Naruto: Talent entry, starting with Otsutsuki bloodline

Chapter 221 Izayoi Otsutsuki, the Fruit of the Divine Tree

Time flies, and several years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Konoha 79 years.

Unbeknownst to many, 'Shippuden' has been over for fifteen years.

Eight years have passed since Hanabi's coming-of-age ceremony.

For the past fifteen years, the ninja world has been peaceful and harmonious, with no conflicts between large or small nations, which is a very rare occurrence.

Even though the First Hokage established the one-country-one-village system and used the power of the God of Shinobi to suppress the Warring States period, it only lasted for a short time.

After his death, the First Shinobi World War broke out even faster.

Even during his lifetime, conflicts and struggles continued in some backward and remote areas.

Even a ninja god of the highest rank, like a Kage, is ultimately not a true god.

In contrast, Izayoi's Tenseigan possesses far-sightedness and X-ray vision, like the gaze of God, capable of encompassing the entire ninja world.

Its ability to manipulate space and time allows it to instantly reach any location in the ninja world.

Because the Divine Tree absorbs the planet's energy, Izayoi needs to keep a close eye on the movements of the ninja world, so his wood clones have been taking turns monitoring the entire ninja world.

Whether it's a natural disaster or a conflict, as long as there are uncontrollable factors, Izayoi's wooden clone will immediately appear to resolve them.

Over time, both ninjas and commoners became incredibly obedient and compliant under the immense power of the new era's ninja god.

In these fifteen years, apart from Konoha, all parts of the ninja world, whether it be the ninja continent or the sea, have suffered from minor disasters almost every month and major disasters every year because the Divine Tree frantically absorbs the planet's energy.

Although these disasters were all resolved by Izayoi, the destroyed buildings and energy sources were restored to their original state through the creation of Yin-Yang Release and Wood Release.

However, in some places, life has dried up, turning them into uninhabitable dead lands.

Many islands sank as a result.

Thus, these people who had lost their homeland were transferred to the Ninja Continent.

Gradually, the small countries and villages of the ninja world disappeared one after another, and were incorporated into the territories of the five great nations, expanding their map territory.

The power of technology has also connected the five major countries.

The speed at which one could travel at full speed and reach any country in just a few days or a week is no longer the privilege of ninjas.

Every night, a region of Earth in this world shines with a dazzling light.

This world is becoming the one Izayoi knows.

Konoha, which was once just a village, no longer exists. After multiple expansions, it has become the most prosperous technological city in the ninja world, with a population of hundreds of thousands, and is also known as the Dream City and the City of Gods.

With the expansion of Konoha, the Sixth Hokage, who was already rarely seen due to the delegation of power, became even more of a legendary figure.

Especially after Konoha 71, Hinata and her two sisters began to cultivate their own confidants and formed a secretariat. As they delegated power, they gradually faded into the background.

Because... they've all become wives!
In Konoha Year 73, a wedding of the century took place in the ninja world.

The main characters of the wedding are not the male and female protagonists, but one male protagonist and... four female protagonists.

The male protagonist is Izayoi, and the female protagonist needs no introduction.

Although both ninjas and commoners practiced monogamy, in this old era where nobles held sway, polygamy was the tradition.

Izayoi's behavior was only somewhat unexpected.

The reason it's called the wedding of the century is because it's the wedding of Izayoi, the god of ninjas.

On the same day as the wedding of the century, the house of Izayoi, which had been built for many years but had never had a plaque hung on the door, was officially named... Otsutsuki!

These three words stunned countless important figures who came to attend the wedding, and at the same time made them suddenly realize the source of Izayoi's strength!

This world is just a giant makeshift operation.

It turns out that all of this was an internal power struggle within the Otsutsuki clan!

Although they knew the truth, no one dared to utter a single complaint, tacitly remaining blind.

Izayoi is no longer an orphan without a surname, but rather the one with the highest bloodline... Izayoi Otsutsuki.

Hinata and Hanabi, the two sisters, were officially renamed Ōtsutsuki Hinata and Ōtsutsuki Hanabi. Shion and Karin, who did not have surnames, also gained the prefix Ōtsutsuki.

The Ōtsutsuki clan, which had disappeared, has finally reappeared in the ninja world after a thousand years.

