bioinnovel Chapter 413 Two Rebellious Sons, Feeding the Divine Tree
Chapter 413 Two Rebellious Sons, Feeding the Divine Tree
After the trial, Uchiha Mitsunori looked at Kaguya Otsutsuki beside him.
"Let's go to where your divine tree is and settle this judgment."
Kaguya Otsutsuki gently swept her pale fingers across the void, causing ripples to spread across the space like water. A black spatial gate instantly opened, revealing a dense flow of natural energy within.
Her eyelashes trembled slightly, clearly indicating that she was not at peace, so she stepped into the crevice first.
Uchiha Mitsumine followed closely behind, and used the Soul-Hooking Rope to lead Hamura and Hagoromo inside.
The Sage of Six Paths' eyes were filled with resentment, while Hamura kept his head down, his long hair obscuring his expression.
The spatial rift silently closed behind him, and Naruto, standing beside the judgment platform, couldn't help but clench his fists: "Is it... over just like that?"
Sasuke reached out and pressed his shoulder, his purple Rinnegan calmly sweeping across the direction where the crack disappeared.
Hashirama Senju sighed softly, his gaze falling on the judgment platform with a complex expression.
The spatial journey was fleeting, and the group found themselves in a valley rich in natural energy.
The valley is lush with vegetation, with babbling brooks and the air filled with the fragrance of plants.
Not far away stands the sacred tree where Kaguya Otsutsuki took root in the ninja world, its trunk as thick as a mountain range, its branches spreading out in all directions.
With a slight movement of his palm, Uchiha Sanfeng tightened the force exerted on the Sage of Six Paths and Hamura, preparing to throw them towards the Divine Tree.
For the Otsutsuki clan, sacrificing their own clan members to obtain chakra is a survival rule ingrained in their very bones, let alone for these two who deserved their fate.
Just as he was about to exert force with his palm, Kaguya Otsutsuki stopped him.
"Husband, wait!"
Kaguya Otsutsuki gently raised her hand, her delicate fingers taut, clearly indicating that making this decision had taken a great deal of effort.
Her voice was slightly hoarse: "They are still my sons. Even if their sins are grave, I cannot personally sacrifice them to the sacred tree under my name... Instead, sacrifice them to your sacred tree."
A clear look of surprise flashed in Uchiha Mitsunori's eyes, and his eyebrows rose slightly.
He knew all too well the survival rules of the Otsutsuki clan: chakra was to them a far more fundamental element than life itself.
With enough chakra, one can not only extend their lifespan indefinitely, but also continuously break through their own limits and enhance their strength.
Even within the same clan, they often turn against each other and bleed to death over the struggle for chakra resources.
The Sage of Six Paths endured a thousand years of scheming and accumulated chakra nearly equal to that of two ordinary divine trees; while Hamura Otsutsuki's chakra was equivalent to half a divine tree.
This vast chakra asset was a generous gift even to Kaguya Otsutsuki.
He had assumed that Kaguya would readily accept this power, as it aligned with the inherent selfishness and greed of the Otsutsuki clan. However, he was surprised that she would willingly give it up.
Seeing the conflict in Kaguya Otsutsuki's eyes, Mitsunori Uchiha couldn't help but ask, "Kaguya, you should understand what these two portions of chakra mean. Giving them up will have a significant impact on your strength."
Kaguya Otsutsuki gently shook her head, her eyes unusually firm: "Strength is certainly important, but I am no longer the Otsutsuki who only knew how to plunder. After becoming your queen, I realized that some things are more worthy of protection than power."
A thought crossed Uchiha Mitsunori's mind: It seems that Kaguya Otsutsuki has indeed changed a lot since becoming his queen. That cold selfishness unique to the Otsutsuki has been replaced by a touch of maternal tenderness.
He slowly withdrew the pressure from his right hand and nodded slightly: "Since you have made up your mind, then so be it."
For him, it made no essential difference which sacred tree he offered sacrifices to.
Then, Uchiha Mitsunori casually tore open a spatial gate.
He stepped into the rift first, followed closely by Kaguya Otsutsuki, and the imprisoned Sage of Six Paths and Hamura also traversed it.
They felt their bodies tremble violently, their eyes filled with confusion and fear.
This is the ancestral star, the foundation of the Uchiha Three Peaks.
The sky on this planet is a clear, deep blue, several times more expansive than the sky in the ninja world, with white clouds floating like cotton wool.
The natural energy in the air is so concentrated that it is almost tangible; inhaling it once makes one's mind tremble and feel an unprecedented sense of comfort.
