of arising and ceasing.

Thus arose a timeless question.

Since the movement of things from order to disorder was absolute, where did "order" come from?

Therefore, so-called entropy increase and entropy decrease only existed on the premise that existence had been established. Before existence was born... if existence itself did not yet exist, then before existence was born, did existence exist?

Let us assume there was a will that transcended all things, creating existence from "nothing."

That will was undeniably real in the Naruto World. It was called the "Deva Path."

The Deva Path governed the powers of creation and destruction. It was the Shikigami of Ōmononushi.

What Ōmononushi created or destroyed was "matter"—what we recognized as "true existence."

Then let us extend this further. Where did all natural laws, including the highest natural law of entropy increase, come from?

Principles, rules, dharma, laws, truths, the Way—the names differed, but their essence was the same... traceless, yet everywhere, governing the evolution of phenomena and the arising and ceasing of existence.

Dharma also came from the Deva Path. The creation and destruction of dharma belonged to

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