Chapter 586: The Otsutsuki, Emperor of the Universe

Isshiki looked at Nagasawa in horror, because in his perception, this native of the Shinobi World actually possessed an aura comparable to his own at his peak.

Isshiki could not believe it, nor was he willing to believe that such a powerful individual could emerge on a native planet that had not even entered the interstellar age.

But no matter what Isshiki thought, Nagasawa had ultimately appeared in front of him, looking down at Isshiki.

"Strange." Nagasawa looked at Isshiki, whose face was cold, and felt that this person was extremely contradictory.

Although he had the same appearance as the people of the Shinobi World, even his gaze toward Nagasawa still carried the contempt of a higher life-form looking down upon a lower life-form.

Then there was his strength. Isshiki gave him the feeling that he was not even as strong as Kinoshita Tsukasa when he had gone all out at the end.

"Are you Otsutsuki Isshiki?" Nagasawa ignored Nagi beside him and asked Isshiki.

These aliens all thought highly of themselves. Perhaps they would disdain concealing their identities.

"Looks like you mortals have quite a few methods." Even with the situation completely against him, Isshiki still answered Nagasawa’s question calmly and gracefully, nodding.

He directly admitted his identity.

After all, in Isshiki’s eyes, even though Nagasawa’s aura was powerful at this moment, he was still inferior to the noble body of an Otsutsuki.

Nagi was extremely anxious and wanted to attack Nagasawa, but he discovered that he was merely a Chakra projection and could not make any actual movements.

Moreover, the place where he lived was too far from the base. By the time he rushed over, there probably would not be anything left for him to do.

"Fujiwara Nagasawa, as a native of this planet, you are indeed outstanding. You are qualified to become one of our Otsutsuki." Isshiki said indifferently.

"If you are willing to become my protector, I will bestow upon you an immortal life for all eternity."

The Otsutsuki Clan had the ability to transform outsiders into members of the Otsutsuki Clan. However, those who became Otsutsuki through this method could only become lower-level Otsutsuki, like Kaguya. They could only become someone else’s protector and could not become someone who was protected.

Coincidentally, Isshiki was preparing to kill Kaguya, so replacing her with a protector with excellent combat strength would also be a good choice.

"The Otsutsuki Clan is very powerful?" Nagasawa asked curiously, looking like a newcomer seeking information, preparing to freeload some information about the Otsutsuki Clan.

"The nobility of the Otsutsuki is far beyond what a mortal like you can imagine." Isshiki raised his head, pride appearing on his face.

"Even in the starry sky, where countless races exist, the Otsutsuki are the noblest of them all. The clan leader of the Otsutsuki Clan is the Emperor of the Universe, invincible throughout the universe!"

Nagasawa sighed inwardly. The worst-case scenario had happened. If Isshiki was not exaggerating too much, then the Otsutsuki Clan was not an existence that could be trifled with even in the entire universe.

If they really were some kind of Emperor of the Universe, he might truly need to rely on the Saiyan template to withstand them.

"You are very lucky. Coincidentally, I have not yet completed my Divine Tree planting mission. Help me complete this planting, and you will have a share of the merit." Isshiki said indifferently, as if Nagasawa had struck incredible luck by encountering such a good opportunity.

"What you said sounds great, but—I refuse!" Nagasawa gave Isshiki an answer he could never have expected.

"Do you know what you have rejected? Becoming an incomparably noble Otsutsuki." Isshiki’s expression darkened, looking even uglier than when Nagi and the others had failed their mission.

Because in Isshiki’s heart, the Otsutsuki Clan was incomparably sacred and noble. For a native like Nagasawa, being given the status of a lower-level Otsutsuki should have made him kneel down, cry bitterly, and express his gratitude.

Yet Nagasawa actually dared to refuse. This was simply slapping the Otsutsuki in the face! How dare a native like him do this?

"Because I discovered that you, this noble Otsutsuki, don’t seem to be that strong after all." Nagasawa smiled and extended one finger toward Isshiki. Terrifying power directly pressed Isshiki’s body into the ground, leaving only his head exposed.

Nagasawa certainly would not become an Otsutsuki. Wouldn’t that just be pure madness? If he continued developing Konoha without limit, it was not impossible for him to defeat the entire Otsutsuki Clan. Why would he go work as a dog for the Otsutsuki Clan?

Nagi, who was beside them, had already received too much information and was unable to think, standing there in a daze.

Isshiki, who had been pressed into the ground, completely lost his composure. He could no longer maintain the elegance of an Otsutsuki higher life-form and revealed an expression of impotent rage.

"You ignorant mortal, do you know the price you will pay for doing this?" Isshiki glared fiercely at Nagasawa.

