Chapter 197: The Battle Ends

After reflecting on his non-existent conscience, Uchiha Feiyu returned to the battlefield.

Although it was called a battlefield, in reality, with everyone under the influence of Genjutsu, there had been few casualties so far.

But things were different now; after arriving on the ground, Uchiha Feiyu put his hands together without hesitation and activated the Summoning Technique, causing several huge, coffin-sized Hunyuan Treasure Boxes to quickly appear around him.

"These things can be distributed now, then design some memories and forge the battlefield at the same time..."

Seven or eight days passed quickly, and even with Uchiha Feiyu's mental energy and chakra, maintaining a nationwide Genjutsu for such a long time left him feeling exhausted.

However, with the four Hunyuan Treasure Boxes operating at full capacity, they were like a massive meat grinder and devouring machine; of the two or three million ninja and chakra soldiers, less than thirty percent remained.

Whether it was the four Great Ninja Villages or the soldiers of the four nations, their numbers had plummeted sharply, and after extracting such immense energy, the soul energy inside the four Hunyuan Treasure Boxes had reached its limit.

The original form of the Hunyuan Treasure Box was the Box of Ultimate Bliss, which counted as a decent treasure in the Ninja World, but if placed within the Book of Demonic Inheritance, it could only be considered the most common type of refining material.

Even though the Hunyuan Treasure Boxes could be improved by constantly refining flesh and souls, for a magical treasure, the improvement brought about in just over a dozen years was minimal.

The Box of Ultimate Bliss could originally hold about a million souls; now that it had been transformed into four Hunyuan Treasure Boxes, although the capacity limit had risen slightly, it wasn't by much, and two or three million souls were already enough to make the Hunyuan Treasure Boxes completely stuffed.

"Then, the next step is to have one final battle with Uzumaki Nagato... You have worked hard, now you can find a safe place to hide."

The "you" in Uchiha Feiyu's mouth referred to the Shadows of the other four Great Ninja Villages and their Shadow Guards, namely the four women Tsunade, Terumi Mei, Pakura, and Yugito, as well as his harem of Cauldrons.

It was precisely because of this group's help in processing the ninja that the four Hunyuan Treasure Boxes could operate non-stop, but now, these people were not in a good mental state.

Uchiha Feiyu was full of detachment toward the Naruto World, treating the vast majority of ninja and ordinary people as NPCs and wild monsters, so naturally, he had no aversion to killing monsters for gold coins; regardless of whether they were ninja from Konoha or any other village, as long as Uchiha Feiyu was unfamiliar with them, they were all leek materials.

Even if he was familiar with them, once they truly affected his interests, Uchiha Feiyu would definitely strike to kill at the first opportunity without a second of hesitation, truly a natural seed of the Demonic Path.

However, the Shadows of the four Great Ninja Villages and Uchiha Feiyu's Anbu Cauldrons did not share his mindset; even if they were mentally controlled by Uchiha Feiyu to a certain extent, it did not mean they had truly become emotionless puppets.

On the contrary, besides their submission to Uchiha Feiyu, these women had deep feelings for their own ninja villages and cared very much about their own village's ninja.

Watching the ninja of their own villages turn into expendable materials—and having done it with their own hands—the blow to their mental state was immense; after these few days, even though these women were only responsible for throwing people into the Hunyuan Treasure Boxes, they were already suffering from neurasthenia and were on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Hearing Uchiha Feiyu tell them to leave, these women felt a sense of relief and hurriedly left the area.

Uchiha Feiyu directly split off four clones, transforming them into the likenesses of Tsunade, Yugito, Pakura, and Terumi Mei, while simultaneously retracting the four Hunyuan Treasure Boxes and partially releasing the Genjutsu.

At least now, ordinary ninja could see the four village Shadows confronting Uzumaki Nagato.

The ordinary ninja who woke up from the Genjutsu seamlessly transitioned into the real battlefield, as if they had truly experienced a tragic century-long war, each looking with nervous eyes at the four village leaders confronting Uzumaki Nagato.

