Four hundred times, five hundred times, a thousand times,
Two thousand times...
Five thousand times...
One day, two days, a week, a month...
Two months.
They tore open space again and again, stepping into Spatial Turbulence.
Under the violent tearing forces and chaotic power of space and time, the shields around Xuandou and his three companions dimmed over and over.
Again and again, they rested and recovered.
Then they set off once more.
Along the way, the four witnessed countless enchanting wonders of the cosmos.
A nebula shrouded in rosy pink clouds unfurled in the darkness, spreading into layers of petals, its central star cluster resembling a flower's heart-a Cosmic Rose blooming deep among the stars.
They also saw five Pillars of Dust several light-years long, colorful butterflies spreading their wings in space, and a globular cluster crowded with millions of ancient stars...
Beyond those, Xuandou glimpsed creatures roaming the universe unlike anything ever seen in the Shinobi World.
Giant elephants thirty percent larger than the Shinobi World, Meteorite Worms as tiny as dust, and plant creatures resembling Tree People that could not be scrutinized in the blazing sun...
All these incredible sights broadened Xuandou's horizons.
Still, perhaps it was because Life Planets were scarce in the universe.
Whether it was because the three had bad luck or because of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, they did not encounter a single Life Planet on this journey.
But two months later,
Having thoroughly maintained every pretense, Xuandou took out the Two Elements Pendant and secretly changed their teleportation destination.
Amid the light and shadows of Spatial Turbulence,
Xuandou and his three companions appeared outside the Ancestral Star, one of the Ōtsutsuki Clan's three main settlements. At its center was a golden sphere, with the surrounding space cleared out except for a single Blue