The Royal City's Secret

At this sight, Natsume suddenly understood.

So this was the cultivation center for the [Divine Tree Seedlings]?

There had never been any so-called Divine Tree!

The so-called Divine Tree and Ten-Tails were not purely artificial creations of the Otsutsuki Clan either.

They were merely super-life embryos fashioned with the shed skin of their own progenitor as the core.

That explained it.

Why did the Ten-Tails possess such immense potential?

Why could the Ten-Tails drain all the energy from an entire planet?

Why were the Ten-Tails' vitality and regenerative abilities so powerful?

All the Otsutsuki's advancement and growth in strength was nothing more than imitation of their own progenitor...

And a clumsy, simplified imitation at that...

No wonder the Ten-Tails' power was so formidable, yet its intelligence remained incomplete, making it seem so foolish.

In truth, it was never a complete life-form with a whole soul.

It was merely one of the incomplete individuals split off from the Ōtsutsuki God.

Much like how the Ten-Tails itself could create vast numbers of smaller split bodies.

"So those are Divine Tree Seedlings? The weapon you said the Otsutsuki use to plunder the entire universe?"

Kuramitsuha looked curiously at the large number of 'Ten-Tails hatchlings' in the distance.

She had spent years sealed within the [Yellow Spring Realm], and had later been imprisoned inside the [Progenitor Blood Vessel].

She was not particularly familiar with the overall development of the Otsutsuki Clan in the outside world.

Naturally, she did not know

that the Otsutsuki had expanded rapidly throughout the universe with their [Divine Tree Plunder System].

"That's right, that's them. Once they mature, they can easily drain all the energy from an entire planet!"

"They're that powerful?"

"But they look so ugly, and they only have one eye..."

Kuramitsuha gave her emotional assessment.

She