Hamura Otsutsuki

Upon entering the underground area indicated by Neji, Yichen knew he had come to the right place. The environment here was very similar to the Naruto and his group encountered when they were tracking Otsutsuki Toneri in the original story.

However, in the original story, this passage was sparkling and beautiful, and the lake radiated a mesmerizing light.

However, the passage in front of Yichen was completely dark.

Yichen speculated that these changes in the original work were likely related to Otsutsuki Toneri or the Tenseigan.

Maybe those were all made by Otsutsuki Toneri to welcome his bride, Hinata.

Although it was pitch black all around, Yichen Mind's Eye, a Sensory Ninjutsu, so he could easily discern the route without using his naked eyes.

Following Neji's directions, Yichen quickly led everyone to their first destination.

This is a vast underground space. The place Neji mentioned that interfered with the Byakugan's vision is a strange lake the size of a Training Ground in front of them.

The lake's surface was perfectly still, without a ripple. Combined with the surrounding darkness, it created a somewhat eerie atmosphere.

It's completely opposite to the romantic feeling of the original work.

At this moment, Atsumi Akino suddenly pointed to the lake and said, "Teacher Yichen, this is also a Space-Time Tunnel. I sensed strong Space-Time Fluctuation."

"Moreover, this Space-Time Tunnel seems different from the previous two. This tunnel is much more stable, and its principle seems simpler as well."

The more she talked, the more excited Atsumi Akino. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Teacher Yichen, this might be the best place to learn Space-Time Ninjutsu."

"If the village wants to train ninjas skilled in Space-Time Ninjutsu in the future, they can be brought here."

"I've selected three assistants from the Ninja Academy, and I plan to bring them here to give them a try."

Yichen's heart skipped a beat. Such a good thing?

Later, I can try training the Flying Thunder God here and see if I, who have absolutely no talent for Space-Time Ninjutsu, can learn even a little bit of Space-Time Ninjutsu here.

The Flying Thunder God is the dream of every ninja who travels through the Naruto World, Yichen is no exception.

Despite receiving confirmation from Atsumi Akino multiple times that he had no talent for Space-Time Ninjutsu, Yichen remained unconvinced.

Yichen continued to ask Atsumi Akino to explain Space-Time Ninjutsu to him time and time again.

Even before going to the Land of Whirlpools, when she received the plan to repair the spacetime tunnel, she had Atsumi Akino explain the principles in detail.

Yichen nodded and took out a pre-prepared light source to illuminate the surroundings. This was a product manufactured using high-tech methods obtained from the Kumogakure.

Then Yichen said to Atsumi Akino, "It's up to you now. Check this Space-Time Tunnel and see if we can get through."

"Hmm." Atsumi Akino responded and immediately began to examine the lake-shaped Space-Time Tunnel with great interest.

After Atsumi Akino started working, Yichen said to Kawazoe Yura, "Yuran, set up a barrier nearby to shield against the Byakugan."

Kawazoe Yura responded, "No problem."

After saying that, she took out the materials she had prepared beforehand and began to set up a shielding barrier in the underground space.

Yichen then said to Ōnoki, "Third Hokage, I'll take Han, Neji, Sokai, Quan Luo, and Chiga into the passage later."

"You, Roshi, Akino, and Yuran stay here. If the Space-Time Tunnel malfunctions, Akino has a way to reopen it quickly; we'll cooperate with her."

Ōnoki frowned and nodded.

Yichen handed another letter to Ōnoki, saying, "Open it after I leave."

Ōnoki's eyes twitched. He knew without a doubt that if he read the letter now, he would definitely not agree to let Yichen enter the passage.

He struggled to resist opening the letter right now.

After a while, Atsumi Akino said, "Teacher Yichen, I've finished checking. This passage is usable, but I don't know what's on the other side."

Yichen said, "Don't worry, I know what's on the other side."

