Chapter 702

It turns out that several decades ago, the Ōtsutsuki Clan was not as it is now, with only Ōtsutsuki Toneri and his father as the two living members; back then, the Ōtsutsuki Clan still had a rather thriving appearance.

But the Ōtsutsuki Clan, like the Hyūga Clan, was divided into the main family and the branch family; aside from the Caged Bird, everything else about the main family and the branch family was different from the Hyūga Clan.

Because the difference between the Ōtsutsuki Clan's main family and branch family was the difference of the Caged Bird — it was precisely because they wanted to control the branch family that the Ōtsutsuki Clan's main family developed the forbidden technique known as the Caged Bird.

Originally, even with the Caged Bird forbidden technique, the relationship between the Ōtsutsuki Clan's main family and branch family was still very good, because there was simply nothing for them to argue about.

Even with a few minor rules, to the Ōtsutsuki Clan's main family and branch family, they didn't matter at all.

The real divergence came from the interpretation of the last words of their ancestor Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo; the Ōtsutsuki main family believed that the Ōtsutsuki Clan had been placed on the moon by Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo in order to protect the Shinobi World.

But the Ōtsutsuki branch family did not see it that way — they believed that the significance of the Ōtsutsuki Clan's existence on the moon was to observe the Shinobi World, and once someone capable of summoning the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path — that is, the Ten-Tails' body stripped of its power — appeared in the Shinobi World, they had to destroy the Shinobi World.

In fact, the Ōtsutsuki main family did not think this way; they felt that as long as they dealt with the one who summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, that would be enough.

Because the thought of the Ōtsutsuki Clan's ancestor Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo was observation, not true surveillance in the strict sense.

Thus the two families began to fall into conflict; the Ōtsutsuki main family could be considered the peace faction, while the Ōtsutsuki branch family was the radical faction........

Both sides kept arguing endlessly over matters concerning the Shinobi World, because neither of them wanted to see the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path appear in the Shinobi World.

But the two families' approaches toward the Shinobi World were completely different — one side wanted only to deal with the person who summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and then bring the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path back to the moon.

The other side, however, wanted to carry out a great purge of the Shinobi World; this way, not only could the problem of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path be resolved, but the current chaos of the Shinobi World could also be dealt with.

At that time, the Ōtsutsuki Clan still possessed no small number of powerhouses who surpassed the ordinary Kage level, of Senju Hashirama's caliber.

Both the head of the Ōtsutsuki main family and the head of the Ōtsutsuki branch family were of this level; besides that, quite a few elders of the Ōtsutsuki main family and the Ōtsutsuki branch family were also existences of this level.

And as one and the same clan, at the beginning, whether they were of the Ōtsutsuki main family or the branch family, it was only a verbal conflict — in reality, there were no major frictions yet.

But later on, the divergence between the Ōtsutsuki main family and the Ōtsutsuki branch family grew ever greater, and the conflict between the two sides became as irreconcilable as fire and water.

And by that time, several decades had already passed since the disappearance of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path; the originally more rational heads of the main family and the branch family had also been replaced by a new batch.

The newly appointed head of the Ōtsutsuki Clan's branch family was Ōtsutsuki Toneri's father; in his interpretation of Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's will, Ōtsutsuki Toneri's father was even more extreme than the previous branch family head — he even believed that the Ōtsutsuki Clan itself was the purifier of the Shinobi World..

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