The Nine Tailed Beasts All Had Names!

Hashirama immediately pressed for details when he heard this. "What did the trial involve?"

Lumen did not answer right away. Instead, he looked toward the remnants of Wood Release in the Valley of the End, which had yet to completely dissipate.

"Before we discuss the trial, there is something else you need to understand."

Tobirama frowned.

"What else?"

"The God Tree, the Chakra Fruit, and the Tailed Beasts you speak of were originally all the same kind of power."

Hashirama's expression froze.

"The Tailed Beasts and the God Tree were the same kind of power?"

"That's right."

Lumen said calmly, "The God Tree was no ordinary tree. After descending upon a planet, it continuously drained the earth, life, and natural energy until it eventually bore a Chakra Fruit."

"And when it did not bear fruit, or returned to its original form, it was the Ten-Tails."

"The God Tree's true body was the Ten-Tails, while the Chakra Fruit was a crystallization of power formed after the Ten-Tails devoured all life on an entire planet."

Tobirama's expression changed.

He had conducted considerable research on the Tailed Beasts and had personally come into contact with the Nine-Tails' chakra.

In his understanding, Tailed Beasts were special living beings formed from an immense aggregation of chakra. They possessed consciousness, could think, and wielded power far beyond that of ordinary shinobi.

But Lumen was now telling him that the source of the nine Tailed Beasts was the Ten-Tails, which devoured the life of worlds.

"You mean the One-Tail through Nine-Tails did not exist from the beginning?"

"Of course not."

Lumen said, "In the beginning, the Shinobi World had only the God Tree—the Ten-Tails."

"After Kaguya consumed the Chakra Fruit, she obtained the immense power accumulated by the God Tree. Later, she fused with the God Tree