Standing inside Shukaku's body, Hanma lit a flame in his hand so he could carefully observe his surroundings.
"Tailed Beasts really are fascinating." Seeing the structure inside Shukaku's body, Hanma could not help but sigh.
Tailed Beasts were strange "creatures." They could be conglomerations of Chakra, yet also possess animal-like bodies.
Eight Tails' horns could be cut off and cultivated in a petri dish, while One-Tail could turn into yellow sand and have no physical form at all.
Hanma reached out and gently stroked Shukaku's stomach wall. It felt no different from ordinary flesh and blood.
"Why does this feel like a pig kidney?"
This was an important step in Hanma's exploration of the Shinobi World. These so-called Tailed Beasts were offspring created when the Sage of Six Paths used Izanagi to divide the Ten-Tails.
For researching the Otsutsuki Clan, they were exceptionally important raw material.
Actually, if Kaguya had been the only threat in this Shinobi World, the difficulty would have been much lower.
The Sage of Six Paths had handled his own mother quite cautiously. He truly deserved to be called the Shinobi World's number-one filial son.
No, even without relying on the reincarnations of Indra and Asura, as long as he had an information advantage, he could devise countermeasures once he reached Kage-level strength.
For instance, he could seal the Jinchuriki away with the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique and isolate them in some unknown alternate dimension.
Or he could time it carefully, forcibly kill a certain Tailed Beast, stall for time, and wait for the savior to grow up.
Even people like Black Zetsu and Uchiha Madara would find that troublesome, wouldn't they? That was the advantage of an information gap.
But those future visitors still made Hanma abandon the idea of taking shortcuts. Those aliens