Then, the expressions of these ordinary ninja changed; in the Genjutsu, Nagato's world-destroying power flooded their minds once again, making them turn pale and their legs tremble.

"Run! Don't get in the way here! With our strength, we have no way to intervene in this war!"

"So many people have already consumed a lot of Nagato's chakra, this time... we should be able to win, right?"

"Don't say any more, I actually thought the Akatsuki was an organization pursuing peace... This Uzumaki Nagato doesn't even blink when he kills; killing the ninja from our villages is one thing, but this guy killed all the soldiers from the other four nations—that's already close to 2 million people!"

When they said this, these "surviving" ninja shivered; killing was a common occurrence for most ninja, but killing on the scale of tens of thousands made even these ninja feel terrified.

If it weren't for the fact that after finishing the massacre, Uzumaki Nagato seemed to be lacking in chakra, the remaining ninja felt that their people might as well just surrender!

Amidst a loud boom, Tsunade, as the Hokage, rushed up first and collided with the Shinra Tensei unleashed by Uzumaki Nagato, once again kicking up a sky-high blast of air that blew many ninja near the battlefield away.

The talking ninja were terrified and no longer dared to speak, turning their heads and using every ounce of strength they had, activating Body Flicker Techniques and running faster than one another.

The "battles" of the past few days had told them that when facing ultimate moves, it was better for ordinary ninja like them to run as fast as possible!

Just like that, the Shadows of the four Great Ninja Villages and Uzumaki Nagato fought with a roar; the aftermath of the battle reached hundreds of meters away, and ordinary ninja could only see fire, lightning, storms, giant trees, and invisible repulsive fields flashing across the battlefield, unable to see their figures at all.

Although these four village Shadows were only clones created by Uchiha Feiyu, through Dual Cultivation, Uchiha Feiyu could fully master all the ninjutsu of the four of them, and the power displayed was even greater than the originals.

Moreover, even as clones, their chakra was already close to the Tailed Beast level; this level of chakra was absolutely a standard ninjutsu turret, at least the battle scene could be made grand, looking no weaker than Uzumaki Nagato.

And as long as it looked about the same, that was enough.

The "thrilling" battle lasted for about a few hours, and nearly half of the Land of Rain near the east was almost destroyed; only then did the massive chakra aura permeating the entire battlefield disappear.

By this time, the tens of thousands of surviving ninja on the battlefield had long since scattered, because both sides of the "battle" were moving rapidly, and these ninja had to flee to the periphery to avoid being caught in the aftermath, with some of the faster ones having already escaped the Land of Rain.

The battle lasted for a few hours, but gathering these routed soldiers back took more than ten days; however, this saved a lot of trouble, as the entire Land of Rain battlefield might have had some inconsistencies with the illusion, but after more than half a month, no problems could be seen.

But what truly surprised the ninja of the four Great Ninja Villages was—they had actually won! The terrifying Uzumaki Nagato was finally sealed by the joint efforts of the four village Shadows.

Although they didn't kill him directly, generally speaking, a powerhouse sealed in the Ninja World basically had no chance of starting over—Otsutsuki Kaguya possessed an Undying Body, which allowed her to survive a long thousand-year seal, but once an ordinary ninja fell into a seal, even if the rate of life loss slowed down, they would be dead in at most a few decades.

Yes, Uchiha Feiyu orchestrated this grand drama; the final ending of the play was not that Uzumaki Nagato needed to be killed, but rather a sealing ending—convenient for a second harvest later, pulling this sealed Great Demon King out again.

This Fourth Shinobi World War ended just like that, quite ordinarily, but the casualties caused by this war left the Five Great Nations and all the ninja villages shocked.

The armies of the Five Great Nations were nearly wiped out, and only two or three out of ten ninja who participated in the war survived; after the battle ended, the Akatsuki and Iwagakure were also liquidated, with the members of the Akatsuki almost completely wiped out, and Iwagakure was broken through by the combined efforts of the four villages and directly partitioned.

In any case, the number of the four villages was already large enough; Uchiha Feiyu didn't think there was any difference between five villages and four in the entire Ninja World; as long as the Ninja World was not unified, he would have plenty of excuses if he wanted to harvest.

