Hao Shuai: The Divine Tree Absorbs Others, So I Absorb the Divine Tree. Nothing Wrong with That!!

Pretending to be powerless, Hao Shuai began circling the Divine Tree so he wouldn't look quite so bored.

As he gazed at the towering tree before him, a few things he'd heard about it came to mind.

It was said that when the Ōtsutsuki invaded a planet, they had to travel in pairs. The main reason was so one of them could serve as a living sacrifice: the guardian would be fed to the Ten-Tails juvenile, while the one being guarded would watch over the Divine Tree until it blossomed and bore fruit.

After arriving on an alien planet, the Ōtsutsuki first planted a Ten-Tails sapling in the ground. The lower-ranking "guardian" Ōtsutsuki would then serve as a "living sacrifice" and be eaten by the Ten-Tails. After consuming an Ōtsutsuki, the Ten-Tails would rapidly grow into a Divine Tree. Its roots would then spread to every corner of the planet, absorbing the Chakra of all living things. Once the planet's Chakra had been completely drained, the Divine Tree would bear a huge Chakra Fruit.

In Ancient Times, Kaguya Otsutsuki and Isshiki Otsutsuki came to Earth as partners to plant a Divine Tree. Unwilling to be eaten by the Ten-Tails as a living sacrifice, Kaguya ambushed Isshiki. In the end, she sacrificed the gravely wounded Isshiki to the Ten-Tails, then gained immense power by eating the Chakra Fruit.

In other words, the Divine Tree before him was actually the Ten-Tails.

At the thought, an idea suddenly popped into Hao Shuai's mind: could his Northern Darkness Sky Absorption Skill absorb the Divine Tree's power?!

Chakra was a form of energy, so Hao Shuai could absorb it, too.

It was just that he'd always faced a bunch of weaklings. They had so little Chakra that they weren't even worth the effort.

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