Taitō's will slipped away.
Ryūshiki laid Chito, who had passed out from exhaustion, on the bed, then placed the dying Kōmoku God and Great Strength God inside the Divine Shrine to recuperate.
He swept the ritual circle of the Nine Pillars God Array clean and returned the displaced furnishings to their proper places, bringing everything to a close.
Watatsumi Shrine, where he lived, was protected by a Special Phase Formation, so no one had detected his major undertaking that day or the manifestation of Taitō's will.
His small hands lifted the purified Divine-Grade Fruit. Even someone with Ryūshiki's composure could not help swallowing!
Over a thousand years of work had all been for this moment!
Ōmononushi!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Divine-Grade Fruits were duplicated one after another, dropping onto the floor.
He created nine copies. Together with the original, there were ten!
The number of copies Ōmononushi could produce depended only on an object's volume, not its exalted nature! This was the truth Naruto had once deduced.
But that was not truth. It could only be called "common knowledge."
The truth was that, just as the infinite chakra of Impure World Reincarnation came from Soul Society in the Netherworld...
Dōjutsu such as Ōmononushi and Futsunomitama, which seemingly generated chakra from nothing, also had a source!
Takamimusubi was the source of all chakra in this world. The chakra of the Ōtsutsuki, the God Tree, nature, ninja, and humans-all of it originated from Takamimusubi!
"Are these nine additional Divine-Grade Fruits the limit of what Takamimusubi can divert without disrupting the universe's chakra ecosystem?"
Ryūshiki sank into a long contemplation.
"By my estimate, I should have been able to duplicate at least eighteen Divine-Grade Fruits. That's been cut clean in half. Could Takamimusubi have lost a great deal of chakra somewhere without my