Reed Plain Country, Kono Country. Yu looked down from high above and said indifferently, "Not a single living soul in sight. Everyone here is already dead."
Tongtong said in her childish voice, "They were all alive half a day ago, though~"
For a place to be considered a country, its population should have numbered in the hundreds of millions. Yet they had been wiped out within half a day. It was a tragedy beyond comprehension.
"Oh." Yu remained indifferent. It was nothing strange; even Nagato could have done it.
Seeing that Yu seemed uninterested in finding out more, Tongtong puffed out her cheeks. "Then let me show you what happened!"
She stretched out her tiny hand and drew a circle in the sky.
—Hell Replay!
Whoosh! Purple light shot out from the circle, projecting an image into the sky.
At the center of the land stood a massive furnace. Countless people lined up and, from every direction, threw themselves into it. Their bodies were swallowed by dark-red flames, their screams lingering mournfully, yet people continued to rush into the furnace one after another!
Yu narrowed his eyes. "That fire... an Ōtsutsuki Elixir Flame!"
"Heehee~" Tongtong smiled and dispelled Hell Replay. With her little hands behind her back, she stood on tiptoe in midair. "Interested now?"
The Ōtsutsuki had many ways of obtaining Chakra.
Planting Divine Trees and refining elixirs were their primary methods.
But not every land possessed the conditions needed to cultivate Divine Tree Fruits.
Refining elixirs was also an extremely cumbersome process. It was mainly used on individuals with immense Chakra; for Chakra scattered like fireflies, Elixir Release was impractical.
Thus, the "method of incense offerings," used to broadly gather the power of the weak, came into being.
But there were exceptions to everything. Among the Ōtsutsuki... there