"What is that?"
Karin Uzumaki was not the only one astonished. In Hozuki Castle, Gō had also seen the sun rising into the sky.
Although Hozuki Castle was still several miles from Uchiha Chisen, merely sensing that blazing power in the sky stirred an involuntary trace of fear in Gō.
Previously, Gō had only sensed an enormous mass of chakra approaching him from afar. Now he understood-that powerful chakra was the sun that had suddenly risen into the sky!
"Could my lord be the legendary god who rules over the sun?"
Out in the wilderness, Karin Uzumaki looked at Kijiro beside her and could not help voicing her question. To her, Uchiha Chisen truly was a sun at that moment. Calling him the god who ruled over the sun was no exaggeration!
But Kijiro did not answer Karin. He, too, stared for a long time at the sun Uchiha Chisen had become.
Although Uchiha Chisen had told Kijiro that this was the power of a kekkei tōta, no matter how many times he watched Uchiha Chisen activate Shine Release Chakra Mode and turn into a sun without even trying, Kijiro could not help marveling.
"Another god?"
"A god who awakened before me in this era?"
Standing atop Hozuki Castle, Gō fixed his gaze on the sun in the sky. As he watched it draw steadily closer, a flicker of bewilderment passed through his eyes.
Before Kaguya Otsutsuki descended upon the Shinobi World, it had possessed powers of its own.
Whether it was the Evil God whom Hidan worshipped, the Shinigami summoned by the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, or the Miko of the Land of Demons, the roots of their powers all lay with the gods of those ancient times.
But once the Sage of Six Paths began walking the Shinobi