Naruto: I, who fooled the ninja world, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 481 Kawa-style and Kumo-style, Kaguya and Ichi-style

In the cold, desolate space, an asteroid tumbles in the darkness.

The vast and desolate surface is scarred by meteorite impacts, crisscrossed with ravines. There is no atmosphere, no moisture, only iron-gray and dark red rock layers.

This is a desolate place far from life, hardened by countless meteorites to the point of being as hard as steel, making it an excellent training ground where one will not be disturbed.

At this moment, on a relatively flat wasteland of this asteroid, two figures are colliding and crossing at a speed that exceeds the limits of human visual perception.

No, to be more precise, one figure was attacking frantically, while the other simply stood quietly in place, defending with one hand.

Bang! Boom!
The few wisps of air churned and exploded, producing short, sharp pops.

Kawakita's chakra condensed in his limbs and fists, transforming into the purest speed and power; around his Byakugan, fine blue veins bulged menacingly.

In his vision, the world became clear and slow, every texture of the ground, every floating speck of dust, all were within his sight.

But when he focused his gaze on the figure in the distance, the clear view brought not the pleasure of being in control, but a sense of powerlessness that arose from the bottom of his heart.

He saw those near-perfect muscles, those terrifyingly fine bones; even though they were just standing there, without making any movement, he couldn't find the slightest flaw.

It's like a towering mountain, blocking all paths of attack.

"Hoo..." Chuan Shi took a deep breath and said seriously, "Senior Yun Shi, I apologize for the offense!"

Bang!
With a sudden burst of power, enough to shatter the earth, the ground seemed to be trampled by a giant foot, instantly cracking and shattering upwards.
He transformed into a blur, appearing before Ōtsutsuki Kumoshiki, his right fist tearing through the thin air currents, creating a cone-shaped air blast that broke the sound barrier, and slammed straight into Ōtsutsuki Kumoshiki's face.

Faced with this punch, Otsutsuki Kumoshiki stood still, only slightly tilting his head.

Whoosh!

The force of the punch grazed his cheek, and the air currents ruffled his gray hair.

Although the terrifying power gathered in his fist missed its target, it slammed heavily into the giant rock several meters behind Yun Shi.

Boom!

The massive rock, several meters high and as hard as steel, seemed to have been struck head-on by a battering ram and instantly snapped in half.

The upper half of the rock tumbled and flew out, crashing into the distant rock wall. The debris slowly scattered in the low-gravity environment, leaving the surrounding ground riddled with holes.

With his punch missing, Chuan Shi didn't stop. Using his waist strength, he twisted his body and swept his left leg like a battle axe, cutting the air with a sharp hiss as it swept towards Yun Shi's head.

In response, Yun simply raised his arm to block Chuan's sweeping leg, his muscles twitching slightly to a degree imperceptible to the naked eye.

With a soft "snap," Chuan Shi felt as if he had kicked a piece of rubber with unimaginable elasticity. Most of the force was bounced back, and the recoil made his calf go numb.

boom!
The force surging through his legs was diverted, slamming him hard into the rocks beside him. A crack several meters deep instantly spread out, and countless fragments of rock were thrown into the air by the enormous impact.

"The power is strong, but it's too scattered."

Yun's calm voice reached Chuan's ears: "The limbs and bones need to be twisted into one. Strength should be as easy as using your own fingers, controlled at will. Dispersing so much energy is just a waste of strength."

Upon hearing this, Chuan Shi gritted his teeth, used the force of the recoil to forcefully twist his body, and slammed his left elbow, carrying the full force of his body, into Yun Shi.

But before he could fully unleash his power, Yun Shi stretched out his hand, fingers spread, and as if he had foreseen the future, intercepted and pressed it against the front of Chuan Shi's forearm, the source of his power.

Bang!
With a muffled thud, as if gently stopped by an invisible mountain, the power of the Sichuan style was forcibly halted, frozen in mid-air, extremely awkward.

"The exertion is too obvious and too slow," Yun Shi said calmly, looking at his face, which was slightly contorted from the exertion.

"You have a great talent for the White Eye, but the purpose of the White Eye is not to let you see flaws, but to let you find the line of 'force' and cut it."

Before he finished speaking, Yun's hand, which was pressing on Chuan's forearm, trembled slightly, and a shockwave came through. It was not a violent impact, but rather like ripples on water, spreading throughout Chuan's body.

