Of course, he could also use righteous means, infusing Chakra with a kind of positive energy. That way, cultivators would be influenced by it as they used Chakra, becoming kinder and more righteous, and blindly enthusiastic about everything.
Take Naruto, for example. No matter what terrible things his enemies did, as long as they admitted their mistakes, he would forgive them.
Even Obito, who had killed his parents, was someone he could forgive. He didn't care at all what his parents would have thought.
So kind, he was more of a beast than a beast.
At this,
Uchiha Tenshu privately wondered if the Sage of Six Paths had tampered with his two sons' souls.
Otherwise, how could he be so indifferent to his own flesh and blood and just leave them to their fate?
He himself lived forever in the Pure Land, with no threat from age, while keeping the entire Ninja World under his control.
Meanwhile, his two sons' Chakra kept reincarnating, and with each new life they became enemies and led the entire Ninja World into battle.
Could all of this really be a coincidence?
Most importantly, even the Sage of Six Paths could remain in the world as a soul, and his younger brother's soul had endured for a thousand years.
His two sons were hardly weaker than they were, yet neither of them had appeared anywhere in the original story.
That simply made no sense in reality.
And then there was the Sage of Six Paths' hypocrisy.
On one hand, he did everything he could to create wars, plunging the Ninja World into endless chaos and slaughter, and did nothing to stop them.
On the other, he kept claiming that he wanted peace for the Ninja World and that people should understand one another. Anyone who tried to unite the Ninja World was deliberately thwarted by one scheme after another, all in the name of making people understand each other.
Wasn't that self-contradictory?
Even more baffling was that he had passed over his eldest son in favor of his youngest, making the more powerful older brother submit to the weaker younger brother's decisions. Such an obviously unreasonable choice was clearly meant to provoke conflict and let him sit back and watch them fight.
So, after Uchiha Tenshu had removed the Chakra limiter on his body, he began to piece together some answers.
"Perhaps the Sage of Six Paths did it on purpose."
"After all, he and his younger brother had wrested control of the world from their mother and sealed her away. Ever since then, he had lived in fear, worrying about his own two sons. It was just like the king of the gods in Greek mythology, constantly facing the threat of his offspring."
"As a descendant of the Otsutsuki Clan, he knew better than anyone how powerful, astonishing, and terrifying his own potential was. So, with the situation as it was, he had to eliminate the threat and plan for the future, while also preventing his two sons from joining forces against him, the way he and his younger brother had once done. Hagoromo Otsutsuki didn't act directly. Instead, he cleverly turned two brothers who should have stood united against each other. That way, neither could ever defeat him alone."
"Looking at what happened afterward, that was exactly how it played out! The Sage of Six Paths' sons, Indra and Ashura, became sworn enemies, opposing each other through generation after generation. They waged one fierce battle after another across the Ninja World, each founding a powerful ninja clan, and never stopped fighting. Over the course of those thousand years of conflict, who knew how many powerful souls had been sent to the Sage of Six Paths' Pure Land? And who knew how much Chakra had been continuously funneled into it!"
"Thinking about it, Hagoromo Otsutsuki really was a scheming old bastard. Perhaps that whole business about life and death was just meant to make his sons focus even more on fighting. Otherwise, if the Sage of Six Paths himself hadn't died once, he might have feared that his sons would try to attain immortality just as he had."
Uchiha Tenshu could understand the reasoning. Once even their father, the Sage of Six Paths, was dead, his two sons probably wouldn't think they had much time either. Rather than pursue a long future, they would focus more on acting on their impulses in the moment.
And so, just as the Sage of Six Paths had intended, the two brothers started fighting, despite their powerful bloodlines and their innate Otsutsuki potential.
Uchiha Tenshu also understood why the Sage of Six Paths hadn't simply stepped in and killed his two sons.
On one hand, he wanted their bloodlines to spread throughout the world and gradually dilute, allowing him to keep the entire Ninja World under control while ensuring that the dead ninja would be stronger. On the other, his own mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki, was proof that no matter how powerful someone was, if they made an enemy of the entire world, someone would eventually find their weakness and defeat them. So he still couldn't reveal his evil nature openly. Even when it came to showing his righteous side, he had to leave when the time came, leaving the whole stage to others.
As for the Sage of Six Paths himself,
all he had to do was build the stage from behind the scenes.
The actors would take the stage on their own!
That was probably how it worked!
In short, if Uchiha Tenshu had been in Hagoromo Otsutsuki's position, he would have done every single thing described above. Then anyone who cultivated Chakra would be unable to escape being harvested by him.
And now, the Sage of Six Paths was using a similar method.
Just on a smaller scale.
It was the same kind of scheme, but far less effective. He could only collect the souls of dead ninja.
After all that speculation, Uchiha Tenshu had more or less realized that Hagoromo Otsutsuki was definitely the mastermind controlling the world of Chakra. The thought sent a chill down his spine.
Especially since the man usually stayed hidden away in the Pure Land.
The powerful Chakra he had kept in reserve all slept in his Pure Land, ready for him to use.
It was clear that he had no good intentions.
And now,
he finally understood what had caused his body to change just now!
"So my restrictions have been removed?"
Just as Uchiha Tenshu was thinking this,
the next moment,
the Fragment of Heavenly Dimension's spirit sent him more information.
"So that's how it is. The so-called spread of Chakra Seeds is really just a signal transmitter and limiter that takes up residence inside the body. As long as the signal transmitter is there, the Sage of Six Paths can carry out all sorts of schemes. When a ninja dies, it can also send their soul, along with all their Chakra, to a place called the Pure Land! And the limiter on it restricts the way Chakra nourishes life. All the life-nourishing effects of the Chakra each person cultivates are absorbed by this limiter."
"No wonder an energy like Chakra can control natural phenomena through water, fire, wind, and lightning, yet still do nothing to enhance the human body. It really is just as I thought. From the very beginning, all ninja had been secretly tampered with!"
Uchiha Tenshu couldn't help thinking of Naruto and Sasuke, whom the Sage of Six Paths had summoned to the Pure Land in the original story. They had already died, yet they were still drawn into the Pure Land, where they were directly granted power-ups and boosted to the Six Paths Level in one go.
The divide between life and death
was no obstacle to him at all.
At this,
Uchiha Tenshu couldn't help sighing to himself. If the Fragment of Heavenly Dimension hadn't removed the limiter for him, even if he became a Six Paths Level powerhouse in the future, it would still take him a long time to get rid of it. And if the Sage of Six Paths made his move early—
then he would be crippled even if he survived.
"And now that the limiter is gone, I don't have to worry about the hidden schemes in the Chakra Seed anymore. It's as if I've taken ownership of this Chakra Seed, too. Most importantly, now that the limiter is gone, my whole body feels clear and unburdened. As I keep training and getting stronger, I'll grow to live far longer than an ordinary person!"
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