The image on the Sky Screen froze on the moment Imu ordered the withdrawal from the Shinobi World.
The entire Shinobi World erupted into frenzied discussion. Shinobi, civilians, and village leaders all stared up at the sky, their mouths hanging open, their faces filled with shock and disbelief.
"My god! The Five Elders are still alive! Those old bastards really won't die!"
"I understood what they were discussing just now! They really were afraid of the Sage of Six Paths!"
"Hagoromo only founded Ninshu because he wanted people to understand one another, and the Celestial Dragons actually saw that as an existential threat!"
The more everyone thought about it, the more absurd it seemed, and they began piecing together the truth of ancient times.
"I really don't understand the Sage of Six Paths!"
"He clearly possessed the greatest power in the world! He towered over everyone in his era! No one could match him!"
"Yet when he founded Ninshu, he didn't teach chakra at all!"
"Everyone in Ninshu, apart from him, was an ordinary person! They had no fighting power whatsoever!"
"Who could have imagined that?"
"I always thought Ninshu had taught chakra from the very beginning, that it was where the tradition started!"
"So the earliest Ninshu didn't rely on power at all! It was just a group of ordinary people with kind hearts who longed for peace and believed in mutual understanding, huddling together for comfort!"
Countless people sighed, their hearts full of questions.
"Then what happened afterward?"
"What change finally forced Hagoromo to spread chakra among the people?"
"Something monumental must have happened in ancient times to completely change his mind!"
But even more shocking than the changes in Ninshu was Imu's response.
To think that the being who controlled the world had been forced by Hagoromo,