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Chapter 359 All I'm missing is you...

After Madara Uchiha's body expanded to its limit, the boiling chakra suddenly stabilized, and his body rapidly shrank, quickly condensing into female characteristics.

First, the Rinne Sharingan on his forehead evolved into the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan.

Then, starting with this nine-tomoe Rinnegan, the blurry female body began to become clear.

The woman wore a plain white robe made of chakra, the seamless celestial garment resembling ancient sacrificial attire, conveying a sense of antiquity and antiquity.

The woman exuded a mysterious and lofty aura, her stunningly beautiful face as cold and aloof as ice. Her long, silvery-white hair, exceeding her height, moved behind her without wind, perfectly embodying the feeling of a "god." The black aura that had been entrenched on her body had now transformed into a mass of pitch-black matter, slowly fading into her sleeves. Only then did the woman open her eyes, her luminous white pupils shining through, like the final touch in a painting, fully revealing her beauty.

Her beauty was exquisite and flawless, her temperament was cold and elegant, and her aura was full of ancient, even prehistoric, spirit. She truly deserved to be called a goddess who once ruled the earth.

Kaguya Otsutsuki has been resurrected.

Well, Xia Zuo then realized that this goddess wasn't absolutely perfect; at least she didn't even have an A cup.

However, since gods don't have a fixed image, they can be male or female, human or beast, large or small, and are infinitely variable, it's perfectly reasonable for them to have a slightly neutral appearance.

Of course, it's also possible that when Kaguya Otsutsuki came to the ninja world, people were starving and didn't have enough nutrition to support their physical development, and the world was full of A-cup girls, which led to the goddess's misunderstanding.

Xia Zuo shook his head, not understanding what he was thinking. Now was the most crucial moment.

For twenty years since his transmigration, he has gritted his teeth and honed himself, using his research on bloodline limits and the risky cultivation of the "Five Elements Battle True Explanation." He also painstakingly plotted against the entire ninja world, patiently nurturing others, so that he could face Kaguya Otsutsuki in his prime before the Sage of Six Paths could scheme against Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha.

He absolutely couldn't miss this opportunity to devour Kaguya as a chakra fruit!

Absolutely not!

Clearing his mind of all his chaotic thoughts, Xia Zuo began to check the sealing barrier he had set up, making final preparations before taking action.

The light in Byakugan gradually focused; Kaguya Otsutsuki had woken up!

In that instant, the goddess's domineering aura, looking down upon the world and regarding all things as ants, was fully revealed.

She certainly has reason to be proud: she is the incarnation of the Divine Tree, the true form of the Ten-Tails, the progenitor of chakra, and possesses the three great dojutsu: Byakugan, Sharingan, and Rinnegan.

All the chakra in the world today, except for that in Xia Zuo and his women, originated from the chakra fruit that Kaguya ate and produced within her own body.

The Sage of Six Paths, who is known as the founder of the Ninja Clan, simply shared his mother's chakra with humans.

With chakra, lowly ninjas could rise up, overthrow the rule of samurai lords, create a brilliant system of ninjutsu, and thus the ninja world we know today came to be.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to call Kaguya Otsutsuki a goddess who created the ninja world.

Although this was not her wish.

Black Zetsu, seeing Kaguya Otsutsuki in this state, burst into tears of joy: "Mother, you've finally been resurrected! This is wonderful! Now that you've awakened, there's no one in this world who can defy you anymore!"

Kaguya Otsutsuki glanced at him and asked casually, "You mean, there are still people who dare to defy me?"

"Yes, that's right. With those two rebellious sons, Hagoromo and Hamura, around, their henchmen will naturally be my enemies."

"However, my ability to resurrect through another body must be the result of concentrating all the chakra in the world. Is there anyone who can resist the Infinite Tsukuyomi and the Advent of the Divine Tree?"

Black Zetsu, hidden in Kaguya's sleeve, secretly stretched out his small hand and pointed at Natsumi, who was looking up at Kaguya on the ground below.

He said bitterly, "Mother! It's this man! Look at the way he looks at you, how utterly disrespectful!"

Kaguya Otsutsuki lowered her head and saw a pair of eager eyes, the eyes of a beast that saw her as prey and was trying to hunt her.

Princess Kaguya was immediately enraged.

In fact, thousands of years ago, Kaguya Otsutsuki was a goddess with stable emotions. After all, working under Isshiki Otsutsuki not only meant undertaking dangerous combat missions, but also being eaten as a elixir at any time.

Despite living in a situation even more tragic than the Hyuga clan's division, Kaguya Otsutsuki, after thousands of years, managed to gain Isshiki Otsutsuki's trust and successfully turn the tables on him.

