Chapter 180: Qualifications Beyond Six Paths
"Disassemble!"
As Izayoi's words fell, his points balance instantly surged from just over 700,000 to precisely 2,810,000.
"No minimum payout, it's worth it!" Izayoi's lips curved slightly upwards.
Breaking even with a one-for-one exchange was already good; a one-for-two exchange was undoubtedly a profit.
With just over 100,000 more points, Izayoi could upgrade three red Entrys to rainbow Entrys.
At that point, he would be a man adorned with five rainbow Entrys.
Thinking of this, Izayoi couldn't wait to confirm the thoughts in his mind.
He raised his hand and clicked the "+" sign next to Six Paths Qualifications (Red).
In an instant, the 2,810,000 points in his balance rapidly decreased to 1,810,001 points.
The Six Paths Qualifications, originally a size smaller than rainbow Entrys and with a non-flowing red font color, instantly grew one size larger. The red color quickly faded, replaced by flowing, multicolored light.
The two characters for "Six Paths" even writhed like worms, undergoing a transformation.
When the wriggling stopped, the two characters for "Six Paths" had vanished, replaced by... Transcendent Qualifications (Rainbow).
Dong—Crack!
As soon as the Entry completed its transformation, Izayoi's heart pounded violently, and he vaguely heard something shattering.
However, the quiet cosmos seemed to tell Izayoi that the sound he'd just heard was merely an auditory hallucination.
Indeed, Izayoi's attention wasn't on that sound. Instead, his gaze was fixed intently on the Transcendent Qualifications rainbow Entry.
More precisely, he was staring at Transcendent Qualifications (Rainbow) in his Entry panel.
Just like computer sorting, the Entrys in the Entry panel were arranged by rank and status.
The highest-ranked were at the top, and among those of the same rank, the rarest and most precious Entrys were at the very front.
Before the Six Paths Qualifications upgrade, Izayoi only had two rainbow Entrys. The one at the top was naturally Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow).
Izayoi owed all his current strength to the Ōtsutsuki Bloodline.
It was no exaggeration to say that the Ōtsutsuki Bloodline was the heart among these Entrys.
Without this heart, Izayoi would not only have been unable to acquire the Kekkei Genkai: Tenseigan (Rainbow) at this age, but even if he had obtained Sage Eye (Red) and Sage Body (Red) from Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto, without the Sage of Six Paths' direct lineage, he would likely have had to wait until middle age to even hope of awakening the Rinnegan.
No matter how Qualificationsed, he would not have been able to evolve from a Kage-level to a Six Paths-level powerhouse during the final battle.
Because that was the limit for mixed-blood Ōtsutsuki descendants!
In contrast, Ōtsutsuki Toneri's Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Red) allowed him to awaken the Tenseigan through transplanting high-purity Byakugan at an age where he still couldn't even drink alcohol.
Therefore, among all the red Entrys, Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Red) always held a higher status than Sage Eye (Red) and Sage Body (Red), ranking first.
After ascending to the rainbow rank, Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow) also surpassed the Tenseigan, perhaps by several heads.
After all, the first sub-Entry unlocked by Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow) was a red-tier one.
Izayoi, at his age, had already unlocked Levitation (Red), so Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow) definitely had more than one red sub-Entry.
And the Tenseigan and Rinnegan were merely products formed by fusing two red Entrys.
Izayoi speculated that even among rainbow Entrys, Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow) would be among the very top few.
But now, this Entry, which had been in first place and whose position could not be shaken regardless of how other Entrys upgraded, Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow), had been pushed down.
The Entry now occupying the first position was... Transcendent Qualifications (Rainbow).
Qualifications, in Izayoi's eyes, used to be the most useless, most worthless Entry.
Entrys like Chakra Control would enhance Izayoi's Qualifications in chakra control, and without it, he wouldn't have been able to master Truth-Seeking Orbs.
Even Entrys like Medical Genius and Medical Master, if their full potential was realized, could make one a renowned doctor in the ninja world.
