I Need the Method You Once Used to Separate the Tailed Beasts

Clearly, Hagoromo Otsutsuki knew nothing about the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Though he had lived with Kaguya Otsutsuki for a long time, he knew little about her.

"Mother did say she needed those things to face the enemies that would come someday. But my brother and I couldn't accept what she was doing, and in the end..."

Hagoromo Otsutsuki's voice was conflicted. Even knowing now that Kaguya Otsutsuki had her reasons for preparing the White Zetsu, he did not regret what he had done.

He only felt a little wistful.

"That doesn't matter anymore. I'm facing a calamity that's about to engulf the entire Ninja World. Aren't you going to help me out?"

"And take me to see the real Pure Land."

"I don't believe you've spent all these years sitting here with these sleeping dead."

Uchiha Ensei sensed something else, but as a soul in this strange place, he could make out nothing more.

Clearly, those dormant souls weren't the only reason the Sage of Six Paths had chosen to die.

Hagoromo Otsutsuki fell silent for a moment. "That place isn't suited to the living."

Uchiha Ensei wasn't sure whether Hagoromo Otsutsuki was hiding any secrets, but he didn't care.

With his current strength, he was already no weaker than the Sage of Six Paths had once been. As for what a thousand years of growth had done for Hagoromo...

Well, he didn't seem to have changed much.

He had slightly less chakra than Ensei, and the power of his Rinnegan didn't seem much greater either. His soul's strength... was hard to judge, though it seemed far stronger than Ensei's.

"What are you worried about?"

Uchiha Ensei's sudden question jolted Hagoromo Otsutsuki from his thoughts.

"Nothing. There are simply some souls there that are rather hostile to humans."

Hagoromo Otsutsuki considered