Seeing that Uchiha Genmei didn't look like he was joking, Madara frowned.
He thought it over quickly...
In the end, he nodded helplessly and said:
"The Ten-Tails is linked to the Rinnegan's summoning..."
"I'd only awakened those eyes recently, and summoned it back then out of curiosity."
"And you, kid... judging by how insistently you're warning me, you really do know something about this lake."
Hearing the news he least wanted to hear, Uchiha Genmei let out a helpless sigh.
"How I know isn't something you need to worry about..."
"I'll use Susanoo's spirit weapon to block the lake's ocular power in a moment, but we both need to be careful at the place it leads to."
Madara was genuinely surprised now.
He had awakened the Rinnegan, and the kid in front of him could sense its ocular power.
He understood immediately...
The kid had probably awakened those eyes too.
But even with two Rinnegan, the place they were going still posed a danger?
"First, tell me where this lake's space-time barrier leads."
"The moon!"
"Huh? Kid, are you joking?"
"Do I look like someone who likes to joke?"
What happened next was simple. Uchiha Genmei used Susanoo's spirit weapon, the Magatama.
Protected by the Magatama's light, which could defend against mental interference, he and Madara reached the moon without a hitch.
"This is the moon?" Uchiha Madara said as he climbed ashore and looked around the cave, which had little to distinguish it. "It doesn't feel any different from the Shinobi World."
Uchiha Genmei shook his head with a wry smile.
"You'll understand once we get outside. This place really is extraordinary. We need to be cautious."
Genmei meant it.
After the Branch Family's Otsutsuki summoned away the Ten-Tails' husk—the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path—they had staked