Moon

With his now-enhanced Rinne Byakugan, Yota easily saw through the barrier and spotted a cave within it.

With a slight tremor of his ocular power, the barrier shattered at once. Hizashi Hyuga, who had still been searching around with his Byakugan activated, looked somewhat embarrassed.

Yota said nothing and simply led Hizashi Hyuga inside. There, they found a pool of water in the cave.

"This should be the genjutsu passage between Earth and the Moon… It really is quite marvelous."

Yota took a brief look. This sort of passage was no different from a teleportation gate. If it could truly be popularized, its usefulness to the Shinobi World would be self-evident.

However, it likely involved profound knowledge of space and genjutsu. Although Yota had nearly finished developing his own bloodline limit, his accumulated knowledge was only noteworthy in the field of human-body research. He had merely a superficial understanding of both space and genjutsu, so naturally, there was no possibility of him deciphering this teleportation passage.

He was in no hurry. Taking Hizashi Hyuga with him, he entered the Earth-Moon Passage. The genjutsu and Summoning Beasts within naturally posed no challenge to him, and before long, the two reached the end of the passage.

"Is this… really the Moon?" Hizashi Hyuga looked around in amazement. Especially below them, where they could see the entire planet of the Shinobi World.

"The Shinobi World really isn’t that big." Yota also looked down at the continent below. He had learned some navigation in the One Piece World, including astronomical and geographical knowledge, so after making an estimate, he found that although the planet was about the same size as Earth, the continent where the ninjas lived was only a little over ten million square kilometers—somewhat larger than Europe.

As for the other places, Yota saw no large landmasses. Even if there were other continents, they were likely on the other side of the planet.

Just as the two were observing their own planet, a buzzing, whistling sound came from the sky.

Yota raised his head and saw a huge number of strange puppets flying toward them from above.

"Intelligent puppets, huh? Sasori would probably be thrilled to see them."

But after taking a closer look, Yota frowned. These puppets were not much different from those powered by the Dragon Vein. They all relied on the Giant Tenseigan’s power to function and could not leave the Moon at all. In truth, they were still light-years away from being so-called intelligent puppets.

"I really overestimated them… This Puppet Technique must rely entirely on their bloodline limit for activation. In terms of actual technical skill, they’re probably far inferior to Sasori."

With that thought, Yota gave up on taking a few back for research. He blasted them with an Almighty Push, instantly clearing out more than half the puppets in the sky.

Meanwhile, the person who had sent out those puppets—a blind middle-aged man in a lunar castle—felt the puppets under his control suddenly go dark before more than half of them vanished.

"This is bad! Who exactly has come with such strength? Could it be the thief who summoned away the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path back then?"

"The legendary Rinnegan, said to be no weaker than the Tenseigan?"

"Without combining it with the pure Byakugan of the Hyuga clan, I can’t use much of the Giant Tenseigan’s power at all!"

Thinking of this, anxiety appeared on the middle-aged man’s face. "What do I do? I don’t matter, but Toneri is the last hope of our branch! I absolutely cannot let him die here!"

"I can only find a way to open the Tenseigan Reincarnation Chamber!"

Inside the Moon was the Tenseigan Reincarnation Chamber, the place where "Adam and Eve" would reside after using the Moon to strike and destroy the world in the original story.

However, opening this passage was not easy. With the power of the blue Tenseigan, one could easily open the Tenseigan Reincarnation Chamber, but under the current circumstances, opening the passage would take at least one or two hours.

It was not impossible to speed things up—just like Nagato driving the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, he would have to burn his life away.

Yet just as the middle-aged man was about to desperately drive the Giant Tenseigan, an unimaginably powerful ocular force had already resonated with the Tenseigan.

"One Byakugan fused in really isn’t enough."

On the barren Moon, Yota muttered to himself. He directly stored Hizashi Hyuga in the Dark Space, then the Munch-Munch Fruit’s fusion ability activated, producing an entirely new Yota Hyuga.

Compared to his previous fusion with Ace, Yota was now vastly stronger than Hizashi Hyuga. Moreover, he was the one in control of the Munch-Munch Fruit’s ability, so Hizashi Hyuga’s thoughts barely interfered with him at all.

With two Byakugan, Yota Hyuga could finally fully sense the Giant Tenseigan’s existence and resonate with it.

As a creation of the Ōtsutsuki clan, the Giant Tenseigan on the Moon would naturally favor its own bloodline descendants when their bloodline levels were equal.

But Yota Hyuga’s Byakugan had fused with an enhanced Rinnegan. In terms of ocular power alone, it was no weaker than the Giant Tenseigan. It likewise possessed the power of the Byakugan and could resonate with it, forcibly suppressing the spiritual imprint of the lunar Ōtsutsuki clan.

"Pfft!" The middle-aged man suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. The spiritual power he had been using to resonate with the Giant Tenseigan felt as though it had slammed into a towering mountain. In an instant, that spiritual power was smashed to pieces.

This member of the Ōtsutsuki clan had already suffered from hidden injuries and did not have long to live. After receiving such a shock, he fainted on the spot.

Yota, who had slowly risen into the air, smiled faintly and controlled gravity, shooting toward the lunar castle like an arrow.

"We’re here. That was almost too easy." With Byakugan fused into his eyes, Yota Hyuga naturally possessed its abilities as well. He easily saw through the castle and spotted the unconscious middle-aged Ōtsutsuki clansman, as well as Toneri Ōtsutsuki, who was only four or five years old.

"Tut, tut, tut. I haven’t even made a move, and you’ve already fallen."

Yota Hyuga had expected some resistance, but he had not imagined that the other side had already reduced himself to such a state. He shook his head with an amused smile.

After descending to the ground and pushing open the castle gates, Yota soon arrived before the unconscious middle-aged man.

"Who are you? Get away from my father!"

With an angry shout, four- or five-year-old Toneri Ōtsutsuki rushed out from another room and yelled at Yota.

At the same time, he condensed a blue ball of Chakra in his hand and blasted it at Yota.

Smack! The ball struck Yota on the head and scattered into sparkling motes. The visual and sound effects were quite impressive, but as for the result… perhaps it had messed up Yota’s hair?

"Not bad at all, whether it’s your Chakra reserves or the power of that ninjutsu." Yota praised him with some approval, then flicked a finger. The sheer force of his body burst the air, forming a tiny air bullet that immediately knocked Toneri Ōtsutsuki unconscious.