"Asura was right. That guy really does have the Rinnegan and Byakugan.
"He's my mother's enemy, and your grandmother's enemy too.
"If you run into him, you'd better be careful.
"His name is Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. He's currently parasitically residing in a monk named Jigen.
"His Rinnegan abilities are Sukunahikona and Daikokuten.
"[Sukunahikona] can shrink anything and can be activated just by looking at it.
"But aside from himself, he can't shrink other living beings. Of course, restoring them to their original size only takes an instant.
"[Daikokuten], on the other hand, lets him store shrunken objects in a separate dimension where time stands still, and summon anything in that space instantly whenever he wants.
"With your strength, if either of you meets him alone, you'll lose badly. If you work together, you might have a chance of barely managing a draw.
"Asura and Indra are both currently at the Six Paths Second Stage, with cultivation in the Golden Core Realm.
"It's been more than a thousand years, and Ōtsutsuki Yuhao still doesn't know exactly what will happen in the future. There are some things he still needs to warn Asura and Indra about.
"Another alien Ōtsutsuki? I wonder how many planets' worth of chakra they've absorbed. Every last one of them is so powerful."
Asura remarked with a sigh.
"Hmph. They're nothing but Six Paths Realm fighters relying on external power.
"With the same power, I could slaughter them like dogs."
Indra snorted.
"Still, I wounded that guy!"
"The chances of you two running into him are probably very low."
Ōtsutsuki Yuhao told them.
"Whatever."
Indra replied coldly. His body slowly rose as Wind Release lifted him into the sky, and before long, he disappeared from sight.
After his Sharingan evolved into the Rinnegan, Indra had mastered ninjutsu of every nature.
Once his strength reached its limit, Indra had begun cultivating chakra of other natures.
"Indra has changed so much over the years."
Ōtsutsuki Yuhao watched Indra's cold expression.
"Sigh. It's probably because he saw his sister-in-law pass away."
Asura spoke sadly. He was reminded of his own wife, too.
Ōtsutsuki Yuhao was a hundred years old, while Asura and Indra were both eighty-eight.
In this world, most people were fortunate to live into their fifties or sixties. Indra's wife, who had lived to eighty before passing away, was especially rare.
According to Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's research, the maximum lifespan of an ordinary person in this world was a hundred years, but most people didn't live that long.
Illness, injuries, exhaustion, and other special circumstances gradually shortened people's lives.
By the era of Naruto, people's average lifespans would be even shorter. Most would die in their thirties or forties.
Sea Realm, Year 200.
A hundred years later, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo and Ōtsutsuki Hamura had both lived to be two hundred. In the end, they died—but they hadn't really died, because their souls remained. They both treated the Pure Land as their home.
When they first passed away, Ōtsutsuki Yuhao had wanted to rebuild their bodies and bring his two brothers back to life, but they refused.
They had discovered a whole new world, entering and leaving the Pure Land in their spiritual forms whenever they pleased.
Only then did Ōtsutsuki Yuhao realize that his two older brothers had actually been interested in the Pure Land for a long time. With their strength, they could be resurrected whenever they wanted; they simply didn't wish to.
Why hadn't Ōtsutsuki Yuhao passed his Imperial Golden Core on to his two brothers to cultivate?
He had offered, but they had refused.
Neither wanted to cultivate Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's Sage Art. They both wanted to forge their own paths.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo and Hamura were too proud. Neither wanted to lose to their younger brother, and in the end, they both died. But after death, they discovered the Pure Land and began focusing their attention on it, as if they had found their own path.
Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's wife, Tanshou, passed away in the end, too.
For an ordinary person, living to three hundred was already the absolute limit. In the end, she could hold on no longer and died in Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's arms.
Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's children, Wantuluo and Wanhualuo, also began cultivating in closed seclusion, hoping to live another hundred years by breaking through to the Golden Core Realm.
The chairman of the Sage Art Kingdom had also changed seven or eight times by then.
In Sea Realm Year 300, Asura and Indra still failed to break through to the White Golden Core Realm. They died at the age of three hundred.
In the end, their chakra reincarnated in the Ninja World.
Sea Realm, Year 400.
Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's Rinne Sharingan evolved into the Seven-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.
He awakened a new ability.
[Flying Thunder Might World]
All the Laws of the World within it were under Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's control.
Time stood still inside, just like in Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's Daikokuten dimension.
The difference was that the Flying Thunder Might World was a complete world. Ōtsutsuki Yuhao could control the passage of time within it, so living people who entered wouldn't be unable to move, as if they were sealed.
Wantuluo and Wanhualuo were currently cultivating inside it.
In Sea Realm Year 500, Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's Tenseigan evolved into a deep-blue Tenseigan, its ocular power roughly on par with the Seven-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.
In Sea Realm Year 600, Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's ninjutsu and Taijutsu both reached the Six Paths Sixth Step.
In Sea Realm Year 700, Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's Sage Art reached the Sixth Stage.
In Sea Realm Year 800, Wantuluo and Wanhualuo finally broke through to the White Golden Core Realm.
In Sea Realm Year 900, Ōtsutsuki Yuhao fused his two Tenseigan into one. His eyes didn't change, but their ocular power grew even stronger, surpassing the Rinnegan.
Sea Realm, Year 1000.
Ōtsutsuki Yuhao was already 1,020 years old, meaning he had only 380 years left to live. His cultivation was still in the Black Golden Core Realm.
In Sea Realm Year 1100, Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's Rinnegan successfully evolved into the Eight-Tomoe, but he chose not to fuse his Rinnegan into one eye.
In Sea Realm Year 1200, Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's Black Golden Core began to stir, as if it were about to break through.
Sea Realm, Year 1300.
Ōtsutsuki Yuhao sat cross-legged in the middle of the ocean, absorbing the Natural Energy within it.
Though the ocean was nothing but water, in truth, it contained more Natural Energy than the land, mainly because it was so vast.
Golden light began to radiate from Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's entire body. The billions of cells within him frantically absorbed energy from heaven and earth.
Ōtsutsuki Yuhao, who had looked like a middle-aged man in his forties, gradually began to grow younger.
The black-and-gold Golden Core in his dantian began to grow as well. It expanded from its original five centimeters to ten, then eleven, then twelve... until at last it reached a diameter of twenty centimeters.
The Black Golden Core was like a black hole, devouring the surrounding energy. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth around Ōtsutsuki Yuhao seemed to be drained away, creating a brief vacuum.
As the Golden Core grew, Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's aura continued to climb.
His chakra, already unfathomably deep, reached an entirely new height.
At the same time, Ōtsutsuki Yuhao's body underwent subtle changes. His skin grew tighter, and his muscles became sleek and powerful, as if they held boundless strength. His hair and eyebrows grew thicker, gleaming with a faint golden light and giving him an imposing, almost sacred presence.
Ōtsutsuki Yuhao drew a deep breath, as if he meant to draw all the energy in the world into his body.
Then he slowly opened his eyes, which blazed with dazzling light. He felt his power had reached an unprecedented height, as if he could easily destroy anything.
Yet he didn't grow conceited.
He knew this was only a small step on his path of cultivation. He still had a long way to go and higher mountains to climb.
So Ōtsutsuki Yuhao closed his eyes once more and began a new round of cultivation. His figure appeared and disappeared amid the golden light, as if he had become one with the world.
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