Ninja were called ninja for a reason: ninjutsu.
People in this era didn't place much importance on taijutsu, and Otsutsuki Hagoromo was no exception. Perhaps it was somewhat useful in the early stages of a ninja's career, but after reaching the level of an elite jōnin, no one trained in it anymore.
After all, the Eight Inner Gates didn't exist in this era, and ninjutsu hadn't spread throughout the world yet.
"Then, goodbye, Brother Hagoromo!"
After obtaining the Ten-Tails' chakra,
Otsutsuki Yuhao could hardly wait to return and study it.
But just after Otsutsuki Yuhao left,
a black-and-white figure appeared behind a boulder.
"The Ten-Tails has become nine. The hope of reviving Mother grows slimmer by the day.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo, Hamura, and Otsutsuki Yuhao.
You three unfilial sons. One day, I'll make you suffer the same sealing as Mother."
Black Zetsu thought with a vicious look in his eyes.
"It seems the children of Asura and Indra have already been born.
Heh heh, I can't do anything to you. But I believe they must have their own ideas about the Ninja World!"
Black Zetsu thought with a sinister grin.
Otsutsuki Yuhao sat cross-legged on a boulder and mused aloud, "Ordinary chakra is formed by balancing and combining the body's physical energy with spiritual energy.
"That way, a ninja can expend a certain amount of chakra to perform ninjutsu, taijutsu, or genjutsu.
"Senjutsu Chakra, or the power of a sage, is formed by absorbing Natural Energy—the 'spiritual energy of heaven and earth'—into the body and balancing it with one's own physical and spiritual energies. Ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu performed with this power are called Senjutsu.
"Here's the question: chakra is an inferior energy emitted by the God Tree after absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It's easier for the human body to absorb.
"That's why Senjutsu can harm a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki or someone in the Six Paths Realm, while chakra has no effect on a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
"However, Senjutsu is much harder to master than ninjutsu.
"But in my previous life, I never heard of anyone turning into a frog statue or something similar after failing to absorb spiritual energy.
"Could it be because of chakra?
"When Natural Energy and one's own chakra are absorbed in equal amounts, the body gains Senjutsu Chakra. But if there's too much of it, one turns into a frog or stone at Mount Myoboku, or into a snake at Ryūchi Cave.
"As for why people turn to stone, perhaps it has to do with the methods used to cultivate Senjutsu. You turn into a frog at Mount Myoboku and a snake at Ryūchi Cave.
"'My Golden Core Path doesn't have that problem.
"My golden core gathers a great deal of Natural Energy, and my face only develops markings. That's because the Senjutsu I practice is different from that of the Three Great Sage Lands.'
"Unlike others, who develop markings upon entering Sage Mode, which indicates they've successfully entered it.
"In Sage Mode, strength and speed increase several times over. Sage Naruto could easily toss Pain's enormous summoned beasts and the Nine-Tails into the air.
"The power of a sage greatly enhances techniques across the three disciplines of ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu.
"You could also say that spiritual energy raises the limits of the human body.
"Unlike ninjutsu chakra, Senjutsu Chakra makes its user feel more energized the more they use it. It's almost like true cultivation.
"Ninjutsu chakra, on the other hand, leaves you more and more exhausted the more you use it, as if it consumes your spiritual energy and life force."
At this thought, Otsutsuki Yuhao stood up and looked toward the Three Great Sage Lands.
"In a world without chakra, Senjutsu must have been the true power of this world!
"Only a few people could truly master Senjutsu.
"But there were still countless times more of them than there would be in later generations, when ninja trained to enter Sage Mode."
Otsutsuki Yuhao thought to himself.
After traveling through the Ninja World for over twenty years, Otsutsuki Yuhao had visited many places and discovered quite a few secrets to cultivating Senjutsu. These methods were entirely different from those of the Three Great Sage Lands.
The only downside was that these methods were flawed; none of them were complete.
Otsutsuki Yuhao had ultimately used them to perfect his Golden Core Path and create a Senjutsu method of his own.
``` Otsutsuki Yuhao
Level: Six Paths Third Stage [White Golden Core Realm]
Six Paths Ninjutsu: Twelve Super Kage's worth of power
Senjutsu: Ten Super Kage's worth of power
Base Taijutsu Strength: Four Super Kage's worth of power [Twelve Super Kage's worth with the Fifth Gate open]
Chakra: 1,300 cards [One card is equivalent to Hatake Kakashi]
Kage-level chakra ranges from 3 to 10 cards.
Using Madara's ability to take on the Five Kage alone as a benchmark, Super Kage chakra is equivalent to that of the Five Kage.
Super Kage-level chakra ranges from 50 to 250 cards; an ordinary Six Paths individual has 500 cards.
Kekkei Genkai: Tenseigan [Kekkei Mōra], Rinne Sharingan [Kekkei Mōra].
Dōjutsu: Heavenly Mechanism Technique, Time Reversal, Flying Thunder Might, King Realm Fist, Shinra Tensei, Bansho Ten'in, Chibaku Tensei, Shoten no Jutsu, Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion...
Ninjutsu: All-Element Release of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Lightning, Yin, and Yang; Shinra Tensei Technique; Chibaku Tensei Technique; Flying Thunder God Technique; King Realm Fist Technique...
Ninjutsu: Twelve Super Kage's worth of power; Senjutsu: Ten Super Kage's worth of power; Taijutsu: Ten Super Kage's worth of power.
Together, these add up to thirty-two Super Kage's worth of power, but that doesn't mean Otsutsuki Yuhao is stronger than Naruto in Baryon Mode.
It only means Otsutsuki Yuhao possesses that much energy.
If you calculated things that way, the Nine-Tails would have more chakra than someone in the Six Paths Realm, and the Ten-Tails would have even more—probably over five times as much as the Nine-Tails.
But even an ordinary Kage-level ninja could fight the Nine-Tails.
Senju Hashirama's Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands could grab the Nine-Tails with just one hand.
Over the past ten years, Otsutsuki Yuhao's combat power had increased by roughly fifty percent. If it had been ten thousand points ten years ago, it was now fifteen thousand.
[Summoning Technique: Demonic Statue of the Outer Path]
Otsutsuki Yuhao spoke impassively. The intricate pattern in the white pupil of his right eye's Six-Tomoe Rinnegan slowly turned!
"BOOM!!"
A gigantic portal suddenly appeared in the ground.
The earth shook violently as if struck by an earthquake. The shock wave alone blew away all the surrounding trees!
"ROAR!"
A terrifying, colossal monster slowly crawled out of the portal, planting both hands on the ground beneath it and cracking the earth.
It had a gigantic humanoid body, nine Rinnegan embedded across it, a withered-wood-colored hide, and ten pillar-like protrusions rising from its back.
Even with only its upper body exposed, it stood a hundred meters tall. The pressure radiating from it far surpassed Kage Level, its terrifying presence sweeping across the area!
The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had only just emerged halfway.
[Flying Thunder Might]
The Six-Tomoe Rinnegan in Otsutsuki Yuhao's right eye lit up again.
A spiral of space swallowed one-tenth of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's body.
Before the statue could even cry out in pain, Otsutsuki Yuhao had already sent it back.
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