The most important discovery?
This guy has a surprising level of resistance against your Sharingan's control!
In your experience, even the most powerful of the Tailed Beasts—Kurama, the Nine-Tails—struggled to resist the power of the Sharingan.
The Mangekyō Sharingan was born with the overwhelming ability to suppress Tailed Beasts, just like Wood Release.
And yet, even with your Six Tomoe Mangekyō Sharingan, which far surpasses ordinary Mangekyōs, controlling Zero-Tails still feels... difficult.
Could it be that naturally formed chakra amalgamations are inherently resistant to the Sharingan?
You can understand why the Sharingan suppresses the Tailed Beasts—after all, they all originated from the Ten-Tails, which possessed both Wood Release and the Rinne Sharingan.
But logically, a naturally formed chakra construct like this one should at most be less affected by Sharingan—not able to outright resist it.
Which means...
There must be something inside the Zero-Tails that allows it to resist the Sharingan!
With that thought, you fully unleash your Ocular Power, letting your immense chakra surge outward. One part of you pushes your Sharingan deeper to erode the Zero-Tails' will, while another part analyzes the chakra flow and changes within its body.
There!
With your full visual power focused, the Zero-Tails suddenly begins to violently thrash. From its swirling dark chakra, a faint and nearly imperceptible thread of grayish-black energy starts to emerge.
That's it!
That's the force that's been resisting your Sharingan all along.
What the hell is that?
Confused, you pull out a small bone vial etched with sealing runes—a specially crafted container meant to perfectly preserve bloodline samples.
But no matter what you do, you can't seal that gray-black energy inside it.
Even with the combined might of Magnet Release and Adamantine Sealing Chains, it's still useless.
Worse still, the eerie energy forcefully breaks through your defenses and tries to invade your Sharingan directly.
This situation has completely spiraled out of your control.
Fortunately, in a moment of desperation, a blade of shadow shoots out, freezing the mysterious energy in midair.
You've finally locked it down.
Reaching out carefully, you extend a finger and touch the suspended force—
The moment your skin brushes against it, a freezing chill sweeps over you like an avalanche of hatred and darkness, as if every shadowy impulse in the world was condensed into a single touch.
It makes your body feel as if it's plunged into an icy abyss—far colder than even your Ice Release ever managed.
You drift in the void for what feels like an eternity...
Then, a glimmer of light suddenly cuts through the darkness. The illusion ends, and you're freed from the bizarre trance.
It was like Tsukuyomi—time flowed differently inside it, but only an instant passed in the real world.
Now, everything in the world feels... clearer than ever.
It's not just the physical boost from acquiring the Ōtsutsuki bloodline.
It's something deeper. You can now hear the voices of all things—sense good and evil in people, read their thoughts as if flipping through a book...
Is this... divinity?
You instinctively realize—the owner of this force can only be described as a "god."
But how is a god connected to the Zero-Tails? You don't know. All you do know is that the thing you just separated from it is something called Divinity.
After that Divinity was stripped away, the Zero-Tails lost all resistance to your Sharingan and became nothing more than an ordinary chakra construct.
And once it came into contact with you, the Divinity melded seamlessly into your body—just like the Zero-Tails' chakra had earlier—it became a part of you.
Upon close inspection, you find that this force poses no harm to you.
In fact, it benefits you tremendously. Your understanding of the world—including spatial laws—becomes far more intuitive.
Now that you've obtained this reward...
It's time to return to Konoha and enjoy the show.
...
Grabbing Shinnō by the collar, you activate the Flying Thunder God Technique and warp back to Konoha—
—but during the teleportation process, a strange vision flickers before your eyes:
A massive, intricate web of symbols—an overwhelmingly complex, arcane formation that seems to encompass your entire field of vision.
Or maybe...
That is space itself.
...
Back in Konoha, you continue pondering everything you've seen and learned.
Years ago, when you first studied the Uzumaki clan's sealing arts, you had a faint idea—that perhaps all things could be deconstructed and restructured using special runes.
But as you kept devouring power afterward, you lost that original inspiration and the peaceful focus needed for in-depth research.
Now, after obtaining this Divinity—or perhaps godlike power—from within the Zero-Tails...
Your old theory has come true.
This mysterious energy is exactly why the Zero-Tails could endlessly feed off the darkness of human nature, why it could never be destroyed or truly killed. Like the Ten-Tails compared to other Tailed Beasts, it had a core—an anchor—that kept it regenerating endlessly.
And that concept...
Isn't it quite similar to the Ōtsutsuki?
Using Karma to endlessly swap vessels and achieve immortality...
The Ōtsutsuki even have a God of the Ōtsutsuki among them.
Not to mention how Isshiki Ōtsutsuki possessed cells from that being—which later allowed the creation of clones with so-called "Divine Techniques" in the Boruto storyline...
But honestly, you don't remember much from Boruto—and the Naruto world you're in now is clearly far more complex than what you saw back in your previous life.
You can't fully grasp the deeper relationships just yet—but you can feel a mysterious connection in all of this.
This world has its own gods and demons too.
Like the Shinigami and Jashin...
You remember the cult of Jashin from six years ago—the one you couldn't see through.
You decide: once Black Zetsu and Obito are fully eliminated, and Nagato becomes the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki—and once you've at least mastered Dust Release—you'll go investigate that cult personally.
Maybe you'll uncover more answers there.
...
Meanwhile, your shadow clone—disguised as a jōnin from Yugakure—arrives at Konoha.
With him are Konohamaru and two young ninja purchased from the Shinobi Arena.
After confirming the legitimacy of the invitation from Konoha, all three are allowed into the venue to participate in the first round of the Chūnin Exams.
The three of them don't have much formal education. They've lived their whole lives amidst bloodshed and death. Aside from knowing how to write their own names, the rest of their literacy is a mix of guesswork and rote-memorized symbols from ninjutsu scrolls.
But that's not an issue.
You use Genjutsu to temporarily take over their consciousness—and complete the exam with ease.
And this time, Naruto shines brilliantly during the written portion of the Chūnin Exams.
First, he demonstrates a surprising depth of knowledge far beyond his original self—easily completing the exam.
Then he stands up and passionately explains to the others who were thinking of quitting what it means to have comrades. The importance of courage and friendship...
Unexpected, but fitting.
You wonder—was this due to Asura's chakra?
Or was it the result of Hiruzen Sarutobi pouring everything he had into raising Naruto?
Either way, no matter how much Naruto grows—
He still won't be able to avoid the inevitable showdown with Konohamaru.
And you can't help but wonder:
Who will come out on top in the end?
Will it be the surrogate grandson who Hiruzen devoted everything—his time, love, and hope—to?
Or the biological grandson who, at the age of three, was taken away by Uchiha Madara's ghost, endured inhuman suffering, and now returns step by step to stand before him once more?
Either way...
You're sure Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression will be priceless.
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