After saying that, Yichen called to Han, Neji, Sokai, Quan Luo, and Chiga, and together they entered the lake.

Although this lake looks like a lake, both the water inside and the feeling of entering it are very different from being in water.

Yichen and the others were able to breathe and talk normally in the lake. Apart from the greater resistance in the water, there was no other difference between being on land and being on water.

Bubbles floated in the lake. Yichen said to everyone, "Be careful, touching those bubbles will cause you to be Genjutsu."

"Everyone placed their hands on their companions' shoulders, transferring Chakra to each other to prevent being affected by Genjutsu."

This tactic worked; after entering the lake, illusions kept flashing before their eyes.

However, each time an illusion is created, it is disrupted by the Chakra of other people.

After swimming for a while, Yichen suddenly said, "Be careful."

As he spoke, Yichen had already used his Porcelain Release.

Countless sludge particles formed in front of Yichen and then shot rapidly to one side.

There, a giant crab was approaching the group.

Yichen gave Sokai and Quan Luo a wink, and the two nodded.

At the same time, he activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and looked at the crab.

The crab wasn't very intelligent; when it saw the Porcelain Mud attacking it, it Hon tried to dodge.

But before it could react, the Porcelain Release that were coming at it split in two.

The crab instinctively looked at Yichen and his group, who had reappeared before it after the Porcelain Mud had separated.

Then it saw two pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan.

It didn't take long to deal with the crab guarding the passage.

While the crab was still under the Genjutsu, it was sealed away by Yichen using the Porcelain Release.

Yichen didn't kill the crab, in case it was related to the Otsutsuki on the moon; killing it would easily alert the enemy.

After swimming for a long time, a new light source appeared in front of the lake, and Yichen and the others swam faster toward the light source.

Suddenly, Yichen felt his body sink, and the next moment, he emerged directly from the lake.

On the other side of the lake, Ōnoki opened Yichen's letter after Yichen entered the lake.

The more Ōnoki looked, the more surprised he became.

In his letter, Yichen wrote that his destination was the moon.

He also stated that if the passage were to be destroyed in an accident, he would fly directly back from the moon.

He has prepared some equipment produced using the high technology of the Kumogakure, which can enable people to survive in space for a certain period of time.

Please ask Ōnoki to meet us on this side of Earth.

The more Ōnoki thought about it, the more unreliable it seemed, and he opened his mouth to curse Yichen for his audacity.

If he had known this would be the outcome, he would never have agreed to Yichen's adventure to the moon.

Atsumi Akino was standing nearby, took the letter from Ōnoki and read it before saying, "Third Lord, Teacher Yichen has many of my Flying Thunder God Kunai."

"Even if something really goes wrong, there's still hope of locating them using the Flying Thunder God Kunai."

Upon hearing this, Ōnoki felt slightly relieved, but he still kept cursing Yichen for being unreliable.

Roshi, standing to the side, mocked and exaggerated Ōnoki.

Ōnoki was so angry he almost got into a fight with him.

Atsumi Akino and Kawazoe Yura quickly stepped in to mediate, which dissuaded Ōnoki from his plan.

After calming down, Ōnoki said to Atsumi Akino, "Yichen said that if the passage is destroyed, you have a way to restore it in a short time. What's that about?"

Atsumi Akino said, "A few days ago, Teacher Yichen took me to the Land of Whirlpools, and I closed the passage leading to the Gravity Space next to Uzushio Village."

"After it was closed, Teacher Yichen Light Release to attack the location of the passage. I communicated with the Flying Thunder God Coordinates on the other side of the passage and used Space-Time Ninjutsu to reopen the passage in a short time."

Therefore, if anything goes wrong, we'll need to ask the Third Lord and Roshi- senpai to use powerful Ninjutsu to attack the lake.

I will use Space-Time Ninjutsu to open a passage in a short time.

Ōnoki nodded and sneered, "At least he was somewhat prepared."

