Chapter 80: Hamura's Watch
Inside the Takamagahara space, Kiyoshi used the Jōgan's powerful space-time abilities to isolate another space, roughly the size of a room. He specifically used this unique space to store his personal belongings that he carried with him.
In this small world of his own, Kiyoshi took out the Twin Swords, Hiramekarei, from the ninja sword summoning scroll and placed them here. This way, he could quickly retrieve them at any time he needed them in battle.
Kiyoshi's Bone Pulse fighting style determined that it wasn't actually suitable for him to carry Hiramekarei on his back. Although he had the ninja sword summoning scroll to store Hiramekarei, taking it out of the scroll still took time. For the tense and rapidly changing battles between ninjas, the enemy might not generously give Kiyoshi enough time to retrieve Hiramekarei.
The dōjutsu "Takamagahara" perfectly solved Kiyoshi's pain point.
After setting everything up, Kiyoshi focused his gaze on the scattered black rods and Daikokuten, and activated the dōjutsu "Sukuna Hikona" in his left eye. Where Kiyoshi's gaze fell, the black rods and Daikokuten rapidly began to shrink, eventually shrinking to the point where they were invisible to the naked eye.
Kiyoshi shook his head, not very satisfied with this speed. "The gap between me and Isshiki is really big! This speed can only catch someone off guard, and it can't be used continuously! I still need to practice diligently and strive to achieve the level of instantaneous shrinking and enlarging like Ōtsutsuki Isshiki as soon as possible, and shorten the interval between activating the dōjutsu as much as possible," Kiyoshi muttered to himself.
After speaking, Kiyoshi activated "Takamagahara" again and returned to his room.
What Kiyoshi didn't know was that when he used the Jōgan to teleport to the Ōtsutsuki ruins, because it was subconscious and his first time using "Takamagahara," he hadn't controlled it much. The dissipated Jōgan dōjutsu power, mixed with the Ōtsutsuki's unique aura, awakened a soul sleeping far away on the moon.
"This is... the aura of the Jōgan???" The soul, awakened by sensing the aura emitted by Kiyoshi, said to itself, "Thousands of years... I didn't expect that among my descendants, someone would actually awaken the Jōgan!"
This person was none other than the common ancestor of the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon and the Hyuga and Kaguya clans in the ninja world: Ōtsutsuki Hamura!
(If Ōtsutsuki Toneri knew about the Jōgan, then there's no reason why Ōtsutsuki Hamura, as the ancestor, wouldn't know about it. It's highly likely that it was information left behind by Ōtsutsuki Hamura and then passed down among the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon.)
Because he was a descendant of Ōtsutsuki Hamura, when Kiyoshi's rich Ōtsutsuki aura, far surpassing that of other descendants, was mixed with the dōjutsu power aura of the Jōgan and emitted, it caused Ōtsutsuki Hamura's soul to awaken from its thousand-year slumber.
For Ōtsutsuki Hamura, who was at the Six Paths level and not just an ordinary Six Paths level, even though he had abandoned his physical body and existed only in soul form, he could still rely on the subtle bloodline connection to clearly sense the special fluctuations of the Jōgan coming from the distant ninja world.
Admittedly, compared to his elder brother, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, who possessed greater strength and sealed their mother, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and the Ten-Tails' husk, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, within his body, Hamura Ōtsutsuki's overall strength was slightly inferior. But it must be said and acknowledged that every Six Paths level figure was not to be underestimated.
Even if Hamura's strength didn't reach the level of Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, his soul, which reached the Six Paths level of power, still gave him the ability to partially interfere with the real world.
However, his soul had been sleeping within the moon, far away from the ninja world, so he couldn't reach it. Compared to Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki in the Pure Land, he didn't possess the ability to constantly pay attention to the ninja world and interfere at any time like his brother did.
"The ninja world... what a nostalgic place!" Ōtsutsuki Hamura sighed softly, "I hope he can protect the ninja world in the future!"
Kiyoshi's appearance could also be considered a small surprise for Ōtsutsuki Hamura. After all, in terms of potential, no extremely powerful figures had appeared among his descendants in the past thousand years, far inferior to the descendants of his elder brother, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki.
Without thinking too much about it, since he had chosen to come to the moon back then out of guilt for sealing his mother, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and also to watch over the Ten-Tails' husk, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, after everything was over, he didn't want to interfere with the ninja world too much now.
"Let it develop on its own!" With the last thought flashing through his mind, Ōtsutsuki Hamura's soul fell into slumber once again.
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