Wisps of white qi steamed from Qingshui's body. In the blink of an eye, his skin and hair turned milky white, and his eyes glowed blue.
Reverse Life Triple!
No, it should be Reverse Life Quadruple!
The Avatar in Yi Ren World had only accumulated for a year or two. Even though Qingshui had a high foundation and no bottlenecks, with an open supply of various precious resources, he had only reached the mid-second stage.
Compared to ordinary awakened individuals, this level of cultivation was naturally several stories higher, but in reality, it only matched some of the more powerful middle-aged awakened individuals from major sects.
However, the main body in Naruto World had accumulated much more, fully meeting the requirements for Reverse Life Triple.
Moreover, the super regenerative ability of his Perfect Demonization body allowed him to disregard the dangers of breaking through Reverse Life, needing only to push forward with full force.
So, he passed through the first two stages, then the three core formations, and finally the third stage, without any obstacles.
When the third stage is activated, the entire body can be transmuted into qi, practically becoming an energy-based life form, and one's own power will be greatly enhanced.
Qi flowing through the meridians and then being released—how could that efficiency compare to having my entire body composed of qi?
Tailed Beasts can also be seen as energy-based life forms; their Chakra is endless and can recover infinitely. If that were all, they'd just be large power banks.
However, the quality of Tailed Beast Chakra is also extremely high, and as massive energy-based life forms, their output efficiency is equally astonishing.
Therefore, even if most Tailed Beasts, except for Shukaku, aren't skilled in Ninjutsu and fight purely on instinct, they still possess combat power at the pinnacle of the Ninja World. With a Tailed Beast Bomb, comparable to a nuclear weapon, even a Kage-level expert wouldn't dare face it directly, risking death or severe injury.
And now, Qingshui is not just in Reverse Life Triple, but in the fourth stage.
In his qi-transmuted state, the qi throughout his body transforms into Innate Qi, which is also Sage Art Chakra.
His normal state is equivalent to others' Sage Mode, but even more powerful!
This is a Sage Mode exclusive to humans!
As Qingshui's breathing changed, his qi-transmuted body also began to be affected.
"Indeed! My Fetal Breathing hypothesis was correct. In this state, my efficiency in absorbing Natural Energy and converting it into Innate Qi has greatly improved, and..."
Qingshui couldn't help but clench his fist.
Innate Qi is incredibly domineering.
As long as one cultivates Innate Qi, even a tiny bit, they can easily use this power to crush and refine the trace of foreign will within Chakra.
Mastering the Fetal Breathing technique allows one to quickly grasp the human-exclusive Sage Mode he created.
One could even say that as long as the Breathing Style is practiced to a certain extent, with a basic foundation, one can quickly get started.
Even if one's talent is poor and further progress is difficult after initiation, they can still rely on that bit of Innate Qi to easily refine that trace of foreign will and elevate their strength by another level.
Qingshui couldn't be sure whose foreign will it was—whether it belonged to Kaguya, the Sage of Six Paths, or even an Otsutsuki Clan deity, all were possible.
The Ancient One said it was a contingency left behind by a Dimensional Demon God. After witnessing Old Heavenly Master's ascension, Qingshui felt the latter was more likely.
Didn't Otsutsuki Shibai abandon his physical body, leave this universe, and ascend to another dimension?
Such a character, who transcends the Six Paths Level, might indeed have become a Dimensional Demon God through some means.
Fortunately, that is still very far from Qingshui.
It is known that Otsutsuki Momoshiki and others only set off for the Ninja World after sensing Kaguya's presence, traveling through space for over a decade.
And now, whether Kaguya can even emerge is still uncertain.
But this is still a threat.
Qingshui has enough time to improve himself and the strength of those around him.
With Chakra being countered and absorbed, Sage Art will be a great weapon against the Otsutsuki Clan.
With the addition of this human-exclusive Sage Mode developed by Qingshui, the average high-end combat power of humanity can be elevated by at least half a level. Given enough time, it could go even higher.
Jiraiya, an ordinary Kage-level ninja, can achieve Kage-level peak combat power when activating Sage Mode.