Then he looked at Roshi and said, "Roshi, get ready to attack the lake with me at any time."

"Don't hesitate then, you use the Tailed Beast Bomb, and I'll use Dust Release."

Seeing this, Atsumi Akino retreated a distance and set up another barrier to enhance her Space-Time Perception.

After setting up the barrier, Atsumi Akino sat inside and sensed it for a while. After a long time, she said to Ōnoki, "Third Lord, Teacher Yichen and the others have arrived on the other side."

"As agreed, Teacher Yichen placed many items engraved with my Flying Thunder God Mark on the opposite side."

Ōnoki finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The group fell silent and sat there quietly, waiting for Yichen's message.

On the moon, on a vast, empty sea, Yichen and the others suddenly emerged from the water.

The six were cautious and did not emerge directly from the water. Instead, they turned around to look at their surroundings and survey their new environment.

Although Yichen didn't say it explicitly, everyone knew that they were no longer in the Ninja World; they had arrived in an unknown space.

The sea where they were located wasn't particularly large; perhaps it could be called a lake.

Looking into the distance, the group could still see land. They could vaguely make out lush vegetation on the land.

Looking up, just like on Earth, there is a sun hanging in the distant sky.

The five of them, including Sokai, didn't pay attention to the sun, but Yichen glanced at it a few more times.

Yichen sensed it and found no Chakra fluctuations within a radius of several dozen kilometers.

The sun was too far away, beyond his sensory range.

They did discover an abandoned town.

Yichen looked at Chiga and asked, "Chiga, sense it. How many people can you detect, and where are they?"

Chiga nodded, closed her eyes to discern the situation, and said, "There are two people in total, and their locations are over there."

Chiga pointed in a direction, and then she froze, because the direction she was pointing was the sun.

Everyone else looked at Chiga strangely, thinking, "Can people really live on the sun?"

Yichen nodded, glanced at the artificial sun overhead, and asked, "Are there two people inside the artificial sun?"

After thinking for a moment, Yichen said, "There's an abandoned town in the distance. Let's go check it out first."

Chiga saw that Yichen was not surprised that people were in the sun, so she stopped worrying about it.

Then the group dived back into the water and, guided by Yichen, reached the shore.

Yichen led the group in a low-altitude flight, and they soon arrived at the town.

The town had clearly been abandoned for a long time; the excessive silence carried a sense of decay.

However, everyone could still imagine what the town used to be like, bustling with activity.

Putting everything else aside, in terms of sheer size, this town is many times larger than Iwagakure and Konoha.

Yichen using Mind's Eye observation skills to scout the area and quickly spotted the statue in the town center.

Yichen led the group to the house where the statue was located, and then stepped into the house first.

Seeing this, the others followed them inside.

Upon entering the house, everyone was immediately drawn to the enormous statue in front of them.

The statue has two horns on its head and a vertical eye-shaped protrusion between its eyebrows.

Putting those aside, the statue is chubby, with unusually large ears, somewhat resembling the Buddha statue from Yichen's previous life.

However, the statue is incomplete; its mouth and half of its face are broken, which makes it look somewhat eerie.

Looking at the demon-like statue, Sokai said to Izumi Uchiha, "Sister Izumi, this statue looks a bit like our Susanoo."

"Both are giant-shaped, and both are chubby."

Izumi Uchiha and said, "How is it similar? This statue looks quite kind, but Susanoo looks rather ferocious."

Hearing the conversation between the two, Yichen compared the statue in front of him with Susanoo in his mind and felt that what Sokai said made some sense.

Furthermore, considering that both the Uchiha Clan and the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon are descendants of Kaguya Otsutsuki, Yichen felt the two were increasingly similar.

Neji, Chiga, and Han also focused their attention on the huge statue upon hearing this.

Suddenly, Neji felt a jolt; he heard a voice.

"Byakugan, it's Byakugan, pure Byakugan."

