Chapter 529: The Beginning and the End
Teuchi seemed to fall into his memories, remaining silent for a long while.
Everyone present also harbored their own thoughts. Tenji was actively searching for an opportunity to escape, while Naruto and Kushina were screaming in their hearts, "Hurry up and continue!" The others were similarly brimming with curiosity. Curious about the altered past, and even more curious about those seven words: "One encounter with Chiyo ruins a lifetime."
Which Chiyo? Whose lifetime was ruined?
The first to break the silence was Minato: "Grand Elder, do you need us to step away?"
Ryo looked at Teuchi, and Teuchi gave him a slight nod. "No need to go too far, just expand the encirclement to a one-kilometer radius."
"Encirclement? Great-Great-Grandpa, the enemy is already in your hands, just finish him off directly!"
Tenji's face stiffened. He then felt Ryo's right hand—which had shown a hint of sudden realization—gradually increase its grip. His face instantly turned deathly pale.
"Wait." Teuchi shook his head, "Tenji is still useful. Let this cowardly, pitiful man live for another half hour."
"Cowardly, pitiful..." Tenji muttered. Meeting Teuchi's disdainful gaze, he yelled: "It's you, it's you, you bastard! Almighty Pu... ugh!"
Crack!!!
"Behave!" Ryo's eyes widened into a glare as his right hand violently crushed Tenji's left shoulder. He turned to the younger generation: "Go a kilometer away and maintain the encirclement!"
"Yes!"
After the younger generation had gone far away, Tenji recovered from the pain and glared at Teuchi with gritted teeth: "Who exactly are you..."
Ryo shook his head with a smile: "Tenji, your hatred for me really comes out of nowhere. He is the one who went back to the past, back to a thousand years ago; it has absolutely nothing to do with me!"
"Isn't he your Shadow Clone?!"
Ryo pursed his lips. Saying that wasn't wrong, but...
Teuchi slowly spoke: "That has to start from my first time traveling through time and space... I went back to Konoha Year 3, the Ancient Kingdom of Rouran in Konoha Year 3!"
"Konoha... Year 3?"
"Ah." Teuchi nodded: "At that time, in order not to affect history, I didn't even go to Konoha. I merely experienced the scenery of the Ancient Kingdom of Rouran back then. Without Mukade's influence, the antique Rouran architecture and culture!"
"You went there to sightsee?"
"That's right. You understand my original purpose for returning to the past better than anyone—because of Naori! But at this point in time, Konoha Year 3, everything had already happened. So, in order not to cause any changes to the future, I did nothing. But!"
Ryo perked up, and at the same time, his right hand subconsciously increased its strength, turning Tenji's face completely green.
"In Konoha Year 2, the Hidden Sand Village was established, and the First Kazekage attended the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron. Because of the deterrence from Hashirama and Madara, the entire shinobi world trended toward stability. In Konoha Year 3, the Hidden Sand Village sent envoys to establish diplomatic relations with the Ancient Kingdom of Rouran, which was also located within the Land of Wind, and Chiyo was in the envoy team!"
Ryo took a deep breath: "And then?"
Teuchi paused, a look of reminiscence washing over his face: "At that time, Chiyo was thirteen years old, still an innocent and romantic little girl. Oh my, she was so easy to deceive!"
Ryo's face darkened slightly.
"It was so hard to travel through time and space once, I couldn't just have zero harvest. So, I tricked her into giving me her complete set of Puppet Jutsu!"
Ryo was startled: "Puppet Jutsu? Oh? You only tricked her out of her Puppet Jutsu?"
"Otherwise, what did you think?"
"I thought... I thought you were going to trick her out of her Puppet Jutsu!"
"Hahahahahaha...!" The two looked at each other and laughed wildly, leaving Tenji looking completely bewildered.
"The problem lies with this Puppet Jutsu!" Teuchi looked bitter. "When I returned to the original timeline and trained the Puppet Jutsu to a certain extent, I comprehended a skill—One's Own Life Reincarnation Jutsu!"
Ryo pursed his lips. Rather than training, wasn't it more like allocating points? But a reincarnation ninjutsu was actually an extension of Puppet Jutsu?
"You are very clear about the effects of the One's Own Life Reincarnation Jutsu, right? Giving one's own life force exactly to others, and life force on our bodies... is lifespan, age!"
Ryo showed a hint of confusion.
"And then! Mito restored her youth! Nanako restored her youth! Yoriko restored her youth! Hitomi restored his youth!"
Ryo was horrified.
"Right, they never died. They were restored to their youth by me using the One's Own Life Reincarnation Jutsu, and what I paid... you know, right?"
Ryo slightly closed his eyes. It was Witness Points! This was the method to add points to others!
"And then? You... I regretted it?"
"Yes, I regretted it. In Konoha Year 62, I found a wrinkle on Kushina's face, and it terrified me! I only then realized that I had taken the wrong path! Trying to have the younger generation accompany me in eternal life, this method was wrong! Gaara was a test, and Chiyo didn't die, proving that you can indeed use the Rinne Rebirth Jutsu now. This is the correct way!"
Ryo sighed: "So you wanted to change things?"
"Yes, in Konoha Year 62, I desperately cultivated (leeching Witness Points). In Konoha Year 63, I finally trained (allocated points) to achieve the Kekkei Mora. But Naruto's Rouran mission came too fast, and the main body couldn't adapt to the suddenly increased strength, easily causing massive destruction with the slightest move. So I separated a Shadow Clone with half the strength to follow Naruto under the identity of a Taobao shop owner... That is my origin!"
"Shadow Clone, Shadow Clone, sigh!" Ryo looked sorrowful. He could basically guess the rest of the story.
Teuchi smiled: "Then came my two travels through time and space. The Dragon Vein exploded, and I went back a thousand years ago, just in time for Kaguya to descend from the sky!"
Tenji and Ryo simultaneously made an expression of gnashing their teeth.
"The main body only told you to blow up the Dragon Vein, you went back to the past just because you were playful!"
"No, no, no, how could I be so ignorant of the gravity of the situation? I felt a faint bloodline connection with Sara. What does this mean? This means... ahem, Naori has nothing to do with me as a Shadow Clone, but I am also a Shadow Clone with pursuits!"
Ryo remained silent. Worthless, was your pursuit really just to get a girlfriend?
"I also didn't expect that I could return to a thousand years ago. I thought I could just have something happen with the previous queen of Rouran... Ahem!" Teuchi coughed twice and corrected his expression: "Going back a thousand years and encountering Kaguya's descent, I didn't dare to act rashly at all. I knew that my every move represented history and change. With a slight misstep, Konoha would be gone, and even we would be gone..."
"So I became acquainted with the still innocent Kaguya at that time, sent her to the Land of Ancestors, and met this coward Tenji..."
"I am not a coward!" Tenji suddenly roared wildly: "If it wasn't for Kaguya betraying me first, how could I have sold her out?! Ryo Uzumaki! You bastard!"
Ryo frowned: "Scolding me again, what does it have to do with me? Teuchi, how exactly did you offend him?"
Teuchi shook his head: "It has nothing to do with me either, he's sick in the head!"
"...You actually don't dare to admit it?!"
"Admit my foot! You are talking about Hagoromo and Hamura, right?! How would I know how Kaguya got pregnant? If you didn't do it, then it was me who did it?! Kaguya was an ascetic, you couldn't touch her, so I could?!"
Tenji froze, staring blankly.
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