At the same time.
The moment Naruto's Wood Clone jumped into Iwaya Slope, you felt a completely different environment.
The surroundings are not hard well walls or water, but a special energy field that is thick, cold, and full of death and destination, as if you are on the edge of nothingness after life has completely disappeared.
This is Iwaya Slope, the narrow channel connecting Mortal World and Pure Land.
"It's really not that simple."
Wood Clone understands clearly.
With a thought in his mind, his eyes changed instantly. Six-Tomoe Rinnegan easily rejected the surrounding dead energy that tried to corrode him, forming a stable protective layer.
Then, Wood Clone took a deep breath and started Divine Technique·Clairvoyance.
This ability originally belonged to Ada, but was later taken by Naruto as Amenotajikara.
It can observe from a perspective that transcends time and space.
"From the year the body was born to the present, everything that happened in this passage has happened in the past fourteen years."
Wood Clone concentrated, and Clairvoyance's ability began to "scan" in the reverse direction along the timeline.
Although Ada and Clairvoyance are powerful and can observe the present or watch past scenes in real time, there is a limitation, that is, they cannot see what happened before the user was born.
This is related to the engine mechanism of the technique and the starting point of the observer's existence.
Fortunately, the information Naruto needed happened after he was born.
Iwaya Slope is a forbidden passage with very few passersby.
Wood Clone's "sight" is like a fast-forwarding film, quickly passing through most of the empty and silent time.
Soon, a clear "picture" was captured by him
That was a clip from a few months ago: a weak but tenacious spirit Soul Body, exuding unique spiritual Chakra fluctuations, was struggling along this passage in retrograde motion, trying to return to Mortal World from Pure Land.
His soul seemed very unstable, as if it could dissipate at any time, and he obviously paid a huge price.
"Found it!"
Wood Clone was refreshed.
He carefully watched the direction and status of the Dan Katō remnant soul as well as the details of the environment at the time.
After confirming that it was correct, he stopped the backtrace of Clairvoyance.
"Then, just go in the opposite direction from where Dan Katō came from."
Wood Clone made a judgment.
Since Dan Katō returns from Pure Land through Iwaya Slope, then by going against the direction he came from, he can naturally reach the entrance of Pure Land.
He began to walk deeper along the passage.
The passage is not a straight line, but winding, and the deeper you go, the more intense the sense of deathly silence and homecoming becomes, as if it is constantly reminding the intruder that this road leads to the end of life.
I don't know how long it took, but the front suddenly became clear.
Wood Clone walked out of the narrow passage, and in front of him was an extremely open and strange scene that was difficult to describe in words.
A vast, dim, quiet, and boundless river lies ahead. The water flows slowly, and no sound of water can be heard, but it exudes a breath of peace that makes the soul feel peaceful. The surface of the river is filled with a light mist that never dissipates.
"This should be the legendary Yomi, or also called Sanzu River."
Wood Clone thought to himself.
He launched Clairvoyance again to review the recent scene near this river bank.
Sure enough, he "saw" the scene after the soul of Dan Katō arrived:
The remnant soul of Dan Katō was so weak that it almost melted into the water of Yomi and sank completely.
At this moment, a figure appeared on the other side of Yomi.
It was a red-haired Young Naruto floating in mid-air wearing Hood. His face was obscured, but Wood Clone clearly "saw" that Young Naruto opened a pair of Rinnegan.
Young Naruto stretched out his hand, and the power of Rinnegan was activated. An invisible pulling force spanned the vast Yomi, and forcibly "fished" the remnant soul of Dan Katō that was about to dissipate from the river, and then steadily sent it back to the other side of the Iwaya Slope channel entrance.
After doing all this, the figure of the red-haired Young Naruto disappeared like a phantom into the mist on the other side.
"Red hair Young Naruto...Rinnegan?"
Wood Clone was shocked in his heart.
Why does it feel like Nagato?
In any case, the other party obviously came to help, saving Dan Katō's last hope of returning to Mortal World.
Intelligence is collected to key parts.
Wood Clone no longer hesitated, he flew directly towards the other side of Yomi.
He wanted to go over there and see what was there where the red-haired Young Naruto appeared.
However, just when he flew to the center of Yomi, a strange phenomenon occurred.
Wood Clone was surprised to find that the dim yellow river water below, which was originally flowing quietly and seemed to have a fixed direction, began to change.
