"Isshiki, I've come for you!"
"I wonder how much of your strength you've recovered by now!"
Otsutsuki Yuhao thought to himself.
Otsutsuki Isshiki came from the Otsutsuki Clan. He was the founder and de facto leader of Kara.
Over a hundred years ago, he came to Earth with his partner, his mother Otsutsuki Kaguya, to plant a God Tree. During that time, Kaguya betrayed him and ambushed him, leaving him gravely injured. Isshiki later survived by parasitizing Jigen, then founded Kara to search for a suitable vessel.
A powerful light shone from Otsutsuki Yuhao's right eye.
A spiral-shaped portal appeared, and Otsutsuki Yuhao slowly walked into it.
A temple somewhere in the Ninja World.
Jigen was recuperating inside. He had indeed nearly died when Kaguya ambushed him back then, but the presence of Karma had allowed him to survive. However, Jigen's body wasn't suitable for his reincarnation, and he could only use a third of his power.
Suddenly, just then—
Space tore open.
Rasengan Uzuhiko
When struck, the target had chakra driven into their body. That chakra then rotated along with the planet. As long as the planet kept spinning, the attack would never stop.
Using the Heavenly Mechanism Technique, Otsutsuki Yuhao had seen the move Boruto stole by watching him practice Rasengan Uzuhiko.
A sky-blue Rasengan, its surface flickering with countless strands of lightning, shot toward Jigen.
Jigen's heart jolted, and he instantly entered Karma Stage Two.
Black markings spread over his entire body, and a horn grew from his head. His strength immediately reached that of fifteen Super Kage.
Boom!
A terrifying attack slammed into the ground, turning the area within a hundred meters into a massive crater. The crater was three or four dozen meters deep and over a hundred meters wide.
Jigen appeared several hundred meters away, looking somewhat battered.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sounds of fierce fighting echoed across the earth and sky. The two fought at close quarters like bolts of lightning, trading punches and kicks. Every blow was deadly, and every punch carried the force of a nuclear bomb. Each clash shook the air like thunder.
Their fists crashed into each other like thunderbolts, their immense strength shaking the whole earth.
Boom!
After exchanging over a hundred blows, Jigen was finally caught off guard and kicked away by Yuhao.
Jigen's body crashed heavily to the ground. His clothes were completely torn, and the bones in his arm were broken.
"Otsutsuki Yuhao, when did you learn my identity?!"
Jigen slowly got up, looking at Otsutsuki Yuhao in surprise.
Otsutsuki Yuhao's improvement in strength had exceeded his expectations.
Otsutsuki Yuhao didn't answer Jigen.
A Rasengan Uzuhiko appeared in each of his hands, while his other Rinnegan changed into a Tenseigan.
Flying Thunder Might
In an instant, Otsutsuki Yuhao appeared in front of Jigen, the Rasengan Uzuhiko in each hand about to strike his body.
Sukunahikona
Jigen's Golden Rinnegan widened sharply, and golden light blazed from his pupil.
Otsutsuki Yuhao's Rasengan Uzuhiko shrank, but only by a little.
"What?!"
"Is his ocular power not enough?"
Jigen thought in alarm.
"Looks like I have no choice!"
Jigen fixed his Byakugan on Otsutsuki Yuhao. At last, he made his decision.
Daikokuten
Sukunahikona
Countless black-and-red cubes, each fifty meters tall, rained down from the sky toward Otsutsuki Yuhao.
Jigen vanished from right in front of Otsutsuki Yuhao.
"Since he couldn't shrink my Rasengan Uzuhiko, he shrank his own body to dodge my attack?
"And he still had time to use Daikokuten."
Otsutsuki Yuhao looked at Jigen's vanished body while sensing several heavy objects, each carrying a powerful chakra signature, hurtling down toward him.
Otsutsuki Yuhao pointed both hands at the sky and fired the Rasengan Uzuhiko in his hands at the cubes above.
Rumble!
More than a dozen fifty-meter cubes exploded in an instant, bursting open like fireworks. Beads of chakra energy sprayed across the sky, blooming brilliantly overhead.
Black, red, and blue light illuminated the earth as brightly as day.
"Bang!"
Otsutsuki Yuhao kicked the ground. A huge shock wave slammed into it, carving out a trench thirty or forty meters long, two meters deep, and three or four meters wide.
Jigen's shrunken body began to grow. He tumbled across the ground dozens of times before finally crashing down hard.
When Jigen's body came into view, it was covered in wounds of all sizes.
"Otsutsuki Yuhao, I don't remember us having any grudge between us. Why are you attacking me?!"
Jigen asked, his face grim.
"Simple. I already know what happened between you and my mother."
As he spoke, Otsutsuki Yuhao attacked Jigen again.
"Damn it!"
Seeing that Otsutsuki Yuhao wasn't even giving him a chance to explain before attacking, Jigen couldn't help cursing in frustration.
In the end, he used Space-Time Ninjutsu to escape.
Otsutsuki Yuhao froze. He hadn't expected Jigen to flee so quickly.
"Looks like Jigen's strength has declined even more than I thought."
Otsutsuki Yuhao muttered to himself.
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
Jigen fell out of a portal and landed in a half-crouch.
"Cough... cough!"
Jigen coughed several times, spitting out several mouthfuls of blood onto the ground.
"Otsutsuki Yuhao... His strength has grown far too quickly!
"And unlike Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura, who are both mixed-blood, Otsutsuki Yuhao is a much purer member of the clan.
"On top of that, he hasn't even eaten a Chakra Fruit.
"If he ate the God Tree's Chakra Fruit, his strength might even reach the level of the higher-ups!
"His talent is truly astonishing!"
Jigen thought expressionlessly.
"This body is far too weak. I need to find a suitable vessel for reincarnation as soon as possible.
"Otherwise, if I run into Otsutsuki Yuhao again...
"Escaping won't be so easy."
As he thought, Jigen walked toward the edge of the Land of Fire.
"Uncle Yuhao!"
Just then, Indra and Asura finally arrived.
Both had cultivated the Imperial Golden Core. Though they had only reached the Golden Core Realm, that alone had allowed them to live for over two hundred years. They were still young men.
"Uncle Yuhao, who were you just fighting?
"That powerful chakra was already close to my father's.
"How could there be such a powerful ninja in the Ninja World?"
Asura asked curiously.
"He probably wasn't a ninja. No matter how strong an ordinary ninja gets, the most they can do is cultivate Senjutsu. But that chakra carried the signatures of the Rinnegan and the Byakugan."
Indra thought for a moment, then spoke seriously.
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