For Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, there were two things that absolutely could not go wrong.
The Ten-Tails and his vessel for reincarnation.
They were the key to his becoming a god. Had Kaguya Otsutsuki not ambushed him a thousand years ago, he would already have been preparing to consume his second Chakra Fruit.
Every Chakra Fruit he consumed brought a clearly visible rise in his level of existence.
Now this primitive planet was changing too quickly. Kaguya, who had attacked him, had been sealed for a thousand years, and chakra had spread far and wide. If he wanted to gather all that chakra again, he could only rely on Infinite Tsukuyomi.
That made the Ten-Tails indispensable. Only by raising the Ten-Tails to maturity could Ōtsutsuki Isshiki use him to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi and reclaim all the chakra in the Shinobi World.
"Damn it, where's the Ten-Tails?"
When Jigen arrived at the Ten-Tails' location and found no sign of him, considerable anger built up inside him. Had he known, he would have put the Ten-Tails in an alternate dimension. With the Shinobi World's natives constantly exploring other parts of the planet since their unification, even this desert region was no longer safe.
But before he could move the Ten-Tails, this had happened.
Bzzz!
"Hm?"
Jigen suddenly sensed violent tremors coming from six directions in the distance. These tremors were highly unusual and soon reached his location, though they had no effect on him. No, they did have a slight effect: Jigen discovered that his space-time ability seemed to have been affected, making it extremely difficult to open a passage.
The moment that thought arose, he tried it, only to find that opening a space-time passage had become much slower.
Just then, an extremely dangerous sensation suddenly came from behind him. Jigen felt that