Kaguya Otsutsuki

Facing the surging God Tree branches, Richard waved his hand and unleashed hundreds upon thousands of wind blades, shredding the branches to pieces.

There was no need to dodge. Even if Richard used space to isolate himself and the others, he still could not block Kaguya's perception of Chakra.

Seeing that God: Deep Forest Emergence had been thwarted, Kaguya turned her gaze toward them.

She quickly locked onto Richard. This man without Chakra carried an aura similar to that of the native gods who had fought her a thousand years ago.

As for Tsunade and her disciple behind him, Kaguya simply ignored them.

Those below the Six Paths truly did not merit her attention. Especially ninjas who used Chakra—they could hardly harm her, the progenitor of Chakra. Using Chakra attacks against her would only replenish her energy; she would absorb however much came her way.

"Uh, could you just pretend you didn't see us? You do your thing, and we won't disturb you." Richard made one last attempt to struggle. He did not particularly want to fight. Kaguya might have been terrible in actual combat, but her strength was genuinely formidable. Fighting her carried the risk of an upset.

"Heh, a god? Die!" Kaguya did not give him a chance to talk. She raised her hand and immediately unleashed Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.

Fist shadows filled the sky and earth as they howled forward. Richard drew the Azure Forest Sword. Though he found it troublesome, he was no pushover. Since the other side had attacked, he naturally could not back down.

He first sent Tsunade and her disciple away, lest he be distracted by having to protect them.

Then he swung his sword again, clearing away the fist shadows before him. The sword energy still had strength left as it poured toward Kaguya.

Kaguya truly was rather poor at actual combat. Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack was a large-scale ultimate meant for clearing mobs, but it was not particularly effective against a single powerful opponent.

Richard only cleared out the area around himself and ignored the rest.

Everything within a thousand miles was plowed over by fist shadows. With that one move alone, the Land of Rain was gone.

At this point, Kaguya also realized she had used the wrong move. After casually dispersing Richard's sword energy, she switched to All-Killing Ash Bone, an immensely powerful killing technique with an instant-death effect. Richard did not know whether his Mid-level Material Defense Divine Artifact could withstand it, but he had no intention of testing it.

He used a newly comprehended move: Wind Transformation. It was a technique that could naturally be understood once Wind Movement Technique and the Wind Elemental Profound Mystery had fused to a certain degree—transforming one's body into wind and blending into the natural currents. In the Coiling Dragon World, it was not a particularly useful technique. God Level experts possessed Divine Domains; once a Divine Domain was deployed, it could easily isolate external elements, rendering Wind Transformation useless.

But on an open battlefield like this, it was more than enough to deal with Kaguya's killing move.

After evading All-Killing Ash Bone, Richard no longer intended to passively take hits. He directly unleashed his strongest strike yet, a move he had named Avici.

It fused the Wind Elemental Profound Mystery, Wind Movement Technique, and the four Profound Mysteries of speed and slowness, supplemented by the sealing, suppression, and cutting principles of the Laws of Space. It was a killing move in every sense of the word.

On top of that was the guaranteed-hit enchantment attached to the Azure Forest Sword.

Kaguya could only take this sword strike head-on.

Kaguya sensed the threat of death from the sword light and immediately used Yomotsu Hirasaka to leap hundreds or even thousands of miles away, but the sword light followed her like a shadow.

She could not evade it and could only flee again, repeatedly using Yomotsu Hirasaka to shift through multiple locations.

In the end, she used Amenominaka and entered her own Initial Space, yet the sword light still shattered through space and arrived.

Driven to desperation, Kaguya directly transformed into an enormous rabbit. Her body expanded, and a colossal black Truth-Seeking Orb flew toward the sword light.

The instant the sword light collided with the massive Truth-Seeking Orb, heaven and earth fell silent, all things lost their color, and only a vast expanse of white light remained.