Yichen turned his gaze to the ground. Although he couldn't hear the sound clearly, Mind's Eye keen perception still allowed him to sense a slight fluctuation.

"Lord Tsuchikage," Neji called out to Yichen, about to say that he had heard a strange sound.

But at that moment, the room suddenly shook, and then an underground passage was suddenly revealed in the ground in front of the statue.

Both Sokai and Izumi Uchiha awakened their Sharingan at the same time, with Izumi Uchiha even directly awakening his Mangekyō Sharingan.

Yichen waved his hand, signaling them not to be too nervous, and then led the way into the tunnel.

The tunnel wasn't long, and the group soon entered a basement.

The basement contained mounds of earth, resembling tombs.

Just as Han and the others were examining the tomb, an old man slowly emerged from the darkness.

As he walked, he muttered "rolling his Byakugan" under his breath, a pure, unadulterated Byakugan.

When he walked up to the crowd, they realized that the old man had no eyes; his eye sockets were just two huge empty holes.

Before anyone could ask, the blind old man opened his mouth and spat out a ball of pale purple light.

Neji glanced at the ball of light subconsciously, and then the ball of light rapidly grew larger in his eyes, soon filling his entire field of vision.

He himself seemed to have suffered a tremendous shock, and collapsed without warning.

Yichen was beside Neji, was not idle either. He was prepared and using Mind's Eye to sense the ball of light the moment it appeared.

Then, Yichen suddenly felt a blur before his eyes, and the next moment, he saw a large-scale war.

Both sides in the war had Byakugan eyes, but one side produced a Tenseigan formed from the combined power of countless Byakugan.

With the power of the Tenseigan, they secured victory in one fell swoop.

The scene then changed, and Yichen and Neji arrived at a cemetery.

Yichen nodded to Neji, signaling him not to be nervous.

The two stood before the cemetery, watching each grave transform into a soul, and then they escorted an old man to Yichen and his companion.

The old man had long, loose hair and two horns on his head. He wore ancient clothing decorated with Tomoe symbols and had a bitter expression on his face.

The old man glanced at Neji first, then looked at Yichen with some doubt. After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Who are you? You don't have the blood of our Otsutsuki Clan."

"How did you get in? No, I sense my brother's presence on you."

Yichen bowed to the old man and said, "Greetings, Uncle-Master. You must be Hamura Otsutsuki. I am your elder brother, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, a disciple of the Sage of Six Paths."

"There's trouble on Earth. The Otsutsuki Clan from outer space has invaded. My teacher sent me to ask you to return to the Ninja World to help."

"As for why I was able to enter this illusion, it's because of the method my teacher taught me."

Hamura Otsutsuki was taken aback and asked, "Why didn't my brother teach you Yin-Yang Release?"

Yichen shook his head and said, "He's being watched by the Otsutsuki, so he can't show himself and doesn't dare teach me Ninjutsu."

"Otherwise, I would also be targeted by the Otsutsuki."

"All he could do was ask me to invite you back; this is the token he gave me."

As he spoke, Yichen took out the Little White Ball given to him by the Sage of Six Paths.

Hamura Otsutsuki did not accept the offer. He was merely a remnant of his spirit, and his strength was inferior to that of the Sage of Six Paths. After a thousand years, he had long since become extremely weak.

Hamura Otsutsuki glanced at the Little White Ball, sighed, and said, "It is indeed my brother's aura. I didn't expect that the Otsutsuki from the universe would finally come."

"My child, you've seen my situation; I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you."

Yichen wore a sorrowful expression and said, "I'm afraid we don't have time to be disappointed. Once the Otsutsuki find their teacher, the Ninja World will be finished."

Hamura Otsutsuki was silent for a moment, Neji and said, "I can teach you how to Tenseigan."

Yichen was taken aback and asked, "Is it the thing we just saw?"

Hamura Otsutsuki nodded, then tapped Neji's forehead with his finger. Neji looked at Yichen and nodded back.

