Chapter 283: Supreme Benevolence and Goodness, a Gift of Liberation! (4k Chapter)

Bang!

The massive sound of impact shattered Ping Zhonghua's emotional outburst and also provided an escape for Ping Zhongshi, who was nearly suffocating under his wife's desperate gaze.

The giant head of the White Snake landed from the air, and Tao Baibai, who had become even more terrifying, descended from the sky with composure.

"Woman, the ingredient this time is a Sage; I hope you won't disappoint me."

When Bai Cangshu landed, he was like a cat, making no sound, but the wind stirred up by his movement was laced with piercing killing intent.

He seemed completely unaware that a massive rift had already formed between the others, merely telling Ping Zhonghua to prepare the meat of this rare White Snake Sage.

Ping Zhonghua kept her head bowed, hiding the desperate, hysterical look on her face beneath her hair, and walked silently to the side of the overly large White Snake head.

Under normal circumstances, she would have collapsed to the ground in fear at the sight of such a large white snake, but for some reason, after seeing so many people die, she had become increasingly desensitized to blood, flesh, and monsters.

She took out the special cutlery Tao Baibai had left with her earlier and, with her head bowed, silently attempted to cut the snake meat for cooking.

Uchiha Shisui wanted to speak up and ask, but Bai Cangshu did not give him the chance, speaking first:

"A bit of a pity, letting that Toad Sage escape with a brat from the Uchiha Clan, tsk."

Uchiha Itachi's gaze turned sharp instantly, and Uchiha Shisui also guarded against Tao Baibai simultaneously.

"What brat from the Uchiha Clan?"

Both men harbored ominous guesses, and Bai Cangshu, wearing a malicious smile, teased:

"Perhaps, a child named Uchiha Sasuke~"

Shing!

The sound of two blades being drawn occurred almost simultaneously; in the time it took Ping Zhongshi to blink once, he saw two powerful ninjas holding a long and a short blade against Tao Baibai's neck from both sides.

Ran only reacted the next moment.

Bai Cangshu himself did not react at all; he remained composed, even leaning backward without reducing the amplitude of his movement.

"Be careful, you two from the Uchiha; if you accidentally cut me, you will be the ones getting hurt."

The control Uchiha Itachi and Shisui had over their movements was equally terrifying; as Tao Baibai fell back, their blades rotated, missing his neck entirely.

However, four Sharingan were already coldly locked onto Tao Baibai.

"Sasuke, what happened?!"

Bai Cangshu looked at these two, who were hailed as the ones most in line with the Will of Fire within the Uchiha Clan, and saw that they, too, could not treat the lives of others with equality.

He looked at Uchiha Itachi playfully, his mockery visible to the naked eye.

"Look, no matter how much you emphasize so-called Capacity or the so-called future, when it involves your younger brother, everything will give way, won't it? Heh..."

Uchiha Itachi completely ignored Tao Baibai's mockery; as long as his younger brother was in danger, no matter who the opponent was, he would have to use every means to kill them.

He could not describe to others the joy he felt when he saw his younger brother born; it was the warmth of a lonely soul gaining a blood-related kin;

it was the joy and Miracle of witnessing new life after seeing too much passing and death.

Bai Cangshu narrowed his eyes, not because he was angry, but because he truly felt delighted at this moment, watching these intense Plot Characters fall into distortion because of their own 【Heart】, feeling the Uchiha blood surging within them due to their emotions.

The feeling of being able to provoke a genius's nerves with mere words delighted him.

He looked at Uchiha Itachi as if looking at a rare toy of his own.

"Rest assured, that little guy has likely already become a subject of the Golden Order; even if he is unfortunately killed, he can still Return to the Tree and go back into the Golden Tree. How... blissful..."

Bai Cangshu's tone was strange, and Uchiha Itachi's face turned ashen; he could not feel even a shred of bliss from such a thing.

The Golden Order, Return to the Tree—these words now fell into Uchiha Itachi's heart, almost making him see his own young, innocent brother slowly turning into a cold, inhuman thing.

Moreover, he did not feel that this matter of Returning to the Tree was anything beautiful; the bonds between people were forged to be indestructible through various life-and-death trials, just like his persistence in holding his brother tightly when war arrived.

If there were no witness of 【Death】, would everything lose its weight? Would he become an older brother who casually discards his brother in swaddling clothes, waiting for him to be reborn in the form of Returning to the Tree?

In the end, if humans no longer reproduce, grow, and die in the form of humans, are humans still human?

Those who walk out of the Golden Tree with golden light radiating from their eyes—do they really still share even a single shred of moral commonality with humans!

