As his words faded, the Sage of Six Paths looked gravely at the two before him and revealed the most staggering truth of all.
"Sasuke, you are the reincarnation of Indra's chakra."
"Naruto, you are the reincarnation of Asura's chakra."
"The battle between those brothers a thousand years ago continued through later generations. The previous pair of reincarnations were Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju."
"By combining the fated power of Indra, passed down over a thousand years, with the chakra of Asura's reincarnation, Madara finally awakened the Rinnegan."
Those few sentences laid bare the ultimate source of a thousand years of war in the Shinobi World!
Outside the Sky Screen, the entire Shinobi World fell silent. A second later, it erupted into an uproar. Everyone stared blankly, utterly stunned by this earth-shattering revelation of fate.
"My god! So that's what it was! The Indra and Asura those Celestial Dragons mentioned were actually the Sage of Six Paths' own sons!"
"Then doesn't that practically make Naruto and Sasuke the Sage of Six Paths' children? That's an insane heritage!"
"No wonder they were born with such a deep bond, both enemies and friends, destined to oppose each other. It was a thousand-year fate etched into their blood and chakra!"
"So Madara and Hashirama weren't rivals by chance! They were the previous reincarnations! Those battles between the two peerless legends we grew up hearing about were actually deadly clashes in a thousand-year cycle of fate!"
The sheer volume of information left everyone reeling for a long time. After the initial shock, more people began to think calmly. The more they thought about it, the more absurd it seemed, and they began voicing their doubts.
"Honestly, I don't believe the Sage of Six Paths' one-sided account at all!"
"He said Indra was jealous and