Yu exclaimed in shock, "The Ten-Tails was actually created by someone?!"
The White Snake Sage said, "The Yin-Yang Release used to create the Ten-Tails was deeply colored by its creator's intentions. It embodied his long-cherished wish to end the cycle of war, along with his desire to resolve his lingering regrets by granting an external being powers he himself lacked. Thus, the Ten-Tails developed a visual jutsu called the 'Rinne Sharingan,' also known as the 'Samsara Heavenly Eye.' It encompassed all the powers beyond the scope of the Tenseigan's ocular abilities..."
"Furthermore, the Ten-Tails was a seedling of the Divine Tree. Once planted in the earth, it could absorb chakra from the land and living beings. The Root King intended to use this method to diminish Takamagahara's excessive abundance of chakra, addressing the root cause of its wars!"
Yu thought, A seedling? Come to think of it, doesn't that garlic-shaped growth on the Ten-Tails' back look more like a seed?
"The Root King planted the newborn Ten-Tails in Takamagahara's soil. After that, Takamagahara's chakra diminished year by year. Consumed by warfare, its people paid it no mind. By the time they realized something was wrong, the Ten-Tails had grown from a sapling into a towering Divine Tree, its roots spreading throughout the earth beneath Takamagahara!"
"Recognizing the danger, the people resolved to destroy the Divine Tree and reclaim their chakra... The Root King personally took on the role of its guardian. He established a village around it and summoned the surviving members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan to protect it with him."
"With the Tenseigan's formidable ocular powers and the help of his clansmen, whose strength had been greatly tempered by surviving the wars, the Root King guarded the Divine Tree for a thousand years. Though danger beset them time and