Simply put, the Sage of Six Paths had taken a dump without cleaning it up, and now Monk Genjo intended to clean up the mess for him.
As the successor of the Sage of Six Paths, Shinichi was also responsible for handing him the toilet paper.
The third Hokage turned his gaze toward Shinichi, and upon seeing Shinichi nod in acknowledgement, he pondered for a moment before finally agreeing to Monk Genjo's request to accompany the team.
Not because he trusted Monk Genjo, but because he trusted Shinichi.
A short while later, the personnel assigned to reinforce Village Hidden by the Waterfall were quickly finalized.
Shinichi Higashino, Monk Genjo, and Minato Namikaze.
It wasn't that Konoha was only willing to send the three of them. Rather, among those currently in the village, they were the only ones capable of reaching Village Hidden by a Waterfall within a single day.
At the same time, the third Hokage's orders had already been urgently transmitted to the border through the communications unit.
Upon receiving the third Hokage's orders, the majority of the forces stationed along the Northwestern and Northeastern Borders would depart immediately at full speed toward the Village Hidden by the Waterfall, with the two forces totaling roughly eight hundred ninja.
Among them, the Northwestern Border garrison was the closest and could march the fastest. It was expected to rendezvous with the incredibly swift trio of Shinichi, Minato, and Monk Genjo.
The Northeastern Border force, following behind, would adjust its deployment flexibly according to the actual situation at that time. In short, everything would be carried out according to Shinichi's judgment on the battlefield.
Once the personnel had been decided, the three of them departed immediately.
A short while later, northwest of Konoha, two figures streaked rapidly through the sky at astonishing speed, leaving behind nothing but two fleeting trails among the clouds.
Shinichi moved like lightning, and every time he covered a great distance, he would raise his hand and hurl a Flying Thunder God Kunai violently toward the ground. The kunai tore through the air before burying itself deeply into the ground, a rock, or a tree trunk.
Barely a second later, a flash of golden light suddenly appeared at the point where the kunai had landed. With a single step, the figure vanished once more, using the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport forward before locking onto the coordinates of the next kunai and repeating the process over and over, tightly following the tracks of the two people ahead.
By using this method, although Minato could not continuously maintain high-speed flight through the sky under his own power like Shinichi and Monk Genjo, he could still keep up at incredible speed through consecutive Flying Thunder God Technique teleports.
The three of them, two in front and one behind, shot straight toward the Village Hidden by a Waterfall like an arrow loosed from a bow.
Meanwhile, as they continued their rapid flight, Genjo quietly calculated inwardly.
As he traveled to the Village Hidden by the Waterfall this time to deal with the Box of Ultimate Bliss, would the Sage of Six Paths turn his attention here?
After all, the box had been created by his own hands. Although it was unclear why he had delayed cleaning up his own mess for so long, now that he was personally going to take care of it for him, that Buddhist predecessor might very well cast a glance this way.
If the Sage of Six Paths truly turned his attention here, and if the Fortune Sight or Misfortune Sight talents he possessed happened to activate and detect that gaze, then how should he continue putting on an air of mystery, manifesting his holiness before others, and maintaining the demeanor of an all-knowing eminent monk?
A moment later, the corners of Genjo's lips curled into a faint smile.
He had an idea, and it would be the perfect opening.
"This humble monk had long wondered who it was that had been observing me. So it turns out that it is the Great Monk watching over me. This humble monk offers you his respects."
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As he sped forward at high speed, the inexplicable throbbing in Genjo's heart, brought about by the Fortune Sight talent, grew increasingly intense.
This made Shinichi realize even more clearly that the awakening of the Mangekyo Sharingan in Genjo would, in all likelihood, be tied to the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
Moreover, it was probably not going to be an ordinary Mangekyo Sharingan, but some kind of Mangekyo Sharingan approaching the level of an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
It was precisely because of this that the inexplicable stirring in Genjo's heart had become so overwhelming.
There was no doubt that the Box of Ultimate Bliss was a divine artifact for Dark Style.
First of all, each of the four sides of the Box of Ultimate Bliss was engraved with a human face representing one of the four fundamental emotions: Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Happiness.
Emotion and spirit had always been inseparably connected, so closely, in fact, that they were practically indistinguishable from one another. The Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan happened to be founded upon Dark Style, using emotion as its fuel.
The durability of the Box of Ultimate Bliss itself was equally astonishing.
In the original timeline, even Naruto Uzumaki in Sage Mode, striking with his full strength, failed to leave so much as the slightest crack upon it. In the end, it was only after Killer B, the Eight-Tails' Jinchuriki, hurled it into the depths of the sea that the matter was barely brought to an end.
The monster that emerged from the Box of Ultimate Bliss, Satori, likewise displayed all kinds of characteristics associated with the power of Dark Style.
In the original timeline, the abilities displayed by Satori could generally be summarized into two categories: mind reading and immortality.
Any attack accompanied by hostility, killing intent, fear, anxiety, in short, any attack carrying emotional intent, would be detected by Satori in advance, allowing it to evade effortlessly.
This form of mind reading was undoubtedly an advanced application of Dark Style.
As for its so-called immortality and instantaneous regeneration, they appeared at first glance to belong to the domain of Light Style, but in essence, they were likewise techniques of Dark Style.
Satori's immortality in the original timeline was completely different from the overwhelming life-restoring power characteristic of Light Style.
Instead, it more closely resembled the Uchiha Clan's forbidden technique, Izanagi.
A forbidden technique that used the power of Dark Style to alter reality by converting the real into the unreal, rewriting everything from minor wounds and grievous injuries to fatal wounds, and even death itself, from reality into illusion.
Thus, no matter how fatal the attack it suffered, Satori would be completely restored the very next instant.
Even Genjo in his current state, possessing both the first Hokage's cells and the Endless Vitality talent, or even Hashirama Senju at the peak of his strength, could never achieve such an almost unsolvable form of instantaneous regeneration.
If the Box of Ultimate Bliss truly was, as Shinichi had speculated, a pure divine artifact for Dark Style, and if it truly represented Genjo's destined opportunity on this journey, then the immense Dark nature chakra contained within it ought to be capable of allowing an ordinary Sharingan to evolve directly into the Mangekyo Sharingan level.
Furthermore, because the Box of Ultimate Bliss itself could bestow the characteristic of immortality upon what it created, the special Mangekyo Sharingan evolved through it would very likely, to a certain extent, be an alternative form of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.