Naruto and Sasuke are doing nothing; Madara and I will set an example.

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But time has passed, and the ashes he left behind have long been scattered by the wind to every corner of this space.

He gazed at the place where he had been scattered all those years ago, lowered his eyes, and let out a sigh of regret.

"I never thought I'd be back here again, at the very place where my worthless life ended..."

Chapter 32 Snow Shadows and Peach Blossom Traces

The Uchiha residence in Konoha is now heavily guarded by Konoha's Jonin!

A slug clone, even larger than the house, stood where the tent had been!

A small slug clone is using Slug Technique, fueled by Sakura's chakra, to heal Sasuke, who is lying on a medical stretcher!

But that's not enough. The members of the Silent One and the Medical Team are gathered around, working together to perform the 'Healing and Regeneration Technique'!

As her condition gradually stabilized, her silent assistant wiped the sweat from her forehead, and she turned her gaze to the stretcher on the other side.

Sakura! Are you alright over there? Do you need any help?

Naruto lay across the medical stretcher in front of Sakura, his abdomen covered with a medical ninjutsu enhancement talisman.

Sakura tied her hair up, the Yin seal on her forehead was broken, and stripes ran through her cheeks and arms, connecting to her hands covered with the Yin healing and extinction green light!

"I'm fine here! I don't need help for now! Naruto is protected by Kurama's chakra! In theory, he can heal on his own. The biggest problem lies with these cones that are sealing Naruto's chakra points!"

"But these awls are of unknown origin, so I dare not touch them!"

While switching chakra frequencies, Shizune glanced at the spikes on Naruto's body out of the corner of her eye, frowned, and said in a stern tone, "You were right not to touch them. Those spikes are similar in height to the black rods of Pain's Six Paths!"

“Pain, the Six Paths of Pain…” Sakura’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Shizune said, "That's right, I was the one in charge of analyzing the Animal Path corpse that Jiraiya-sama retrieved back then! I would never mistake it! That was the medium for its homogenization!"

"What? It's Payne..."

Sakura, maintaining the treatment with one hand, freed up her other hand, which was covered in the azure blue of a chakra scalpel, and swept it towards Naruto's lower body!

"Snap!" The awl embedded in his thigh, knee, and calf was removed!

Immediately afterwards, she swept in the opposite direction!

"Snap!" Naruto's ribs, collarbone, and shoulder were all removed one after another!

“Sakura, you…” This powerful move left Shizune speechless.

"I thought they were Truth-Seeking Balls used by Madara and Obito! That's why I was afraid to touch them! Turns out they were just those sticks that break with a single bend!"

Sakura finished speaking emotionlessly, then said in a deep voice, "Kurama! Can you hear me? Naruto's blocked pressure points have been unblocked! Immediately transfer your chakra to the affected area and help me heal Naruto!"

Kurama exclaimed, "Hmph... She's truly remarkable! No wonder she's the woman who can keep Naruto and Sasuke completely under her thumb!"

"Whoosh!" With the massive amount of chakra transferred to its destination, Sakura's Yin Healing and Destruction Technique worked like a fish in water, and Naruto's abdominal wound healed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Naruto's eyelids twitched, and he regained some consciousness.

Sakura said in a deep voice, "Naruto, I know it's going too far to let you speak right now! But the situation is very serious! I hope you can explain the situation to Shikamaru in a simple way!"

At that moment, Shikamaru, who had been waiting at the door, strode forward accompanied by several Jonin who remained behind. He said sternly, "I knew something was wrong when the shadow clones guarding your office disappeared! What happened?"

Naruto managed to utter only four words: "Uchiha Chen!"

Sakura frowned.

Uchiha... Dust?

It bears the name Uchiha, a name I've never heard of before.

We just dealt with Uchiha Shin, and now Uchiha Chen has appeared?

Where did Sasuke get so many lost clansmen?

Shikamaru looked incredulous: "Uchiha Chen! He... he turned you and Sasuke into this?"

