At last, Izayoi had obtained a way to extend his life, and his mood was overjoyed.
In truth, even Izayoi himself did not know exactly what his current life span was.
But one thing was certain: now that he had evolved into a pure‑blooded Ōtsutsuki, he would live at least several hundred—perhaps several thousand—years.
Among pure‑blood Ōtsutsuki with white hair, white eyes, and horns, the difference that set Izayoi apart from the brothers Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo and Ōtsutsuki Hamura lay precisely here.
In the past, Izayoi never understood why, when his trait entries leveled up, the point total always seemed stuck at the number nine.
But after his Ōtsutsuki bloodline rose to a Multi-Color‑tier entry, and—thanks to the Transcendence Aptitude (Multi-Color)—he awakened abilities such as Kekkei Mōra· Tenseigan, Yomotsu Hirasaka, and Flight (Multi-Color), he gradually realized the answer:
"Nine" denotes the extreme value.
Even within the same trait tier, gaps in power exist.
Traits upgraded with extreme‑tier points have an upper ceiling utterly different from traits forcibly advanced by "defying fate."
One could see this clearly in Hagoromo: although he possessed a Multi-Color Ōtsutsuki bloodline, he awakened only a purple Rinnegan, could not obtain Kekkei Mōra, and only secured a long lifespan.
His Multi-Color bloodline was merely that of a guardian's descendant.
Izayoi's Multi-Color bloodline, however, corresponded directly to the noble echelon of pure‑blood Ōtsutsuki—the High Ones.
Even without Transcendence Aptitude, he would, after many years, naturally awaken Kekkei Mōra and Kāma‑type abilities; the aptitude merely hastened the process.
Izayoi's haste in hunting down Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and obtaining the "Chakra Pill" method was not for his own sake, but for the women.
He himself could live for centuries without the slightest change in appearance, only growing more unfathomable.
But Hinata was different.
Although their Yin Seals could keep them as youthful as Tsunade even in their thirties or forties, Tsunade could not maintain her peak beauty forever (that peak being during the Second Great Ninja War).
Once the seal is released, their true age quickly reasserts itself, and even if youth can return, cell division and life span loss cannot be hidden.
Only by acquiring the chakra pill method could Izayoi liberate them entirely from mortal limits and live with them forever.
Now, he already understood the principle of chakra pills.
With mastery of Kāma and Miketsu, he could unseal Kaguya, absorb the Divine Tree chakra inside her, and refine it into pills.
Likewise, he could feed Isshiki to the Ten‑Tails, let it re‑evolve into a Divine Tree that drains planetary energy, and have it produce another chakra fruit.
He had plenty of time; the immediate task was to loot Isshiki's treasure hoard.
Soul‑searching confirmed his suspicion: the vial of liquid hailed as a clan treasure contained the genes of the Ōtsutsuki God Shibai, who was rumored to have transcended the world.
Internet forums in his previous life had guessed that Shibai had either died or ascended on Earth—now proven false.
Had Isshiki found Shibai's corpse on Earth, it would long ago have fallen into Kaguya's hands, or at least she would have taken fragments the way Hashirama cells were spread.
Yet Izayoi saw no such scene in Kaguya's memories.
Shibai's corpse was a supreme clan relic.
In Boruto, Momoshiki states that Shibai indeed left the current dimension, showing that even a High One like Momoshiki knew of him.
Whether Shibai truly transcended is another matter, but realizing Shibai neither died nor ascended on this planet let Izayoi breathe easier: he no longer feared that a failed transcendent might have left a hidden revival trap on Earth.
Izayoi liquefied the black rods impaling Jigen and Isshiki, covering Isshiki's remaining half‑body, and, amplifying his Rinne‑Sharingan's power, wove a single‑handed seal:
"Yin‑Yang Release… Mind Possession!"
Under the illusion, Isshiki's dull gaze snapped back—then turned to panic: he had recovered a bit of chakra yet lost control of his body.
His black eye activated the Divine Technique Daikokuten, opening a black‑and‑red circular portal. Two tiny dark specks flew out—barely visible even to Izayoi's Rinne Rebirth Eye and Rinne‑Sharingan.
An enormous, pitch‑black cauldron appeared on the ground: the second Ten‑Tails held inside Isshiki's time‑frozen space.
A vial of liquid floated to Izayoi's hand—the gene of Shibai.
"Such terrifying power—on a completely different level," Izayoi muttered, staring at the vial.
Like Hashirama cells but far more dangerous, anyone unable to withstand this power would explode on transplantation.
