Chapter 506: Talk No Jutsu
Beneath the Falls of Truth.
Ryo pressed his hand against his abdomen, his expression intensely solemn. Unraveling the formulation he had painstakingly woven back then to seal Black Zetsu was a grueling chore, even for his own hands.
The waterfall's turbulent currents continuously thrashed against his vertex and shoulders, yet Ryo's physical frame remained perfectly rock-solid. Ten minutes later, a long-absent pitch-black silhouette gradually phased out directly before his position.
Black Zetsu had been sealed exceptionally tightly by his hands; across all these years, it had been fundamentally incapable of perceiving a single shred of the outside world. To its consciousness, it was merely a single blink of its dual eyes before it was suddenly liberated again, and its absolute very first instinct was naturally to execute a rapid spatial escape.
However, the Ryo of the current timeline was poles apart from his past self. He didn't even require stepping into his Sage Mode; unleashing a dense layer of gravitational force, Black Zetsu was locked perfectly at its coordinates.
Parsing the violent impact of the water currents booming against its frame, Black Zetsu finally verified that the surrounding landscape was highly anomalous: "This is... Ryo Uzumaki, exactly what do you intend to execute?!"
Its vision blurred for a split second, and a bare, slightly plump youth materialized directly before its sight.
The youth flashed a bright, toothy grin straight toward its position: "Execute you!"
Black Zetsu froze on the spot, its brownish-black eyes sweeping across Ryo's physical frame: "You are Ryo Uzumaki?!"
"It is precisely the Great Ancestor himself. What, once we engage in a completely unvarnished, face-to-face interaction, you lack the capacity to map my identity?" Ryo chuckled smoothly. "The timeline has marched forward, and you've been sealed by the Great Ancestor's hands for a solid thirty continuous years. In unvarnished truth, I've actually missed your presence quite a fraction!"
"...Thirty years?" Black Zetsu's vocal cadence was slightly raspy: "My presence has actually been sealed across thirty continuous years? Then Madara Uchiha... Disaster!"
"You are still entertaining calculations regarding Madara? His soul parameters have long since been neatly harvested by the Great Ancestor; you might as well channel your visceral anxiety into your very own self instead!"
Black Zetsu given a sudden pause. Even though its entire biological framework was completely packed with pitch-black shadow down to the letter, Ryo could still razor-sharply parse out a trace of unvarnished disdain painting its facial aesthetics: "Ryo Uzumaki, thirty years may have smoothly rolled past, and your independent strength tier may have indeed marked a non-negligible progression, yet you still fundamentally lack the technical capacity to inflict terminal demise across my vessel. My Mother and I are completely, absolutely immortal!"
"Kaguya is immortal, but as for your presence... that is structurally not a certainty, is it?" Ryo smoothly shook his head. "All-Killing Ash Bones (Tomogoroshi no Ashihone)!"
Phasing out directly from his right palm, a sharp bone spike pierced straight through Black Zetsu's matrix without encountering a single shred of structural resistance. Black Zetsu stood thoroughly dazed: "Ryo Uzumaki, your vessel genuinely cloaks a monumental volume of hidden anomalies; to think you have actually successfully mastered a Bloodline Encompassment (Kekkei Mōra). Yet even if it constitutes Mother's very own Bloodline Encompassment... Exactly what is transpiring?!"
Its unvarnished prose violently choked inside its throat. It parsed out with absolute, apocalyptic terror that its physical vessel was actually undergoing a gradual, irreversible collapse into absolute nothingness!
Ryo smiled gently: "My cognitive planning speculated the conclusion flawlessly! Rather than defining your entity as the sovereign will of Kaguya, it is significantly more precise to define your existence strictly as the dark side of Kaguya's parameters. Black Zetsu, absolute eternal farewell."
"How on earth is this logically possible?! No! Mother!"
Black Zetsu's physical vessel collapsed entirely into absolute fragments, and this supreme mastermind who historically pulled every single hidden thread across the original story silently dissolved into the ether, leaving zero trace behind across the heavens and earth.
