The feeling under my feet changed from wet pebbles to flat gray-white Stone Slab. There was no sky above my head, only an endless gray-white void, as if it had been bleached countless times by time itself.
He stood on a wide stone path, with countless translucent figures lined up on both sides.
Some were wearing Warring States Period armor, some were wearing Konoha early standard vests, some had old faces, and some were as young as children who had just learned to walk.
The eyes of those figures fell on him, with a kind of curiosity and confusion that surged up after being startled, like a group of sleeping birds that had been awakened.
Yongye ignored them and walked forward along the stone path. His pace was unhurried, as if he was walking in his own backyard.
About a hundred steps ahead, there was an extremely majestic Chakra wave, as if the entire Pure Land sky was slowly breathing in the center of that wave.
Three completely different breaths are intertwined: a life force as thick as the earth, a tough force as sharp as a rock, and a corrosive force as cold as the abyss.
Yongye stopped.
He raised his head, his eyes fell on the three figures standing side by side, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
"They're all here."
"That's great. It saves me having to look for them one by one."
Sage of Six Paths stood at the front, wearing a white robe without any lines, with a circle of dark gold piping on the collar and cuffs. He held a tin staff made of Truth-Seeking Orb in his hand.
His face was calm, but the light in his eyes was darker and colder than before when he was on the edge of River of Time.
Great Toad Sage squatted on his right side, his huge body casting a deep shadow in the gray-white void.
Its golden-red pupils were filled with the weight of time in the sunlight, and its front paws were folded in front of its abdomen. Its posture seemed relaxed, but the rock-like aura seeped out from its body surface, causing fine cracks to appear on the Stone Slab under its feet.
White Snake Sage is entrenched on the left side of Sage of Six Paths, its silver-white scales glow coldly in the void, spitting out letters, and its pair of vertical pupils are nailed to Yongye's body, like two taut strings, ready to be ejected at any time.
Sage of Six Paths spoke first, his voice still steady, with a kind of calmness and coldness that has been accumulated after countless generations:
"The fact that you came back from River of Time really exceeded my expectations."
"But you made a huge mistake!"
"This is my home court, my world, I control everything here!"
"Naruto and Sasuke have not yet mastered the true power of the law. Defeating them does not mean that you can do whatever you want here!"
Yongye put his hands in his trouser pockets, tilted his head, and the smile on the corner of his mouth changed from narrow-mindedness to a more pure and calm joy:
"I love hearing this!"
"I'm afraid that if you guys are too useless, then all my years of hard training at River of Time will be in vain!"
"You teamed up with Exile and let me wander in River of Time for ten years... Let's settle this account carefully today."
Great Toad Sage's voice was deep and deep, like an ancient bell being struck, slowly swinging in the void:
"Otherworldly Demon is not allowed in this world."
"What we protect is the survival of the creatures in this world for hundreds of millions of years."
White Snake Sage's voice oozed out from that silver-white body, hoarse and smooth, like the sound of snake scales rubbing against gravel:
"You will die here."
"This Pure Land will be your resting place."
Yongye threw his head back and laughed.
"Hahaha..."
"Resting place?"
"The three of you have lived for thousands of years combined, and you are still talking like this in your sleep."
He took his right hand out of his trouser pocket, spread his fingers, and the golden sword solidified in his palm. The blade glowed brightly in the void, and dark golden lines flowed on the sword, like a ray of solidified sunlight.
"Cut the nonsense."
"Come and fight."
Sage of Six Paths's tin stick clicked in the void.
The power of the entire Pure Land World law surged at the same moment.
The gray-white void began to rotate, like water being stirred by an invisible hand.
The translucent soul figures on both sides of the stone path quickly retreated under the agitation of the power of law, turning into countless fine light spots and dispersing at the edge of the void.
The sky is cracking, and the earth is also cracking.
Dark purple flames surged in those cracks. Each flame was a chain of activated laws, intertwined into a giant network covering the entire Pure Land, slowly pressing down in the direction of Yongye.
Yongye's golden sword swung out.
The sword blade cut into the giant network intertwined by the chains of laws, making a harsh metallic hissing sound, like two iron saws biting each other rubbing against each other repeatedly.
A crack was torn in the mesh, but the dark purple flames at the edge of the crack quickly healed, becoming thicker and denser than before.
Great Toad Sage's body took a step forward at the same moment.
The golden-red pupils were filled with rich golden light, and a translucent golden light film spread out from its surface, covering the space within three feet of its body.
The light film was not thick, but it had a sense of solidity that he could not shake, like divine iron that had been forged for hundreds of millions of years.
It opened its mouth and let out a long cry.
The sound was not loud, but the space that the sound wave touched seemed to be frozen. The airflow around Yongye was all still at that moment, and even the dust was suspended in mid-air, as if the pause button had been pressed.
White Snake Sage's figure rolled in from the side.
Its body traveled through that still space, as fast as a silvery-white lightning, with a layer of gray-white corrosive power flowing on the surface of its scales. Wherever it passed, even the void itself made a subtle hissing sound, like glass being dissolved.
Yongye's gaze retracted from the web of laws and fell on White Snake Sage's vertical pupils, with the smile still hanging on the corner of his mouth.
"You shouldn't have Exile me to River of Time."
"I'll tell you a big secret!"
"Thousands of laws must surrender under the big pants of Father Time!"
Time Stop, activate!
Taking Yongye's feet as the center of the circle, the space within ten feet around it was solidified at the same moment, like a stone sealed in amber.
Great Toad Sage's long chirp was cut off, and the lines of the golden light film were still flowing in the still space and time, but its body seemed to be frozen, and it couldn't even blink its eyelids.
White Snake Sage's body is hovering in mid-air, less than two feet away from Yongye's neck, but the scales all over its body keep extending forward, as if they are frozen in a frame.
Sage of Six Paths's tin staff is still hanging in mid-air, and the dark purple flame of the chain of laws is still burning slowly in the still space and time, but the jumping speed of that layer of flame is more than ten times slower than before.
Yongye Standing in that still space of time and space, the golden long sword turned half a circle in his hand, with the tip of the sword facing down, and then he took a step forward.
He stepped out of the scope of Time Stop and appeared in front of Sage of Six Paths.
The sword edge fell.
The tin staff in Sage of Six Paths's hand exploded the moment the sword blade touched it, shattering into countless fine Truth-Seeking Orb fragments and flying in all directions.