Chapter 108

Mizunuki Ryosuke slowly placed Terumi Mei in his arms on the ground, and smiled as he whispered to Terumi Mei.

"Wait for me here, I'll be back soon."

Hearing this, a trace of surprise flashed in Terumi Mei's eyes, and then she seemed to have realized something and grabbed Ryosuke's hand.

"Captain Ryosuke..."

She opened her mouth, wanting to say something but stopping, wanting to say something, but the words couldn't be spoken when they reached her lips.

Looking at the deep mist outside the ice wall, a trace of worry flashed in Terumi Mei's eyes.

"You must come back alive."

In the end, she still chose to trust Mizunuki Ryosuke.

"I definitely will."

Saying this, Mizunuki Ryosuke raised his hand and slowly touched Terumi Mei's head.

Afterward, he turned around abruptly and walked toward the outside of the ice wall resolutely.

The barrier formed by ice blocked the deep mist outside, but it couldn't block Mizunuki Ryosuke's figure; after passing through the ice wall, Ryosuke's body disappeared into the mist.

Complex emotions choked in Terumi Mei's throat; she wanted to shout loudly, but in the end, she couldn't say anything.

In the very end, only a trace of tears slowly dripped from the corner of Terumi Mei's eyes.

She knew that this time, she had once again become a burden to Ryosuke.

Ice Release: Ice Armor: Saint Cloth form, activate!

Ice Release: Extreme Cold Nerve, activate!

The moment he entered the fog, Mizunuki Ryosuke directly activated double-layered defense, inside and out.

The violent influence on the sensory level struck again; this time, the influence of the mist on Ryosuke's spirit was even more intense.

In a trance, Ryosuke felt as if he had returned to the steel forest full of skyscrapers in his past life, and an old grandfather selling pancakes was smiling and greeting him.

A trace of coldness flashed in Ryosuke's eyes, and a large sword formed of ice appeared in his hand.

Without any hesitation, Ryosuke slashed the old man selling pancakes in front of him to death with one sword.

Subsequently, Ryosuke strengthened the operation of the cold nerve; the bone-chilling cold made Ryosuke's brain feel a slight stinging pain at this moment.

The scene in front of him returned to the thick mist; what he had just killed was not an old man selling pancakes, but a gray monster.

Gritting his teeth, Ryosuke continued to step forward.

For a distance of only thirty meters, Ryosuke spent a full ten minutes.

Every meter forward required taking a lot of detours.

Finally, Ryosuke arrived at his destination—beside the pitch-black, viscous spring water.

And at this moment, an ice kunai with scarlet chakra was stuck in the ground beside the spring water.

It turned out that this was the kunai Ryosuke had thrown while taking advantage of the Great Fire Annihilation to disperse the dense fog earlier.

And it was precisely this kunai with a fixed position that allowed Mizunuki Ryosuke to avoid losing his way in the fog.

"Whoosh..."

After taking a deep breath, Ryosuke opened his eyes, and there was only determination in his eyes at this moment.

Subsequently, he jumped abruptly and leaped into the pitch-black spring water in front of him.

"Yin and Yang, body and spirit."

"Only by achieving the balance of Yin and Yang can one pursue the realm of transcendence."

In a trance, Mizunuki Ryosuke seemed to hear an old man's voice coming from his ears.

Opening his eyes again, Ryosuke's consciousness had already arrived in a gray space.

"You are..."

"Sage of Six Paths!!!!"

Mizunuki Ryosuke exclaimed in surprise, looking at the old man in front of him wearing a white feather robe with two horns on his head, and exclaimed in surprise.

"Oh? Sage of Six Paths?"

"Is this the title given to me by later generations?"

Otsutsuki Hagoromo said with great interest.

Hearing this, Mizunuki Ryosuke seemed to have thought of something.

In the original world, Otsutsuki Hagoromo was honored as the "Sage of Six Paths" only after founding Ninshu.

According to Ryosuke's previous guess, this cave was accidentally discovered by Otsutsuki Hagoromo during his travels in the ninja world, and it was under the inspiration of the cave that he created the method of Yin-Yang Release.

Of course, this period was not fixed, and perhaps it was not certain that Otsutsuki Hagoromo came here before sealing Kaguya...

But what was certain was that this point in time must be before Otsutsuki Hagoromo founded Ninshu.

This also showed that the Sage of Six Paths here was not the main body, perhaps just a wisp of consciousness.

"That is the case, senior."

Ryosuke was concise and comprehensive, informing the Otsutsuki Hagoromo in front of him about what happened later.

"Hahahaha!!!!"

"So that's how it is."

Otsutsuki Hagoromo laughed and stroked his beard, a trace of understanding flashing in his eyes.

"Senior, why did you appear here?"

Afterward, Ryosuke hurriedly asked the key question.

This wisp of Otsutsuki Hagoromo's consciousness had no intention of hiding it; his mission for existing here was just that, and subsequently, he began to tell everything about this place.

It was basically the same as the information Mizunuki Ryosuke had guessed from reading the mural.

Otsutsuki Hagoromo, inspired by the Yin-Yang pool at the bottom of the rock cave, created the way to use Yin-Yang Release.

At the same time, he also knew that the spring water in this Yin-Yang pool was a rare treasure; for some reason, Otsutsuki Hagoromo faintly felt that at some point in the future, he might need the help of the spring water in the "Yang Spring."

Thus, Otsutsuki Hagoromo took away all the spring water in the Yang Spring of the Yin-Yang pool.

But Otsutsuki Hagoromo himself also understood that isolated Yang does not grow, and isolated Yin does not live.

Once this pool of spring water loses its Yin-Yang balance, serious problems will occur.

Originally, Otsutsuki Hagoromo could have destroyed all the remaining spring water to prevent future trouble.

But he also thought that the spring water here could be considered a rare treasure in the ninja world, and it would be a pity to destroy it.

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Thus, in the end, he made the decision to seal it.

At the same time, Otsutsuki Hagoromo also had a premonition that in the future, the seal would definitely be broken, and he immediately left a wisp of consciousness in the spring water, waiting for a predestined person to arrive here in the future to resolve the problems here.

After listening to everything Otsutsuki Hagoromo told, a question appeared in Mizunuki Ryosuke's heart.

"Senior, then why didn't you just take all the spring water away directly?"

Mizunuki Ryosuke asked in confusion; since this spring water had the attribute of a "supreme treasure," why didn't the Sage of Six Paths just take it all away, but chose to only take the Yang Spring?

Ryosuke, who knew everything the Sage of Six Paths had done, didn't believe that the Otsutsuki Hagoromo in front of him was a "good old man" who didn't fight with the world.

Mizunuki Ryosuke didn't believe that he left this spring water to wait for the so-called "predestined person" of later generations.

Hearing Ryosuke's question, a smile appeared on Otsutsuki Hagoromo's face; he gently shook his head and pointed a finger into the air.

The next second, a ball of raging fire and a pool of clear spring water appeared in mid-air.

Afterward, under Otsutsuki Hagoromo's control, the raging fire and clear spring water circled each other, forming a Taiji pattern.

In a state of non-interference, the two presented a state of coexistence at this moment.

Afterward, Otsutsuki Hagoromo overlapped the raging fire and clear spring water directly.

"Sizzle!!!"

In an instant, the scene of water and fire clashing appeared before Mizunuki Ryosuke's eyes.

Under the scorching of the raging flames, a large amount of water vapor permeated the air; while scorching the raging fire, the fire itself was also completely extinguished by the water.

Water and fire disappeared into the air at the same time...

— Author's Notes —

·· Seeking flowers ·· ··