Kitazawa studied the pill in front of him carefully.
It contained one hundred percent of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's chakra—yet it was still far less than ninety-nine percent of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's chakra.
They were both Ōtsutsuki, but Kaguya had eaten one more God Tree fruit than Isshiki.
A God Tree fruit can only be produced after the God Tree absorbs the energy of an entire planet. That was why Kaguya's chakra vastly surpassed Isshiki's.
After a brief moment of thought, Kitazawa decided to give the pill to Kurenai.
After all, you don't let valuable resources flow to outsiders.
Something this rare could only go to his women.
Even if, strictly speaking, giving it to Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto would've been a better "value for money."
Kitazawa put the pill away and looked toward the Ten-Tails in the distance.
After Isshiki died, it lost all autonomy and simply stood there, motionless.
Judging from its size, it was still a juvenile—nowhere near maturity.
Kitazawa stroked his chin.
He had two choices.
The first was to use Chakra Edible Creation to refine this Ten-Tails into a pill.
Even as a juvenile, its chakra already rivaled any tailed beast.
The second was to plant it.
As long as it absorbed enough chakra, it could bear a God Tree fruit.
The only problem was the sheer amount of chakra required to produce a fruit.
In theory, it needed to absorb the chakra of an entire planet.
Kitazawa would never sacrifice the ninja world.
If he wouldn't sacrifice the ninja world, then only two options remained:
Sacrifice another planet—or sacrifice the Ōtsutsuki clan.
The first was easy to understand: that was simply what the Ōtsutsuki did in the universe.
The second was an alternative Kitazawa came up with.
The Ōtsutsuki themselves possessed planet-level chakra.
In the original story, producing a God Tree fruit required the sacrifice of an Ōtsutsuki.
Kitazawa's plan was to sacrifice two Ōtsutsuki.
If so, maybe he wouldn't need a planet's chakra at all.
[Current Mission: Defeat Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.]
[Mission Reward: Daikokuten.]
[Mission Completed. Reward Granted.]
Kitazawa gave a small nod.
Daikokuten was a very useful ability—an ocular technique, even.
Besides pairing it with Sukunahikona, it had three especially practical uses.
First: as storage.
Time is stopped inside the dimension connected to Daikokuten.
That was more effective than any refrigerator.
Second: as a prison.
Because time is stopped, as long as Kitazawa didn't die, anyone locked inside could never get out.
Third: for medical use.
If Kitazawa couldn't save someone in their current condition, he could place them in Daikokuten's dimension.
Since time is stopped there, no matter how many years passed before they were taken out, nothing would change.
It was a kind of alternative immortality.
"These Ōtsutsuki really are a pain," Tsunade said as she walked up to Kitazawa, relieved. "Thank goodness you were here. Otherwise the ninja world would probably have been destroyed by them."
"I'm from this world. Dealing with them is what I should do," Kitazawa said with a smile as he came back to himself. "And now you're here too—so it'll only get easier for the ninja world to handle them."
"I'm only benefiting from your light," Tsunade shook her head.
"Let's go back," Kitazawa said, taking her hand as they left Amenominaka.
The two of them reappeared in the royal palace of the Fire Country Metropolis.
"Where did you two go?" Yūhi Kurenai asked, standing up immediately.
Kitazawa and Tsunade had left in a hurry—once they found Isshiki's location, they went straight there without notifying Kurenai.
"This is for you," Kitazawa said, taking out the pill refined from Isshiki's chakra. "Eat it."
Kurenai took the pill without overthinking it and tossed it into her mouth.
Almost immediately, the same violent transformation that Tsunade had undergone erupted through her body.
But it wasn't exactly the same.
Tsunade had awakened Wood Release, the Rinnegan, and the Byakugan.
Kurenai awakened the Byakugan and the Kokugan.
That was because Isshiki only had the Byakugan and the Kokugan.
But the Kokugan wasn't inferior.
In Kitazawa's view, it was most likely a mutation of the Byakugan—similar to the Tenseigan.
The Kokugan had two ocular techniques: Sukunahikona and Daikokuten.
"What did you just make me eat?" Kurenai asked, staring in shock.
This pill completely overturned everything she understood.
All this time, the only way for a ninja to grow stronger had been to diligently refine chakra and learn jutsu—no shortcuts.
And now a single pill had made her power skyrocket, as if all her past effort had been pointless.
