Chapter 161: Otsutsuki Clan's Millennium Legacy
"Who exactly is this guy?"
Through the purple stone connected to the Giant Tenseigan, Otsutsuki Toneri observed Izayoi, who was enveloped in a pale green chakra aura. Outwardly, he appeared calm, but inwardly, a storm raged.
Such an immense amount of chakra was at least a hundred times greater than his own.
The tornado that instantly annihilated his human puppet army, and the method of absorbing his purple beam, indicated that this person's strength far surpassed his own.
Could it be that the seal on the spatial passage connecting the moon to Earth had been found and broken?
Or was this person actually a ninja from Earth who flew to the moon?
Suddenly, Otsutsuki Toneri seemed to discover something and murmured, "He has horns like our ancestor. Could he be a descendant of the Sage of Six Paths?"
Thinking this, Otsutsuki Toneri immediately channeled a large amount of chakra into the purple stone, intending to open the artificial sun's light barrier and use gravity to pull meteorites from outer space.
Unfortunately, he was too weak at the moment.
His chakra was insufficient to fully utilize the power of the Giant Tenseigan; he couldn't even monitor the ninja world. In Izayoi's eyes, he was a super-weakened version of Otsutsuki Kaguya.
With just one move, Izayoi made Otsutsuki Toneri experience the power of strategy!
Izayoi raised his hand, condensing a Chakra Orb, transforming it into a piece of metal inscribed with the Flying Thunder God Jutsu formula.
Then, this piece of metal vanished without a trace.
Izayoi himself disappeared along with it.
Seeing Izayoi vanish into thin air, Otsutsuki Toneri quickly used the Giant Tenseigan's X-ray vision, attempting to locate Izayoi's chakra.
The next second, Otsutsuki Toneri broke out in a cold sweat.
Because he saw Izayoi's chakra standing right behind him.
Before Otsutsuki Toneri could react, a hand pressed against his back, and a green beam pierced through him.
Otsutsuki Toneri immediately went limp, first kneeling on both knees, then collapsing face down on the ground.
The floating purple stone, deprived of chakra, dimmed and fell to the ground.
Swish—
At the same time, beneath a certain lake in the ninja world, a dazzling green light suddenly flared.
The vast chakra instantly attracted the attention of White Zetsu clones scattered throughout the ninja world, who were searching for ruins with sealing formulas or clan crests.
The situation here was quickly relayed to Black and White Zetsu.
Before long, Black and White Zetsu, along with Uchiha Madara's Wood Clone, arrived beneath this lake.
"A lake within a lake? The ninja world actually has such a unique place?"
Uchiha Madara surveyed his surroundings, then looked at the lake with its green water, asking Black and White Zetsu, "How did you find this place?"
"This place appeared suddenly, Lord Madara," White Zetsu explained. "Our White Zetsu clones passed by this area many times and thought it was just a cave beneath the lake, so we didn't pay much attention."
"Just now, a peculiar chakra erupted here, and when a White Zetsu clone came over, he saw this green lake. That chakra surge was likely the unsealing of a seal."
"Have you gone inside?" Uchiha Madara asked.
"We've sent White Zetsu clones in; there's a spatial passage inside," White Zetsu said with a strange expression.
Not just him, but Black Zetsu and Uchiha Madara were also surprised.
"Interesting… Is it a coincidence, or intentional?"
Uchiha Madara remarked with interest, "I searched for months and couldn't find it. Even the Rinnegan couldn't detect the chakra of the sealing jutsu. Now it's suddenly opened itself. Have they prepared to deal with me?"
"Lord Madara, should we go in?" Black Zetsu asked, filled with worry.
He hadn't found the spatial passage connecting to the moon for a thousand years.
Even with the White Zetsu army and Uchiha Madara's Wood Clone searching all over during this time, the Rinnegan couldn't detect the sealing jutsu's chakra.
Now that the seal had suddenly opened, it was simply too strange.
He didn't believe that Otsutsuki Toneri would be so kind as to invite them to the moon.
Without even thinking, he knew that Otsutsuki Toneri must have set up an ambush along the way or on the moon itself.
That branch of the clan would also unite to deal with them.
Only when fully prepared would one invite enemies into their home ground.
"Since the enemy has invited you in, why not go?" Uchiha Madara formed a hand seal with one hand and chuckled, "But first, let's send a pawn in to scout ahead and see what they're up to."
"Ninja Art… Impure World Reincarnation!"
As soon as he spoke, a coffin burst from the ground.
As the coffin lid fell, the figure of the Second Tsuchikage emerged.
Immediately, the Second Tsuchikage's figure twisted, becoming transparent and vanishing.
This was the secret technique that earned the Second Tsuchikage the title of 'Non-Entity'… Dustless Bewildering Cover.
This secret technique was even more inscrutable than Transparent Escape Technique; it was difficult to even sense chakra.
Coupled with the Earth Release: Lightweight Boulder Jutsu, which allowed him to fly, and the Dust Release Kekkei Tota, which disintegrated anything it touched into atoms, the Second Tsuchikage was among the few Kage who reached the pinnacle of genius.
