In the Ninja World, Amegakure.
Nagato fell silent as he looked at the Gedo Statue that he had summoned back.
At this moment, the Gedo Statue's arms were stained with blood, clearly indicating it had just been in battle.
Konan and Yahiko, who was disguised as an ordinary guard, also looked shocked.
"Nagato, how could the Gedo Statue..."
"I don't know, but I can confirm that someone must have summoned it away."
"Summoned away? Is there anyone else in the Ninja World besides you who can summon the Gedo Statue?" Konan asked, stunned.
Nagato shook his head. To be honest, he used to think the Gedo Statue was exclusive to him and that no one else could control it.
But now, Nagato no longer had that confidence.
"Nagato, what happened?" Obito and Black Zetsu and White Zetsu rushed over immediately upon hearing the commotion.
"See for yourselves!" Nagato said, pointing at the blood on the Gedo Statue's arm.
"Did you manipulate the Gedo Statue to fight?" Obito asked, momentarily confused.
Nagato shook his head: "I've been here the whole time and haven't left. The Gedo Statue just suddenly disappeared; someone must have summoned it away."
"Summoned away? That's impossible!" Black Zetsu immediately retorted instinctively.
"That is the fact. The Gedo Statue should only react to the Rinnegan. Could someone else in the Ninja World have awakened the Rinnegan?" Nagato muttered to himself.
After hearing Nagato's words, Obito and Black Zetsu and White Zetsu exchanged glances and turned to leave.
After the three of them left Nagato, Obito asked Black Zetsu with a cold face: "Black Zetsu, why was the Gedo Statue inexplicably summoned away by someone?"
"I don't know either. Logically speaking, no one in the Ninja World besides Nagato should be able to summon the Gedo Statue," Black Zetsu replied.
"But now the Gedo Statue was summoned away. Does the Ninja World truly possess a second pair of Rinnegan?"
"That is absolutely impossible! If a second pair of Rinnegan appeared, there's no way I wouldn't know."
"If it's not the Rinnegan, what else could it be? Find a way to investigate this matter thoroughly. I don't want any accidents to happen." After speaking, Obito vanished.
"White Zetsu, spread all your Spore Clones and see if any strange people have appeared in the Ninja World recently."
"Alright, I understand." After speaking, White Zetsu also burrowed underground.
"I hope it's not them!" Black Zetsu said with a grave tone.
The focus returns to the Moon.
With the disappearance of the Gedo Statue, the four members of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family were immediately surrounded by puppets.
Without the power of the Gedo Statue, they had no way to contend against so many puppets.
Seeing the situation was critical, Otsutsuki Rinne formed hand signs, still hoping to summon the Gedo Statue.
However, she failed this time. She had been able to summon the Gedo Statue before because Nagato hadn't been paying attention.
Now that Nagato was clearly vigilant, it was impossible for Otsutsuki Rinne to summon the Gedo Statue right under his nose.
Uchiha En saw this and knew it was time to act. He instantly teleported into the puppet crowd, used Earth Release to grab the individuals, and led them away from the puppet encirclement.
After several spatial shifts, Uchiha En brought Otsutsuki Rinne and the other three back inside the Ōtsutsuki Clan's Ancestral Land.
Seeing the four people suddenly appear, Otsutsuki Kyojin was stunned for a moment, then shouted excitedly: "Rinne! This is great! You're alive!"
Hearing Otsutsuki Kyojin's voice, Rinne was startled, then turned to look at Kyojin with a look of pleasant surprise: "Young Master Kyojin! Why are you here?"
"It's a long story."
The two, who hadn't seen each other for a long time, recounted their experiences during this period.
Initially, Uchiha En, Asana, and Shisui were not interested in their experiences.
But when Otsutsuki Rinne mentioned that she had evolved her Byakugan using the Byakugan of the elders who escaped from the clan, both Uchiha En and Asana became interested.
From Otsutsuki Rinne, Uchiha En learned that the Tenseigan on the Moon, just as mentioned in the original work, was formed by merging the Eye power of countless Byakugan.
