Naruto: The Ever-Evolving Sharingan
Chapter 36

Stop slacking and get to work!

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Without waiting for Uchiha Yi to speak, she charged at him, activated her Byakugan, and unleashed her Gentle Fist. Uchiha Yi stood still and let her little fists land squarely on his body.

Hanabi laughed so hard she nearly choked, declaring that she had sealed his chakra points. Uchiha Yi inwardly rolled his eyes and casually teased her.

He said he did not feel any of his chakra points being sealed. Hanabi bounced in frustration, insisting she had seen it clearly, but when she checked the points she had just struck, they were perfectly fine, showing no reaction at all.

Hanabi threw another punch, but her face fell the next second. She had clearly felt herself seal the chakra point, yet nothing looked wrong no matter how she checked. She immediately accused Uchiha Yi of cheating.

Uchiha Yi shook his head and said her Gentle Fist simply was not good enough. His smug look practically screamed, "You're no good," making Hanabi bristle with fury. But his next words instantly extinguished her anger.

He told her not to peek next time, or he would punish her, then turned and left. Hanabi stood there with her face burning red, her heart pounding. Did Yi know I peeked? No, that wasn't peeking! At most, I stumbled across it by accident.

Uchiha Yi found her reaction amusing, though he also regretted what he had casually blurted out. He turned and headed home. There were still things he needed to deal with there.

Before leaving, he had left three hundred shadow clones to practice various skills within the clan and accumulate proficiency. Their chakra came from a shadow clone of the Nine-Tails. Although supplying all those clones had strained the Nine-Tails' shadow clone at first, more than two years had passed, and its chakra reserves had grown considerably.

All three hundred shadow clones could now remain stable. When Yi dispelled them, the proficiency he received was staggering. Although his Limit Sharingan did not level up, he had accumulated over three million proficiency points, leaving him just over two million short of level 7.

As for the Eight Gates, it had originally been on the verge of leveling up. This time, it went straight to level 6, and he even had enough proficiency to reach level 7. With the Eight Gates now at level 7, the Gate of Wonder remained permanently open, increasing his chakra three hundredfold and directly making up for his lack of chakra.

Yi felt that although Six Paths Sage Mode was powerful, it consumed too much chakra. Even the Sage of Six Paths himself could not possibly keep it active forever. With his current chakra reserves and level 7 Eight Gates activated, he could sustain it for three to five hours. Once he reached level 8, he would surely have even more chakra. That was his biggest pleasant surprise.

For the next three days, Uchiha Yi stayed almost entirely at the Hyuga Clan compound. More precisely, he spent his nights holed up in Hinata's room. Even the members of the Hyuga Clan had grown used to it. Hinata was so embarrassed that she barely dared step outside her room during those three days.

Although that was largely because her body felt weak and she had no strength, the real reason was that she was too shy to face anyone. On the third day, when Uchiha Yi planned to take her away, Hinata looked up and tugged at his sleeve, her voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz. "Yi, where are we going?"

Uchiha Yi pointed overhead and said casually, "To the moon!" Hinata blinked, her face full of confusion. "The moon?" But the moment she finished speaking, Uchiha Yi pulled her into his arms and vanished with a shift of his feet. Although they had tried everything they should and should not have done, Hinata had not become any less shy.

A second later, however, she no longer had time to feel embarrassed. After several swift movements, she finally realized that she was flying into the sky with Uchiha Yi. Whether he activated the Rinnegan or the Tenseigan, Uchiha Yi could freely control gravity. It was an innate ability of the Rinnegan that allowed him to levitate.

It was Hinata's first time flying, and she found it utterly fascinating. The sight of her made heat stir in Uchiha Yi's chest, and he nearly wanted to have another round with her right there in the sky. But he had not forgotten the business at hand.

With the Fourth Shinobi World War approaching, Uchiha Yi had originally planned to make sure Hinata could protect herself by the time it began. However, he had scrapped his original plan.

He had initially intended to make Hinata his familiar and directly grant her a Tenseigan. But the system said that a directly bestowed Tenseigan would be weaker than his own. Even combined with Hinata's Byakugan, it would still only be a Tenseigan, and its power simply would not be strong enough.

So Uchiha Yi came up with a new idea: have Hinata absorb the Giant Tenseigan in this spacetime. Once she obtained her own Tenseigan, he would teach her the Eight Gates, making her even stronger.

These were all suggestions the system had given Uchiha Yi after he absorbed the Giant Tenseigan and evolved his own Tenseigan. Back when he first obtained the Rinnegan, the system had already told him that the Limit Sharingan's next evolution would depend on his own circumstances.

The system recommended directly merging his own Tenseigan with it to evolve a Transmigration Rinnegan. But that would cause the Tenseigan evolved from his Byakugan to disappear, and he might no longer be able to grant Hinata a Tenseigan.

Even if he could bestow skills on his familiars again later, Hinata could not afford to wait. His only option was to have her absorb that Giant Tenseigan and obtain a Tenseigan of her own.

But the Flying Thunder God Formula he had left there had vanished, as though that parallel world had disappeared entirely. He could not reach it with Flying Thunder God. Would he have to use the spatial passage?