Although the Sage of Six Paths and Hamura were imprisoned, they could still clearly sense this terrifying energy, their eyes filled with disbelief and shock.
"This planet... is more than twice the size of the ninja world!"
Hamura Otsutsuki muttered to himself, his throat tightening.
He had lived for thousands of years and never imagined that there was such a huge planet with life, let alone that the natural energy contained on it had reached a level he could not even fathom.
The Sage of Six Paths clenched his fists instinctively, his heart filled with resentment.
The power of his millennia-long planning was utterly insignificant in the face of such a profound foundation.
Kaguya Otsutsuki clearly sensed that seven torrents of energy of different attributes, like seven dazzling galaxies, were converging from the distant sky and continuously flowing into her ancestral star.
Those were the other seven inhabited planets under the Uchiha Sanfeng's name, transmitting natural energy to their ancestral star. Such a terrifying scale of energy supply was something even the Divine Tree at its peak couldn't match.
In the central region of the ancestral star, a towering tree stands tall, reaching into the clouds, as if connecting heaven and earth.
The trunk is so thick that it takes hundreds of people to encircle it, and the bark is covered with ancient golden patterns, emitting a faint halo.
Its branches and leaves spread out, blocking out the sky and covering an area of dozens of miles. Each leaf shone with a dazzling golden light. A rich life force and a terrifying chakra pressure emanated from the giant tree, instilling a sense of awe in people and making it difficult to even breathe.
"That's... the Divine Tree... why is it so tall?"
Hamura Otsutsuki spoke in a trembling voice.
He and the Sage of Six Paths had personally witnessed Kaguya Otsutsuki's Divine Tree, which, despite being only a little over a thousand meters tall, was already the pinnacle of the ninja world.
But the divine tree before them was over three thousand meters tall, more than twice as tall as Kaguya Otsutsuki's divine tree, and as vast as a continuous forest.
The Sage of Six Paths' eyes were filled with terror and resentment. He finally understood why the three peaks of the Uchiha clan were so abnormally powerful.
"I once offered sacrifices to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and Ōtsutsuki Urashiki from this sacred tree."
Uchiha Mitsunaga seemed to see through his thoughts and took the initiative to expose them: "You rebellious son of the Six Paths, do you think I grew to be so powerful because of this divine tree?"
The Sage of Six Paths was caught off guard and was momentarily speechless, his eyes flickering.
His Adam's apple bobbed several times before he finally managed to choke out a rebuttal: "You...you're just lucky to have found such planetary resources! If I had your resources, I would have surpassed you long ago!"
Upon seeing this, Uchiha Mitsunori chuckled, his laughter filled with unbridled confidence.
"When I first came to this planet, it had no natural energy at all, the land was cracked, and it was almost a dead planet. It was I who spent my time transforming the planet's vitality and turning it into a life-bearing planet."
He pointed to the towering divine tree, a hint of pride in his voice: "When I obtained this divine tree, it was just a sapling. But its growth requires a vast amount of natural energy, and the natural energy of our ancestral planet is simply insufficient to support its rapid growth."
"So I spent time transforming seven life-bearing planets to produce natural energy. Then I set up an interstellar energy teleportation array to continuously gather most of the natural energy from the seven life-bearing planets to the ancestral star, which is how this divine tree was cultivated into what it is today."
"Rokudo, the biggest difference between you and me is that you are like a parasite, relying on the resources of the ninja world to grow. The upper limit of the ninja world is your upper limit."
Uchiha Mitsunori's eyes suddenly turned cold, filled with disdain.
"I actively created a suitable environment for my growth. The starry sky is vast, and resources are limitless, so my growth potential is also limitless. Now I understand why I surpassed your accumulation of over a thousand years in just a few decades!"
The Sage of Six Paths and Hamura Otsutsuki were so shocked they couldn't speak; their minds were in turmoil.
Uchiha Sanfeng's words shattered the Sage of Six Paths' last shred of pride, making him fully realize that the difference between him and the other party was not in resources, but in vision and ability.
Upon hearing this, Ōtsutsuki Hamura's initially shocked gaze gradually deepened, and he fell into a thoughtful state.
He slightly raised his head, his long, silvery-white hair cascading over his shoulders, revealing a pair of eyes that were initially filled with confusion but gradually cleared. He murmured softly, "Actively creating a growth environment... the upper limit of growth... unlimited..."
He turned to look at the imprisoned Sage of Six Paths, his tone tinged with melancholy: "Brother, it turns out we went astray from the very beginning."
