Ye Liang frowned.
If what Jigen said was true, his current strength definitely couldn't handle hundreds of Otsutsuki.
"When someone from the Otsutsuki Clan already appeared in the beginning of Boruto's story," Ye Liang had only read the early part and knew nothing about what came after.
Jigen, seeing Ye Liang in deep thought, waved his hand.
"Friend or foe—decide carefully! By the way, that dead woman Kaguya isn't simple at all. Be careful."
Ye Liang's pupils slightly shifted.
He left the temple.
What Isshiki Otsutsuki said made sense, but Ye Liang wouldn't believe one-sided words. He activated the Flying Thunder God to return to the Ancestral Nation. For such matters, he needed to consult Kaguya Hime.
He arrived at the Daimyo's mansion, where Kaguya Hime was reclining. Seeing her graceful posture as she lay, Ye Liang approached and gently shook her awake.
"Ye Liang!"
Upon seeing Ye Liang, Kaguya immediately sat up, but her lips were covered by Ye Liang.
"Don't speak. Just answer my questions."
Kaguya nodded. "Go ahead."
"Do the Otsutsuki have plans to invade Earth?"
"No.
Earth is merely a primitive civilization; the Otsutsuki don't even consider it worth their attention. Just as I said before, our purpose here is simply to take Earth's energy."
"What about your actual strength? How powerful are you really?"
Upon hearing this, Kaguya clearly hesitated.
"Ye Liang, I think you shouldn't think too much. As long as Earth doesn't provoke the Otsutsuki Clan, we won't completely destroy Earth."
It dawned on Ye Liang immediately.
Although Kaguya Hime hadn't explicitly revealed the Otsutsuki's strength, Ye Liang could see their attitude from her response.
She had little confidence in him.
Clearly, Isshiki Otsutsuki had spoken the truth.
"Alright, I understand."
Ye Liang solemnly stood up and prepared to leave. However, Kaguya hugged him from behind.
"What really happened? Why are you leaving the Ancestral Nation? Can't we just keep living peacefully like this?"
Ye Liang felt a slight emotional tremor.
Indeed, the days living with Kaguya had been good, but he still had many beloved companions he couldn't abandon.
Whether it was Hinata or Kushina, he couldn't leave them behind.
"Don't worry, everything will be fine." Ye Liang gently patted her head and immediately activated the Flying Thunder God.
In the next instant,
Ye Liang directly arrived at Jigen's temple. He strode in, and Jigen was already waiting for him in the courtyard.
"Faster than I expected," Jigen turned around and looked at Ye Liang.
Ye Liang raised his hand.
In an instant, seven shuriken flew straight toward Jigen.
Jigen smiled, his figure suddenly vanishing into the air. However, in the next moment, his neck was yanked from the void and slammed into the ground.
Ye Liang's pupils slightly reddened.
He firmly pressed a kunai against Jigen's forehead!
"I can spare your life, but you must understand clearly!
This is only my mercy!
If I find you've got any plans for this world, I'll make sure you regret it—every single day!"
Jigen's smile gradually disappeared as fear appeared in his eyes, reflected in Ye Liang's pupils!
"You... don't worry. I swear I won't lay a finger on this world—I just want to survive."
Ye Liang set down the kunai and stood up.
"I don't plan to return to the Third Civilization for now. But don't worry—if the Otsutsuki Clan really comes after us, I'll naturally protect you."
Isshiki Otsutsuki simply wanted protection.
He feared being hunted by the main branch of the Otsutsuki Clan.
Though Ye Liang didn't fully understand what the Third Civilization was, he gave Isshiki a vague assurance to calm him down for now. As long as Isshiki still had hope, he wouldn't do anything reckless.
"Then, see you in a few hundred years," Ye Liang simply said, summoning the space-time turtle.
With everything here resolved, there was no need for him to stay.
He just couldn't take Kaguya with him.
This Kaguya was the ancestor of the Naruto world. If he took her away, everything that followed—including Hokage Village and Hinata—would vanish into nothingness.
As Ye Liang's figure slowly faded into the void, Isshiki Otsutsuki's eyes widened: "[Immortal Descending from the Heavens!] No wonder this guy loves this dump of a planet so much—it turns out he's from its future!"
Then, space stabilized.
In the distant Ancestral Nation, Kaguya Hime suddenly awoke from her sleep.
She felt empty, and tears streamed from her eyes without reason, as if she had lost something precious.
The next moment,
In a vast expanse of ruins, a bolt of lightning suddenly struck atop a mountain, and Ye Liang emerged from the middle of it.
He took deep breaths, panting heavily.
This place was where he had fought Kaguya before.
"It's exactly the same as before. Looks like the timeline is correct." Ye Liang took a few steps forward and noticed Akatsuki members fleeing in the distance.
"These little guys are still around. Kaguya must be inside Amenominaka then." He lightly leaped over to where the Akatsuki members were fleeing.
Konan was helping Nagato escape quickly. Seeing Ye Liang approach, her eyes widened in shock.
"Aren't you dead!"
Ye Liang paused for a second. "When did I die? You've got no proof—you could get sued for slander, you know."
Konan placed Nagato down and then curiously reached out to touch Ye Liang's body.
"I saw you disappear right in front of that strange woman before. Didn't she kill you with some space-time jutsu?"
"No, I just temporarily retreated." Ye Liang shook his head helplessly. "By the way, where's Kaguya? She should be happy to see me now, right?"
"Happy?"
Konan gave Ye Liang a strange look.
"That woman disappeared the moment she saw you vanish. Nobody knows where she went."
"I see." Ye Liang nodded at Konan, then casually released a burst of Sage Chakra to heal the Akatsuki members.
"Try to be better people from now on—don't let yourselves get tricked again."
Now that Black Zetsu was also dead, there should be no more threats to the world. Ye Liang left the Akatsuki members behind without further concern.
"She should still be inside Amenominaka," Ye Liang thought to himself.
Amenominaka was a virtual space, a self-contained spatial jutsu created by the Kaguya Clan. It was extremely concealed, often serving as their go-to skill for escaping or capturing enemies.
Looking around to confirm no one was watching, Ye Liang began fiddling with the [Flying Thunder God Cursed Seal] on the ground.
As long as Amenominaka was close by, he could use the Flying Thunder God's spatial techniques to infiltrate it.
A moment later,
a faint spatial outline shimmered into view in the air before him.
"Hmph, found it," Ye Liang muttered, casually extending his hand. He threw a kunai embedded with the Flying Thunder God Cursed Seal into the spatial outline.
The next second,
in an instant, he vanished and reappeared inside Amenominaka!
He glanced around.
This entire place was bathed in crimson light.
The surface was littered with rocks and countless pools of magma.
"I can sense the aura of the Kaguya Clan. They must be close," Ye Liang muttered, summoning an Explosive Bird with a quick motion before taking off into the sky.
A moment later,
he spotted a white-haired woman curled up on a distant rock, off in the distance.
"Found you!"
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