Uchiha Yi could not be bothered to crawl through a tunnel. With his Tenseigan, he could use its faint connection to the Tenseigan on the moon to teleport there through Divine Flash. It would cost some chakra, but he certainly was not short of that much now.

Only after reaching the moon did he discover that nearly twenty years had passed since his previous visit. This was the moon seventeen or eighteen years later. Uchiha Yi glanced around, sensing for signs of life. It was not that there were few-there was only one. Hinata's surprised cry interrupted him. "Is this the surface of the moon?"

Uchiha Yi nodded. "This is the moon. The Sage of Six Paths sealed Kaguya of the Ōtsutsuki Clan here." Hinata asked again, "Then is this where the Ōtsutsuki Clan with the Byakugan lives?" Uchiha Yi nodded. "Yes, but now..."

A moment later, Uchiha Yi landed with Hinata in front of a palace. He was not unfamiliar with the place, having visited it "last time." Getting inside was easy, but the moment he entered the palace, he sensed an overwhelming surge of chakra. Countless figures appeared immediately afterward.

Uchiha Yi's gaze turned cold. Puppets? He raised his hand and unleashed Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon. With a roar, a gigantic lightning dragon surged forth, sweeping up every puppet. Once they had all been shattered, the sole remaining member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan on the moon stepped out. It was Otsutsuki Toneri.

Uchiha Yi could tell at a glance that the boy was only sixteen. It seemed Toneri had not yet been born when he visited the moon "last time." Uchiha Yi clicked his tongue. "Tsk, so you're the only one left of the Ōtsutsuki Clan now? Otsutsuki Toneri?" The moment he spoke his name, Toneri's expression changed. Despite being a member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, he could see just like an ordinary person.

Toneri stared at him. "Who are you? Why do you know my name?" Uchiha Yi did not answer. Instead, he studied him and asked, "Your aura... Are you Ōtsutsuki Tsukiya's son?" Toneri's expression instantly grew even worse.

Oh? I actually guessed right?

Uchiha Yi raised an eyebrow. "Looks like your Ōtsutsuki Clan paid quite a price to stabilize that Tenseigan. You're the only one left?"

Then his tone shifted, and he added, "If I'm not mistaken, you couldn't keep that Tenseigan under control, and something went wrong. You had no choice but to patch things up with your clan members' Byakugan, even using your own Byakugan to sustain it?"

Although this was only his guess, judging by the repeated changes in Otsutsuki Toneri's expression, he was almost certainly right.

Toneri stared at him, his voice trembling. "Who are you? Why do you know so much?"

Shocked and frightened, he gritted his teeth and summoned every puppet.

This guy's origins are unknown, yet he knows so many of the Ōtsutsuki Clan's secrets. Letting him live will only invite disaster. I have to stop him from leaving!

Watching the puppets swarm toward them from every direction, Hinata nervously clutched the hem of her clothes. Uchiha Yi, however, merely scoffed and raised his hand to unleash Lightning Release: Kirin.

Four lightning kirin charged out, rampaging through the mass of puppets. Before long, every puppet had been reduced to charred fragments.

Otsutsuki Toneri completely lost his composure, his face turning deathly pale.

With a sudden rush, Uchiha Yi floated up in front of him. His Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan flashed briefly, and the next moment, Toneri collapsed limply to the ground.

He turned to Hinata, who had come closer. "It's nothing serious. He just passed out from my genjutsu."

There was one thing he left unsaid, though: Toneri would not wake up for at least ten days to half a month.

Let's go. Business comes first.

He created several shadow clones to settle Toneri somewhere and guard the surroundings, then led Hinata toward the Tenseigan.

Although there was no one else left on the moon, he still did not dare let his guard down. His precious wife was right beside him, after all.

When she spotted the Giant Tenseigan in the distance, Hinata's round eyes widened, and her little mouth fell open far enough to fit an egg.

She tugged at Yi's sleeve. "Yi, is that the Tenseigan you told me about? If I absorb it, I can awaken my own Tenseigan?"

Uchiha Yi firmly suppressed the restlessness in his heart and nodded. "Yes. Don't worry. I'm here. Just relax, accept the power, and awaken your Tenseigan."

Inside, however, he was shouting at the system. Stop slacking and get to work!

Hinata was now his familiar, making her a perfect conduit. Through their bond, the power absorbed from the Giant Tenseigan could be transferred to her.

That way, Hinata could evolve without anything going wrong, and the process would be very quick.

Soon, the system responded. "Ding! Beginning absorption of the Giant Tenseigan."

The Giant Tenseigan's glow slowly dimmed. Uchiha Yi took a lounge chair directly out of Flying Thunder God Space and had Hinata lie down on it.

There was little else he needed to do. Through their familiar bond, the system had already begun transferring power to Hinata, and she soon fell asleep.

Awakening a Tenseigan after a nap was probably the most comfortable way to awaken an eye power.

But things were not that simple. After a while, the system suddenly issued a warning. "Warning! The Giant Tenseigan contains too much energy. Familiar Hinata Hyuga cannot withstand it."

Uchiha Yi's expression changed. An idea quickly came to him, and the next moment, Ōtsutsuki Chuan Yu's body appeared before him.

Chuan Yu's soul had already been erased, but his body remained intact. It was not merely an empty shell.

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