Chapter 48 Planting Trees During the Ninja Village Era (28) By Someone from the Future...
The elimination matches, which lasted all morning, were quite intense. The audience was overwhelmed by the various moves, such as Sunset Slash, Rising Dragon Wave, and Super Speed Spiral Ball.
The first half ended with an hour left before the lunch break, and the second half began at 3 p.m.
Uchiha Osaka reappeared with a microphone: "Next, I will reveal the first lucky audience member to experience a ping-pong match—"
The faces of the audience flashed across the big screen, finally settling on the face of the daimyo of the Land of Fire.
"Oh my, oh my, the first lucky audience member is actually our Fire Country's Daimyo! Now, please welcome our esteemed Daimyo to the ping-pong court!" Uchiha Osaka led the applause.
Amidst the applause of the crowd, the Fire Country Daimyo had no choice but to stand up. In fact, having watched the first half of the elimination match, he was also filled with excitement and felt that he could also play a pretty good ball—although it certainly wouldn't be as cool as the chakra-infused balls played by the ninjas.
Led by the guide, he entered the table tennis arena and awkwardly accepted the table tennis paddle handed to him by the guide. After watching the matches all morning, the Fire Country Daimyo had a clear understanding of the rules. Now, he was more confused about who his opponent was.
Then he saw Uchiha Osaka pull out a ping-pong paddle from behind his back, walk to the other side of the table, and say, "Let me warmly welcome the lucky audience~ First, we'll decide who goes first by guessing heads or tails, I choose heads."
Fire Country Daimyo: I'll fight Uchiha Osamu? Really?
Even though the Fire Country Daimyo was unwilling, the spinning racket still fell down with a thud as it wobbled – the first move went to Uchiha Genma.
"I'll give up—" Before the Fire Country Daimyo could finish saying the word "give up," a fire dragon carrying a white pearl rushed straight at him, bouncing off the string and grazing the side of the Fire Country Daimyo's hair. The ping-pong ball, enveloped in flames, was like a sharp blade, directly scorching off the side of the hair it had grazed.
“The right to forfeit, 30 million taels~” Uchiha Senma said, pulling out a brand new ping-pong ball from his sleeve.
30 million taels?!
The Fire Country Daimyo strongly suspects that Uchiha Osaka spied on his vault in the middle of the night! This is exactly the maximum loss he can afford!
The young Uchiha, dressed in his clan uniform, smiled broadly, but his demonic nature was already evident. His "those who obey me prosper, those who oppose me perish" temperament was a fact that everyone knew without needing to elaborate.
In the end, the daimyo of the Land of Fire escaped this one-sided massacre by writing an IOU for 30 million ryo on the spot.
Uchiha Osaka, who accepted the IOU, was in a good mood: "Thank you, Daimyo of the Land of Fire, for your support of the Shin-i Bank~"
Everyone present immediately recalled Uchiha Senma's words at the opening ceremony: "Good heavens, if you don't offer it to me, I'll just snatch it."
"Since it's still early, let me draw the second lucky audience member." Uchiha Senma continued his hunt, the young boy's eyes filled with a dangerous signal, "Don't even think about escaping."
In the end, all the lucky audience members whose names were called out escaped the disaster by voluntarily handing over half of their liquid assets, which were then deposited into Xinyi Bank and made them bank customers.
Now that things have come to this, and the money has already been paid, these robbed nobles and wealthy merchants are unwilling to leave in anger as the Magnificent Games, which will last for half a month, are facing the prospect of taking their anger out on the Uchiha clan. Firstly, the Uchiha clan is currently at its peak, so they dare not be angry and cannot vent their anger on them. Secondly, the first half of the table tennis competition was simply too exciting, giving them an unprecedented sense of passion and excitement from their dull and mundane lives. If they leave now, they will really get nothing back, not even the emotional value.
No one can resist such a wonderful sport, and compared to the brutal and bloody battles between ninjas, this kind of sports competition is obviously more acceptable. In order to use chakra on the racket and ball, ninjas often need more exquisite chakra control. Since it is not a fight where it is either you or me, they can disregard the lethality, which creates a more diverse range of moves. They are so exciting and dazzling that people cannot take their eyes off them, making it easier for the audience to become immersed in the game.
Watching such a spectacular and dazzling match together, the audience was simultaneously swept up in the excitement, sharing the tension, cheers, and exhilaration. Their emotions lingered for a long time, as if they shared the same heart.
When lunch break arrived, Senju Take and Uchiha Osaka walked together on the path leading to the athletes' cafeteria, intending to have a meal there.
