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.

Ch. 376Appetite and ability

Toyotomi Yinglang discovered that Jilan could heal injuries and restore stamina by eating, and pushed ahead with his young son’s training despite Kushina’s concern. The chapter ended with Yinglang contemplating Jilan’s unusual ability while holding a Soul Yin Stone.

  • Kushina watched two-year-old Jilan eat an enormous meal as Toyotomi Yinglang explained that eating could heal him and restore his stamina.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that Jilan needed strength to command future subjects and protect himself from enemies, including the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
  • Jilan endured twice normal gravity in the training room, and Toyotomi Yinglang planned to raise it to three times the next day.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang carried hungry Jilan off to eat meat after training, then told Kushina he believed Jilan would turn out well.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang sat alone in his study late at night, considering Jilan’s ability while handling a Soul Yin Stone.

Ch. 377Quality and quantity

Toyotomi Yinglang explained the difference between chakra quantity and quality and described the Ōtsutsuki’s extraordinary endurance, abilities, and recovery. He planned to build Jilan’s chakra reserves through training and other methods while leaving chakra control and combat skill for Jilan to develop, then raised Jilan’s gravity training as Kushina wondered whether their son could one day defeat the Ōtsutsuki.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang used stones and a demonstration of the Color of Armament to explain chakra quantity and quality to Kushina.
  • Kaguya described how Ōtsutsuki could fight without tiring, replenish chakra, recover from severe injuries, and endure long periods of sealing.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang said he would increase Jilan’s chakra quantity through training and supplies, while Jilan would have to develop his own quality through abilities and experience.
  • Jilan endured three times normal gravity, and Toyotomi Yinglang said he would increase the training to four times the next day.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang took the hungry Jilan for meat and told Kushina he believed Jilan would someday defeat the Ōtsutsuki because Jilan was his son.

Ch. 378Invincible Template

Toyotomi Yinglang created an invincible training template for his children and the Empire’s soldiers, then pushed two-and-a-half-year-old Jilan through quadruple-gravity training. He resolved that Jilan would need to earn combat experience through real battles to complete his path to invincibility.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang outlined four requirements for an invincible fighter: an extraordinary body, destructive power, mastery of at least two colors of Yin Release, and pinnacle eye power.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang said all his children and his soldiers and officials should train toward the template, while Liuli focused on her duties as empress.
  • Jilan endured quadruple gravity in the Gravity Room, and Toyotomi Yinglang ordered that his training increase to five times gravity the next day.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang carried the exhausted Jilan off to eat meat and assured Kushina that their son could become invincible.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang added combat experience to the template, deciding that Jilan would have to gain it through a hundred battles.

Ch. 379A wave of pregnancies

Toyotomi Yinglang told Sasha, Pakura, Karura, and Tsunade that he expected them to bear children who would become heirs and future fighters for the Empire. The next morning, Tsunade named her unborn children Toyotomi Senjin and Toyotomi Senrin, while Yinglang considered the four women's children future weapons against the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Sasha, Pakura, Karura, and Tsunade that the Empire needed more heirs and that their children would be trained to fight the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
  • Pakura showed distress at Yinglang's demands, and Karura comforted her while Tsunade challenged Yinglang over treating them as tools for producing children.
  • Tsunade told Yinglang she had chosen the names Toyotomi Senjin for a boy and Toyotomi Senrin for a girl, and he said he would select Devil Fruits for their children's needs.
  • Yinglang told Tsunade to begin caring for her pregnancy and said their children would resemble themselves.
  • In his study, Yinglang considered the potential inherited abilities of the four women's children and called each child a future trump card for the Empire.

Ch. 380Another future

Sakura Haruno brought young Tsunade to the Great British Empire, then asked Toyotomi Yinglang about her future in a world without him. After learning that she would marry Sasuke and live an unhappy life, Sakura reaffirmed her commitment to Yinglang, who told her she would never meet him in that other world.

  • Sakura Haruno told young Tsunade that the Great British Empire was her home and that Konoha's Hokage did not need to know she was there.
  • Sakura told Toyotomi Yinglang that she had brought young Tsunade into the Empire while Konoha believed she was with the Toyotomi Clan.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang described Sakura's future without him: she married Sasuke, who spent years away atoning for his past, while she worked at Konoha Hospital and struggled with a mortgage.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang explained that Sasuke's strength depended on power he had received from others and that, after losing his Rinnegan, he would be left severely weakened and without an arm.
  • Sakura said she wanted a partner who cherished her and cared for his family, thanked Yinglang, and asked whether she would meet him in a world without him.
  • Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura that she would not meet him because that world had neither the Toyotomi Clan nor the Great British Empire.
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