Chapter 166: I

Sensing that there was something to it, Uchiha Gin suppressed the strange feeling in his heart, and the giant axe in his hand swung even more vigorously.

Following the guidance in his bloodline, he hacked through thorns and thistles all the way, finally arriving outside a cave covered by layers of cedar trees.

"Boom~"

Facing these annoying ancient giant trees, Uchiha Gin didn't coddle them. He clapped his hands together, and a pale green light appeared in his palms.

The power of Wood Release was poured into the ground from the soles of his feet. Once the chakra connected to the roots underground,

the thick cedar trees in front of him seemed to come back to life and began to move slowly on their own. After a rumbling sound, a spacious entrance appeared between the cedars.

"Alrighty~ Adventure begins!"

Looking at the pitch-black cave entrance, Uchiha Gin felt no fear at all. Instead, he looked full of excitement and, without the slightest hesitation, slipped into the cave.

Leaning into the cave, Uchiha Gin immediately activated his blue mutated Byakugan. The dark environment became clearly visible, saving the trouble of lighting. He saw that the cave was dark and unconscious, bottomless, and the air was humid and stuffy.

The cave walls were smooth rock, covered in moss, and the pitch-black ground was unusually flat, clearly a path that had been artificially repaired. Inside the winding cave, the sound of dripping water and the wind intertwined, giving people a creepy feeling.

Feeling the bursts of chill, Uchiha Gin reached out and tightened his thin clothes, following the increasingly strong guidance in his heart, and walked toward the depths of the cave.

"Drip, drop~~~"

Before reaching the depths of the cave, the dripping sound in Uchiha Gin's ears became clearer and clearer, and the humidity in the air became heavier. It seemed that there might be a water source at the end of the cave.

Sure enough, when Uchiha Gin walked to the deepest part of the cave, what caught his eye was an empty space,

dotted in the middle with a pool of water that was calm as a mirror, reflecting the wisps of moonlight filtering down from the top.

"Tsk! Why does this place look a bit familiar?"

The restlessness in his bloodline reached its peak at this moment, but Uchiha Gin did not rush forward.

Instead, looking at the pool of water in front of him, he felt vaguely familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but couldn't remember for a moment.

Temporarily suppressing the doubts in his heart, Uchiha Gin decided to do the main business first. So he walked slowly to the edge of the pool, his blue Byakugan penetrating the bottomless pool, and searched carefully.

"Aha! Found it~"

Under the penetration of his super vision, Uchiha Gin locked onto a black long sword stuck deep at the bottom of the water.

However, even if he used his mutated Byakugan, he couldn't see through the depth of that strange weapon, as if it were a piece of scrap iron discarded at will.

"Hiss~~~"

Uchiha Gin tried to put his hand into the water, and the bone-chilling cold made him gasp.

Sure enough, it wasn't simple. Uchiha Gin, upholding the principle of "since I'm already here," refined a layer of chakra cloak, wrapped himself in layers, held his nose, and dived in with a splash.

After entering the water, with the protection of the chakra cloak, Uchiha Gin didn't feel the coldness from before. He steadied his mind, opened his blue eyes, and swam toward the direction of the black long sword.

"It's quite strenuous."

The further Uchiha Gin swam, the heavier he felt his body becoming. The water flow around him seemed to be filled with lead, without the slightest buoyancy belonging to water.

Fortunately, his robust physique kept him from lacking oxygen. After about ten minutes, he finally swam to the side of the long sword.

The black long sword's design was not as flashy as Uchiha Gin had imagined; instead, it was a bit too plain. The pitch-black blade showed no material.

But Uchiha Gin, who knew the plot, speculated that this thing was highly likely a product of Yin-Yang Release; otherwise, how could it be worthy of the Sage of Six Paths' status?

Without hesitation, Uchiha Gin immediately reached out, wanting to pull out this weapon that had been sealed for a thousand years, but found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't shake the weapon in the slightest.

"When it comes to strength, I've never been afraid of anyone!"

Uchiha Gin's stubborn temper also flared up. He saw him grab the hilt with both hands, refine the chakra in his body, and use his super strength to the extreme. A brilliant blue light appeared instantly.

Looking at the blue light blooming in his hands, Uchiha Gin only felt a surge of heroism in his heart. Even if there was a Tailed Beast blocking his way now, he could punch it away.

"Get up for me!"

The majestic super strength in his hands gave Uchiha Gin great confidence. The veins on his arms gripping the hilt bulged, and his feet on the ground began to slowly embed into the earth as his strength increased.

But even under the blessing of such power, Uchiha Gin, whose face was flushed red, still couldn't shake the long sword in the slightest.

Letting out a long breath in his heart, Uchiha Gin shook his sore hands, his eyes full of frustration. This was the second Waterloo he had encountered since crossing over.

