"Hehe... You are not going to say my eyes are also yours, are you?"
Nagato laughed in anger. He completely did not expect Ryun to say such an absurd thing.
How could his own eyes not be his own? How could such a ridiculous thing possibly be true? The Rinnegan was something he awakened only after witnessing his parents' death.
Eyes that had been with him since childhood, how could they not be his own?
"Of course they are not mine... but they are not yours either..." Ryun said with a smile, uttering words that confused everyone.
"Rubbish!" Nagato finally could not help but rebuke.
"Nagato..."
Konan quickly spoke up. She did not want to see the two fight again.
If they fought again this time, the two sides would truly be fighting to the death. Konan had a premonition that the one who would lose would most likely still be Nagato.
"Do not be agitated... If you do not like hearing it, just treat it all as nonsense..."
Ryun could completely understand the stress reaction of the person involved. After all, no one was willing to believe they had been living in someone else's chess game since childhood.
"You..."
Nagato still wanted to say something, but the next moment Konan had already arrived in front of him and covered his mouth with her hand.
"If you have any questions, ask the leader clearly in private later..."
Konan's words made Nagato visibly pause, especially upon hearing the term 'leader'. Nagato instantly calmed down.
Nagato could understand his friend's good intentions, so he took a deep breath to adjust his mindset. In the end, he obediently nodded and did not ask further.
"Life is like a game of chess. Those who recognize the game survive, those who break the game endure, those who master the game win..."
Ryun looked at Nagato and spoke these thought-provoking words.
Everyone present showed contemplative expressions upon hearing this, except for Hidan, who disdainfully curled his lip. He simply could not be bothered to use his brains, or perhaps he had no brains to use...
"Tch..."
Not only did he have no brains, he also looked down on others who used their brains...
Boom!!!
The Ten-Tails' changes grew greater and greater. Finally, the giant monster actively crouched down, plunging its hands, feet, and ten tails directly into the ground.
When it finished 'taking root', the spiral protrusion on its back rapidly extended upwards. Under the stunned gazes of everyone, the Ten-Tails gradually took on the embryonic form of the Divine Tree.
The moment the Divine Tree fully appeared, the sky gradually darkened. A red moon had already appeared on the distant horizon.
"The moon... it turned red!"
The Akatsuki members were the first to notice this anomaly.
In fact, it was not just them. The entire ninja world saw that red moon. Many people even saw that towering, colossal Divine Tree reaching into the clouds.
The instant the crimson moon appeared, in an underground chamber somewhere in the ninja world, a special strand of chakra suddenly emerged from a well-preserved young body.
"Ah???"
An ordinary White Zetsu stationed next to the corpse was greatly startled by this suddenly appearing chakra. But before it could do anything, its entire body was forcibly pinned in place.
"A thousand years have passed, and the Divine Tree has finally reappeared in the human world..."
The chakra quietly transformed into an old man. When the White Zetsu saw the old man's face and eyes, an expression of extreme terror appeared on its face.
"Rin... Rinnegan! You are the Sage... Sage of Six Paths!!!" The White Zetsu could not help but scream, but unfortunately, in the next moment, it could no longer make a sound.
After appearing, the Sage of Six Paths did not look at the White Zetsu. Instead, he turned his 'gaze' towards the distant Otogakure.
Under the Sage of Six Paths' unimaginable sage perception, the giant Divine Tree and the people at its feet were all laid bare without any place to hide.
The moment this perception fell upon Ryun, Ryun suddenly turned his head and also looked towards the old man's location.
"Such sharp perception. What a true sage!" Hagoromo Otsutsuki decisively withdrew his perception and let out an exclamation of surprise.
"A pair of Rinnegan plus a sage. The Rinnegan possessor is of Uzumaki lineage, and the Sage Body possessor is... of Senju lineage!"
"Neither of them are the reincarnations of Indra and Asura, yet they possess such powerful strength... and they even managed to bring out the Divine Tree..." Hagoromo Otsutsuki's expression was somewhat unpleasant.
"All of this must be your doing..." Hagoromo Otsutsuki said, looking down at the corpse beneath him.
This corpse was a young body modified personally by Uchiha Madara, containing the most active part of the Hashirama cells. It was the best soul vessel for his attempt at resurrection. In the original story, Black Zetsu deliberately guided Kabuto Yakushi to find this corpse, thus enabling the Edo Tensei of Uchiha Madara.
"To actually give your eyes to an Uzumaki descendant... you are causing trouble even after death..."
The old man looked at Uchiha Madara lying peacefully in the coffin and remained silent for a long time.
"Quite capable... unfortunately, you are merely a reincarnation of my son..."
After saying this, the old man turned into a wisp of smoke and directly drilled into the White Zetsu's body.
The White Zetsu's eyes widened sharply. The next moment, its terrified appearance quietly transformed into the old man's likeness.
"Although the power of Indra and Asura has just begun to awaken, their bodies are both those of youths. In this state, they simply cannot be a match for those people... I can only hope those guys do not initiate the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Otherwise, this old man will have no choice but to personally intervene to set things right..."
Hagoromo Otsutsuki secretly let out a sigh, and his entire person suddenly disappeared from the underground chamber.
Outside Otogakure, beneath the Divine Tree.
"What is wrong?"
Seeing Ryun suddenly turn around beside her, his face wearing a suspicious and unsettled expression, Konan could not help but ask.
"Who could it possibly be? To actually be able to perceive me from such a distant distance..."
Ryun did not pay attention to Konan. He lowered his head and muttered to himself, the expression on his face shifting uncertainly.
"And the gaze from the sky. The Otsutsuki living in the heavens must have seen this Divine Tree... With the Ten-Tails appearing, the 'Six Paths level' beings hiding in the shadows clearly can no longer restrain themselves..."
"Let me see who will be the first to jump out..."
Ryun did not deliberately try to track the peepers. The Divine Tree was planted outside Otogakure. Anyone approaching the Divine Tree could not escape Ryun's perception. He only needed to wait here for them to come to him.
Even though his own Rinnegan had not yet fully matured, Ryun still feared no Six Paths level expert. As long as they dared to appear, he dared to make them stay here forever.
At this moment, it was not only those with Six Paths level power who were watching here. The entire ninja world was now focused on that eerie red moon and that towering Divine Tree reaching for the heavens.
The Divine Tree transformed from the Ten-Tails was simply too tall and too large. This suddenly appearing giant outside Otogakure made the nations of the ninja world feel apprehensive and uneasy. That crimson, blood-like red moon further disturbed all living beings, startling every soul.
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