"With my current power, even ordinary Nagasawa could easily crush me to death, let alone now that Nagasawa is in Sage Mode.

"What price will there be?" Nagasawa asked indifferently.

"Don’t force me to use my true strength, or you will regret it." Isshiki said darkly.

The newly implanted Kāma had not yet finished thawing. If he revived now, he could only revive through Jigen’s body, but Jigen could not withstand his full power, so reviving would be equivalent to committing suicide.

Moreover, once he completely revived through Jigen, his newly implanted Kāma would disappear directly. This meant that unless Isshiki could defeat Nagasawa and find another qualified person to implant a Kāma in before his body collapsed, he would truly die.

That was why Isshiki had wanted to recruit Nagasawa. He did not want to fight Nagasawa because the price was too great.

"I have a weakness. The more other people don’t want me to do something, the more I want to do it." Nagasawa smiled and extended his finger again, aiming at Isshiki’s head and releasing a Chakra beam. In an instant, a huge hole appeared in Isshiki’s head, making his brain wonderfully well-ventilated and illuminated.

While Isshiki felt humiliated, he also felt immense pain.

Therefore, Isshiki stopped hesitating. Not using his power meant certain death, and using his power also meant certain death, so he might as well use it directly!

Even if he died, Isshiki had to kill Nagasawa, this native who had shown disrespect toward the Otsutsuki, first.

Terrifying power erupted from Isshiki’s body. The immense power caused the ground beside him to explode directly. Immediately afterward, Isshiki’s appearance began to change rapidly, transforming into an Otsutsuki with long, curved horns and grayish-white skin.

"You lowly and despicable native have truly angered me." Isshiki had completely lost his usual calm and elegance at this moment, flames of fury burning in his eyes.

Isshiki planned to use all his strength to kill Nagasawa, then quickly implant the Kāma again. This was his only chance of survival.

"Then let me see what kind of strength you so-called higher life-form possess." Nagasawa continued to provoke Isshiki verbally, but he became vigilant inwardly.

Isshiki’s aura was extremely powerful at this moment, completely on par with Nagasawa, who had entered Sage Mode.

What surprised Nagasawa, however, was that Isshiki did not have Rinnegan in both eyes. Isshiki’s right eye was a golden eye that Nagasawa had never seen before. There were no circular patterns of the Rinnegan inside it. Instead, eight triangular patterns surrounded the pupil. He did not know whether it was some special kind of Rinnegan belonging to the Otsutsuki Clan.

His left eye was unexpectedly ordinary, looking no different from a normal Byakugan.

Because he did not know the ability of Isshiki’s Rinnegan, Nagasawa first tentatively launched a gigantic Water Dragon Bullet several hundred meters long using Senjutsu.

Because the timing was good, Isshiki had no intention of testing it. He charged forward directly and used the ability of his right-eye Rinnegan, Sukunahikona.

The ability of Isshiki’s Rinnegan was extremely simple and crude: it could shrink any object. As for living beings, he could only shrink himself.

Under Isshiki’s ability, the originally enormous water dragon instantly became as small as a finger, then was easily dispersed by Isshiki.

Nagasawa narrowed his eyes slightly and memorized the ability Isshiki had used. It could shrink Ninjutsu, and its power would also become weaker. It did not require physical contact.

In that case, bombarding him with Ninjutsu was definitely not going to work. Nagasawa directly clenched his hand in the air, and Ryujin Jakka appeared.

Immediately afterward, Nagasawa directly released Ryujin Jakka’s Bankai. Terrifying spiritual pressure erupted, and an astonishingly high temperature also appeared around Ryujin Jakka.

Whoosh! Whoosh!!!

Nagasawa quickly threw a large number of Flying Thunder God kunai toward Isshiki.

Although Isshiki did not know about the Flying Thunder God Technique, he sensed the aura of space from the Flying Thunder God markings on the kunai. Therefore, Isshiki summoned a large number of black rods from Daikokuten to intercept the Flying Thunder God kunai.

Daikokuten was the second ability of Isshiki’s Rinnegan. Daikokuten was an extremely special alternate dimension where time was completely stopped. Isshiki could store shrunken objects inside Daikokuten for convenient use.

Under Isshiki’s ability, the large number of black rods not only intercepted the kunai, but many black rods also smashed toward Nagasawa.

These black rods were creations of Yin-Yang Release and were extremely hard. If they were pierced into the body, they could also interfere with Chakra.

However, against Ryujin Jakka’s Bankai, only one slash was needed for the rain of black rods to disappear completely.

Even the black rods could not withstand such a high temperature.

Since long-range Ninjutsu bombardment was useless, sword energy might not necessarily work either. Therefore, Nagasawa directly held Ryujin Jakka and burst forth with terrifying speed, charging toward Isshiki, his entire body glowing with dazzling golden light like the blazing sun in the sky.