The first time was being taught a lesson by a punch from Senju Butsuma. Since then, Uchiha Gin had learned to restrain himself and developed the good habit of developing sneakily and absolutely not being reckless.

He had thought that after so many years, with the help of the system, he could at least be considered a small Otsutsuki, but he hadn't expected to hit a wall again in front of a weapon that had been placed for a thousand years.

"This is?"

Just as he was preparing to go up first to find other methods, his blue Byakugan inadvertently swept over the position where the long sword was inserted.

There was a vague circle of incantations there. Uchiha Gin immediately squatted down and observed carefully.

"Looks like some kind of technique, a bit like Summoning Jutsu, but not entirely..."

Uchiha Gin used his not-so-profound knowledge to start speculating what this circle of incantations was.

But his barren brain could only vaguely perceive that this was a space technique similar to Summoning Jutsu.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart about the importance of learning. After going back, he must study hard and improve every day.

"Eh! Why is it glowing?"

Just as Uchiha Gin reached out, preparing to scrape away the silt above the technique, that technique actually began to emit bursts of white light.

This sudden change gave him a big fright, and he subconsciously wanted to jump back.

But Uchiha Gin forgot the environment he was in. Under the suppression of the lead-like water flow,

before he had even jumped 1cm, he was enveloped by the white light emitted from the technique.

"I've been tricked! The Hagoromo clan are indeed all old schemers!"

This was the last sentence Uchiha Gin shouted before being enveloped by the light.

As soon as the words fell, Uchiha Gin was wrapped by this burst of white light and flew toward the full moon hanging in the sky.

Holy crap! I'm running to the moon too?

Uchiha Gin, unable to control his body, could only watch helplessly as he was decomposed into dots of white light and sucked onto the distant moon above his head.

At the same time, in a dim space, an old figure floating in mid-air slowly opened his eyes.

Circles of purple patterns in his eyes emitted a mysterious aura. He shook his long goat beard, his brows furrowed slightly.

"Actually, another descendant has entered that place. I clearly told the boy of the Hagoromo clan not to open the door easily."

"Who is it this time? Indra? Or Asura?"

The old figure sensed that the weapon he had placed had been touched, and a trace of helplessness flashed in his purple eyes.

He then sensed carefully, but the result made his brows furrow as deep as the patterns on his face.

"Indra, Asura, and... Hagoromo? What's going on with this descendant? The bloodline is mixed so severely."

The old man didn't know until he sensed it, and he was shocked when he did. The descendant who appeared a thousand years later actually encompassed various bloodlines,

and even the bloodline of his younger brother was mixed in, and the proportion was not small.

"Eh... perhaps, this kid can..."

A trace of thought flashed in the old figure's eyes. So many years had passed, and he vaguely felt that some kind of crisis was coming.

It just so happened that this strange descendant who appeared this time could help him verify his conjecture.

"Then let's test him first. If he really dies easily on it, it shows that his capacity is nothing more than that."

Thinking of this, the old figure slowly closed his eyes, and the pale yellow space fell into silence once again.

"Who can tell me, where the hell is this? Is it still in the country?"

Feeling that he had been transmitted by the technique for a long time, Uchiha Gin, who had regained his physical freedom, slowly opened his eyes, only to find that he was currently in a dense jungle.

"Did I come out?"

Looking at the tropical jungle with a heavy primitive atmosphere in front of him, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but doubt the scene of running to the moon he had just witnessed, thinking it was just a hallucination.

Uchiha Gin prepared to search around to find the path he had carved when he came, but found that the jungle here was definitely not the one he had walked through when he came.

"Creak!"

"Sigh~ Looks like I really took off."

If asked why, Uchiha Gin rolled his vacant dead-fish eyes, looked at a strange figure that appeared out of nowhere in front of him, sighed, and then complained,

"Intruder detected, intruder detected!"

The figure that appeared had its hands and feet twisted at a strange angle. Seeing Uchiha Gin who appeared suddenly, it made a mechanical alarm sound from the mouth wrapped in bandages on that pale face.

On its very pale body, a pair of long hands suddenly grew out, and it rushed toward Uchiha Gin.

"Family, who understands?"

Uchiha Gin only felt helpless in his heart. He didn't expect that a casual adventure would land him in this remote place.

Facing the strange long hands in front of him, he didn't hold back either. His fist, carrying super strength, hammered into its face.

"Bang!!!"

With a loud bang, this pale freak instantly turned into fragments and scattered. The scene was very cruel and unbearable to look at.

"Intruder... de... tected."

What was even more horrifying was that the head shattered by the opponent was still speaking intermittently. Looking closely, there were precise gears inside.

It turned out that this strange freak was an exquisite puppet.

"It's over, I agreed to be cautious, why did I run here!"

Uchiha Gin was not carried away by the joy of victory. Instead, looking at the black shadows flying in the distance, he sighed deeply.

That's right, this is the moon, the place where my ancestor is sealed.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 167 =====