Subduing Chimimōryō

For Yuzuru, subduing Chimimōryō was not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but something he had considered carefully.

During Chimimōryō's earlier account, it had told Yuzuru everything about its abilities without holding anything back. One of them was the ability to plant a seed of evil intent inside a human body, essentially a miniature incarnation of Chimimōryō. This seed could become a vessel for its host's dark side, drawing negative energy from the host to grow. It also possessed a certain ability to spread to humans who came into contact with the host!

Most importantly, these evil seeds were like Chimimōryō's eyes. As long as Chimimōryō did not actively trigger them, they would remain dormant within humans forever, allowing it to learn about the surrounding situation through human vision...

And what Yuzuru lacked most right now was intelligence on the Shinobi World. Chimimōryō, with this ability, was undoubtedly a highly qualified tool. That was why Yuzuru had not wiped it out.

That said, after conducting a simple examination of Chimimōryō's body, Yuzuru understood that it was merely a conscious mass of energy. The innate abilities of the Ōtsutsuki Clan happened to restrain energy-based monsters like Chimimōryō. So even though Yuzuru could not fully wield his own strength, erasing Chimimōryō would still have been very easy. Of course, now that Chimimōryō was his subordinate, he naturally would not do such a thing.

Thus, Chimimōryō immediately accepted the first task Yuzuru assigned it: spread its evil seeds into as many human bodies as possible and use them to gather intelligence from all over the Shinobi World.

Naturally, Chimimōryō did not refuse. It was even somewhat delighted. After all, doing this would not only allow its strength to recover to its peak, but perhaps even let it go further!

"By the way, do not kill people casually!"

Having suddenly recalled something, Yuzuru immediately spoke sternly to Chimimōryō.

"Yes, Lord Yuzuru!"

Chimimōryō naturally agreed. Though he had been forbidden from killing, the death rate among humans in this era was already high. They built nations and waged wars against one another; soldiers dying and being wounded was commonplace. Commoners had an even harder time surviving, living in endless hardship. Despair, malice, slaughter, jealousy, sorrow, pain, and other negative emotions would erupt even without Chimimōryō actively guiding them. Therefore, Chimimōryō did not care about Yuzuru's restriction at all. His reason for killing had merely been to squeeze out their negative emotional energy. Even without killing, he would not lack such energy. It would only take a great deal of time to collect it—and he happened to have no shortage of time...

"Then we'll start with this village..."

The place where Yuzuru and Chimimōryō were located was the house where that middle-aged man had lived. It was far from the village, so even after his parents died and their corpses festered with maggots, no one had noticed.

One vivid purple-black dandelion after another condensed before Chimimōryō. Then, with a hard blow, they were swept up by the breeze and drifted toward the distant village. Once they landed on those humans, they would turn into evil seeds and parasitize the depths of their hearts, becoming vessels for their dark sides...

"How many evil seeds can you release at once?"

Yuzuru asked Chimimōryō curiously. Although this ability had little offensive power, its potential for infiltration and intelligence gathering was absolutely first-rate.

"This one's strength has yet to recover, so I can only release one hundred evil seeds for now. Once I return to my peak, I can condense three hundred evil seeds..." Chimimōryō answered honestly, then added, "However, the evil seeds I release can spread a second time. One evil seed can spread ten times..."

And Chimimōryō could not draw or absorb negative energy from the humans infected through this secondary spread.

Of course, Chimimōryō did not tell Yuzuru that, since he knew his lord did not care about such a thing...

"It seems your strength needs to improve."

Clearly, Yuzuru was still somewhat dissatisfied with this ability. There were hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of humans in the Shinobi World. With only a few thousand "eyes," how could Chimimōryō possibly gather important intelligence from across the Shinobi World in real time?

"Lord Yuzuru, I will work hard!"

Chimimōryō hurriedly replied, somewhat flustered.

"I was merely mentioning it. Besides, you'll have plenty of time to grow. After a thousand years, I trust you won't disappoint me!"

Yuzuru spoke, roughly explaining some of his plans for the future to Chimimōryō so that he would understand Yuzuru's intentions.

"With a thousand years, I definitely won't disappoint Lord Yuzuru!"

Chimimōryō had been worried that Yuzuru might grow tired of him, but upon hearing that he had a whole thousand years to develop, he immediately became confident. As a monster born from absorbing negative energy, such a long time would be more than enough for him to become countless times stronger!

"Very good."

Yuzuru nodded, then continued watching Chimimōryō condense purple-black dandelions and let them drift slowly into the distance with the wind...

Before long, Chimimōryō reached his limit. He dispersed all of his evil seeds in the form of purple-black dandelions, and all that remained was to wait for the results.

"Next, I need some time to properly understand my abilities and truly accept all of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's inheritance..."

Yuzuru glanced at Chimimōryō, then activated his Dōjutsu Power. A black-and-red vortex-like circular Space-Time Transfer gate appeared behind him. He immediately leaped backward into it.

Seeing this, Chimimōryō was first greatly startled before hurriedly following after him. Once he too entered the Space-Time Transfer gate, it closed and vanished. Everything around them returned to its usual tranquility...

Dim light was the dominant tone of this space, as though it lay beneath a gloomy night sky!

The sight before him was undoubtedly novel to Chimimōryō. In his field of vision, stone platforms of all sizes and spherical meteors floated disorderly through space. He also saw several small rivers flowing out from unknown places in midair, only to flow into other unknown places...

"This is an alternate space connected through my Eye Technique. There is no life here—only chaotic rules..."

Yuzuru stood quietly atop a massive stone platform and explained it to Chimimōryō, who floated beside him.

This space had once been one of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's backup alternate spaces, a place used in conjunction with his Eye Technique, Daikokuten. But after he connected to another dimension where time could be stopped, he abandoned this place...

As Chimimōryō listened to Yuzuru's introduction, he instinctively made a swallowing motion. It was clear that he was truly shocked!

"Lord Yuzuru can even master an ability like space travel. Truly worthy of... Lord Yuzuru!"

Chimimōryō had originally wanted to flatter him, but he suddenly ran out of words and could only speak so awkwardly. The sight left Yuzuru both annoyed and amused.

In truth, Chimimōryō was right. In his original otherworld, the abilities of ordinary monsters did not involve space at all. But once an ability involved space, its wielder was undoubtedly among the most powerful of monsters. In Chimimōryō's otherworld, such top-tier monsters were called Demon Lords...