As a transmigrator, one should naturally remain calm in the face of anything. That was the basic quality every transmigrator ought to possess...
But Bai Yang simply couldn't stay calm!
Just a second ago, he had watched helplessly as someone ambushed him from behind and gravely wounded him. Then, his immobilized body had been thrown into the mouth of a gigantic monster...
Am I about to die?
Bai Yang watched the monster's mouth draw closer and closer, his heart filled with despair.
Crunch!
The monster's jaws clamped shut. Bai Yang watched as half his body was immediately bitten off, while the severed lower half was swallowed in a single gulp.
Just as Bai Yang thought he was about to be completely devoured by the monster, his upper body suddenly shrank to the size of particles and successfully escaped through the gaps between its teeth.
Now reduced to particles, Bai Yang drifted swiftly away with the air currents. As he left, he turned back and saw the face of the person who had ambushed him, as well as the monster's full form.
The attacker had pale skin and long blue-white hair. She was delicate and beautiful, with a pair of pure Byakugan. There were no eyebrows above her eyes; instead, she had white protrusions resembling compound eyes...
"Kaguya Ōtsutsuki???"
Bai Yang stared blankly at the woman, whose distinctive features were impossible to miss. He could hardly believe it. Had he transmigrated into the world of Naruto? And judging by the situation, hadn't he arrived far too early...?
"That monster with ten tails must be the Ten-Tails..."
Bai Yang glanced again at the monster that had swallowed half of his body, confirming once more that he really had transmigrated into the world of Naruto.
Whoosh, whoosh~
The wind blew in from afar, slowly carrying Bai Yang's particle-form body away and gradually distancing him from Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and the enraged Ten-Tails.
"Strange, why don't I feel any pain?"
Bai Yang, now like a speck of dust, drifted aimlessly with the wind. Only then did he realize that although 'he' had lost half of his body, he seemed to have no sensation at all and hadn't felt even the slightest pain!
Even stranger, he couldn't control this broken 'body' of 'his' at all. He couldn't even perform something as simple as raising a hand or clenching a fist!
"Huh, someone?"
Not long after, Bai Yang suddenly spotted a wandering monk on the ground. The next moment, he saw his broken 'body' drifting purposefully toward the monk.
Perhaps because the wind was at his back, Bai Yang's broken 'body' quickly reached the monk, then eagerly burrowed into his ear. It eventually entered his brain through the ear and parasitized him like a parasite...
To Bai Yang, this scene felt like he was wearing a lifelike VR headset. Though it gave him a vivid sense of being there, he was still merely an observer and couldn't feel anything...
"Finally... I survived..."
At that moment, a voice suddenly rang out, startling Bai Yang because it had come from inside his head.
"Y-you... who are you?"
Bai Yang looked around, trying to find the owner of the voice, but it was obvious that he wouldn't find anyone.
"That should be my question!"
As the unknown voice rang out again, the scenery around Bai Yang suddenly began to change!
Drip...
Drip...
Drip...
The faint sound of water droplets echoed, prompting Bai Yang to look around instinctively.
This place resembled a boundless expanse of water. Bai Yang stood steadily atop its surface, showing no sign of sinking.
Standing opposite Bai Yang was a man with equally distinctive features. He looked down at Bai Yang coldly like a lofty deity, as though he were looking at an ant.
He had pale skin and pale hair, with a strange long curved horn growing from his head. It began above his left eye and ended at his right temple, making it look from afar as if he wore a crown!
The pure Byakugan and Golden Rice-Character Eyes within his sockets further displayed his extraordinary identity!
"Ōtsutsuki Isshiki???"
Bai Yang blurted out the name before he could stop himself.
"You know me?"
Isshiki looked at Bai Yang with slight surprise. He hadn't expected this foreign Spirit Body that had suddenly appeared inside him to recognize him.
"Well... I've heard of you..."
A stiff smile immediately appeared on Bai Yang's face. The moment he saw Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, he quickly sorted out his thoughts, and his previous doubts were resolved.
Why had 'he' been ambushed by Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, only for his body to be thrown into the Ten-Tails' mouth afterward...?
Why couldn't he control this broken 'body'...?
Bai Yang understood everything at once.
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki hadn't actually ambushed Bai Yang. She had ambushed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki!
The one whose body had been half-devoured by the Ten-Tails wasn't Bai Yang either. It was still Ōtsutsuki Isshiki!
From beginning to end, Bai Yang had merely been an 'outsider' within this body. He had only experienced that scene from the perspective of an observer inside Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's body...
"It seems you also covet this world's planetary power and have heard of the Ōtsutsuki Clan. Perhaps we can cooperate..."
Isshiki narrowed his eyes at Bai Yang, seemingly considering what abilities Bai Yang possessed. Bai Yang had forcibly invaded his body as a Spirit Body right under his nose, which showed that he was no ordinary person!
Thus, Isshiki couldn't gauge Bai Yang's true capabilities, so he didn't attack him immediately.
After all, Isshiki himself was already at the end of his rope. His original body had first been severely injured in Kaguya's ambush, then had half of it devoured by the Ten-Tails...
If a living creature hadn't happened to pass by just now, he wouldn't have been able to parasitize anyone and cling to life at all!
"Cooperate?"
Bai Yang looked at Isshiki in surprise. In the original timeline, the Ōtsutsuki had never been this easy to talk to...
"That's right."
Isshiki nodded. His cold expression revealed none of his thoughts.
"How do you want to cooperate?"
Bai Yang forced himself to speak calmly, wearing the same cold expression. Yet the unease and guilt in his eyes couldn't be hidden.
Isshiki didn't answer. His Heterochromatic Eyes continued to stare at Bai Yang for a moment before he finally said with certainty, "You're afraid of me?"
"I'm not!"
Bai Yang immediately retorted with outward force and inward weakness, but in Isshiki's eyes, it was undoubtedly proof that he was putting on a brave front.
"For thousands upon thousands of years, it has always been the Ōtsutsuki Clan that plundered and occupied..."
"And yet you dare to occupy my body. This is simply an insult to the Ōtsutsuki!"
After a brief test, Bai Yang's guilty behavior had fallen directly into Isshiki's eyes. Isshiki realized that Bai Yang might merely be all show, so the moment he discovered this, he bared his fangs.
Just as Isshiki had said, as an Ōtsutsuki, he was the one who should plunder and occupy others—not the one being plundered and occupied...