Naruto and Asura

Hagoromo Otsutsuki returned to the Pure Land. He was no longer the Sage of Six Paths whose name had once resounded throughout the Ninja World. The mark branded into his soul told him that there was still a master above him, one who could scatter his soul to the winds at any time.

Xiao Zhen had great confidence in the soul brand. Although what he possessed was not the highest-grade version, but merely something Yao Chen had seized from an elder of the Soul Hall, it was highly effective for controlling anyone below the Dou Sheng realm.

Even if Hagoromo Otsutsuki devoured every soul in the Pure Land, it would at most make his own soul more bloated. Its quality would not improve by much.

The reason Xiao Zhen had allowed this fellow to return to the Pure Land was not because he cared whether the souls of those dead people would cause trouble.

Hagoromo Otsutsuki could strengthen his soul through the Pure Land, and Xiao Zhen naturally wanted to use the same method to enhance his own Soul Power.

Come to think of it, this was not all that different from the Soul Hall, only the method was somewhat gentler.

Xiao Zhen also had the two brothers, Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hagoromo Otsutsuki, establish an organization equivalent to the Underworld.

After all, rather than letting those dead people sleep forever, it was better to put them all to work. The Pure Land would slowly wear down and devour souls, but without its protection, souls would still fade away with time—and much faster at that.

They only needed to suppress certain information. For instance, if your soul dissipated in the Pure Land, that was simply a natural phenomenon.

As for those rumors some people had heard about the Pure Land devouring