Ryo manifested a minor trace of nostalgic lamentation. For the dark side of Kaguya's parameters to have successfully sprouted an independent conscious awareness, it explicitly proved exactly how monumentally dense and heavy the inner darkness clogging her heart matrix had turned subsequent to her corruption; talk about a terrifying metric...
"Eh? With her inner darkness completely eradicated by my hands, if Kaguya were to be successfully resurrected at this exact junction of the timeline, wouldn't she systematically transition into a... monumentally pure and righteous individual?"
Differing fundamentally from simply dispersing a localized manifestation of inner darkness, Black Zetsu had been thoroughly erased from the annals of existence by Ryo's All-Killing Ash Bones. This structurally implied that provided this specific volume constituted the absolute entirety of Kaguya's inner darkness, her resurrected form down the line would inevitably materialize as an exceptionally innocent, benevolent entity...
"Negative, the inner darkness dwelling deep within a person's heart parameters can fundamentally never be entirely eliminated down to the absolute root; it will inevitably sprout back into existence sooner or later. However, prior to that occurrence, if a person manages to administer a wave of flawless, structured educational guidance..."
Ryo shook his head smoothly, stepping out from the cascading waterfall currents. His physical frame dynamically swayed, cleanly dispelling every single trace of moisture clinging to his skin in a micro-second, before waving his arm to seamlessly slip his robes back onto his torso. Dwelling further on these theoretical metrics was fundamentally redundant; he possessed absolute zero intention of violently extracting the Nine-Tails from Naruto or Kushina's vessel strictly to facilitate Kaguya's resurrection, regardless of whether she had retroactively transitioned into a benevolent entity or not.
Right at that exact fraction of a second, Mabui's sharp shout rippled across from the alternative flank of the waterfall: "Senior! Have you successfully concluded your shower block?"
Ryo's dual eyes darted left and right in rapid calculation: "I have fundamentally not concluded! Secretary, refrain from executing a covert peeping maneuver!"
"...Senior, pick up your pacing immediately! Deep inside the ancient ruins, an active anomaly has broken through regarding the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki's cultivation rotation!"
Ryo given a sudden pause, lifting his voice to deliver another booming shout: "Hold your position for a brief moment; the Great Ancestor shall emerge the absolute millisecond I conclude a final deep dive block!"
The absolute millisecond those words settled, his physical frame cleanly flashed straight inside his pocket space, looping entirely past Mabui's navigational tracking to penetrate straight into the interior of the ancient ruins.
Mabui stood frozen for a second. A final deep dive block?
"Senior, trouble you to please move with absolute speed!"
"...Senior?"
Sprinting at maximum velocity through the corridors of the ancient ruins, Ryo couldn't resist dropping a silent, mocking chuckle inside his mind. Little girl, to think you actually possessed the reckless audacity to actively disrupt the Great Ancestor's campaign to cultivate a tight bond alongside the giant turtle. If I refrain from executing a minor prank to muddy your parameters, you'll comfortably conclude the Great Ancestor is fashioned out of common mud, wouldn't you?
The ruins weren't monumentally grand, and relative to Ryo's tracking speed, the layout was exceptionally compact. In less than ten continuous seconds, Ryo wove a Body Flicker to materialize straight inside the absolute deepest chamber of the ruins, catching sight of an intensely anxious Killer Bee, flanked directly by a Naruto whose face was contorted into a ferocious grimace as eight fiery-red chakra tails violently thrashed from his spine.
"Senior!" Killer Bee let out a massive, sweeping sigh of relief, completely discarding his rapping cadence on the spot: "Hurry up and execute a logistical maneuver to assist Naruto in suppressing the Nine-Tails' chakra pool; he is on the absolute precipice of spiraling into complete, chaotic panic!"
Ryo wove a calm smile across his face, tucking his dual hands loosely behind his back.
"Ahem!" A light, tactical cough dynamically vibrated through every corner of the chamber.
The turbulent, raging torrents of Nine-Tails chakra blanketing Naruto's vessel systematically placated into absolute stillness before their very eyes.
