As the Phase Release fused with the Rule of Nothingness, Uchiha Kirin's body gradually disappeared into the vastness of cosmic space.
With the final Dust Release elevated to the level of Divine Art, he felt a deep sense of euphoria throughout his entire being. It was as though his body had been forged again and again by the power of the rules themselves—his physique now able to contain far greater power than before.
Even without the boost from the Battle Saint Scripture, he now felt he could, with some effort, destroy a planet the size of the Shinobi World with his bare fists.
And if he amplified that power a thousandfold... it was simply unimaginable. He had undoubtedly surpassed the Sage of Six Paths!
But the emergence of so many Divine Arts didn't just affect Uchiha Kirin himself.
The miniature world connected through Kamui was now rapidly evolving under the influence of rule-based power, transforming into something that could truly be called a planet.
No longer was it an endless, flat expanse. Instead, it became a pocket universe where a small planet floated in the void—its surface covered in erupting volcanoes, frigid ice caverns, thunder-filled lakes, corrosive seas, and skies choked with clouds of poison gas. These extreme environments each corresponded to the forces of his Divine Arts.
The massive star core he had previously absorbed had now evolved into this planet's core. From it extended channels resembling dragon veins, though in reality they were inverse-energy leylines, spreading across the land.
The Tenseigan and relics he had once stored in the world were transformed into the sun and moon, orbiting the planet to mark the cycle of day and night.
The prototype Divine Tools he had gathered, along with fragments of Divine Tools inherent in the Uchiha bloodline, had become stars, their radiance eternally illuminating this newborn world.
As Uchiha Kirin stepped into it, he couldn't help but marvel at how his power had reshaped what was once an illusion into something so tangible.
The spatial stability of this world now vastly surpassed that of the current Shinobi World—though that was in part due to the Shinobi World having suffered numerous devastating wars, leaving its space riddled with cracks...
As his world continued to evolve, its World Force transformed from intermittent droplets into a steady stream, continuously flowing into Uchiha Kirin's body—remaking both his flesh and spirit toward a higher form of existence.
He even had a strange thought: could he throw this planet out of Kamui's dimension and use it as a weapon?
Even so-called gods would suffer massive injuries if struck by it.
However, doing that would severely damage his newly formed world—damage that would take a long time to repair...
So instead, he decided to keep the planet within the space, allowing it to continue evolving and endlessly provide him with the World Force needed for his personal evolution.
...
He tested the newly promoted Kekkei Genkai now transformed into Divine Arts.
Honestly, Uchiha Kirin wasn't particularly impressed.
They were... average.
Before the promotion, these Kekkei Genkai could already severely harm ninja. After the promotion, even when targeting higher lifeforms, the effects were only modestly improved.
The only real benefit was that they now countered two main flaws: their chakra wouldn't be absorbed by the Ōtsutsuki anymore, and their destructive power was finally enough to break through the powerful regenerative defenses of those beings.
At the very least, fighting someone like Momoshiki or Kinshiki Ōtsutsuki with these upgraded techniques was now significantly easier.
Because he had fused such a large number of Divine Arts, his physical body and spirit were dramatically enhanced—but his internal energy and the energy from his miniature world were being consumed at an excessive rate.
To seize the momentum and strike while the iron was hot, Uchiha Kirin began layering the Eight Gates atop the ten-layered Battle Saint Scripture.
Despite the overwhelming energy threatening to explode inside him, he leapt directly into the heart of the sun.
There, he fully activated the Breathing Art of the Sage Path, drawing in the sun's immense light and heat, as well as its astonishingly rich natural energy—richer even than what any Holy Land could provide.
That endless flow of energy steadily replenished his exhausted body.
It seemed that he could now venture deep into the sun's core. Though the innermost center remained inaccessible, what he could reach was more than enough to declare this sun his true training ground!
Once he had absorbed enough energy, Uchiha Kirin made his decision:
Here and now, he would complete the fusion of the Five Elements Divine Arts!
...
But this would be a grueling challenge.
The Five Elements Divine Art required him to simultaneously and dynamically stabilize five completely different rule-based forces, and then harmonize their mutual transformations of generation and counteraction.
He had to avoid allowing them to fully merge into one or collapse entirely upon absorbing external power—any such deviation could ruin the entire process.
Moreover, the lower-tier form of this Divine Art—namely the Kekkei Tōta and Truth-Seeking Orbs—had once been manipulated within the bloodline by the Sage of Six Paths.
Without the Rinnegan, or being the reincarnation of Indra or Asura, such a synthesis was supposed to be impossible.
"Failed again!"
Boom!
The vortex formed by the five elemental rules collapsed once more, disrupting his breathing technique. Uchiha Kirin's body was blown apart.
Blazing solar flames instantly surged to incinerate the remains of his broken body.
Fortunately, his spirit still endured. He forced himself to resume the breathing technique and activated the Divine Art 〖Wither and Bloom〗, quickly regenerating his form.
He reassembled his shattered body and, using the sun's vast yang energy, fully restored it.
Reborn again and again, his power was repeatedly drained and replenished—drawing energy from both the sun and the star core of his miniature world.
His body and soul, forged in these hellish flames, grew ever stronger—eventually able to withstand even the overlapping strain of the Eight Gates.
By the time he opened the Fourth Gate, the crimson aura surging from his body could stand equal to the solar fire around him.
A vacuum zone formed around Uchiha Kirin—a place where the flames could no longer burn him.
This marked a critical threshold: he could now suppress the sun's interference and selectively draw its vast natural energy to nourish himself.
With the solar fire's interference neutralized, Uchiha Kirin seized the moment and, learning from his past failures, completed the Five Elements Divine Art in one breath.
A rainbow-colored vortex appeared and quickly settled into his abdomen, madly absorbing any rule that could be derived through five-element evolution—along with various essential energies from the sun itself.
Despite being in the most extreme environment known to man, Uchiha Kirin now felt as though he were soaking in a hot spring—completely at peace, body and mind relaxed.
Unconsciously, he deactivated the Battle Saint Scripture and Eight Gates, letting the Breathing Art of the Sage Path work alone as he sank deeper into the sun's core...
...
Back in his miniature world, a matching five-element vortex appeared deep within the star core, fusing with the origin Divine Art of the Uchiha bloodline, which represented Devouring Power.
Together, they evolved into a new vortex. The entire world began to compress inward.
The planet shrank slightly. Its spatial structure became more stable, its gravity stronger. Atmospheric flows began, and the once-hostile environments started to interact and transform.
Thus was born the brand-new Divine Art:
〖Five Elements Cycle〗!
...
Thanks to the immense energy of the sun's depths, it didn't take long for Uchiha Kirin to fully replenish his strength and awaken from his slumber.
Looking at the black Truth-Seeking Orbs orbiting him—and the stellar energy that no longer caused him pain but had now been transformed into his own power—
He knew:
He had succeeded.
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