At the bottom of a ten-thousand-meter-deep pit.
Hamura Otsutsuki lay dying on the ground, his clothes torn and his body covered in blood and grime.
Only the silver blood that occasionally seeped from the corner of his mouth and the faint rise and fall of his chest proved that he had not yet died completely.
No one would have imagined that this wretched figure underground, gradually approaching death, was Hamura, who had saved the Shinobi World alongside the Sage of Six Paths in historical legends.
"Hamura, please, don't die."
"Creation of All Things Technique!"
The moment the translucent Sage of Six Paths appeared, he spotted the dying Hamura on the ground. He immediately formed hand seals and treated Hamura with the Creation of All Things Technique, which combined Yin-Yang Release-the same technique he had used a thousand years ago to split the Ten-Tails and create nine conscious entities from him.
Intertwining gold and silver energy poured continuously into Hamura's body, repairing his injuries.
"Uchiha Xuantou..."
The Sage of Six Paths grumbled inwardly, realizing that Xuandou seemed to be something of a jinx for him.
At their first meeting, the branch family his younger brother Hamura had left on the moon had been all but wiped out.
At their second meeting, Naruto's and Sasuke's chakra had resonated and awakened, and Naruto had sent him flying into the sky with the Thousand Years of Death ninjutsu.
This was their third meeting, and he had learned that his younger brother was dying as soon as they met...
The Sage of Six Paths took a long look at the silver blood on the ground. For Hamura, who had long since died and now existed only as a spirit, the silver blood on the ground was not fresh blood, but his fundamental essence, something far