The Land of Water, a country made up of countless islands!
Kirigakure, the pillar of the Land of Water, was one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, built entirely by ninja clans skilled in Water Release!
A dense fog hung over the sky year-round. The air was filled with tiny water droplets, and with lakes and the sea surrounding the islands, this was universally recognized as the home ground of Water Release ninja.
North of Kirigakure lived a clan of warmongers who loved war and worshiped slaughter. Every one of them fought like a lunatic with no regard for their own life. This was the clan outsiders called a bunch of crazies—the Kaguya Clan!
They were said to possess the strongest close-combat Kekkei Genkai, Shikotsumyaku. This powerful Kekkei Genkai was the pride of every member of the Kaguya Clan.
And now, in this era, the Kaguya Clan's Shikotsumyaku—something that appeared only once in a century—had unexpectedly manifested in two people at once!
Every member of the Kaguya Clan was overjoyed, believing the clan's golden age had arrived.
After all, according to legend, whenever a Shikotsumyaku wielder appeared in the Kaguya Clan, its power, strength, fame, and prestige would all reach their peak!
Just as nobody could deny the power of the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan, the Shikotsumyaku's reputation rested on its mystery and might, as if it were a cheat.
Compared with the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan, the Shikotsumyaku's terror was on an entirely different level. The title of strongest close-combat Kekkei Genkai wasn't just empty boasting!
Unfortunately, nothing was ever absolute...
The Kaguya Clan should have risen to its peak. But because of one person, it not only failed to reach that peak, but instead went astray and gradually set foot on the road to destruction.
That person was Kaguya Noyama, the Kaguya Clan's elder!
Just like Uchiha Fugaku in the original story, whose overwhelming desire for power led him to stage a coup so the Uchiha Clan could claim greater authority,
the Kaguya Clan's elder, Kaguya Noyama, followed the very same path of greed and ambition.
First, he usurped power. Using a scheme, he had the Kaguya Clan's leader killed on the battlefield, then used a series of tactics to successfully make himself clan leader.
Next, after becoming leader, Kaguya Noyama whipped up a fervor for war throughout the clan, spread rumors of war, and actively began preparations for the coming conflict.
To prepare for the battles ahead, Kaguya Noyama even used the power in his hands to imprison the clan's most important Shikotsumyaku wielder, treating him as a strategic weapon.
That was why, after crossing over into the Naruto World and inheriting the identity of the deceased Kaguya Jun Tianlin, Zhen Danxiao found himself locked in a shabby cage with a cute little boy, Kaguya Kimimaro.
A full month had passed since Zhen Danxiao arrived in the Naruto World.
During that time, Zhen Danxiao had been utterly exhausted, living in constant fear and anxiety.
Fortunately, he wasn't alone. The cute little boy, Kaguya Kimimaro, was by his side, which eased some of the fear in his heart.
Most importantly, in the past month, Zhen Danxiao had completely familiarized himself with his current body—or rather, his identity—as one of the Kaguya Clan's Shikotsumyaku Kekkei Genkai wielders: Kaguya Jun Tianlin!
Name: Kaguya Jun Tianlin Bloodline: Otsutsuki Kaguya Bloodline [Unactivated] Activation Progress: 1/5 Kekkei Genkai: Shikotsumyaku
Settling his thoughts, Zhen Danxiao—or rather, Kaguya Jun Tianlin, who had fully adapted to his new identity—quietly examined the "system" in his mind...
To be precise, it didn't even qualify as a "system." It was barely more than a screen etched into Jun Tianlin's mind.
The screen contained just four simple lines, yet they laid out all of Jun Tianlin's information...
Although the text was brief, his experience as a hardcore gamer in his previous life meant that the moment Jun Tianlin saw the screen, he understood what it meant.
"The Otsutsuki Kaguya Bloodline? Heh. Could it be that the bloodline class-change book for Otsutsuki Kaguya, from the game I picked up just before arriving in the Naruto World, came with me too?
"If so, then at least I've got something to help me survive in the Naruto World.
"Although I still need to activate this Otsutsuki Kaguya Bloodline, and it's only at the earliest stage—the only Kekkei Genkai I've unlocked so far is Shikotsumyaku—it's still far better than having nothing at all.
"But from now on, I'm afraid my first goal will have to be activating this Otsutsuki Kaguya Bloodline. I'll have to fight with all I've got!"
Thinking of this, Jun Tianlin couldn't help letting out a helpless sigh. He silently regretted that the Otsutsuki Kaguya Bloodline was still unactivated.
After all, the world of Naruto really was a place where bloodlines were everywhere and human lives were worth less than a dog's.
In the early part of the original story, before the main plot had begun, a few elite jonin or a Kage Level powerhouse could still dominate a region and lord it over everyone.
But by the later part of Naruto, if you didn't have a pair of Rinnegan or some kind of Six Paths Sage power, you basically didn't even get a chance to appear. You could only end up as cannon fodder.
People in Naruto always said talent didn't matter, and that with enough effort, even a dead last could one day surpass a genius!
But as a hardcore gamer in his previous life, Jun Tianlin could say with absolute certainty that it was all bullshit—complete, foul-smelling nonsense!!!
That a dead last could surpass a genius? That effort could overcome talent? It was all an illusion. It was fake.
This was a real world. A good bloodline and a good background mattered more than anything!
Talent? Sweat?
Genius? Dead last?
No, no, no. In the Naruto World, those things were secondary. What mattered most was being related to the Sage of Six Paths and having even a little Otsutsuki blood. That was what truly mattered...
That was exactly why, in a world ruled by bloodlines and dominated by the power of the Otsutsuki, Jun Tianlin's Otsutsuki Kaguya Bloodline being unactivated was enough to make anyone furious, wasn't it?
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