The Shinobi World remained in turmoil, with earth-shattering revelations being discussed everywhere.
Yet the Sage of Six Paths, who sat high above it all in the Pure Land, beyond the Living World, was filled with confusion and apprehension.
Mist swirled through the vast emptiness of the Pure Land, amid utter, deathly silence.
The Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, sat cross-legged alone. His aged eyes opened slightly as he watched the upheaval in the mortal world below, his brow furrowed and his heart full of questions.
He had lived through the ages, witnessed the calamity brought by Kaguya and the slaughter between clans, and personally sealed his own mother away. He had established the chakra system and laid the foundations of the Shinobi World.
All along, he had believed he understood the rules of this world, the cycle of life and death, and every secret it held.
But from the moment the Sky Screen appeared, everything he thought he knew had been completely overturned.
"I can't see through it... I truly can't anymore."
The Sage of Six Paths shook his head gently, murmuring with profound bewilderment and helplessness.
Everything the Sky Screen showed was too vast, too ancient, too inconceivable.
Imu moved the pieces, Joy Boy reincarnated, the world shattered and reformed, and the Ōtsutsuki Clan concealed countless secrets.
Those ancient ages were a Void Century he had never experienced, never encountered, and never known anything about.
By the time he was born, the world's order had already taken shape, and the ancient contest had long since ended.
He did not know who Imu was, what that endlessly reincarnating monkey truly was, or whether this world had already seen countless ages of prosperity and destruction before Kaguya arrived.
He had no way to distinguish truth from falsehood in any of