After watching the humans slaughter one another below for a while, Beelzemon seemed to sense something. He turned to one side, his tone amused but wary:
"Oh? Hagoromo is still watching the Ninja World!"
"I can't let him discover my plan."
As the words left his mouth, light flickered around Beelzemon. His form instantly changed back into the harmless, simple-looking Gamamaru, and he slipped silently into the shadows.
The expressions of every living being before the Sky Curtain changed. A chill ran through them, and cold sweat broke out across their backs.
No one had imagined that the mastermind behind the war between Kaguya and her two sons, and the thousand years of conflict that followed, was that seemingly harmless Gamamaru.
What was this Digital World?
And what were the Three Great Angels and Seven Great Demon Lords?
What was more, Hagoromo apparently had not truly died.
The years rolled on, but the flames of war never went out.
While slaughter continued across Douluo Star and the cycle of fate repeated, a streak of light cut through the distant darkness of space and descended above the planet.
It was a spaceship, identical to the one that had brought Kaguya to Douluo Star.
The hatch opened, and two Otsutsuki emerged, each with a pair of Byakugan and one Rinnegan. Their Rinnegan were different: one was black, the other yellow.
The Otsutsuki with the black Rinnegan checked an object in his hand that resembled a tablet.
"Coordinates confirmed. This is the planet where Isshiki and Kaguya carried out their mission."
"Come on. Let's find that traitor and check the God Tree's growth and fruit yield."
A thousand years had passed, changing the face of the world. Records of Kaguya, the God Tree, and the battle between mother and sons had long since faded into obscurity.
After searching, the two found no trace of Kaguya.
"Forget it. She may have left this planet. Let's restart the process, plant another God Tree, and harvest the Chakra afterward."
"All right."
With that, a second God Tree seed fell into the soil of Douluo Star. A new God Tree quietly took root and sprouted, then began voraciously drawing in the planet's life force.
Meanwhile, the two traveled across Douluo Star, refining people with Chakra on their continent into Chakra Pills.
At the same time, on another continent, two men named Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha had brought the fighting to a temporary end and founded Konoha together.
But their conflicting ideals soon drove them apart, and a new battle began.
They fought from the south of the continent to the north.
Madara Uchiha used his Sharingan to control the Nine-Tails, then covered it in Complete Susanoo like armor, unleashing Majestic Attire: Susanoo.
As fate would have it, Hashirama Senju, Asura's reincarnation, used Senjutsu: Wood Release: Thousand-Armed Kan'on to crush the Majestic Attire: Susanoo of Madara Uchiha, Indra's reincarnation.
Just as the two prepared to keep fighting, the Otsutsuki appeared.
The one with the black Rinnegan looked Madara and Hashirama up and down.
"Heh. I didn't expect this world to have people with so much Chakra."
"They'd make delicious Chakra Pills."
"I told you we should have come to this continent sooner."
Faced with two strangers who were clearly hostile,
Madara and Hashirama immediately set aside their differences and stood together.
"What are you?"
"People?" the one with the black Rinnegan murmured, then chuckled.
"You should call us gods."
Madara scoffed.
"Heh. Gods? What a joke!"
"Enough talk with these insects. Get rid of them!"
"All right!"
With that, the two attacked Madara and Hashirama.
Madara and Hashirama were the strongest of their era by an overwhelming margin, but against two Otsutsuki even stronger than Isshiki, they were in an entirely different league. The gap between them was insurmountable.
Together, they unleashed the combined jutsu Majestic Attire: Senjutsu: Thousand-Armed Kan'on: Susanoo.
Yet the move, powerful enough to sweep across the Ninja World, was shattered by a single enormous black energy sphere from the yellow-Rinnegan Otsutsuki.
At that desperate moment, Tobirama Senju found them and used Flying Thunder God to rescue them.
Madara and Hashirama told the others in Konoha what had happened. When they learned that even those two had been crushed, countless people fell into despair.
Then Hagoromo's soul appeared. He poured Six Paths Power into Hashirama and Madara, awakening Madara's Rinnegan and Hashirama's Sage Body.
With his Rinnegan, Madara summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. He and Hashirama then gathered the Nine Tailed Beasts and infused their Chakra into the statue.
Thus, the Ten-Tails returned to the world.
They made Hashirama the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and, following Hagoromo's guidance, found the White Zetsu Army.
The others in Konoha were doing everything they could as well. Tobirama Senju, a master of forbidden jutsu, drew the most attention.
Tobirama Senju used the newly developed Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, with White Zetsu bodies as vessels.
He revived hundreds of renowned figures from the Ninja World's past century.
With White Zetsu as their vessels, these figures had not only regained their strength at its peak but also gained Undying Body and an extraordinarily fast Chakra recovery rate.
Watching this, countless people before the Sky Curtain clenched their fists.
Their ancestors from Douluo Star had to defeat these aliens.
The images continued, but the final outcome was not what anyone had hoped for.
In the final battle, Madara and Hashirama combined their powers to unleash Six Paths: Senjutsu: Ten-Tails Majestic Attire: Thousand-Armed Kan'on: Susanoo. Their opponents still crushed it head-on.
The White Zetsu Army was wiped out. The reincarnated fighters and the Ninja World's army were annihilated. Six Paths Hashirama and Six Paths Madara fought to exhaustion and died.
The two Otsutsuki noticed Black Zetsu watching from afar and attacked him as well.
From then on, no one on Douluo Star could stop the two Otsutsuki.
Before long, the God Tree matured. It ravenously devoured Douluo Star's Life Origin and Nature Energy, bearing a fresh God Tree Fruit.
The two Otsutsuki looked at the ripe God Tree Fruit, then checked the planet's condition. Surprise appeared in their eyes.
When an ordinary planet had its Life Origin drained by a God Tree, all life would die out, leaving it utterly barren.
But even after vast amounts of Chakra and Life Origin had been taken from Douluo Star, its vitality remained immense, with life continuing to flourish.
Like Kaguya before them, the two investigated, but they could not find the source.
"This planet is unusually special. It can produce Life Origin without end."
"We should return and report this immediately."
"All right. But before we leave, I'm going to alter the God Tree. I don't like insects using sacred Chakra."
"Fine. Be quick."
No one knew what the one with the yellow Rinnegan did.
The next moment, the withered God Tree began absorbing Chakra from the air.
The Ninja who had survived on Douluo Star found it harder and harder to draw out Chakra. Gradually, the age of Chakra came to an end.
The Nine Tailed Beasts, which Hashirama had separated from the Ten-Tails before he died, also fell into contemplation.
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