Controlling the invisible Second Tsuchikage to enter the spatial passage, Uchiha Madara immediately shared his perspective, beginning to explore the spatial passage created by Otsutsuki Hamura.
Since it was just a Wood Clone, and one created by Black Zetsu using Uchiha Madara's chakra, Izayoi was unaware of the situation here.
At this moment, he was contemplating what to do with Otsutsuki Toneri.
Killing him would be a tremendous waste.
After years apart, Otsutsuki Toneri had grown considerably.
The Otsutsuki Toneri of the past, being born without Byakugan, lacked the Kekkei Genkai: Byakugan (Purple) trait. Furthermore, he hadn't started training, possessing only one high-level bubble, the Otsutsuki Bloodline (Red), which gave Izayoi his incredible start.
Now, eleven years later, Otsutsuki Toneri had also unlocked three purple traits: Chakra Control (Purple), Kage-level Aptitude (Purple), and Puppet Master (Purple).
It was a pity he had no eyes; otherwise, if he had diligently trained since childhood, he might have had gold-tier traits by now.
There were only a few individuals with red traits; killing them to gamble on a new trait would be a huge waste of resources.
Moreover, Otsutsuki Toneri's degree of atavism gave Izayoi a bold conjecture.
So, Izayoi created a Wood Clone, instructing it to take Otsutsuki Toneri back to Earth.
His main body, meanwhile, picked up the purple stone, taking control of the Giant Tenseigan.
However, Izayoi didn't immediately examine the Giant Tenseigan to see the differences between this ultimate dōjutsu, formed from countless Byakugan, and his own self-evolved ultimate dōjutsu.
Izayoi went directly to the Otsutsuki clan's library.
Just like the Hyuga clan's library, this place was filled with books and scrolls.
Izayoi didn't examine them one by one; instead, he continuously relayed information to his Wood Clone, which used a mental sphere to read Otsutsuki Toneri's memories, searching his mind for the Otsutsuki clan's most precious millennium-long legacy.
If Otsutsuki Toneri hadn't looked through the library either, then Izayoi would have to pack everything up and take it back to examine slowly.
But clearly, Otsutsuki Toneri's father, before his death, had left all the Otsutsuki clan's valuable possessions to his son, hoping he would uphold the will of the branch family.
Soon, the Wood Clone sent back good news.
Digesting this information, Izayoi flew to a bookshelf and took out an unremarkable scroll.
The scroll had no seals, and its body and color were marked by the passage of time.
Izayoi raised his hand, condensing a Chakra Orb, transforming it into a dazzling pale green light sphere to illuminate the dimly lit library, and then cautiously opened the scroll.
The next second, Izayoi couldn't help but curse under his breath: "Damn it!"
On the scroll's surface, dense, illegible characters were written, like cryptic symbols.
Clearly, the writing from a thousand years ago was different from the present.
However, such writing further confirmed that this was indeed a legacy left by Otsutsuki Hamura himself.
But to Izayoi, it felt like finally finding a treasure, only to discover it was locked inside a password-protected safe—extremely frustrating.
At this moment, Izayoi was very glad he hadn't killed Otsutsuki Toneri; otherwise, he would have to dig graves in the cemetery and use Impure World Reincarnation to summon deceased members of the Otsutsuki clan.
However, Izayoi did not want to go to that place.
Because he was worried about encountering Otsutsuki Hamura's soul.
As someone who, solely through bloodline and the Tenseigan, condensed Truth-Seeking Balls and became a Six Paths-level powerhouse, Otsutsuki Hamura, like his brother Otsutsuki Hagoromo, would inevitably be able to influence the world of the living even after death.
Perhaps his soul now possessed Truth-Seeking Balls, just like Otsutsuki Hagoromo.
Since these brothers hadn't sought him out, Izayoi didn't want to encounter them before obtaining Truth-Seeking Balls and All-Encompassing Net.
So, Izayoi used Chakra Orbs to create a large storage scroll.
Chakra Orbs, combined with Yin-Yang Release, could not only create comprehensible things but also, like the Ultra-Hurricane Multiple Sphere merging multiple nature transformations into a secret technique, incorporate various elements to create incomprehensible and unknown things.
With the Heavenly Ascent (Red) trait, Izayoi, whose pure-blooded Otsutsuki clan's inherent spacetime talent was gradually awakening, easily created the storage scroll.
Once he fully mastered the Tenseigan's power and realized the potential of Heavenly Ascent (Red), creating spatial passages like Otsutsuki Hamura, and even teleportation arrays that could directly transport him from the ninja world to the moon, would be an effortless task.
However, the prerequisite was that Izayoi's mastery of Yin-Yang Release was sufficient.
Just like Uchiha Madara's Rinnegan, Izayoi's Tenseigan, while possessing the legacy of Yin-Yang Release, was not complete.
It wasn't incomplete, but rather, this legacy was merely foundational.
Meanwhile, the brothers Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura, relying on being the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki, their own talents, and a long span of time, developed Yin-Yang Release to a higher level.
Six Paths Tools, spatial passages, Truth-Seeking Balls, Six Paths Sealing, and so on… these were all created using Yin-Yang Release.
