**Chapter338 the seed of transcendence has been planted,only awaiting the passage of time**
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He could actually speak such words — perhaps he truly didn't understand Hashirama as well as he'd thought.
Without any surprise, Uchiha Madara stayed.
He didn't directly take Senju Hashirama's hand, but Madara knew — his counterpart in this world had already agreed.
"I truly want to know what kind of dream he saw."
Madara murmured this quietly.
Because of Hashirama's differences, he'd also asked the chat group if the man might be a transmigrator — after all, these were absolutely not words the Hashirama he knew would say.
But in a parallel world, anything was possible.
The chat group ruled out the possibility that Senju Hashirama was a transmigrator.
If Hashirama had invited him like this back then, would he have stayed?
With him and Hashirama working together, peace might truly have come.
He sent this experience to the chat group in memory replica form, and everyone expressed their disbelief.
**Ordinary Group Leader:** "I never expected a parallel timeline's Senju Hashirama to say something like that."
**Ordinary Group Leader:** "He even proposed that chakra and ninjutsu shouldn't be used for war — truly unbelievable!"
**Richest Man:** "But the facts do support it."
**Richest Man:** "Such miraculous power, and it could absolutely be combined with technology to create all kinds of new things."
**Richest Man:** "Yet it all gets used for war."
**Richest Man:** "And from the Naruto memory replica I can see networks, surveillance cameras, refrigerators, all sorts of modern tech — which means their technical level isn't weak at all, but it doesn't look like a modern society at all."
**Richest Man:** "The shinobi system really seems to have too much influence over the Naruto world."
**Uchiha Dance King:** "I'll stay in this world and watch where they lead it."
Uchiha Madara said the same.
The parallel timeline's Senju Hashirama had given him a great surprise. He was curious about where this world's future would go.
Originally, he'd planned — if this world's timeline had reached the point where he'd already awakened his Rinnegan, he'd directly take it over. Whether for reclaiming or absorbing the ocular power, either worked.
But now, he had no intention of reclaiming it.
If necessary, he would even actively help this world's Uchiha Madara awaken and become familiar with the Rinnegan's power.
**Ordinary Group Leader:** "Huh?"
**Ordinary Group Leader:** "Not going back?"
**Ordinary Group Leader:** "You're the king of the shinobi world, you know."
**Uchiha Dance King:** "Tianqi is enough."
After the shinobi world achieved peace, Uchiha Madara had already realized his original dream.
He wouldn't waste any more time on it from here on.
Unless the shinobi world faced a threat with overwhelmingly superior force like the Ōtsutsuki clan — forces that would require his direct intervention.
Now he was beginning to understand the thinking of Baixuan, Kai'Sa, and the others.
Previously, the shinobi world had different nations, each with its own voice.
Now he had unified those nations into a single country.
Through the power of the Infinite Tsukuyomi, no enemies existed within this country.
Their enemies could only be from beyond Earth.
But unless an opponent held absolutely overwhelming force against the current shinobi world, Uchiha Madara wouldn't intervene.
When a civilization's internal voice was unified, excessive protection from Madara would only harm the civilization.
He couldn't guard the shinobi world forever.
As technology developed, they'd eventually have to leave Earth and explore the universe.
Could Madara protect them then?
Danger also came in degrees.
For the current Madara, unless a war threatened the entire shinobi world's civilization, he'd only treat it as the civilization's training ground.
Why did Baixuan stand outside the world, watching civilization's internal struggles with composure?
Why didn't Sacred Kai'Sa face the Demon Civilization alone — no angel soldiers would die that way — yet she didn't do it?
Madara had gained similar insight.
When one's position and strength reached a certain level, the angle from which they viewed problems would differ from the past.
They had their own philosophy on a civilization's growth, and others' objections couldn't influence their decisions.
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**Real World.**
As time passed, more and more people successfully stepped through the threshold of cultivation.
They found their own path and solidified the road they would walk.
But this also brought a problem.
Compared to adults with life experience and their own thinking, the young boys and girls whose hearts were still unsettled hadn't yet figured out what their own path truly was.
Like dreams — it might be one thing today, another tomorrow.
There was no way around it, and no one had the ability to force them to commit to a single choice.
In response, the Spirit Qi Bureau gathered people from various sects — prodigies, sect leaders — to jointly create a cultivation method.
Not a cultivation method in the strict sense.
More like broadcasting gymnastics — something for strengthening the body and building health.
The difference was that it could genuinely activate spiritual energy, speeding up the body's passive absorption of it.
It was meant to lay a foundation for these young people, making it easier when they truly began cultivating later — so they wouldn't have to start from scratch understanding everything.
A future of universal transcendence was destined to be an unimaginably distant fantasy for now.
But Huaxia had already planted the seed — just waiting for time to water it and bring it to bloom.
However, while Huaxia was extensively promoting cultivation methods and had even specially created a conditioning routine to build a foundation for these future pillars of the nation, Huaxia had no intention of completely shifting from the path of technology to the path of mystery.
It was simply that with the current spiritual energy revival in the best era for mystery — they could accelerate the pace of civilization's evolution more quickly.
Mathematics, physics, chemistry and other sciences still remained the nightmare of countless students.
But besides Huaxia language, other foreign languages had been cancelled not long after the second spiritual energy revival began.
Why learn a foreign language at a time like this? Could it help you grow stronger?
Better to spend that extra time on Huaxia language — at least it could help you more easily understand cultivation methods.
Now the research institute had also begun shifting its road, researching new technology.
Spiritual energy still couldn't be studied into anything concrete, but technology wasn't limited to only the path of combining spiritual energy with science.
In the past without spiritual energy, they'd researched quite smoothly, hadn't they?
Of course, this didn't mean they were giving up on researching spiritual energy technology — they just no longer obsessed over the fundamentals. They could peacefully watch as esper users combined technology and mystery.
If it works, it works.
Then they'd go research pure technology.
When they started researching this way, something unexpected happened — things that had been incomprehensible before suddenly became clear.
*(End of Chapter)*
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