Arc 15The Heavenly Court’s Expansion

Toyotomi Yinglang freed Kaguya, made her and his closest followers gods bound to the Heavenly Court, and sent them to spread the Empire’s influence among other planets. The first mission established a growing base and the Mechanical God Cult, while Yinglang began training Jilan for the dangers ahead.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang awakened the ultimate forms of the three colors, explored Kaguya’s past, and negotiated her freedom in exchange for her blood and knowledge of the Ōtsutsuki.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang explained his plans for leaving the Shinobi World and expanding the Empire, while Kaguya learned that her new life still came with obligations to him.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang appointed Kaguya, Nagato, Sasori, Yutian, Kushina, Liuli, Yahiko, and Konan to divine positions that bound them to the Heavenly Court.
  • Sasori formed the Mechanical God Cult to spread technology and cultivation under a religious guise, and Toyotomi Yinglang approved its gradual expansion.
  • Kaguya led Nagato, Sasori, and the others through the Void Gate to Planet No. 1, where Nagato healed a tribe, declared its people part of the Empire, and began building a base.
  • Sasori introduced the Divine Grace Evolution System, and Nagato accepted that faith would help establish the Empire’s rule among the tribespeople.
  • Sasori and Yahiko used A Mu’s strength to impress the gathered tribespeople, while Toyotomi Yinglang trained Jilan in a gravity chamber and told Kushina to keep increasing the difficulty.
Chapters 351–375 Vol. 4 Read

Ch. 351Happy Education Did Not Affect Konoha

In the British Continent’s Imperial Palace, Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Tsunade that Konoha’s strength came from bloodlines and family inheritance, not education, so Happy Education would not threaten its ruling families. Tsunade left questioning whether a commoner could ever be a true genius, while Yinglang declared that Konoha’s rules were his rules too.

  • Tsunade questioned whether Happy Education could make Konoha stronger, and Toyotomi Yinglang replied that it could not but benefited them.
  • Yinglang argued that Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Minato Namikaze, and Might Duy were not commoners, pointing to their exceptional chakra, abilities, or constitutions.
  • Yinglang claimed Minato had Senju blood and that Might Duy’s ability to use Eight Gates: Gate of Death came from a rare constitution inherited by Might Guy.
  • Yinglang told Tsunade that Konoha’s strong came from bloodlines and families, while Commoner School students would become cannon fodder, and Tsunade left the study.
  • When Tsunade asked what would happen if a true genius appeared among commoners, Yinglang said the person would have an undiscovered bloodline and privately declared Konoha’s rules were his rules.

Ch. 352Kumogakure's education

Kinkaku and Ginkaku established Kumogakure’s Ninja Academy and taught a curriculum focused on survival, strength, loyalty, and self-control, while spreading a ranking system that placed super Kage above peak Kage. Kinkaku planned to use chakra seeds from Taishang Laojun to build a loyal village core and ended the chapter waiting for Master’s return as the rankings spread beyond Kumogakure.

  • Ginkaku told Kinkaku that the Yotsuki Clan in the Land of Lightning had been wiped out, leaving no Yotsuki Clan in Kumogakure.
  • Ginkaku presented Kumogakure’s four-part education plan, and Kinkaku approved its focus on survival, ninja foundations, belonging, and temperament.
  • Kinkaku taught academy students the strength rankings and warned them that Kumogakure would not support those unwilling to endure hardship, injury, or danger.
  • Kinkaku explained to Ginkaku that the curriculum followed Taishang Laojun’s guidance and aimed to create ninja who could fight, protect their home, survive, and control themselves.
  • Kinkaku said they would select capable loyal followers for Master’s chakra seeds, which could strengthen and connect them to him, and predicted other Shinobi Villages would soon learn the rankings.

Ch. 353The Twins' Yin Release

Kinkaku and Ginkaku trained in the three colors of Yin Release and awakened powerful spiritual abilities. Kinkaku ordered Kumogakure’s elite jonin to begin training while keeping the Twin Fruits’ abilities secret.

  • Kinkaku and Ginkaku used their synchronized training to develop Color of Armament and Color of Observation to intermediate levels.
  • Kinkaku awakened Color of the Supreme King and demonstrated its Intimidation ability.
  • Kinkaku planned to train the three colors further and use the Twin Fruits to share his and Ginkaku’s results.
  • Kinkaku ordered every Elite Jonin in Kumogakure to train in the three colors, focusing on those with aptitude.
  • Kinkaku told Ginkaku to keep the Twin Fruits’ abilities secret as their trump card.