“Won’t my bank account be full now? I won’t have to worry about the funds needed for the charitable aid projects over the next thirty years.” Uchiha Osaka was quite pleased as he calculated the money on the IOU, but then he suddenly realized something, and his cheerful expression turned somber. “This aura… is really uncomfortable.”
Thousand Hand Bamboo nodded as well.
The two watched as monsters emerged from the woods on either side of the path, their bodies enveloped in a tangible aura of curse. They looked like humanoid creatures made of bones, with some even more agile, resembling snake bones.
The moment your eyes meet, that's the signal that the battle has begun!
Uchiha Senjin drew his flaming fan from behind him and swung it at the charging unknown monster, shouting, "Fire Release: Dragon Flame Song Technique!"
Countless fire dragons converged on the fan surface to form a roaring dragon head. With a single wave of Uchiha Hanami's hand, a powerful fire dragon was blasted away. It charged wildly toward the direction Uchiha Hanami had swung his hand, its leaping body sweeping across the crowd with a violent aesthetic, flying into the monsters and sweeping them in all directions.
Uchiha Senma tested his opponent's strength with a single move, revealing a demon king-like arrogant smile, "Scum."
Senju Take also drew his Black Realm sword and cleared out the monsters around him with a single sword strike. His fists are generally single-target skills, but if they were to become area-of-effect attacks, the damage to the surrounding area would be quite severe. So now that he has a sword, he can be considered to have a more reliable area-of-effect skill.
As Thousand Hands Bamboo was thinking this, the surrounding trees suddenly broke off along smooth cross-sections. The upper halves of the trees that were separated fell to the ground, and the monsters hiding behind those trees also vanished into black mist along with the cut surfaces of their bodies.
Thousand Hands Bamboo: ...
It looks like we still need to practice this group skill.
The monster horde, which appeared astonishing in number and terrifying in appearance to onlookers, instantly turned from hunters into prey. Even the monsters, who were mindless and only followed orders to fight, couldn't help but feel the fear of wanting to run away when faced with these two ninja monsters.
However, the sudden rise of the trees formed a cage that blocked their retreat, and their annihilation was only a matter of moments.
The monsters were wiped out, the Tree Cage was dispelled, and even the severed trees were restored to their original state by the Thousand Hand Bamboo. Uchiha Senma turned his head and looked at a certain place: "Come out."
A ripple appeared in the space, and a young man emerged from it. As soon as he came out, he took off his straw hat and cultivation cloak, revealing his appearance.
The white-haired, silver-eyed youth's appearance was exactly the same as that of Senju Takeya in his youth, but his hairstyle was the same as Senju Takeya's when he was a boy. There was a vermilion mark above his brow that resembled Indra's. The white katana he wore at his waist was none other than the Kurokai in Senju Takeya's hands. However, the youth had an extra pure white amulet hanging on the hilt of his katana.
Dressed in a pure white robe draped with a silver-frost feathered garment, and adorned with silver ornaments inlaid with exquisite gems, the white-haired youth, who looked like a banished immortal, knelt and bowed to Senju Takeya with a solemn and measured manner. His voice was clear and calm, with a gentle and unhurried quality: "Your sword, Kurokai—now known as Kaguya-giri—has successfully crossed time and space thanks to the protection of the Lord, and comes to meet its master in this form."
Senju Takeya: ...?
Uchiha Osaka: !!!
Now that things had come to this, Senju Take immediately pulled up the grown-up version of the otherworldly being who had bowed deeply to him upon their first meeting. The Wood Release user didn't think twice and just wanted to say, "Let's eat first."
After being helped up by Senju Takeya, Kaguya Kiri followed closely behind him. His snow-white eyelashes drooped, and his pair of clear, bright silver eyes, like diamonds, gazed at Senju Takeya quietly and persistently, as if he could never get enough of looking at him. The white-haired youth's heart and eyes were overflowing with love and respect, and he made no attempt to hide it.
The small group for dinner thus grew from two to three people.
Senju Take also asked Kaguya Kiri what she wanted to eat, and Kaguya Kiri replied, "I want to try anything that my master wants to eat."
After getting their food, the three of them chose a small cubicle to sit in. The Uchiha participants, who were good at reading the atmosphere, all avoided this small cubicle.
"So what's going on here?" Uchiha Senma asked expectantly. "Is our pure Naruto production team finally going to come up with some fresh ideas?"
Kaguya slowly recounted the cause and effect of everything—
In the multiverse, beings known as [Historical Revisionists] are constantly being born. They are willing to pay any price to change the past. If the change is for the better, it is not a big deal, since fate and the future are inherently unknown and unpredictable. However, [Historical Revisionists] are not benevolent at all. They want to defy fate and control the future by controlling the past, thereby extracting more resources and energy to strengthen themselves and become the masters of destiny. They don't care if it means extinguishing the possibility of the world's future and causing its destruction.
