"But although they were merely parallel-world timelines branching out from and dependent on it, they were ultimately on the same level of existence as it.
Although they differed in quality, they were still worlds, so even after it erased those three hundred and sixty-seven timelines, it was left in a state of extreme depletion.
And there were still a full four hundred and eighty-seven timelines left! Those four hundred and eighty-seven timelines also represented four hundred and eighty-seven parallel worlds!
It no longer had the strength to erase the remaining four hundred and seventeen parallel worlds, and to make up for its losses, it once again turned on the other fruits.
The other fruits, which had not awakened their consciousness, were utterly defenseless against a self-aware being that shared their aura of origin, like infants facing a cunning old fox.
Because it had not annihilated its own world this time, unlike before, it directly reduced the other worlds entirely back into the nutrients the tree had provided, using them to replenish itself.
Naturally, the nutrients those other worlds became also contained the seeds of their power systems, along with fragments of 'information.' Once these merged into the Shinobi World, they formed the changes you saw.
And because of the corrective power originating from the tree, nothing abnormal appeared in those things that had merged. As for why you could notice... it was because of the aura of Yomotsu on you.
Yomotsu itself was a place it created through the hands of Izanagi and Izanami, two natural-born gods, to store souls and... the remnants of other worlds.
That was why you and Izuna were unaffected by the corrections. As for it, it fell asleep after devouring three worlds.
At the same time, this very action allowed certain individuals who possessed special