A new journey symbolized a new beginning. Looking back, it felt as though those turbulent years had only been yesterday.
Uchiha Gen had been counting in his heart. It had been roughly two years since he left Shinobi Planet, and the contingencies he had left behind there could hold out for at most a hundred years before failing.
If he did not return within a century, his relatives and friends—even Madara, who had already obtained the Rinnegan—would become nothing more than a handful of dirt.
But that was only Uchiha Gen's prediction. Time was always moving, and things were always changing. Nothing remained constant. Rather than worry about the future, he might as well focus more on the present.
For example...
"Where should we go?"
Uchiha Gen spread out the Interstellar Map and looked at the densely packed labels. The meanings of many planetary names were obvious at a glance, such as Happy Planet, Mating, Trash Planet...
He had no idea which genius had made this map. Even some resource planets had been marked in great detail. Were they really not afraid of enemies stealing it?
But after thinking about it carefully, he realized that as one of the Three Cosmic Giants, the Ōtsutsuki Clan really did have the capital to be arrogant.
"Forget it. With Fused Bloodline Power, taking things one step at a time and farming weak enemies would be overly cautious."
While being more cautious was indeed not a bad thing, the Ōtsutsuki were not idiots. Once a star system lost contact, they would surely send plenty of people to investigate soon enough.
Therefore, before the Ōtsutsuki could react, he had to gain the power to stand on his own in the universe. Then he could gather his allies and become a malignant tumor latched onto the