Tenseigan

Lin Chuan was startled by the sudden appearance of his vision, but the excruciating pain that kept surging through his body instantly brought him back to his senses.

Four children, each seven or eight years old, looked at him with contempt as they frantically beat Lin Chuan, who lay motionless on the ground. One of them was even using a fist technique that looked like a martial art. They paid no heed to the consequences of their actions—someone could die. Or perhaps they knew they might beat him to death, but simply didn't care!

They were utterly lawless!

Lin Chuan felt an indescribable, towering rage suddenly surge up from the depths of his heart. He wanted nothing more than to leap up and kill the four children in front of him, but his injuries were too severe for him to stand. As time passed and his rage continued to build, a strange power suddenly stirred in his eyes. In an instant, it coursed through his entire body.

Smack!

With a sharp crack, Lin Chuan suddenly raised both hands and caught the two fists swinging toward him.

"Have you had enough yet?"

Lin Chuan's voice was restrained to the utmost, his tone as cold as ice that had lain for ten thousand years. The four children's punches and kicks stopped for an instant.

The four stared at Lin Chuan in astonishment as he suddenly lifted his head. His face, which had been hidden beneath his arms, tilted up slightly, revealing a pair of strange eyes fixed on them! They were eyes with white irises and white pupils. At first glance, they seemed to have no pupils at all. No wonder the four had thought Lin Chuan was rolling his eyes earlier—at a glance, all they really did see was white!

Yet now, those Byakugan were changing. Deep within them, sky-blue starlight flickered and gathered toward the center of each eyeball. His entire pupil was slowly changing from white to sky blue.

"Those... eyes..."

The four children watched Lin Chuan's eyes slowly change, their faces filled with terror. They seemed to sense an aura brewing within them that made their hearts tremble.

"Quick, beat him to death! Kill this monster!"

One of the children shouted, and the other three immediately snapped out of it. They began beating Lin Chuan again. They no longer saw him as a punching bag to practice on; they just wanted to kill him and get out of there, so they all went at him with everything they had.

Lin Chuan spat out a mouthful of blood. The power in his eyes suddenly erupted, and in the next instant, he felt a warm current surge into him through his hands, rapidly healing his injuries. Then it wasn't just his hands—this unique stream of warm energy began flowing into him from all over his body!

Lin Chuan looked up and saw visible blue energy pouring from the two arms he held into his body. As soon as it entered him, it rushed toward his wounds and began healing the injuries he had suffered.

"These are..." Lin Chuan stared in shock at the energy flowing into him. It looked just like chakra from Naruto! And it wasn't just his hands—he was using some inexplicable power to absorb the chakra in those four children's bodies. Pale blue chakra drifted from them like mist, and he continued to absorb it.

"Ahhh! What did you do?"

"Stop! If you hurt us, I'll make my big brother kill you!"

"Ah, I can't move my body! He's absorbing our power..."

"A ghost..."

The four children immediately screamed in terror, looking as if they had seen a ghost. They tried to back away, only to find that they couldn't move at all. As time passed, they grew more and more exhausted, as if some force was constantly drawing the energy from their bodies. But this energy was completely different from the spiritual power they cultivated.

Lin Chuan watched everything unfold in utter shock. He could feel his injuries healing at an incredible rate, quickly pulling him out of his half-dead state.

"This is chakra... Why can I absorb their chakra...?" Lin Chuan's thoughts raced. He looked up at the four children, and in their wide, terrified eyes, he finally saw what he looked like now—and those sky-blue eyes he would never forget!

"Tenseigan!!!"

Having loved Naruto in his previous life, he recognized those distinctive eyes almost instantly: sky-blue irises, with a deep-blue pupil at the center radiating wisps of silvery-white light. It was the ultimate form of the Byakugan, the Tenseigan!

Thud, thud...

As Lin Chuan continued to drain the four children's chakra, the already small children soon collapsed to the ground one after another. That was only because Lin Chuan was absorbing it slowly. Otherwise, if even someone with Naruto's level of chakra could be drained dry in an instant by Otsutsuki Toneri, how could these children withstand a fully awakened Tenseigan?

"Get lost!"

The next instant, Lin Chuan abruptly withdrew the Tenseigan. The sky-blue eyes immediately faded and disappeared, returning to white irises and white pupils—the Byakugan.

