The Immortal Palaces were clans specifically responsible for worshipping the Tailed Beasts during the Primordial Era.
The Immortal Palace clans generally consisted of Ninjas who had received Jinchūriki legacies.
They provided the Tailed Beasts with comfortable lives, while the Tailed Beasts supplied the Immortal Palace clans with their power.
Of course, the Immortal Palaces also divided their duties.
The beast-eared girls Luo Yu had just seen belonged to the Fox Immortal Palace and served this world's Fox Immortal.
In other words, the Nine-Tails.
Their clan had received the Uzumaki Clan's legacy at the beginning of the Ninja era, thus taking on the responsibility of living alongside the Fox Immortal.
Influenced by the Nine-Tails' power generation after generation, the members of the Fox Immortal Palace gradually developed various foxlike traits.
They had it pretty good. At least they looked attractive.
The neighboring Sea Immortal Palace worshipped the giant octopus Eight-Tails and the Great Turtle Three-Tails, and its members had traits of marine creatures.
Becoming a Naga that retained a human face was still fine, but turning into a Fish-Man truly fell outside human standards of beauty.
Incidentally, the Immortal Palaces belonged to no country. Their relationships with nations were strictly alliances.
Lotus Court, which produced many Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, and the Land of the Sea, which produced many Three-Tails Jinchūriki, both had good relations with the Sea Immortal Palace.
After all, not every Ninja who received a Jinchūriki legacy belonged to an Immortal Palace clan.
Most who qualified to become Immortal Palace members had ancestors among the earliest Jinchūriki Ninjas of the Primordial Era.
"Holy shit! I thought the system would hand one over for free, like with Tobi. Don't tell me I have to catch one myself!"
Luo Yu panicked.
Most Tailed Beast Jinchūriki were the current heads of their Immortal