Deep within Amaterasu Palace, inside a secret chamber built entirely from Silent Blackstone, which could isolate both energy and spiritual detection from within and without.
Neji sat cross-legged, Chaos True Essence circulating slowly around him. The Divine Eye between his brows opened and closed halfway, completely cutting off all perception from outside.
Before him floated several information storage devices made of dark-gold metal or strange crystals. These were taken from the core area of Amaterasu Palace's secret library archives: the Ōtsutsuki Clan's most fundamental and important internal documents—Clan Law: Fundamental Codex, Peerage Genealogy, General Compendium of Power Origins, and some of Isshiki Otsutsuki's personal cultivation notes.
The Chaos Divine Eye cast a faint glow over the storage devices. Their contents flowed into his Sea of Consciousness like water, where the Nascent Soul's powerful spiritual sense swiftly analyzed, organized, and comprehended them.
At the same time, using Isshiki Otsutsuki's access privileges, he searched public and semi-public clan records through a special node within the estate connected to the Mother Star's information network.
As the information came together, a clear picture of the Ōtsutsuki Clan's strict hierarchy and power system gradually unfolded before him.
The social structure of the Ōtsutsuki Clan was built entirely upon the absolute disparity in individual strength, solidified through a strict peerage system.
This system was closely tied to cultivation realms, nearly corresponding one-to-one.
After combining the descriptions in the texts, network information, and Isshiki Otsutsuki's personal insights in his notes, Neji organized the following clear correspondences:
Emperor Tier: Corresponded to the [Mahayana Stage] of the cultivation system.
This was the theoretical pinnacle of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, known as the realm of "near-gods."
Body, energy, soul, and laws were nearly perfectly fused, forming the embryonic form of a universe within oneself. Their lifespans were measured in epochs; they