The disguise was complete, and his Nascent Soul was stable.
Neji—now outwardly a white-haired, dual-pupiled "Ōtsutsuki elite" with a Chaos Divine Eye hidden in his brow—stood silently in the void at the edge of the Solar System.
Beneath his feet, the azure Ninja World and the burning star had shrunk into points of light in the distant background. Around him lay eternal, silent darkness, dotted with cold stars.
He closed his eyes and focused, but the Chaos Divine Eye in his brow quietly opened a slit, seeing through the boundless void.
He needed no star chart. The vague sense of the Mother Star's coordinates buried deep within Isshiki Otsutsuki's memories, combined with the faint resonance of a certain Bloodline Dao Beacon used by the Ōtsutsuki Clan during interstellar seeding that existed within Kaguya's origin, acted like a lighthouse in the darkness, guiding his way.
That sensation was distant and ethereal, yet undeniably real. It pointed toward an indescribable direction in the depths of the universe.
As expected, even with the power of the Nascent Soul, crossing such an immense interstellar distance cannot be accomplished in one step, Neji realized.
The Ōtsutsuki Clan often measured their cosmic voyages in millennia. Even with spatial secret techniques, crossing terrifying distances measured in light-years required external assistance or had to be done in stages.
He recalled and analyzed the common methods the Ōtsutsuki used for long-range interstellar travel in Isshiki Otsutsuki's memories: using Yomotsu Hirasaka for ultra-long-distance jumps between known coordinates; piloting specially crafted "spaceships"; or... relying directly on powerful physiques and spatial abilities for prolonged Void Crossing.
For someone like him, who had just entered the Nascent Soul stage and possessed near-immortal vitality and vast true essence, this was not an impossible task.
"Perfect. I can use this opportunity to familiarize myself with