Sunagakure, in the deepest reaches of the underground laboratory, in a quiet chamber completely sealed off from the outside world.
There were no windows and no lights. Only a strange, slowly rotating apparatus at the center, fashioned from intricate Dragon Vein runes and chakra metal, gave off a faint blue glow that seemed capable of absorbing all sound.
Toyotomi Yinglang sat cross-legged before the apparatus, his eyes closed. Between his brows, however, a dark gold vertical mark resembling a third eye glowed faintly, resonating with the apparatus's core.
[Peering Mirror Technique].
He had created this technique himself by combining the Dragon Vein Power's unique perception of space, the Mangekyō Sharingan's long-range insight, and fragments of spatial knowledge obtained from the system.
It did not directly peer into the future or read minds. Instead, with himself as the anchor, it used the obscure connection between the Dragon Vein and the earth to project his spiritual energy toward distant regions like the finest of probes, capturing, amplifying, and analyzing violently fluctuating energy fields, chakra flows, and the mental "noise" generated by large gatherings of people, thereby constructing a relatively clear "situational picture" in his mind.
The greater the distance, the greater the expenditure and the lower the precision, and it could not examine details or stationary targets.
But it could hardly have been better suited to observing a region like Konoha, where violent upheaval was underway and energy and emotions were seething.
At this moment, in his "eyes," or rather, in the picture constructed by his spiritual perception:
Konoha was like a pot of oil heated to its limit, about to explode.
The chakra field, which should have formed a seamless whole, had been brutally torn apart by three powerful, unruly energy vortices that collided with and repelled one another. One was