Uchiha Itachi realized his own thoughts in an instant, and he turned to look at the older brother he respected most.

"Shisui... things like the Golden Order cannot save this world at all!"

The Sharingan in his eyes trembled violently due to his intense emotions, with even a sign of change beginning to appear.

Uchiha Shisui, having witnessed everything in the small town just now, was also caught in hesitation, and just as he did not know what to do.

Ping Zhongshi suddenly erupted with brilliant golden light; he spread his hands in a peculiar prayer stance, and the next moment, golden light shot into the sky.

In the sky, the Golden Tree seemed to coordinate with this golden light at this moment, completely obscuring the entire sky; the sun's light was entirely covered, and the world turned dim yellow.

Bai Cangshu felt something and turned his head to see a giant meteor in the dim sky, igniting everything as it fell with a boom; the atmosphere began to burn, and that terrifying meteor scattered countless golden radiances along its path, crossing more than half the sky like a brilliant aurora.

The scattered golden radiance formed an immensely vast golden band of light across the sky.

That was the Golden Meteor, the messenger of the Greater Will, the product of the Golden Order, the supreme guardian of the Elden Ring, and at the same time, the symbol of the Golden Order—the Elden Beast!

【Based on the actions of dd99115435, the core Plot Character, Uzumaki Naruto, has disappeared from this world; related plot lines are being removed; the world is undergoing massive distortion.】

【Based on the actions of dd99115435, the core Plot Character, Uchiha Sasuke, has joined the Golden Order faction.】

【The Greater Will has intervened in this world ahead of schedule.】

【Special/Unique Event: The arrival of the Golden Tree Era; Phase Two has ended early.】

【Settlement in progress; Reincarnator ex051 completion rate: A.】

【You have obtained Golden Seed (Rare) *3.】

Ping Zhongshi floated slowly from the ground, the golden light within him becoming increasingly intense; the armor on his body began to fail to withstand the power of the Golden Order, turning bit by bit into the style of gold, then shattering into golden sand.

In an instant, Ping Zhongshi had changed into the appearance of wearing tattered clothes; his hair began to grow uncontrollably, and the black hair rapidly turned red amidst the golden light.

His physique also became fit and sturdy, and his stature grew massive, far exceeding that of an ordinary person.

Ping Zhonghua, who was attempting to roast the White Snake Sage meat, noticed the change and looked up, seeing the scene of her husband becoming unrecognizable.

"Shi..."

This time, the woman was not hysterical; she only whispered her husband's name, and she saw her husband lower his head to look at her, the last bit of warmth in his eyes completely vanishing, leaving only a lofty, cold indifference, as if he were a god looking down upon all living things.

Accompanied by the appearance of the massive bands of Grace raining down from the sky, it was visible to the naked eye that the Grace of the Golden Order had begun to cover many people in this world.

Tragedies similar to that of the riverside town would be staged on a massive scale, and accompanied by Ping Zhongshi—who would eventually be molded into a 【God-man】 by the Greater Will—and the Elden Beast brought by the Golden Meteor, they would purge the native powers of this world in the form of the most cruel and terrifying war.

Ultimately, the Golden Order would, just as it had defeated the Dragon King, giants, and others in the Lands Between, seize control of this world, letting this Naruto World also be shrouded under divine power and the Law.

Ping Zhongshi—no, it should be said the gradually "God-man-ized" Ping Zhongshi—stood in the air, his red hair scattering backward along with the golden radiance; he did not look at his former wife, but instead reached out a hand toward Bai Cangshu.

"Tao Baibai, you have the Capacity to become a King..."

【Special Trial: Ultimate Benevolence Stage 2 ended, Stage 3 initiated】

【Optional Task: Law of Benevolence has been triggered】

【Task Description: God-man Ping Zhongshi invites you to crush all opponents in this world and spread the Golden Order to every corner】

【Task Reward: Special Sequence: Virtue Sequence I: Law (100%); Special Milestone: Elden Lord (Rare and Peerless) (Completion higher than S+)】

Bai Cangshu merely looked up at Ping Zhongshi, whose appearance—and it seemed even his 【Heart】—had been completely altered; before he could speak, he was grabbed by the clothes on his back by a hand.

That hand was so forceful that Bai Cangshu thought, perhaps if the other party's strength were just a bit greater, it would be judged as an attack for being able to cause the slightest effect on his skin, and thus he would be burned to death by the scorching flames of the 【Flame Dragon Scale】.

"Mr. Tao Baibai..."

The woman's voice was hoarse and cold.

Bai Cangshu tilted his head slightly, his eyes carrying a chilling purple hue; Ping Zhonghua felt a panic in her heart, thinking that this Lord Tao Baibai perhaps had long known what she wanted to say.

