Naruto: I Am Crazy with the Simulation System!

Even if it's a divine technique you created yourself—what could be called a cellular recombination jutsu—

To claim immortality, you still need reserve power to support it. Only then can you regenerate from a single drop of blood.

Even so, after resurrection, you would only retain your original physical strength—your energy would be almost completely depleted. It's far from a full recovery!

Even Izanagi comes with a cost. Not only does it permanently sacrifice a Sharingan, but once you're revived, any chakra expended during its duration is lost for good!

And now that you've reached this level of power, you understand well that Izanagi can only negate ninjutsu or taijutsu—it barely works against high-level sealing techniques, which is its limit!

If you're struck by a power that follows "rules," not even Izanagi can restore you!

Unless the person using Izanagi wields a dream-based rule or possesses divine power capable of upgrading it into a divine art—

Only by countering a rule with another rule can it be effective!

But the Great Toad Sage's "Eternal Certainty" actually achieves perfect resurrection. Ask yourself—among those of equal strength, who can simultaneously kill three perfectly synchronized enemies in the smallest unit of time?

Not to mention the three aspects of the Great Toad Sage can continuously restore each other's energy.

There's only one ending—being worn down to death…

Time—truly one of the strongest rules!

You knew deep down, with your current power, you couldn't meet the conditions to defeat it.

But what if you borrowed strength?

You closed your Byakugan again, and the three-as-one Great Toad Sage let out a breath of relief, preparing to permanently seal away the crystal orb that held you.

But at that moment, your eyes turned blood-red. An intense spatial distortion surged. All your Sage Art energy and chakra were drained in an instant.

And a wave of blistering flames erupted from the spatial vortex.

Boom!

Blood flowed from your eyes as you forcibly inverted the prototype Divine Tool within the Kamui space, unleashing it in reverse. The friction and collision between spatial barriers...

The deafening roar shattered both Ryūchi Cave and your Divine Domain.

The chaotic spatial energy and the flames capable of incinerating everything raged wildly. Even the profound and powerful force of time was sucked into the chaos and completely lost control!

Three unstable rule-based forces exploded on the spot.

The towering Susanoo, a kilometer high, shattered into pieces. The skeletal armor crumbled inch by inch. Only the white scales clinging to your body blocked some of the rule forces, but at the epicenter of the blast, you still couldn't help but cough up blood.

...

At the same time, the three-as-one Great Toad Sage was also struck and sent flying. Though they survived, their condition was dire. One of them, being too close to the blast, died on the spot.

You activated your Mangekyō Sharingan, observing carefully.

"As I thought—under the chaos of space-time forces, the old toad's resurrection has slowed down!"

What was once nearly instantaneous now took several full seconds under the twisted assault of time-space distortion.

"I was right all along."

From the start of the battle, you had noticed the Great Toad Sage intentionally avoiding the Dragon Vein.

It seems only by dragging him into the core of the Dragon Vein, which is brimming with space-time energy, can he be truly killed.

You glanced around.

Among the larger fragments of the shattered space, you spotted the White Snake Sage coiled protectively around the remaining Three Divine Maidens and several serpents.

The toads of Mount Myōboku—both the larger ones and the deeply seated sages—were utterly wiped out.

It seems that while you battled the Great Toad Sage, the White Snake Sage, though injured, hadn't remained idle. After finishing off the toads, she shielded the surviving snakes.

After this, Ryūchi Cave and Mount Myōboku would be locked in a blood feud till the end of days.

You saw the tainted blood you'd spat out earlier drifting toward the fragment where the White Snake Sage was located. Then you turned to confront the Great Toad Sage again:

But he spoke first, declaring that he would never allow another Ōtsutsuki to appear in the Shinobi World!

He warned you—the matter of the Child of Destiny is part of an unchangeable grand plan!

The power of the Sage of Six Paths is beyond imagination!

Though he couldn't defeat you now, he urged you to wake up and choose the correct path—destroy your body and Ōtsutsuki bloodline, enter the Pure Land voluntarily, and confess your sins before the Sage of Six Paths!

You scoffed—this delusional old toad had completely lost his mind.

"Do it!"

Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation!

From the space fragment where the White Snake Sage stood, one of your clones suddenly appeared—formed from the blood you spat out earlier.

Receiving the signal, the White Snake Sage also acted in unison.

Using the profound power of Inorganic Reincarnation, which grants sentience to non-living matter, you both forcefully activated the suspended Dragon Vein in the void, directing it straight at the Great Toad Sage.

Kamui!

Your eyes spun as twin space-time vortices appeared—one creating suction to accelerate the Dragon Vein, the other pulling in the three-as-one split of the Great Toad Sage.

Fire Release!

A net of flames rose from the void, ensnaring the Sage's threefold avatars and preventing escape.

Dragon Breath!

A pale beam wrapped in prismatic energy shot from the White Snake Sage's mouth, piercing the flame net and reducing the Great Toad Sage, who was trying to muster power, to dust…

Here it comes!

Though the Dragon Vein was massive and heavy—virtually the power source of the entire planet—it still surged like a swimming dragon under your combined efforts, crashing toward the Great Toad Sage.

Boom!

The Sage tried to reverse time. But the closer he got to the Dragon Vein, the weaker his control over time became. At this point, even reversing a millisecond nearly drained all his power.

It was like a mantis trying to block a cart.

The Dragon Vein slammed into the Great Toad Sage—and pulled you into it as well.

At this moment, your chakra and Sage Art energy were both completely depleted. The Great Toad Sage, critically injured from earlier, was also on the brink of death.

The chaos of time-space had reached its peak. The threefold avatar technique dissipated naturally.

The Great Toad Sage had lost his greatest asset—his resurrection—and was forced back into his original form.

Only his main body remained exposed!

With the last of his strength, the Great Toad Sage condensed natural energy into two invisible hands.

Eight Gates – Gate of Death, Open!

You had nothing left but raw physical power. You swung a single punch, cloaked in blood-red steam.

The invisible hands shattered instantly.

The Great Toad Sage took the blow—and died completely. The Dragon Vein grew increasingly unstable.

Enduring the pain in your body, you quickly began absorbing natural energy from your surroundings to recover.

At the same time, you used a sliver of newly formed chakra to grow a wooden branch from your palm!

Vanish!

That Wood Release branch held within it the Divine Tree Seed formed from all nine Tailed Beasts.

With this, you intended to absorb the time rule held within the Great Toad Sage's body and the power still lingering in his flesh—all in one stroke!

The flesh of a being beyond even the Six Paths level—such a prize could only benefit you!

But just as you were about to strike—

The Great Toad Sage's body dissolved into the Dragon Vein.

...

At that moment, the Slug Sage appeared.

With immense power, she effortlessly quelled the raging Dragon Vein.

She told the White Snake Sage, since Ryūchi Cave was destroyed, she might as well relocate to Mount Myōboku and begin anew.

As for the Great Toad Sage's departure, the Slug Sage showed neither joy nor sorrow. She merely said—

At the very end, he chose to return everything he had gained... to the Dragon Vein.

And because of that, you couldn't obtain the power within his body.

On other matters, the Slug Sage made no further comment. After telling you that you were not to plant the Divine Tree Seed within the Dragon Vein, she quietly drifted away.

It seemed that aside from the safety of the Dragon Vein, the Slug Sage cared for nothing.

And her strength... was on a completely different level than the Great Toad Sage.

As she departed, the White Snake Sage casually remarked:

"Perhaps… the Slug Sage has already reached the same realm... as the Sage of Six Paths himself."