My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 167

After you melted down all the flames you had collected, the Rule of Fire was born.

Swallowing the Rule of Fire and completely merging with it also meant thoroughly mastering it. Every cell in your body, including your soul, was sublimated under the impact of this rule!

The part of your bloodline that represented fire affinity now directly transformed into a flowing rule, the flowing fire itself!

You even discovered that you could control parts of your body to turn into flames. At the same time, in your Divine Might Space—

The original void now transformed into an endless domain of flames, with countless types of flames cheering and leaping within it.

Even the gravity space you had previously created with Tsukuyomi for practicing Eight Inner Gates was incinerated and collapsed…

You spat a stream of flame at the sea below. In an instant, under the scorching of this divine fire, a massive pit appeared in the turbulent sea!

However, the water within it was not evaporated by the flames but completely disintegrated as if struck by Dust Release!

You then lashed out with a whip of fire, immediately creating a vacuum, the air within it also turned into nothingness by you!

This was far more potent than the flashy but useless Amaterasu, which was hyped up so much!

It could completely be used as Dust Release!

Since it was the embodiment of the Rule of Fire, you decided to name it “Blaze Release”!

With your body mastering the rule and your bloodline经过 the baptism of fire, this also meant you had thoroughly entered the Demigod level!

As you comprehended this power and joy belonging to a Demigod, your eyes also underwent a change—

It was the Tenseigan.

Under the baptism of this rule power, your Byakugan underwent its second “fetal movement.” You were only two more steps away from fully awakening the Tenseigan!

Suddenly mastering rule power and ascending to a Demigod—

This was an unexpected surprise for you. To better understand your own power and avoid detours,

After familiarizing yourself with this newfound power, you used Hidan as a mouthpiece to contact Jashin and explained your current situation, eager to learn more about gods.

Jashin answered all your questions without reservation:

First, regarding the Truth-Seeking Orbs, according to him, with your current strength of fully mastering a rule and your body being overly assimilated by the rule, taking on a Truth-Seeking Orb would not be difficult!

Because the essence of the Truth-Seeking Orb is a “divine power” originating from the Ōtsutsuki bloodline and the power of numerous “rule imprints.” These things are all possessed by gods, naturally crushing for mortals.

However, if one possesses “Six Paths Power,” a “privilege” bestowed by a high-ranking god, or if one is like you, a Demigod who has fully mastered a “rule,” then it can be regarded as equivalent!

You can completely take it on. Although injury is inevitable, the injuries would be within the range of recovery.

After all, the complete Truth-Seeking Orb symbolizes control over the Ten-Tails and the Rinnegan, which means control over the Ōtsutsuki and the Divine Tree’s power.

It would still be somewhat difficult for a single rule to contend with it…

Furthermore, Jashin also explained the connection between Ninjutsu, Kekkei Genkai, Kekkei Mōra, and rules:

Ninjutsu, in essence, is a clumsy imitation of a sliver of the rules and privileges mastered by gods, provided for mortals to practice and gain self-preservation power.

Going a step further, practicing Ninjutsu to the pinnacle has the chance to produce Kekkei Genkai.

Kekkei Genkai, in plain terms, are “rule imprints” etched into the bloodline. They possess part of the rule’s power, far stronger than ordinary Ninjutsu, but they are not yet a rule, merely traces left by a rule.

However, if one possesses a Kekkei Genkai, it is equivalent to allowing the body to adapt to part of the rule’s power in advance. When there is an opportunity to obtain the relevant rule, it will undoubtedly be much easier.

In other words, it makes it easier to advance to Demigod!

Furthermore, Kekkei Tōta and Kekkei Mōra are essentially upgraded versions of Kekkei Genkai, containing far more “rule imprints” than Kekkei Genkai.

When it reaches the Kekkei Mōra stage, although it is still essentially “rule imprints,” it undergoes a qualitative change due to the quantity and complexity.

The Kekkei Ninjutsu condensed from it then forms the Truth-Seeking Orbs!

Compared to ordinary powers, such complex rule imprints lead to the Truth-Seeking Orb actually being a type of “divine power”!

Therefore, those with Kekkei Mōra can also be called as having “divine blood”!

This is also why Jashin refers to the Ōtsutsuki clan as a divine clan, because all members of the Ōtsutsuki clan who are qualified to eat the Divine Tree’s fruit possess Kekkei Mōra…

This also means that, in most cases, the Ōtsutsuki clan only needs to eat the Divine Tree’s fruit, which contains abundant rule power, and condense their authority to immediately ascend to godhood!

If it were an ordinary person, even if they were lucky enough to obtain and eat a Divine Tree fruit, they would only be assimilated by the rules within it and turn into a monster losing self-awareness, or directly explode from the immense but indigestible rule power…

Next, regarding factors affecting a god’s strength:

The most important are rules and privileges. The more rules mastered and the better they are integrated, the more powerful the privilege. Then, the god’s means in combat become more varied and effective, making it less likely to be countered by other gods and easier to counter opponents.

This point is somewhat similar to ninja combat.

Next is divine power!

Truth-Seeking Orbs can be considered a type of divine power composed of extremely complex rule imprints plus a large amount of chakra!

In addition, most of the former gods of the ninja world used the faith of their believers as divine power.

However, during the war with the Ōtsutsuki, the gods of the ninja world also discovered that although this power was easy to obtain and inexhaustible, it could not cope with the brutal offensives of the ancient divine wars.

Therefore, many ambitious gods actively abandoned this power and turned to developing new sources of divine power:

For example, the Heavenly God of the Earth, Ōgamatsukami, once passed on senjutsu to the Three Great Holy Lands upon his demise.

Using the naturally occurring emanations of the earth veins, which are naturally endowed with various rule imprints, as the source of divine power, which is also why Truth-Seeking Orbs cannot ignore senjutsu!

Furthermore, the Jujutsu developed by Jashin himself, in a sense, is also a new type of divine power.

Jashin calls it “Cursed Power,” which is composed of the negative emotions and karmic power of believers and those sacrificed through torture. Its complexity can also be considered to meet the standard of divine power.

The abundance of divine power affects the intensity and breadth of a god’s ability to wield their authority, helps analyze rules, and acts as a universal lubricant for integrating authority.

Different divine powers also possess different properties and enhancements…

If divine power is matched with authority of a similar nature, then the god’s combat power will increase by yet another level.

In addition, there are multiple factors such as divine domains and divine artifacts.

If one can pull an opponent into their divine domain during combat, they will gain a complete advantage and can even completely eliminate the opponent.

Some gods who are extremely confident in the strength of their divine domain even use it as a weapon to clash.

Divine artifacts, on the other hand, originate from gods injecting excess rules or authority into objects. Some lesser ones can inject rule imprints similar to Kekkei Genkai, using them as an auxiliary means for weapons!

All in all,

Authority, or divinity, comes first, followed by divine power, then divine domain, and finally divine artifacts. These are the most important factors that constitute a god’s strength…