On the spacetime platform carefully constructed by the Karasuki, Natsuki clapped his hands lightly with a satisfied look on his face and turned to Haku.
"Haku, it's time for us to go back too."
Haku lowered her head slightly, looked at Sasuke's unconscious face, and asked, "Lord Natsuki, what should we do with this Sasuke?"
Natsuki rubbed his chin with interest. A sly and mischievous smile appeared on his face as he spoke slowly,
"Hehe! This Sasuke had quite a few regrets when he was young."
"Send him to the time of the clan massacre. Let him directly deal with the brainwashed Itachi back then. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Hahaha!"
After saying that, Natsuki himself was amazed by his own idea and burst out laughing.
Then he rubbed his hands together with growing excitement.
"Anyway, because of Rengoku's interference with their spacetime, an entirely new parallel timeline has already been created."
"So no matter how much this Sasuke messes around, it won't cause any trouble."
"My foolish little brother, forgive me."
After joking around with the meme, Natsuki stretched out both hands and tapped Sasuke's forehead. A surge of pupil power, along with some words he wanted to say, was poured into him.
Haku couldn't help letting out a soft laugh.
Her clear and pleasant laughter echoed in the air.
Her beautiful eyes curved like crescent moons, sparkling with lively light. It was obvious she had been amused by Lord Natsuki's actions.
She knew that Lord Natsuki was playing around again.
Natsuki repeated the process skillfully, using his pupil technique with practiced ease as a spacetime gate slowly appeared.
Then Natsuki grabbed Sasuke and tossed him into the gate as if he were throwing a bundle of straw.
After finishing all that, he turned around and smiled at Haku.
"Alright, it's time for us to go home too."
As he spoke, he gently held Haku's soft hand.
With his other hand he quickly reached out and accurately grabbed the Karasuki beside him.
The Karasuki, which had been in its expanded state, suddenly twisted flexibly under Natsuki's one-handed operation.
In the blink of an eye, it rapidly shrank and transformed, eventually turning into the cute shape of a turtle retracting into its shell.
However, as the Karasuki closed, the spatial channels formed by its expansion began to show signs of instability, gradually cracking and shattering.
But this small problem was nothing more than child's play for Natsuki, who held the position of a Star God.
He casually raised his arm and made a light gesture through the air.
Instantly, a translucent cube appeared out of nowhere, wrapping tightly around them like an indestructible shield.
This magical cube emitted a faint but steady glow, successfully resisting the shock and destruction caused by the collapsing spatial channels.
After that, Natsuki opened a brand-new spacetime passage.
This time the entrance of the passage glowed with a deep and alluring blue light, as if it led to an endless mysterious world.
Holding Haku's hand, the two of them leaped into it together, their figures quickly disappearing.
At the moment they entered the spacetime passage, Haku's soft and sweet voice could faintly be heard, "Lord Natsuki, will that Urashiki cause Rengoku a lot of trouble?"
Natsuki's laughter followed.
"Haha! Don't worry. He's my fellow countryman. He'll definitely find a way to deal with it."
Haku still seemed a little worried and continued asking, "Then Lord Natsuki, why didn't you help Rengoku a little more?"
Natsuki patiently explained, "If he can't overcome even a little difficulty by himself, then he'll never truly grow…"
As their voices gradually faded into the distance, the spacetime passage slowly closed, and everything returned to calm.
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[Rengoku's Timeline]
[Konoha Village]
From a macro perspective, Konoha's strategy of combining flight techniques with the Flying Thunder God had formed an unmatched strategic power that completely intimidated the other ninja villages.
In addition, the tailed beasts of the Sand Village, Stone Village, and Cloud Village had all died.
This placed those countries in an even weaker position in terms of overall strength.
Because of this, over the past several years not a single ninja village dared to stir up trouble, and the ninja world entered a rare period of relative peace.