Chuan Shi felt a tingling and weak sensation throughout his body, and the power he had gathered instantly dissipated by 70-80%. He was unable to control himself and was about to retreat backward.

But the next moment, he stomped his foot into the ground to stop his retreat. All the muscles in his body tensed up instantly, and his power was forcibly restrained and compressed, converging towards his right fist.

There are no fancy footwork, no superfluous movements, just the most direct straight punch.

But the speed of this punch was faster than the sum of all the previous attacks, leaving only a clear cloud of air in place before blasting towards Yun Shi's chest, which was inches away.

Seeing this, Otsutsuki Kumoshiki's eyes flickered slightly, but he remained standing in place without dodging.

He used the same hand, only changing from a palm to a fist. Just as simply and precisely, he met the Sichuan-style fist head-on with a punch, and they collided.

boom!!

A deafening roar, as if two giant mountains were colliding in the most brutal manner, resounded. The impact, visibly spreading outwards from the point where the two men's fists collided, was the center of the impact.

The surrounding hard rock layers seemed to have been scraped by a giant plow, breaking and churning inch by inch, forming huge waves of dust tens of meters high, which rushed in all directions.

Chuan Shi felt an irresistible, terrifying force surging up his arm, and couldn't help but groan as he was sent flying backward.

clack clack...

His feet dug two furrows in the ground until his back slammed heavily against a protruding boulder, cracking it and sending pebbles tumbling down before he finally stopped.

"Cough cough!"

Kawashiki leaned against the rock pillar, breathing heavily. His right arm hung limply, trembling, and his fist was a bloody mess, with his white knuckles visible. Every breath was accompanied by burning pain.

The veins around his eyes bulged even more menacingly as he looked up at the slowly dispersing dust in the distance.

Ōtsutsuki Kumoshiki remained standing in the same spot, without moving an inch, and even the rocks beneath his feet were perfectly intact.

As the strongest being on his home planet, he was like a child wielding a giant hammer in front of his opponent.

Despite its seemingly intimidating presence, it couldn't even touch the hem of its opponent's clothes, and could only unleash its pent-up rage onto the asteroid beneath its feet.

but……

But in the deeper recesses of Chuan Shi's eyes, an unprecedented brightness emerged.

"That punch was pretty good."

Looking at the disheveled but bright-eyed Kawashiki, Otsutsuki Yunshiki said calmly, without much approval in his tone, "Continue."

"You haven't even begun to master physical techniques until you can force me to move an inch."

"Until every bit of your strength hits where it's meant to hit."

Upon hearing this, Chuan Shi took a breath, forcibly calming his churning blood and qi, closed his eyes, and recalled the slight tremor he felt when the power surged just now.

When he opened his eyes again, his gaze was filled with an even purer focus. His figure vanished from the spot once more, and he transformed into a straight silver streak as he rushed towards Otsutsuki Kumoshiki.

boom!Boom!

His fists, feet, elbows, and knees transformed into an even more ferocious offensive, becoming a dazzling array of afterimages that attacked Otsutsuki Kumoshiki, who stood still, from all directions.

Each strike was powerful and heavy, enough to leave a deep crater in the hard ground and to tear the air apart with a short, sharp explosion.

However, his chakra was no longer blatantly displayed, his attacks were no longer chaotic, and wherever his fist passed, the space seemed to ripple with subtle waves.

Every strike was delivered with all one's might, yet every strike was blocked.

Otsutsuki Kumoshiki merely raised one hand. That hand was fair and slender, and looked unremarkable, yet it seemed like an insurmountable chasm.

No matter how sharp and fierce Chuan-style attacks are, when they are within arm's reach, they will always be deflected, guided, and pressed by the back of that hand, palm, and fingers at subtle angles and with varying force.

The violent force was like hitting a smooth, tough wall, easily deflected and dissipated, and slammed into the rocky ground beside it.

Boom! Boom! Boom!
The scene was one of utter devastation, with the ground shattered and crisscrossed by ravines.

The surrounding floating pebbles were shaken into even finer dust by the repeated impacts.

But the Sichuan-style offensive did not stop or stagnate at all. On the contrary, under this near-limit pressure, the movements and punches became more and more rounded and the transitions became more and more fluid and natural.

