Naruto: Cultivating to Immortality

Chapter 48 The Truth of the World

Hyuga Kanan's momentary lapse in concentration gave the opposing Iwa ninja an opportunity to close in and attack, delivering a powerful punch.

When Hyuga Kanan came to her senses, she saw the fist that was almost at her face. She had no chance to dodge and could only subconsciously raise her hands to protect her head.

"Bang!" The Iwa ninja's heavy fist slammed into Hyuga Kanan's arms.

"Crack!" The sound of a broken arm bone reached Hyuga Kanan's ears. Then, the arm struck Hyuga Kanan's head, causing his body to lean backward and his legs to involuntarily leave the ground, leaving him levitating. His uncontrollable body flew straight into the air.

Ultimately, the immense impact propelled Hyuga Kanan from mid-air, sending her hurtling to the ground and creating a crater.

Hyuga Kanan lay in the crater, feeling every cell in his body scream in agony. Countless waves of pain surged through his mind, and his hands hung limply at his sides, twisted into irregular shapes. This devastating blow had truly rendered Hyuga Kanan incapable of fighting.

The Iwa ninja, showing no carelessness, quickly approached and, upon seeing Hyuga Kanan lying in the pit, launched a straight kick, stomping hard on Kanan's knee, clearly intending to break Kanan's leg and prevent him from standing.

As Hyuga Kanan watched the rapidly approaching foot, he subconsciously mobilized the soul power in his mind, but what appeared was no longer soul power, but a purer kind of power.

Without time to think, he directly unleashed that power at the rapidly approaching figure, which then entered the other's mind.

The power that entered the other person's mind directly suppressed their consciousness, causing their body to stop moving instantly, leaving them standing there blankly.

Hinata Kanan breathed a sigh of relief and slowly stood up, using the strength of her spine. But with each movement, a sharp pain shot through her body, causing Hinata Kanan's lips to twitch violently and her eyebrows to tremble.

Ignoring the situation on the other side, he quickly headed towards the cave at the Konoha base. The Iwa ninjas around him were slightly taken aback when they saw Hyuga Kanan's figure disappearing quickly, but they quickly gave chase, not giving Hyuga Kanan a chance to escape.

Hyuga Kanan sensed the Iwa ninja chasing behind him and knew that with his current physical condition, it was impossible to escape directly. He immediately mobilized the power in his mind and entered the heads of the people around him, instantly suppressing their consciousness and leaving the chasing Iwa ninja stunned in place.

Without turning back to kill the pursuing Iwa ninja, they quickly left.

Hyuga Kanan was now at his limit, having just exhausted a great deal of mental energy to thwart the pursuing Iwa ninja. His consciousness was also somewhat hazy, and he was drowsy. Forcing himself to stay awake, he didn't linger and quickly avoided all the Iwa ninja, returning to the cave at the Konoha base.

Upon returning to the cave at the base, he headed straight for the deepest part, but before he reached it, his consciousness went black, and he collapsed to the ground unconscious.

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The consciousness in the unconscious Hyuga Kanan's mind was like a small boat, drifting endlessly on a dark sea, without a destination, without direction, and without even the ability to discern its surroundings; it simply kept drifting.

At this point, a scene from when Hyuga Kanan was still on Earth appears.

I grew up being pampered in my parents' arms as a child, and slowly grew up amidst their kisses and teachings on Taoist culture.

During his university years, he became obsessed with Taoist studies, wanting to explore whether Taoist cultivation truly existed. After graduating, he inherited his parents' family's legacy, receiving countless Taoist texts and a family heirloom jade. His consciousness entered the heirloom jade, gaining access to Taoist cultivation methods and experiences.

Finally, he resolutely abandoned the glitz and glamour of the world and came to Longhu Mountain, the cradle of Taoism, to cultivate, beginning an endless period of spiritual practice. After his parents passed away due to their advanced age, he never left Longhu Mountain again.

In the face of despair that the Earth could not break through its limitations due to the lack of natural energy, an artificial lightning tribulation was carried out.

Then, as if reborn, the previous life began to flicker like a slideshow, and finally shattered under the bombardment of lightning.

Then, his consciousness entered the Qiankun Inheritance Jade and drifted endlessly in the void. After an unknown period of time, he was drawn to a new world by a force.

It was like starting a new cultivation process, step by step re-cultivating, and slowly beginning to understand this world. There was the joy of discovering the world's abundant natural energy, and the exclamation of realizing this world resembled the world of the anime Naruto.

These memories began to flow through her like a stream, gradually restoring Hyuga Kanan's consciousness.

When that sliver of consciousness began to perceive its surroundings, it discovered an indescribable will emanating a sense of sorrow within the pitch-black environment.

Upon contact with that will, consciousness immediately roared as endless recorded images flooded in, giving it the feeling of being burst.

An incredibly powerful force directly suppressed this world, then tore open a rift in space, and two pale-skinned figures were thrown inside.

The two figures, one male and one female, wandered around this world after entering it, as if searching for something.

