Although Ayakashi had been released, the devastation Yu's body had suffered did not heal with the lifting of the ocular technique.
It was permanent. Only the Divine Tree's Chakra Fruit could save him.
At this moment, there were only twenty-one days left until the Divine Tree Fruit in Double-Moon Space could be harvested.
Everything was in place; only one crucial element was missing.
The prerequisite for consuming a Chakra Fruit was possessing the bloodline of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family.
For a human like Yu, he had to receive the Karma of a Main Family member and let it completely thaw before he could become an Ōtsutsuki.
Karma was a compressed package of an Ōtsutsuki's life information. The price of thawing it was the loss of one's personality—body and soul alike would be completely replaced by the corresponding Ōtsutsuki.
That was why Karma had to be modified, turning it from a compressed package into a patch.
Yu had begun laying the groundwork many years ago. Amado existed for precisely this purpose!
Logically speaking, even if the Divine Tree Fruit was harvested twenty-one days from now, Yu did not need to consume it immediately. He was merely weak; he would not die.
By that logic, Amado's experimental results did not necessarily have to be bound by the next twenty-one days.
But this involved the wager Yu had previously made with Ryushiki.
"Heaven-Earth Unity, you'll acknowledge me as your host now, won't you?"
"Don't you have Amado?"
"Why are you so fixated on Amado? Wouldn't it be better to cooperate with me directly?"
"Do you remember what you said when you mentioned Urashiki?"
"Urashiki... I said he was an Ōtsutsuki Rootless King?"
"No. Before you said Rootless King, you said, 'My judgment of people still lacks refinement!'"
"So that's what this is about...