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Three days ago, when Kenshi flew over this place, the desert below suddenly transformed into a mirage-like image of a ruined city, like
Three days ago, when Kenshi flew over this place, the desert below suddenly transformed into a mirage-like image of a ruined city, like a shimmering illusion.
In the middle of this illusory city ruin, there was a faintly visible altar-like structure inscribed with sealing jutsu.
Unfortunately, the mirage appeared for too short a time for Kenshi to see clearly.
However, although the mirage vanished, Kenshi sensed a very faint, very subtle energy fluctuation.
It was not natural energy-Kenshi was certain of that.
Because this energy fluctuation could only be sensed but not touched, like the moon's reflection on water-visible but intangible.
This energy was like a true mirage: perceptible yet untouchable.
Natural energy does not have such characteristics.
Moreover, natural energy is everywhere, even abundant in desert areas; it's not limited to places with trees.
If Kenshi could sense natural energy, the fluctuations would not be so faint and easy to overlook without focused attention.
In any case, upon discovering this unique energy, Kenshi immediately became interested and stopped to focus his sensing.
At first, Kenshi was uncertain whether this might be the energy of a dragon vein.
Until this morning, as the mirage of the ruined city appeared more frequently, Kenshi finally clearly saw the sealing jutsu on the altar, especially the Flying Thunder God Kunai stuck into it. Then he recalled where this mirage was.
The ruins of Loulan from the Naruto movie The Lost Tower.
Thinking of the Loulan ruins, Kenshi guessed the energy fluctuation was most likely from a dragon vein.
He remembered little of The Lost Tower's plot, only that Naruto and the young Minato had a father-son meeting across time.
Also, dragon veins in many early Naruto fanfictions were said to be chakra sources formed from a shell of the Ten-Tails, similar to the Tailed Beasts.
However, after the final official ending, such settings were invalidated.
Compared to the massive energy source of dragon veins, Kenshi was more interested in the dragon vein's time-space traversal ability.
Undoubtedly, Naruto's travel from the future to Loulan's past was caused by the dragon vein's power.
Time-space abilities, especially time travel.
If Kenshi could research time-space chakra through the dragon vein, he would gain some advantage against the Ōtsutsuki clan in the future.
At least if he couldn't win, he could escape through time travel, accumulate strength, and try again.
Expanding his vision, he might even use this to cross into other anime worlds.
Thinking of these possibilities excited Kenshi greatly.
But now one problem troubled him.
According to the original story, Loulan should still exist at this time, not be destroyed.
Yet in this Naruto world Kenshi inhabited, Loulan seemed only a legend.
Information Kenshi's Wind Release clone obtained from Sunagakure had a key point:
"Illusion."
Someone once saw a city in the desert and even entered it.
But that city was like a mirage-only a phantom. Those inside could not touch anything.
Others, like Kenshi now, had only seen the ruined city's phantom, unable to touch it.
Records of cities seen in deserts were neither many nor few.
But all saw only mirage-like phantoms.
It seemed Loulan did not truly exist in this Naruto world.
"Could it be that I crossed into a Naruto world without Loulan?"
Kenshi suddenly guessed this, and the more he thought, the more he believed it true.
It's well-known Naruto has the concept of parallel worlds. Time travel to the past isn't unique to dragon veins; later in Boruto, time travel abilities also appeared.
So, the Naruto world actually has many timelines-parallel worlds.
If parallel worlds exist, then Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan not seeing his future self makes sense.
Kenshi suddenly thought of this.
He had suspected before that Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan ability didn't truly "see" the future.
After copying Fugaku's Mangekyō chakra, Kenshi used his own "future sight" ability, but the future he saw had no trace of himself.
He once thought this was a quirk of being a time traveler.
Now it seemed Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan's "future sight" actually showed scenes from other Naruto parallel worlds further along their timelines.
This is like Doctor Strange in the Marvel Avengers movies, who views countless parallel futures to find how to defeat Thanos.
It's not the future of this world he sees, but futures of many parallel worlds.
Those futures are no longer futures but realities already unfolded in parallel timelines.
Doctor Strange's "future" is actually a past reality in other worlds.
Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan's "future sight" works the same way.
The futures it sees are realities already happened in parallel worlds.
However, Kenshi only crossed into this Naruto world.
Its future timeline hasn't reached the future yet, so Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan naturally cannot see this world's true future.
Hence, it cannot see the future where Kenshi kills Fugaku.
Because among countless Naruto parallel worlds, only this one contains Kenshi; others do not.
"I wonder if Mount Myōboku's Toad Sage's prophecy is also… probably the same."
Kenshi suddenly recalled how the Toad Sage conveyed his prophecy to Jiraiya through dreams showing future scenes.
Meaning the Toad Sage's prophecy also came from "seeing" the future.
Thus, the Toad Sage's prophecy method is like Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan-not truly seeing this world's future.
In other words, no matter how the Toad Sage dreams, he cannot see any future involving Kenshi.
If true, Kenshi could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
The scariest thing about crossing into the Naruto world was such future-seeing abilities, especially when wielded by powerful characters.
Now… Kenshi could relax a little.
However… the existence of parallel worlds spared Kenshi from the weakness of having his future seen and abilities discovered, but also meant Loulan truly did not exist in this Naruto world.
Therefore, Kenshi's plan to research dragon vein energy to obtain time-space chakra failed before it began.
The ruined city mirage he saw was only a projection of dragon vein energy from some Naruto parallel world onto this world, not the real Loulan.
The dragon vein itself was not real here.
Kenshi could only sense faint traces of dragon vein energy through its time-space properties affecting this world.
And he could only sense it, not touch.
Without touching, Kenshi could not perceive detailed energy information, let alone research dragon vein energy.
Moreover, the Loulan city ruin mirage would not last forever.
Records Kenshi's Wind Release clone found in Sunagakure showed such Loulan phantoms never lasted more than a month.
A month's time, and separated by a world-no matter how strong Kenshi's perception, it was useless. It would be difficult to develop time-space chakra from this.
"Sigh! I'll research as much as I can."
Kenshi sighed inwardly. Separated by a world, he could only continue guarding this place, trying to study some properties of dragon vein energy in the limited time.
So, in the following days, Kenshi focused on sensing the increasingly frequent ruined city mirages below.
Little Yayuki acted as a little maid, frequently traveling back and forth to an oasis town in the Land of Wind, bringing Kenshi water and food.
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