Ch. 354The ultimate realm

Toyotomi Yinglang reached the ultimate realm of Yin Release by uniting the three colors, gaining the power to perceive, touch, and define fate. He chose to wait rather than confront the Sage of Six Paths, while resolving to keep walking beyond the ultimate realm.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang cultivated in the Imperial Palace and awakened the ultimate forms of the three colors, uniting them into a power that could create and define rules.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang used true intent vision to perceive fate across the Shinobi World and found his own fate obscured by a mass of mist and chaos.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang demonstrated authority body and heavenly mandate judgment, negating attacks and defining the possible fates of a Soul Yin Stone.
  • Toyotomi Liuli and Tsunade discussed Toyotomi Yinglang’s cultivation, and Liuli said she understood that he would succeed.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli he had reached the ultimate realm but would only watch the Shinobi World and wait for an opportunity to act against the Sage of Six Paths.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that the ultimate realm was not the end and that he would keep walking, though he did not know how long the path was.

Ch. 355The chess player and the stars

Sasori completed the mass production plan for Superhuman Warriors and received a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit from Toyotomi Yinglang. Toyotomi Yinglang explained the paths to surviving and traveling through space, leaving Tsunade determined to understand her own potential while he continued pursuing his self-forged path.

  • Sasori presented Toyotomi Yinglang with the completed Superhuman Warrior mass production plan, and Toyotomi Yinglang offered him a Devil Fruit as a reward.
  • Sasori requested a Mythical Zoan, and Toyotomi Yinglang promised him the Insect-Insect Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Mechanical God Scorpion Form.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that Six Paths-level powerhouses could survive in space and described the differences between Perfect Six Paths, Mortal Six Paths, and Ōtsutsuki.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang explained that his Six Paths Complete Form came from transforming his body with the ultimate Color of Armament, and told Tsunade she could strengthen her own body through training.
  • Tsunade asked about the Sage of Six Paths, and Toyotomi Yinglang described him as a powerful, half-finished hybrid between human and Ōtsutsuki before Tsunade left the study.

Ch. 356Star Gate

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Tsunade three ways the Great British Empire could travel beyond Earth: spatial teleportation, new Devil Fruits, and advanced technology. He revealed that all three efforts were already underway and vowed that the Empire would keep moving forward, though he did not know how far it could ultimately go.

  • Tsunade asked Toyotomi Yinglang whether there were ways to travel between the stars besides reaching Six Paths level, and he described the Heavenly Court’s coordinate-based spatial teleportation system.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang explained that he had designed the Wormhole Fruit for temporary passages and the Star Gate Fruit for permanent gates between star regions.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang proposed building spacecraft and developing life-support, navigation, and deep-space systems so ordinary people could explore the stars through technology.
  • Tsunade learned that Toyotomi Yinglang had been preparing all three routes since the Great British Empire was founded, with Yutian and the Institute of Technology leading the technological work.
  • Tsunade asked how far they would go, and Toyotomi Yinglang answered that he did not know the end but was certain they would never stop moving forward.

Ch. 357Ancestor Space

Nagato and Toyotomi Liuli awakened their Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, gaining the Monarch Domain and Shadow Body Undying, and Ancestor Space, respectively. Liuli’s clone contacted Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, so Toyotomi Yinglang entered Ancestor Space with her while Nagato stayed behind.

  • Nagato broke through to the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and revealed his Monarch Domain, Shadow Body Undying, and Shadow Devouring Sword abilities.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang explained that Liuli’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan would let her communicate with ancestors, and Liuli awakened Ancestor Space.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli to use a Shadow Clone to explore Ancestor Space before entering herself.
  • Liuli sensed that her clone had encountered Kaguya Ōtsutsuki rather than the Sage of Six Paths.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang left Nagato behind and entered Ancestor Space with Liuli.

