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"What… what was that?"

"You’ve got to be kidding…"

"No way."

"…"

The few ninjas who had not inhaled much and had woken up, along with the Reincarnators of the Holy Hill Legion, had initially thought that Wood Style: Wood Golem Technique and Wood Style: Wood Dragon Technique had already reached the so-called limit of ninjutsu.

A technique capable of standing against Tailed Beasts—wasn’t that enough for you to show off?

The Wood Golem covered in Susanoo had already dealt a massive blow to their understanding of the world.

A Tailed Beast as large as a small hill had been held back for so long by a Wood Golem created through a single technique.

And then there was the Wood Dragon that had completely restrained the Two-Tails. If the Eight-Tails had not been clever, the matter would not have been resolved so easily.

But what was this now…

As the earth continued to tremble, a Daibutsu covered in countless arms across its back slowly rose from beneath the ground.

Just its head alone was already comparable in size to the previous Wood Golem!

Its terrifying scale, its awe-inspiring presence, its overwhelming visual impact…

All of it continuously overturned everything they knew.

Sage Art: Wood Style: True Several Thousand Hands: Summit Enlightenment!

It was completely on a different scale from the Tailed Beasts, towering like a mountain!

Before it, the Tailed Beasts were like infants standing before an adult.

Once the arms behind the Buddha statue had assumed their positions and aimed at the two Tailed Beasts—

Killer B and the Eight-Tails, Yugito and the Two-Tails, all felt the genuine threat of death at the same time.

The immense pressure caused even the Tailed Beast Chakra to fluctuate violently, as though their fur were standing on end.

At that moment, a dazzling, massive white flare shot out from the woods.

It did not signify anything else.

It meant…

Surrender…

The one who sent the signal was the Fourth Raikage, standing atop a treetop with a complicated expression on his face!

They had lost.

They had truly lost!

One man standing against an entire village—he had thought such a thing was impossible.

But reality had shown him the cruel truth.

Ding~ Winning Hearts Through Virtue mission complete: reward evaluation has been calculated into settlement. Additional reward: Training Card: Meditation Room (access).

The additional reward surprised Xu Yue somewhat. It was actually a form of access privilege?

Training Card: Meditation Room: May be used once during each interval period. Each use consumes 1 A-Rank Plot Point and grants seven days. Skill development inside the Meditation Room receives space enhancement.

Upon seeing the description of this privilege, Xu Yue knew he could not provoke the space too much. The space could even know what he wanted.

Perhaps if he developed a skill based on an existing template, the space would charge an additional fee. Yet compared to the usual cost, that fee would be far lower. In fact, Xu Yue often wished the space would charge him, so it could complete the final certification procedures for his skills.

Moreover, judging from his experience modifying Adamantine Sealing Chains, once a mutated ability exceeding the space’s skill templates appeared, the space’s fee would be greatly reduced or even waived entirely!

In the long run, this privilege was far more useful than an S-Rank skill.

Since he had already obtained what he wanted, and the space was even cleaning up after him and preparing to kick him out, Xu Yue had no intention of trying to finish the technique in his hands after claiming the reward.

"Then, A, Killer B, if fate allows, we’ll meet again."

Xu Yue smiled freely as he chose to return before the side effects of the diluted Hero Water appeared!

Watching the figure vanish before them, watching the lingering remains of that towering Daibutsu—

A and the others wore complicated expressions as well.

Although the other party had turned their village into this state, as they watched the Hidden Cloud ninjas gradually awaken and saw how he had stopped in the end, they knew he had shown mercy.

Faced with such near-devastating destruction, faced with the moment when almost the entire village had been subdued—

A did not feel much resentment toward him. There was even a faint trace of gratitude.

The village could be rebuilt if it was destroyed, but if the people were gone, it would truly be over…

Xu Yue had left so cleanly, however, that he seemed to have forgotten something.

Kakuzu, still bound by vines and only just recovering from his pollen allergy, had something to say…

"Six S-Rank plot rewards, huh? The side effects of diluted Hero Water aren’t small either. And I can’t even learn the plot of the Punishment mission in advance with my current access level…"

After returning to the space, Xu Yue merely sorted through his gains briefly, since he was in the France Zone and did not have a cabin there.

Although returning to the space came with one ordinary healing opportunity, when the effects of the diluted Hero Water erupted, its side effects as a special type of damage still left Xu Yue with a hollow feeling inside.

Fortunately, his CODE and fully developed Sage Body complemented each other. The hollow feeling was merely unpleasant and did not cause any irreversible effects.

By that measure, he really would need to be cautious if he used genuine Hero Water.

Fortunately, he had never intended to use that thing on himself anyway…

In this mission world, his main purpose had been collecting Tailed Beast Chakra.

The large-scale missions he had deliberately farmed were relatively few. He had only gone all out at the end.

But even so, in terms of influence and impact on the plot, his effect this time was probably even greater than during the Third Ninja War!

The final rating reward from the Third Ninja War had reached SS-Rank, equivalent to the main mission reward reaching SS-Rank.

Yet this time, the rating reward was still only S-Rank.

There should be factors involved that he had not yet tested.

To reach SS-Rank, did the alterations to the plot have to remain within certain limits?

Or perhaps one could not obtain it too forcefully?

He had already restrained himself quite a bit during that final wave. Kumogakure had suffered serious damage, but the casualties were moderate. It was not even as damaging to Konoha as the Nine-Tails incident he had participated in.

After all, he had given them time to evacuate the villagers at the beginning.

Yet even so, did his destructive power limit the upper ceiling?

According to the space’s rules, destroying the plot could yield massive achievement rewards, while correcting plot damage caused by others could likewise trigger guidance rewards. And perhaps the degree of plot destruction also limited the maximum possible reward?

If so, the space itself might possess two opposing yet mutually interfering and mutually influencing methods of judgment: one for salvation, and one for destruction…

They influenced one another, contradicted one another, and yet complemented one another, ensuring factions and conflict among Reincarnators.

It was just that his arrival seemed to frequently disrupt that balance.

Still, that was only his guess. He would need more intelligence to determine the specifics.

After all, he was only an official Reincarnator…

For now, he should first digest this round’s gains!

With six remaining S-Rank mission rewards, Xu Yue did not even upgrade his Perfect Sage Body for the time being.

He first learned Dust Release, sensing the differences between the fusion of three types of Chakra and the fusion of two types of Chakra in Boil Release.

Then he directly used the Training Card: Meditation Room to conduct the certification test for the deduction he had made earlier.

Ten-Tails… he hoped it would not disappoint him…

During the long stretches when Xu Yue had been a merchant in the Naruto World, he had also prepared a great deal of information and carried out extensive research on Tailed Beast Chakra.

After entering the Meditation Room, he immediately began the most crucial fusion.

The Meditation Room truly deserved to be a separate access reward from the space, and it truly deserved the enhancement that cost one A-Rank Plot Point for seven days!

He used Hero Water to increase the scattered Tailed Beast Chakra he had collected, then used Summoning: Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to cut off a proportional piece as the foundation.

A smaller Ten-Tails was born!

Most importantly, this Ten-Tails had no side effects. There was no need to worry about the Ten-Tails’ will, nor was there any need to worry about Kaguya!

It was completely blank, ready for him to use.

After absorbing it into his body, he could even receive the control enhancement of the Longevity Art.

It would be completely integrated with himself!

The results were even better than he had initially estimated…

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