After finishing their serious discussion, Qingshui didn't leave immediately. Instead, after sending a message to his main body, he began to sit and converse with the Sage of Six Paths, discussing their respective cultivation practices.
The Sage of Six Paths readily agreed.
Excluding Kaguya and Isshiki, the two outsiders from the Otsutsuki Clan, in the Ninja World, only Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki, the second generation of Otsutsuki, became Six Paths Level powerhouses after them.
Looking back or forward a thousand years, the ceiling in the Ninja World could only reach Super Kage-level.
A Six Paths Level powerhouse who could communicate amicably and create countless astonishing abilities was extremely precious and worthy of Hagoromo Otsutsuki's attention.
From Ninjutsu to Sage Art, and then to the rules and laws of the world, the two discussed everything.
Soon, Qingshui discovered that although the Sage of Six Paths' knowledge was not as extensive as his own, his realm was very profound.
This wasn't about how high his attainments were in a particular aspect, but rather about Hagoromo Otsutsuki as a person.
Hagoromo Otsutsuki could learn many things he had never encountered before at a glance.
If it were just this, it wouldn't be anything special. Hatake Kakashi, with his Sharingan, was already a Copy Ninja. Hagoromo Otsutsuki had the Rinnegan, so he wouldn't be worse than Kakashi.
But what amazed Qingshui was his ability to see through the essence of things at once, directly reaching the origin. Describing it as learning one thing and inferring ten would be an understatement of Hagoromo Otsutsuki's ability. Once Hagoromo Otsutsuki learned a piece of knowledge or an ability, not only could the old man immediately play with it in creative ways, but he could also continue to deduce and make derivatives and improvements.
In terms of talent, having experienced so many worlds, Qingshui had never seen anyone so outrageously talented.
For example, with Breathing Styles, Hagoromo Otsutsuki could easily restore Sun Breathing. For Talismans and Lightning Techniques, after he had just gotten started and learned some low-level talismans, he deduced part of the content of higher-level talismans of the same type a few seconds later.
However, fortunately, this old man wasn't omnipotent. Even he couldn't quickly deduce the truly core and profound knowledge. For some abilities that required long-term accumulation and practice, he still had to diligently spend time training.
But his cultivation speed was still very fast, and his own thousand years of foundation could be converted into a considerable level of proficiency in a short period.
"Qingshui, you are truly a rare genius of the millennium, unmatched in the world. I am inferior to you."
When their exchange concluded, the Sage of Six Paths sighed.
He couldn't fathom how Qingshui, at the age of seventeen, had mastered and created so many things.
Even if the other party definitely had secrets, who didn't? But no matter what those secrets were, Qingshui's current achievements, which greatly astonished the Sage of Six Paths, were undeniable.
The Sage of Six Paths was not foolish, nor were his methods simple. He was not rigid and didn't hesitate to be ruthless when necessary, only having some emotional burden.
But no matter what, one had to admit that this old man's character was truly without major issues. His values were very upright, even to the point of being somewhat saintly in certain aspects. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sealed his own mother on the moon with his brother for the sake of the Ninja World.
"Senior Hagoromo, you flatter me. I am the one who gained more."
Qingshui shook his head.
He truly felt that he was the one who had gained more.
Qingshui could feel that the Sage of Six Paths had shared everything he could teach without reservation. As for what he couldn't share, most of it was related to the Otsutsuki bloodline and the like, which Qingshui couldn't learn even if he wanted to.
As for other things, whether it was the Six Paths Sage Art created by Hagoromo Otsutsuki himself based on Mount Myōboku's Sage Art, or Yin-Yang Release, Six Paths Yin Power, and Six Paths Yang Power, the Sage of Six Paths had taught them all completely to Qingshui.
What surprised Qingshui the most was the method the Sage of Six Paths used to create the Pure Land.
The Pure Land did not exist originally.
When the Sage of Six Paths was alive, after sealing Kaguya and the Ten-Tails, he traveled the Ninja World, spreading Chakra and doing his best to repair the damage caused by the battle between his brothers and Kaguya.
In the process, he also killed and sealed countless demons.
These demons were native inhabitants of the Ninja World.
Some of them, like the sages in Mount Myōboku and Ryūchi Cave, were animals that cultivated Natural Energy.
However, their methods were generally not as refined as those of Jugo, leading to insufficient refinement of Natural Energy. Most of them were brutal and bloodthirsty, killing wantonly.