Ch. 358A deal with the progenitor (I)

Toyotomi Yinglang brought Toyotomi Liuli to the Primordial Sphere Space, where they met the sealed Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. After refusing Kaguya’s offer to possess Liuli, Yinglang left the door open to negotiating again, while Kaguya wondered what he truly wanted.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that the Primordial Sphere Space was a safe house where the Sage of Six Paths and the Ōtsutsuki Clan could not reach her.
  • Kaguya Ōtsutsuki appeared and learned that Yinglang was the progenitor of the Toyotomi Clan, while Yinglang told her Hagoromo was harvesting souls in the Pure Land.
  • Kaguya asked Yinglang to persuade Liuli to lend her body, promising to grant his dreams in return.
  • Yinglang refused, saying Kaguya could not pay the price he wanted, and revealed that he knew about the Ōtsutsuki Ancestor God Tree.
  • Yinglang and Liuli left after he promised to return if Kaguya came with sincerity, leaving Kaguya wondering what he wanted.

Ch. 359A deal with the Progenitor (II)

Toyotomi Yinglang questioned Kaguya Ōtsutsuki about the Ōtsutsuki Clan and sought a universe map and cultivation methods in exchange for helping her escape. He left Kaguya to consider his terms and ended the chapter expecting her to agree because she had no other choice.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade he intended to use Kaguya as a resource and discussed her dependence on Liuli to escape the Primordial Sphere Space.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang asked Kaguya for a map of the universe showing inhabited planets and for the Ōtsutsuki Clan's cultivation methods.
  • Kaguya explained the Ōtsutsuki hierarchy and said she knew little, while Toyotomi Yinglang promised he could help her escape if she accepted conditions.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli that the Hyuga, Uchiha, and Senju inherited traits from the Ōtsutsuki bloodline, then said he planned to leave the planet with his people one day.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang said he would wait for Kaguya to name her price and told Liuli he believed Kaguya would agree because she had no choice.

Ch. 360A deal with the progenitor (III)

Toyotomi Yinglang freed Kaguya from her seal by placing her soul in a moon-god body, in exchange for her origin blood and knowledge of the Ōtsutsuki Clan. As Moon God Kaguya began adjusting to life in the New Capital, Yinglang held her to their treaty and left their future plans undecided.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang offered Kaguya a moon-god body made with a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit and presented a treaty requiring her to share her origin blood and Ōtsutsuki knowledge and refrain from attacking him or his forces.
  • Kaguya agreed to the treaty, transferred her soul into the new body, and became Moon God Kaguya.
  • In the New Capital, Kaguya experienced the moon as freedom and learned that the residents' chakra came from Yinglang's chakra seeds rather than the God Tree.
  • Yinglang told Kaguya to learn the world's language, culture, history, ninjutsu, and technology before they discussed what came next.
  • Kaguya thanked Yinglang, who insisted that freeing her had been a deal rather than an act of kindness.

Ch. 361A Deal with the Progenitor (IV)

Toyotomi Yinglang gave Kaguya a chakra seed, cultivation manual, and Soul Yin Stone, then left her to train as Moon God Kaguya. He told Tsunade that he intended to use Kaguya as a tool, but said he would not treat Tsunade that way because she was his woman.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Kaguya she needed training and combat experience, then gave her his chakra seed so she could cultivate chakra.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang gave Kaguya a manual on supernatural power and a Soul Yin Stone to strengthen her spiritual energy.
  • Kaguya began studying the manual alone after Toyotomi Yinglang left her to train by herself.
  • Tsunade asked whether Kaguya could truly become a moon god, and Toyotomi Yinglang explained that she had to relearn how to use her power.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that Kaguya was a tool he intended to polish and use.
  • Tsunade asked whether he would ever treat her as a tool, and Toyotomi Yinglang said no because she was his woman.

Ch. 362Domestication

Toyotomi Yinglang questioned Kaguya about the Ōtsutsuki Clan and explained that he intended to incorporate planets into the Empire rather than plunder them. He reassured her that he would not sacrifice her, then asserted control over her body and ordered her to stay with him, leaving her to realize she had traded one prison for another.

  • Kaguya told Toyotomi Yinglang that she had been an Ōtsutsuki branch-family sacrifice intended for Isshiki before ambushing him and eating the Chakra Fruit.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang described the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s hierarchy and criticized its crude approach to harvesting planets, promising to show Kaguya how the Empire incorporated worlds.
  • Kaguya asked whether Toyotomi Yinglang would ever sacrifice her, and he said no because she was Moon God Kaguya rather than Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
  • Kaguya asked whether Toyotomi Yinglang feared her, and he said she owed him for her body, freedom, and power, framing their relationship as a transaction.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Kaguya to stay that night and claimed her designed body instinctively obeyed him as he held and kissed her.
  • Kaguya realized that her new body and her connection to Toyotomi Yinglang had become another cage, and she believed she could never escape.

