Roar—hissss—
As Yamata no Orochi let out roar after roar, invisible ripples spread out in every direction.
After a while, Ling Qing had Yamata no Orochi stop and looked toward the dense forest.
Orochimaru slowly emerged from within.
He did not so much as glance at Yamata no Orochi, merely staring at Ling Qing as he calmly asked, "Dao Qing True Person, why did you summon me here?"
"How much do you know about this world?"
"What do you mean?"
Ling Qing glanced at him and said, "This world claims to have eight million ghosts and gods: the heavenly gods of the Plain of High Heaven, the earthly gods walking the Reed Plain Middle Kingdom, and the ghosts and gods of Yomi, born in the land of Yomi. What do you think is the fundamental power of ghosts and gods?"
"The power of gods is inherited through bloodlines, just like the Emperor. He may appear to possess no power at all, but unless one has a bloodline of the same rank, no one else can inflict any substantive harm upon him."
"Bloodline is also a kind of power, a Dao inherited from one's ancestors and passed down through the bloodline in the form of power." Ling Qing shook his head. "Everything known and unknown can be called Dao. So long as one can comprehend the principles within it, no bloodline is needed."
"After inheriting the Wanderer class, I wanted to become a ninja. Later, after I accidentally obtained a drop of a god's blood, I changed classes and became a Blood Thief, able to steal the power within others' bloodlines. Through my study of bloodlines, my first thought was to combine them with the power of the Five Elements and create the bloodline limits from Naruto. After that, I began