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As Firebird unleashed its overwhelming flames, the Yokai from all corners of the Shinobi World sensed it and turned their gazes in its direction. Even Kaguya, guarding the God Tree, opened her Byakugan to investigate...

In the inky depths of the ocean floor.

A colossal being slowly opened its eyes, its two lantern-like pupils lighting up and dispelling the surrounding darkness, revealing parts of its form.

It was a giant turtle-snake, hundreds of meters in size. Its thick, black shell was covered in jagged, hard bone spurs, and its serpentine body coiled sinuously from its shell. The snake's head was level with the turtle's, and both stared intently in the direction of Firebird.

Deep within the ancient forests to the west.

A streak of azure lightning suddenly flashed through the dense woods, followed by a massive serpent-like creature with deer antlers on its head, covered in blue scales, and bearing five claws on its abdomen. It floated steadily above the ancient forest, its long whiskers on either side of its mouth and the mane around its neck dancing in the wind. Its pair of pale blue eyes, crackling with electricity, curiously observed the anomaly emanating from Firebird.

Far inside the northern Great Rift Valley.

A white afterimage flashed past, instantly stirring up a gust of wind within the valley.

"What kind of trouble has that Firebird gotten into, to use even its trump card?"

A loli-like voice echoed softly. The source of the voice was a massive, snow-white tiger with wings sprouting from its ribs. It lightly licked its snow-white right paw, curiously sensing the disturbance coming from Firebird's location, while internally debating whether or not to go and take a look...

Within the capital city of the Land of the Shrine Maidens.

A Shrine Maiden clad in her robes was kneeling on a cushion. A hint of eerie purplish-black flashed within her pure eyes. A sense of unease welled up within her, and a look of worry filled her sacred face for the second time, the first being on the day that strange tree was born a year ago...

"The Yokai of this world are about to meet their end, and the gods will eventually perish!"

The Shrine Maiden received this prophetic revelation and spoke it aloud.

"Jie jie jie, what nonsense are you spouting? With the power of a god within you, plus my power, no one in this world is a match for us!"

As the deep, sinister voice echoed, a purplish-black demonic entity materialized before the Shrine Maiden. It cackled repeatedly, utterly disbelieving the 'prophecy' the Shrine Maiden spoke of!

"Moreover, the power between us hasn't completely merged yet. Once we completely merge, the Land of the Shrine Maidens would have already ruled this world under our leadership..."

The purplish-black demon conjured a hand and clenched it heavily in front of the Shrine Maiden, as if the entire world was within its grasp.

"Mōryō, you are too arrogant!"

The Shrine Maiden looked at the purplish-black demon before her, a look of pity on her sacred face. It would never know how terrifying this world was; this world was not something a small demon like it could dominate...

"Hmph! If it weren't for accommodating you, I would have already dominated this world!"

The demon named Mōryō immediately snorted coldly upon hearing the Shrine Maiden's words, a hint of helplessness in its tone, as if some strange event had occurred between it and the Shrine Maiden...

The Shrine Maiden glanced at Mōryō without saying anything, but she had made a decision in her heart!

Underground in the capital city of the Land of the Underworld, on a deserted altar, floated a ghostly figure clad in a ghastly white, oversized robe, resembling a shriveled zombie from head to toe. Upon its head, with a gruesome demonic face, were a pair of symmetrical, blood-red abyssal demon horns. It leaned languidly against the invisible air, casually combing its gray hair that hung down from its head with its pitch-black fingers, and spoke to the blurry shadow in front of it: "Evil God, it seems you still can't descend in your true form?"

"It doesn't matter. I have already spread my doctrine. As long as there is a constant stream of believers worshipping me and offering enough energy, it's only a matter of time before I descend into this world." The blurry shadow, referred to as 'Evil God,' spoke, then added in a sour tone: "You, on the other hand, descended into this world many years before me. I didn't expect you to be able to establish a nation in this world that believes in your name, 'God of Death.' It's quite a surprise!"

"Heh, just some indigenous humans who revere violence and slaughter. The nation they established is just a drop in the ocean of this world..."

The gruesome-faced being called 'God of Death' said dismissively, as if the existence of this nation was dispensable to him.

"Truly worthy of your name, 'God of Death'!"

Evil God chuckled, seemingly pondering something.

"By the way, a more powerful being descended upon this world a year ago. If you want to descend into this world, then hurry up. I can sense that at some point in the future, this world will experience some unpredictable events! Especially the fluctuations that originated from Firebird today, which have intensified my premonitions..." 'God of Death' suddenly thought of something, then spoke to 'Evil God' with a solemn expression. In this world, he could not find many allies, and the latter was undoubtedly the most suitable one, so he eagerly hoped that the latter could descend into this world as soon as possible.

"Mm, I'll try my best!"

'Evil God' looked at 'God of Death's' stern demonic face, and he also spoke solemnly. Then, the blurry shadow disappeared into thin air, leaving 'God of Death' floating alone on the blood-red altar. Then, he, nearly three meters tall, slowly concealed his form and vanished without a trace...

Deep within a mountain range filled with natural energy, a yellow toad with intelligent eyes seemed to sense something, and its gaze turned in one direction, but its vision was blocked by the towering mountains.

"The era of Yokai and gods is about to pass, but the remnants of the era will continue to persist..."

After saying this softly, the yellow toad hopped towards the mountaintop...

Deep within an unknown cave, dense natural energy swirled like tangible mist within an ancient temple, where a snow-white serpent writhed restlessly.

"This world is really going to change!"

The snow-white serpent muttered in human speech. Ever since that strange tree grew a year ago, it had had this feeling, and today the feeling was even stronger!

This was the habitat of countless slugs. Under the slugs' special bodily fluids, only a type of tree that emitted a ghastly white color, like bone, could survive. The monotonous environment was filled with tranquility and solitude.

"Is this world about to start stirring again? How exciting..."

A massive slug seemed to sense something, and it unreservedly spoke its thoughts.

Kaguya, guarding the God Tree, activated her Byakugan, but limited by the Byakugan's range, she could not see what was happening there. Wanting to investigate, she glanced worriedly at the God Tree, but ultimately did not go.

Kaguya knew that the God Tree was still in its seedling state, and if it lost her protection, it was very likely to be destroyed by the Yokai wandering nearby!

This had happened frequently since the first day she planted the God Tree, so Kaguya dared not stray too far from it.

"A bunch of indigenous Yokai, once the God Tree bears fruit, I will suppress and kill you all!"

Kaguya sensed the presence of many Yokai wandering nearby and could not help but mutter to herself.

In fact, after Kaguya planted the God Tree, the Yokai living on this planet could clearly sense the natural energy being devoured and digested by that parasitic, strange tree!

It should be known that the natural energy on this planet was fixed to some extent. There was absorption and decomposition, but the strange tree that suddenly appeared only devoured natural energy without releasing any!

This also led to the hostility of the native Yokai towards Kaguya, which led to the event a year ago when many Yokai joined forces to destroy the God Tree. But in fact, any Yokai that entered within a thousand li of the God Tree, regardless of their level or strength, all disappeared without a trace. Thus, the area within a thousand li of the God Tree became a forbidden zone for the Yokai, so these Yokai who had not given up only dared to wander near the God Tree, and once Kaguya wanted to leave the God Tree, they would destroy the parasitic tree at the first opportunity...

Yuzuru, enveloped by Firebird's overwhelming flames, naturally did not know that his battle with Firebird was being watched and sensed by many forces in the Shinobi World, including Yokai, gods, intelligent life forms cultivating natural energy, and Kaguya, the Ōtsutsuki who planted the God Tree...

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