Moreover, unlike those mixed-blood Otsutsuki, this is a pure-blooded Otsutsuki and his subordinates.

……

January 79, Konoha 10.

On this day, the ninja world was so peaceful, and there were no major disasters in any region, including the sea.

In fact, if someone could see the entire ninja world from their perspective, they would find that the ninja world has been so peaceful these past few days.

This is an incredibly incredible thing for the ninja world, which has been ravaged by natural disasters over the years, with countless places turned into dead zones and even some alternate dimensions affected and collapsed.

But if someone's eyes could see the life on the planet, they would discover that the earth's energy over the years has been like water pipes, converging from all directions towards a certain desert.

In areas teeming with energy, life withers, and mountains crumble and the earth cracks; in areas with weak energy, they become death zones, barren and lifeless...

The changes in the ninja world over the years have been observed by various forces and important figures.

Given that whenever disaster strikes, the mysterious ninja god appears just in time, wise people have already seen through everything and understand that these disasters are all brought about by Izayoi.

However, due to the difference in strength, and because Izayoi always intervened in time and provided compensation to those who lost their homes due to the disaster, those people wisely chose to remain silent.

As the disaster subsided, even the wisest among them guessed what had happened.

Izayoi has succeeded!

To cause so much harm to the ninja world for so many years, Izayoi must be doing something big that no one knows about.

Only the immortals of the three holy lands understood that another divine tree fruit had been born in the ninja world.

In the near future, a new progenitor of chakra will be born in the ninja world!

"Ok?"

On this day, Izayoi, who had tricked Hinata and her sister into wearing gymnastics outfits to play ball with him, suddenly stopped, turned his head and looked in a certain direction, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up slightly.

"Onii-chan, are you surrendering?"

Just then, Hanabi, her face flushed and breathless, couldn't help but say defiantly, "Hmph. Commendable courage."

Izayoi sneered, then gripped the twin-tailed steering wheel tightly.

Soon, the cries for mercy rang out again.

Hinata, who was drinking water next to the duck, quickly shrank back to minimize her presence.

It wasn't until the early hours of the next day that Izayoi finally appeared in the desert land where multiple barriers had been set up.

Within the barrier, a towering tree, like a pillar supporting the sky, stands on the parched earth, creating a jarring and incongruous contrast.

Judging from its appearance, this is not a fruit tree.

But at the top of the towering tree, hanging was a fruit only the size of two fists, smaller than even a football.

The fruit's skin color is not visible because its entire body is enveloped in white fluorescence, resembling a shimmering ball of light.

Seeing the fruit, Izayoi's eyes were filled with satisfaction.

This satisfaction wasn't due to the fruit of the divine tree, but rather to his own abilities.

Otsutsuki Isshiki and Otsutsuki Kaguya came to Earth and spent a thousand years to harvest a single fruit from the Divine Tree.

Izayoi, on the other hand, caught up with their millennium in just over a decade.

The rapid growth of the Divine Tree's fruit also confirmed one of Izayoi's conjectures.

“Otsutsuki Shibai definitely has abilities similar to Miketsuhime,” Izayoi murmured.

Only the ability to accelerate the fruition of the Divine Tree can allow one to stand out among so many pure-blooded Otsutsuki and become an existence capable of transcending the world.

Otherwise, each fruit of the Divine Tree would take thousands of years to ripen. Even if Otsutsuki Shibai lived for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, he would still not be able to become the Otsutsuki God.

After all, it's a once-in-a-millennium event, so he's definitely not the only one who's consumed it. Even the higher-ups have consumed far more of the divine tree's fruits and chakra pills than he has.

The task of those Otsutsuki clan members who went out was to plant the sacred tree, harvest its fruit, and then bring it back to their clan as tribute to the higher-ups.

Unless Otsutsuki Shibai was born as the god of Otsutsuki, and his entire family was planting trees to nurture him, he simply could not rise above all the Otsutsuki and become a supreme being who seemed to transcend the world.

Therefore, in addition to potential, one must also have special abilities. Only by taking advantage of favorable timing, location, and human factors can one challenge or achieve miracles that transcend the world.

Although it is unknown whether Otsutsuki Shibai successfully transcended the world, Izayoi undoubtedly had the opportunity to transcend the world as well.