Naruto nodded vigorously.

"Hey! What methods did he use?! Did he really resurrect Madara using Edo Tensei?!"

What……!?

Edo Tensei, Madara!?

His words caused a huge stir, and everyone present, including Sakura and Shizune, stared at him with almost suffocating eyes!

"What...what's going on?!" After an unknown amount of time, a gasp of surprise came from the crowd.

The mere mention of the name Uchiha Madara has rekindled the shadow of the Fourth Shinobi World War, a memory that had long since faded from memory.

In the complete silence, Naruto raised his hand and covered his eyes.

He didn't want everyone present to see... that the Hokage, in his post-battle memories, still had a look of fear in his eyes.

He regulated his emotions and tried his best to remain calm when stating the fact.

"No... that guy, he didn't have Edo Tensei Madara! At least I didn't see Edo Tensei Madara appear. He defeated Sasuke and me with his own power alone!"

After Naruto's words, there was a chilling silence... The name Uchiha Chen was thus etched into the hearts of everyone present.

"Dad!! I need to see Dad!! Let me in!!" The boy's urgent cry came from outside the courtyard wall.

"Young Master!! You can't go in! This place is under martial law! It's very dangerous!!" Then came the troubled voice of the ninja guarding the gate.

"Get out of the way!! I want to see what kind of mess my dad got made of!!!"

The boy with the pineapple-shaped haircut squeezed his way out of the crowd.

On the stretcher, Naruto closed his eyes sadly: "Boruto, I'm sorry, you have to see your dad looking so pathetic..."

With the amplification of Dust's energy, Obito effortlessly pried open the barrier of the supergravity space, revealing a scorching desert before him.

"The desert space, the place where Sasuke was lost back then. It took us a lot of effort to bring him back."

Continuing to be aroused by divine power, what covered the desert landscape was a world of ice and snow.

Obito's expression shifted, and Dust bowed to the spotted head.

Madara understood and used Susanoo to lift the two of them, stepping into it.

After settling down, the Divine Might Vortex shrank and disappeared.

Before me lay the familiar glacial landscape, but unlike in the past, today, heavy snow was falling in the icy expanse.

Obito's gaze lingers in remembrance.

When Black Zetsu left his body, he lost consciousness. When he opened his eyes again, he saw this icy and snowy landscape.

After listening to Naruto's shadow clones and Sakura briefly describe the progress of the war, he immediately threw himself into the battle until he was buried in the supergravity space.

If the hypergravity space is the end, then this icy space is the beginning—the place where true atonement for one's actions truly begins.

"When I opened my eyes in this icy space back then, I was determined to leave my life here to atone for my past sins... I never imagined that after many twists and turns, I would return here again."

As Obito reflected, he reaffirmed his resolve: This time, I will leave no regrets!

"Let's continue, Dust."

Chen gazed at the flying snowflakes in the icy space and fell into deep thought.

In the original timeline, around this time of year, Sasuke traveled alone to a place called [Kaguya Castle].

They found the scroll left behind by Kaguya there.

Moreover... they encountered the Momoshiki and Kinshiki duo.

[Kaguya's Castle], I don't know exactly where that is, but outside the temple where Sasuke and Kinshiki fought, snowflakes like these were falling from the sky.

Upon closer reflection, this icy space—no, more than just an icy space, all the spaces within Kaguya Tennogo—are actually quite vast…

"Chen? What are you thinking about?"

Ban's question brought Chen back to his senses.

"Ah, nothing."

Regardless of whether Kaguya's Castle actually exists in this space, we shouldn't create any more trouble right now...

Acidic seas, lava fields, supergravity, deserts, ice and snow... we've already passed through all the associated spaces.

"Our next stop should be our destination!"

The main space of Amenominaka is also the place where the battle between Team 7 and Kaguya truly came to an end.

—The initial sphere space.

