Differences Between the Tenseigan

Lan couldn't help but recall the strange reaction of his Byakugan when he had met the clan leader, Hiashi, a few days prior; that intense, insatiable craving for other Byakugan had left a deep impression on him.

Reflecting on it now, he realized it had been a premonition that his eyes' evolutionary path was leaning more toward the Giant Tenseigan, rather than the version possessed by Toneri.

As for the exact differences, he would only know once he fully grasped the capabilities of these eyes.

Lan began to explore the powers of his Tenseigan, extending a hand toward a large tree not far away.

The next moment, an invisible force acted upon the tree; the sturdy trunk began to bend, and the ground beneath it cracked open.

Crack!

The tree was ripped from the earth and flew toward Lan. Just as it was about to collide with him, the invisible force shifted, causing the tree to freeze in mid-air before hurtling backward at a speed even greater than before.

"So, this is the power to manipulate gravity and repulsion?

What an incredible ability!"

Watching the scene he had caused, Lan muttered to himself in astonishment.

This invisible power of repulsion and attraction was exclusive to the Rinnegan and the Tenseigan. The fact that he could wield it now confirmed that his eyes were, without a doubt, a Tenseigan. He then began to test the other capabilities of his eyes.

Hoo,

Hoo...

Lan's breathing was heavy. This brief test of his ocular powers had consumed a significant amount of his chakra. It was truly a powerful dojutsu on par with the Rinnegan, and its chakra consumption was equally unparalleled.

Even with the enhancement of the Type-3 Bio-Armor, the drain caused by using these abilities was still difficult for him to bear.

And this was only because he was the original host of these eyes; if someone else were to bear them, it would likely be even more difficult.

Through his exploration, he had clarified the differences between his golden Tenseigan and the blue one awakened by Otsutsuki Toneri in the original timeline, and the results were a mix of good and bad news.

Beyond the manipulation of repulsion and attraction, and a perception far superior to the Byakugan, his Tenseigan possessed various miraculous abilities, such as remote chakra transmission, imbuing puppets with sentience, memory extraction, and mental manipulation.

He possessed almost all the powers of the Giant Tenseigan on the moon, and conversely, he lacked the powers that the Giant Tenseigan did not have.

In other words, he could not enter the Tenseigan Chakra Mode like Toneri, nor could he condense Truth-Seeking Balls to reach a level comparable to the Six Paths.

Lan felt deeply frustrated by this realization, as the Tenseigan Chakra Mode was the very thing he had sought so desperately.

With the power of the Truth-Seeking Balls, he could walk through the current ninja world unimpeded and pursue his ambitions as he pleased.

In his current state, while he possessed abilities far beyond his previous self, they were not enough to let him run rampant across the ninja world. Such was the difference dictated by the ceiling of his power.

Of course, the Giant Tenseigan capable of hurling the moon at the Earth was certainly not inferior to Toneri's Tenseigan in terms of raw power, but his own golden Tenseigan, which resembled that giant eye, could not be mentioned in the same breath as Toneri's.

The Giant Tenseigan on the moon could command a massive meteor shower to strike the ninja world, or even drive the moon itself to collide with Earth and destroy it, all while maintaining a barrier to protect Toneri. The sheer magnitude of that power was unimaginable.

While Lan's ocular power was slowly increasing, it was a drop in the bucket compared to the Giant Tenseigan; they were not in the same league.

First, regarding repulsion and attraction, his limit barely reached the standard Shinra Tensei and Bansho Ten'in of Pain's Deva Path. He was completely incapable of a massive Shinra Tensei like the one that destroyed Konoha—not only was his chakra insufficient, but his ocular power was also a limiting factor.

Perhaps his individual Tenseigan, awakened through genetic completion, was a flawed evolution. Its ceiling was far lower than a Tenseigan evolved from the combination of the Otsutsuki bloodline on the moon and the pure Byakugan of the Hyuga clan.

Lan even speculated that the reason a Giant Tenseigan could be created by aggregating a large number of Byakugan was that it secretly satisfied the requirement for genetic completion.

Therefore, if he wanted to significantly increase his ocular power, he would need to use his own eyes as a core to aggregate other Byakugan, effectively creating a Giant Tenseigan of his own.

He dismissed this thought almost as soon as it occurred. Although entering the Tenseigan state had rendered the Caged Bird seal ineffective, making it possible to remove his eyes, only the eyes of the Hyuga main branch could be extracted in the current ninja world. With the main branch having only a handful of members, even if he used all their eyes, it wouldn't increase his power by much.

It wasn't worth turning his own eyes into an impractical artifact; he wouldn't engage in such a thankless, laborious task.

However, beyond the disappointments, there were aspects of his eyes that pleasantly surprised him.

First, his Tenseigan had not gone through a "fetal movement" phase upon awakening; it had stabilized immediately. This spared him the long, debilitating period of weakness Toneri had endured, and he wouldn't suffer from the regression back to Byakugan due to exhaustion. His eyes were incredibly stable.

Then there was the ability to absorb chakra.

In the original timeline, Toneri had used the power of the Giant Tenseigan to remotely drain Naruto's chakra, taking him out in one move after the Fourth Great Ninja War—a truly exaggerated feat.

Clearly, the Tenseigan was superior to the Rinnegan in absorbing chakra.

Toneri lost this remote absorption ability after the Giant Tenseigan was destroyed, which indicated that this power was unique to the Giant Tenseigan and effective against anyone without Hamura's bloodline.

The limitation was that this ability did not work on those who possessed the Byakugan.

Lan's eyes, which resembled the Giant Tenseigan, naturally possessed this ability. While his effective range was short—only about a meter—and the extraction speed wasn't as exaggerated as the giant version, it was highly effective as a trump card for a "first-strike kill."

In other words, even an elite Kage-level ninja could be taken out in an instant if they were caught off guard.

Of course, this alone was not enough to satisfy him. What truly delighted him was that as his body adapted to the Tenseigan, not only was his ocular power slowly increasing, but he also sensed a new ability about to awaken within his eyes—one that was clearly related to space-time.