Yichen said to Neji, "Neji, this is your Hyuga Clan's ancestor, Lord Hamura Otsutsuki. Hurry up and thank your ancestor."

Neji knelt down and kowtowed to Hamura Otsutsuki, saying, "Thank you, ancestor."

Yichen sighed and said, "Thank you, Uncle-Master. Please rest assured, even if we all perish in battle, we will not compromise with the Otsutsuki Clan."

"The Ninja World is one that you and your teacher have worked hard to protect for thousands of years. We will definitely fight to the very end for the Ninja World."

After thinking for Hamura Otsutsuki said, "Since your brother can't teach you and sent you to me, I think he intends for me to guide you."

"Your Yin Release talent is indeed very strong. It's such a pity that you didn't cultivate Yin Release in order to deceive the Otsutsuki of the universe."

"It's a pity I've become like this. Well then, I'll burn my last bit of spirit to demonstrate the ultimate Yin Release for you."

"I was supposed to teach you Yin-Yang Release, but unfortunately, I'm already at my wit's end."

Yichen's eyes showed sorrow as he said, "Uncle-Master, please don't do this. Please come back with us. Our teacher will definitely find a way to save you."

"The Ninja World still needs your strength!"

Hamura Otsutsuki smiled with satisfaction and said, "Letting you inherit my power to fight is my contribution to the Ninja World."

"Child, don't try to persuade me anymore. My time is running out. Watch carefully, and how much you learn depends on your own ability."

With tears in his eyes, Yichen knelt on one knee and nodded with difficulty.

The next moment, all the descendants on the moon behind Hamura Otsutsuki disappeared.

Meanwhile, Hamura Otsutsuki's body also began to change, and he used his spirit to demonstrate the ultimate Yin Release to Yichen.

Yichen felt a blur before his eyes and vaguely experienced many dreamlike scenes.

In the chaotic illusion, Yichen seemed to see the life of Hamura Otsutsuki, or perhaps he was just listening to Hamura Otsutsuki tell a story.

After an unknown amount of time, Yichen, still half-asleep, suddenly heard someone calling his name.

"Teacher Yichen, Teacher Yichen?"

Yichen was startled awake by the anxious voice. He quickly opened his eyes and saw that the person calling him was Chiga.

Yichen sat up, looked at Chiga, and then at Sokai and the others not far away.

Sokai and Han stood guard on either side of the blind old man, who was now a corpse.

Sokai awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, while the Tailed Beast Chakra faintly emanated from Han's body.

Meanwhile, Izumi Uchiha directly activated Susanoo, and several Susanoo ribs protected Yichen, Chiga, and Neji.

Yichen glanced at Neji, seeing that he was still unconscious, and didn't disturb him. He then said to Izumi Uchiha, "Quan Luo, it's alright."

Upon hearing this Izumi Uchiha retracted his Susanoo, while Sokai and Han quickly returned to Yichen's side, inquiring about Yichen's condition with concern.

"Teacher Yichen, how are you? That old man just spat out a ball of light, and you and Neji passed out."

Yichen said to Sokai, "Don't worry, I'm fine. I guess you could say it's a blessing in disguise."

Then Yichen glanced at Neji, whose breathing had become steady, and said, "Neji should be fine too. Let's all rest for a while."

While waiting for Neji to wake up, Yichen closed his eyes to process what he had just experienced in the illusion.

Hamura Otsutsuki was indeed exhausted; his illusion probably didn't last very long.

But Yichen felt he had gained a lot.

Before coming, Yichen had already read through all of Madara Uchiha's Yin Release techniques.

Although Yichen's Yin Release technique did not upgrade due to a lack of time to mature, he had already reached the third stage of Yichen Yin Release, indicating a very good foundation.

Therefore, the Yin Release that Hamura Otsutsuki demonstrated to Yichen was very beneficial to Yichen.