Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Xiao overcame the Tenseigan’s humanity-eroding chill through his bond with Hinata, who had driven off the ANBU and helped him seize control of the Hyuga Clan. He left Hinata to take charge while he went to investigate a strange presence beneath the Ancestral Shrine.

• Hyuga Xiao felt the Tenseigan’s power draining his emotions and recognized that he needed an anchor to keep his humanity.
• Hinata embraced Xiao and told him she had driven off the ANBU, then admitted that defeating them had made her see the Hokage as no threat.
• The system established Hinata as Xiao’s life-and-death accomplice and a Humanity Anchor, restoring his senses and earning him 8000 Destiny Points.
• Xiao and Hinata pledged themselves as accomplices, and Hinata vowed that she would kill anyone who threatened him or the Hyuga Clan.
• Xiao ordered Hinata to become acting clan head and tell the clan that Hiashi had entered closed-door seclusion after suffering a backlash.
• Xiao sensed strange chakra spreading from the spatial passage beneath the shrine and went alone to investigate the intruders.

Xiao descended beneath the Hyuga altar and found an unstable Starry Sky Ancient Road leading to another world. As he tried to seal the vortex, an unknown presence on the other side noticed him.

• Xiao used the Tenseigan to navigate the Spatial Turbulence in the sinkhole without being harmed.
• Xiao discovered a deep-purple vortex opening onto an ancient passage filled with spatial rifts and storms.
• Xiao judged the passage too dangerous to enter without greater Otsutsuki Bloodline purity or precise coordinates.
• Xiao began sealing the vortex with an azure net formed from chakra and the Tenseigan's Attraction.
• A muffled sound came from the passage, and an unfamiliar chakra fluctuation slipped through as someone on the other side sensed Xiao.

Xiao confronted a projection from the Moon Ōtsutsuki Branch Family that emerged through the damaged passage and demanded his eyes and the passage’s coordinates. He overwhelmed it with the Tenseigan and began crushing its chakra projection.

• Xiao paused as a puppet forced its way through the closing passage, then watched it disintegrate and leave behind a pale chakra projection.
• The projection identified itself as a member of the Moon Ōtsutsuki Branch Family, insulted Xiao, and demanded the passage’s coordinates and his eyes.
• Xiao mocked the projection’s threat to cleanse the planet, and it attacked him with a gravitational vortex.
• Xiao unleashed the Tenseigan’s repulsive force, destroyed the projection’s attack, and shocked it with his eyes.
• Xiao seized the projection with an invisible chakra hand and began squeezing its chakra while it protested.

Hyuga Xiao crushed the Moon Ōtsutsuki phantom and absorbed the chakra it drew from its true body. He traced the connection to the moon, gained its coordinates, and began planning to claim the moon and its Giant Tenseigan.

• Hyuga Xiao tightened his Tenseigan’s grip, crushed the phantom’s arm, and absorbed the chakra it tried to draw from its true body.
• The blind old man on the moon realized Hyuga Xiao was siphoning his chakra and trembled as the connection drained him.
• Hyuga Xiao drained the phantom until he crushed it completely and absorbed the burst of pale chakra.
• Hyuga Xiao followed the phantom’s last connection through the unstable passage and seized the moon’s spatial coordinates.
• Hyuga Xiao looked toward the moon and resolved to claim the Ōtsutsuki Branch Family and the Giant Tenseigan.