All the river water seemed to be pulled by some invisible force and began to converge and flow towards his location, which was the center of Yomi.
He was surprised and continued to fly forward.
As he moves, the flow direction of the Yomi river is constantly adjusting, but it always maintains a trend.
The water flow was deflecting in the direction he was going and where he was.
It was as if he had become a moving source of gravity, attracting the entire Yomi river!
When he finally reached the other side of the Sanzu River and got his feet on the ground, he couldn't help but look back and look at Yomi.
When he was on the other shore, all the Yomi flowing toward the entrance of the Iwaya Slope channel was diverted and flowed toward the Sanzu River.
"It's amazing..."
Wood Clone couldn't help but sigh.
Keeping Yomi's vision in mind for the time being, Wood Clone turned around and began to look at the so-called "Sanzu River" scene on the other side.
The environment here is even more strange, the light is dim but not dark, and there are faint light spots of soul floating in the air.
The most eye-catching thing is the riverbed and nearshore area of the Sanzu River.
There are many strange creatures of different shapes in the river and on the river beach.
Some of them resemble giant birds, some resemble Chameleon, and some are multi-headed strange dogs...
Moreover, these creatures are all tightly bound by thick, vital vines.
Those wooden vines are deeply rooted in the gray-white "ground" or wrapped around the creatures, restricting their movements.
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"What the hell! This Wood Release is actually used by the main body?"
As Wood Clone, he is very familiar with the original Chakra and Formula.
These wooden vines that bind strange creatures, no matter from the Chakra properties, Formula structure, or the unique vitality that is blended with Natural Energy, they are all undoubtedly made by Naruto Uzumaki!
"Why does the main body use Wood Release here? And it also restricts so many...
Looks like something from Nagato's psychic beast?"
Wood Clone was full of doubts and couldn't help but complain.
He suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and began to carefully look at the strange creatures bound by Wood Release.
Observe their shape, characteristics, and the unique atmosphere they exude.
As I watched, a surprising discovery gradually became clear!
"These...
Aren't these the psychic beasts Nagato used before?"
Wood Clone He remembered clearly that during the decisive battle between Iwagakure and Six Paths of Pain, Animal Path and Nagato had Summon various powerful psychic beasts for combat, including Yatagarasu, Chameleon, Cerberus, Rhinoceros, Centipede, etc.
The morphological characteristics of the strange creature bound here by Wood Release are highly consistent with the psychic beast summoned by Nagato at that time.
"By the way, when I fought Nagato last time, I did use Wood Release to suppress and restrain those difficult psychic beasts..."
Wood Clone recalled the details of that battle.
The immortality of those psychic beasts was extremely difficult, and Naruto did use a large-scale Wood Release to temporarily trap them.
"I didn't expect that after they were defeated by Wood Release, they were not released from the channel and sent back to their original place, but came here instead?"
"No wonder..."
He looked thoughtfully at the psychic beasts that were entangled by Wood Release and seemed out of place but inexplicably "harmonious" on the shore of Yomi, and thought to himself, "Sanzu River... the so-called three ways, don't they refer to Naraka Path, Preta Path, and Animal Path?"
This is the area related to the next three realms in the concept of "Six Paths".
Nagato As the owner of Rinnegan, his weird psychic beasts are probably related to these things.
Of course, there are also some made directly from the psychic beasts of Shinobi World.
Perhaps his Summoning Contract was not signed with a specific holy place in Mortal World, but was taken directly from the Sanzu River.
Therefore, when these psychic beasts were completely "defeated" or "bound" in a special way in Mortal World, they did not die or return to the psychic world in the usual sense, but were "beat back" or "repatriated" to the source of their essence Sanzu River.
No one can kill a corpse. These psychic beasts are dead creatures, just like Six Paths of Pain, they are corpses Puppet.
Naruto The power of the Wood Release restraints originally imposed on them actually crossed the boundary between life and death. Following the "essence" of these psychic beasts, they came here together and continued to play a role in confinement.
"It seems that the information given by Dan Katō is very accurate."
Wood Clone scratched his head.
He wrote down this important discovery, and then continued to set his sights on the deeper and wider unknown areas of the Sanzu River.
Now that he's here, he plans to explore further to see if he can find more clues about Pure Land, Sage of Six Paths, or Fourth Hokage's souls.
How many secrets are hidden in this land where death and strangeness coexist?