After Kaguya emerged.
The crack didn't close. More people came out.
Yugao Uzuki, Mei Terumi, Yugito Nii... Hiroki was among them too.
Momo scoffed, "Kaguya, you don't honestly believe these weaklings can stand against the Otsutsuki Clan?"
"Not necessarily to defeat them all, but definitely enough to handle you few."
"How arrogant of you!"
Before Momo could speak, Ushiki swept his gaze across their group and leapt straight in front of Hiroki.
He had directly chosen him as his opponent.
Looks like our paths were always meant to cross again... Hiroki mused silently, a faint smile forming as he soared into the distance.
Ushiki assumed he was fleeing, maintaining a cat-and-mouse mentality while chasing closely behind.
Arriving at an empty void space, Hiroki stopped.
"What? You're not running anymore?" Ushiki teased.
"You're right — but this time, it's *you* who can't run away," Hiroki replied.
"Hahaha..." Ushiki paused for a moment before bursting into laughter. Suddenly appearing behind Hiroki, he kicked fiercely toward him.
Poof!
Hiroki's body suddenly transformed into several crimson paper cranes and vanished before Ushiki's eyes.
"What?! That's Body Replacement Technique – Thousand Paper Cranes!" Ushiki exclaimed in shock.
"Funny thing is, every jutsu you've mastered, I know them all." Saying so, Hiroki extended his right palm toward Ushiki, calling out all his moves, "[Immortal Descending from the Heavens!] [Otsutsuki Teleportation], [Time Reversal], [Body Replacement Technique – Thousand Paper Cranes], [Amenotejikara]... Am I right?"
"The golden Rinnegan... How do you have it?" Ushiki became even more shocked. This Rinnegan felt exactly like his own unopened forehead Rinnegan.
"As your enemy, perhaps I should explain clearly before killing you—but unfortunately, I'm short on time today..."
"Presumptuous!" Hearing this, Ushiki got even angrier.
Shaking his head, Hiroki thought,
If I could kill that one before, why not this one?
Ushiki Otsutsuki fell—killed on the spot. From then on, he ceased to exist in both worlds.
...
On the Moon.
After Hiroki and Ushiki left.
The remaining people automatically split into two groups.
Kaguya faced off against Momo.
While Hinata and others surrounded Kinshiki, who remained barely noticeable.
At this moment, both Otsutsuki envoys were being pushed back unexpectedly.
Momo felt furious inside, deeply resentful.
This traitor Kaguya must've secretly taken God Tree's fruit! Otherwise, how could she become this powerful!
A figure resembling a white crane rapidly approached them.
Delighted, Momo thought:
It's Ushiki!
Ushiki won! Well done indeed!
Thump!
Hiroki threw Ushiki's corpse onto the ground.
The fighters involuntarily turned their heads to look.
"P-Is that Ushiki's body?" Kinshiki gasped.
"What?! Ushiki died? Impossible!" Originally hesitating over how to ask for help, upon realizing Ushiki was dead, Momo couldn't believe his eyes.
Under his stunned gaze, Hiroki disengaged from the Immortal Descending from the Heavens form and reverted to his original appearance. Facing Kaguya and others, he asked:
"Need a hand?"
Rarely did he encounter opponents worthy enough to make him use the Otsutsuki Rinnegan.
Madara Uchiha and his ilk had only ever used the Tenseigan.
"No need. Wait two minutes," Kaguya replied calmly.
"Leave the corpse to me. Don't destroy it with All-Killing Ash Bones," Hiroki said.
Kaguya nodded in agreement.
Listening as they casually decided his fate in just a few words, Momo became furious.
He slowly approached Kinshiki, thinking about transforming him into a Chakra Fruit. If he succeeded, his strength would improve dramatically.
Kaguya clearly guessed his thoughts too, and intensified her attacks against him.
Meanwhile, far away, Kinshiki had also been surrounded by Hinata and the others.
Most of his techniques were Taijutsu.
Hinata, Yugao Uzuki, and Yugito were all experts in Taijutsu as well, and each had mastered some Natural Energy.
