Chapter 202: Above the Moon

When Otsutsuki Toneri regained consciousness, he was no longer the original Otsutsuki, but had become a clone of Uchiha Feiyu.

Clenching his fist, the newly born Otsutsuki Toneri clone sensed his own power and couldn't help but shake his head:

"The talent is decent... but that's about it; it's probably close to the talent level of Senju Hashirama and Madara Uchiha."

"It's just that considering this guy was blind, in a certain sense, his bloodline power might be even stronger than the reincarnations of the Sage of Six Paths' two sons."

After Otsutsuki Toneri installed the Byakugan, he directly awakened the Tenseigan. Although the Giant Truth-Seeking Orb providing chakra might have contributed to this, his own bloodline had undoubtedly approached that of the true Otsutsuki from beyond the heavens.

Otherwise, if it were an ordinary Hyuga ninja, they would surely demonstrate what it means to be drained into a husk, or simply be blown apart by the chakra of the Giant Truth-Seeking Orb.

Of course, this strength and talent meant nothing to Uchiha Feiyu. He stood up, casually left a Flying Thunder God Mark on the ground, and then, using his own chakra as a resonance, with a 'pop', summoned his main body.

After being refined into a clone, Otsutsuki Toneri could already use the vast majority of Uchiha Feiyu's abilities. With both sides using the Flying Thunder God Technique simultaneously, even though the Moon and the Ninja World are far apart, he could summon Uchiha Feiyu in an instant.

Otherwise, relying solely on Uchiha Feiyu, one person would have no way to teleport directly to the Moon.

Appearing in the different dimension inside the Moon, Uchiha Feiyu raised his head slightly, glanced at the fake sun in the sky—which was the Giant Truth-Seeking Orb—and then gently reached out a hand.

An eerie blood-colored light lit up in his palm, instantly transforming into a cloud of blood. At first, it was just a wisp of cloud, but as it flew higher, it grew larger, finally covering the sky like a blood-colored curtain, directly engulfing the 'sun' in the sky.

A moment later, the light within this lunar space vanished completely, and the sun in the sky fell into Uchiha Feiyu's hand, transforming into a giant Byakugan five meters in diameter.

A soft light shrouded the giant Byakugan, making it look like a pure white jade plate, but if one were to observe closely, one would discover the truth: this giant Byakugan was constructed from densely packed white eyes.

Based on this appearance, which resembled a giant bunch of grapes, anyone with trypophobia would likely feel their entire body go numb, especially those pale eyeballs; even Uchiha Feiyu felt his sanity waver slightly upon seeing it.

"I'll refine a Thousand-Eye Glazed Bead later; at least in appearance, that thing is much better than this Giant Truth-Seeking Orb."

Among the Demonic Path inheritances Uchiha Feiyu had obtained, the magic treasures refined were basically of two extremes: one style looked like skulls, human-skin drums, or White Bone Banners, filled with a terrifying aesthetic; the other style looked colorful, gorgeous, and profound, as if they were some incredible treasures.

The Thousand-Eye Glazed Bead belonged to the latter. The refined bead was glazed in color, as large as a fist, and gorgeous. If one only used ordinary eyeballs for refinement, then at least a thousand eyeballs would be needed to refine a single Thousand-Eye Glazed Bead.

A Thousand-Eye Glazed Bead refined from ordinary eyeballs possessed two abilities: clairvoyance and visual Genjutsu; the more eyes refined into it, the better its effects would naturally be.

And for a heterodox eyeball like the Byakugan, the effects were naturally even more powerful. To say nothing else, a Thousand-Eye Glazed Bead refined from Byakugan could scan the entire Ninja World with absolute ease, and using it as an astronomical telescope would likely be no problem at all.

Stowing the eyeball that would drive a trypophobe to death into his different dimension, Uchiha Feiyu's Divine Sense scanned the entire Moon, and he soon sensed a vast, yet deathly silent chakra hidden at the very center of the Moon.

"There's a bit of a problem..."

Sensing that completely dead and sealed mind, Uchiha Feiyu felt a headache. The effects of the Heavenly Demon Secret were not omnipotent, or rather, Uchiha Feiyu's current cultivation was still far from that of a true Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, and he could not truly demonize all things.