However, the human-exclusive Sage Mode does not have the flaws of Mount Myōboku's Sage Mode, and it grows stronger with deeper cultivation.
There's no wind-up, no danger; even if cultivation fails, it's just a waste of some time.
But once mastered, it increases not just power, but also lifespan.
Qingshui's Sage Mode is designed to parallel Reverse Life Triple. The first stage strengthens flesh and blood and regulates the physical body; even just starting out can extend one's lifespan by ten to twenty years. At the peak of the first stage, it can extend lifespan by sixty years.
The second stage, from external to internal, as the amount of Innate Qi increases, adds about 120 to 180 years of lifespan, determined by cultivation. Theoretically, one can live to nearly three hundred years old.
If one can reconstruct the three cores, their lifespan exceeds five hundred years. And if one is like Qingshui, whose entire body is transmuted into qi, theoretically, they would have at least a thousand years of lifespan.
And this is merely Qingshui's current projection. As time passes and his realm improves, further deductions will only lead to even greater lifespan increases.
Of course, with his Perfect Demonization body, Qingshui's own lifespan is conservatively estimated to be several thousand to tens of thousands of years.
This lifespan bonus isn't important to him.
What is important, however, is that he can allow Pakura and others around him to live on.
Otherwise, if one person truly lives for a thousand years, what would their state of mind become when all familiar faces have passed away, perhaps even several generations have come and gone, and the world has changed drastically?
Humans are social creatures.
If long-lived beings wish to form deep connections with others and maintain their true selves, then once they become long-lived, they naturally hope those around them also become long-lived.
"I've broken through two Limiters, my life essence has ascended, and my Sage Mode is perfected. I wonder what level my current strength has reached."
Qingshui clenched his fists, feeling the Innate Qi within him growing purer and more abundant. He looked up at the sky.
He wasn't sure if he had reached the Six Paths Level yet.
In two months, he had essentially exhausted the insights gained from his Avatar in the Yi Ren World at the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley.
Regarding spatial abilities, whether opening Portals or using Flying Thunder God for instantaneous movement without Blood Demon Art, he could do it with ease.
Even the Mirror Dimension and Divine Coating's two-dimensional painting world, he could maintain for extended periods, provided he had enough energy.
Time was a bit trickier; it was too profound and difficult to grasp. Even with the spiritual energy of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley, he had only learned one method for short-term future prediction.
The more distant future had too many variables, and without treasures like the Time Stone, it was incredibly difficult.
But even with just these two abilities, the Otsutsuki Clan had little advantage over him in the space-time domain.
Besides these, he had also mastered a special ability related to the realm of reality.
That was matter alteration.
By expending a large amount of energy, he could transform one object into another.
Turning stone into gold was achievable for him, and even transforming ordinary metal into Vibranium was not impossible.
However, the molecular structure of the latter was too complex, making it more difficult to construct. Even producing just one gram would consume an immense amount of energy, even for someone like Qingshui, whose Chakra reserves were comparable to a Tailed Beast.
If the elements were already the same, it would be easier, like turning charcoal into diamonds.
But in this world, he couldn't find elements identical to Vibranium, Uru Metal, or Promethium.
To craft a set of Puppet Armor using these extraordinary metals as base materials would take years. Even making a single weapon, a sword, would take several months.
However, this was only true for Qingshui at his current stage.
With so much time, his strength might have already broken through again. Then, not only would he achieve his goals in less time, but whether he would even need such extraordinary metals would be up for debate.
"But with my current strength, it should be enough to sweep aside the overt forces in the Ninja World. I just don't know if it will draw out those Otsutsuki aliens who aren't dead."
After stopping his training, Qingshui clasped his hands behind his back and pondered silently.
Even if he wasn't yet on par with the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya, he should at least be on the threshold of the Six Paths Level, right?
Perhaps even a bit higher.
In terms of raw power, he might not be as strong as Naruto, who possessed Yang power and the power of the nine Tailed Beasts, capable of clashing head-on with Kaguya, but he was definitely not weak.
In terms of mechanics, he estimated he was stronger and had more abilities than Sasuke, who had awakened the Rinnegan and was taught Yin power by the old man of Six Paths.