"Do you know the Sage of Six Paths?" Kitazawa thought for a moment, then gave her a rough explanation of the Ōtsutsuki clan.
After all, Kurenai was now a powerhouse on the Ōtsutsuki level.
"Th-this is just…" Kurenai didn't know how to respond for a moment after hearing it.
"Don't think too much," Tsunade comforted her. "With Kitazawa here, the ninja world will be fine."
"Yeah," Kurenai exhaled slowly.
"Tsunade's eyes gleamed and she said, "Kurenai—tonight, the two of us team up and teach Kitazawa a proper lesson."
Kurenai froze for a beat, then quickly realized what she meant.
She didn't overthink it.
After all, they "cooperated" almost every night.
Kitazawa, however, felt his breathing hitch—pressure flooding in.
Two Ōtsutsuki-level powerhouses… even for him, that would be hard to handle.
But he had no choice except to face it head-on.
He even specifically found an excuse to ask Shizune for seven days off.
And so began seven chaotic days and nights.
A new week arrived.
Kitazawa went to the Hokage's office.
The moment he pushed open the door, Konan's soft body threw itself into his arms.
After seven days apart, her emotions had been suppressed to the breaking point.
Kitazawa reached out and patted her head.
With Tsunade and Kurenai around, he couldn't take Konan on vacation—he really had neglected her.
But it was fine. Once he finished handling things, he'd take her out to properly indulge.
"I still have work to do," Kitazawa said.
Konan loosened her hold.
She was reluctant, but she was always obedient—she would never embarrass him.
"Kaguya, tell me about the God Tree," Kitazawa said, looking at Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
After her earlier "lesson," Kaguya didn't dare argue. She immediately began explaining.
The God Tree was extremely precious.
More accurately, planets that could provide energy to a God Tree were extremely precious.
There weren't many such planets in the entire universe.
That was normal.
Even in his previous life, in a universe that vast, humanity hadn't found a second planet with life.
Because of that, even among the Ōtsutsuki, only a small number had ever eaten God Tree fruit.
That was also why Kaguya had been hunted.
Besides breaking the rules, the fruit itself was simply too valuable.
Within the Ōtsutsuki clan, strength was determined by how many God Tree fruits you had eaten.
At the bottom were those who had eaten none.
Eat one and you were mid-tier.
Eat two and you were high-tier.
And those who had eaten three or more were extremely rare.
In fact, this had a lot to do with Ōtsutsuki Shibai.
Because he alone had eaten too many fruits, leaving little for everyone else.
Kitazawa fell into thought.
After obtaining Isshiki's God Tree, he had been wondering how to deal with it.
There was no doubt that sacrificing two Ōtsutsuki to obtain a fruit was the best approach.
After all, Kitazawa's current strength already surpassed an Ōtsutsuki who had eaten one fruit.
Fortunately, the later arrivals—like Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki—had also eaten at most one fruit.
But there was still a long time before they would descend upon the ninja world.
Then Kitazawa suddenly thought of another approach.
Use the God Tree as a server.
Use Infinite Tsukuyomi to build a network—a spiritual, mental-plane online game.
Infinite Tsukuyomi was genjutsu.
And the essence of genjutsu was controlling the five senses.
Control the five senses, and in theory, you control the person.
Everything they see, hear, smell, feel—every detail—can be fabricated.
Wasn't that basically the full-dive simulation games of his previous life?
If it's a game, then paying to play is only natural.
And what would they "pay" with?
Chakra, of course.
Normally, when a ninja's chakra is depleted, they can recover it by refining chakra again.
Unless it's something like Chakra Edible Creation.
Kitazawa nodded slowly.
A God Tree game was undoubtedly a gentle way to absorb chakra.
Most importantly, it wasn't as brutal and destructive as the Ōtsutsuki method of planting trees and draining worlds dry.
Of course, he couldn't let everyone play.
Kitazawa planned to allow only chūnin and jōnin to enter.
As the thought formed, he realized the game had another use: increasing combat experience.
Now that the ninja world was unified, ninjas would have far fewer chances for life-or-death battles.
But a game could provide exactly that.
[Current Mission: Make the God Tree bear fruit.]
[Mission Reward: God Tree fruit.]
[Accept?]
Kitazawa's eyes lit up.
If he made the God Tree bear fruit, he could harvest one fruit.
And the system would reward him with another—making two.
