Above the Nether River, the eight gods had taken their positions. Huiyao, the god overseeing the Netherworld plundering plan, swept her gaze toward the horizon.
"Yanmo, Hemo, it is about time you showed yourselves!"
Great Yamato Toyo-Akitsu.
Yu smiled. "Begin. If we are putting on an act, we should see it through...!"
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Soon, two figures swept over from Tsukushi Island among the Eight Islands of Yomi and knelt before the gods!
"Greetings, Lady Huiyao! Greetings, honored gods!"
Huiyao asked majestically, "Have the Divine Tree Saplings I ordered you to prepare in advance been readied?"
Yanmo said, "Th-this... We followed our orders to Eight-Seek Hall, but we did not find the Divine Tree Saplings!"
"Is that so..." Huiyao turned and looked over the two of them, a cold smile curling across her lips. "Human Path Pain · Soulless Puppet. So that was it. All these years, we have been thoroughly played... Kibizan!"
"Understood, Elder Sister!"
Atop Garuda's back, Kibizan's Rinnegan flew open!
God · Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb!
Boom! Boom!
Enma and Hemo rose into the air, their bodies transforming into the cores of Expanding Truth-Seeking Orbs and expanding outward... Until two muffled explosions rang out, the once-mighty Reaper and Soul Guardian Deity became scattered fragments of Truth-Seeking Orbs, utterly erased!
The reason they had not personally carried the Divine Tree Saplings and had instead ordered Yanmo and Hemo to prepare them in advance was because the Reincarnation Tunnel was too perilous for the saplings to survive.
Yet even after learning that the saplings could not be carried through and that the eight saplings had been stolen, Huiyao's expression did not change in the slightest.
"The spare Divine Tree Saplings must have been stolen. The Heavenly Mechanism Lock was not triggered, which means the one who stole them was Uchiha