Escaping the Mist Ninja starts with backstabbing your teacher.

Chapter 291 It's the perfect age for curiosity!

The skeletal dragon spread its bone wings and roamed the vast expanse inside the moon.

The wind kept blowing, carrying the salty smell of the sea, and as it got closer to the green shore, it began to carry the fresh scent of grass and trees.

The scenery is even more beautiful, like a forest that no human has ever set foot in.

The azure blue of the sea, whether below or above, seems to sandwich them in the middle, creating a sense of spatial dislocation. When entering the land area, the green continent above brings an even heavier sense of oppression.

"It's so quiet," Momona said softly.

The three sat on the back of the skeletal dragon, looking around. Even as they flew over the forest, no birds were disturbed.

The silence was eerily quiet; everything seemed perfectly normal, the forest was lush and green, and the stream flowed ceaselessly.

But that eerie silence lacked the vibrant energy of life.

This makes one instinctively feel uncomfortable, even more so than in the Divine Might Space.

There are buildings, but it seems like no one has lived there for a long time.

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Ye Cang looked into the distance and spotted a village built against the mountainside.

As the skeletal dragon drew closer, the buildings below gradually became clearer.

Desolate, silent, dilapidated, and decaying—these were their first impressions.

The building is old, with several roofs already collapsed, and vines have climbed all over the stone walls.

"These buildings are so ancient!" Momona exclaimed, looking down. "And they've been abandoned for a hundred years, or even several hundred?"

"Not that long, but about the same," Izumi replied, gazing at the village built against the mountainside.

In some places, family symbols that share the same ancestry as the Hyuga clan can still be clearly seen.

"Hyuga?" Yekura exclaimed in surprise, pointing to the sign over there. "It's the symbol of the Hyuga clan."

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"Where, where, let me see!" Momona leaned closer and saw the Hyuga clan's emblem.

"Wow, really! I didn't expect to see the Hyuga clan's symbol here. What's going on?"

The two women looked at the figure ahead, clearly believing that only Izumi, who had brought them to the moon, could answer this question.

"Because this is the main branch of the Hyuga clan, while the Konoha branch is considered a branch."

"Wow, Izumi-sama, you really know everything!"

Momona spared no praise, taking the flattery to the extreme.

Yekura also seemed to be deep in thought. As one of the earliest people to follow Izumi, she took the Byakugan from him and fled all the way until now.

"I remember that the relationship between the Kaguya clan and the Hyuga clan has always been one of long-standing friendship."

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Izumi nodded slightly.

"Yes, our Bamboo Clan also has another name, the Kaguya Clan."

"The Hyuga clan here is also known as the Otsutsuki clan."

He then chuckled lightly, speaking with a hint of sarcasm.

"The only one left now is indeed qualified to be called Otsutsuki, but the previous ones were not qualified to be called Otsutsuki."

"The only one left?" Yekura understood the core meaning behind those words.

"That's right, now there's only one person left alive on the moon."

Izumi looked ahead at the countless black dots, while the skeletal dragon beneath him remained suspended in mid-air.

"It seems the owner here has discovered us and has no intention of welcoming us warmly."

"My God!" Momona exclaimed in surprise as she looked at the dense black dots in front of her.

"W-what is all this? Didn't they say there was no one here?"

"Of course there's no one there, because they're all puppets."

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Izumi responded and began to channel chakra into the skeletal dragon beneath him.

Crimson chakra, like thick viscous fluid, began to infuse each vertebra, illuminating it with a crimson glow.

Roar!

After the skeletal dragon was completely enveloped in crimson chakra, it let out a roar and its eyes shone with a crimson light.

The next instant, the dragon opened its ferocious maw, and black and white particles in front of it began to continuously converge into a sphere.

The condensation of energy and the resulting pressure caused the surrounding air to be swept up.

Tailed Beast Ball!

The power that had been dormant for so long was now being unleashed by Izumi through the skeletal dragon.

That white eye was already open, with veins bulging at the corner of its eye and temple.

That penetrating gaze seemed to look through these puppets into the depths of the moon.

He only felt the giant skeletal dragon beneath him tremble before the Tailed Beast Ball was ejected.

It transformed into a rapidly moving sphere, leaving a trail in the air, and the surrounding winds could not catch up with it no matter how hard they tried.

