Golden Tenseigan

The moment his eyes underwent their transformation, Hyuga Lan noticed it.

Everything in his surroundings appeared with distinct, intricate detail; the insight provided by these eyes had instantly ascended several tiers.

The sense of restraint he had once felt from the Caged Bird Seal vanished along with the change in his eyes, and in this moment, he had broken free from the fate of being controlled.

However, the good times did not last. Due to the exhaustion of his own chakra, the patterns beginning to emerge within his golden eyes started to fade, and even the golden radiance within them began to diminish rapidly—a sign that they were regressing back into Byakugan.

Feeling the changes in his eyes, Lan racked his brain, yet he could find no solution.

Could it be that after all these years of hard work, he could only enjoy such a fleeting moment of freedom?

Thump!

A resonance, like a heartbeat, echoed in Lan's ears. As his consciousness blurred, he felt as if he were seeing a golden sun before him.

The light of that golden sun was warm and peaceful, filled with a chakra aura that he yearned for—an aura that felt both strange and familiar.

What was that?

Before Lan could ponder what he had sensed in his dying moments, his vision went black, and he collapsed into unconsciousness.

Meanwhile, while Lan was unconscious, a powerful and inexhaustible stream of chakra entered his body from thin air, subsequently merging into his eyes.

The eyes that had been on the verge of regressing to Byakugan were reignited with light. Soon, the patterns that had been flickering in his pupils reappeared, eventually solidifying into a six-pointed star design deeply etched into his irises...

On the moon.

Within the Shrine Hall of the Otsutsuki clan.

A giant eye, several dozen meters in diameter and resembling a small sun, was enshrined here. This massive orb was a treasure forged from the gathered Byakugan of the many members of the Otsutsuki Branch Family: a Giant Tenseigan.

If Lan were awake and standing here, he would surely have discovered that his own evolved eyes bore a striking resemblance to this Giant Tenseigan.

Clearly, there was some sort of connection between his eyes and this massive orb.

Tap, tap, tap...

Three hurried figures arrived before the Giant Tenseigan. Seeing the anomalies manifesting in the eye, the three looked at one another in shock.

"What is happening?"

"Something like this has never occurred before!"

"Why is our clan's supreme treasure transmitting chakra to the Ninja World? What on earth has happened down there?"

These three were clearly members of the Otsutsuki Branch Family on the moon, and their questions were destined to remain unanswered.

"Never mind who the Tenseigan is connecting with; the priority is to contain it and reclaim control."

After the one in the center spoke, the other two nodded repeatedly.

The three Otsutsuki Branch Family members performed hand seals in unison and pointed toward the Giant Tenseigan.

"Seal!"

As the command was issued, the light of the Giant Tenseigan began to dim. Under the control of their technique, the power of the Tenseigan was gradually suppressed, and the chakra that had been flowing outward naturally ceased.

The moment the Giant Tenseigan stopped its transmission, Hyuga Lan's golden eyes in the Ninja World flickered and reverted to their Byakugan state, as if they had been shut off.

After securing the Giant Tenseigan, the Otsutsuki Branch Family members on the moon immediately began an inspection, attempting to locate the source of the problem with their supreme treasure.

Once their inspection confirmed that the Giant Tenseigan itself was fine, they turned their gaze toward the Ninja World. They activated the Giant Tenseigan once more to survey the Ninja World, hoping to find the existence capable of influencing their treasure.

Yet, they searched circle after circle, never finding a suspicious target in the Ninja World. Could this incident truly have been nothing more than an accident?

Night fell, and the limbs of the body lying on the ground suddenly stirred.

Hm?

After waking up, Lan looked at his intact body, feeling deeply astonished.

Feeling the abundant chakra within him, he speculated on what had happened to him during his period of unconsciousness.

There were no traces of anyone else having been nearby. Thus, it was highly likely that the entity that saved him had transmitted a sufficient amount of chakra to him from afar, and there was likely only one existence in this world capable of such a feat.

Lan cast his gaze toward the bright moon in the night sky, and in an instant, a subtle connection welled up in his heart.

It seemed his eyes had indeed changed; even at such a vast distance, he could perceive the summons from the Tenseigan on the moon.

However, just as he tried to further connect with it, a sense of lethal danger surged in his heart, forcing him to immediately cease his probing.

Sure enough, an inexplicable ripple swept silently across the sky immediately afterward, as if searching for something. If not for the warning from his eyes, he would never have detected this strange fluctuation.

The ripple swept back and forth several times until, after several hours had passed and it was confirmed that nothing had been found, it finally subsided. By then, the horizon was already beginning to brighten.

On the other side, having sensed this powerful insight, Lan spent several nights in careful caution.

During these days, nameless ripples swept across the sky almost every hour or two. He knew clearly that this was the Otsutsuki Branch Family on the moon searching for his trail.

As the only person capable of triggering the Giant Tenseigan in the Ninja World, he was likely on a kill-on-sight list in the eyes of those Otsutsuki Branch Family members.

It seemed he absolutely could not communicate with that Giant Tenseigan again in the short term, or it would be a huge disaster if he drew the Otsutsuki Branch Family members to his location.

A few more days passed, by the side of a small river.

Upon realizing that the Otsutsuki Branch Family on the moon had finally ceased their search of the Ninja World, he, having endured in silence for many days, decided to examine the current state of his eyes.

Lan gazed at his reflection in the river; it was a slightly youthful boy with the Caged Bird Seal carved into his forehead, his eyes a colorless, transparent hue—the Byakugan of the Hyuga Clan.

Staring at the seal on his forehead, Lan furrowed his brows. He surged chakra into his eyes, causing the meridians on his face to bulge and his expression to turn ferocious. His already transparent eyes became even more crystalline, a clear sign of the Byakugan being activated.

Once the Byakugan was active, Lan continued to pour chakra into his eyes. The massive influx of energy caused a faint, throbbing pain, forcing him to involuntarily squeeze his eyes shut.

Soon, the once-violent Byakugan chakra began to undergo a drastic transformation. The intensity of the chakra surged rapidly, leaping across several levels in the blink of an eye, yet its nature grew gentle, becoming far more fluid than the previous Byakugan chakra.

The most notable result was that the facial meridians, which had surfaced due to the Byakugan's activation, began to recede and vanish, restoring his somewhat ferocious appearance to its original, handsome state.

Immediately following this, a faint golden light began to diffuse through his eyelids, signaling the imminent emergence of a ocular power far greater than that of the Byakugan.

The mark on his forehead, symbolizing the Caged Bird Seal, also began to fade and dissipate, revealing a smooth, clear brow. This indicated that the power of the ocular jutsu about to manifest was already beyond the level that the Caged Bird Seal could restrain.

Clang!

When Lan opened his eyes again, a terrifying golden radiance shot forth from them.

His once-transparent Byakugan had transformed into strange, shimmering golden eyes, each featuring a six-pointed hexagonal pattern within the pupil.

Looking at these eyes—which, despite being a new form, were completely different from what he remembered—he suppressed the joy of breaking free from the seal, feeling a sense of shock and uncertainty instead.

Is this the Tenseigan?

No... why did my eyes evolve into something like this?

Shouldn't an individual Tenseigan be a blue, star-like eye?

After a careful inspection, Lan realized that his eyes now bore a striking resemblance to the Giant Tenseigan from his memories. Could it be that his Tenseigan had mutated?