They had not been away from the Shinobi World for very long this time, and little had changed there.
After confirming that there were no major problems in the Shinobi World, Tetsuya gathered everyone again to prepare for another Ōtsutsuki hunt.
This time, Tetsuya took Izuna, Madara, and Hashirama ahead to travel through another timeline.
After all, none of them had been born yet in that timeline. They had no counterparts there, so space-time did not reject them as strongly.
Once they found Ōtsutsuki Qi in that timeline, they would open a gate to bring Kaguya, Isshiki, and the others over.
Since they had already discussed and agreed on this, no one had any objections.
The Space-Time Gate opened, and Tetsuya and the others immediately set off for the Shinobi World of over a thousand years ago.
By now, quite a few years had passed in this timeline's Shinobi World as well.
By their calculations, it should have entered the age of Ninshu by now.
However, because of Tetsuya's interference, this timeline's Kaguya had not been sealed away, so Hagoromo Otsutsuki had never become the Sage of Six Paths or founded Ninshu.
Without Ninshu, methods of cultivating chakra had not spread throughout the Shinobi World. This remained a world of ordinary people.
Still, as the brothers Hagoromo and Hamura continued promoting more advanced production methods and higher-yielding crops throughout the Shinobi World, people had come to call them sages.
"Teacher!"
"Teacher, you're back!"
Stepping out of the golden Space-Time Gate, Tetsuya was a little surprised to see how much more mature Hagoromo and Hamura looked.
"Wait, hold on. Why are you calling me teacher? We're not exactly master and students, are we?"
The others who had come with Tetsuya also looked at him in confusion.
They knew that Tetsuya sometimes