Otsutsuki Kaguya, sealed in the center of the Moon, was not like the Monkey King, who was simply pressed under a seal. In the innermost part of the seal was a space of near-total silence, where not only could chakra not flow, but even individual consciousness did not exist.

To say it did not exist might be an exaggeration, but clearly, Otsutsuki Kaguya's own self-consciousness had also been frozen within the seal—in fact, thinking about it carefully, this was quite normal.

Otherwise, if Otsutsuki Kaguya had maintained her self-consciousness while trapped alive on the Moon for 1,000 years, the final result would either be like a certain ultimate lifeform drifting in outer space—stopping thinking—or she would have directly turned into a lunatic, transforming into a complete chakra beast.

A normal person trapped in a dark room with no means of communication would have a mental breakdown in three days. As a sentient being, Uchiha Feiyu did not think the Otsutsuki Clan's resistance in this regard was much higher than that of a normal person.

And with this kind of completely frozen mind, there would be no fluctuations, and the Magic Thought Uchiha Feiyu transformed would naturally have no way to take hold.

If he had truly cultivated the Heavenly Demon Secret to completion and transformed himself into a Heavenly Demon form, Uchiha Feiyu would have the confidence to forcibly demonize Otsutsuki Kaguya, but with his current half-baked "Nascent Soul" cultivation, he was still a long way off.

"Forget it, it seems there's no way to turn Kaguya Hime into a ninja weapon in the short term. If I release her now and try to subdue her, it will also be a bit troublesome."

The current Uchiha Feiyu still had some confidence in himself; he wouldn't dare say he could easily crush Kaguya Hime, but he could definitely hold the upper hand.

However, at Kaguya Hime's level, she had already reached the strength to "wipe the surface," an absolute natural disaster capable of completely destroying modern civilization. If he were to fight Kaguya Hime for even a slightly prolonged time—not much, just one day and one night—it would be enough to reduce the current population of the Ninja World by ninety percent.

The current population of the Ninja World was entirely Uchiha Feiyu's leeks. Rather than risking a fight with Kaguya Hime, it would be better to go to other planes to scout the path. At worst, he could spend ten years waiting for the leeks to mature another crop; by then, Uchiha Feiyu's strength would have improved significantly compared to now, and suppressing Otsutsuki Kaguya would be much easier.

He split off a pure-blooded Otsutsuki clone, had him sit on the Moon to guard him, and Uchiha Feiyu added several more layers of seals to the exterior of this artificial small planet, ensuring that the difficulty for Otsutsuki Kaguya Hime to escape increased tenfold.

Then, he closed the channel communicating with the Moon, had the Otsutsuki clone open the Kamui Space, hid himself inside the space, and activated the ability of the Night God Origin.

In the ethereal void, Uchiha Feiyu slowly opened his eyes. The moment he opened his eyes, the original void seemed like a curtain slowly fading away, and the sound of ocean waves came from all around.

"This time... I wonder where I've ended up?"

"I hope I can dream of people! Otherwise, I'll have to waste another period of time."

The Night God Origin was, to put it plainly, a technique for traveling through the myriad worlds in a dream. It was just that Uchiha Feiyu's luck hadn't been very good the previous few times; he had appeared in some desolate worlds, or simply in the cold, dead void of space, and even when he appeared in worlds suitable for habitation, he hadn't encountered anyone.

As long as he didn't encounter people, Uchiha Feiyu's skills in Heavenly Demon invasion were meaningless, and the time he could enter the Night God Origin could not be very long. Every time he dreamed, Uchiha Feiyu usually only had five to ten minutes to look at the surrounding situation.

A world, or rather a planet, is very large, and a planet suitable for humans—or carbon-based life—to survive on must have at least 50% of its area as ocean. Coupled with the fact that there are many wilderness areas on land without any human footprints, this meant that even on a planet with humans, the probability of Uchiha Feiyu encountering someone was only one or two in ten.

Under these circumstances, although Uchiha Feiyu had already dreamed over a hundred times, he still hadn't located any world.

"It's the ocean again... I hate this godforsaken ocean!"

