"Was this... the place where the God Tree first took root?!"
As Kou listened to the White Snake Sage and looked at the desolate landscape around him, he suddenly understood something, his pupils narrowing slightly.
The God Tree was, in essence, a tool the Otsutsuki Clan used to absorb a planet's energy and produce a Chakra Fruit.
Whether by its own instinct or the Otsutsuki Clan's deliberate choice, the Three Great Sage Regions were undoubtedly the best places for the God Tree to take root.
They held the richest natural energy in this world, and that vitality was precisely what the God Tree needed.
As the God Tree's first source of nourishment, the fate of Wet Bone Marsh... went without saying.
"With the arrival of the God Tree, Wet Bone Marsh, once one of the Three Great Sage Regions, met its end."
The White Snake Sage walked beside Kou, recounting those events from a thousand years ago as they went:
"When the God Tree descended, I had only recently hatched.
As for the disaster that befell Wet Bone Marsh, I could only glimpse a fraction of it through the fragments of my elders' conversations and the despair and terror in their eyes."
She drew her gaze back from the thick mist and sighed softly:
"As for why the God Tree chose to take root in Wet Bone Marsh rather than the other two sage regions... thinking about it now, perhaps Wet Bone Marsh was simply unlucky.
But a thousand years ago, neither the toads of Mount Myoboku nor we of Ryūchi Cave ever gave that question any thought.
After all, to us back then, it was merely a matter of which place would be destroyed first.
The God Tree and the Otsutsuki were far too powerful. Even with our mastery