Ch. 363Slaves and Super Kage

Toyotomi Yinglang explained the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s slave hierarchy and the resource-driven cycle of growing stronger to Tsunade and Kaguya. Tsunade and Kaguya left with his assurance that they could break their respective cycles, though it would take time.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang outlined his strength rankings, and Kaguya explained that ordinary Ōtsutsuki slaves were below weak Kage while slave bosses reached super Kage.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha had been super Kage-level, and Tsunade reacted with anger and humiliation at the thought that the Shinobi World Wars had been slave infighting.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang explained that strength required resources and described the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s and Empire’s cycles of plunder, growth, and expansion.
  • Tsunade asked whether she could break the cycle, and Toyotomi Yinglang said she could, but it would take time.
  • Kaguya asked whether she could break the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s cycle, and Toyotomi Yinglang gave her the same answer.

Ch. 364A way out

Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade he had prepared to evacuate the Toyotomi Clan if the Ōtsutsuki threatened the Shinobi World, and explained why he did not consider Konoha or the world his home. Tsunade left after asking whether he would grieve if Konoha were destroyed, while Yinglang reaffirmed his loyalty to his clan and empire.

  • Tsunade asked Toyotomi Yinglang what he would do if the Ōtsutsuki Clan descended, and he described how his independent realms and mobile territory could let him escape with the Toyotomi Clan.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang said he would leave the Shinobi World, which he considered rotten, and explained that his marriage to Sasha had also protected the Toyotomi Clan from Konoha's control.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang argued that Konoha's civilians and lesser clans benefited from the Uchiha Massacre, while Tsunade insisted that many of them were innocent.
  • Tsunade asked whether Yinglang would be happy if Konoha were destroyed, and he answered that he would feel neither happiness nor sadness.
  • After Tsunade left, Toyotomi Yinglang declared that the Toyotomi Clan was his clan, Great Britain was his country, and Roran was its vassal state.

Ch. 365Two Women's Late-Night Conversation

Kushina and Tsunade discussed Toyotomi Yinglang’s nature, Kushina’s place in his empire, and whether they would leave the Shinobi World with him. Kushina affirmed that she trusted him and would follow wherever he went.

  • Tsunade asked Kushina what kind of person Toyotomi Yinglang was, and Kushina said he judged things by whether they benefited or harmed him.
  • Tsunade questioned whether Kushina felt stifled because Jilan was not Crown Prince, but Kushina recalled being treated as a weapon in Konoha and said Yinglang saw her as a person and let her choose her own path.
  • Kushina said Jilan would become a king with his own territory, army, and subjects, and that she was satisfied with her place as Consort Xin and his mother.
  • Tsunade asked whether Yinglang would someday leave the Shinobi World, and Kushina said she and the others would follow him because he had never lied to her.

Ch. 366Branch Family

Kaguya trained with Toyotomi Yinglang, who explained her status in the Ōtsutsuki hierarchy and compared its closed ranks with the Empire’s system of advancement. He believed Kaguya could eventually reach Branch Family strength, though it would take time.

  • Kaguya practiced swordsmanship for two hours, and Toyotomi Yinglang praised her progress.
  • Kaguya asked about her standing among the Ōtsutsuki, and Toyotomi Yinglang said she had once been Cadet Family but was now Moon God Kaguya, outside their system.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang placed himself, the Sage of Six Paths, and Hamura Otsutsuki at Branch Family strength and reasoned that the Sage and Hamura had not reached the Ōtsutsuki Progenitor’s power.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang explained that he opposed hierarchies without a path upward and described how people in the Empire could rise through merit and achievement.
  • Kaguya asked whether she could reach Branch Family strength, and Toyotomi Yinglang said she could if she gave it time.

Ch. 367Another form of slavery

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Kaguya how the Empire controlled its colonies and vassal states through unequal trade and political dependence, calling this a form of invisible slavery. He told Kaguya she was not a slave but the Empire’s Moon God, leaving her alone to wonder whether she was still Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.