The many confusions that had been obscured by tampered memories seemed to gain some clarity at this moment.
He finally understood why, despite following his brother for a thousand years, he had never been able to break through the bottleneck.
Upon hearing this, the Sage of Six Paths glared at Hamura and shouted, "What do you know! How dare you utter such nonsense!"
Hamura shook his head gently, no longer arguing with him, his eyes filled with only relief.
Uchiha Sanfeng said no more, and with a wave of his hand, released Otsutsuki Hamura from his palm. The moment the golden barrier dissipated, an invisible force came from the direction of the divine tree, firmly pulling Hamura's body and slowly flying towards the towering divine tree.
Hamura didn't struggle; instead, he gently closed his eyes, completely accepting defeat.
The moment Hamura's body touched the trunk of the Divine Tree, the tree suddenly burst forth with a dazzling green light. Countless crystalline roots shot out from the trunk like nimble serpents, instantly wrapping tightly around Hamura's body.
Immediately, the roots began to frantically absorb his genes and chakra.
Hamura's body gradually disappeared in the green light, but his face showed no pain. Instead, he wore a relieved smile before finally dissipating completely and merging into the Divine Tree.
With Hamura's successful sacrifice, the height of the sacred tree began to rise rapidly.
Three thousand one hundred meters, three thousand two hundred meters, three thousand three hundred meters... In just a short while, the divine tree reached a height of more than three thousand three hundred meters.
The tree trunk grew thicker and thicker at a visible speed, the golden patterns on the bark became clearer, the branches and leaves became more lush, each leaf became greener, and the oppressive aura it exuded also increased.
"You rebellious son of the Six Paths, next one is you."
Uchiha Sanfeng's gaze fell on the Sage of Six Paths, his tone devoid of any emotion, as if he were dealing with a trivial matter.
He raised his hand to dispel the barrier around the Sage of Six Paths, and an invisible force pulled his body toward the divine tree.
The Sage of Six Paths was filled with extreme fear. He struggled frantically, flailing his limbs wildly, but he was unable to break free from the invisible restraint.
He turned to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, his voice pleading, "Mother! Save me! I am your son! You cannot stand by and watch me be sacrificed!"
Kaguya Otsutsuki turned her face away, a hint of pain flashing in her eyes, but she ultimately remained silent.
"No... I'm not reconciled..."
The moment his body was entangled by the roots of the divine tree, he let out a desperate roar, his voice hoarse and broken, filled with resentment and bitterness, but it was all in vain.
Unlike Hamura's half of the Divine Tree's chakra reserves, the Sage of Six Paths' accumulated chakra over a thousand years was far more abundant than Hamura's, approaching the reserves of two ordinary Divine Trees, and even surpassing the Ten-Tails Divine Tree.
As soon as the roots of the divine tree absorbed the light, it burst forth with an even more dazzling green light. The entire divine tree began to tremble violently, and the ground cracked open, spreading out deep, bottomless ravines.
The patterns on the tree trunk emitted a dazzling golden light, and its height increased at a visible speed, even causing ripples in the surrounding space.
3,500 meters, 3,800 meters, 4,000 meters, 4,200 meters...
The divine tree grew at an astonishing rate, but before long, its growth rate gradually slowed down.
Clearly, the chakra of the Sage of Six Paths, which was equivalent to that of two Divine Trees, was too vast for the Divine Trees to fully digest in a short time. They could only temporarily stop their rapid growth and instead slowly absorb and fuse with it.
As Uchiha Mitsunori felt the surging energy emanating from the Divine Tree, his expression subtly shifted.
At the current absorption rate of the Divine Tree, after it has completely digested the Sage of Six Paths' chakra, its height should reach more than 4,600 meters. At that time, the power of the Divine Tree will undergo another qualitative leap, and it may even awaken new abilities.
He looked up at the ever-growing divine tree, its branches and leaves rustling in the wind of the ancestral star, as if telling of the joy of growth.
With anticipation in his eyes, Uchiha Mitsunori exclaimed, "My Divine Tree is becoming more and more like the World Tree!"
Kaguya Otsutsuki stood to the side, her heart filled with complex emotions.
She felt a pang of sadness at the passing of her two sons, and a fleeting, almost imperceptible, loneliness crossed her eyes as she looked at the Sage of Six Paths' despairing expression.
Sensing her emotional fluctuations, Uchiha Mitsunori turned to look at her: "Kaguya, are you having second thoughts?"
Kaguya Otsutsuki shook her head and sighed softly, "No, this is the ending they deserved. I'm just... a little sentimental."