Today's Konoha Village was crowded with people everywhere. The streets were packed with traffic and bustling activity, presenting an extremely lively scene.
As early as five years ago, when the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato resumed office, he immediately implemented a series of bold reforms with decisive speed.
When Orochimaru's limb-cloning technology was announced to have matured and its cost greatly reduced, Namikaze Minato decisively pushed forward the development of Konoha's medical industry.
As a result, brand-new hospitals sprang up one after another like bamboo shoots after the rain, while Konoha Village itself underwent a massive expansion project.
Not only that, Konoha opened its doors and welcomed patients from across the entire ninja world to seek medical treatment.
However, the pricing system was somewhat differentiated.
Residents of Konoha Village enjoyed the most favorable prices. Next came citizens of the Land of Fire. After that were people from other countries.
As for personnel from other ninja villages, they had to pay extremely expensive fees.
The difference in price was astonishing, with the highest reaching as much as twenty times the normal amount.
Because of this, countless people racked their brains trying to find ways to settle in Konoha, even if it meant becoming an ordinary civilian of the Land of Fire.
However, those routes had long since been tightly sealed off.
Only people who had lived on this land for many years could be recognized as citizens of the Land of Fire.
As for Konoha Village itself, the requirements were even stricter. All residents had received exclusive identity cards. Only those who held such identification could be considered part of Konoha.
Not only that, in order to encourage villagers to actively have children, Konoha introduced a variety of subsidy policies.
At the same time, several adult education schools were established within the village.
These schools focused on teaching practical professional skills, aiming to continuously cultivate the talented personnel the village needed.
Outside the walls that once surrounded Konoha Village, a massive outer city had quietly risen.
The construction of this outer city provided ample space for the ever-growing population.
Konoha itself also underwent a comprehensive restructuring and redesign. Even the entire Land of Fire carefully constructed as many as twenty national highways crisscrossing the country.
Along these wide and flat roads, workers were stationed at regular intervals to maintain the roads and drive away wild animals.
Because of this, traveling merchant caravans enjoyed greatly improved safety, and the journey to Konoha became far more convenient and smooth.
It is worth mentioning that many advanced high-tech technologies from the Land of Lightning had previously been a weakness of the Land of Fire.
But through the tireless efforts of Orochimaru and his research teams led by Sasori, they eventually managed to completely catch up.
By now, many highly technological products could already be independently manufactured within the Land of Fire.
Even more surprising was that Konoha Village had introduced its own exclusive currency.
Whether in the bustling commercial sector or in the crucial medical industry, transactions and payments were increasingly conducted using Konoha currency.
At first, the other ninja villages were unwilling to accept this new form of currency.
However, Konoha's advanced medical technology became something impossible to ignore.
The village gathered top medical ninjas and the most cutting-edge medical research, attracting patients from all over.
At the same time, Konoha possessed an extremely large and prosperous commercial trade hub, where every kind of product imaginable could be found.
Faced with such overwhelming advantages, the other villages eventually had no choice but to accept Konoha currency.
As time passed, Konoha Village gradually grew stronger.
In sharp contrast, the influence of the Fire Country's Daimyo residence quietly weakened bit by bit.
Nowadays, many Konoha villagers didn't even know who the Daimyo was.
The only leader they admired and respected in their hearts was the Hokage of Konoha.
Konoha's astonishing achievements were inseparable from its deep exploration and innovation in life sciences, as well as its full development and utilization of the Land of Fire's resources.
Under the combined influence of these factors, the entire village was developing at an unprecedented speed, presenting a vibrant and thriving scene.
Naturally, Konoha's rapid rise made the other villages extremely wary.
However, Konoha's medical technology was already far ahead of all other nations, creating a clear and overwhelming gap.
Coupled with the unmatched military power of Namikaze Minato as a solid backing, the other ninja villages, in order to resist and counterbalance Konoha, had already shifted from a stance of mutual opposition to one of alliance.
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