  • Kaguya asked Toyotomi Yinglang whether the Empire had slaves, and he said slavery had been abolished but still existed in the colonies and vassal states in another form.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang explained that the Empire profited by trading manufactured goods for local resources at unequal values, using information the local people lacked.
  • He described how the Empire backed vassal kings and controlled their armies, markets, taxes, and resources while their subjects believed they were free.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Kaguya that colonial rule created invisible shackles through interests and habits rather than whips and fear.
  • Kaguya asked whether she was a slave too, and Toyotomi Yinglang said she was the Empire’s Moon God before leaving her to question her identity.

Ch. 368Recruiting the kings of the rat race

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Kaguya how he would give supernatural power to distant planets and recruit the strongest rulers through divine positions that bound their souls. After Kaguya left, he watched the stars and reflected on his plan to control the universe through the rat race.

  • Kaguya showed Toyotomi Yinglang a star chart of the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s Life Planets, where no Ōtsutsuki remained.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang said he would grant the planets supernatural power so their inhabitants would compete for strength and status, then recruit the winners into the Heavenly Court and Underworld.
  • Kaguya questioned whether ambitious rulers would obey, and Toyotomi Yinglang explained that divine positions bound their souls and let him punish disobedience.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Kaguya that rules and soul-binding divine positions would let the Empire expand across distant planets more effectively than force.
  • Kaguya asked whether the planets’ inhabitants would hate him, and Toyotomi Yinglang said they would never know he had caused their struggles.
  • After Kaguya left, Toyotomi Yinglang gazed at the moon and stars, repeated his plan’s key ideas, and smiled coldly.

Ch. 369Sowing

Toyotomi Yinglang assigned Nagato, Yahiko, Konan, Yutian, Kushina, Liuli, Kaguya, and Sasori to spread supernatural power across extraterrestrial planets and build faith in the Heavenly Court and Underworld. The mission was set to begin in batches under Kaguya’s lead, while Nagato left wondering whether they would ever learn the truth and come to hate Yinglang.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang ordered the group to travel through the stars, spread supernatural power, and guide extraterrestrial beings to worship gods of the Heavenly Court and Underworld.
  • Nagato and Sasori asked about whom the beings should worship and whether new recruits could steal faith power, and Yinglang said the missionaries could hold divine positions while the realms’ core systems controlled all faith.
  • Kaguya asked how they would reach planets beyond the moon, and Yinglang promised to use Void Gate teleportation and summon them back if necessary.
  • Nagato worried that extraterrestrial beings might resent the imposed faith system, and Yinglang contrasted the Empire’s lasting order with the Sage of Six Paths’ reliance on hatred and death.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Kaguya to lead the first mission, with the group departing in batches and establishing themselves steadily.
  • Nagato asked whether they would someday hate Yinglang, and Yinglang replied that they would never know the truth before Nagato left the hall.

Ch. 370Divine Positions

Toyotomi Yinglang bestowed divine positions on eight followers, binding their souls to the Heavenly Court and assigning each a domain and duties. The new gods accepted their roles as he declared the Empire’s future was in their hands.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang warned that divine positions bound their recipients’ souls to the Heavenly Court and required obedience to its rules.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang named Yutian Ksitigarbha King, assigning him to oversee Hell and maintain order in the Underworld.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang named Sasori Fire Virtue Star Lord, Kaguya Moon God, and Nagato Shadow King, giving each control of a Heavenly Court division and domain.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang named Kushina Celestial Fox and Liuli Empress, assigning them duties over the Spirit Domain and Phoenix Domain, respectively.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang named Yahiko Corrosion King and Konan Paper King, placing them in charge of their respective powers and domains.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang declared the eight to be gods of the Heavenly Court and placed the Empire’s future in their hands.