In the depths of Chuan Shi's eyes, a light began to shift imperceptibly, growing brighter and brighter, as if something suppressed to its limit was about to break free.

In the brief moment when his attack was neutralized by Yun Shi's single hand strike.

Otsutsuki Kumoshiki, who had always dealt with things with only one hand, raised his other hand, which had been behind his back the whole time.

The hand gesture appeared slow, but it was actually so fast that Chuan Shi had nowhere to dodge. Through the barely perceptible gap between the movements, it gently pressed against Chuan Shi's chest.

Bang!
A dull, unusually heavy impact rang out.

Chuan Shi was struck as if by a heavy blow, like a kite with a broken string, flying backward uncontrollably.

"puff!"

Chuan Shi couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, but as he lost control and flew backward...

hum! !

An invisible, heavy force field suddenly descended, centered on the flying Chuan Shi. The dust and debris that filled the air, the large and small fragments that shattered and splashed, were suddenly halted by this sudden force field, then fell and were firmly pressed to the ground.

Is this the oppressive aura of the White Eye?

Otsutsuki Kumoshiki narrowed his eyes and raised his head.

Kawashiki appeared directly above, high in the sky, his chakra contained to the extreme, and the veins around his Byakugan almost bursting through his skin.

He slowly raised his right arm, clenching his five fingers into a fist.

With this simple movement, chakra surged wildly in the sky behind Kawashiki, coalescing into enormous fists.

One, two, three...

Countless gigantic fists densely covered the entire sky, casting layers of shadows that completely shrouded the two people below in darkness.

"Drink!"

With a roar, Kawashiki raised his right fist, carrying all his strength and immense pressure, and slammed it down on Otsutsuki Kumoshiki below.

Countless giant fists gathered in the air, with the action of Chuan-shiki's punch, rained down like meteors from the sky, pouring down on Otsutsuki Kumo-shiki below.

Upon seeing this, a smile appeared on Otsutsuki Kumo's lips.

Boom! Boom boom boom!!

The enormous fist continued to fall, creating a series of terrifying roars that caused the entire asteroid to tremble violently.

Centered on the original position where Yun Shi stood, each landing of the giant fist caused the ground to continuously collapse and expand downwards, and the rising dust turned into a mushroom cloud that shot straight into the sky!

A moment later, the giant fist in the air finally stopped falling, leaving behind only devastation and deathly silence.

The once solid asteroid has now been completely altered in shape.

Centered on the spot where Ōtsutsuki once stood in the cloud-like formation, a crater has become so large that it pierced through the asteroid, and one can even see into space from the other side.

Smoke and dust were slowly dissipating from the breaches at both ends, and the entire asteroid was slowly breaking into several fragments, which dispersed due to inertia.

"Huh...huh..."

Kneeling on a relatively large piece of debris, Chuan Shi was breathing heavily, each breath pulling at his chest as if it were about to explode.

A wave of weakness washed over me; my muscles ached, my meridians felt drained, and even maintaining a kneeling posture was a struggle.

That final blow almost drained his chakra.

Just then, a shadow silently enveloped him, blocking the light from the distant star, making it difficult for Kawashiro to lift his head.

Otsutsuki Cloud Style floated in front of him, his white robes still spotless, his long gray hair not even disheveled, and his pure white eyes calmly looking down at him.

That attack just now didn't seem to have caused him any harm.

"congratulations."

Otsutsuki Yunshiki's voice rang out, calm as ever, but Kawashiki, who had known him for a long time, noticed a rare hint of a smile.

“You are now entitled to the surname Otsutsuki,” Yun Shi said.

Upon hearing this, Chuan's expression froze, and confusion replaced his exhaustion.

what?
“I will use my accumulated merits to apply to the main family,” Ōtsutsuki Kumoshiki continued, “to request a formal strength test for you.”

"Once you pass the test and prove that you have the power to match this surname, you can be freed from slavery, join the branch family, and become a member with some rights."

"After that, you can rightfully become my subordinate and go with me to carry out the 'planting' task."

At this very moment, only two days have passed in the ninja world.

But for Otsutsuki Kumoshiki, who came from across the river of time, he had been lying dormant, managing, and accumulating for a full five hundred years in this "past" time and space.

