My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 159

“The Otsutsuki Clan, it’s been a long time since I last heard that name…”

Upon hearing the Evil God’s sigh through Hidan, you suddenly remembered that you shouldn’t have revealed your knowledge of the Otsutsuki Clan.

You could only explain it away as a name that automatically appeared in your mind after your bloodline awakened.

Fortunately, the Evil God didn’t seem to notice this detail.

Instead, he led you through the massive pyramid-shaped temple, past some followers who, like Hidan, seemed to have been chosen by the Evil God, and arrived at the deepest part of the temple.

At this point, Hidan could no longer proceed.

So, you mustered your courage and stepped alone into the darkness that even a Byakugan couldn’t penetrate:

After a dizzying spin, you found yourself in the center of a boundless sea of blood, on an island formed by dried blood clots.

Moreover, you discovered that your Magnet Release flight ability was nullified!

There seemed to be no magnetic field here, only sparse gravity maintaining the precarious structure of the entire island.

“A young god’s courage is truly great, daring to enter my divine domain so casually…”

Although he said this, you could clearly sense that the Evil God, whose whereabouts were unknown, held no hostility towards you.

He even proactively began to explain the past of the Shinobi World and the Otsutsuki Clan:

The Shinobi World once had no chakra, but was an independent world primarily cultivating natural energy, with various cultivation methods coexisting.

However, all of this was shattered by the arrival of the Otsutsuki Clan!

Two Otsutsuki divine envoys, newly arrived in the Shinobi World from the distant cosmos, seemed to have mistaken the goodwill of the Shinobi World’s beings for weakness and easy bullying, setting their sights on this bountiful world.

They foolishly attempted to plant a Divine Tree imbued with endless devouring power, intending to extract the Shinobi World’s ley lines.

This action was first detected by the Shinobi World’s god in charge of ley lines and vitality, the Great God Tsuchimikado. However, the benevolent Great God Tsuchimikado merely destroyed the Divine Tree.

He then sealed the two Otsutsuki divine envoys for a thousand years for admonishment, and then released them.

But the Otsutsuki divine envoys, upon returning to the distant cosmos, not only failed to repent, but instead brought about the descent of the Otsutsuki clan’s own deities.

These gods possessed divine power but utterly lacked the responsibility of being gods!

Upon their arrival, they immediately began a massive slaughter of the Shinobi World’s beings.

This caught the Shinobi World’s creatures, accustomed to peace, off guard.

Fortunately, the native gods of the Shinobi World also descended into reality in response to the cries of the living beings, engaging in a grand-scale war against the Otsutsuki Clan invaders…

Although the Otsutsuki Clan sent one Heavenly God and dozens of True Gods to descend in this invasion, not to mention countless demigods, divine envoys, and their subordinates below…

After paying some acceptable price, the beings of the Shinobi World and the native gods successfully repelled all the invading Otsutsuki army.

However, the imagined victory did not come:

The gods of the Shinobi World had greatly underestimated the Otsutsuki Clan’s foundation!

After repelling one wave of invasion, what followed was the Otsutsuki Clan’s precisely calculated next wave of attack, based on the combat power displayed by the Shinobi World…

This kind of world-destroying war lasted for an unknown period.

Until it dragged the entire Shinobi World, and even the Otsutsuki Clan itself, completely into the flames of war!

And gods like the Evil God and the Death God, who were not auspicious, were also born amidst the endless war!

The gods of the Shinobi World had also misjudged the Otsutsuki Clan’s objective!

Because they couldn’t understand.

What kind of gods wouldn’t stay comfortably at home, enjoying the faith and offerings of their followers, slowly comprehending their own rules, and perfecting their divine authority…

Instead, they had endless plunder and war etched into their very bones!

Such a war caused countless followers to die tragically, shattered divine authority, and brought about chaotic rules, clearly leading to self-destruction!

Yet, the Otsutsuki Clan seemed to relish it!

Continuously throwing dignified demigods into the fray as mass-produced war weapons…

Fortunately, in the subsequent wars,

The gods of the Shinobi World gradually came to understand the unique nature of the Otsutsuki Clan:

Members of this race are born with divine blood!