This is enough to demonstrate that Kaguya Otsutsuki's wisdom and will are of the highest quality.

But the current Kaguya is different; she was sealed away by her own son for a thousand years, and all her chakra was drained.

When Xia Zuo used [Dark Release: Cold Silence] to extract the chakra from Jigen's body, which was residing in Isshiki Otsutsuki, he discovered that for chakra-bearing beings like the Otsutsuki clan, extracting chakra was the cruelest form of torture.

Humans suffer from thirst, and the Otsutsuki also suffer from a lack of chakra.

Kaguya Otsutsuki had all her chakra drained and was sealed away for a thousand years without chakra, which was no different from locking someone in a desert prison without water.

Kaguya Otsutsuki's thirst for chakra had long since driven her mad.

The Kaguya Otsutsuki that Xia Zuo saw was no longer the graceful and noble goddess who had ruled the world for thousands of years, but a madwoman driven insane by hunger and thirst.

She is sensitive, suspicious, and emotionally unstable; she will explode at the slightest contact!

Seeing that Xia Zuo regarded her as prey, Kaguya Otsutsuki didn't think twice and activated her Byakugan to throw a punch.

【Eighty Gods' Void Strike】

A phantom fist flew out from the goddess's fair fist, then transformed into countless fists, which struck down at Xia Zuo.

Xia Zuo's eyes instantly turned from black pupils to white, then emitted a dazzling blue light. He stared intently at Kaguya Otsutsuki's every move and the flow of chakra within her body.

In an instant, Xia Zuo smiled: "So that's how it is. This is the [Eighty Gods Void Strike]. I understand now."

As he spoke, Xia Zuo raised his hand and threw a punch at the sky. The same fist phantom flew out of his hand and transformed into a dense array of fists, precisely matching Kaguya's fist.

【Eighty Gods' Void Strike】

When hundreds of fists of vastly different sizes came into contact, there was no explosion or roar; only a fleeting blue light.

Then the two colliding fists canceled each other out and vanished in mid-air.

Xia Zuo adjusted the nature of his chakra by referencing the Shinigami's "Anti-Demon Mutual Kill," achieving a perfect counteracting effect with Kaguya Otsutsuki's "Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack."

"Princess Kaguya Otsutsuki, here lies your sacred tree, which you cannot afford to lose, and here are ninjas I need to protect. You cannot destroy them carelessly."

Xia Zuo slowly took to the air, met Kaguya Otsutsuki's gaze, and continued, "Therefore, we'd better find another place to fight."

"To recklessly shatter the world like we did a thousand years ago would be an unacceptable outcome for both of us, wouldn't it?"

Kaguya Otsutsuki regretted it as soon as she launched the attack.

However, she was sealed away for a thousand years, and her body was still modified based on Madara Uchiha. Her control over chakra was very clumsy; she could release it but not control it.

When Xia Zuo used the same [Eighty Gods Vacuum Strike] to neutralize her own punch, Kaguya Otsutsuki's feelings were quite complicated.

While she was relieved that no major damage had been caused, she was also shocked that Xia Zuo possessed a pair of Tenseigan eyes and a nine-tomoe Tenseigan eye.

She was even more shocked by Xia Zuo's nine-tomoe wheel eye between his eyebrows, and by his ability to use the secret technique of the nine-tomoe wheel eye that neither of his two sons knew.

Kaguya Otsutsuki did not answer Xia Zuo's question. Instead, she waved her sleeve, turning the world upside down and taking Xia Zuo into a completely new world.

[Divinity·Heaven’s Control]

Xia Zuo was pulled into Kaguya's space, but Kaguya's expression became even more unpleasant. She became more nervous than ever before, staring intently at Xia Zuo.

【Amenominaka】is a divine technique exclusive to Kaguya Otsutsuki's bloodline limit, much like Obito Uchiha's 【Kamui】. It can basically be considered instinctive, so there is no possibility of it becoming unfamiliar.

Normally, she only needs a glance to bring a Six Paths level being into the Heavenly Mind Space, and then she can do whatever she wants with it.

A thousand years ago, she felt pity for her two sons and didn't want to be ruthless with them, so she didn't use this tactic against them, which allowed them to seize the opportunity to turn the tables.

In fact, if Kaguya had simply thrown Otsutsuki Hamura into Amenominaka and focused solely on dealing with Otsutsuki Hagoromo, he wouldn't have been as strong as he is now, and he really wouldn't have been able to defeat his mother on his own.

However, Kaguya Otsutsuki showed no mercy to the unfamiliar Xia Zuo. After realizing that her initial attack was inappropriate, she immediately pulled out the powerful weapon, [Amenominaka].

But when she was dragging Xia Zuo, Kaguya Otsutsuki felt unprecedented resistance. For a moment, she even felt that she could not succeed at all.