Boom~

A massive explosion rose into the distant sky, triggering a chain reaction that engulfed the distant puppets.

They either explode continuously or are swallowed up by the terrifying sphere of the Tailed Beast Ball.

One strike, and it's effective!

Momona huddled behind Yekura, only half of her face showing, which was flushed red by the light.

My ears were ringing from the aftershocks and the sound.

Yekura couldn't help but raise her arm to shield herself and Momona with her chakra.

The strongest aftershocks swept back, causing the trees below to bend and sway.

Izumi raised his hand and patted lightly, and the skeletal dragon raised a protective layer, isolating the remaining shockwaves.

With a disoriented gaze, he stared at the annihilated puppets in the distance, as if to say hello first.

As for Otsutsuki Toneri, who was observing and perceiving through the puppet, the connection was immediately severed due to the puppet's destruction.

His brows furrowed slightly, and a wisp of green chakra quietly dissipated from his fingertips—that was him using the power of the Tenseigan.

The invaders were stronger than he had imagined, and the puppets they sent out were dealt with so easily.

"It seems I'll have to take action myself."

Without any further action, a more exquisite puppet behind him raised its head.

Under the control of the servant, it quietly drifted away, and soon a large number of puppets followed behind it.

They left the depths of the moon once more and headed towards the outside world.

This time, he was prepared to make contact and see what the purpose of this group was.

After all, it would probably take them some effort to find this place easily.

"Wow, that's incredible power!" Momona exclaimed, looking into the distance.

"Alright, let's not go any further." Izumi patted the dragon's back lightly.

The skeletal dragon flapped its bone wings and slowly descended onto a flat hillside below.

A few wisps of smoke still lingered around, and the tracks left by the Tailed Beast's Jade Plow stretched from afar all the way to this side, like an old wound that was still steaming.

The dragon lowered its body, folded its bone wings, and protected the three people on its back.

Momona jumped out from behind Yekura, patted her chest, and then stood on tiptoe to look into the distance.

Yecang walked to Izumi's side and whispered, "Aren't we leaving? If we stop now, they'll definitely come looking for us."

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"We want him to come to us," Izumi said, taking a small bottle of water from his sleeve and slowly taking a sip. "That last shot was a knock on the door."

"Now that the door has been knocked on, if we continue forward, it will become us breaking into the inner courtyard."

"Let's wait for the master to come out. If we can reach an agreement, it means he still has some sense."

"If we can't reach an agreement, it's not too late to fight."

Ye Cang frowned and didn't try to persuade him further.

She understood Izumi Kawa; his willingness to stop was not out of fear, but because he had already planned his next move.

Momona didn't think too much about it. She found a clean rock to sit on, swung her legs, and took out two small candy pills and put them in her mouth.

She suddenly tilted her head and asked, "What if the people who come refuse to talk and just start fighting?"

"Then you'd better hide well, hide behind Yekura." Izumikawa smiled.

"Momona will help too!" She waved her little fist defiantly.

Remembering the Tailed Beast Ball he had just used, his arrogance immediately diminished.

He added quietly, "I can help with something small."

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"Then help me grill the meat." Izumi didn't stand on ceremony and started ordering him around.

With a wave of his hand, he took out a large piece of fresh meat from the spatial rift, along with barbecue utensils and tableware.

He wasn't in a hurry because he was afraid the other person would be.

If the other party really uses the power of the large Tenseigan at that time.

Then it really will run away on its own, turning the mud into grease on the road.

Even though Toneri was born without eyes, the purity of his bloodline was recognized even by that Otsutsuki fisherman.

With the added power of the large Tenseigan, he is practically invincible.

He dared to do this because he possessed Obito's Sharingan and had mastered natural energy.

If this attempt fails, he will likely have to wait until he obtains another Mangekyou Sharingan from Obito to achieve his goal.

Their sudden rest and the relaxed feeling of eating barbecue made Toneri, who was looking at them through his Reincarnation Eye, look a little puzzled.

"What are they doing, grilling meat?" He was only slightly older than Hinata, maybe a year older at most.

He was very immature, and his understanding of many things came from observing the ninja world through his large Tenseigan.

He was puzzled by the other party's actions, wondering what they were planning to do.

Since the other party has stopped advancing, he doesn't intend to make another move; he can observe the situation first.

