Chapter 212: I've Come to Visit My Relatives, Is My Ancestor Still Locked Up Okay?

Sensing that there was a chance, Uchiha Gin suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and swung the giant axe in his hands with even more effort.

Following the guidance within his bloodline, he hacked and slashed his way through until he finally arrived outside a cave hidden by layers of cedar trees.

"Boom~"

Facing these annoying ancient giant trees, Uchiha Gin did not hold back; he immediately clapped his hands together, and a pale green light emerged from them.

The power of Wood Release poured from the soles of his feet into the ground, and once his chakra connected to the roots underground,

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

"Alright~ the adventure begins!"

Looking at the pitch-black cave entrance, Uchiha Gin felt not a shred of fear; instead, he looked full of excitement and, without the slightest hesitation, slipped into the cave in a flash.

Leaning into the cave, Uchiha Gin immediately activated his blue mutated Byakugan. The dark environment instantly became clearly visible, saving him the trouble of lighting. He saw that the cave was dark, dim, bottomless, and the air was damp and stagnant.

The cave walls were smooth and covered in moss, and the pitch-black ground was exceptionally flat, clearly a path that had been artificially repaired. Inside the winding cave, the sounds of dripping water and wind were intertwined, giving one a hair-raising feeling.

Feeling the waves of chill, Uchiha Gin reached out to tighten his thin clothing and, following the increasingly strong guidance in his heart, 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 grew 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 met his eyes was a spacious area.

In the center was a pool of water, calm and unruffled, like a mirror reflecting the wisps of moonlight filtering down from above.

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

The agitation in his bloodline had reached its peak at this moment, but Uchiha Gin did not rashly step forward.

Instead, he looked at the pool before him, vaguely feeling it was familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't recall it for a moment.

Temporarily suppressing the doubts in his heart, Uchiha Gin decided to attend to business first. He walked slowly to the edge of the pool, his blue Byakugan piercing through the bottomless water as he searched carefully.

"Hey! Found it~"

With the penetration of his super-strong vision, Uchiha Gin locked onto a black longsword stuck deep at the bottom of the water.

However, even using his mutated Byakugan, he could not see through the depth of that strange weapon; it looked like a piece of scrap iron discarded at will.

"Hiss~~~"

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

It was indeed not simple. Uchiha Gin, adhering to the principle that since he was already here he might as well finish it, refined a layer of chakra cloak to wrap himself in, pinched his nose, and dove in with a splash.

After entering the water, protected by the chakra cloak, Uchiha Gin did not feel the chill from before. He steadied himself, opened his blue eyes, and swam toward the black longsword.

"This is quite strenuous."

The further Uchiha Gin swam, the heavier his body felt. The water around him seemed as heavy as lead, lacking any of the buoyancy of water.

Fortunately, his formidable physique kept him from suffocating. After about ten minutes, he finally swam to the side of the longsword.

The design of the black longsword was not as ornate as Uchiha Gin had imagined; on the contrary, it was a bit too plain. The pitch-black blade showed no signs of its material.

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

Without hesitation, Uchiha Gin immediately reached out, wanting to pull out this weapon that had been sealed for a thousand years, only to find that no matter how hard he tried, he could not shake the weapon in the slightest.

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

Uchiha Gin's stubborn temper flared up. He grabbed the hilt with both hands, refined the chakra in his body, and pushed his super strength to the limit; a bright blue light instantly burst forth.

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

"Get up!"

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

But even with the addition of this power, Uchiha Gin, whose face had turned red from the effort, still could not shake the longsword at all.

Letting out a long breath in his heart, Uchiha Gin shook his sore hands, his gaze full of frustration. This counted as the second Waterloo he had faced since transmigrating.

The first time was being taught a lesson by a punch from Butsuma Senju. Since then, Uchiha Gin had learned to restrain himself and developed the good habit of developing discreetly and absolutely never being reckless.

He had thought that after so many years, with the help of the system, he would at least be a "mini-Otsutsuki," but he never expected to hit a wall again in front of a weapon left for a thousand years.

"This is?"

Just as he was preparing to go up and find other methods, his blue Byakugan inadvertently swept over the spot where the longsword was inserted.

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

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

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

However, his barren brain could only vaguely perceive that this was a spatial technique similar to a Summoning Jutsu.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart about the importance of learning; he must study hard and improve every day after he returned.

"Huh! Why is it glowing?"

Just as Uchiha Gin reached out his hand, preparing to scrape away the silt on top of the technique, the technique actually began to emit waves of white light.

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

But Uchiha Gin forgot the environment he was currently 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 Otsutsuki 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 swept up by this burst of white light and flew toward the full moon hanging in the sky.

Damn! Am I also flying to the moon?

Unable to control his body, Uchiha Gin could only watch helplessly as he was broken down into specks of white light and sucked into the distant moon above his head.

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

Circles of purple patterns in his eyes radiated a mysterious aura. He shook his long goatee, his brows slightly furrowed.

"A descendant has actually entered that place again. I clearly gave instructions to the boy of the Otsutsuki clan not to open the door easily."

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

The aged 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... Hamura? What is 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 once he did. This descendant who appeared a thousand years later actually encompassed various bloodlines,

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

"Uh... perhaps, this kid could..."

A trace of contemplation flashed in the aged figure's eyes. So many years had passed, and he vaguely felt that some kind of crisis was about to arrive.

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 up there, it shows his capacity is nothing more than that."

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

"Can someone tell me, where the hell is this? Am I still in the country?"

Feeling that he had been teleported by the technique for a long time, Uchiha Gin, having regained his freedom of movement, 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 its heavy primitive atmosphere before him, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but suspect that the moon-flying scene he had witnessed just now was just a hallucination.

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

"Creak!"

"Sigh~ It seems I really did take off."

If you ask why, Uchiha Gin rolled his lifeless dead-fish eyes, looked at a strange figure that had emerged from nowhere in front of him, sighed, and then complained aloud,

"Intruder detected, intruder detected!"

The figure that appeared had its limbs twisted at strange angles. Seeing the suddenly appearing Uchiha Gin, it emitted a highly mechanical alarm sound from the mouth wrapped in bandages on that pale face.

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

"Family, who understands this?"

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

Facing the long arms with strange limbs in front of him, he didn't hold back, his fist carrying super strength as he hammered it in the face.

"Bang!!!"

With a loud noise, this pale freak instantly shattered into pieces and scattered. The scene was very cruel and unbearable to look at.

"Intruder... detected..."

What was even more horrifying was that the head of the opponent that had been smashed was still speaking intermittently. Looking closely, there were intricate gears inside.

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

"I'm screwed. I promised to lay low, how did I end up here!"

Uchiha Gin was not carried away by the joy of victory; instead, looking at the dark mass of shadows flying over from afar, he sighed deeply.

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

(End of chapter)