After devouring the Eight-Tails' tentacle, Zou Hyuga quieted his mind and sank his consciousness into the Diamond Mark.
The tentacle soon dissolved into chakra, seemingly intent on displacing Shukaku's chakra, which had entrenched itself there. The two forces began fighting within the black markings.
While those two masses of chakra squared off, all the other chakra obediently huddled in the corners, not moving a muscle.
At the sight, Zou Hyuga couldn't help laughing inwardly. This chakra seemed almost alive.
In fact, it was. Both the tailed beasts and the Leyline were consciousnesses born from chakra, so it stood to reason that other chakra would possess an instinct to seek safety and avoid danger.
As time passed, Shukaku's chakra gradually lost ground and was driven out of the center.
The victorious Eight-Tails chakra took a vicious bite out of Shukaku's chakra, then wandered around the center as though showing off.
"They really are cute... Maybe this was how they behaved around the Sage of Six Paths back then."
After all, the nine tailed beasts hadn't been so powerful from the start. Initially, they had only been a few meters tall, far smaller than the towering beasts they were now.
After witnessing the struggle between the tailed beast chakra, Zou Hyuga couldn't help questioning the purpose behind the tailed beasts' creation.
Aside from dividing up the Ten-Tails, did they serve some other purpose? Perhaps only the Sage of Six Paths knew the answer.
The Sage of Six Paths was a ninja powerful enough to influence the shinobi world even thousands of years after his death.
Reining in his wandering thoughts, Zou Hyuga began mobilizing his own chakra to separate Shukaku's chakra from the Eight-Tails' chakra. He couldn't let them influence and devour each other at will.
In fact, through the black markings,