Furthermore, the other party had been waiting for her to speak!

But she had to speak at this moment; she had realized that ever since her town was destroyed, her husband had already been tainted by something unknown.

That was why he would ignore the danger he might encounter to pass on so-called Intelligence.

That was why he would turn a deaf ear to the deaths of everyone in the town.

That was why he would remain indifferent to the massacre just now.

The woman's brain worked frantically; she cast all the problems of her husband onto the Golden Order, for only in this way could she accept that her beloved husband had become his current self.

"Mr. Tao Baibai... although I only made a few trivial dishes for you, could I please ask you..."

She suddenly knelt on the ground, the force so great that blood from her knees quickly seeped through her skirt.

"Oh?"

"What are you asking of me?"

Bai Cangshu asked knowing the answer; he lowered his head, his eyes greedily drinking in the malice from the bottom of the woman's heart; he was very curious to know what tone and what emotion the woman, who had only a short while ago "unscrupulously" used this mouth to express her love for her husband, would use to ask him... to kill her own husband.

Ha~ at the thought of such a thing, the malicious smile on Bai Cangshu's face, reflected under the Killing Intent Wave, almost caused his features to twist.

At the same time, another thought in the back of Bai Cangshu's mind was conversely analyzing his state calmly; he judged that his current state was perhaps the result of the Killing Intent Wave approaching a threshold, and he had already been deeply affected.

He was very curious whether, after breaking through Killing Intent Wave Lv4, he would enter a realm like that of the 【Mad Demon】, or turn into the state of "Satsui no Hado Ryu."

Moreover, because a place like the 【Goddess Residence】 existed, as long as one spent enough of a price, the negative effects could also be suppressed.

"I want to beg you, help Shi... find release..."

The woman raised her head, two lines of tears sliding down continuously, and snot also flowing out unconsciously; her face became quite ugly, her clean skin wrinkled together, tears and snot intertwined.

But Bai Cangshu, who should have been wantonly mocking a woman in such a state, felt the smile at the corners of his mouth disappear bit by bit; he did not get the malice he wanted.

This woman was sincerely praying for him to save her husband.

"Shi is not like this, I know, the real him must be trapped somewhere in that body, watching everything he has done, in unbearable pain; Shi is very kind... he would not do such cruel things..."

The woman rambled on, making Bai Cangshu annoyed; Bai Cangshu did not understand why such a thing could happen.

Clearly wanting him to end a person's life, yet she radiated the scent of compassion and kindness from the bottom of her heart; she was trying hard to accommodate her husband, and she was begging him to kill her husband with benevolence in her heart.

【Optional Task: Merciful Release, has been triggered】

【Task Description: The woman Ping Zhonghua, with compassion in her heart, begs you to kill the God-man Ping Zhongshi and bury the tragedy of the Golden Tree Era】

【Task Reward: Special Sequence: Virtue Sequence I: Merciful Release (100%); Special Milestone: God-slaying (Rare and Peerless) (Completion higher than S)】

Tsk, Bai Cangshu shook the woman's hand off with disgust; below the God-man Ping Zhongshi in the air, Uchiha Shisui and Itachi stood facing each other.

The two had different expressions; Itachi said calmly,

"Shisui, you must undo that technique..."

Uchiha Shisui did not argue; he also had great doubts about the Golden Order at this moment; the Golden Tree Era where no one dies, yet it had to be achieved through massive slaughter—such a thing was subversive to his Ninja Way.

Boom!

In the air, the terrifying temperature rose abruptly.

In the sky, that massive Golden Meteor finally burned completely, revealing the terrifying form of the Elden Beast inside.

But before the Golden Meteor could fall to the ground, from far away, a terrifying beam of light struck violently, hitting the Elden Beast in mid-air.

Accompanied by a shrill screech, the Elden Beast fell from the sky.

Bai Cangshu saw it clearly; it was a Tailed Beast Bomb, and its intensity far exceeded that of an ordinary Tailed Beast.

Ping Zhongshi, who was in the midst of becoming a God-man, did not change his expression, his figure quickly wrapped in golden light as he soared into the sky.

Bai Cangshu watched this scene and made his choice.

【You have accepted the Optional Task: Merciful Release】

【Special Trial: Ultimate Benevolence, Stage 3 initiated—Merciful Release】

Bai Cangshu did not wait for Uchiha Shisui to make a decision; he had finally broken free from all shackles at this moment, and there was no longer any Ping Zhongshi or Ping Zhonghua to bind his actions in this world.

He could finally do anything he wanted to do, ha~

(End of chapter)