"Let's go inside and have a look..."
After withdrawing his gaze from the statue, Yu walked into the inner hall of the ancestral temple and found it pitch dark, with not a hint of light.
Kimimaro went to fetch a torch, and with it, everyone could finally see the surroundings. The first thing that caught their eyes was an octagonal star symbol. Yu recognized it as the Otsutsuki Clan's emblem.
"It looks like there are some words on it too, but I can't understand them..."
After lighting up the row of text beneath the emblem with the torch, Haku looked at Yu with some confusion.
"These are ancient characters..."
"Ancient Oaths... If humanity collapses... The Eye of Reincarnation will revive... To destroy humanity with the Moon's Fist..."
Back at the Academy, Yu had learned some of the ancient writing of the Naruto world, but he could only decipher a little of the content.
"Princess of the Byakugan..."
Just as Yu was struggling to decipher the ancient characters, Hinata suddenly felt a jolt in her heart. A hollow, distant voice unexpectedly echoed in her mind.
"Who is it?! Show yourself!!"
It was as if an ancient voice was whispering right in her ear. Hinata immediately became alert, activating her Byakugan and assuming the Gentle Fist stance.
"What's wrong, Hinata?!"
Seeing the usually calm Hinata react so strongly, Yu's eyebrows furrowed in concern, and he quickly moved to shield her.
"Brother Yu, didn't you all hear that voice?!"
Seeing that Yu, Haku, and Kimimaro seemed not to have heard the sound, Hinata felt a twinge of fear.
Rumbling...
At that moment, a secret compartment in the floor suddenly opened by itself, revealing a dark, deep passage below. It was as if an invisible hand was controlling everything.
"Playing tricks... Let's go in and see!!"
Looking at the suddenly opened dark underground passage, Yu, who had reached the second stage critical point of Observation Haki, vaguely felt that a pair of mysterious eyes seemed to be watching them. He snorted coldly and led Hinata and the others down.
With his current strength and the Door Door Fruit ability from Kaio to traverse space, he wasn't afraid of any tricks or traps. However, after descending the stairs into the underground passage, Yu was shocked to find that they were faced with countless graves.
"This is... Could this be the village's old cemetery?!"
As a young girl, Hinata was frightened by the eerie scene before her and the terrifying voice she had heard earlier. She timidly hid behind Yu.
"It seems that's the case..."
Protecting Hinata behind him, Yu's Observation Haki seemed to sense something. He shone the torch ahead.
Immediately, the three of them were horrified to see, from within the pitch-black cemetery, a figure unsteadily emerging, creating a truly terrifying scene!
"It's the Byakugan... There's no doubt..."
"I can sense the Byakugan... Such a pure Byakugan..."
They saw a very eerie middle-aged man, walking toward them with a pair of pitch-black eye sockets devoid of eyeballs.
"Princess of the Byakugan... Ugh..."
While Haku and Kimimaro were preparing to attack to protect Yu and Hinata, the strange middle-aged man suddenly began to vomit. His mouth opened to an unfathomable extent, and a massive white orb of light emerged from his stomach.
"What is this..."
Yu instinctively prepared to use the Thread Fruit ability to block the mysterious white orb, but the next moment, his Observation Haki suddenly saw a future scene: the orb rapidly expanding before his eyes, emitting an intense white light.
In this blinding white light, the four of them seemed to momentarily witness an ancient battlefield, with two armies clashing and countless flags bearing the Otsutsuki Clan's emblem fluttering in the wind.
At the start, the two sides were evenly matched, but suddenly one side began to deploy an enormous white orb of light. From this massive white orb, a golden Chakra sword was rapidly thrown out, and its terrifying power instantly obliterated the opposing side!
"Golden Wheel Rebirth Explosion..."
"Could that enormous orb be the Tenseigan..."
Coming out of the illusion, Yu found that the eerie eyeless man was still standing in front of them.
"Please stop the descendants of Hamura..."
"The world created by the Six Paths Sage... cannot be destroyed..."
Just as Yu was about to question him further, the strange eyeless man abruptly collapsed to the ground, turning into a pool of disgusting pus.
"Thanks to you, Hinata..."
Returning to his senses, Yu analyzed the information he had just seen and looked at the still shocked Hinata beside him. "What we saw in the illusion was likely the war between the branch family and the main family of the Otsutsuki Clan."
"After Otsutsuki Hamura's death, the Otsutsuki Clan's main family and branch family had different interpretations of Hamura's will..."
As Yu spoke, he organized his thoughts. "The branch family believed that the Earth created by the Six Paths Sage should be destroyed, along with this world that has been in constant turmoil since ancient times. The main family, however, held the opposite view."
"So, when the branch family members went to war with the main family, they all contributed their Byakugan, which combined to form a massive Tenseigan, instantly annihilating all the main family members."
"It seems this strange man was the Clan Head of the Otsutsuki Clan's main family, passed down from Hamura..."
Yu paused here, piecing together the scenes from the illusion and his analysis. "And the Otsutsuki Torifu and Otsutsuki Toneri who tried to abduct you and Hanabi last time are descendants of the Otsutsuki Clan's branch family..."
The Tenseigan's destruction of the Earth was originally something that should have only come to pass after the Fourth Shinobi World War, but now, due to their arrival, this event has been triggered prematurely.
"Destroying the Earth..."
"Such a thing must not be allowed..."
After hearing Yu's explanation, Hinata bit her lip, and remembering the request from the Otsutsuki Clan's main family Clan Head, her previously gentle gaze turned resolute. "Brother Yu, we must find a way to stop them!!"
"Don't worry, Kimimaro's illness still depends on them for a cure..."
Seeing the usually gentle Hinata display such strong will at a critical moment, Yu couldn't help but smile slightly. "Moreover, our purpose for coming here was originally to deal with them on the Moon..."
Emerging from the dark underground cemetery and feeling the dim sunlight outside, the four of them had a sense of being in a different world.
Normally at this time, the outside world would already be deep into the night, but in this Otsutsuki Clan's territory, with the artificial sun overhead, it seemed like they were forever in the early evening.
Standing on the grass outside the cave, looking out at the boundless sea with a landmass floating in the dim sky and a massive sun emitting a non-blinding glow, the scene seemed entirely out of place for what one would expect inside a cave.
Yet, as the ancient Otsutsuki Clan's former territory, everything here was indeed this magical.
"Yu-sama..."
At that moment, Kimimaro beside him seemed to sense something wrong with the atmosphere.
"I know..."
Yu gave Kimimaro an appreciative glance. His sharp battle instincts were truly those of a natural Ninja. However, his Observation Haki had long since sensed the hidden danger around them.
"Brother Yu, it seems like something is coming out from there!!"
Hinata suddenly alerted them, as her Byakugan had detected over a hundred Puppet Ninjas riding flying mounts, gliding down from the dim sky towards them!
Boom! Boom! Boom!!
Before they could get close, all the Puppet Ninjas unleashed golden Chakra orbs from their hands, bombarding them furiously.
Facing the dense onslaught that was as relentless as a torrential downpour, Yu's amber eyes reflected countless golden Chakra orbs filling the sky. He frowned slightly.
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