Inside the crystal on Susanoo's forehead.
Lin Ze closed his eyes, his consciousness gradually sinking into its depths as he began using "Myriad Mangekyō Return to Origin" to copy the "Eternal Black Flames" that combined the power of three people.
Moreover, he could feel these "Eternal Black Flames" resonating somehow with the "Space-Time Mark" already fused within his Rinnegan.
As though...
They belonged together in the first place.
At that very moment, Lin Ze's consciousness abruptly began rising and extending without end, everything around him receding-
Susanoo, the island in the Land of Water, even the entire Shinobi World.
An unknown amount of time passed.
Lin Ze opened his eyes to a space of nothingness. There was no sky, no ground, no light, no sound, only endless darkness and emptiness. Yet within this void, an image slowly emerged-
It was an ancient land of boundless vastness.
It was more expansive than anywhere Lin Ze had ever seen. Compared with it, the Shinobi World was like an island beside an entire ocean.
Across the land, mountains rose and fell, and rivers surged.
Countless powerful presences filled heaven and earth-
Beasts as massive as mountains walked the land, enormous birds whose wings blotted out the sun flew through the clouds, and there were familiar figures too... giant toads, writhing slugs, and coiling dragons.
Lin Ze's gaze sharpened.
Those were the toads of Mount Myōboku, the slugs of Shikkotsu Forest, and the dragons of Ryūchi Cave. But they were not yet the masters of the Three Great Sage Regions, merely some of the many powerful creatures on this land.
Besides them, there were countless beasts Lin Ze had never seen-
Giant wolves wreathed in lightning, kirin with fire beneath all four hooves, enormous tigers with wings on their backs... every figure radiated terrifying