The Sage of Six Paths had almost wiped them all out, leaving only those animals willing to coexist peacefully with humans. That's why, even though the White Snake Sage of Ryūchi Cave was very powerful, he didn't dare to come out and cause trouble.
This was because Gamamaru, the White Snake Sage, and the Slug Sage all knew very well that the white-skinned old man with horns on his head wasn't completely dead and could pop out of the Pure Land from his coffin at any time.
They were afraid that the old man would come out and slaughter them all over again.
Therefore, from the time of Asura and Indra, the successors of the three great sacred lands began to align with humans and Ninshu, learning the Chakra spread by the Sage of Six Paths, and occasionally selecting talented individuals among humans as representatives to a certain extent to intervene and influence the Ninja World.
These animals cultivated Natural Energy to become demons, while devils were the wandering souls and spirits in the world before the birth of the Pure Land. Due to various reasons, they relied on Natural Energy to form, with varying strengths. Some of the stronger ones possessed Kage-level or even Super Kage-level strength.
In the era when ninjas had not yet grown powerful and Ninjutsu had not yet developed, these beings were beyond human capabilities and were often more brutal than demons, without exception.
Therefore, any that were discovered by the Sage of Six Paths were killed without exception.
If any could not be killed, they were sealed, like Satori in the Box of Paradise. The remaining stragglers were dealt with by Asura and Indra when the Sage of Six Paths was selecting the inheritors of Ninshu.
After that, for more than a thousand years, the Ninja World gradually became a world dominated by ninjas in terms of extraordinary power, and no new monsters were born.
The reason for this was naturally that the Sage of Six Paths created the Pure Land and absorbed the souls of the Ninja World.
As for how this pocket dimension of the Pure Land came to be, the reason was actually very simple.
This was originally a pocket dimension connected to Hagoromo Otsutsuki's Rinnegan.
Kaguya possessed Amenonaka, which included the Starting Ball Dimension and five other pocket dimensions. Isshiki also had Mahakala. It could be seen that having the ability to connect to special pocket dimensions was not particularly rare among these Otsutsuki who had developed their abilities to a higher level.
After defeating Kaguya, Hagoromo and Hamura brothers began to worry about other Otsutsuki invading, so they acted in their respective ways.
Hamura flew to the moon and made it his territory. From time to time, he could talk to his lonely old mother, both for companionship and supervision, to prevent any anomalies on the moon from releasing Kaguya. He also served as an outpost for the arrival of extraterrestrial Otsutsuki.
If a powerful Otsutsuki that the Ninja World's strength could not resist appeared, this would be the first line of defense. If the arriving Otsutsuki's power was not too excessive and the Ninja World had the strength to deal with them, they would be allowed in for training, preferably to foster Asura and Indra.
Getting back to the point, Hamura's method is unknown. It might be related to the Tenseigan or other methods. However, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, after his physical body's lifespan ended, began to modify the Pure Land. He even spent a thousand years gradually refining this pocket dimension into something completely his own, making him equivalent to a castrated Dimensional Demon God.
Although it was just a larger dimensional space rather than a complete world, it was still quite impressive.
He could borrow the power within this dimensional space to fight, and while inside it, his own power would also receive a better boost. Although he didn't have a physical body, this entire Pure Land served as his body.
This place nurtured every ninja in the Ninja World who had mastered Chakra over the past thousand years. Without exception, they were all exceptionally skilled warriors, even including past Kage-level powerhouses, as well as the reincarnations of Indra and Asura.
If Tobirama Senju, along with Orochimaru or Kabuto Yakushi, could invent and perfect the Impure World Reincarnation technique, creating a Senju Hashirama with 90% of his peak strength, then for the Sage of Six Paths, he could only do better.
And over the past thousand years, the Ninjutsu created by these ninjas, the techniques that included various peculiar Nature Transformations and Form Transformations of Chakra, were all recorded and studied by Hagoromo Otsutsuki along with the memories of these souls.
It could be said that solely in terms of developing and mastering Chakra, the Sage of Six Paths had reached his limit. Even Kaguya, who also possessed the Kekkei Mōra, was far from comparable.
Coupled with the Six Paths Yin Power and Six Paths Yang Power, as well as Hagoromo Otsutsuki's unique Sage Art, Qingshui was certain that after a thousand years of refinement, this old man's strength should be considerably greater than his mother Kaguya's.
