Besides ninja villages, they had even visited the so-called immortal realms: Ryūchi Cave, Shikkotsu Forest, and Mount Myōboku. Time Anchors existed there as well.

The toads of Mount Myōboku were very sensible and did not resist. The slugs of Shikkotsu Forest were very gentle and even tried to help.

Only in Ryūchi Cave did the Time Anchor reside on a red snake named Sinyara, who dared to resist and was instantly killed by Esdeath.

Among the 40 timelines, the Time Anchors were all on living beings—some friendly, some malicious. Those with malicious intent died very quickly.

And in these 40 timelines, Ren truly unleashed his nature. He showed everyone what a carnivorous, ultimate scumbag was capable of.

Mikoto and Kushina casually counted, and the number of people he had flirted with exceeded twenty.

Lady Tsunade, from childhood to adulthood, must have seen Ren many times.

In Konoha, they had seen him with: Sakura Haruno, Hinata Hyuga, Hanabi Hyuga, Ino Yamanaka, Kurenai Yuhi, Yugao Uzuki, Izumi Uchiha, Tenten, and Shizune. Many of these interactions were based on making promises, which was truly exaggerated.

In Kumogakure, they had seen him with: Mabui, Samui, Yugito Nii, and Karui. These women were all incredibly well-figured.

In Sunagakure: Pakura, Matsuri, Yukata, and Temari. Temari was even the daughter of the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa.

In Kirigakure: Mei Terumi and Suiren. Mei Terumi even became the Mizukage under Ren's personal arrangement.

In Iwagakure, they seemed to have only seen a woman named Kurome, whose most impressive feature was her long legs.

In addition, there were many others: Shion the Priestess, Hotaru of the Tsuchigumo clan, Konan from Amegakure, Sara the queen of Rōran, Koyuki Kazahana the queen of the Land of Snow, and Karin from the ruined Land of Whirlpools.

Ren either saved someone in a certain timeline or was simply attracted to them.

This kind of operation left the group so shocked they didn't know what to say.

Kushina even asked Ren what his purpose was. He just smiled and replied, "Perhaps this is the damned sense of responsibility I have as a scumbag. I just want to give these girls a warm home."

This sentence, coupled with the lingering expressions of those women when Ren left, left her unable to utter a single word of rebuttal.

Ren was very satisfied with his results. He did what he wanted to do, and that was enough.

Moreover, he had contributed a lot to the peace of the ninja world. For example, casually intimidating the major ninja villages and taking away the Tailed Beasts, did that count? Casually dealing with Uchiha Madara and eliminating Black Zetsu, did that count?

This timeline was already chaotic, so a little more chaos wouldn't hurt. Ren felt a saying was appropriate: "After working so hard for so long, what's wrong with enjoying myself?"

However, behind Ren's enjoyment, the main timeline was silently bearing the burden, trying to correct and minimize the impact. This was the main reason why this world could still develop steadily.

"This is the last timeline."

This was Ren and the others' last target. The Temporal Sanctuary enveloped the entire world. They expected to quickly locate the Time Anchor as before, but surprisingly, there was none on the entire planet.

"Strange," Ren murmured.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Ren frowning, Exusiai poked his waist.

Ren shook his head. "There's no Time Anchor in this world."

"Ah? Then what about our mission?" Kushina was agitated.

Although she didn't know what 'progressing or regressing' truly felt like. At this time, Kushina and Mikoto were both around 21, in their prime, but also single.

"You don't have to worry about that." Ren pointed to the ground. "This world probably won't be destroyed for another thousand years or so."

Forty timelines had already been re-integrated; this single cut-out timeline now had minimal impact on the main one.

"Is this all?" Esdeath asked. If Ren couldn't do it, she didn't think she could either.

Tokisaki Kurumi blinked and asked Ren, "Ren-kun, does the 'world' you mentioned refer to the entire universe?"

"???"

At her reminder, Ren suddenly realized his brain had gotten stuck. In all 40 previous timelines, the anchors were on this planet, so he had subconsciously focused his search here.

He looked at the night sky; he hadn't explored outside the planet yet. He couldn't rule out the possibility that the anchor had been randomly cast into space.

With a thought, he instantly expanded the Temporal Sanctuary. In just an instant, he sensed the location of the Time Anchor.

He looked up. "It's up there."

Up there?

The girls looked up in confusion at the clear night sky, the bright moon, and the sparkling stars.

Just as Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto wondered if it was in the sky, Tokisaki Kurumi blurted out, "On the moon?"

Ren's lips curved up. "Let's go."

"!!!"

The group's vision flashed, and they were suddenly on a desolate land. This was the moon. With Ren present, they naturally didn't need to worry about survival.

"The moon? You mean the moon?!" Uchiha Mikoto's eyes widened; this pale land made her uneasy.

"That's right," Ren said, raising his right hand.

Rumble!

The earth trembled. A circular area in front of him neatly tore open and began to rise straight up at an extremely fast speed. After only a few seconds, a long stone pillar that seemed to pierce the sky appeared before them.

The speed gradually slowed.

Boom!

After a final tremor, the stone pillar stopped.

The group saw a white-skinned woman with her eyes closed inside the pillar. She seemed to have horns on her head, calmly suspended within a spherical, transparent energy field covered in strange runes.

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