Spacetime Fluctuation and Heavenly Luck

"Perhaps this is what chakra was originally meant to do. After all, members of the Otsutsuki Clan possessed chakra and lived for thousands upon thousands of years. Once they ate the fruit formed by absorbing a planet's energy, they could even achieve immortality. It made no sense that chakra training in the Ninja World wouldn't extend one's lifespan, and that refining chakra would instead burn through it."

"There had to be something seriously wrong with that!"

"After all, even the toads, snakes, and slugs on this planet could gain long lives through cultivation. Were humans naturally inferior to them? That was clearly absurd. Now it seemed this was all deliberately arranged. If people had long lives, who would be willing to make powerful fighters risk their lives in battle? And without powerful fighters constantly fighting and dying, where would the Sage of Six Paths find powerful souls in the Pure Land to provide him with chakra?"

Uchiha Tenshu thought with complete conviction, unable to help but wonder. Even the Otsutsuki Clan might simply have gradually evolved into that white-skinned form through adapting to chakra and exposure to cosmic radiation.

Most importantly, they could reproduce with humans without any barriers at all. They were essentially the same species.

Or perhaps Uchiha Tenshu was wrong.

Their ability to reproduce with humans might have come from their being higher life forms that had absorbed genes from many planets, allowing them to match the genes of any species.

But no matter how you looked at it, this was a powerful clan that constantly searched the universe for habitable planets on which to cultivate God Trees.

Even their ordinary members had reached Kage Level strength in the Ninja World. That was an astonishing achievement. And that was only their basic physical prowess; they could also grow stronger at an astonishing rate.

On top of that, their bloodline granted them unique talents. Once they reached a certain level of strength, they could freely manipulate spacetime. When these talents awakened, their power increased further, easily reaching or surpassing Beyond Kage Level.

Among them, some powerful individuals were even more astonishing. They started at Beyond Kage Level or Quasi-Six Paths Level, meaning they had already surpassed the limits of ordinary ninja. A select few elites even started at Six Paths Level. Their strength was unfathomable. Like Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, even after Kaguya ambushed him on Earth and left him crippled, he was still able to conceal his whereabouts.

These powerful beings traveled through the universe for long stretches of time. They clearly couldn't reach their destination in a short while. Considering their lifespans, even without using the Karma unique to the Otsutsuki Clan to reincarnate, they lived extraordinarily long lives. Judging by the ordinary course of history, they lived for at least several thousand years.

They might even have lived for tens of thousands of years.

Over such a long span of time,

dozens or even hundreds of dynasties could rise, flourish, and fall.

But to the Otsutsuki, it was merely a relatively brief game. Even death did not stop them; they could use their unique ability, Karma, to reincarnate and return to life.

"Looking at it this way, the Otsutsuki Clan truly deserves to be called the pinnacle species of this universe—a clan of gods!"

Uchiha Tenshu couldn't help but marvel inwardly. But now that the restrictions on him had been lifted, his lifespan would increase alongside his strength. He, too, had a chance to reach that level.

Next, Uchiha Tenshu pondered for a while, looking around at the gray, hazy space. He wondered if, given how much control he had over it, he could make some detailed adjustments.

At a thought from Uchiha Tenshu, master of the Fragment of Heavenly Dimension, the space above him brightened, and the void beneath his feet turned into ground made of black stone.

"Hmm, it looks like I can reshape this place by controlling it. Too bad anything created here only affects this space itself and can't influence the outside world. Perhaps that's because of my own strength or the fragment's recovery."

"According to the information transmitted by the Fragment of Heavenly Dimension, this space can keep expanding as my strength grows, almost as if it's alive. As long as I remain alive in this world, everything I do will automatically generate Spacetime Fluctuation and Heavenly Luck. Once I gather enough of both, I can use Spacetime Grasp to randomly plunder something from a nearby spacetime! It's basically like opening a random loot box. This is a huge opportunity."

"Also, whenever I kill or defeat another living being, it's like deliberately stirring the waters of their spacetime, and I can gain some Spacetime Fluctuation and Heavenly Luck. Spacetime Fluctuation is like ripples, naturally spreading across the surface of the waters of time and space, while Heavenly Luck is more like an innate glow of fortune. The strong shine like the sun, while the weak are like fireflies. As long as I defeat someone, I can plunder their fortune and raise my own potential and limits!" Uchiha Tenshu's eyes darted around, barely able to suppress his greed. But then he realized that a massacre on such a scale would inevitably attract attention.

He also thought of the fact that Jigen, possessed by Isshiki, was already hiding in the Ninja World. If he made a move, there were also Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, who was stronger than Hashirama Senju, and the old monsters hidden in the three great summoning-beast sanctuaries—not to mention the dying Hashirama Senju and Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

Uchiha Tenshu abandoned the idea of making a big scene.

Besides, ordinary people would offer little to improve his strength. They barely mattered at all in the grand scheme of the world.

It would be best to interfere with the characters from the original story.

So, what he needed to do next was figure out how to reap these abundant rewards.

However, too much slaughter would send their souls flying into the Pure Land like birds, alerting certain people.

What's more,

simply defeating someone would also let him harvest their Spacetime Fluctuation and Heavenly Luck. Why take their lives?

Why kill them when he could keep defeating them instead? He could even harvest from them repeatedly. Wouldn't that be better?

Besides...

"The Sage of Six Paths was able to establish the foundation of the Pure Land. Why couldn't I, Uchiha Tenshu, build a foundation of my own? If interfering with other people's fates means that I can slowly absorb their Spacetime Fluctuation and so-called Heavenly Luck just by affecting them, then wouldn't I be able to absorb what they produce all the time if I brought them under my control?"

Uchiha Tenshu thought proudly. In an instant, he even realized that the Sage of Six Paths treated the entire Ninja World as his own field, constantly watering and fertilizing it. Now he was beginning to follow the same path.

"Then let's see what Spacetime Grasp can do!" Now that Uchiha Tenshu understood all the abilities he had gained from the Fragment of Heavenly Dimension, he looked forward to trying his first active grasp.

In the blink of an eye, the space before Uchiha Tenshu rippled like a calm lake, and a spot as black as ink suddenly appeared.

Then, in that patch of darkness, a spatial window the size of a millstone abruptly expanded.

On the other side of the spatial window before Uchiha Tenshu was a simple room steeped in Eastern charm.

The furnishings were antique, and several old books giving off an air of age sat on the desk.

Uchiha Tenshu didn't hesitate for a moment. The information from the Fragment of Heavenly Dimension had told him that Spacetime Grasp lasted less than a few seconds.

In an instant, Uchiha Tenshu shot out a finger like the wind. His exceptional chakra control let him condense his chakra at his fingertip into a sticky, rope-like strand, like a spider's thread. With pinpoint accuracy, he grabbed the several old books.

Unfortunately, the Fragment of Heavenly Dimension had too little energy to activate the ability. Otherwise, Uchiha Tenshu would have crossed over without hesitation. Besides, the Fragment of Heavenly Dimension was now so badly shattered that it could only connect to other spacetimes; it couldn't lock onto one. If he ventured over recklessly, he might be lost forever in that unknown spacetime, never to return.

Uchiha Tenshu had no desire to set off alone on an unfamiliar journey into an unknown spacetime.