Only Qualifications, regardless of green or red rank, seemed to have no ability whatsoever, as if it merely occupied a spot in the Entry panel.
All along, this Entry's designation had been as a sub-Entry.
As long as Izayoi's upper limit increased, the first Entry to sublimate would inevitably be this "Qualifications" Entry.
This Entry's ranking would either be last, or somewhere in the middle-low or middle-high.
But now, this Entry had surpassed the heart-level Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow), taking the first position.
Even more miraculously, Izayoi actually felt that Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow) losing its top spot was not unjust.
The four characters, Transcendent Qualifications, were very easy to understand.
Especially for Izayoi, who had seen Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, this Entry, across the entire universe and the long river of history, perhaps only two individuals possessed it.
One was him, and the other was Ōtsutsuki Shibai, the presumed Ōtsutsuki God who had already transcended this world!
Izayoi's lips curved slightly upwards, and he murmured, "The cracking sound just now wasn't my imagination after all. Something did break, but it wasn't a physical object, it was... a concept!"
"My shackles... are broken!"
As if in response to Izayoi, his brain suddenly secreted a large amount of chakra, which converged in his eyes.
Izayoi's eyeballs began to wriggle uncontrollably.
"Hiss..."
Izayoi covered his eyes, taking a sharp breath.
The next second, an unbelievable sound came from his mouth: "This is... gestation? How is this possible?!"
"Could it be that the Tenseigan can evolve again?"
After the Tenseigan completed three gestations, awakening abilities similar to Ōtsutsuki Toneri's Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Izayoi initially thought that the Tenseigan's abilities should all revolve around Chakra Beads, which is to say, creative power.
Now it seemed that three gestations might not be the Tenseigan's limit.
No...
More precisely, three gestations were the limit of Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Red) and Six Paths Qualifications (Red), not the limit of Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow) and Transcendent Qualifications (Rainbow).
The third gestation unlocked Tenseigan Chakra Mode and Chakra Beads. What kind of ability would the fourth gestation unlock?
Just as Izayoi felt curious, his eyeballs suddenly stopped wriggling.
"What's going on? Did this gestation end so quickly?"
Izayoi curiously created a mirror, examining his reflection, which had already dispelled the Wood Clone Jutsu and Tenseigan Chakra Mode.
His white hair, the pair of dragon horns growing from his forehead, and his now mature face were still incredibly handsome. His eyes were still the blue-white Tenseigan.
It was as if the previous eye wriggling was just Izayoi's illusion.
Izayoi, possessing astonishing far-sight and X-ray abilities, suddenly leaned towards the mirror, his nose touching the glass, staring intently at his eyes in the reflection.
If one looked closely, they would notice that the black pupil, like a corona, in the Tenseigan was no longer surrounded by a white halo, but by... a faint golden glow.
Seeing this golden halo, which was difficult to notice without getting extremely close, Izayoi's lips curved slightly once more.
He could tell at a glance that this was a dōjutsu power he himself couldn't yet control.
This dōjutsu power was slowly changing the nature of the Tenseigan in a gentler manner, different from the previous three gestation periods.
Just like Uchiha Madara fusing with Senju Hashirama's cells, his dōjutsu power slowly increased, gradually giving rise to the power of all creation, and then one day he woke up, and his eyes had suddenly become the Rinnegan.
Izayoi could feel the Tenseigan slowly absorbing his chakra.
Or rather, chakra was slowly converging towards his eyes.
Unlike the previous three gestations, he couldn't use the ultimate dōjutsu power.
This fourth gestation not only didn't affect Izayoi's use of the Tenseigan's power but also didn't frantically absorb his chakra.
Izayoi had a premonition that this gestation would last for a very long time.
But this was exactly what Izayoi wanted.
If possible, he even wished for this gestation to last as long as possible.
The longer the evolution, the greater the improvement, and it wouldn't harm his foundation.
The best example was still Uchiha Madara.
And as a counter-example, there was Uchiha Sasuke, who received a power transfer from the Sage of Six Paths and whose one eye evolved into a Six-Tomoe Rinnegan.
Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama grew stronger with age, while Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto grew weaker with age.
Because they had already reached the limit of their potential; there was no further room for improvement.
Izayoi's current strength in the ninja world only faced four and a half opponents. His arsenal was incredibly rich. He didn't lack powerful killing moves, but he lacked mysterious and unique trump cards.
After all, in this battle, Izayoi had already revealed all his trump cards.
If Uchiha Madara and the Sage of Six Paths, or Ōtsutsuki Hamura and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, all had means to counter his ultimate technique, then Izayoi would fall into a passive state.
Izayoi had to prepare new trump cards to gain an advantage in the intelligence war.
Therefore, Izayoi hoped that this gestation would allow him to unlock new trump cards.
This way, Izayoi would have more confidence facing the Sage of Six Paths, whose alignment was unknown.
"Should I upgrade this thing too?"
Smashing the mirror in his hand, Izayoi again stared at the Entry panel on his personal interface, his gaze falling on Sage Body (Red), muttering.
Soon, Izayoi made a decision.
"The Sage of Six Paths could cultivate the Sage Body, and even Asura's inherited Sage Body was red-tier, which means his Sage Body must have reached the rainbow tier," Izayoi glanced at the three rainbow Entrys, then stared at Transcendent Qualifications (Rainbow), and couldn't help but show a confident smile. "If even he could do it, there's no reason why I, in my current state, can't."
"Instead of wasting points on a Entry that will definitely sublimate, it's better to save them for emergencies in the future, or to use them on... it."
At his last words, Izayoi's gaze shifted to Levitation (Red).
The Levitation Entry not only granted Izayoi the ability to fly but also gave him powerful space-time Qualifications.
In just a few months, he had performed various variations of the Heavenly Transfer Technique and Flying Thunder God Jutsu, and also developed a space-time teleportation array using Chakra Beads.
Without the space-time teleportation array, Izayoi would not have succeeded in his calculations and defeated Uchiha Madara.
If a red-tier Levitation Entry was already this powerful, then if it were upgraded to rainbow rank, wouldn't his space-time Qualifications become even stronger, perhaps even giving rise to space-time abilities?
Thinking of this, Izayoi was very tempted.
However, reason still brought him back to calm.
Yomotsu Hirasaka was a Kekkei Mōra power, and he had a chance to obtain it.
Space-time portals were also something that ultimate dōjutsu could achieve.
In the future, he would very likely be able to develop space-time portals.
In fact, these abilities might even be inherent to pure-blooded Ōtsutsuki.
After all, the Levitation (Red) Entry was merely a sub-Entry of Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow), even just one of them.
Moreover, even if he upgraded this Entry, Izayoi would still need to realize its potential, and even if it gave rise to space-time abilities, it would certainly take a long time.
Instead of wasting 990,000 points on it, why not save the two upgrade opportunities for fusing the Rinnegan in the future?
Izayoi quickly calmed his emotions, closed his personal panel, to avoid overthinking.
Immediately, Izayoi used Chakra Beads to create a seven-layered overlapping space-time teleportation array, directly teleporting from space back to the basement of his home on Earth.
Since the battle between Izayoi and Uchiha Madara took place in space.
Their second round of combat, apart from a few specific individuals, was unknown to anyone.
Perhaps even those few individuals could only deduce the victor based on Uchiha Madara's injuries.
After all, during those two days and two nights of battle, Izayoi was not only calculating Uchiha Madara but also those other Ōtsutsuki.
If any of them had shown themselves, Izayoi would have detected them.
Since he didn't detect them, it meant they didn't dare to get too close.
As for being stronger than himself?
Izayoi increasingly felt that was unlikely.
Even if they were stronger, it was only by a small margin, not to the point of overwhelming him.
Otherwise, there would be no need to hide; they would have simply made their move.
Only those who lacked absolute confidence in defeating him would hide like mice.
Thinking of this, Izayoi couldn't help but smile faintly, a hint of disdain in his expression.
After his Qualifications sublimated into Transcendent Qualifications (Rainbow), Izayoi was filled with confidence and self-assurance.