Therefore, the members of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family wanted to follow suit and use their own Byakugan to help evolve the Byakugan of the more talented children in the clan.
Unfortunately, their numbers were too small, only nine people in total. The accumulation of Eye power from the Byakugan of five of them only allowed Otsutsuki Rinne's Byakugan to complete one evolution, failing even to reach the Quickening stage, let alone awaken the Tenseigan.
"Young Master Kyojin, my Byakugan has completed one evolution. Next, we just need to find a way to rush to the Tenseigan's storage location and seize control of the Tenseigan, then we can defeat those members of the Branch Family," Otsutsuki Rinne said.
"Seize control of the Tenseigan? How do you do that?" Shisui asked, somewhat curious.
"The Tenseigan on the Moon was formed by merging the Byakugan of the Main Family and Branch Family members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan throughout the generations. Now, any member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan only needs to use Eye power to guide and control the Tenseigan.
We were too lax in our defenses before, which allowed the Branch Family members to take advantage and control the Tenseigan," Otsutsuki Kyojin explained.
"In other words, whether it's your Main Family or the Branch Family, anyone with the Byakugan can control the Tenseigan?" Uchiha En grasped the key point in Otsutsuki Kyojin's words.
"Yes, that's correct."
"What about the Hyuga Clan? The Hyuga Clan also possesses the Byakugan. Can the Hyuga Clan also control the Tenseigan?" Uchiha En pressed.
While Otsutsuki Kyojin was still thinking, Otsutsuki Rinne shook her head and said: "The Hyuga Clan probably cannot. I once went to the Ninja World and met members of the Hyuga Clan. Some of them have Byakugan purity levels higher than ours in the Ōtsutsuki Clan, but their application of the Byakugan is very rudimentary; they basically only know the most basic Taijutsu."
"Why is there a difference in Byakugan purity? Is it because the Hyuga Clan's bloodline is closer to Otsutsuki Hamura than yours?"
"That..." Uchiha En's question made Otsutsuki Rinne hesitant. She wasn't sure about this point. After thinking for a moment, she said: "I'm not sure if the current Hyuga Clan bloodline is closer to Ancestor Hamura than ours, but the bloodline Ancestor Hamura left on Earth back then was indeed purer than ours. We, the Main Family on the Moon, were only the Branch Family at that time."
Hearing this, Uchiha En roughly understood why Ōtsutsuki Toneri could awaken the Tenseigan simply by stealing a high-purity Byakugan from the Hyuga Clan.
The Ōtsutsuki Clan on the Moon is far superior to the Hyuga Clan in the Ninja World in their application of the Byakugan. Furthermore, the Ōtsutsuki Clan possesses the complete Heritage of Otsutsuki Hamura and is proficient in Yin-Yang Release.
It is not surprising that Yin-Yang Release combined with the high-purity Byakugan of the Hyuga Main Family—whose bloodline is close to Otsutsuki Hamura—could awaken the Tenseigan.
In other words, if Uchiha En's speculation was correct, then regardless of whether it was the Ōtsutsuki Main Family or Branch Family, Asana possessed the highest purity Byakugan.
Her Byakugan had also undergone an evolution. Although her Eye power was slightly inferior to Otsutsuki Rinne's, she should have an advantage in controlling the Tenseigan.
Currently, the Eye power of this Tenseigan on the Moon maintains all operations on the Moon and provides Kinetic Energy to a large number of puppets.
There is no doubt that the Eye power of this Tenseigan is much stronger than the Tenseigan awakened by Ōtsutsuki Toneri using Hyuga Hanabi's Byakugan in the original work.
As long as Asana can control this Tenseigan, they will rule the Moon.
The biggest obstacle to controlling this eye is the current controller of the Tenseigan.
"Kyojin, who is controlling the Tenseigan right now?"
"It should be the Branch Family Head."
"The Branch Family Head, is it? It looks like we need to Catch the King Before Catching the Thieves!" Uchiha En said.
"The Tenseigan's Eye power is so immense, how can we even get close to him?" Asana asked.
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