Mangekyo in the Right Eye, Takemikazuchi

On another part of the battlefield, dozens of people were locked in a slaughter.

Genichiro, who was manipulating his puppets, suddenly felt a jolt and spun around, only for a lightning-shrouded ninja blade to pin him and the puppet shielding him against the wall.

The lightning dissipated along with the immense force, sending gravel and dust flying; in his final moment of life, Genichiro only had time to catch a glimpse of the killer's mask.

"So... so fast."

In the distance, Genichiro's companions retreated rapidly, their puppets' cannons bombarding the spot where Aoike stood.

Their Byakugan allowed them to see through the dust, and they unleashed a relentless barrage of long-range artillery, ninjutsu, and projectiles, only ceasing fire once all their means were exhausted.

Just as the branch family members were wondering about the outcome, the main family elder, whose eyes remained intact, felt cold sweat trickling down his cheeks.

Having previously observed the Great War of the Land of Fire, the elder uttered a heavy term: "Susanoo?!"

As if in response to his exclamation, a hand composed of silver-white skeletal structures emerged from the dust and swiped outward; a gale blew past, and Aoike's small frame stood within the crater created by the blast, staring coldly at the dozens of inferior Otsutsuki.

"Do not look into his eyes...!" the elder shouted a warning in panic, but it was too late.

Everyone who looked directly at Aoike felt a pair of blood-red eyes occupy their thoughts, their brains reeling as if struck by a heavy hammer, a buzzing sound echoing in their minds.

When they regained their senses, they were met with the panicked faces of their companions, their own weapons plunged into the chests of those they had once held dearest...

An atmosphere of despair permeated the battlefield.

It was not until the corpses hit the ground with a dull thud that the survivors snapped out of the hellish scene, realizing that the demon before them was beyond their ability to contend with, and they scattered like birds and beasts.

"Thinking of running now? Too late," Aoike murmured, his right eye's ocular power pouring out.

Takemikazuchi—Splitting Spear.

A thick spear gathered from lightning was gripped by the skeletal hand of the Susanoo and hurled forward with a violent thrust.

Like a flash of wild lightning, the thunder-spear disintegrated in mid-air, transforming into fine branches that precisely pierced through every person's body.

The knowledgeable elder from before clutched his wound, weakly propping himself up as he watched Aoike flicker toward him, speaking in broken gasps.

"The Otsutsuki... will not let you go..."

Aoike remained silent, merely using his Mangekyo to sift through the elder's memories; the secrets the elder knew were far more numerous than those of the previous cannon fodder.

He cast aside the dying elder.

"You got one thing wrong."

"It is I who will not let the Otsutsuki go."

As life faded, the elder's Byakugan turned gray and dull; the short two or three years of training in Root had accustomed Aoike to cold-bloodedness.

To him, only a dead enemy was a good enemy. His left eye's ocular technique, Heavenly Controller of Fate, destined that the relationship between him and the Otsutsuki would only ever be that of predator and prey.

He plundered the bloodlines of the purer Otsutsuki and used ninjutsu to destroy the traces of the remaining corpses.

If Anbu from a ninja village had come to investigate, they would surely have discovered the anomaly, but unfortunately, it was the already hot-headed Otsutsuki who arrived.

To them, wiping out the other side was the top priority; people blinded by rage would not bother with details.

Under Aoike's repeated provocations, he added a gale to the already irreconcilable situation between the two factions.

Just as Aoike was getting tired of eating military rations, the impatient Otsutsuki finally moved the decisive battle forward.

While the two sides were arrayed against each other on the battlefield, Aoike used the elder's memories to infiltrate the main family's compound, beginning a slaughter of those left behind.

Under the influence of his ocular technique, Heavenly Controller of Fate, the Otsutsuki factors within Aoike's body grew increasingly dense, and the purity of his Byakugan reached its limit.

Correspondingly, his chakra reserves had risen to over twenty units, and the burden of the Mangekyo on his body had decreased significantly.

On the other battlefield of the Otsutsuki, thousands of troops were clashing; the two factions, similar in strength, were locked in a stalemate with over half their numbers dead or wounded.

By the time Aoike finished cleaning up the main family's rear guard and arrived, the branch family had already unleashed a small Tenseigan condensed from the Byakugan of their entire clan.

The main family, which had held a slight advantage, was pushed back step by step under the bombardment of the branch family's Tenseigan, eventually leading to the total annihilation of their clan.

Even after sacrificing their own eyes, one could still see the fanaticism in the faces of the branch family members; they couldn't wait to collect the main family's Byakugan on the battlefield to condense an even larger Tenseigan.

Having witnessed the destruction of the main family, Aoike stood up and brushed the dust off his clothes; after devouring the highly nourishing main family remnants, his original clothes were a bit tight, but fortunately, the Otsutsuki's aesthetic was decent, so he simply changed into a new set.

Based on his observations, the strength of the Otsutsuki branch family was significantly higher than that of the Hyuga clan, but not yet off the charts; if he could destroy that Tenseigan first, everything would be under his control.

He took a deep breath as lightning coiled around his body; his right eye's ocular technique—Takemikazuchi—granted him the power to control divine lightning, and the manic electricity was more docile in his hands than a house pet.

The divine lightning transformed into a pale blue arrow, which flew off under the lock of his Sharingan.

If the main family with their Byakugan had been there, they might have seen the afterimage of the lightning, but to the branch family who had gouged out their own eyes, it was simply too fast...

When the arrow pierced the Tenseigan, the violent energy overturned the branch family members, and only then did someone scream, "Enemy attack!"

Aoike appeared brazenly on a nearby cliff.

"Everyone!" Aoike clapped his hands, drawing their vigilant gazes toward him; under the Fire Release Chakra Mode, a crimson cloak overflowed from his body.

"Now... let me test whether your capacity can support your ambition to destroy the world!"