"What! You say the branch family head and his son came to your place, and used the Ten-Tails to devour your Divine Tree???"
After listening to Yoshiki's report, the First Elder of the Otsutsuki Clan immediately realized the seriousness of the situation.
First, the clan's order to Zeroshiki was to return immediately. As for the Divine Tree in the ninja world, it was to be temporarily guarded and watched over by Otsutsuki Meishiki for now. But now, this father and son pair had completely failed to follow the clan's orders.
Moreover, the location coordinates of Otsutsuki Yoshiki were severely off Zeroshiki's return trajectory. Did he not want to return to the clan? If he wanted to return to the clan, why go to the trouble of making a detour to Yoshiki's planet???
"Yes. The family head used some inexplicable reason to let a superior Ten-Tails devour my inferior Divine Tree. My Divine Tree clearly had only two hundred years left before it could blossom and bear fruit. Yet, that father and son pair unreasonably destroyed all my efforts... My eight hundred years of work have been in vain. I hope the clan can uphold justice for me!"
Otsutsuki Yoshiki poured out the injustice with a face full of resentment. The First Elder, however, grew more and more alarmed the more he listened. In the end, he even directly barged into Otsutsuki Yagara's residence and reported the matter to this clan leader.
"Repeat everything you just reported!" the First Elder said sternly.
"Yes..."
Although Otsutsuki Yoshiki felt nervous seeing the clan leader, he still recounted everything.
"What exactly is Zeroshiki trying to do?" Otsutsuki Yagara's eyes were cold and sharp as knives, his voice carrying anger and confusion.
"Is he by your side now? Hand the Mirror of Law to him immediately!" Otsutsuki Yagara commanded in an indisputable tone. He wanted to ask Otsutsuki Zeroshiki face-to-face what he intended to do.
"This..."
Otsutsuki Yoshiki's face suddenly turned pale. If the family head and his son found out he had snitched to the clan, his life might be in danger.
"Hmm? What are you hesitating for???"
Otsutsuki Yagara would not blindly believe Yoshiki's one-sided account. If Yoshiki could hand the Mirror of Law to Zeroshiki, that would prove Yoshiki was not lying and that Zeroshiki was indeed on his planet.
"Yoshiki, do as the clan leader requests. You can rest assured. We will handle the issue with Zeroshiki and his son. Moreover, they absolutely will not dare to touch you. The clan guarantees it!" The First Elder, noticing Yoshiki's concern, gave this assurance.
Hearing the First Elder's guarantee, Otsutsuki Yoshiki visibly relaxed, and the next moment, he nodded heavily.
Not long after, deep within a luxurious palace, Otsutsuki Yoshiki handed the Mirror of Law in his hand to Zeroshiki.
"Zeroshiki, what exactly are you doing? Didn't I order you to bring people back to the clan? And Meishiki, didn't I order him to stay behind and guard the Divine Tree? Why have you father and son disobeyed my orders?"
As soon as he saw the figures of Zeroshiki and his son, Otsutsuki Yagara could not help but question in a low, heavy voice.
Facing the about-to-erupt Otsutsuki Yagara, Otsutsuki Zeroshiki appeared quite calm.
"Wait a little longer. I will return on my own after a thousand years..."
Upon hearing this, Otsutsuki Yagara and the First Elder instantly widened their eyes, their expressions somewhat incredulous.
"Do you know what you are saying? Zeroshiki..." Otsutsuki Yagara's voice gradually grew from small to loud, and he even roared out the name Zeroshiki.
"Of course I know..."
Otsutsuki Zeroshiki still appeared composed and calm at this moment. The imposing manner of the branch family head was fully displayed now.
"Why do this? And why wait a thousand years? The state of the Creation Divine Tree is very unstable. If you don't bring people back to the clan to stabilize the Divine Tree, what exactly are you trying to do?"
The First Elder could not help but question. His question was also what Otsutsuki Yagara wanted to ask.
"Feeding that human to the Creation Divine Tree is a pity..." Otsutsuki Zeroshiki said coldly with an expressionless face.
"Bastard! Explain clearly!" Otsutsuki Yagara tried hard to suppress his nearly erupting emotions.
"Is it not clear enough? My body has grown old. That human is very suitable for bearing my 'Karma'..."
Hearing Otsutsuki Zeroshiki's words, Otsutsuki Yagara and the First Elder immediately realized what he was aiming for.
"You want to take over that human's body? Are you insane? That is the sacrifice for the Creation Divine Tree. If you take the body, who will quell the Creation Divine Tree's wrath?" the First Elder sternly reprimanded.
"You all will have to hold on for these thousand years... After I break through to the realm above the Divine Realm, or after the Divine Tree bears a second supreme-grade chakra divine fruit, I will naturally return to the clan to resolve the Creation Divine Tree's problem..." Otsutsuki Zeroshiki replied in a very serious tone.
"You, this branch family head, do you intend to betray the clan?"
Otsutsuki Yagara's face was gloomy, veins bulging around his eye sockets. He had finally asked this pointed question.
"I have never thought of betraying the clan. If the clan leader insists on thinking that way, then there is nothing I can do..." Otsutsuki Zeroshiki met his gaze fearlessly.
"Have you considered the consequences of doing this? Your wife, children, elderly, your brothers, your faction..." Otsutsuki Yagara issued the most severe threat.
"If the clan leader truly intends to do that... then after I break through to the realm above the Divine Realm and return to the clan, I will use the same means to repay the main family clansmen!" Otsutsuki Zeroshiki also issued a threat.
"Heh... Hahaha! Zeroshiki, you really have grown quite a spine!"
Otsutsuki Yagara could not help but laugh in extreme anger. He had already forgotten how many tens of thousands of years it had been since someone last threatened him.
"Break through to the realm above the Divine Realm... with you? You are truly insane, to have conceived such an unrealistic fantasy!"
This clan leader, Otsutsuki Yagara, had been stuck at the peak of the Divine Realm for ten thousand years, unable to touch the threshold of the realm above. Otsutsuki Zeroshiki was not even at the peak. What made him dare to say he could break through to the realm above the Divine Realm within a thousand years?
What was this if not madness? Otsutsuki Yagara even suspected that this branch family head had his brain damaged by that human...
"I indeed cannot do it, as I am already old... But, clan leader, do you think he can?"
As Otsutsuki Zeroshiki spoke, he gave Meishiki a look. The next moment, a young body fallen into deep sleep was revealed by Meishiki.
That was precisely Ryun's true body. At this moment, he appeared to have lost consciousness, and his body was actually covered in dense 'Karma' patterns.
"Bastard! You actually did set your sights on him!" the First Elder could not help but sternly rebuke.
At this moment, whether it was Otsutsuki Yagara or the First Elder, they were both appalled by Otsutsuki Zeroshiki's ambition. However, they subconsciously overlooked another terrifying possibility...
That was, had Otsutsuki Zeroshiki already been defeated? Were the father and son before them puppets?
Currently, it seemed the Otsutsuki Clan had not considered this aspect at all. After all, every member of this clan, from top to bottom, was extremely arrogant. They would rather believe their own clan had produced a traitor than believe a human could, or would dare, to mock them like this...
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