Dust focused his mind and concentrated the power of his left eye, while Obito focused all his attention on coordinating with him.

—Midubo Neng Kamui!

"Whoosh!" The moment the ice and snow space broke through the barrier, a wilderness of deep red soil appeared before our eyes through the spatial gate!

Undoubtedly, it was their destination for this trip—the Origin Space!

Madara Susanoo carried the two of them into the portal, and the portal closed!

In this icy and snowy landscape, only the white snow on the horizon silently adorns the desolation.

I do not know how long it has been.

--"call out!"

The black vortex stirred up spacetime without warning... and a burly figure descended upon this place!

His fists reached past his knees, and were as big as bowls. A wide white haori covered half of his face and his entire body. One white eye was visible, and a thick horn peeked out from the edge of his hood, pointing diagonally to the sky.

After looking around, he spoke respectfully to the young man sitting on his shoulders, who was relatively small, wearing a veil and high-heeled wooden clogs.

"The location where the spacetime reaction just occurred must be here... Lady Momoshiki!"

Chapter 33: Unveiling the coffin

The two people who descended into this icy and snowy space.

It was in the original timeline that Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Kinshiki Otsutsuki were the ones who once put Naruto, Sasuke, and the Five Kage in a difficult battle before finally defeating them.

They came to Kaguya's Castle, located on the edge of this icy and snowy space, in search of the traitor of their clan, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.

They stayed there for some time.

Originally, they were supposed to encounter Sasuke Uchiha, who had come to investigate the messages left behind by Kaguya, a few days later, and have a short but intense battle.

It was Chen's actions in the Corpse-Binding Forbidden Zone that triggered a butterfly effect, causing Sasuke's actions to change, and consequently, he lost his initial connection with the Momoshiki duo.

Then, in his search for the Origin Sphere Space, Chen traveled through the Ice and Snow Space... and inadvertently brought the Momoshiki duo here as well.

Fate is so ingenious.

The course of the major ninja event has begun to irreversibly deviate.

"Click!" Beneath the veil, Momoshiki's temples bulged with veins. He used his Byakugan to survey his surroundings, finally fixing his gaze on the spot where Obito and Chen had just activated Kamui together.

"Indeed, there are remnants of 'anchor points' in the space that only appear when a spatial gate is opened. Moreover, judging from the shape of the anchor points, they don't seem to create a gate like the spatial power used by our race. Instead, they are savagely torn open, like the fangs of a hyena!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a playful smile appeared on Momoshiki's lips. "A lowly creature capable of leaving its captive enclosure? Interesting."

Jin asked uncertainly, "Lord Momoshiki, do you think it's possible that someone from my clan has similar goals to us? What about my people?"

Momoshiki shook her head slightly and said firmly, "No, my clan has no shortage of opportunists, but we have no barbarians like this. They are inferior creatures of the Kaguya land, there's no mistake about it!"

Jin asked, "Lord Momoshiki, how should we deal with the Kaguya natives who have trespassed on this land?"

Peach-style domineering smile: "That goes without saying. Chase after them, devour them completely! That's the most appropriate way for a god to deal with inferior beings!"

The two entered the spacetime vortex released by Jin's right eye.

Not long after the two left, a man with a high ponytail, dressed in white, carrying a red glowing fish basket and a red glowing fishing rod, descended above the glacier. He looked at the spot where Momoshiki and Kinshiki had left, a playful smile on his lips.

"Xiao Tao, you're quick!"

"However, you can't rush things."

“You call me a speculator, I admit it. But I, Urashiki Otsutsuki, am someone who knows how to assess the situation and plan before acting. People like you who act recklessly without any intelligence are likely to end up in trouble.”

"Of the three humans who just passed by, two of them, according to my intelligence, were once merged with the Ten-Tails left behind by Kaguya. As for the remaining one, my information is still blank, but since he was traveling with those two, he must not be a kind person either."

The central hub of the five major spaces in the Heavenly Spheres.