The sublimation immediately triggered the Tenseigan's fourth gestation.
This meant that Izayoi's hypothesis was correct.
Transcendent Qualifications not only increased his own potential limit but also drew out the potential of Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Rainbow), just as Sage Eye (Red) and Prince of Byakugan (Red) drew out the potential of Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Red), allowing Izayoi to acquire a Tenseigan that had completed three gestations at this age.
The fourth gestation might just be a greeting gift from Transcendent Qualifications (Rainbow).
Having entered his true growth period, Izayoi's future growth rate would be unimaginably terrifying.
Thinking of this, Izayoi looked forward to the future even more.
"Izayoi-kun, you're back?"
"Izayoi-kun, are you alright?"
"Onii-chan, Hanabi was so worried about you!"
As soon as he emerged from the basement, Izayoi was surrounded by Hinata and the three other girls.
Unlike their usual confidence, Hinata, the two other girls, and Shion were all filled with worry this time.
Hanabi even threw herself into Izayoi's embrace, tightly clutching his waist.
There was nothing they could do. Besides those few Ōtsutsuki, only Hinata and the three other girls knew about Izayoi and Uchiha Madara's second round of battle.
At first, the four girls were still full of confidence in Izayoi, believing him to be invincible.
But when Izayoi didn't return for two days and two nights, and his Wood Clone vanished without leaving a single word, the four girls finally became uneasy.
Although the Wood Clone had only disappeared recently, Hinata and the three other girls felt each second like a day, their hearts filled with unease.
Gazing at the worried girls, whose beautiful eyes were even misty, Izayoi was slightly stunned.
As if sensing their emotions, Izayoi couldn't help but smile gently, then opened his arms and embraced all three girls, softly saying, "I'm sorry for making you worry."
Hinata and the two other girls also hugged Izayoi tightly. All the panic and wild thoughts in their hearts were dispelled by Izayoi's warmth, scent, and the strong sense of security he provided.
However, the warm atmosphere did not last long before it was broken by a voice.
"Wuwuwu... I'm going to suffocate!"
Hanabi, squeezed between Izayoi and Hinata, made a muffled sound.
"Hahaha... I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
As Izayoi's laughter rang out, the atmosphere immediately became cheerful, returning to their usual interactions.
Just as Hinata and the three other girls were about to ask questions, a chakra suddenly passed through the perception barrier, catching Izayoi and the others' attention.
Swoosh! A blur of motion appeared before Izayoi, kneeling on one knee.
"Izayoi-sama, the Hokage-sama ordered me to inform you to immediately proceed to the Hokage's Office."
Yugao Uzuki, wearing a cat-faced mask but revealing purple hair, bowed respectfully.
"I understand. I'll be there shortly. You may go ahead."
Izayoi waved his hand dismissively, but Yugao Uzuki did not immediately disappear. Instead, she looked up at Hinata and the other girls, and spoke again, "The Hokage-sama specifically instructed you to go to the Hokage's Office alone. Hinata-sama and Karin-sama are to accompany me to the Hokage Tower."
Hearing this, Izayoi raised an eyebrow. He exchanged glances with Hinata and Karin, both seeing confusion in each other's eyes.
"In that case, Hinata and Karin, you two go with Yugao. I'll go find the Hokage-sama myself," Izayoi also became interested, instructing the two girls.
"Yes."
Hinata and Karin nodded.
"Hanabi, you and Shion stay home and wait for us to return."
Izayoi patted Hanabi's head and then smiled at Shion, "Shion, I'm leaving Hanabi in your care."
"Mhm-mhm..."
Hanabi and Shion both nodded repeatedly, very obediently.
Immediately, all four vanished.
Izayoi disappeared without a trace, while Hinata and the two other girls vanished with a Body Flicker Jutsu.
A few days later, coincidentally the end of the Chunin Exams' Third Exam Preliminaries, a piece of news spread throughout Konoha, quickly reaching the entire ninja world.
The entire ninja world was thrown into an uproar.
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