Considering this, he shouldn't be inferior to either Six Paths Naruto or Sasuke at that time. If there was a gap, it was in lacking their combined techniques like Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei, a powerful move that could decide a battle at the same, or even higher, level.
"I can start preparing to attack the other major ninja villages in the Ninja World. As long as Nagato's Rinnegan is kept in check beforehand, Uchiha Madara won't have the possibility of being revived by Rinne Rebirth. And if those few Tailed Beasts aren't gathered, there won will be no possibility of the Ten-Tails being revived.
As long as no one achieves Six Paths Level by becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, this vast Ninja World should not have any new troubles emerge.
The only potential threats are the Sage of Six Paths and his brother, whose fates are unknown, and Otsutsuki Isshiki, who has been hidden in the Ninja World for over a thousand years."
Qingshui continued to ponder, watching the cool moon rise halfway as day turned into night.
Otsutsuki Isshiki sought to find and cultivate a perfect vessel. Before Jigen's body collapsed, Isshiki wouldn't risk an early end to his life to trouble Qingshui.
Theoretically, as long as Qingshui didn't provoke him, or there wasn't a significant benefit to be gained, Isshiki wouldn't confront him within forty years.
That left the Sage of Six Paths and his brother.
Clearly, since the Sage of Six Paths could easily revive the recently deceased Naruto and Sasuke, and could instantly summon the Five Kage from past generations in the Pure Land as spirits, it showed that life and death were not insurmountable boundaries for him.
Perhaps like Gu Jiting, when a spiritual body reaches the Yang God realm, even without a physical body, the spiritual body can possess many of the characteristics of a physical body. The actual impact of having or not having a physical body might no longer be that significant.
In a way, the Sage of Six Paths was like Zhang Zhiwei. He was exceptionally talented at a young age, possessing almost invincible power in his twenties or thirties. After that, for a long time, he barely made a move.
From his birth to his youth, perhaps only twenty or thirty years passed, and Hagoromo Otsutsuki already possessed power that was quite formidable even among Six Paths Level beings. Together with Hamura Otsutsuki, who also comprehended Six Paths Yin power, they sealed their mother, Kaguya.
These brothers didn't eat any Chakra fruit during their growth; it was all based on their own strength.
The Otsutsuki Clan has a high starting point, but ordinary Otsutsuki like Urashiki and Kinshiki only possess standard Kage-level combat power. Momoshiki's strength, after consuming the Chakra fruit formed from Kinshiki, was not weak. Even the combined efforts of a middle-aged Naruto and Sasuke could only barely suppress Momoshiki. However, at that time, the Six Paths Level experience card given by the old man of Six Paths to Naruto and Sasuke had long expired; at best, they were strong Kage-level fighters.
Reaching Six Paths Level already meant being a relatively strong existence among the Otsutsuki.
And the Sage of Six Paths, from birth to Six Paths Level, didn't consume Chakra fruit like these Otsutsuki. His only genuine opportunity was the Sage Art of Mount Myōboku; the rest was due to his personal talent.
After a thousand years, even without his former physical body, who could know what level this half-Otsutsuki, who cultivated immense power in just a few decades, had reached?
Just a portion of his Six Paths Yin-Yang power was enough to temporarily elevate Naruto and Sasuke to Six Paths Level and seal Kaguya.
From this perspective, the Sage of Six Paths' current strength is likely far greater than Kaguya's.
However...
"As long as the Infinite Tsukuyomi doesn't descend, and the Otsutsuki don't appear, and the new generations of Indra and Asura haven't grown up, or perhaps haven't even appeared yet, and as long as the people and things the Sage of Six Paths cares about are safe, that old man shouldn't pop up to cause trouble for me.
Considering this, as long as I proceed steadily, taking over the entire Ninja World is only a matter of time. The real trouble will be after unification. A few decades are enough for the ninja village system to become deeply ingrained. I can't be like Qin Shi Huang, making multiple inspections after unification to maintain stability. I must cultivate enough strength to suppress any restless elements.
In any case, the plan to unify the Ninja World is now on the agenda."
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