Zou Hyuga gazed at the black crystal. Rather than grasping it directly, he gently lifted it with chakra.
Just then, the diamond-shaped mark on Zou Hyuga's hand blazed with dazzling light. The deep, otherworldly space beside him shattered like a mirror, revealing the true interior of the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
Remains lay scattered inside the box, their former appearances still faintly recognizable.
They were the living beings the Box of Ultimate Bliss had swallowed earlier, now reduced to lifeless corpses.
At the same time, a flood of memories poured into Zou Hyuga's mind, and the black crystal slowly settled into his palm.
Gradually opening his eyes, Zou Hyuga activated his Byakugan and surveyed his surroundings, filled with emotion.
He had obtained the memories of the Box of Ultimate Bliss. Though they were only fragments, they revealed many secrets stretching back hundreds and thousands of years.
The Box of Ultimate Bliss had indeed been created by the Sage of Six Paths, but its purpose was to imprison Gō, a monster embodying fear and violence.
In a sense, the Box of Ultimate Bliss was a cage built to imprison Gō.
And over the long years, the two had gradually become one.
Gō's origins were not so simple, either. Gō had been born of the God Tree and this land, a monster that had run rampant during the age of ninshu. Gō's mere existence could contaminate the Shinobi World.
At this, Zou Hyuga could not help drawing a connection to the other monsters in the Shinobi World, such as the sealed Moryo and the Leyline he controlled.
Were they also products of the God Tree and the earth?
Only the Sage of Six Paths in the Pure Land knew the answer to all this. Perhaps the Three Great Immortals, who had witnessed