Glancing around, a look of frustration immediately appeared on Uchiha Feiyu's face. The ocean was vast, boundless, and uninhabited; basically, appearing here meant this dream trip was a 'GG'.

Although there were many creatures in the seawater, these creatures did not have high intelligence and had not formed self-consciousness, so naturally, they could not produce any Magic Thought. At least with Uchiha Feiyu's current Heavenly Demon Secret cultivation, he had not reached the level where he could possess even the fish in the sea.

"It seems I'm going to return empty-handed again this time... Huh!?"

Just as Uchiha Feiyu was still feeling somewhat frustrated, intense mental fluctuations in the distance made him involuntarily raise his head and look toward the distance.

"Someone, is that a merchant ship... That's great!!"

After sensing the emotional fluctuations in the distance, Uchiha Feiyu immediately began to fly toward there. Unfortunately, his movement speed in the dream was not fast, roughly equivalent to the running speed of an ordinary ninja.

"Faster, a little faster..."

Finally, after spending seven or eight minutes, Uchiha Feiyu arrived at the scene, and then his eyebrows furrowed.

Appearing before his eyes was a merchant ship drifting on the sea. However, from the bloodstains on the ship, the thick smoke rising, and the small, dark shadow of a pirate ship in the distance, it was clear that this merchant ship had been attacked by enemies.

Should he go and find that pirate ship? Uchiha Feiyu thought about it in his heart, then abandoned the idea—the longest time he could dream of another world would not exceed ten minutes, and if it were short, it would end in five minutes. Now that seven or eight minutes had already passed, the connection to this world could be severed at any time, and he had no time to waste now.

Sensing the mental fluctuations gradually disappearing inside the merchant ship, Uchiha Feiyu did not hesitate at all, directly dived in, and soon discovered a young man with a knife in his abdomen, about to bleed to death.

Everyone else on the merchant ship was already dead. In this situation, Uchiha Feiyu had no room to be picky and immediately entered the mind of the young man, which was almost about to dissipate.

When a person is dying, negative emotions are often very intense, which is the best hotbed for the growth of a Magic Thought. Even though the mental power Uchiha Feiyu projected into this world was very weak, it only took him a dozen seconds to completely devour the young man.

Having completely taken over everything of the young man, Uchiha Feiyu immediately felt his whole body go cold, his vision go black, and even felt a strong sense of drowsiness.

"This is a bit bad... this physical condition..."

After taking over the body, that feeling of being adrift outside the world immediately disappeared, but now this body was on the verge of death, and if he didn't take some measures, he would have to 'GG' directly.

Fortunately, even though Uchiha Feiyu had no way to get support from his main body right now, at least those ordinary physical control techniques that did not involve energy could still be used slightly.

Controlling the muscles of his body to close, he suppressed the bleeding from the wound, then barely dragged his collapsing body to sit cross-legged, and took a long, deep breath.

This was not any kind of cultivation; even for so-called Demonic Arts, forcibly practicing them in a state where the body is battered and exhausted with no foundation at all would only accelerate one's own collapse, so this was merely a method of using breathing to calm the body and accumulate strength.

After deep breathing for a full ten-plus minutes, Uchiha Feiyu finally opened his eyes, feeling that his body had accumulated some strength.

He looked up at the other dead people in the ship's cabin and could not help but sigh:

"Are there no living people on the entire ship? This is truly troublesome; it seems I will have to pull through this on my own."

One must know that his current physical body had suffered injuries severe enough to be fatal; although the vital organs were not damaged, in a situation where one is disemboweled, the blood loss alone could bleed a person to death.

It was fortunate that Uchiha Feiyu had once practiced the Blood Scripture; even without a shred of Dharma Power, he could rely solely on the muscular strength of his body to simply control the blood flow, otherwise he would have already kicked the bucket by now.

Although he had managed to barely control his injuries for now, he was still effectively hovering between life and death, and with no living people on the ship at all, he had to take care of his own daily needs; in such a situation, whether he could actually recover or would just die halfway through was truly an unknown.

"Forget it, I won't think about that much for now... at least this time I did indeed find another world, which is at least a big improvement over before."

"I had better go find something to eat first to replenish the body's consumption, otherwise I reckon I really will kick the bucket."

(End of chapter)