Chapter 340: The Path to the Pure Land

After killing Ido, Kurama returned to the Sealing Space in high spirits and began bragging to the Four-Tails.

"Hmph, just a tiny collection of Yin Release Chakra. It was already giving it a lot of Face for this great self to take action."

The Four-Tails, lying on the grass, cooperatively clapped its paws.

"As expected of Kurama, your strike was decisive."

At the Jianqiu Villa, on the balcony.

Naruto confirmed that Ido’s aura had completely vanished. Although the Soul of Yakumo Kurama’s Main Body was weak, it was no longer being eroded or suppressed.

He withdrew his gaze from Yakumo and turned to Sakura, who was carefully supporting Yakumo with a Face still full of shock and concern, and gave a brief instruction:

"Sakura, stay here for now to take care of her and check her physical condition. I have something to attend to and must leave."

Sakura nodded quickly: "Yes, Naruto! Leave it to me!"

She looked at Naruto, her eyes filled with gratitude and admiration. A problem that had troubled Kurenai-sensei and herself for so long, one that seemed almost unsolvable, had been settled so easily by Naruto.

Naruto didn’t linger and activated the Flying Thunder God Technique.

His figure instantly vanished from the balcony of the Jianqiu Villa.

The next moment.

Inside Naruto’s room at the Uzumaki residence in Konoha Village.

Naruto opened the door and walked out.

Sensing slightly, he found that Kushina and Mito’s Chakra had become extremely weak.

He immediately headed to Kushina’s location.

Karin was already there, and she had cut her wrist to feed her blood to Kushina.

At this moment, she was frantic with worry, only wanting to help Kushina in the fastest way she could think of.

"Karin!"

Naruto’s voice rang out, carrying a hint of unquestionable sternness.

Karin trembled at the sudden voice. Turning her head and seeing it was Naruto, her eyes immediately welled with deeper panic and a plea for help: "Naruto! Auntie... she suddenly became like this! No matter how I call her, there’s no response, and her Chakra is also..."

Naruto stepped forward quickly, grabbed Karin’s hand, and used the Mystical Palm Technique to heal the wound first.

"Her body hasn’t suffered any harm. It should be a problem with her Soul."

If Hashirama alone had a problem, it might be that Obito and the others found a way to scheme against him. However, when Hashirama, Kushina, and Mito all had problems at the same time, there were only two people under suspicion.

Namely, Orochimaru and the Six Paths Sage.

And Orochimaru was no fool; he was living very comfortably in Hidden Leaf Village now, so there was no need for him to do this.

That could only mean the Six Paths Sage in the Pure Land was causing trouble.

"Where is Hikari?"

"She went to the Hokage Office to find you."

"Alright, first take my mother to the hospital—no, settle her in her room. I’ll go call Aunt Tsunade in a moment, and I’ll bring Grandma Mito back when I return."

What kind of fit was that old man, the Six Paths Sage, throwing?

Naruto also questioned Asura in his mind, who hadn’t made a sound for a long time.

"I’m not sure either. Father must have his reasons for doing this."

Asura expressed that he was also in the dark.

Asura’s thoughts continued to flow, his long-forgotten memories stirred by Naruto’s inquiry:

"In my lifetime... the ’guidance’ and ’teaching’ Father gave me were undoubtedly very important.

He taught me the philosophy of nindō, guided me to understand Chakra and natural energy, and told me the value of love and peace—these formed the foundation of my life."

"But... when it comes to ’companionship’..."

A trace of imperceptible loneliness surfaced in Asura’s thoughts,

"It was indeed very little."

"When my brother Indra and I were in our teens, Father sent us respectively to two newly established Villages located near the massive Root remains of the ’God Tree’."

Asura recalled those decisive years,

"He sent us there to lead the people, build our own homes, and practice the philosophy of nindō. It was both a test and a letting go."

"Afterward, there were long years of each governing our own affairs. In my Village, I worked with the people, established order, and taught the use of Chakra... later, I also met the person I loved and started a family.

In his Village, my brother took a different path."

"Meanwhile, Father stayed most of the time in our original small Village, closer to the birthplace of nindō, continuing to teach the few Disciples willing to follow him and delving into more profound truths. He seemed detached from the world, only occasionally paying attention to the progress of my brother and me."

"It wasn’t until the conflict of ideas between my brother and me intensified and eventually moved toward an unavoidable confrontation that Father appeared again to try and mediate, but it was too late."

Furthermore, the Six Paths Sage almost never mentioned Asura’s grandmother or uncle. All his knowledge regarding Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and Hamura was heard from the elders in the Village.

Naruto remembered Asura saying he had returned to the Ninja World from the Pure Land, so he asked: "Then do you know how a living person can enter the Pure Land?"

"During the process when I was first guided by Father from the Pure Land in the form of Chakra to ’return’ to the Ninja World to find a suitable reincarnator..."

Asura seemed to be trying to organize those distant and blurry memories.

"I... remembered that ’path’."

"It’s not a fixed, physical road, but more like a ’orientation’ in the perceptual layer and a ’feeling’ of crossing a certain special ’boundary’.

Like a bird’s instinct for direction during migration, or a fish sensing changes in the water current."

"And to confirm and supplement this perception, I later specifically asked some elders who were knowledgeable and might have even come into contact with ancient sacrifices or summoning rituals.

Among them, some knew fragments and ancient legends about the ’Pure Land’ and ’Yellow Springs’."

A hint of complexity leaked from Asura’s thoughts:

"It was also because of this... later, the Pure Land gradually took on a’silent’ appearance."

"Father seemed to have sensed something."

Asura’s thoughts carried a trace of helplessness,

"He might have worried that someone would find a way to leave the Pure Land or even interfere with the cycle of life and death by studying those ancient legends or through beings like me who ’remembered the path’, thereby breaking the order of life and death he maintained."

"So, later, he arranged for those ancient Souls who knew the specific ’orientation’ or entry methods of the Pure Land to ’reincarnate’, making them lose their memories and enter a new cycle, leaving the Pure Land completely and taking that knowledge with them."

"As for the ordinary Souls who entered the Pure Land later, Father applied a kind of’shielding’ or’slumbering’ influence.

He kept their consciousness in the Pure Land in a muddled, half-dreaming, or even completely unconscious state, unable to think clearly or perceive and remember specific information about the Pure Land.

In this way, they could not ’remember the path’, nor could they transmit any information about the internal situation of the Pure Land to the outside."

"Father... he is intentionally blockading the ’knowledge’ and ’paths’ regarding the Pure Land."

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