Meanwhile.
The instant Naruto's Wood Clone leaped into Iwaya Slope, he felt a completely different environment around him.
Instead of solid well walls or flowing water, he was surrounded by a peculiar energy field-viscous, cold, and steeped in deathly silence and finality. It was as though he stood on the edge of the void left after life had utterly vanished.
This was Iwaya Slope, the narrow passage connecting the Mortal World to the Pure Land.
"It really isn't simple."
The Wood Clone understood.
With a thought, his eyes instantly changed. His Six-Tomoe Rinnegan easily repelled the deathly energy trying to erode him, forming a stable protective layer.
Then the Wood Clone took a deep breath and activated divine technique: Clairvoyance.
This ability had originally belonged to Ada, before Naruto seized it with Amenotajikara.
It allowed him to observe from a perspective beyond time and space.
"Everything that happened in this passage during the fourteen years since my original was born."
The Wood Clone focused, and Clairvoyance began to "scan" backward along the timeline.
Though Ada's Clairvoyance was powerful enough to observe the present in real time or view scenes from the past, it had one limitation: it could not see anything that happened before its user was born.
This was tied to the technique's activation mechanism and the starting point of the observer's existence.
Fortunately, the information Naruto needed dated from after his birth.
As a forbidden passage, Iwaya Slope had seen very few travelers.
The Wood Clone's "gaze" swept rapidly through long stretches of empty, silent time, like a film on fast-forward.
Soon, he caught a clear "image."
It was a scene from several months earlier: a weak yet tenacious soul, giving off the distinctive fluctuations of spirit-transformed chakra, struggled up the passage against its natural direction, trying to