No one truly knew how strong the Rabbit Goddess really was—not even Yuki Yoru himself.
From what was shown in the original story,this Ōtsutsuki, who gave birth to the two brothers Hamura Ōtsutsuki and Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, was the true source of chakra in the shinobi world. Her power stood completely above Six Paths Madara or the Six Paths version of Naruto and Sasuke.
If it weren't for the plot forcing the "progenitor of chakra" into acting like a brainless fool despite her overwhelming might… or perhaps to better justify gathering back all chakra to prepare for the inevitable confrontation with future Ōtsutsuki kin—then Kaguya, in her battle with Six Paths Naruto and Sasuke, had countless methods and opportunities to kill them outright!
But here and now, in the dream world constructed by Gamamaru, such concerns and contrived restraints did not exist. This illusory Kaguya fought with nothing held back—every move was a killing strike, and each sequence of attacks flowed with flawless precision!
One Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack blasted apart Yoru's empowered Sacred Destruction Arrows into fragments of spiritual power. With a backhand, spatial binding locked him down, and the All-Killing Ash Bones rained down to finish him.
"Tch…"
Yuki Yoru kept casting techniques to block, but in the face of overwhelming numbers and power, no jutsu held any meaning.
For a moment, Yomizu Minazuki, the Master of Souls who was invincible in the shinobi world and could easily toy with powerhouses like Obito Uchiha, was actually beaten without any power to fight back!
If not for his transcended lifeform level—if not for the fact that his power system differed from chakra, allowing him to partially resist the Kekkei Tōta power—he would have already been annihilated into nothingness!
"This dream-forged Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, created under this world's unique illusory rules, possesses power infinitely close to the real Kaguya. To defeat her head-on… with my current strength, it's simply impossible."
With another blow, Yoru's figure was sent flying.d. "The only way to solve this problem is either to forcibly destroy this world itself, or — like Hagoromo's clone back then — sever Gamamaru's control over this world…"
"Still struggling?"
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's figure followed like a shadow. Her calm tone contained an unconcealed contempt and sneer.
"I know what you're planning, Yuki Yoru. To be honest, it's surprising that you were able to defeat the Hagoromo clone, but if you want to use that method to defeat me, it's meaningless."
"This world, this world that I have nurtured for thousands of years, everything here is under my control!"
"I… am the world!"
"I have already seen through this so-called spiritual power of yours. This game of cat and mouse ends here!"
Her expression remained serene. With her slender hand extended toward Yuki Yoru, a jet-black Truth-Seeking Orb condensed and floated before her palm.
The next moment, Kaguya slowly closed her eyes.
The sage chakra permeating this dream world — the very force sustaining it — surged like tides, pouring endlessly into that Truth-Seeking Orb.
The power of creation and destruction manifested, merging into the Truth-Seeking Orb under her control.
In just moments, the Truth-Seeking Orb began to rapidly expand, emanating suffocating, absolute might as it floated toward Yuki Yoru.
"So… it's this technique…" Yoru gritted his teeth, his face grim.
He knew exactly what this technique was. To a certain extent, its power even surpassed that of the All-Killing Ash Bones and the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!
Its name was Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb, the move Ōtsutsuki Kaguya was unleashing at this very moment.
The Truth-Seeking Orb was the foundational manifestation of power attained after entering the realm of the Six Paths. It did not signify a flashy technique, but rather the embodiment of fundamental power once it had reached a certain level.
The Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb gathered together all forms of energy within the orb, thereby maximizing its power and releasing an absolute and supreme might.
Sealing away the power of all things, it summoned a jet-black sphere of chaos—capable of erasing every property, reducing the world to nothingness, while at the same time serving as the origin point of a new space: the Block of Chaos!
The Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb surged swiftly toward Yuki Yoru, growing larger and larger as it flew, its oppressive aura becoming ever more suffocating.
Yoru clenched his teeth, unleashing his inner spiritual power recklessly, as if it cost nothing.
Vast spiritual power, black as ink, formed layers of spiritual barriers, attempting to block the Truth-Seeking Orb.
