A goal

With a goal in mind, Xia Yan had all the motivation he needed.

Though he also knew that if he went looking for the Ryūmyaku at his current level, things would end very badly for him.

Besides, given his current status, he could not just leave the village whenever he pleased.

But that did not stop him from thinking about it, and he was certain that within the next few months, he could make this a much surer prospect!

That was a matter for later, though. What Xia Yan needed to do now was focus on improving his strength, then slowly work out a plan.

Without strength, everything was just wishful thinking. Especially in a world like Naruto, strength was one of the most important things of all.

Strength, huh? I wonder how far I'll be able to go in the future.

Xia Yan thought silently. To be honest, sometimes even he felt a little lost about what path he should take to reach the level where godlike beings were everywhere.

The point in time he was currently in could be called the safest period of all.

The two men from fifty or sixty years ago who could each destroy a village single-handedly were already dead, and no godlike beings that terrifying had appeared in the Shinobi World in those fifty or sixty years.

But within the next ten-odd years, such godlike beings would appear again. Perhaps calling them cheaters would be more fitting.

One was Sasuke Uchiha, and the other was Naruto Uzumaki.

Those two were absolutely capable of destroying the Shinobi World single-handedly. Just look at the people they defeated in the end-which of them could not do the same?

Still, they seemed rather unlucky, because their cheats were reclaimable. After their final fight, the Sage of Six Paths seemed to have taken their cheats back.

And after them came Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, which even Fire Release could not set alight, where the godlike beings were even more terrifying.

Perhaps they should not be called godlike beings anymore. It should have been called an alien invasion of the Shinobi World instead.

All in all, Xia Yan was fairly satisfied with the time he had transmigrated into. Too early, and he would have been cannon fodder; too late, and he would still have been cannon fodder.

At this point in time, he could still develop, and he could carefully consider and plan what kind of path he wanted to take.

At least he could still find a way to complete that sole mission of becoming the "Shinobi World's biggest boss."

But in this Shinobi World where bloodlines matter, a lot of paths have already been set in stone.

After giving it some serious thought, Xia Yan shook his head somewhat helplessly. There was room for variety among this world's lower-level powers, but the paths to its higher-level powers had long since been fixed.

For the descendants of Indra and Asura, the best method was to obtain the other side's chakra, thereby completing their own power-or rather, their genes.

But there was a problem. Although Xia Yan was a descendant of the Senju Clan, he was quite certain he was no reincarnation of Asura.

Even if he could get close to Naruto and Sasuke, those two children blessed with cheats, he did not know exactly when they awakened Indra's chakra and Asura Chakra.

If it took too long, it would be even more meaningless to him.

He might gather that power only to draw out the Sage of Six Paths. That would be the biggest headache of all.

The Sage of Six Paths-that old man Hagoromo Otsutsuki definitely isn't dead. How could someone with his level of strength possibly die?

Well aware of his own limits, Xia Yan essentially ruled out considering Indra's and Asura's chakra. Those waters ran too deep for him to handle.

But I have a cheat. I can use it to obtain chakra of every nature. That's my advantage.

Xia Yan narrowed his eyes slightly. The more chakra natures he had, the more complete he would naturally become. With his cheat, he had no concern at all about whether he could fully master that chakra.

And possessing chakra with complete attributes could grant him something-the Truth-Seeking Orb!

There was no need to elaborate on the power of Truth-Seeking Orbs. This power could utterly defeat almost every ninjutsu system and could be considered one of the most powerful weapons.

And when chakra of all attributes fused completely...

That's Kekkei Mōra!

Kekkei Mōra was absolutely the most powerful and terrifying power in the entire Naruto world, one that utterly overwhelmed every Kekkei Genkai!

Yet the difficulty of creating Kekkei Mōra simply exceeded anything anyone could imagine. It required fusing seven kinds of Chakra Nature Transformation together!

How many Kekkei Genkai were there in the entire Shinobi World?

Xia Yan did not know, but judging by how much importance every village-except Kirigakure-placed on Kekkei Genkai shinobi, such shinobi were actually very rare.

An ordinary Kekkei Genkai fusion was, in fact, formed through the ultimate fusion of two chakra natures.

And currently, only one person in the entire Shinobi World possessed a Kekkei Tōta: the Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki.

With his Kekkei Tōta, even at the advanced age of seventy-nine during the Fourth Shinobi World War, he still displayed fighting strength and destructive power beyond what people could imagine.

If Ōnoki could display such fighting strength by fusing just three chakra natures, one could easily imagine what kind of world-destroying might the fusion of seven chakra natures would unleash!

Moreover, Xia Yan really did have the foundation for it. With his cheat, he could acquire this chakra relatively easily, without even needing to expend effort on mastering it.

The only thing that gave him something of a headache was how to fuse it, but Xia Yan also felt that considering such things now was clearly not a good idea.

Besides, perhaps my cheat can even let me find a Fusion Seed and obtain a Fusion Fruit.

Fusion was the most troublesome part, and also the biggest headache, but the existence of his cheat put Xia Yan considerably more at ease.

Although he had yet to figure out exactly what his cheat used as the basis for extracting the corresponding chakra from plants.

As long as it was extracted from plants, however, Xia Yan could try doing something himself.

For example, he could see whether he could find a way to fuse some special plants while having them retain the special property of "fusion."

If nothing else worked, Xia Yan could even take some ancient texts from his clan and go to Orochimaru to see whether he could help!

Of course, seeking Orochimaru's help was already a last resort. If possible, he would absolutely never go to Orochimaru.

Because Orochimaru was simply too clever, and far too dangerous as well!

Dealing with someone like that would also be a challenge for Xia Yan, and an unnecessary one at that.

If Xia Yan were strong enough to overwhelm Orochimaru, it would not be much of an issue.

Unfortunately, if the current Xia Yan faced Orochimaru, he would probably end up just like Kakashi in the original story when he pursued the defecting Orochimaru, having his mask shattered with a single move.

With a quiet sigh, Xia Yan looked at the densely filled notes in his hand and set down his pen.

He had not expected to write so much while thinking things through.

Still, it did not matter. Though he had written a little too much, this was enough to show his sincerity, wasn't it...