He had already awakened the Rinne Sharingan, which was equivalent to having eaten one fruit.
In other words, if he completed this system mission, it would be as if he had eaten three God Tree fruits.
Even among the Ōtsutsuki, that would place him among the rarest of the rare.
But for Kitazawa, what mattered most was having enough power to protect himself.
As long as he didn't run into the entire Ōtsutsuki clan mobilizing at once—or some so-called "Ōtsutsuki God"—he would be fine.
In theory, as long as he stayed sufficiently hidden, it would be hard to attract the Ōtsutsuki's attention for a long time.
Kaguya was proof.
After she betrayed Isshiki, it took a thousand years before the Ōtsutsuki sent someone to hunt her down.
Add the time required to plant and grow the tree, and that became two thousand years.
Even if it wasn't two thousand—give Kitazawa a thousand years, and with the system, he could absolutely become a second Ōtsutsuki God.
"Konan," Kitazawa said, standing up. "Come with me."
He planned to begin by testing this God Tree game with his First Ninja Corps.
The first step was to plant the God Tree—but it couldn't be done casually.
Absorbing energy was the God Tree's instinct.
To prevent it from triggering that instinct, he needed restrictions set around it.
Kitazawa brought Konan to the Forest of Death.
A God Tree was still a tree—planting it there was suitable enough.
More importantly, it was close to Konoha's First Ninja Corps.
Finding an empty clearing, Kitazawa released the Ten-Tails he had stored in Amenominaka.
He switched to his Rinnegan and forcibly regressed the Ten-Tails into a God Tree.
In an instant, the ground shook violently, massive roots plunging deep into the earth.
The God Tree quickly settled into the Forest of Death.
The second step was building the game's content.
Kitazawa decided to recreate the Warring States Era—the era of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara.
That era was better suited to building real combat experience.
The third step—and the most important—was letting ninjas enter the game.
Kitazawa planned to build a fixed barrier centered on the God Tree.
Once someone entered the barrier, they would automatically fall under genjutsu and be pulled into the game.
After thinking for a long time, Kitazawa basically confirmed the feasibility of all three steps.
With his current strength, he could do it.
The rest was just a matter of time.
Once he made his decision, he began implementing it.
He raised his hand.
The God Tree began to sprout, and in no time it was covered in lush branches and leaves.
The canopy spread to block out the sky, forming a gigantic umbrella shape.
The God Tree suddenly trembled—and chakra surged outward.
Under Kitazawa's control, the chakra assembled the formula of Infinite Tsukuyomi beneath that canopy.
Infinite Tsukuyomi used the moon as a medium.
But the God Tree game didn't need such a vast range—using chakra directly as the medium was enough.
"Konan," Kitazawa said, lowering his hand. "Go in."
Konan immediately stepped into the shade beneath the tree.
Her pupils tightened.
The moment she entered, everything around her changed.
She was standing atop a city wall, with ninjas and samurai slaughtering each other in the distance.
In the Warring States Era, there were no ninja villages. Ninjas were positioned much like samurai—both served various countries.
"Genjutsu?" Konan steadied herself, then quickly looked at Kitazawa beside her.
"It is genjutsu," Kitazawa said with a smile. "But it's also another world."
After all, for ninjas of this world, Infinite Tsukuyomi was something they couldn't break.
And if they couldn't break it, then it was no different from reality.
"One more thing is missing," Kitazawa said, snapping his fingers.
A blue glow instantly appeared before Konan.
It was the classic game interface.
It displayed Konan's information.
Aside from her name, it listed the jutsu she had learned.
But Kitazawa didn't intend to copy people's real-world power into the game.
In other words, once they entered, everyone would become a beginner.
Only that way would they have to "pay" chakra.
But it wasn't without benefits.
Any jutsu learned inside the game could be brought back into the real world.
In the past, every major village strictly controlled its jutsu.
Beyond what your team leader taught you, the only way to obtain additional techniques was by earning merit.
"Konan, tomorrow go notify the First Ninja Corps to gather here," Kitazawa said, once he was sure there were no issues.
"Yes, Your Majesty," Konan replied, nodding at once.
"And for now," Kitazawa said, "let's go eat."
He walked up to her and scooped her up in a princess carry.
Konan immediately understood.
She returned with him to the Hokage's office—then ate a lavish feast, so good her mouth didn't stop moving the entire time.
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