With just a little mastery as infants, they can reach the peak that ordinary mortals in the Shinobi World might only glimpse after a lifetime of effort!

Unless a person from the Shinobi World is a reincarnation of a god, like Indra and Asura later on, they can only reach it by forcibly bearing divine power with a mortal body!

Most who attempted this lost their sanity and became twisted creations of the corresponding divine power.

The remaining few, though retaining their humanity, almost became slaves to power, known as divine servants…

And once an Otsutsuki Clan member reaches adulthood, they gain the qualification to step into godhood.

At this stage, their mortal bodies gradually transform into divine beings, capable of bearing and wielding divine power for their own use.

They can then be called divine envoys!

One stage higher, their bodies are completely deified, and their souls give birth to their own unique divinity and divine power, touching upon rules but not fully comprehending them…

At this point, they can be crowned with the title of demigod!

However, to reach a realm so difficult for people of the Shinobi World, the Otsutsuki Clan only needs to consume specific elixirs or Divine Tree fruits!

As for the true gods above this, and those gods much stronger than ordinary gods, in the eyes of the Otsutsuki Clan,

They are merely a result of devouring more elixirs, more Divine Tree fruits, or even more of their own kin!

Despite the clan rule against harming fellow clan members, in war, no Otsutsuki would obviously heed such a rule!

The power of the Shinobi World’s gods comes from the offerings, sacrifices, and faith of their followers!

The Otsutsuki Clan, however, relies on the Divine Tree, directly consuming these things and completely integrating them into themselves!

All of this established the Otsutsuki Clan’s identity as a divine race!

All of this forged the Otsutsuki Clan’s innate divine power and their aggressive ambition!

All of this left the gods of the Shinobi World in despair upon learning the truth!

However,

Even the Otsutsuki Clan had its weaknesses.

The gods of the Shinobi World gradually discovered during the war that most Otsutsuki clan members, and even some who had already become gods, possessed immense power but did not know how to wield it!

They were often cleverly defeated by mortals from the Shinobi World who had honed their skills through countless battles!

Coupled with the Shinobi World’s deep foundation,

Towards the end of the war,

The main god who created the world, the Great God Amaterasu, led the Heavenly Gods of the Shinobi World to descend, joining forces with strong individuals from various worlds threatened by the Otsutsuki Clan. They targeted the Otsutsuki Clan’s weaknesses, launched a counterattack, and completely shattered the Otsutsuki fleet that invaded the Shinobi World.

They severed the Otsutsuki Clan’s supply lines that spanned multiple star systems.

They uprooted and destroyed the Divine Trees planted within, and integrated the slain Otsutsuki powerhouses and fallen gods into the Shinobi World’s ley lines, forging Dragon Veins to prevent the Otsutsuki Clan’s ability to devour each other!

They fought their way into the Otsutsuki Clan’s territory and engaged in an earth-shattering decisive battle with the high and mighty Otsutsuki God!

The aftershocks of the battle destroyed multiple star systems.

Finally, the Great God Amaterasu and the surviving gods joined forces in a final desperate struggle against the Otsutsuki God in the Shinobi World!

Unfortunately, the Great God Amaterasu was ultimately no match for the Otsutsuki God.

After inflicting irreversible injuries on the Otsutsuki God, the Great God Amaterasu completely perished.

At this time, the Otsutsuki God was severely wounded and unable to recover. If their weakened power were exposed, they would likely be encircled and devoured by their own clan.

They had no choice but to reincarnate…

This great war was also known as the Ancient Divine War.

During the divine war, the Shinobi World, as the battlefield, suffered extreme devastation, and the Heavenly God Tsuchimikado also unfortunately perished while protecting the Shinobi World’s ley lines.

To ensure a successor,

He divided his remaining divine power, divine essence, and divinity into three parts, which he passed on to snakes, toads, and slugs, thus giving rise to the later Three Great Sage Regions…

“So you called me here just to make me listen to your fabricated wild history?”