During those five hundred years, he did not return to the ninja world. Instead, relying on his displayed bloodline and strength, he eagerly read, learned, and understood all the knowledge he could access.

The history of the Otsutsuki clan, the mysteries of the Divine Tree, the secrets of the universe, and various techniques for wielding power.

He collected all those vast collections of books, knowledge that could not be found in the ninja world, and even the merits he gained from suppressing rebellions on colony planets and eliminating unstable elements.

To take Kawashiki to the ninja world to carry out the mission of planting the Divine Tree, he must have a "legitimate" identity.

Members of this family hold a high status, undergo rigorous screening, and are subject to almost demanding requirements regarding bloodline.

In contrast, the threshold for splitting up a family focuses more on "strength" and "value." Strong combat power is enough to make up for minor flaws in bloodline.

In Yun's view, Chuan's current level of physical skills is enough to open the door to the branch family, and the merits he has accumulated over the past five hundred years can now be used to promote this matter.

and so……

Chuan opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but felt as if his throat had been rubbed with sandpaper, dry and hoarse, unable to produce a complete sound.

He looked into Ōtsutsuki Kumoshiki's eyes, which seemed to see through everything, without any pity or mercy, only a calm scrutiny.

Even so, that was enough for him.

This means shedding the label of "vessel," breaking free from the shadow of Urashiki, and no longer being an object that can be replaced or consumed at any time.

Rather, it is a person who truly has a name, an identity, and a future.

After a moment, Chuan Shi took a deep breath, and his muddled mind cleared up a bit.

"Senior Yun."

He knelt on the ground, supporting himself with his hands, and bowed his head to Otsutsuki Kumoshiki in front of him. His voice was hoarse but very clear: "Kawashiki will never forget the kindness of being reborn."

"From this day forward, I will follow you closely, serve you to the death, and never betray you," he said solemnly, almost as if making a vow.

What he truly cared about didn't seem to be his status as a member of a separate family.

Rather, it is an affirmation of his personality as an independent individual.

Ōtsutsuki Kumoshiki simply looked at him, showing neither joy nor emotion at the oath of loyalty, as if he were merely hearing an insignificant statement.

His gaze did not linger on Chuan Shi; he raised his head and looked into the distance.

A figure appeared on a large fragment at some unknown time, hovering silently.

It was a woman who looked very young, with a cool and refined appearance, and even a touch of girlish beauty.

She has the pale skin characteristic of the Otsutsuki clan, long blue and white hair flowing smoothly down her back, and her clothes are simple and plain, without any superfluous patterns.

"Lord Yun."

She lowered her head slightly, her posture respectful but not humble, her voice clear and steady: "My name is Kaguya Otsutsuki, and I am a subordinate of Lord Isshiki Otsutsuki."

"I apologize for my intrusion and for disturbing your meditation."

"Otsutsuki Isshiki?" Otsutsuki Kumoshiki's tone returned to its usual indifference, revealing no emotion whatsoever; he simply repeated the name.

"What is it?" he asked.

Kaguya was not surprised by his coldness. Maintaining her composure, she said, "Lord Isshiki is very interested in you. He sincerely invites you..."

"Not interested." Before he could finish speaking, Otsutsuki Kumo's rejection was crisp and decisive, leaving no room for negotiation.

But then he paused slightly, a subtle, unfathomable meaning flashing deep within his eyes, and slowly said, "However..."

"Please tell Yishi that we will meet again in the future."

Yun said softly, "You are the same."

Upon hearing this, Kaguya's slightly lowered eyelashes trembled almost imperceptibly.

Under that gaze, she felt as if her heart and everything about her had been seen through by those eyes.

This includes the deep-seated resentment within oneself, and the anger that one dares not show in the slightest.

Her head drooped even lower, her heart surging with uncontrollable emotions.

"Is there anything else?" Otsutsuki Unshiki asked in a calm tone.

"..." Kaguya Otsutsuki was silent for a moment, then looked at Kawashiki behind him and asked, "Can you tell me what technique you just used?"

Kawashiki was taken aback. He opened his mouth, about to say that he hadn't thought of a name yet, but was interrupted by Otsutsuki Kumoshiki.

“Eighty Divine Void Strike.” Yun Shi’s tone was meaningful. “That technique is called Eighty Divine Void Strike.”

(End of this chapter)