Above Mount Sumeru.
The hundred-thousand-meter Azure Dragon slowly shrank. Amid flickering blue-gold light, Lin Ze's figure reappeared on the summit.
His upper body was bare, his muscles sharply defined. The cracks caused by the fusion had vanished completely, replaced by a smooth, warm, jade-like texture.
His cyan Rinnegan turned quietly, the phantom of an Azure Dragon flickering deep within his pupils.
"This feeling..."
Lin Ze raised his hand and gently clenched his fist.
There was no fluctuation of chakra, no release of pressure, only the simple act of clenching a fist.
Yet that single movement actually made the surrounding space distort slightly!
"Kekkei Mōra really is different."
"And that person... was that Urashiki Otsutsuki?"
Lin Ze murmured.
At the moment of his advancement, his perception had expanded without limit. Not only had it encompassed the entire Shinobi World, but he had even faintly sensed something in the void beyond it.
A figure was rapidly traversing the void, heading toward the Shinobi World.
The figure moved extremely fast, and its method of travel was unusual, as though it were leaping through spatial rifts, countless times faster than normal flight.
"It couldn't be anyone but him!"
Lin Ze narrowed his eyes and began recalling what he knew about Urashiki.
In the original series, Urashiki Otsutsuki had very unusual abilities. Besides Yomotsu Hirasaka, he also had a fishing rod and "Karasuki" that could travel through time.
Although he was weaker than Momoshiki and Kinshiki, he was the most troublesome of them all.
"Traveling through time..."
Lin Ze murmured, "That really is tricky."
He closed his eyes and carefully extended his perception deeper into the universe. Unfortunately, he could not sense Momoshiki or Kinshiki. They were clearly still far away.
Lin Ze quickly weighed things up.
Urashiki was the closest. At his speed, traveling