A singular micro-second later, Naruto's external aesthetics underwent a cataclysmic, vertical shift. His entire physical matrix was completely enveloped by a brilliant, golden shroud of chakra, his hair strands sweeping upward to form a dual-horn silhouette, while an array of six black tomoe markings cleanly materialized across his collar parameters...
*Witnessed and drastically altered the Naruto world main plot: Naruto's Nine-Tails Chakra Mode cultivation, obtained 20 (8) = 160 Witness Points.
Killer Bee: ???
Naruto snapped his dual eyes wide open, carefully parsing the monumental surge of raw kinetic power vibrating within his vessel, concurrently feeling a fraction dazed. A brief moment ago, his independent willpower had been locked in a brutal tug-of-war against the Nine-Tails and was on the absolute brink of sustaining a total defeat. Yet, subsequent to catching the Great Ancestor's light cough, the Nine-Tails had violently loosened its grip... nearly causing his stance to stagger completely backward!
Ryo smiled gently. During his brief window of absence, the Nine-Tails had proactively seized the opportunity to throw a minor tantrum. Operating as the undisputed vanguard of the Tailed Beasts, it single-mindedly desired to explicitly declare that its entity similarly commanded a baseline of pride!
Yet, the absolute millisecond Ryo delivered his cough, its pride systematically vanished out of existence. Mmm, the logistical parameters mapped out down that exact track!
"My current state is...?" Naruto's countenance manifested a trace of visible hesitation. Swish! His physical frame vanished out of air to materialize across the room, his leg cleanly wedged straight inside the stone architecture of the wall...
"Ow, ow, ow! My velocity parameters have scaled to an exceptionally frantic tier! Great Ancestor, does this structurally imply that my cultivation has achieved absolute success?"
"Success has been achieved..." Killer Bee murmured softly under his breath, genuinely feeling as though the entire first half of his historical life had been completely squandered in comparison.
Naruto's face violently flushed with unadorned delight upon catching that validation, yet Ryo smoothly shook his head to clarify: "If securing full success were genuinely this effortless, exactly why on earth would the Great Ancestor escort your vessel to these specific coordinates? The Nine-Tails Chakra Mode diverges fundamentally from alternative transformation states, bifurcating strictly into an Unperfect Mode and a Perfect Mode. Your current state is strictly the Unperfect tier..."
Naruto given a brief pause, the delight blanketing his face climbing to an even more frantic velocity: "There actually exists an operational output tier that vertically eclipses my current parameters?"
Ryo gave a firm nod: "The absolute fraction of a second a Jinchuriki and their tailed beast establish a flawless, synchronized harmony of their heart parameters, your independent strength tier will execute an exponential leap forward, safely granting you the hope to thoroughly flatten Sasuke in a straight fight... Within this ancient sanctuary, you possess the capacity to exponentially more effortlessly establish direct mental contact alongside the beast. As for the subsequent phase of your cultivation rotation, the Great Ancestor is fundamentally incapable of supplying technical assistance; you are structurally forced to rely exclusively on your very own independent efforts!"
"Flattening Sasuke, achieving a synchronized harmony of our heart parameters... Exactly what operational methodology am I supposed to deploy?!" Naruto inquired frantically.
Ryo calculated the logistics for two seconds: "Deploy your Talk No Jutsu (Buton) to thoroughly convince the Nine-Tails!"
"...Talk No Jutsu?"
Concurrently, within the Land of Rain.
The reconstruction block covering the central high tower had been completely and successfully concluded down to the letter. Yahiko was currently inside his private quarters organizing his personal files, when a sharp, rhythmic knocking sound suddenly rippled across the door.
"Is that you, Ringo? Step inside!"
Zero verbal output returned.
"...Ajisai?"
Still, absolute zero verbal response returned. Yahiko knit his brows into a tight knot, spinning his physical frame around to personally open the door.
A facial profile that was concurrently exceptionally foreign yet deeply, viscerally familiar materialized squarely before his sight, causing Yahiko's dual pupils to violently dilate to their absolute limits. He had barely managed to drop his frame into a defensive, combat-ready stance when a torrent of foreign yet profoundly familiar visual streams violently flashed straight through his cognitive parameters...
"Exactly... how on earth can the parameters map out down this track?!"
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