After taking the Ten-Tails out of Kara's Other Dimension, Naruto, Obito, and Madara returned to the shinobi world.
Using the spatial coordinates Obito had provided, Naruto arrived at the Samsara Grotto and settled the Ten-Tails there.
Naruto had his own reasons for doing this.
As the burial place of the Sage of Six Paths, the Samsara Grotto nurtured natural energy rivaling that of the Three Great Sage Lands!
For the Ten-Tails to become a God Tree, it had to devour an Ōtsutsuki, but to produce a God Tree Fruit, it still needed to absorb the land's vitality.
If the God Tree grew in the shinobi world, it would inevitably drain even more of the little vitality this land had left.
The Samsara Grotto neatly solved that problem!
Naruto wanted to grow stronger, but he did not want to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs and cut off the lifeblood of the shinobi world's development.
"Grandpa Six Paths, I'll make full use of the legacy you left behind. I won't waste a single bit of it, so you can reincarnate in peace..."
Before leaving the Samsara Grotto, Naruto also picked plenty of Strange Fruit to cultivate new Soul Fruits and Vegetables.
Although this operation against Kara had failed to capture Isshiki, it had truly put the initiative in their hands!
At Kara's new Headquarters, Jigen wore a troubled frown.
They had lost three members of the Inner Circle in succession, as well as the Ten-Tails, their very lifeline!
After learning what had happened, Jigen said angrily, "That fool Victor fell for such an obvious trap and dragged Boro and Deepa down with him. Now we're all homeless strays! If I'd known he was such a ticking time bomb, I never would have let him join!"
Amado smoked as he