The flames leaped and the wood crackled in the fire.

The skewered pieces of roasted meat were now stuck next to the campfire, their fat sizzling and emitting an enticing aroma.

Occasionally, a drop of grease would fall into the fire, causing a small flame to leap up.

A gentle breeze was blowing, carrying the aroma of meat. The pleasant temperature made the wind feel like a soft veil, brushing against the skin.

The sky above was changing; the sun was gradually transforming into the moon, radiating a soft light.

As night falls, just like the ground, it is bathed in the setting sun and then slowly turns black.

"So there's night here too!" Momona looked up and exclaimed in amazement.

Yekura also looked up at the sky, at the sphere of light that had once again transformed into the moon.

Holding a skewer of grilled meat in my hand, I gently tore off a piece and slowly savored it, feeling like I was on vacation.

Then he looked at Izumi River: "This place is clearly underground, yet it's been restored to such a perfect state. What kind of incredible power is behind this?"

"Ten-Sengan!" Izumikawa swallowed the grilled meat in his mouth and said calmly.

"The Tenseigan?" Yekura wondered.

"What is that?" Momona pressed.

After glancing at the two of them, Izumi took a piece of grilled meat, ate it, and began to explain.

"As you should know, the Sharingan has one tomoe, two tomoe, three tomoe, and there is also the Mangekyou Sharingan."

The two nodded slightly, while Momona had a sudden flash of inspiration, as if she had discovered something.

"Could it be that this Tenseigan is just an upgraded version of the Byakugan?"

"That's right, you got it!"

Izumi's approval made Momona chuckle and give herself a thumbs up for her cleverness.

"However, the power of the Tenseigan surpasses that of the Mangekyou Sharingan."

"And above the Sharingan, there is even the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan."

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"But even so, the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan is still no match for the Tenseigan."

"The one that can truly be compared to the Tenseigan is the Rinnegan."

"The Sage's Eye!?" Yecang murmured. "The eyes possessed by the leader of Akatsuki are also the eyes of the legendary Sage of Six Paths."

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"Not bad, these two eyes are in the same league."

"The Rinnegan now," Izumikawa shook his head slightly, "is actually unable to unleash its full power."

"Because those weren't originally his eyes; someone else was using him to maintain those eyes."

"What!?" Ye Cang looked shocked. "I never expected it to be like this."

She had witnessed the opponent's power firsthand.

Even with such terrifying power, it is not the complete whole; the eyes do not belong to the other party.

"So, Lord Izumigawa, you came to the moon to obtain the power of the Tenseigan?"

"right!"

When questioned by Momona, Izumi admitted it.

"Because for the upcoming plans, I need a higher level of support to be confident in doing them well."

"Ah! Even with his current strength, Lord Izumigawa isn't confident?"

"How terrifying! What could be so terrifying that even the invincible Lord Izumikawa feels that his current power is insufficient?"

In Momona's eyes, Izumi's power had reached the pinnacle of the ninja world, and no one could resist it.

Especially after the launch of that Tailed Beast Ball, she felt that her Lord Izumi was invincible.

"Invincible under heaven, but an enemy comes from the sky!"

Izumi chuckled lightly; he didn't mind discussing these matters with the two of them.

After all, everything about the two of them was under his control, and sometimes talking about it could make him feel a little better.

Just like Cthulhu, you don't feel any pressure if you don't know about it.

Once the truth is known, those with excessive spiritual insight will feel immense pressure and terror, as if cursed by knowledge.

"An enemy from the sky?" Yekura repeated the question, then asked, "Do you mean the moon?"

Izumi shook his head slightly, offering no further explanation. Instead, he looked into the depths of the forest beside him and spoke slowly.

"You've been eavesdropping for so long, aren't you going to come out and have a chat?"

Yekura and Momona immediately became alert, looking in the direction Izumi was facing, but they hadn't noticed anything.

"Let's continue with our previous topic. Also, how did you know about the Tenseigan?"

A figure appeared, and to Izumi's surprise, it looked almost exactly like Toneri in the future.

But there are still some differences. I don't know if it's the way she imagined herself growing up, or the way her elders looked.

"Of course, after all, I've been talking about all this here just to wait for you."

Izumi smiled gently. Four or five-year-old children are at the age of curiosity.