But the instant those spiritual barriers touched the Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb, they dissolved like mist sinking into water. Even worse, it gave the impression that the barriers—meant to defend him—had instead become fuel for the expanding orb itself!
The expanding orb drew ever closer to Yuki Yoru's body, leaving him nowhere to run.
Under the power of destruction, Gamamaru's calm voice sounded from Kaguya's mouth:
"You indeed have great potential. You have grown to this extent in just a few years and are even only one step away from our level."
"Your appearance did cause some ripples in the game between us, but that doesn't mean a pawn like you has the possibility to jump out of the board."
"It's over, Yuki Yoru."
Her pure white eyes gazed indifferently at the ever-expanding gray-black orb. With a thought, the Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb—which had already sealed away all of Yuki Yoru's options—suddenly contracted, then exploded violently.
The Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb shattered at a speed unstoppable and unreactable. In that instant, the light of the entire world dimmed.
Yoru, with nowhere to hide, could only face the explosion of the Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb head-on. In that deafening roar and indescribable burst of energy, his figure was completely swallowed.
But Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's expression grew increasingly solemn.
At the moment Yoru was swallowed by the Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb, she clearly saw the smile at the corner of his lips.
"That smile... to be able to show such a smile in this situation..."
"Do you truly believe yourself to be omniscient and omnipotent, Yuki Yoru!"
...
Rewinding time, to when Yuki Yoru was heading to Mount Myōboku.
"Star Chakra Body—stable!"
"Land of Snow Geothermal Chakra Body—stable!"
"Dark Chakra Body—stable!"
"Dragon Vein Chakra—stable!"
Thousands of miles away from Kirigakure, on a desolate island in the endless sea, Uzumaki Hiromi looked at the massive chakra-gathering apparatus before her. She nodded, then turned her gaze toward Miroku at her side and asked solemnly:
"Are you sure you're ready?"
"Don't worry," Miroku replied. "I've been bound to him for a long time now. His rise is my rise, his fall is my fall. Since he asked me to do this… I won't let him down."
Miroku took a deep breath and stepped into the center of the four chakra sources. Standing opposite her was Uchiha Hikari.
Miroku gave her a small nod. In response, Hikari slowly produced two pitch-black crystal stones, lifted them up, and placed them into the formation before him, right at the center of the four chakra sources.
The four chakra sources surrounded the two black crystals. When the fromation fully connected the crystals with the chakra formation, Miroku slowly raised both hands and began forming seals.
"Four Symbols Release!"
The reversed incantation imprinted itself onto Miroku's lower abdomen, making her instinctively hunch as her slender body trembled sharply.
In the next moment, visible changes began to manifest.
Her shapely figure began to emit a faint light. Wisps of silver-gray mist, like drifting water vapor, spread from her body, wrapping her completely. Her appearance resembled the transformation of a jinchūriki into their tailed beast form, but this power was finer, more stable.
The silver-gray energy poured forth endlessly, growing denser and denser until it covered her whole body. The energy was so thick that one could no longer see her figure clearly.
But soon, the energy seemed to flow back into her body. After only a moment, a different presence appeared before everyone.
Now, Miroku's white hair floated around her, her entire form shrouded in a mantle of silver-gray flame.
Thick energy mist transformed into an elegant, noble silvery-grey shrine maiden robe. Patterns of Mōryō's serpents were embroidered on the garment. From time to time, substantial energy flames took the form of serpents, hissing faintly, flickering in and out!
This was Miroku's true form—her Sage Form!
The aura radiating from Sage Miroku was immense. But the few people present were not ordinary; they had been with Yoru longer, had endured even greater pressures, and thus would not be shaken by Miroku's display.
"Of course, Miroku herself showed no sign of disturbance."
In the past, when she first activated her Sage Form, her emotions would be heavily influenced by Mōryō.
But over the years, by refining all her strength into spiritual power—and after receiving Yuki Yoru's blessing to become the first Quincy—Miroku had long since mastered this power completely.
"Come then!"
