"The Ōtsutsuki Clan, huh... it's been a long time since I last heard that name..."
When you heard Jashin speaking through Hidan's mouth, you suddenly realized you'd made a mistake in revealing your knowledge of the Ōtsutsuki.
You quickly covered it up, claiming the name had just surfaced in your mind after your bloodline awakened.
Fortunately, Jashin didn't seem to notice that slip.
Instead, it led you through a massive temple shaped like a pyramid, past several other believers who, like Hidan, had apparently been chosen by Jashin. Eventually, you reached the deepest part of the temple.
From there, Hidan could go no further.
So you gathered your courage and stepped alone into the darkness—a darkness so dense not even the Byakugan could pierce it.
After a dizzying swirl of space and time, you found yourself standing at the center of an endless sea of blood, upon an island made of dried, congealed clots.
And you quickly realized—your Magnet Release flight no longer worked!
This place seemed devoid of magnetic fields. Only faint gravity held the unstable island together.
...
"A young godling, bold indeed… to enter my divine realm so recklessly."
Despite those ominous words, you could sense that Jashin, wherever it might be hiding, held no real hostility toward you.
Instead, it began recounting the long-forgotten history of the Shinobi World and the Ōtsutsuki Clan:
There was once a time when chakra did not exist in the Shinobi World.
Back then, it was a realm focused on cultivating natural energy—where multiple systems of training coexisted independently.
But all of that changed the moment the Ōtsutsuki Clan descended upon the world.
From distant stars, two Ōtsutsuki divine envoys arrived. Mistaking the goodwill of the Shinobi World's inhabitants as weakness, they set their sights on this fertile land.
They intended to plant a God Tree capable of endless devouring, drawing power directly from the world's ley lines.
This act was first noticed by the heavenly deity of the ley lines and life force, Tsuchimikado Ōgami. Merciful by nature, Tsuchimikado merely destroyed the God Tree and sealed the two Ōtsutsuki envoys for a thousand years as punishment.
Afterward, he released them.
But upon returning to the stars, those two envoys showed no remorse. Instead, they summoned the divine beings of the Ōtsutsuki Clan itself.
These so-called gods had divine power—but none of the responsibility that should come with it.
The moment they descended, they unleashed indiscriminate slaughter upon the Shinobi World, catching its peaceful inhabitants completely off guard.
Fortunately, the native gods of the Shinobi World heard the desperate cries of their people and descended into the mortal realm. There, they waged an immense war against the invading Ōtsutsuki.
The Ōtsutsuki had sent a full divine army: one heavenly god, dozens of true gods, countless demigods, envoys, and lesser servants...
Even so, the beings of the Shinobi World, alongside their native deities, managed to repel this first wave—though not without acceptable losses.
However, the victory was short-lived.
The Shinobi World's gods had underestimated the true depths of the Ōtsutsuki's power.
Following their defeat, the Ōtsutsuki calculated the combat capabilities of the Shinobi World... and launched an even more precise second assault.
No one knows how long this war of annihilation raged.
Eventually, both the Shinobi World and the Ōtsutsuki Clan were consumed by the flames of war.
And it was within this eternal conflict that gods like Jashin and Shinigami—beings of discord—were born.
The gods of the Shinobi World had also failed to understand the Ōtsutsuki's true intent.
They couldn't comprehend...
What kind of divine beings would abandon their worshippers, forsake their offerings, and turn away from cultivating their own laws and divine authority?
What kind of gods would instead inscribe endless conquest and plunder into their very bones?
Such wars led to the mass deaths of followers, the shattering of divine domains, and the collapse of cosmic order—clearly a path to ruin.
And yet, the Ōtsutsuki Clan reveled in it.
They mass-produced demigods as weapons of war, deploying them without pause...
...
Fortunately, during the later stages of the war, the Shinobi World's gods began to grasp what set the Ōtsutsuki apart:
This race was born with divine blood in their veins!
Even as children, with a little training, they could reach heights that a mortal shinobi might only glimpse after a lifetime of struggle.
Unless someone like Indra or Asura—a reincarnated god—was involved, a mortal would have to forcibly embody divine power to reach such levels.
Most who tried lost their sanity, becoming grotesque abominations warped by divine power.
The few who retained their minds became slaves.
But once an Ōtsutsuki matured, they naturally qualified to become a divine envoy.
At this stage, their mortal bodies began to transform into divine ones, allowing them to fully wield and control divine power.
That was the mark of a Divine Envoy.
The next stage was full deification: when the body became entirely divine, and a unique godhood and divine power manifested in the soul—allowing contact with the rules of the universe, even if not full comprehension.
This was the realm of the Demigod.
Yet for the Ōtsutsuki, who reached these divine states effortlessly, all it took was consuming a particular pill—or the fruit of a God Tree!
As for the true gods—or those far beyond them?
The Ōtsutsuki believed they could be forged by simply devouring more divine pills, more God Tree fruits... or even more of their own kind.
Despite clan laws forbidding kin-slaying, in the chaos of war, few cared about rules.
While the gods of the Shinobi World drew power from faith, offerings, and rituals...
The Ōtsutsuki simply consumed it all—literally—through their God Trees, fusing power with their very being.
These factors established the Ōtsutsuki Clan as divine beings by birthright.
They were born sacred. Born conquerors.
And when the gods of the Shinobi World finally learned the truth...
They despaired.
...
Still, the Ōtsutsuki were not without weakness.
The gods of the Shinobi World discovered that most members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan—even some who had already become gods—possessed power but lacked the skill to wield it.
Time and again, mortals from the Shinobi World, forged through harsh battles, discovered their weak points and struck them down.
The Shinobi World also had deep roots.
And as the war neared its climax—
The Primordial Sun Goddess, Amaterasu Ōmikami, descended in person.
She led the Shinobi World's divine pantheon and allied with powerful warriors from other worlds who had also been threatened by the Ōtsutsuki.
Together, they launched a desperate counterattack—exploiting the Ōtsutsuki's weaknesses, shattering their fleets, and cutting off their supply lines that spanned galaxies.
They uprooted and destroyed the God Trees.
They fused the bodies of slain Ōtsutsuki and fallen deities into the world's ley lines—creating the Dragon Vein, preventing further Ōtsutsuki devouring from within.
They stormed into the heart of the Ōtsutsuki realm, where they battled the supreme god of the Ōtsutsuki Clan in a war that shook the heavens.
The aftermath annihilated entire star systems.
In the final clash, Amaterasu Ōmikami and the surviving gods fought the Ōtsutsuki God in a last, desperate showdown.
Though Amaterasu dealt an irreversible blow...
She ultimately fell.
The Ōtsutsuki God, now gravely wounded and unable to recover, feared being devoured by its own kin the moment its weakness was exposed.
Thus, it had no choice but to reincarnate.
This cataclysmic war came to be known as the Primordial War of the Gods.
The Shinobi World, as the battlefield, suffered devastation beyond measure.
The earth deity Tsuchimikado Ōgami also perished while defending the ley lines.
To ensure his legacy lived on—
He split his remaining divine power, godhood, and divinity into three parts, passing them on to a snake, a toad, and a slug—giving rise to the Three Great Sanctuaries.
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