"Hey Heiyan, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
Seeing Heiyan lying on the ground motionless, Tsunade thought he might have been hurt from the earlier impact. She hurriedly knelt beside him and reached out to help him up.
"I'm fine."
As Heiyan gazed out the window at the sky, he suddenly realized—it was time to pay a visit to the Moon.
He had subdued Hamura's descendants there long ago and tasked them with monitoring the otsutsuki Clan arriving from space.
He never forgot—the true enemy was the otsutsuki Clan.
With that thought, he stood up from the floor, returned to the sofa, and gently pulled Tsunade into his arms.
"Now that you're about to reach Six Paths Tier, there's something you must know."
So saying, he truthfully explained everything he knew about the otsutsuki Clan to her.
At first, Tsunade listened as if it were some myth, but soon realized Heiyan's solemn expression meant every word was serious.
Her face gradually turned shocked, her gaze growing heavier by the second.
"So this is how the world of shinobi truly began... the otsutsuki Clan from outer space, the God Tree, Ten-Tails... Kaguya otsutsuki, Sage of Six Paths Hagoromo, and Hamura's descendants on the Moon..."
Tsunade murmured softly, still reeling from the revelation—her entire worldview had just shattered.
"There was another reason I stopped you from becoming Hokage," Heiyan continued earnestly. "I wanted you to focus more on training, hoping you'd break through to Six Paths Tier as soon as possible. Only then will you have the strength to protect yourself when facing the otsutsuki Clan. Once those guys arrive on Earth, they'll finish what Kaguya started—wiping out humanity to create the Chakra Fruit. That would mark the end of this world."
Tsunade nodded slowly. "You're right... Now I understand. If we don't eliminate the greatest threat—the otsutsuki Clan—even a united world of shinobi holds no real meaning, because everything could be wiped away in an instant."
But how could they possibly defeat the otsutsuki Clan?
"Don't worry—they have one fatal weakness," Heiyan reassured her upon seeing her worried expression. "Their power mostly comes from consuming Chakra Fruit or pills, which makes them neglect actual combat skills and accumulate little real fighting experience. And that happens to be where we shinobi shine. At equal Six Paths Tier strength, shinobi have an absolute advantage against the otsutsuki Clan—even capable of taking down multiple enemies alone."
"I must become a Six Paths Tier warrior as soon as possible," Tsunade lifted her head, gently stroking Heiyan's face, determination burning in her eyes. "I can't let you face those terrifying enemies alone."
"You truly are my incomparable wife, Tsunade-sama."
Heiyan kissed Tsunade on the forehead before continuing, "However, if someone from the Otsutsuki Clan consumes more than one Chakra Fruit—or even becomes what's called a god—it would be dangerous. Even Kaguya Otsutsuki only consumed one fruit. Before absolute power, any technique is useless. To prepare for such a scenario, I must become stronger; I must absorb more energy from the cosmos just like the Otsutsuki Clan does."
"Then... what should we do?" Tsunade frowned, deep in thought over Heiyan's words.
She already knew that whenever the God Tree bore a Chakra Fruit, it sucked the life out of an entire planet. She and Heiyan couldn't possibly use the God Tree to devour this world's energy like the ruthless Otsutsuki Clan.
In other words, if Heiyan wanted to grow stronger, he'd have to abandon this world altogether and leave Earth far behind.
"The heavens."
Heiyan pointed upward—not specifically at the sky, but directly at the sun shining above. "The sun—it's our hope."
A star was an energy gem floating in the universe.
Sunlight was the source of all life on a planet.
In Heiyan's memory of his past life, the sunlight that reached Earth accounted for just one in two billion parts of the Sun's total radiation.
Yet even that tiny fraction gave birth to all living things. Humans, animals, plants—everything could only thrive under the sun's glow.
Ever since Heiyan became an Immortal Sage, every time the sun rose, he could sense energy within the sunlight. However, that energy was extremely weak.
That was because Earth's atmosphere blocked most of the sunlight.
Heiyan realized if he wanted to draw more energy from sunlight, he must go somewhere closer to the sun and find a way to collect it.
This was the cultivation path surpassing the Otsutsuki Clan.
"Directly absorbing energy from the sun to cultivate?"
Tsunade felt stunned by Heiyan's grand vision, finding the plan both crazy and thrilling.
At the same time, she couldn't help but feel amazed—while others in the shinobi world were still locked in endless cycles of rivalry over scraps of Ninjutsu techniques and cultivation resources, Heiyan had already set his sights on the cosmos itself.
Perhaps, this was the scale of an Immortal Sage.
"So," Heiyan smiled and extended a hand toward Tsunade, inviting her. "Are you ready to go to the heavens with me?"
"Mm." Tsunade looked into Heiyan's eyes and nodded firmly. As long as it was with him, she would follow wherever he went.
Two days later,
After thorough preparation, Heiyan and Tsunade packed up and adjusted their conditions to the best state.
"Heiyan, how long will we be gone? Shouldn't we worry about matters in the village?"
Before leaving, Tsunade reminded Heiyan.
"Don't worry. I'll be here."
A voice came from beside them. Tsunade turned her head and saw another Heiyan walking out from the room.
An Immortal Shadow Clone?
Tsunade knew compared to ordinary clone techniques, an Immortal Shadow Clone could last much longer. Actually, it wasn't a bad solution at all.
"It's not a Shadow Clone. It's a technique embedded within my Sage Transformation body — the [Real Clones]. One consciousness, two bodies."
Heiyan smiled gently as he explained. His original body and Real Clone moved in unison, approaching from left and right until they surrounded her.
"What now?"
Tsunade froze for a moment but quickly figured it out, her face suddenly turning bright red.
Two hours later.
Heiyan left his [Real Clone] guarding Penglai while his original body traveled skyward alongside Tsunade.
Whoosh.
Riding a thundercloud, the two blazed into the sky. This time, Heiyan also employed [Space-Time Ninjutsu], using Kamui's power to traverse Space and accelerate their movement.
Therefore, before long, he and Tsunade arrived at the Moon, landing at the castle where Hamura's descendants resided.
Heiyan's arrival made these people extremely nervous. They treated them as ancestral deities, serving them with utmost reverence and obeying Heiyan's every command without question.
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