The cosmic origin's resistance weakened a little.
"Think about it," Naruto continued. "The Ōtsutsuki God planted a Divine Tree in you. The Death God harvested souls from you. The Lord of the Misty Forbidden Zone split you in two. Here, you'll always be plundered, always be drained, never be able to hold your head up. Come with me. I'll take you up there, to the Supreme Heavenly Realm. I'll take you somewhere even higher. I'll take you to Primordial Chaos."
The cosmic origin fell silent.
"And besides," Naruto said with a smile, "my people lived inside you. They laughed inside you, died inside you, and left their memories inside you. Can you bear to let them go?"
The cosmic origin relented, and its resistance slowly faded.
The Cosmic Core began moving toward Naruto's Great Thousand World of its own accord, like a child who had been wronged and had finally found someone to take him home.
Naruto began refining it. He unfolded his Great Thousand World and wrapped it around the Cosmic Core.
He could feel the Cosmic Core slowly merging with his Heavenly Heart. It was like trying to pour an entire river into a well. The river was too vast and the well too small, but the well kept growing. Each bit it absorbed made it larger.
That was when he discovered something.
Deep within the Cosmic Core, three immense masses of energy lay dormant.
The first was dark red and carried the aura of Omnipotent Reality. Ōtsutsuki Juzhi's. The second was pitch-black and carried the aura of Death Designation. The Eternal Death God's. The third was gray-white and smelled of mist. The Lord of the Misty Forbidden Zone's.
Three Peak World Lords. Three beings who would have ranked as Golden Immortals even in the Primordial World.
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