Everything Kaguya could do, Hagoromo Otsutsuki could basically do as well, and he had developed them better than Kaguya. Things Kaguya couldn't do, like Six Paths Power and Sage Art, were even more powerful.
Qingshui estimated that with his current strength, against Kaguya, who lacked extensive combat experience, she definitely wouldn't be able to defeat him. Relying on the diversity of his abilities, he could drag out the fight, perhaps finding an opportunity to seal her. However, the sealing effect would be inferior to the Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei formed by the Six Paths Yin-Yang Power.
But against Hagoromo Otsutsuki, who had some combat experience, a better mind, and stronger power, he wouldn't stand a chance at all. If the two were to clash in a fight to the death, he would probably only be able to stall and then rely on his spatial abilities, which had been refined by Blast to be more fundamental, to escape the Ninja World.
A thousand years ago, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, in his teens, was already considered relatively strong among Six Paths Level powerhouses. After a thousand years of refinement, even if he had limited room for improvement due to the smallness of the Ninja World, his accumulated power might have already brought him close to breaking the limits of the Six Paths Level.
At the very least, against ordinary Six Paths Level powerhouses like Kaguya and Isshiki, this old man could definitely use the Six Paths Yin-Yang Power to forcefully suppress and seal them.
However, Qingshui believed that although the other party's stats were high and his abilities were strong, he definitely hadn't reached the level of the multiverse.
The Pure Land was still just a Pure Land, merely a dimensional space, not a complete world.
Compared to the Dimensional Demon Gods and cosmic deities in Marvel and DC, he hadn't truly mastered those rules and possessed a world with a complete system; he wasn't a conceptual existence of that caliber.
He was clearly still a notch below them.
This gap had likely kept Hagoromo Otsutsuki at bay for who knows how many years, only allowing him to try and approach it bit by bit through the accumulation of time, but never quite touching it.
And for Qingshui, this was perfect.
Because he happened to possess the "Dragon-Tiger True Chapter of Seeking the Dao" that the Old Heavenly Master had comprehended from the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley. It recorded how Zhang Zhiwei cultivated himself to the point of primal unity by regulating and controlling the energy and spirit within his body, achieving the mutual generation of the Five Elements, the harmony of Yin and Yang, forming a small world of his own, and ascending through the Dao.
Although it was primitive and crude, and the energy was solely derived from the individual, it was indeed a complete world, capable of independently achieving energy circulation, spontaneously generating Natural Energy, and transcending its original world.
This "Dragon-Tiger True Chapter of Seeking the Dao" was not a cultivation technique, but merely notes and insights hastily left behind by the Old Heavenly Master in a few days before his ascension. The content within needed to be organized before a general cultivation technique could be created.
If a cultivator had the aptitude, disposition, and opportunity, they might not necessarily fail to replicate the Old Heavenly Master's success.
Qingshui was actually already undertaking this task. His Avatar from the Yi Ren World was focusing its energy on this, with the participation of Lu Jin and the High Priests of Longhu Mountain. Although a general outline had been organized, the creation of the cultivation technique was only just beginning.
And now, Qingshui had a better option.
The method of refining a dimensional space provided by the Sage of Six Paths seemed to be combinable with this, directly transforming the dimensional space into a small world.
A small world that belonged solely to him.
And at that time, this world would be able to draw sustenance from the various skills he currently possessed, evolving into gale-force winds and lightning, and everything else that his abilities represented.
This would be a huge sublimation.
Including himself.
Qingshui would also ascend along with it, evolving from a four-dimensional being into a higher-dimensional existence, on par with an entire world.
Their conversation and discussion of the Dao lasted for quite some time.
Fortunately, both were powerhouses of extremely high realms, and much of their exchange and absorption of knowledge and insights had reached a level beyond mortals. After broadly sharing their knowledge and realizations, the topic shifted to other directions.
Especially regarding the Otsutsuki Clan.
Hagoromo Otsutsuki did not know the exact extent of their power, but he had his suspicions.
This was because he had evidence that could indirectly prove it.
Actually, before the Pure Land, I considered refining the world where the Ninja World is located. But in reality, this world already has a master. Moreover... the will of this world, the feeling it gives me, has a very high similarity to that wisp within the most primitive Chakra.
As Hagoromo Otsutsuki spoke, he reached out and drew a wisp of Chakra from a soul, the black Six Paths Yin Power surging in his palm, stripping away that wisp of will.
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