One's Own Eyes

After helping each other out of the cave, the first person Hyuga Kagami saw was Guy.

Clearly, Guy had faithfully carried out Hyuga Kagami's instructions. He had guarded the cave entrance the entire time and had not allowed the Sunagakure and Iwagakure ninja to enter without permission.

Seeing that all three of them had emerged safely, Guy flashed his trademark grin and gave a thumbs-up. "Kagami, I knew you'd succeed!"

Not far away, Kakashi said nothing. He still looked as aloof and laid-back as ever, but from the rise and fall of his chest, Hyuga Kagami keenly sensed that beneath his mask, he seemed to have let out a long sigh of relief.

Pakura of Sunagakure did not step forward. Instead, she remained where she was, carefully studying Hyuga Kagami and Shisui.

The ninja outside had all sensed the commotion within the cave, so everyone could guess how fierce the battle inside had been. For Hyuga Kagami and Shisui, both still so young, to walk out alive made her regard them far more highly.

At the other end, the Iwagakure ninja were clearly looking at Hyuga Kagami and Shisui with hostility.

Their captain wore an especially thoughtful expression, as though he were considering some important matter, so much so that he appeared somewhat absent-minded.

Sensing Iwagakure's hostility, Hyuga Kagami immediately understood.

With Moryo, the demon that had plagued the world, completely sealed away, the cooperative relationship among the ninja villages had also come to an end. What replaced it was the same old hostility and competition!

At that moment, the Miko holding the wooden box bowed to the ninja outside the cave, thanking them for their help.

Setting everything else aside, the shattered Terracotta Puppets scattered all over the ground outside made it clear that the ninja guarding the cave had not had an easy time either. Before Moryo was completely sealed, those Terracotta Puppets had practically been immortal.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the ninja escorted the Miko back to the Land of Demons. Soon afterward, the Sunagakure and Iwagakure ninja said their farewells and departed.

Since Hyuga Kagami's private deal with the Miko had yet to be completed, Konoha's Anbu Team 11 remained temporarily in the Land of Demons under the pretext that the Miko had commissioned them to eliminate the remnants of the Yomi Cult.

Naturally, Hyuga Kagami threw the task of eliminating the Yomi Cult remnants to Kakashi, Guy, and Shisui. He himself recuperated in the Miko's palace while waiting for the Purple Mud Glue she was collecting for him.

In his spare time, Hyuga Kagami reviewed the great battle against Moryo.

This battle had been the first time since obtaining the Tenseigan that Hyuga Kagami had exhausted every last bit of chakra in his body. It had exposed many of his problems, but it had also brought him some unexpected gains.

The adverse effects of exhausting his chakra were more serious than he had expected.

Over the following days, his body had almost no strength left, while his mind felt incomparably stifled, as though a dark cloud hung over his head and refused to disperse no matter what he did.

Fortunately, the pair of Tenseigan in his eye sockets were his own. They were perfectly compatible with his soul and body, making their burden much easier to bear.

Had these Tenseigan been transplanted from someone else, he would likely have suffered their merciless backlash by now. Even if he had survived by luck, there probably would not have been much vitality left in his body.

In the vague memories of his previous life, after Otsutsuki Toneri was defeated by Naruto, the Tenseigan he had obtained by transplanting Hanabi's Byakugan vanished once the chakra in his body was depleted.

This showed that even someone like Otsutsuki Toneri, an existence capable of flying through the sky, moving through the earth, and slicing apart the moon, could not maintain a bloodline power on the level of the Tenseigan after exhausting his chakra.

The weak did not even have the qualifications to possess the Tenseigan!

Thus, this once again confirmed Hyuga Kagami's earlier guess.

His Tenseigan seemed highly spiritual. They had instinctively been suppressing themselves, remaining in a state of initial awakening to avoid inflicting irreversible damage on Hyuga Kagami's body, which was not yet strong enough.

"Your own eyes really are the best!"

Having realized this, Hyuga Kagami could not help but sigh.

Though both were Rinnegan, the might they displayed in Madara, their original owner, differed from that displayed in Nagato.

Madara could even use Rinnegan ocular techniques such as Limbo: Border Jail, which Nagato had never used. This indirectly showed that Madara, the original owner, could bring out the Rinnegan's power more effectively than Nagato.

Moreover, the price he paid was far smaller than Nagato's.

This incident also served as a warning to Hyuga Kagami. He no longer dared to recklessly exhaust all of his chakra in the future, and it made him crave the Artificial Tailed Beast even more!

Time waited for no one. Hyuga Kagami finally could not resist asking the Miko to teach him Sealing Jutsu.

However, the result left him deeply disappointed.

The Miko clearly told him that without the Miko bloodline, there was no way to learn the Sealing Jutsu of the Miko Lineage. Countless predecessors had already proven this.

Simply put, the Sealing Jutsu of the Miko Lineage was also a Kekkei Genkai.

This was why, for thousands of years, the Mikos of the Land of Demons had always passed their position down through a single lineage, with no outsiders able to interfere.

Suppressing the disappointment in his heart, Hyuga Kagami could only settle for the next best thing.

Although the Miko could not teach Hyuga Kagami the powerful Sealing Jutsu of the Miko Lineage, as a master of Sealing Jutsu, she had no problem guiding him in learning other sealing techniques.

After changing his approach, Hyuga Kagami immediately extracted every formula involving Sealing Jutsu from the Artificial Tailed Beast materials, then handed them to the Miko and asked her to guide him in learning those sealing formulas.

The moment she saw these sealing formulas, the Miko displayed immense interest.

The sealing formulas in the Artificial Tailed Beast materials were all sealing formulas of the Uzumaki Clan. The Uzumaki Clan was a great sealing clan that had developed powerful forbidden techniques such as the Reaper Death Seal, Four Symbols Seal, and Adamantine Sealing Chains. Thus, even the Miko, whose attainments in Sealing Jutsu were extremely high, could not help clicking her tongue in amazement and praising the Uzumaki Clan's sealing formulas.

After several days of research, relying on her own mastery of Sealing Jutsu, the Miko quickly became familiar with the characteristics of the Uzumaki Clan's sealing techniques and mastered every sealing formula involved in the Artificial Tailed Beast.

"These sealing formulas are simply too exquisite. The Uzumaki Clan is truly worthy of admiration!"

The Miko's admiration came from the bottom of her heart.

The defining feature of the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu was "using the weak to control the strong." With frail human bodies, they could suppress and command massive monsters as powerful as Tailed Beasts through Sealing Jutsu. That was why, ever since Konoha's founding, every generation's Nine-Tails Jinchuriki had come from the Uzumaki Clan.

On this point alone, the Miko felt herself inferior.

So after learning many sealing formulas of the Uzumaki Clan, the Miko felt that she had gained an enormous advantage. Therefore, she held nothing back and began wholeheartedly guiding Hyuga Kagami...