The Otsutsuki Clan.
As a powerful race in the universe, the Otsutsuki Clan lived in a galaxy ten billion light-years from the Milky Way. The Tengen Star Region was where the Otsutsuki Clan resided.
They were an extremely powerful race. In the entire star region where the Otsutsuki Clan lived, no other civilizations existed.
The Otsutsuki Clan was divided internally into the Main Family and the Branch Family.
Members of the Main Family had great control over those of the Branch Family. When planting a tree, it was usually members of the Branch Family who were sacrificed. In ancient times, before the Otsutsuki Clan had the Karma mark, sacrifices were genuine sacrifices: a member of the Branch Family gave up their life, was devoured by the Divine Tree, and ultimately produced a Chakra Fruit.
It was only after they mastered the power of Karma that they gradually escaped this fate. In Kaguya's era, although Karma—a means of reincarnation—already existed, only members of the Otsutsuki Main Family could obtain it. Kaguya, a member of the Branch Family, had not mastered Karma. That was precisely why she ambushed Isshiki and opened the chapter of the Shinobi World: she wanted to avoid being treated as a living sacrifice and eaten.
It was only now that Karma had gradually begun appearing among members of the Otsutsuki Branch Family, allowing them to resurrect and making them more willing to be treated as living sacrifices and eaten.
At that moment, on the capital planet of the Otsutsuki Clan's homeworld in the Tengen Star System—
It was a colossal planet, as if it had been formed by piecing together countless smaller planets. Growing across its surface was a gigantic tree, as immense as a planet and radiating terrifyingly powerful Chakra waves. Countless roots spread and branched out,