Kaguya's six small spaces were instantly destroyed. Then the aftershock of the collision spread into the Ninja World, setting off an apocalyptic earthquake.

Mountains collapsed, tsunamis rose, and volcanoes erupted in an instant, as though the end of the world had arrived.

But Richard had no time to care about that. He instantly took out his trump card, a Mid-level Divine Artifact longbow.

He kicked her while she was down, firing three arrows in succession and pinning Kaguya to death.

Of course, Kaguya herself was immortal. So long as Chakra remained in the Ninja World, she would not die.

Richard had not intended to kill her anyway. A living Kaguya was far more valuable than a dead one.

Using the three divine arrows as a foundation, he casually sealed Kaguya away.

He then headed in another direction. The battle with Kaguya had just flushed out a big fish.

No matter how deeply Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had hidden, under that world-destroying attack just now, he had to reveal some of his strength to protect himself. Wasn't that how Richard caught him slipping?

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had been heavily wounded by Kaguya a thousand years ago. He had barely preserved his life, but his strength had greatly declined and was far inferior to Kaguya's normal state.

Richard's full-powered sword strike had nearly split him in two. Richard showed no courtesy toward this fellow, directly stripping away the stunted God Tree in his possession.

Then he searched his soul for his memories. Hiss, there was even memory protection. Naturally—the Otsutsuki clan could not possibly lack such basic methods. Richard had originally intended to investigate information about the Otsutsuki clan, but the memory protection blocked him.

He then filtered out every irrelevant memory and instead searched for accessible knowledge and secret techniques.

As a starborne lifeform that had lived for thousands of years, even though some of his memories were top-secret information sealed by the Otsutsuki clan, Richard still gained enormously: Yin-Yang Release, Space-Time Ninjutsu, foundational Otsutsuki knowledge, understandings of space-time, the starry sky, and energy, Ten-Tails cultivation, Chakra Authority, interstellar travel, Yin-Yang Release creation, and more. Richard had struck it rich in one go.

After plundering his memories, he fed the entire fellow to the God Tree, immediately restoring the whole tree to normal.

He also extracted most of Kaguya's Chakra and fed it to the God Tree he had just acquired.

He did not spare Kaguya's memories either. Though she was merely from a branch family and had received nowhere near the complete education Isshiki had as a main-family member, she still had her own unique strengths. The techniques she had developed were mediocre in combat, but their underlying ideas were not without value.

Only after finishing all that did he bring the half-dead Kaguya to find the Sage of Six Paths.

At this moment, the Sage of Six Paths was still wondering who this new person fighting Kaguya was. Had someone from the Otsutsuki clan arrived?

A random person sent over could fight his mother so fiercely that they nearly crippled the entire Ninja World. No wonder the Otsutsuki clan was one his mother had feared and even dreaded.

The Sage of Six Paths could not actually monitor the Ninja World in real time. He mostly relied on the gathering of Chakra spread throughout the Ninja World to vaguely sense what was happening.

For example, just now, when the Ten-Tails revived, the Chakra energy gathering there exceeded that of everywhere else in the entire Ninja World combined. Naturally, he could sense it.

Although Ōtsutsuki Isshiki possessed a great deal of Chakra, it belonged to him personally and had nothing to do with the mother and son or their God Tree, so the Sage of Six Paths could not sense it.

Now, he sensed that most of the Chakra in Kaguya's body was gone. His mother seemed to have lost? Just as he was preparing to send Naruto and Sasuke to investigate, Richard came right to his door.

Yes, it was not that Richard did not want Kaguya's Ten-Tails or her Nine-Tomoe Rinne-Sharingan. But he wanted the Sage of Six Paths' Yin-Yang Release even more.

If the Otsutsuki clan were the orthodox academy faction, then the Sage of Six Paths was a self-taught genius.

This fellow had spent over a thousand years tinkering away in the Pure Land alone. He was highly skilled in Yin-Yang Release and Sealing Technique, and Richard wanted to try exchanging insights with him.