Chapter 135

After researching, he was shocked to discover that the essence of the Death God was actually more powerful than the Otsutsuki clan, and it lived even longer!

More importantly, this power and immortality did not require reliance on external objects!

That was why the Sage of Six Paths divided the Ten-Tails' chakra into nine, turning them into the nine Tailed Beasts.

Then he created the illusion of his own death, but no one knew that his soul had already entered the Underworld!

Over the thousand years, he had been gradually transforming into a Death God.

At the same time, he was secretly laying out plans, gradually taking control of the Underworld!

The Sage of Six Paths had already come to view the Underworld as his own territory!

Shi Yuan’s intrusion made him very displeased!

What made him even more uneasy was that he sensed the aura of the Death God from Shi Yuan.

"Could it be that that guy also wants to become a Death God...?!"

The Sage of Six Paths looked solemn as he gazed in the direction Shi Yuan had left.

This was a special ability he had developed over the millennium; it could ignore spatial obstacles to see the scenes within the Underworld, though it had a time limit.

Whoosh!

Shi Yuan felt as if he had passed through a barrier and entered another world; his vision changed, and his body came to a stop.

He glanced at the spirit beside him.

It was an elder of the Hozuki clan whom he had once studied!

But he had already been completely controlled by him using Kotoamatsukami.

"Lord Shi Yuan!"

At this moment, he stood respectfully to the side, like a servant.

Shi Yuan nodded, looked around, and immediately frowned.

The surroundings were as if shrouded in gray mist; one could only see a radius of about one hundred meters.

Beyond this distance, even sensory abilities would fail completely!

And the space in which a spirit could move was only this hundred-meter radius, trapping it in place like a cage.

Afterward, Shi Yuan asked a few questions and finally understood the rules of the Underworld.

After a spirit enters the Underworld, it is confined to a space within a hundred-meter radius; even if the spirit moves, this cage-like space moves with it.

And they had never encountered other spirits.

More importantly, a spirit's activity in the Underworld consumes energy, making it easy to feel exhausted, after which it falls into a deep sleep to recover naturally.

Therefore, most spirits in the Underworld spend their time in a deep sleep.

Coupled with the limitations of space, they have almost no concept of time!

After pondering for a moment, Shi Yuan whispered, "Zanpakuto!"

A black longsword immediately appeared in his hand.

A smile appeared on Shi Yuan's face; since the Zanpakuto could be used, things would be easier.

He slashed directly at the astonished Hozuki elder and said indifferently, "Now, start sleeping!"

The Hozuki elder looked at him resentfully, "Lord Shi Yuan, I can sleep even without Itachi slashing me."

"Don't talk nonsense."

Shi Yuan glared, and the Hozuki elder was so frightened that he hurriedly lay on the ground, closed his eyes, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

"Sure enough, besides chakra and natural energy, there is a third type of energy in the Underworld!"

Shi Yuan felt a bit excited after releasing his senses.

He could feel that as the Hozuki elder recovered, faint energy was being absorbed by him, and among it was a type of energy he had never seen before!

But he was not unfamiliar with this energy!

Because this aura was present in the arm of the Death God!

"Reishi!"

Shi Yuan named this energy Reishi and immediately opened the special seal he had brought with him.

Bang!

A severed arm appeared!

The arm belonging to the Death God!

The moment the severed arm appeared, a sudden change occurred!

Whoosh...

The arm began to turn into light and rain, gradually dissipating!

"This... is this the final destination of the soul?"

Shi Yuan was stunned as he watched this scene.

But he did not know.

At this moment, inside that palace in the Underworld.

The Sage of Six Paths sensed the aura of the Death God immediately, and his expression turned incomparably cold.

"Sure enough, he also wants to become a Death God!"

"I cannot let him live!"

The Sage of Six Paths felt a chilling intent to kill.

He would not allow anyone to share his supreme status and authority as a Death God!

And he would certainly not allow anyone to share the territory of the Underworld with him!

"It's a pity that I am currently in a crucial stage of transforming into a Death God and cannot leave here for the time being, otherwise I could directly erase his soul!"

"For now, I can only let his body die first!"

The Sage of Six Paths frowned, then looked toward the real world; to get rid of Shi Yuan, he didn't have to do it himself!

The Sage of Six Paths thought of one person immediately.

Or rather, a frog.

Gamamaru!

The toad that had brought him the prophecy and the secrets regarding Kaguya at the very beginning.

At this point in time, Gamamaru was already old, and his memory had begun to become intermittent.

This was also the reason why the Sage of Six Paths pursued immortality.

A being like Gamamaru was now on the verge of death at any moment.

And the time left for himself would not be much either.

Unless he could transform into a Death God.

At this critical moment, he naturally did not want to give up the transformation into a Death God.

But he wanted even less for someone to share his power and his territory.

Thus, the Sage of Six Paths split off a wisp of his soul and headed directly toward Mount Myoboku.

He wanted to make Gamamaru of Mount Myoboku deliver a prophecy, forcing two powerful ninjas to target Shi Yuan's organization and find Shi Yuan.

He would have them kill Shi Yuan's body!

And those two ninjas were none other than the currently living Indra and Asura.

Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki!

At this time, Shi Yuan, who was constantly experimenting in the Underworld, was unaware of these conspiracies.

He was still constantly trying to figure out how to create the newly named Reishi.

Shi Yuan first tried to absorb the mysterious Reishi power drifting in the air into his own body.

But without exception, not once did he succeed.

However, this did not make Shi Yuan give up; he began trying to use other energies to surround the Reishi and integrate it into his body.

First was chakra, but it failed.

Next was natural energy and the energy of Yin-Yang Release.

Finally, with the help of Yin-Yang Release, he succeeded in sending a small amount of Reishi into his body.

He had originally thought he had succeeded, but when he let go, those Reishi particles ran right out of his body.