Two weeks later.
It was the fifth day since Eida had emerged from seclusion.
This God Tree Fruit did not need to evolve Eida's bloodline or eliminate the hidden problems within her body.
Thus, unlike the first time she had consumed a God Tree Fruit, Eida had not slept for half a year. Instead, she had taken only a week to absorb it completely through the effects of Omnipotence Shinjutsu.
She had even spent another two days making adjustments, only successfully ending her seclusion once everything was fully perfected.
After Tsunade's examination confirmed that the malnutrition affecting Eida and her child had been completely resolved, Xuandou finally felt at ease.
After spending some more time with Eida and the other women.
Only then did Xuandou enter the secret chamber in the deepest part of the Imperial Palace.
He closed the door and took a drop of shimmering golden liquid, resembling gold, out of the system space.
Divine Marrow.
According to the system's description, it was a substance condensed from a god's essence. Consuming it could set a body of flesh and blood on the path to godhood, and with sufficient nourishment, it could become a demigod's body.
He had already decided that after emerging from seclusion, he would immediately head to the Ōtsutsuki Clan Grounds and look for opportunities to obtain as many God Tree Fruits as possible.
To forge a demigod's body.
Rather than stay in the Shinobi World, defeating the young only for their elders to come.
Waiting for wave after wave of Ōtsutsuki enemies to show up at his door.
His children, students, clansmen, subjects... all these people lived in the Shinobi World. How could he let the Ōtsutsuki enemies choose this place as their battlefield?
Besides, Xuandou did not believe that the Ōtsutsuki, who had run