Chapter 105: Otsutsuki Kaguya
Though Toneri wished to stop it, how could he block the desperate self-detonation of a three hundred thousand horsepower powerhouse?
Even Yu at this moment found it difficult to forcibly suppress this world-destroying eruption.
Cracks spread rapidly like spider webs across Lei Niu's body surface, blinding light bursting from the fissures as if a sun on the verge of explosion was gestating within him.
The next moment—
BOOM!!!!!!
Indescribable energy torrents completely tore apart his body. Destructive light surged like furious waves, instantly swallowing the entire moon.
The surface crumbled, rock layers evaporated, terrifying energy storms sweeping every inch of space.
Yu instantly etherealized. The moon explosion's impact brushed past his outline without harming him in the slightest.
On the other side, the distant Toneri raised his hand to summon pitch-black Truth-Seeking Orbs. A spherical barrier suddenly expanded, completely isolating the destructive energy outside.
As the intense light gradually faded, shattered moon debris floated in the void. The long-concealed core was completely exposed—an ancient seal jointly arranged by the Sage of Six Paths and Otsutsuki Hamura. Within it was imprisoned the Chakra Ancestor, the Rabbit Goddess Otsutsuki Kaguya.
The moment the Truth-Seeking Orbs dissipated, Toneri stood frozen in place. Ancestor Hamura's instructions were engraved in his bloodline: protect this seal through the generations. Yet now, it had been completely torn apart in the most brutal manner.
Within the seal, Kaguya suddenly moved.
She slowly opened her eyes, whites tinged with pale purple, Rinne Sharingan holding an eternal indifference.
Silver-white hair cascaded down, plain white robes moving without wind.
She gently turned her head, looking around, her gaze revealing a trace of confusion from awakening after millennia.
Yu released his etherealization. Electric currents surged at his severed arm, bones and flesh rapidly reconstructing. In mere moments it had recovered completely.
He clenched his newly regenerated hand. Looking up, he met that awakening gaze directly.
Horns growing from her head, skin white as snow, aura strange and eerie.
Yu's expression remained indifferent, yet his mind rapidly compared—within the shinobi world, such an existence had never appeared before.
Extraterrestrial species? This appearance was definitely not an Earth native creature.
In his previous life's memories, extraterrestrial civilizations weren't rare.
Unfortunately, any who dared cause trouble on Earth or showed the slightest disrespect were inevitably hunted back to their lairs by magnetic field powerhouses—either colonized and enslaved, or... directly exterminated as species.
He recalled those so-called "Martians" who'd arrogantly flaunted crude technology, only to ultimately be captured by several magnetic field lunatics, publicly tried on television, reduced to wreckage on experiment tables—unable to live, unable to die.
Just as Yu silently assessed Kaguya, she was also directing her gaze toward him.
Kaguya sensed familiar chakra fluctuations from Toneri—clearly originating from the bloodline of her two "unfilial sons."
As for this human floating in space before her, though his aura was extraordinary, he was ultimately just an insignificant human, not worth mentioning.
She floated gracefully before Toneri, gazing into his eyes. Her expression moved slightly as her clear, cold voice penetrated the vacuum:
"You... are Hamura's descendant?"
Toneri immediately felt threatened.
The person before him could be called the origin of his clan, the Chakra Ancestor. Though the other showed no hostility, he was momentarily speechless, unsure how to respond.
Under Kaguya's gaze, Toneri ultimately steeled himself and answered, "...Yes."
Kaguya's eyes suddenly revealed a trace of nostalgia as she asked softly, "Then... where are Hagoromo and Hamura?" Since awakening, she'd been unable to sense those two children's chakra.
Toneri said quietly, "The two ancestors passed away a thousand years ago."
Kaguya's expression dimmed slightly. After a moment of silence she said, "Is that so... Very well. They weren't pure Otsutsuki blood after all."
She raised her eyes to look at Toneri, tone brooking no argument. "Since that's the case, my descendant, you shall take Hagoromo and Hamura's place and accompany me to complete what remained unfinished a thousand years ago."
Toneri's expression froze, then he firmly shook his head. "I must respectfully decline, Honored Ancestor. My duty... is to protect Earth."
Kaguya's brow furrowed as she said coldly, "You are as foolish as Hagoromo."
The Otsutsuki clan she belonged to had always fed on celestial bodies. They traversed the universe, planting God Trees on planets teeming with life. After the trees absorbed an entire planet's energy and bore fruit, they would devour the divine fruit to seek evolution.
Years ago, Kaguya had descended to Earth as Otsutsuki Isshiki's partner, coming to plant the God Tree.
However, to monopolize the fruit, she'd ambushed Isshiki and alone consumed the God Tree's fruit.
Fearing the Otsutsuki main family's accountability, she enslaved humans and created a White Zetsu army to protect herself.
A thousand years of sealed time had quietly transformed Kaguya's mindset.
If she'd been willing to explain slightly to Hagoromo and Hamura back then, would she have avoided the outcome of mother and sons turning against each other and being sealed for a millennium?
She restrained her authority, gaze lowering, voice actually revealing a rare deliberate slowness:
"I created White Zetsu not for slaughter, but to resist... pursuers from the Otsutsuki clan."
"Isshiki and I came from an extraterrestrial clan that feeds on devouring celestial bodies. We came here to plant the God Tree, originally to harvest this planet's life force."
"But I betrayed Isshiki and monopolized the fruit... Precisely because of this, the Otsutsuki main family will never let this place go."
Her voice gradually lowered yet remained clear word by word. "They've already targeted this planet full of vitality. Isshiki and I... were merely a beginning. In the future, more and stronger clansmen will descend."
"The White Zetsu army is the only barrier I could prepare."
"I wasn't trying to destroy this place... I only wanted to protect this land, and my children."
Hearing this, Toneri's expression changed dramatically, monstrous waves surging in his heart.
The legendary Chakra Ancestor... was actually just one member of an extraterrestrial race? Not even the strongest among them?
Kaguya looked at Toneri's shocked expression and sighed softly.
"If only to enslave this planet's natives, why would I need to create White Zetsu? I alone... would be sufficient."
Her gaze was distant, voice carrying a trace of barely perceptible gravity. "Do you know, what I consumed... was merely an immature God Tree fruit? The powerful ones in the clan who've devoured multiple fruits are far more terrifying than me. Not to mention... that legendary one standing above all clansmen—the God of Otsutsuki."
Yu stood quietly to the side, silently listening.
He could see that white-haired woman completely disregarded him, which suited him perfectly. Using this interval, he fully recovered his strength and stamina.
Carefully reflecting on that battle with Lei Niu just now—as his first life-or-death struggle with an equal-level powerhouse—Yu gained deep insights.
What made his mind stir even more was that perhaps because of being far from Earth and no longer suppressed by native magnetic fields, his originally stable three hundred thousand horsepower realm actually faintly showed signs of loosening.
He sensed that once breaking through this constraint, even returning to Earth, that place's magnetic field suppression would no longer bind him.
Then heaven and earth would be wide, the path ahead unobstructed, and his magnetic field realm... could ascend all the way!
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