Faced with this sudden turn of events, Uzumaki Naruto no longer had time to scold his son. He immediately pulled Uzumaki Boruto behind him.
Only Tono Katasuke looked like he had no fear of death at all. He marched straight forward and said, "Hey, hey, what do you guys think you're doing?"
He seemed furious that someone had shown up to cause trouble right when he was announcing a major research breakthrough, stealing everyone's attention.
"Hey, don't get close to him."
Uzumaki Naruto quickly warned him.
But Tono Katasuke had no idea just how dangerous Otsutsuki Kinshiki and Otsutsuki Momoshiki really were. He still wanted to go up and run his mouth, only to be blasted away in an instant by the impatient Otsutsuki Kinshiki.
The force of that terrifying strike reduced the entire Chunin Exams arena to a field of broken walls and rubble.
At that moment, every skilled ninja present, including the Five Kage, rushed to rescue people.
Everyone reading the diary grew solemn. Just that casual blow from Otsutsuki Kinshiki was already enough to make them feel the horror of his strength.
That kind of large-scale destructive power would require at least an S-Rank Ninjutsu, and even then, it might not achieve such a wide range of destruction.
But the enemy had done it with a single effortless motion. The sheer difference in strength was enough to make anyone's blood run cold.
"I can see the fox with my Byakugan!"
At that moment, Otsutsuki Momoshiki opened his Byakugan and saw the Chakra of Uzumaki Naruto and Uzumaki Boruto, father and son. He also saw the Nine-Tails hidden inside Uzumaki Naruto's stomach.
"Byakugan?"
Uchiha Sasuke stared at the eyes Otsutsuki Momoshiki had mentioned in the diary. They were actually Byakugan.
Although Kaede Kitahara's diary had said before that the Byakugan was the origin of all eyes, Sasuke had still thought that since the Otsutsuki were so powerful, they ought to have some other kind of eye.
Even if the Byakugan was the eye of origin, the Shinobi World had already developed different dojutsu Kekkei Genkai, including the Sharingan and the Rinnegan.
Did the Otsutsuki Clan really not have any other Kekkei Genkai?
And yet, his eyes really were Byakugan?
The others thought of the same thing. Only Seventh Hokage Naruto knew a little more. Even if both were called Byakugan, a Byakugan and a Byakugan were clearly not the same thing.
Could the Byakugan of the Hyuga Clan possibly be the same as the high-level Byakugan of Otsutsuki Kaguya Hime?
It was wrong from the start to measure all of this by the Byakugan of the native Hyuga Clan in the Shinobi World. The purity of the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan was inferior even to that of the Otsutsuki Branch Family on the moon. There was no comparison at all.
Watching Otsutsuki Kinshiki and Otsutsuki Momoshiki suddenly appear and launch their attack in the video, he held his breath and stared hard at himself on the screen.
"It's dangerous here. Hurry and regroup with everyone..."
Before Uzumaki Naruto could even finish speaking, Otsutsuki Momoshiki suddenly appeared and kicked him out of the Chunin Exams arena.
Otsutsuki Momoshiki then landed. He did not even glance at Uzumaki Boruto beside him. He had no idea that this was the child who would become entangled with him for the rest of his life, or that he would even become the source of the boy's外挂 power one day.
At that moment, Uchiha Sasuke, who was also in the arena, saved his own child in the nick of time. At the same time, he had to clash with Otsutsuki Kinshiki and finish the battle they had failed to complete last time.
When he saw Uchiha Sarada call the middle-aged Uchiha Sasuke "Dad," Uchiha Itachi nodded. Sure enough, things were exactly as he had guessed. This girl really was his niece.
It was just that Uchiha Sasuke still felt a little uncomfortable hearing a girl around his own age call him Dad. A faint red flush spread over his ears.
But he also knew she really was his future daughter.
He was simply seeing her ahead of time.
In the arena, Otsutsuki Momoshiki arrogantly walked in Uzumaki Naruto's direction. But at that moment, the clearly frightened Uzumaki Boruto used the Scientific Ninja Tools in his hand to fire Ninjutsu again and again.
Otsutsuki Momoshiki simply absorbed every one of those Ninjutsu.
Everyone saw the Rinnegan in his palm and thought of how one of the Six Paths of Pain had possessed a similar ability. It was just that Otsutsuki Momoshiki absorbed them far faster than Pain had.
"Not bad. Reckless, but he's got guts."
A hint of satisfaction appeared in Namikaze Minato's eyes.
Although the situation in the arena was tense, he knew his grandson was the future protagonist and definitely would not die here. Only because of that did Namikaze Minato have the presence of mind to praise Uzumaki Boruto.
In truth, from the very beginning of this video, Uzumaki Boruto's performance had deeply disappointed him.
He had acted exactly like an ordinary spoiled brat. His performance had been quite poor, nowhere near the level Minato believed the son of a Hokage should have.
Part of that was indeed because Uzumaki Naruto had neglected discipline after becoming Hokage, but Uzumaki Boruto's own lack of drive was also a major reason.
That included his cheating with Scientific Ninja Tools. To Minato, cheating with Scientific Ninja Tools was hardly some unforgivable thing. They were just another useful tool.
