Taruho struck with all his strength in anger, and the sword edge slashed towards Naruto with a sound of breaking through the air.
However, Taruho's entire body, together with his sword, passed through Naruto's "body" without any hindrance.
Taruho, who was exerting all his strength, could not hold back his strength at all, and could only watch as he threw himself onto the hard ground.
Bang!
With a muffled sound, Taruho fell heavily to the ground, and Longsword flew out, sliding on the smooth floor tiles with a harsh sound.
He struggled to get up, but was unable to do so due to the impact and shame and anger.
Naruto didn't even look back, but made a casual comment in a calm voice. "It's courageous, but a little stupid."
In his eyes, this behavior of attacking with all his might even though he knew the disparity in strength was hopeless, reflected loyalty and courage, but it also lacked the most basic sense and judgment. Isn't he afraid of angering himself?
After saying that, he ignored Taruho who fell on the ground, walked straight to Shion's throne, and stopped.
Shion's heart was beating very fast. She could clearly feel the invisible but huge pressure on the other person's body, and those scarlet eyes were watching her very close.
She forced herself to stay calm, but the slightly trembling fingertips still exposed the fear in her heart.
Naruto Looking at the fourteen-year-old Miko in front of him, who pretends to be mature but can't hide her childishness, he always feels that her declaration of "I'll go with you" and the look in her eyes at this moment are indescribably weird, as if they contain some kind of consciousness that he cannot fully understand.
However, he didn't have time to delve into these details right now.
"Although I always feel that something is a little weird," Naruto tilted his head slightly and said bluntly, "But as long as you are willing to cooperate. This can save a lot of trouble."
He went straight to the point. "Lead the way. Let's go to the passage of Iwaya Slope first, and then find Moryo." According to the information and fragmentary information he had reviewed before, Moryo seemed to be divided into two parts and sealed by the previous generation Miko.
The soul is sealed somewhere underground in the Palace in Land of Demons, while the body is sealed in the distant Land of Swamps.
The specific location and seal details are probably only known to Miko in the past, and Shion must lead the way.
Shion was stunned when he heard this.
She thought that the other party would immediately make some... well, undue demands, or take her away directly, but she didn't expect that the first place he would go to was the Iwaya Slope passage and the Moryo sealing place?
This didn't seem to be the development she expected.
But then I thought about it, maybe the other party planned to do "business" first and then deal with her "trophy"?
Or, he wants to confirm the threat of Moryo with his own eyes before doing other things
No matter what the possibility was, she had no choice at this moment.
Shion nodded as if resigned, trying to make his voice sound calm, "Yes, please come with me."
After saying this, she mustered up the courage to stand up from the throne, passing over Taruho who was still struggling on the ground, not even daring to look at him.
She knew Taruho's loyalty and stubbornness, and was afraid that her gaze would arouse his resistance again, thus attracting the "attention" and anger of this weird and powerful Sixth Hokage.
Naruto doesn't care about Taruho.
He didn't take Taruho's attack to heart at all and killed him?
It's meaningless, it can neither obtain intelligence nor show strength, it will only add unnecessary bloodshed and hatred.
His goal is something bigger.
When Shion led Naruto past Jiraiya and Dan Katō, they subconsciously wanted to follow.
After all, Naruto is Hokage, and it seems that he is going to deal with dangerous things. As members of Konoha, they have the responsibility to follow and protect him.
However, Naruto just waved his hand casually to indicate that the two of them did not have to follow.
Jiraiya and Dan Katō paused and looked at each other, both seeing helplessness and a hint of worry in each other's eyes.
But they also know that with Naruto's current strength, they probably won't be able to help if they follow up.
The two of them could only stop and watch as Naruto and Shion disappeared one after another into the entrance of the passage deep in the Palace.
Under the leadership of Shion, Naruto walked through the twists and turns of the corridor, walked down the dark stairs, and came to an extremely secret stone chamber full of ancient atmosphere deep underground in the Palace.
In the center of the stone chamber, there is an ordinary-looking stone wellhead.
The diameter of the well mouth is about one meter, and the edges are covered with moss and traces of time. The well is deep and dark, and the bottom cannot be seen clearly, and there are no obvious signs of energy fluctuations or space distortion.
"This is the connection channel of Iwaya Slope?"
Naruto stood by the well, frowning slightly, with obvious doubt and disappointment in his tone.
Frankly speaking, this was completely different from what he imagined.
According to the sporadic descriptions he heard from various places, Iwaya Slope should be a mysterious passage or crack connecting Mortal World and the deceased Pure Land. It is often accompanied by distortion of space, a cold and dead atmosphere, and there may even be wandering undead or guardians.
It should be a place full of "powerfulness" and mystery.
The thing in front of me... looks like an abandoned dry well.
This cannot be said to be exactly the same as Mount Myōboku's vague description of the "passage to the underworld" that Jiraiya reported before. At least it is quite different.
"Are you sure this is here?"
Naruto confirmed again with Shion.
Shion nodded and said in a affirmative tone, "The inherited memory of Miko in the past pointed out that this place is one of the closest 'gaps' to the 'other world', and it is also the only entrance that is relatively stable and can be safely approached and performed.
Although the appearance is ordinary, the inside is... unique.
But no living person can actually enter or Sensing get to the other side."
Naruto is doubtful.
He walked to the well, squatted down, and felt carefully. This time, he mobilized a more refined perception, combining the natural energy perception of the sage mode with the insight of Kagura's mind.
Sure enough, in the seemingly ordinary darkness deep at the wellhead, he captured an extremely weak, but essentially different energy fluctuation from Mortal World.
It was an aura that gave people a sense of silence, homecoming, and a faint sense of death.
It's like a person standing on a mountain made of knife points, looking up at the sky full of arrows and weapons coming towards him.
"That's it... disguised, or in other words, reserved in nature."
Naruto Got it.
This channel does not reveal its power externally, but instead contains all the peculiarities deeply inside, while its appearance is assimilated with the surrounding environment to achieve the purpose of concealment and protection.
Maybe it's the work of Sage of Six Paths.
Three Great Sage Lands existed before Sage of Six Paths. They may have recorded Iwaya Slope before Sage of Six Paths.
Naruto did not enter in person rashly.
With a thought, Wood Clone separated from him.
Wood Clone nodded to Naruto, then jumped into the seemingly ordinary wellhead without hesitation, and his figure was instantly swallowed by darkness.
The boundless death energy invaded Wood Clone. During the fall, Wood Clone turned on Red Eyes Six-Tomoe Rinnegan to disperse it.
The remaining information depends on how far Wood Clone can go.
"Okay, let's go to the next place first."
Naruto said to Shion, "Take me to the sealing place of Moryo's soul."
Shion nodded silently, turned around and led Naruto, leaving this seemingly ordinary stone chamber that concealed the secret to the world of the dead, and walked towards Sealing Grounds, which was deeper and more secret underground than Palace.