Beneath Konoha, the base where the Root was originally located.

At this moment, this former base was not completely abandoned but had become a true Anbu training base, only the "Root of Konoha" had dug a bit too ruthlessly back then, and there were still some hidden places that hadn't been activated until now.

If one were to talk about who knew the most about the Root of Konoha today, it wasn't even Orochimaru, who was once a deputy of the Root, but Uchiha Feiyu, who had once used Genjutsu to trap almost all the ninja of the Root; so when he brought his harvest and prepared to find a secret location to digest it, he immediately thought of this place where he had stayed for a long time.

After notifying Tsunade, Uchiha Feiyu took his four "big coffins" and hid underground to act as a ground Rat—there was no help for it, having absorbed more leeks from Iwagakure and the Akatsuki, the four Hunyuan Treasure Boxes had truly reached their limit; without Uchiha Feiyu's suppression, they would explode in minutes.

As for what the result of this thing exploding would be, even Uchiha Feiyu himself didn't know; if he was lucky, it would just be a big explosion, and if he was unlucky, perhaps the massive soul energy, Qi and Blood, and chakra would condense into some tricky monsters.

In fact, Uchiha Feiyu could absorb it directly now, but Uchiha Feiyu had long been prepared for a transition in cultivation; having absorbed a large amount of energy now, a large portion would definitely be wasted when he transitioned.

If the transition time were still very long, there would be no need to say much, but now Uchiha Feiyu had gathered a huge amount of offerings and would definitely be able to obtain some high-level inheritance from the Book of Demonic Inheritance; the transition was right before his eyes, so he naturally wouldn't be idle and waste energy.

In the basement covered with sealing arrays, Uchiha Feiyu placed the four "big coffins" in the center of four sealing arrays to suppress the energy inside the Hunyuan Treasure Boxes, then sat cross-legged in the center, focusing his mental energy on the dark space where the Book of Demonic Inheritance resided.

In the pitch-black space, endless Black Qi intertwined and aggregated, condensing into a terrifyingly huge black snake; the black snake had horns on its head, winding and flowing, and its mouth emitted a frantic hissing sound that seemed to be a mixture of thousands of voices.

On the body of the giant black python, through every scale, one could see human faces; the human faces on the scales constantly changed, each one being a deceased person who had died at the hands of Uchiha Feiyu; the entire snake seemed to be condensed from millions of human faces, giving a feeling that was both terrifying and eerie, enough to make a normal person's sanity drop wildly.

"Tsk... I didn't expect that with more offerings, there would be such a change; this time it turned into a Cthulhu style?"

"Come to think of it, that thing can also count as a kind of demon or monster! But I don't want to take this route where I might go crazy at any time."

Cthulhu-style Cultivation was also a new genre that had only recently emerged; the advantage was that the speed of progress was much faster than ordinary cultivation, but the defect—the possibility of becoming a lunatic and a monster was also much greater.

Demonic Path cultivation was already dangerous enough; if you added a Cthulhu style to it, you would probably turn into an indescribable monster in minutes.

Harboring some worries, Uchiha Feiyu directly initiated the sacrifice; the Book of Demonic Inheritance in the sky trembled slightly, and this time, a new anomaly appeared.

A tiny chain grew out of the book and wrapped directly around the giant python that was constantly roaming and roaring on the Altar; after the giant python, which looked both huge and strange, was wrapped by the tiny chain, it immediately became like a dead snake and was directly pulled up by the Book of Demonic Inheritance.

Crackle, crackle, creak, creak—the sounds rang out incessantly, accompanied by the struggling body of the giant black python and its silent roar; a moment later, the entire giant black python had been sucked dry by the Book of Demonic Inheritance.

Only then did the Book of Demonic Inheritance open its pages extremely slowly; compared to the past, when it merely transmitted some information or bled out some fresh blood, this time the Book of Demonic Inheritance dropped an entire page, which landed in front of Uchiha Feiyu.

(End of chapter)