With a turn of his hand, Fugaku produced a large red pill. Gao-shiki had transformed into it earlier.
The Otsutsuki were a strange lot. They could turn themselves into pills for other members of their clan to absorb.
Fugaku tossed the pill aside. Beside him, the God Tree formed by Little Ten's clone extended a tendril, wrapped it around the pill, and drew it down to its roots to absorb it slowly.
These ordinary Otsutsuki were not as powerful as the Ten-Tails, but each was comparable to a mighty Tailed Beast.
A Space-Time Passage opened. Fugaku stepped through it and emerged in an utterly unfamiliar Star System.
He looked toward one of its planets. It teemed with life, its surface covered in blue and green.
The Rinnegan Mangekyo appeared in his eyes as he peered down at the planet. Forests blanketed its surface, dotted with enormous lakes.
The Otsutsuki had a keen eye for choosing planets. Every planet where they planted a God Tree brimmed with life. None was inferior to Earth; some were even better.
Fugaku's clones had traveled through the Starry Sky for a full year, yet found only a handful of planets that supported life.
Not one compared to the planets planted with God Trees.
Amid a boundless forest, a towering tree stood alone, its roots sunk deep into the planet.
Two Otsutsuki stood not far from the God Tree.
The Pupil Power of the Rinnegan Mangekyo far surpassed that of the Mangekyo Sharingan and the Rinnegan. Even from the Starry Sky, Fugaku could sense the life force of creatures on the planet.
The two Otsutsuki shone like beacons in the dark. They were impossible to miss.
A Space-Time Passage opened, and Fugaku stepped inside.
On the planet, the two were chatting.
"Master, once the God Tree