High in the sky, five figures turned into streams of light, moving through the clouds at an unimaginable speed.
Each figure emitted a terrifying aura that could shatter souls.
Different yet equally vast and majestic sage art halos surrounded them. The flowing senjutsu chakra was as deep and heavy as an abyss.
Just the residual power leaking out caused the surrounding space to ripple with subtle distortions.
Behind each of them floated more than a dozen pitch-black Truth-Seeking Orbs, slowly rotating as they released a heaven-destroying pressure.
Every single Truth-Seeking Orb contained terrifying energy capable of crushing mountains and splitting the earth, clearly an absolute combat power that stood above all beings in the ninja world.
And yet, there were five such clones.
These five figures were precisely Arisu's exclusive clones.
Each one carried a different sage art.
The last time they were used was when fighting Otsutsuki Hagoromo.
This time, the clones were even stronger than before.
Because Arisu's strength was no longer suppressed by the system at all.
The power he could display had also increased.
Without the slightest hesitation or pause, the five clones instantly spread out in the sky.
Whoosh!
Each one locked onto a different direction across the globe, turning into five streaks of light and speeding away, heading toward the filthy, sin-filled places scattered across the ninja world, officially pulling open the curtain of a full-scale demon-cleansing.
Six Paths sweeping demons, global coverage strike.
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[In the western region of the ninja world, Kannabi City]
It had long fallen into a true hell on earth.
This city, originally located on a plain and meant to be full of life, had a weak city lord who was completely unable to resist the invasion of fierce bandits pouring in from outside. In the end, the city was breached and fell.
After the brutal, bloodthirsty bandits entered the city, they showed no mercy at all and directly carried out a massacre so cruel it defied description. Tens of thousands of innocent civilians in the city were slaughtered.
The once prosperous city had completely turned into a land of corpses and blood, filled with despair, forcibly occupied by this group of vicious bandits.
At this moment, inside Kannabi City,
the bandits had completely forgotten the monstrous blood debt they had committed.
They hid in the barely intact buildings, indulging in drunken pleasure, hugging the gold and silver they had looted, drinking and reveling, venting their violence and greed to their hearts' content.
Buzz!
A humming sound that shook heaven and earth and pierced through the clouds suddenly exploded. Terrifying senjutsu chakra erupted without any warning.
Like a surging tsunami pouring down from the sky, it instantly covered the entire Kannabi City.
This senjutsu chakra was so heavy it felt as if it would crush the sky itself.
It rapidly gathered and took shape above the city. In just an instant, it formed into a giant sage art hand that covered the sky and blotted out the sun, towering like a mountain.
The next second, this colossal hand, carrying a world-destroying force, slammed down mercilessly toward Kannabi City.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!
The deafening sonic boom and the roar of the earth cracking erupted at the same time, echoing throughout the entire western ninja world. The terrifying force pierced through the clouds and smashed down onto the city.
The thick, sturdy walls, the dense, scattered buildings, the already broken houses, all of them were like paper in front of this absolute power, instantly crushed and turned to dust.
The ground collapsed violently, forcibly smashed into a massive crater. Dust rolled out in all directions, covering the sky and blocking the sun.
Those bandits who were still indulging in drunken pleasure, their hands stained with the blood of countless innocent lives, didn't even have a chance to react before being instantly killed under the absolute suppression of the sage art hand.
All their violence and sins vanished along with the destruction of their bodies.
Immediately after, countless sinful souls of the bandits slowly rose from above the crater, precisely drawn by the Rinnegan, like birds returning to their nest, all being absorbed into the Totsuka Blade floating in the void.
The one who completed this strike of judgment was Arisu's clone with Mount Myoboku sage art attributes.
Arisu stood expressionlessly above the clouds, his cold gaze sweeping over the ruined crater that had once been Kannabi City, his eyes showing not the slightest ripple.
The next second, Arisu vanished instantly.