When Isshiki saw that Nagasawa’s blade possessed such terrifying heat, even though his body was extremely powerful, he was unwilling to collide head-on with Nagasawa easily. He continuously summoned huge black cubes and hurled them toward Nagasawa.

Boom! Boom! Boom!!!

Huge explosions continuously erupted. In merely a few minutes of fighting, the terrain in this area had been completely altered by the two of them.

Some areas had been completely burned away by raging flames, leaving only blackened scorched earth, while other areas were filled with enormous cubes, with the ground severely collapsed.

There was no doubt that Isshiki was the strongest enemy Nagasawa had ever faced.

Although Kaguya in the dungeon had eaten the Divine Tree Fruit and was not much weaker than Isshiki, Isshiki’s combat skills were far superior to Kaguya’s.

Kaguya could only unleash seven parts of her strength even when exerting ten parts, whereas Isshiki could use all of his strength. That was the difference between them.

Isshiki’s expression also became increasingly solemn. Nagasawa was more difficult to deal with than he had imagined.

He was clearly nothing more than a native, yet he actually possessed such powerful strength.

"Zanka no Tachi: Minazuki!" Nagasawa seized the opportunity. Chakra and spiritual power erupted together, displaying even greater power than before. He cut through every obstacle in front of him and arrived before Isshiki.

Isshiki’s pupils suddenly contracted. He wanted to escape but discovered that it was already too late. He could only erupt with power, pouring all his strength into his arms to block Nagasawa’s attack.

But how could Isshiki withstand the terrifying heat of Zanka no Tachi, which reached the temperature of the sun’s core? Isshiki’s two arms were instantly devoured by the flames compressed to the extreme along the blade.

The terrifying pain caused Isshiki’s face to twist slightly.

Even though he had sensed the terrifying power of the blade in Nagasawa’s hand, after actually coming into contact with it, Isshiki discovered that he had still underestimated that seemingly charred blade.

Isshiki could confidently say that even if a meteorite collided with his arms, the one that would be destroyed would definitely be the meteorite, while his arms would remain completely unharmed.

Their Otsutsuki bodies were extremely powerful. The Ninjutsu that the people of the Shinobi World called Ninjutsu could hardly even harm a single hair on Isshiki’s body even if he did not dodge.

Yet such a powerful body was directly turned into nothingness under Ryujin Jakka’s terrifying temperature.

Taking advantage of his weakened state, Nagasawa quickly stabbed Isshiki through the chest with his blade after burning away both of Isshiki’s arms.

Although he did not turn Isshiki’s entire body into black ash, he did turn Isshiki into a man with an open heart and chest, literally meaning that his heart and chest were wide open.

Isshiki truly lived up to being a member of the Otsutsuki Clan. Even though both of his arms had been burned into nothingness and there was a huge hole in his chest, he still did not die, though his complexion became extremely bad.

Nagasawa reversed his blade and knocked Isshiki to the ground. "Looks like the noble Otsutsuki really isn’t anything special."

Isshiki lay on the ground, his body covered in dust. Combined with the terrifying wounds on his body, he looked extremely miserable.

But under these circumstances, Isshiki instead began laughing loudly.

"You will regret everything you have done." Isshiki looked at Nagasawa with hatred.

"If you had chosen to become a noble Otsutsuki, you would have possessed everything. But not only did you refuse, you even tried to kill me."

"The strength of the Otsutsuki Clan is beyond your imagination. I am merely a newcomer among the Otsutsuki, and my strength has only just reached the God level. There are countless clan members stronger than me. A thousand years have passed without the Divine Tree Fruit being delivered, so the clan will definitely realize that something has gone wrong.

"When the time comes, the noble Otsutsuki will destroy your planet, along with you." Isshiki laughed loudly, as if he had already witnessed Nagasawa being killed by the Otsutsuki and the destruction of the Shinobi World.

Nagasawa raised an eyebrow and said, "You sure know how to dream. You think I and my planet will be destroyed? Maybe the result will be that your Otsutsuki Clan gets destroyed instead."

"You simply don’t understand the greatness of the Otsutsuki." Isshiki sneered.

The destruction of the Otsutsuki—Isshiki genuinely found the idea laughable. It was something that even the many powerful forces throughout the various universes were incapable of accomplishing, yet this native actually dared to imagine it. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

"Then please, great Otsutsuki, go die." Nagasawa did not waste any more words with Isshiki and directly killed him.

Isshiki was too dangerous.

After killing Isshiki, Nagasawa cleaned up the battlefield and then conveniently wiped out the Kara Organization at its roots, along with the Chakra Technology Company.

After completing everything, Nagasawa returned to Konoha.