It takes more than ten years to produce a single fruit from the Divine Tree. Izayoi believed that as long as he found a certain number of life-bearing planets, he would be able to reach the level of Otsutsuki Shibakai in a few hundred years, or at most a little over a thousand years.

"Next, we'll move on to the realm of divine magic."

As the words fell to his lips, Izayoi flew toward the fruit of the Divine Tree.

The next second, the fruit of the Divine Tree fell off automatically and flew towards Izayoi.

Catch the flying fruit, Izayoi didn't bite into it, but instead landed and refined it into a chakra elixir.

Just like in those cultivation novels, rare and precious materials are used to refine pills in order to maximize their effects and unleash their greatest potential with the smallest amount.

Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's method of consuming the fruit of the Divine Tree was a complete waste of its resources.

If she could, Kaguya Otsutsuki probably wouldn't want to eat the Devil Fruit directly, but unfortunately, she was just a lower-ranking pure-blooded Otsutsuki and had no way of refining chakra pills.

Izayoi, on the other hand, possesses the chakra pill refining technique, allowing him to maximize the fruit's effect.

With Miketsu's help, Izayoi transformed the pure white, fluorescently glowing Divine Tree fruit into a red chakra pill the size of an infant's head in less than half an hour.

The surface of this fruit is covered with dark crimson patterns, which are completely different from the holy divine tree fruit before, and are full of eerie aura.

Looking at the chakra pill in his hand, Izayoi murmured with anticipation, "Let me see the effects of the complete Divine Tree fruit."

After speaking, Izayoi opened her mouth and bit into the chakra pill, swallowing it in just a few bites.

Izayoi did not share the chakra pill with Hinata and the other girls.

With this quick method, Izayoi only needs to find a life-bearing planet with life force at the same level as Earth, or even much weaker than Earth, and can produce a Divine Tree Fruit in a dozen years.

Hinata and the other girls, who have already taken chakra pills, have at least several hundred years left to live. The greatest effect of the chakra pills on them is only to purify their bloodline and slightly increase their strength.

It's better to take it alone than to share it with them.

Izayoi's strength has reached a bottleneck, equivalent to an enhanced version of Kaguya Otsutsuki, but she is still between the upper and lower ranks.

Because...Izayoi doesn't have divine magic yet.

It's not an ordinary divine technique like Otsutsuki Isshiki, but a super-powerful divine technique similar to Otsutsuki Shibai, with an extremely large range and even at the level of causality.

That's why Izayoi was able to realize the gap between herself and the Otsutsuki God, and that she still had a long way to go to transcend this world.

Now, Izayoi needs to take another step forward and truly rise to the top!
As soon as the chakra pill was ingested, Izayoi instantly felt a powerful warm current surge through his body, rapidly spreading throughout his entire being.

Hundreds of trillions of cells suddenly became incredibly active, as if absorbing or bursting out some kind of energy, transforming Izayoi's body, and even... her soul!
This wasn't the first time Izayoi had experienced such a warm current and physical changes; he had felt something similar when his Otsutsuki bloodline advanced to a colored entry.

However, the feeling that time was completely different from this time; to be precise, it was on a completely different level.

Moreover, this warm current lasted for a full half hour before slowing down, and it took almost an hour to disappear completely.

However, after the warm current disappeared, Izayoi found that her body had not changed at all, and even when she brought up the system panel, she did not see any new entries.

Even his chakra level didn't increase much.

It may have improved a lot, but compared to Izayoi's already vast amount of chakra, this improvement is really insignificant.

Instead of being disappointed, Izayoi was pleasantly surprised.

He had experienced the same feeling.

Eating the fruit of the divine tree and immediately displaying godlike power is actually not a good thing.

Kaguya Otsutsuki has reached her limit by doing what she did. Only by eating the fruit of the Divine Tree again can she undergo another transformation. Otherwise, even if a thousand or even several thousand years pass, her strength will not change at all.

Her strength was no different from trying to force growth by pulling up seedlings.

On the contrary, the most terrifying kind of 'change' is that of Izayoi, who shows no change whatsoever and no ability whatsoever.

Just like the Rinnegan, a special ability is being nurtured within Izayoi's body, and even her eyes are developing new eye techniques.

When the new abilities manifest, it will mean that Izayoi has successfully evolved again.

Next, Izayoi just needs to wait patiently.

(End of this chapter)