Roar.
The Ten-Tails stirred again. Even Karin and the others, stationed far to the east, west, north, and south to back Shinji up, could clearly sense its excitement.
"An instinct to reunite, huh?"
Standing atop the Ten-Tails' head, Shinji murmured to himself.
The Ten-Tails beneath his feet was undoubtedly the technological core the Otsutsuki Clan used to plunder a planet's energy. It could serve as a weapon of war known as the Ten-Tails, an energy collector called the Divine Tree, or be divided into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and ordinary Tailed Beasts.
Compared with the Ten-Tails, the secret techniques and Forbidden Jutsu developed by the Shinobi World's ninja were indeed far inferior.
That was also why Shinji had to seize the Ten-Tails.
Aside from becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, there was almost no other way in the Shinobi World to reach Six Paths level with absolute certainty.
Even the fully realized Miko and the sages of the Three Great Sage Lands had failed to cross that threshold, despite their immense power.
It could be said that every "Six Paths level" powerhouse to have appeared in the Shinobi World had, without exception, possessed at least some Otsutsuki blood.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
Once again, the Ten-Tails spat out chains that shimmered with a faint glow.
Unlike last time, Shinji was no longer there to stop it. The chains shot from the Ten-Tails' mouth without hindrance, striking the Jinchuriki and Tailed Beasts in front of it. Then it yanked hard, dragging the Tailed Beasts toward itself.
The Nine Tailed Beasts, freed from their seals by Shinji, all struggled desperately. But compared to the Ten-Tails' power, they had no strength to resist. They could only roar and wail as the chains dragged them, inch by inch, into its mouth.
Shinji didn't stand