Scenes like this appeared all over the ninja world.
From the barren bandit dens in the west, to the prosperous daimyo capitals in the east, from the warlord strongholds in the north, to the closed-off villages and countryside in the south...
Wherever there was rampant brutality, entrenched evil, and mortals being enslaved and oppressed, it became the target of the clones' purge.
Arisu abandoned the world's compromise of "clear water breeds no fish," using the strictest absolute justice as his standard, without the slightest leniency, without the slightest hesitation.
Bandit leaders who occupied territories and burned, killed, and looted: kill.
Samurai commanders who held private armies and oppressed the people: kill!
Feudal daimyo who exploited the people and treated commoners like grass: kill!
Warlord generals who carved up land and stirred up war: kill!
And those black-hearted clans, local bullies, and tyrants who manipulated regions and oppressed their neighbors, anyone who committed evil, harbored malicious intent, or harmed the innocent was executed without exception.
Even within his own temples and ancestral halls, if anyone was found colluding with evil forces, embezzling for personal gain, or oppressing common people, those of impure conduct, Arisu showed no favoritism and personally killed them all without leaving any room for mercy.
Against powerful leaders with deep crimes, Arisu's main body personally arrived, raising his hand and crushing them with the power of the Six Paths.
Against scattered small groups of evildoers and local thugs, there was no need for effort. With a casual toss of a Truth-Seeking Orb, the pitch-black sphere fell with world-destroying force, instantly turning both the criminals and their strongholds into ashes.
To avoid harming the innocent, for those evildoers mixed among ordinary people in cities and villages, Arisu deliberately chose precise decapitation actions, only killing the main culprits and core members, never implicating ordinary civilians.
Every strike carried absolute control, minimizing collateral damage to the lowest possible level.
But as the scope of the purge continued to expand, Arisu dug deeper into the hidden truths of the ninja world, and the shock in his heart gradually turned into bone-deep alarm.
He had originally thought that as long as he cleared out the leaders of evil in various regions and cut off the roots of dark forces, the world would have less suffering, and ordinary people could live in peace.
But only after peeling away layer after layer of fog did he discover that the entire ninja world, from top to bottom, from the powerful elites to the grassroots, had already rotted to the core.
This kind of shocking corruption made Arisu completely furious.
At the same time, he realized there was only one answer...
Kill.
The original small-scale purge could no longer shake this rotten foundation.
With a thought, the power of the Six Paths erupted. A massive number of clones condensed around him, so many that they far exceeded the total number of clones Naruto created during the Fourth Great Ninja War.
Tens of thousands of Arisu clones, carrying the pressure of sage arts, scattered across the globe like countless falling meteors.
Every inch of land, every corner of the ninja world, launched a sweeping campaign of demon-cleansing, strict crackdown, elimination of evil, and promotion of good.
This purge showed no delay. In just a single day, the ninja world underwent a complete, earth-shaking transformation.
Tens of millions of evildoers, whose hands were stained with blood and who had committed countless crimes, were all slaughtered by Arisu's clones.
Among them, bandits who burned, killed, and looted alone numbered as many as fifteen million.
More than a hundred corrupt daimyo who exploited the people, and thousands of samurai commanders who raised armies to cause chaos, were all beheaded and purged.
In addition, wandering rogue samurai, murderers, hooligans, local tyrants, black-hearted clans, and warlords occupying territories... none escaped.
Even down to each village, those village bullies who ran rampant, and those who committed crimes on the streets with blades and guns, were all executed one by one. Not a single evildoer escaped judgment.
When the authorities dealt with these dark forces, they always used recruitment and compromise, giving them a "way out" to transform, letting them change their outer appearance. But Arisu never accepted this approach.
What he wanted was never superficial stability, but complete eradication, cutting the weeds and pulling out the roots, eliminating all future trouble forever.
In just one day of killing, it far exceeded the total number of people Arisu had killed over thousands of years.