It wasn't that Lin Chuan didn't want to kill the four children in front of him. But he had only just arrived in this world, and until he understood the situation, he didn't want to kill anyone recklessly and risk making powerful enemies when he was still weak.

Watching the four children stumble out of his house, Lin Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief and began examining the changes in his body.

"Why do I have the Byakugan and the Tenseigan? Didn't Kaguya Otsutsuki awaken the Rinne Sharingan after eating the Fruit of the God Tree?" Lin Chuan murmured in alarm and uncertainty. Still, he wasn't disappointed. As someone who knew Naruto, he knew the Byakugan's ultimate form, the Tenseigan, was no weaker. It was also an immensely powerful and terrifying presence.

Still, the divergence from the original story left Lin Chuan uneasy. He examined himself from head to toe and found that his injuries had mostly healed, but he couldn't detect anything else unusual.

"Then... there's only one technique left!" Lin Chuan thought. He immediately tried to mold the chakra inside his body, and to his surprise, he succeeded at once. He wondered if it was because he had eaten the Fruit of the God Tree.

The chakra Lin Chuan molded was purple, unlike the blue chakra in Naruto. But he paid no attention to such minor details. Instead, recalling the method for activating the Byakugan from the manga he had read, he slowly formed the Hand Seals.

"Byakugan!"

At Lin Chuan's low shout, purple chakra instantly surged toward his eyes, and the meridians around them bulged. The next moment, the surroundings and the state of his own body appeared clearly before him. Unlike the black-and-white world in Naruto, what Lin Chuan saw was a world full of color, just as if he were looking at it directly with his own eyes.

Ignoring that difference, Lin Chuan first focused on his own body. Among the crisscrossing meridians, the first thing to catch his attention was a fruit in his abdomen: the Fruit of the God Tree he had swallowed not long ago. It hadn't been digested. Instead, it had settled in his abdomen and was slowly turning.

Then, in the next instant, Lin Chuan suddenly discovered that there was a tightly shut eye on his forehead, between his brows: three circular patterns, nine Tomoe!

"This is... the Rinne Sharingan!!" Lin Chuan cried out in shock.

Amid towering mountain ranges, a lofty peak stood between heaven and earth, its summit crowned by a magnificent hall of carved railings and sculpted jade, rising into the clouds. Just then, a figure flashed inside and dropped to one knee before two people seated above the hall, playing chess. Respectfully, he said,

"Greetings, Grand Elder and Clan Head. All the children who came from the Central River Continent have been settled. The assessment will take place one month from now!"

"Oh? It took quite a while this time," said the middle-aged man who was playing chess.

"Reporting to the Clan Head, more people came from the Central River Continent than ever before this time, reaching tens of millions. Nearly ten thousand of those children were assigned to our Lin Clan, so..."

"Heh. Those great clans from the Central River Continent really do treat our Southern Bright Continent as a place to exile people. They send just about anyone here!" The old man on the other side shook his head gently and drawled.

"The intercontinental passage only opens once every hundred years. They must have sent over everyone they've accumulated over the past century. Still, a few peerless prodigies always appear among the children from that place. I hope one of them belongs to our Lin Clan this time," said the Lin Clan's Clan Head.

"I heard that the Lin Clan, one of the ruling clans in the Central River Continent, sent some people over as well. I wonder if any of them were assigned to our clan...?" the Grand Elder asked idly.

"Well... reporting to the Grand Elder, all tens of millions of them were mixed together this time. We simply couldn't tell where they came from or which clan they belonged to in the Central River Continent. But we recorded everyone who came from the Central River Continent. When we assign them to groups of three, we'll put those people together. And all their aptitude records will be listed at the lowest grade, so the lower-ranking members of the clan won't find out too much..."

The kneeling man explained respectfully, his forehead slick with sweat as he feared being punished if he failed to explain himself properly.

"All right, I know the general situation. I was only asking casually. You may leave," said the Grand Elder, glancing up at the man and waving him away.

"Yes!" The kneeling man quickly got to his feet and left the hall.

"Among those who came last time, there were several prodigies who astonished everyone. They say they secretly slipped away from their clans to train here. I hope our Lin Clan gets someone like that this time..." the Lin Clan's Clan Head murmured. Then the two of them put the minor matter out of their minds and continued playing chess.