"Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, when you created Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki and Hamura Ōtsutsuki, it wasn't just to seal Kaguya. More importantly, you wanted to leave yourself a suitable vessel, didn't you?"
Wuye did not attack immediately. Instead, he began talking to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
"That's right. Half my body was eaten by the Ten-Tails. Even if I revived through the bodies of this planet's natives, I could never regain my original strength..."
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had acquired a brand-new, powerful body and regained his eyes. He seemed to be in an excellent mood.
Wuye was in no hurry to make a move, and neither did he seem to be.
"Only a body created from a chakra fruit is useful enough to bear part of my power."
He looked down at Wuye and smiled elegantly. "If I told you that even the power you crushed just now with that Baryon Mode was only a tiny fraction of my strength..."
He raised his little finger. "The difference is like this finger compared to an arm. Would you feel despair?"
Everyone could not help widening their eyes.
Though "everyone"... even including Hashirama Senju and the others, amounted to only eleven people, most of them Wuye's family.
"Is that so..."
Wuye stood on the ground, his body motionless as he gazed into the sky.
Before this, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's presence had still been within his perception.
But now, although he could still sense him, that presence was as vast as a boundless sea.
"We met a thousand years ago. At that time, you did not seem as strong as you are now," he said calmly.
"You're perceptive, and you're strong enough. I've traveled across so many star systems and acquired so many chakra fruits. You're the only one who has ever surprised me, though not by much."
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki leaned