Looking at the four floating chakra sources and the two black crystals before her, Sage Miroku's right hand, with its delicate jade-like fingers, made a grasping motion in the air. A silvery-grey serpent spear staff materialized in her palm.
The staff landed heavily on the empty space. Under Miroku's spacious and luxurious miko robe, countless silvery-gray spiritual serpents urged out and fiercely rushed toward formation in front of her.
With a heavy crash, the staff struck down upon the void. At once, countless streams of silver-gray serpent-like spirit energy erupted from beneath her shrine maiden robes, lashing into the formation before her.
"BOOOOM!!!"
Under the vast spiritual impact, the previously stable four chakra sources were activated as if triggered. Instantly, a massive amount of chakra erupted from the four sources. Suddenly, a huge flow of chakra rushed along the formation, fiercely converging upon it.
Such a massive chakra impact made Miroku instinctively grunt, but she knew this was merely the appetizer. The real key lay with those two black crystals.
Within them was contained all the chakra of two Six Paths-level existences: Asura and Indra!
"Inorganic Reincarnation!"
Miroku let out a delicate shout. The surging chakra suddenly trembled, as if it had been given something, and began to be controlled by Miroku little by little.
Miroku had mastered the power to give life to inorganic matter. The strength of this ability even encroached upon the realm of the gods. After she obtained spiritual power, its intensity underwent a complete transformation.
And now, Miroku was using this very power to grant 'life' to the chakra source and control it.
Then—she began the assault.
Using the Dragon Vein Chakra, the Star Chakra, the Land of Snow Geothermal Chakra, and the Dark Emotion Chakra she had accumulated over the years as her foundation, Miroku unleashed all four sources together to strike at the two great forces sealed in the crystals—Asura and Indra's chakra.
In just an instant, the black crystals that stored the two chakras of Asura and Indra were shattered, and the vast chakra contained within them was released.
"Condense!" Miroku let out a delicate shout, forcing the four chakra sources under her control and using the power of the formation to suppress Ashura and Indra's chakra.
And then...
Conversion!
This was the true ability mastered by Miroku as the very first Quincy, and the reason Yuki Yoru honored her as the Sage of Shadow Island—the root of why she could ceaselessly turn shinobi into Quincy at Yoru's command.
A member of Yuki Yoru's personal guard, the first Quincy of this world, the Sage of Shadow Island—Miroku! Bestowed personally by Yuki Yoru with a special Schrift—Reform, code-name [R] the Reformer!
BOOOOM!!!
With a thunderous blast, the four chakra sources in the formation, along with the chakras of Ashura and Indra, were engulfed by Miroku's power.
The vast chakra began to shift under the power of rules, transforming into spiritual power. For a moment, the formation blazed with dazzling light, forcing everyone present to instinctively shut their eyes.
When they adapted to the radiance, they found Miroku's appearance had changed once more.
In addition to her Sage form, her body also had ribbons and crowns composed of tangible spiritual power, making her already transcendent appearance even more noble.
"She even activated her Vollständig.." murmured Uzumaki Hiromi, her pretty face solemn.
Vollständig, full name Quincy Vollständig (Quincy: Holy Form), was the ultimate form of a Quincy. Activating this state pushed all of a Quincy's power to its limit, but placed an extremely severe burden on the body.
One could imagine the immense pressure Miroku was enduring while simultaneously converting all this chakra into spiritual power!
A continuous stream of spiritual power was converted and shaped, absorbed by the specially prepared instruments.
The process gradually settled into a rhythm. Everyone present breathed a sigh of relief. Hiromi's gaze shifted from Miroku to Hikari Uchiha.
"Once Miroku finishes converting all the chakra, it'll be your turn, Hikari."
"…I know."
Hikari slowly stepped forward toward the instrument that contained the vast reserves of spiritual power. A glow of reishi flared around her body. In an instant, a blood-red reishi disk hovered above her head, while blood-red wings of reishi unfolded from her back.
Vollständig!
As the Uchiha clan's ultimate weapon, she too was a member of Yuki Yoru's Divine Pardon Guard.