The Time Travelers are the sharpest and most insane blades in their hands. The resentment of those crushed by history and their tragedies, combined with these ferocious weapons, can continuously generate a large number of Time Travelers.
To counter [Shixiu], [Shizheng] came into being. It is a special world consciousness, and its existence is solely for the purpose of fighting against [Shixiu]. [Shizheng] is very special. As a world consciousness, it was born first and then created the world. Its world is a pure and massive government military base. The main world is the central government where [Shizheng] is located, and the sub-worlds are the sub-prefectures of [Shizheng].
If [Shishu]'s weapon for invading the world is the Time Travel Army, then [Shizheng]'s weapon for fighting them is the Swordsmen.
Given enough anecdotes and time, any sword, whether legendary or nonexistent, can be imbued with a soul by [the government], becoming a complete spirit that is then stored in [the government]'s sword register. A fragmented spirit is then sent down to await awakening by a Saniwa with spiritual power.
Those chosen swords that transformed into sword warriors were born with combat power and were absolutely obedient to orders, even if their masters were just humans with spiritual power. This was because they cared more about their identity as swords than their identity as the Ninety-Nine Gods, and only longed to be used by humans again.
"—Stop!" Uchiha Senma put down his chopsticks and clapped his hands. "It's too long! Readers will get tired of reading such a long setting that doesn't belong to Naruto all of a sudden. But I know that [historical revisionists] are no good. So, why did you come?"
Thousand Hand Bamboo had already drifted off into a daze, and his dull cat eyes had completely lost their luster.
Kaguya Kirito realized this as well, and said directly:
"I'm sorry, then I'll get straight to the point—"
In order to counter the increasingly powerful [Time Government], [History] implemented the Pseudo-Time Government Plan. They began to poach people from various worlds and [Time Government]. They distorted and falsified the true history of the world and instilled their falsified history as the official history into those with spiritual power, making them pseudo-Saniwa. Then, they made these pseudo-Saniwa create a time-travel army to 'correct' history.
From the very beginning, they used the noble reason of revising history, which is precisely the origin of the name "historical revisionists".
[Shi Xiu]'s plan successfully reversed the tide of the battle. [Shi Zheng], skilled in using force to stop war, directly sought to borrow power from the two through [Shi Jie]. Because it was a sword, not a person, that was being borrowed, [Shi Jie] agreed to intervene on the two's behalf.
Senju Takeya then came to his senses and subconsciously looked at the Kurokai he had taken down and placed aside, as did Uchiha Senma.
"So, in order to protect world peace, for love and justice, Master and Lord Ogima lent me and Isshikimaru to [the government]. I have now opened the Polarization Training—that is, to return to the history related to myself, to return to the master I care about, to find my true self, and then break through my own limitations, become stronger, and then go back in a new outfit." Kaguya Kiri said to Senju Takeya, "According to my memory, this Time Retrograde Army was only to test Master and Lord Ogima, and has not come to this world since."
Clearly, after this probing, [Shi Xiu] realized how terrifying this world, with combat power like Senju Takeya and Uchiha Osaka, was. A high-level martial arts world with such monsters was not something they could touch, so they did not send the Time Travel Army to waste their time.
Uchiha Senma's expression was pained: "Being spoiled is so upsetting! I already know that the only interesting thing I'll be able to cut with the Ultimate Bright Light Rainbow White Flame King Blade is Otsutsuki Isshiki! This is not interesting at all!"
"Then my ultimate, endless, all-consuming Black Demon King Blade is meant to strike Kaguya Otsutsuki," Senju Take replied casually.
Kaguya Kirito, the ultimate black demon king sword that devours all things, calmly and composedly accepted the way his master addressed him. He liked all the names his master gave him, and his younger brother, Isshiki Maru, felt the same way.
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Author's Note: [The Author's Ramblings]
The naming method follows the principle of naming the cut item after what it is.
Kaguya-giri also has other names—line cutter (I don't know where I put my hand shears, but the knife is right next to me), garden cutter (my garden shears are dull, but the knife is still very sharp), cake cutter (ordinary cake knives are too short to cut a large cake in one go, but this katana is just the right length. In fact, because it is a chakra knife, I can use chakra to isolate it, so I can cut it without getting any cream on it).
Isshiki Maru also has other names—Maru Maru (about how to divide the last dumpling between two younger brothers), Broken Bone Maru (the inherently evil ribs actually managed to break the handle of my kitchen knife, so I can only give you a bigger one), and Non-Stick Maru (Hey~ my best friend~ this knife doesn't stick whether you're cutting mochi or glutinous rice cakes! Chakra blades are so useful! What? You already know this life hack?!).
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