"Otsutsuki... Hagoromo?"
Araki murmured the name that had slipped from the Shinigami Clan Leader's mouth and found that he was not all that surprised.
Because that was the Sage of Six Paths' real name.
If they had run into him coming to seize power and take over, then all he could say was that the Shinigami Clan had been unlucky.
After all... this guy's combat strength could truly be called the ceiling of the ninja world.
Compared with the false ceiling, Otsutsuki Kaguya, the Sage of Six Paths' achievements in the way of chakra were no inferior to hers. Before he stripped the Ten-Tails from his own body, he had likewise reached the realm of Kekkei Mōra. Besides that, he had also cultivated this world's native power—senjutsu.
And judging from his battle record, although the first sealing of Otsutsuki Kaguya had been accomplished by the two Six Paths brothers together, during the second sealing, he had merely lent out his yin and yang power and, through the hands of his sons' reincarnations, sealed his mother once again. From beginning to end, he gave off the impression that he had handled it with ease.
However...
"That guy clearly could have relied on his status as the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki to gain eternal life, yet he just had to strip the Ten-Tails out on his own. But if you say he doesn't care about immortality, he just had to stir up trouble in the Pure Land. What exactly is he after?"
Araki thought for a moment, then asked, "You said he abolished reincarnation in the Pure Land. What does that mean? Are the souls of everyone after death imprisoned in the Pure Land and forbidden from reincarnating? In that case, wouldn't the population on our side grow smaller and smaller?"
"It is not