But now, facing such a terrifyingly powerful enemy, Uzumaki Boruto still dared to attack and stop him from walking toward his father. He was a little reckless, yes, but his courage was commendable.
Weak fundamentals could be trained. Insufficient Chakra could slowly be accumulated. But that kind of nerve could not be taught.
Some people were simply born with that kind of courage. Uzumaki Naruto, for example.
The first time he faced a powerful enemy, Uzumaki Naruto had also been so scared that he could not move. But he had taken that as a lesson, and after that, he had never fallen into that state again.
That was what it meant to be born with real nerve.
Minato himself had been the same. As a child, he had dared to chase after ninja from an enemy village to save Uzumaki Kushina, pulling off a true hero-saving-the-beauty moment and rescuing his future wife.
And now, Uzumaki Boruto was showing a similar quality.
Facing the spoiled brat, Otsutsuki Momoshiki only walked toward Uzumaki Boruto with a cold expression. Just as he was about to strike, Uzumaki Naruto rushed back in the nick of time and carried Uzumaki Boruto away.
Otsutsuki Momoshiki was just about to pursue him, only to be held back by the Shadow Binding Technique. It turned out to be the future Eighth Hokage, Nara Shikamaru.
"That was close!"
Nara Shikamaru let out a breath of relief.
"Shikamaru, you've grown well."
Hatake Kakashi noticed this scene too. After all, a previous video had shown him and Nara Shikamaru working together against the Immortal Duo of Hidan and Kakuzu.
Back then, Nara Shikamaru's level had clearly been incomparable to now. He had even needed to set up all kinds of traps just to scheme against Hidan.
But now, he had used the Shadow Binding Technique by himself to hold down two Otsutsuki aliens. Not only Otsutsuki Momoshiki, but even Otsutsuki Kinshiki had been trapped at the same time.
Everyone now recalled that Kaede Kitahara's diary had mentioned Nara Shikamaru being urgently promoted to Eighth Hokage after something happened to Uzumaki Naruto, and not as an Acting Hokage either.
Strictly speaking, Nara Shikamaru was indeed a proper member of the Hokage line. After all, his teacher was Sarutobi Asuma, the son of the Third Hokage. How could that not count as part of the direct Hokage lineage?
It was just that this was the first time the Nara Clan had produced a Hokage.
Looking at him now, his strength had improved tremendously compared to the level he had shown three years after the current point in time. Even if Kaede Kitahara had joked that he was the weakest Hokage, even weaker than Hatake Kakashi, who was already said to be the weakest Hokage, he was still a Hokage.
In other words, by that time, it was practically certain that Nara Shikamaru possessed Kage Level strength.
The Nara family had actually produced a Kage Level expert?
That was unprecedented.
The Ino-Shika-Cho formation had existed for so many years, but they had basically stopped at Elite Jonin. Not one of them had ever broken through.
"Looks like he's another promising seedling. Worth training."
Tsunade had already made up her mind. Once she became Hokage in the future, she would bring this kid to her side and train him.
The current Tsunade clearly already saw herself as Hokage, so naturally, she paid even more attention to the future Rookies who displayed talent.
The future Konoha's lack of experts, which had led to it being invaded by the Six Paths of Pain without any power to fight back, had left a deep impression on her.
That sense of helplessness was something she never wanted to experience again.
And she also had quite a few criticisms of the Old Man's talent-development policies over the years. Back then, how powerful had Konoha been? At the top, they had the Third Hokage and his Advisory Council. In the middle, they had the White Fang of Konoha and the Legendary Sannin of Konoha. In the next generation, they had Kage Level experts like Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina.
And now? Just a handful of half-decent strays.
But only a moment later, after Otsutsuki Momoshiki said "mere mortals" with utter disdain, the Shadow Binding Technique was directly absorbed by the Rinnegan.
"It was absorbed? Even Yin Release Ninjutsu can be absorbed?"
Uchiha Itachi took out paper and a pen and began writing and drawing. This Shadow Imitation Technique belonged to Yin Release Ninjutsu. If even Yin Release Ninjutsu could be absorbed, then in all likelihood, Yang Release-related Ninjutsu could also be absorbed.
Together with what Pain had shown during Uzumaki Naruto's battle against Pain, including the ability to absorb even Natural Energy, it was almost certain that this ability of the Rinnegan could absorb nearly any kind of Ninjutsu.
"What a troublesome ability, the Rinnegan. The Sage's Eye, huh..." Uchiha Itachi narrowed his eyes. Aside from the Sage's Eye, he thought of the so-called Sage's Body, which was said to stand on equal footing with it.
He had never heard of such a thing as the Sage's Body before. But thinking about it, if the Uchiha Clan and Senju Clan had actually been sibling clans a thousand years ago, then everything made sense.
The Senju Clan, which had been able to clash with the Uchiha Clan as they continuously awakened a lower-level Sage's Eye like the Sharingan, naturally possessed the traits of the Sage's Body. It simply did not manifest as such an obvious Kekkei Genkai.
No, actually, it already had.
Wasn't the Kekkei Genkai manifested by the Sage's Body none other than Wood Release?