Ch. 371The Mechanical God Cult

At the Imperial Palace’s Institute of Technology, Sasori revealed the Mechanical God Cult, a belief system designed to recruit and test talented people for the Empire. Toyotomi Yinglang approved the missionary plan and told the group to expand across planets slowly and secure each one before moving on.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang offered Nagato’s group several supernatural powers for their missions and said Kaguya would lead them to the first planets once the Void Gate was ready.
  • Sasori transformed with the Mechanical God Scorpion Devil Fruit and introduced his organization as the Mechanical God Cult.
  • Sasori explained that the cult would promote evolution through technology, cultivation, and battle, with the ultimate goal of becoming gods in the Heavenly Court.
  • Sasori admitted that the cult would screen champions for the Empire, recruiting those who earned Divine Positions while the others continued competing.
  • Sasori told Toyotomi Yinglang that the first missionaries would come from the Institute of Technology and the Shadow Guard, and Toyotomi Yinglang approved the plan and ordered gradual expansion.

Ch. 372Planet No. 1

Nagato led the Empire’s first expedition to Planet No. 1, where he and his companions built a base and brought a primitive tribe under imperial influence through healing, farming, and chakra cultivation. With the first stage complete, Nagato planned to establish a nation and recruit its strongest cultivators into divine positions.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang sent Nagato, Yahiko, Konan, Yutian, Kushina, Liuli, and Sasori through the Void Gate to Planet No. 1, with Kaguya guiding the expedition.
  • The group surveyed the planet and found primitive tribes, no supernatural power, and few resources, so Nagato decided to build a base and make contact with the locals.
  • After a month, Nagato healed a deadly illness in the eastern tribe and declared its people part of the Empire.
  • Sasori and Yutian developed the Mechanical God Cult’s approach of combining science with theology, while Nagato agreed to teach the tribe practical skills before chakra cultivation.
  • Two months later, the tribe had moved into the expanded base, learned imperial crafts and language, and begun cultivating chakra seeds; Nagato declared the first step complete and planned to establish a nation.

Ch. 373Divine Grace

Sasori explained how the Mechanical God Cult would present the Empire’s gene serum as “God’s Blessing” and chakra training as “Divine Grace” to win the tribespeople’s faith. Nagato accepted that faith could become a rule binding the growing settlement to the Empire, while the tribespeople returned to the base believing its inhabitants were God’s messengers.

  • Sasori presented the Divine Grace Evolution System, using gene serum as “God’s Blessing” and the chakra cultivation system as “Divine Grace.”
  • Nagato and Konan questioned the religious framing, and Sasori described it as translating science and technology into theology for the tribespeople.
  • Tribespeople returned from hunting with Empire-issued supplies, and one young tribesman said he hoped to become God’s messenger.
  • Nagato asked whether the tribespeople would eventually learn the truth, and Sasori said they would already depend on the Empire by then.
  • Nagato agreed with Sasori that faith was a kind of rule as snow fell over the rune-lit base.

Ch. 374Expansion

Nagato, Sasori, and Yahiko expanded the Mechanical God Cult on Planet No. 1, using its blessings to draw more tribes toward the Empire. Toyotomi Yinglang visited Kushina and Jilan before discussing the Cult’s strategy with Kaguya, ending with his certainty that Jilan would not hate him.

  • Sasori reported that the base’s population had passed five thousand and explained that the Mechanical God Cult’s blessings would attract more tribes and their faith.
  • Nagato said a distant tribe’s chief called their god a fraud, and Sasori proposed proving the serum’s power to the tribe’s weakest member.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang visited Kushina and Jilan, gave Kushina Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid for Jilan’s face, and left to attend to Imperial matters.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Kaguya that the Mechanical God Cult used a scientific core beneath a theological cloak to make primitive people trust the Empire.
  • Kaguya asked whether Jilan might hate him one day, and Toyotomi Yinglang replied that Jilan would not because he was his son.

Ch. 375Uprooting a tree

At the Mechanical God Cult base, A Mu demonstrated his newfound strength by uprooting a tree, prompting Sasori to predict a surge of recruits. Toyotomi Yinglang began Jilan’s gravity training and defended his harsh regimen as necessary to prepare his son for the future.

  • A Mu uprooted a five-meter tree before the gathered tribespeople, who cheered and praised the Mechanical God Cult.
  • Sasori explained that A Mu’s transformation would attract more people, and Yahiko asked whether the base could house them.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang showed Kushina and Jilan the Superheavy Fruit’s gravity chamber and set Jilan to train for an hour at twice normal gravity.
  • Jilan completed the session without falling, and Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina to continue the daily training and increase the gravity as Jilan adapted.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Kaguya that he feared Jilan would be killed if he remained weak, and he believed Jilan would eventually understand his decision.
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