Some kind of energy blocked the lake water, and visibility underwater was poor. Once Uchiha Huan submerged, he could neither see nor sense anything.
Uchiha Huan released his Senjutsu Chakra—in other words, his Divine Power.
Infused with Divine Power, his perception stretched outward like solid tendrils. Whenever they touched something, they relayed the sensation to him.
Uchiha Huan spent an hour swimming underwater, doing nothing more than mapping the terrain.
There were no living creatures below. Only mud covered the lakebed.
Suddenly, Uchiha Huan sensed an underwater cave.
He swam inside and continued probing his surroundings with tendrils of Divine Power.
A familiar yet strange energy fluctuation came from deep within the cave.
The farther he went, the clearer he sensed it.
The cave curved like a hook. After he followed its winding passage for more than ten minutes, it began to slope upward.
At last, after twenty minutes of feeling his way forward, Uchiha Huan surfaced. The cave opened into an air-filled chamber with a small island in the middle, no more than a few dozen square meters across.
A corpse lay at the center of the island, a gaping hole straight through its chest.
The instant Uchiha Huan saw the corpse, one thought struck him: A god!
He had met the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction. When he first saw them, his impression had been that they were powerful.
But he had not understood what, exactly, made them powerful.
Now, looking at this corpse, Uchiha Huan understood it much more clearly.
What he sensed from the corpse was not power, but Laws.
Unrestrained Laws were leaking from it.
Only then did Uchiha Huan understand the true difference between humans and gods.
This was not an Ōtsutsuki Clan member as he knew them.
Judging by the