If one survived, they would awaken extradimensional abilities on par with Kekkei Mōra and ultimate ocular jutsu—worlds beyond what Hashirama cells could grant.
Izayoi's own body could not yet accept it, and he had no intention of implanting or devouring it with Miketsu, uncertain what traps Shibai might have left.
He stored the sample, sent the second Ten‑Tails to a hyper‑gravity space, and turned back to Isshiki.
Instead of feeding him to the beast immediately, he created a wood clone to keep soul‑searching while reviewing Isshiki's past.
Before Momoshiki ever arrived, Isshiki was the only High One‐class pure‑blood Izayoi could locate—high enough to possess even a vial of Shibai's genes.
Izayoi wanted to know if Divine Techniques could be transplanted like Mangekyō Sharingan abilities. If so, he could take Isshiki's two techniques. Shibai's genes would also become far more valuable: he could, as in Boruto, have Amado create Eida and Daemon and then transplant their techniques.
So he watched meticulously—half a month passed, and he even missed his own birthday.
The Hinata women, who had prepared a surprise, saw him so serious and dutifully refrained from disturbing him.
After repeatedly viewing Isshiki's two‑thousand‑year life, Izayoi grew certain:
Two identical trait entries fused without upgrade; spending points still required extreme‑value points because point upgrades are a "cheat," directly pulling the ceiling to the best of the tier.
His Tensonari ability was simply too broken.
Through Isshiki's memories he learned much clan intelligence and saw many upper echelons who far surpassed Kaguya, all wielding numerous Divine Techniques—yet not one could block Izayoi's ocular powers.
If higher‑dimensional beings could screen themselves from lower beings' senses, there must exist abilities to block past‑viewing powers—but these pure‑bloods still failed.
Thus, Tensonari outclassed many Divine Techniques. No wonder even the powerful Kāma and other Multi-Color traits could not dislodge his Multi-Color Kekkei Mōra · Tenseigan and his Multi-Color Rinne‑Sharingan.
Finally, Izayoi confirmed: Divine Techniques can be transplanted.
Unlike Mangekyō jutsu, however, the process still required Kāma—which can data‑fy oneself and abilities. Data‑fy the target ability, copy or transfer the data, and you gain it.
Realizing this made Izayoi value —and fear—Kāma even more: data can carry infections, and some viruses evade any antivirus. The clan's infinite‑reincarnation skill had benefits but unknown dangers; over‑reliance was unwise.
After deliberation he dropped the idea of transplanting Isshiki's Sukunahikona and Daikokuten—he would take no chances.
He drained the chakra of Jigen and Isshiki once more, extracted Isshiki from Jigen's body, and restored his original size—still only an upper half, for the Ten‑Tails had eaten his lower body.
Izayoi drew several blood samples and severed an arm.
Then he brought Isshiki and Jigen to the desert of the Land of Wind, near the ruins of the ancient Kingdom of Rōran—where the planet's meridian, the Dragon Vein, lay sealed.
More dangerous than Gelel Stones, mishandling it could annihilate the earth—unsurprising, since it came from the movie continuity where Naruto once time‑traveled through it.
Izayoi was tempted to revisit the past to see whether it was the same timeline or a parallel world, but prudence restrained him.
At the ruins he began his next experiment: he used Amenominaka to release the Ten‑Tails.
A deafening roar kicked up a sandstorm, its monstrous chakra startling Sunagakure. Before Gaara could even convene a council, the chakra vanished.
Back at Rōran, Izayoi cowed the rampaging beast with a single glare.
The Ten‑Tails, trembling, nevertheless gazed greedily at Izayoi and—the still‑controlled—Isshiki, sensing the tastiest food in existence.
Izayoi had Isshiki perform Rinne Rebirth.
Isshiki's upper body shattered like an eggshell into powder, as did the stored blood and severed arm.
Cracks split across Jigen's body; in an instant the man—white haori, topknot, long braid—morphed into a pale‑skinned, gray‑haired, horned Isshiki.
Before he could react, Izayoi again drained his faint chakra, seized his body, severed another arm, and tossed this High One straight to the Ten‑Tails below.
The beast snapped its jaws around the falling "bait."
This time, Isshiki could not shrink himself with Sukunahikona and went down the gullet.
A still louder roar erupted; a terrifying dust cloud swallowed beast and man—and Izayoi.
When it cleared, the Ten‑Tails was gone, replaced by a colossal, planet‑piercing tree standing in the desert.
Its name… the Divine Tree.