The scroll in Izayoi's hand was one of the legacies left by Otsutsuki Hamura: the complete Yin-Yang Release.
As long as he deciphered this scroll and mastered the brothers' development and understanding of Yin-Yang Release, Izayoi's Chakra Orbs would surge in power once again.
If he also obtained the technique for creating Truth-Seeking Balls, Izayoi could potentially master this ultimate ninjutsu at any time.
After meticulously packaging all of the Otsutsuki clan's millennium-long legacy into the large scroll, Izayoi created another Wood Clone to take the scroll back to the ninja world.
His main body, meanwhile, arrived in the shrine, floating before the Giant Tenseigan, meticulously examining this enormous eye.
The Giant Tenseigan was entirely golden: its sclera was golden, and its pupil was yellow.
The pupil, like Izayoi's eye, had a flowing pattern, but unlike Izayoi's white, the Giant Tenseigan's pattern was golden yellow.
Its iris, unlike Izayoi's corona, was a dazzling white.
Around the Giant Tenseigan, numerous pillars inscribed with jutsu formulas were arranged.
These pillars formed a composite sealing jutsu; members not of the Otsutsuki clan could not touch the Giant Tenseigan.
Even if one obtained the medium to activate the Giant Tenseigan, their chakra could not connect with it.
However, this restriction was ineffective against Hinata in the original story, and naturally even more so against Izayoi.
Izayoi's chakra easily connected with the Giant Tenseigan, and he mastered its abilities.
"This dōjutsu power… it's absurd!"
Izayoi couldn't help but exclaim, "What kind of secret technique could create this miracle of qualitative change from quantitative change? Is it also Yin-Yang Release?"
The Giant Tenseigan didn't possess the Chakra Orbs ability, and the person holding the purple stone couldn't enter Tenseigan Chakra Mode, but it could use the purple stone to release destructive purple beams.
The branch family of the Otsutsuki clan used this technique to annihilate the main family.
Aside from lacking the Tenseigan Chakra Mode and Chakra Orbs, the Giant Tenseigan possessed all other Tenseigan abilities.
Moreover, the Giant Tenseigan had one basic ability that received an epic enhancement.
That was… gravity!
As long as the chakra was powerful enough, the Giant Tenseigan's gravity could even push the moon into collision with Earth.
This ability alone gave the Giant Tenseigan the power to destroy the world.
After all, Izayoi's Tenseigan, even after completing its final quickening, couldn't move the moon.
"This is good news…"
Izayoi held the purple stone in one hand, while the other touched his own eyes. He murmured, "Even I, with my current strength, can't do that, which means my eyes still have great potential."
Immediately, Izayoi tried some of the Giant Tenseigan's other abilities, such as its long-distance and X-ray vision.
Before the Otsutsuki clan perished, they used the Giant Tenseigan to monitor the entire ninja world.
Izayoi wanted to see how the Giant Tenseigan's monitoring of the ninja world differed from his own.
However, just as he connected to the Giant Tenseigan's viewpoint, Izayoi immediately severed the connection and complained, "What an absurd chakra consumption! No wonder Otsutsuki Toneri couldn't monitor the ninja world until now; it's just a tool."
Just like Six Paths Tools, using the Giant Tenseigan's power consumed one's own chakra.
However, unlike Izayoi's own eyes, which could freely use long-distance and X-ray vision, the Giant Tenseigan's long-distance and X-ray vision not only consumed chakra but also required more chakra the farther it saw and the deeper it penetrated.
Izayoi finally understood why Otsutsuki Toneri hadn't monitored the ninja world.
It wasn't that he didn't want to, but that he couldn't.
He hadn't yet entered his true growth period, and his chakra was only slightly better than Naruto Uzumaki's without half of the Nine-Tails.
He could use the power of the Giant Tenseigan, but he couldn't use it for extended periods.
Aside from the gravity that could move the moon, the abilities of this Giant Tenseigan were not as comprehensive or powerful as Izayoi's own Tenseigan.
A synthesized product was, after all, just a special tool.
However…
"What an alluring dōjutsu power!"
Staring at the golden pattern of the Giant Tenseigan, Izayoi murmured, "If only I could transplant the dōjutsu power of this eye into my own."
"The Mangekyo Sharingan can fuse dōjutsu power. I wonder if the Uchiha clan's method can be used on the Tenseigan?"
"First, I'll go back and learn the ancient script from a thousand years ago, then decipher the secret method for fusing the Tenseigan, and then gather the Uchiha clan's dōjutsu fusion method. We'll see if it succeeds then… Hmm?"
Izayoi, deep in thought, suddenly looked down.
His gaze pierced through the shrine, and even through the artificial sun, reaching the surface of the moon.
Just now, Izayoi had sensed a chakra presence there.
With the Tenseigan's X-ray vision, he immediately pinpointed a mass of chakra flying in the air.
The figure of the Second Tsuchikage was revealed.
Seeing this, Izayoi looked bewildered. "I just arrived on the moon, and they just happened to find the spatial passage coordinates? Is this a coincidence, or has some unforeseen event occurred that I'm unaware of?"
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