[Due to some reason this chapter which was supposed to be 193 was not uploaded by web novel i am reposting it.]
For all this time, Uchiha Ren had been quietly signing in and growing stronger.
Now the entire course of history had been torn apart. The Ōtsutsuki main family had already descended upon Earth.
That meant there was no longer any reason to keep holding back.
It was time to accelerate everything.
Time to unify the shinobi world.
After all, the Ōtsutsuki main family now knew Earth existed. Hamura and Hagoromo were lurking in the shadows, weaving their schemes. Madara had been revived by Black Zetsu and was waiting for his chance to strike.
So—
the time had come for Ren to show them what his true strength looked like.
At the same time—
Inside that hidden dimension, both Ōtsutsuki Hamura and Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo wore expressions of pure shock.
"How did this happen?"
"How does he know we're still alive?"
"Damn that Uchiha Ren… so he's been calculating against us too. No wonder I had a bad feeling."
For the first time in a long while, the two brothers truly felt rattled.
They had believed their arrangements were airtight.
Yet Uchiha Ren had seen straight through them.
The more they thought about it, the uglier their expressions became.
After all, if the things they had done—the betrayal, the lies, the theft of power—were ever exposed on a large scale, the so-called Sage of Six Paths' reputation would be finished.
"We can't wait anymore."
The next moment, killing intent flashed openly through Hagoromo's Rinnegan.
"We sealed Mother, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, for the future of the shinobi world. This Uchiha Ren simply doesn't know what's good for him."
"Exactly."
Hamura let out a cold laugh and nodded.
"Since the mask is already off, there's no need to hold back anymore."
There was no point denying it.
Both brothers knew exactly what they had done.
Back then, for the sake of power and absolute control over the shinobi world, they had betrayed their own mother and sealed her inside the Moon.
They had also manipulated Black Zetsu from the shadows, letting him believe he was the one moving fate itself.
But in truth, Hagoromo and Hamura had only been using Black Zetsu.
Once Black Zetsu finally revived Kaguya, Hagoromo—the Sage of Six Paths—would descend like a savior, rescue the world again, and cement his identity as its ultimate guardian.
That had been the plan.
And now it had all gone wrong.
Uchiha Ren's sudden rise had smashed every last one of their calculations.
Once, they had options.
Now, they had none.
And that was what made it unbearable.
So this time, Hamura and Hagoromo had decided to act directly.
It didn't matter whether Uchiha Ren, Urashiki, and Kinshiki crippled each other first.
They were going to move with overwhelming force no matter what.
"Get ready."
Hagoromo's eyes stayed fixed on the projection as he spoke.
"When we move, do everything possible to capture Uchiha Ren alive."
"Understood."
Hamura nodded without hesitation.
There was no need to say more.
If Uchiha Ren was truly this monstrous, then they would seize him, rip apart his soul, and uncover every secret hidden inside him.
At the same time—
"It's time."
After learning of Kaguya's fate, Urashiki's mood had improved considerably. He spoke with flat confidence.
"Kill Uchiha Ren as quickly as possible."
"Understood."
Kinshiki rolled his shoulders once, his expression cold.
"I'll show him what real cruelty looks like."
"Byakugan!"
Buzz—
A terrifying wave of dōjutsu power erupted.
The instant Kinshiki activated his Byakugan, a crushing ocular pressure swept toward Uchiha Ren, filled with enough force to shake the soul.
Then Kinshiki froze.
"How is this possible?"
The shout tore out of him almost immediately.
Because under the gaze of his Byakugan, Uchiha Ren's body looked like chaos itself.
Unreadable.
Unfathomable.
His eyes should have seen through everything.
Kinshiki's Byakugan was not some weakened branch version like the Hyūga clan's. It was a pure-blooded Ōtsutsuki dōjutsu—one that could see through chakra flow, meridians, pressure points, hidden structure, even space itself.
And yet—
he couldn't see through Ren at all.
"There's nothing impossible about it."
Ren only smiled faintly.
"Ōtsutsuki Kinshiki… your Byakugan is trash in front of my eyes."
The moment the words fell, a vast surge of ocular power spread outward.
Then, before Kinshiki and Urashiki's stunned eyes, Ren's pupils shifted.
His eyes entered the Rinne-Tenseigan state.
The invisible pressure released from them was enough to make even the soul shudder.
"What is that…?"
"No. That's impossible."
"It looks like a Rinnegan—no, how does it also contain the power of the Tenseigan?"
"That eye… it's as if it devoured the Tenseigan and fused with the Rinnegan."
Shock hit both Urashiki and Kinshiki at once.
Their voices rose one after another, stripped of all earlier arrogance.
For the Ōtsutsuki, devouring someone else's eye power was nothing unusual.
A new eye could be implanted in the forehead, in the palm, elsewhere on the body.
But Ren had done something else entirely—
he had fused the Rinnegan and Tenseigan into one.
That was what made it disturbing.
Because a Rinnegan was a Rinnegan.
A Tenseigan was a Tenseigan.
Even within the Ōtsutsuki main family, their dōjutsu remained distinct.
They did not merge.
Yet the eyes before them had done exactly that.
And for the first time since arriving on Earth—
the confidence in Urashiki and Kinshiki's hearts wavered.
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