It wasn't until Kaguya Otsutsuki swung her arm and used all her strength to pull the space that she was able to barely bring Natsumi into Amenominaka's space.

But in this final struggle, Kaguya was even more shocked to discover that the chakra within Xia Zuo's body was not her own, but rather possessed his own aura.

This made Kaguya Otsutsuki realize why Infinite Tsukuyomi and Advent of the Divine Tree hadn't been able to defeat Xia Zuo—because he simply couldn't be locked onto by those two techniques.

One question was answered, but it also raised an even bigger one: How did Xia Zuo change the chakra mark in his body?

After all, Kaguya Otsutsuki ate the Chakra Fruit and was passively promoted to Kekkei Genkai, which automatically imprinted her chakra seals. She had no idea how to change the chakra seals.

At this moment, she valued Xia Zuo even more than Otsutsuki Hagoromo.

If Xia Zuo were an enemy, and Kaguya Otsutsuki couldn't kill him quickly, he would gradually steal her chakra, inevitably making her the ultimate victor.

When all the chakra is marked with Xia Zuo's mark, Kaguya Otsutsuki, as a chakra being, will involuntarily become Xia Zuo's slave.

Kaguya Otsutsuki scrutinized Natsume for a long time, her mind churning with all sorts of chaotic thoughts.

After a long pause, she finally spoke, asking, "Are you a descendant of Hamura? How did you grow to such a level?"

As Xia Zuo felt the abnormal gravity in Amenominaka, he moved his body and replied, "I am not a descendant of Otsutsuki Hamura, but a descendant of Ashura, the son of the Sage of Six Paths, Otsutsuki Hagoromo."

Kaguya Otsutsuki was extremely surprised: "Ashura, Hagoromo's child, but Hagoromo doesn't have the Byakugan. You should have inherited the Sharingan."

Xia Zuo shook his head and said, "You guessed wrong again. The Sage of Six Paths had two sons. My ancestor Ashura inherited the Sage Body, while his other son Indra inherited the Sharingan. His descendants are the Uchiha clan."

"By the way, the body you're occupying belongs to the former Uchiha clan leader, Uchiha Madara."

Kaguya looked at Natsume and asked, "Black Zetsu, is what he said true?"

Black Zetsu replied from inside his sleeve, "Yes, Mother, what he said is true."

Kaguya Otsutsuki questioned, "Then how did he awaken the Byakugan, and even advance to the Tenseigan, which even I don't have?"

Black Zetsu guessed, "Mother, Hamura's descendants are the Hyuga clan, living in Konoha Village, which he ruled. Could it be that he transplanted a pair of Byakugan?"

Kaguya Otsutsuki shook her head and said, "His Byakugan could not possibly have been transplanted. The fact that it can be opened and closed freely, and that it turns from black to white, can only be due to his own awakening."

Xia Zuo said, "Actually, I'm following in your footsteps, my ancestor."

"I know that Princess Otsutsuki's ability is called 'Bloodline Limit,' which includes the Byakugan, Sharingan, and Rinnegan. Your two sons inherited the Byakugan and Sharingan respectively."

"Hagoromo's descendants evolved the 'Shikotsumyaku' and 'Byakugan,' while Hagoromo's descendants evolved the 'Sharingan' and 'Kekuryugan,' as well as various other chakra-based bloodline limits."

"This is the result of the individual energy level decreasing as life forms reproduce, and the result of continuous downward compatibility."

"So I reversed it, starting with collecting all the bloodline limits, then collecting all the bloodline elimination, then the flesh and blood bloodline limits, and finally achieving the miracle of recreating the bloodline net."

Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's eyes gleamed with a mixture of longing and desire: "You've climbed to your current level step by step, starting from your bloodline limit. How far are you from achieving bloodline mastery?"

Xia Zuo didn't speak, but opened his nine-tomoe Rinnegan, the same type as Kaguya's, and gray bone spurs grew on the palms of his hands.

Kaguya Otsutsuki exclaimed with a mixture of surprise and delight, "The Rinnegan with nine tomoe! And the [All-Killing Ash Bones]! You... you already possess the characteristics of a Bloodline Limit?!"

Xia Zuo's performance proves that he has already touched upon the Bloodline Limit, but he has not yet been able to take this step due to certain limitations.

In other words, he stood on the same level as Kaguya Otsutsuki, someone Kaguya had to look at as an equal.

Xia Zuo smiled confidently and said, "Yes, I'm only one step away from obtaining the Bloodline Limit."

Kaguya Ōtsutsuki asked, as if confirming, "Just one step away?"

"Yes," Xia Zuo looked at Kaguya, "what I lack is your chakra!"