Finally, they stopped at a beautiful, naturally beautiful spot, surrounded by lush trees. They took a seed emitting a milky-white glow from their robes and planted it directly into the earth. After it was buried, the surrounding environment began to fluctuate violently, the endless natural energy being continuously absorbed. The surrounding plants and trees slowly withered and turned yellow, gradually losing their vitality. The beautiful environment became gray and lifeless, and the darkness continued to expand outwards.

Seeds not only absorb the natural energy of the world, but also continuously absorb the will of heaven and earth, causing the will of this world to weaken over time.

As the seed sprouts from the soil and slowly grows into a sapling, its spread accelerates, and the whole world seems to gradually fall silent.

Two pale-skinned figures began to take turns guarding the saplings to ensure their safe growth.

During her time off, the woman traveled to various countries in this world and encountered a daimyo from a country called the Land of Ancestors. The two met while investigating changes in the environment and gradually fell in love over the years that followed.

However, the continuous deterioration of the environment caused widespread sorrow among the people of the Ancestral Kingdom, and the country began to fall into turmoil. The Daimyo of the Ancestral Kingdom was powerless to help and was heartbroken to see his country in constant turmoil.

As time passed, the sapling grew into a towering tree, became a divine tree, and bore a fruit. The world's environment deteriorated, and the Ancestral Kingdom was on the verge of collapse.

Looking at the daimyo of the Ancestral Kingdom, whose face showed signs of despair, the woman made an important decision. When it was her turn to stand guard, she ate the unripe fruit directly, stopping the fruit from continuously absorbing the world.

After consuming the fruit, she gained partial control over the will of this world, ending its collapse and giving it a chance to gradually recover.

After being discovered by his companions, a great battle ensued. The woman, having gained partial control over this world, defeated her companions and, as she had wished, changed the world.

After returning to the Land of Ancestors, she remarried the daimyo she loved and had children. The daimyo of the Land of Ancestors was deeply affected by the previous turmoil in the Land of Ancestors and soon passed away.

The women continued to govern the ancestral land, awaiting the arrival of their children.

Soon, the woman gave birth to two boys, named Hagoromo and Hamura. Inheriting the woman's bloodline, the two were born with her power, namely chakra. The woman carefully taught her two children.

As she continued to grow, Yu Yi also discovered the divine tree that had lost its vitality. She sensed some of the world's will absorbed by this divine tree within her inherited bloodline, and at the same time, she discovered the path of her future growth.

Upon returning home, Yu Yi excitedly told her mother about her discovery. However, her mother immediately warned her not to touch the divine tree again, and told her that the divine tree would harm the entire world.

But Hagoromo believed that everyone in the world was an ant, so how could she let these ants hinder her path to power? She continued to go her own way and keep coming into contact with the divine tree, hoping to gain transcendence from this world.

After her husband, the daimyo of the land of ancestors, passed away, the woman vowed to protect the country and prevent the Divine Tree from reappearing. When her eldest son disobeyed her orders, she decided to strip the power inherited from her son, Gohae, of his power, forcing him to start anew as an ordinary person and understand her meaning.

Upon hearing this news, Hamura, unwilling to see his brother stripped of his power by their mother, informed Hagoromo beforehand, hoping Hagoromo would apologize to their mother to atone for the punishment. However, Hagoromo had already been continuously receiving remnants of the world's will from the Divine Tree, and although she was still no match for her mother, she had gained power at the same level.

Finally, the mother and son had a violent conflict, which broke out into a war that could destroy the world. The continuous fighting caused the earth to collapse and the land where humans could live to be destroyed. In the end, the woman stopped fighting and asked her son to seal her away.

Because she knew that if the fight continued, the world would be destroyed by the aftershocks of their battle, and she couldn't bring herself to truly kill the other side, even though it was her own son. So she gave up the fight and handed the choice over to the other side.

After her victory, Hagoromo originally planned to kill her mother to prevent her from threatening her again, but the appearance of her younger brother stopped her from doing so.

When Hagoromo saw her younger brother Hamura, she also realized a critical factor: if her mother died, would she directly make her chakra disappear, since her mother was the source of her chakra?

Finally, she agreed to her brother's request and used the authority granted to her by the divine tree to create a moon using the sealing technique of Earth Explosion Star, a world authority, and sealed her mother inside.

Hamura seemed to have noticed his elder brother's change as well, and abandoned the entire ninja world, taking only his followers and descendants to the moon to be with his mother.

The ninja world became Hagoromo's domain. Hagoromo also began researching the Divine Tree, discovering that to transcend this world, one not only needed to continuously absorb energy, but ultimately also to seize control of the world's will.

He then began experimenting, and eventually discovered that he could accumulate energy in the same way his mother's clan, the Otsutsuki, traditionally distributed his chakra to others, allowing them to possess chakra.

He turned countless people into miniature divine trees, and the one who planted these divine trees was himself, who separated his chakra, turning numerous people into clumps of pasture, which he then harvested from behind.

He also wanted to incite wars, causing them to die in battle. The souls of the dead would be drawn to his own soul space, turning his soul space into a pure land and becoming his power.

He stripped the world's will of its power of reincarnation, rendering it completely powerless in the cycle of reincarnation, and transformed himself into a sage of the six realms, replacing the world's will.