Chapter 305: Neji First Hears of the Tenseigan!
It is not to be blamed that Hyūga Neji asked such a question; if any other person in the current ninja world besides Uchiha Ikeizumi were to hear Hyūga Hiashi's words, they would probably feel bewildered.
After all, within the perception of the people of the ninja world, the ninja world is already the entirety of the world.
"It is just as you think; the heavens outside this land of ours are the so-called outside of the ninja world!"
Since Hyūga Hiashi had decided to tell Hyūga Neji the secrets that only the head of the Main House could know, there was naturally no need to keep him in suspense.
"According to the ancient traditions passed down through our Hyūga clan, the Hyūga clan is not an original ninja clan of the ninja world, but comes from the moon!"
"And on top of the moon, there is another branch of clansmen who are distant relatives of our Hyūga clan!"
"Or rather, our Hyūga clan should be called the Ōtsutsuki clan!"
"You should still remember Hinata's third birthday, right?"
"On that day, those clansmen on the moon came to look at Hinata!"
Hyūga Hiashi seemed to think the shocking news he broke was not intense enough, so he actually told Neji everything about how Ōtsutsuki Toneri had come to Earth when Hinata was three years old.
"They can come to the ninja world—"
Hyūga Neji somewhat understood Hyūga Hiashi's worry; if all the clansmen of the Hyūga clan were truly branded with the Caged Bird curse seal, then that branch of clansmen on the moon would probably be able to completely control the life and death of the Hyūga clan!
"They can do much more than just come to the ninja world; the Hyūga clan's Caged Bird curse seal was originally developed precisely to guard against them!"
"According to the records of our Hyūga clan, about several hundred years ago, that branch of clansmen on the moon wantonly massacred our Hyūga clan. Under helpless circumstances, the ancestors of the Hyūga clan developed the Caged Bird curse seal."
"This way, even if that branch of clansmen on the moon wants to massacre our Hyūga clan again, the Main House can completely activate the Caged Bird curse seal, leaving that branch of clansmen on the moon with absolutely nothing to gain!"
Hyūga Hiashi sneered; did people really think the Ōtsutsuki clansmen on the moon could create the Giant Tenseigan relying solely on themselves?
That thing originally had a share belonging to their Hyūga clan, or rather, the vast majority of the composition of that Giant Tenseigan on the moon came from the Hyūga clan!
"But since they are clansmen with our Hyūga clan, why did they massacre us?"
Neji was somewhat puzzled; since their Hyūga clan and that branch of clansmen on the moon shared the same ancestors, he really could not think of any reason that would make that branch of clansmen on the moon target them.
"Because of the Byakugan!"
"Or rather, for the sake of the further advancement of the Byakugan!"
"Our Hyūga clan's Byakugan being equally famous as the Uchiha clan's Sharingan is not our own boast, but a fact!"
"You should also know that the Uchiha clan's Sharingan requires intense emotions to complete the advancement to evolve into the Mangekyō Sharingan; then, what does the Byakugan require to complete its evolution?"
Since Hyūga Hiashi was telling Neji the deepest secrets of the Hyūga clan, he naturally hoped Neji could face up to his identity.
At least he had to face up to the fact that their Hyūga clan was never inferior to the Uchiha clan!
It was so in the past, it was so now, and it would be the same in the future!
"It is purity, unparalleled purity!"
Without waiting for Neji to think of the answer, Hyūga Hiashi took the lead in telling him the answer.
"The Uchiha clan's Mangekyō Sharingan requires extreme emotional stimulation, whereas our Hyūga clan's Byakugan requires the purest bloodline and the purest Byakugan to go a step further."
"And in your generation, Hinata's Byakugan is the purest, so pure that she was explicitly called the Byakugan Princess by that branch of the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon!"
"In other words, Hinata has the potential to awaken the eye that is one layer above the Byakugan."
"If Hinata can really awaken that kind of eye, the entire ninja world—no, perhaps only the legendary Sage of Six Paths would possess power comparable to Hinata's!"
"And this is also the reason why, clearly knowing Hinata's personality is unsuitable, I repeatedly delayed branding her with the Caged Bird seal!"
Hyūga Hiashi spoke slowly; according to the inheritance law of the Main House, even he, the clan head, could only leave one offspring as a member of the Main House. In the past, he had always used Hanabi's young age as an excuse.
But only Hyūga Hiashi knew exactly what kind of potential Hinata possessed.
It was just a pity that he, as a father, was a bit too rigid, not even giving his daughter enough food to eat; otherwise, with Hinata's status as the Byakugan Princess personally designated by that branch of the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon, Hinata might really have awakened the Tenseigan.
Even if her eyes were just a bit blue, wouldn't being blue mean she was awakening toward the direction of the Tenseigan?
However, it was also possible that Hyūga Hiashi intentionally suppressed Hinata's food intake; after all, if Hinata really awakened the Tenseigan slowly, what could they do if that branch of the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon came to snatch Hinata at that time?
"Under normal circumstances, wanting the Byakugan to complete its evolution only relies on natural awakening."
"But several hundred years ago, that branch of clansmen on the moon—or rather, the Ōtsutsuki clan—thought of a new method."
"Collect a large number of Byakugan, collecting Byakugan numbering in the thousands and counting in the ten-thousands, and fuse all of these Byakugan together; then it can definitely give birth to a Byakugan that is one layer closer!"
"And that kind of eye is on par with that pair of eyes of the legendary Sage of Six Paths, possessing the power to dominate the ninja world!"
Hyūga Hiashi had pretty much told Neji almost all the secrets of the Hyūga clan. As for how Neji would choose—
"A pair of eyes... that can dominate the power of the ninja world—"
Neji was somewhat absent-minded; he had never expected that the Hyūga clan's Byakugan could actually continue to evolve, and not only could it continue to evolve, but once successful, it would possess the power to dominate the ninja world.
"Several hundred years ago, did that group of Ōtsutsuki clansmen on the moon succeed?"
Neji took a deep breath; he had also realized why the Hyūga clan held onto the Caged Bird without letting go.
Since several hundred years ago, that branch of the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon could descend to the ninja world to launch a massacre against the Hyūga clan, and the Ōtsutsuki clan had also descended when Hinata was three years old.
Then it meant that once the Caged Bird was unraveled, that distant relative of the Hyūga clan on the moon would highly likely launch a massacre against the Hyūga clan once again!
"They did not succeed."
"If they had succeeded, there would be no us, and no current ninja world!"
"That branch of the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon shoulders the responsibility of purging the ninja world; once the ninja world becomes defiled, they will use the Tenseigan to cleanse the ninja world."
"What the ninja world is like, you and I are both very clear; that the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon delays in launching an attack cannot be because of their kindness—the only explanation is that their Tenseigan Project has not truly succeeded!"