Shortly afterward, Momo and Kinshiki were getting overwhelmed.
"I won't make it easy for you even if I die!" Momo roared furiously.
He had heard Hiroki and Kaguya's conversation earlier and naturally guessed their intentions.
Just as he feared—they wanted to do exactly what he had planned: transform him and Kinshiki into Chakra Fruits or Chakra Pills.
[Amenominaka!]
Before Momo could complete whatever he was attempting, Kaguya dragged him into two warped spaces, severing his head from his body.
Kaguya tossed Momo's corpse outward.
Soon after, Kinshiki was also killed by Hinata and her group.
After briefly greeting everyone, Hiroki levitated the corpses of Momo and the others into the air before returning to Louran in the Land of Wind.
When Kaguya and Kaguya Moon separated into two different worlds, he had already begun reconstructing Louran Palace and now resided here.
He had also taken control of the Dragon Vein—no one could approach without permission.
Incidentally, he had anchored time flows between this world, the Ninja World, the Ancient Ninja World, and the Warring States Demon Realm. Now the passage of time was synchronized at a rate of 1:1:1.
No longer would situations occur where years passed there while only months had passed here.
[Otsutsuki Teleportation!]
Hiroki then brought 'Toneri' back from another location.
Activating the Dragon Vein, he and 'Toneri' carried the three Otsutsuki corpses inside.
...
Warring States Demon Realm.
Pengpengpeng!
Hiroki tossed the three Otsutsuki corpses out of the obsidian rift, landing alongside 'Toneri.'
Cheng Feng watched them appear and asked, "Do you have a plan?"
"I'm giving you something to feast on," Hiroki said, pointing at the three corpses on the ground.
Cheng Feng picked them up and threw them toward the God Tree. They watched as the massive tree, the God Tree, seemed alive, starting to wriggle.
"How much longer?" Hiroki was asking about the time until the tree bore fruit.
"After absorbing these, probably soon enough."
"How many fruits can one God Tree yield?"
"That depends on the resources of an entire planet..." Cheng Feng could only answer like that.
"If I keep feeding it constantly, will it continuously bear fruit?"
Cheng Feng thought for a moment. "In theory yes. However, according to Otsutsuki records, nobody has ever done this. Perhaps because the targeted planets were too low-level, or the efficiency was too poor... planting multiple God Trees on different planets is more efficient."
"I'll wait for your good news."
Hiroki found an empty space nearby to sit down and withdrew his mental projection from [the Toneri clone].
The previously standing Toneri suddenly collapsed to the ground like a limp rag.
Now this empty shell of Toneri's body...
After thinking for a moment, he tossed it toward the God Tree as well.
Accelerate, accelerate, accelerate even more!
The wait always felt excruciatingly long. Hiroki had no idea how many days had passed when suddenly a blinding light shone from the God Tree.
More accurately, it was a fruit that dazzled the eyes with its brilliance.
"Did it work? This is the God Tree's fruit?" Hiroki's face lit up with joy.
"It worked, it worked..." Cheng Feng was equally excited as he picked the fruit and handed it to Hiroki.
Hiroki took it, hesitated slightly, then swallowed it whole.
Actually, Cheng Feng's pure-blooded Otsutsuki body would be most suitable for consuming the God Tree's fruit.
However, Cheng Feng had no intention of switching bodies.
Moreover, a body like Cheng Feng's—pure-blooded Otsutsuki—was clearly more useful as feed!
"Do you feel anything yet?" Cheng Feng curiously asked nearby.
"Not feeling anything." Before finishing his sentence, Hiroki suddenly sensed something unusual with his body, his expression slightly changing, "...Wait, I'm feeling something now..."
"What kind of feeling?" Cheng Feng kept asking.
"Like I've got a brick in my stomach... Get me somewhere safe, fast!" Hiroki was sweating cold sweat, his face stiffening, his body also becoming sluggish.
Cheng Feng did as told, placing Hiroki inside a secure, enclosed space and leaning him against a wall before muttering to himself, "Could it be because the fruit matured too quickly?"
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