Tsunade was extremely sharp. In an instant, she caught the hidden meaning in Rengoku's words.
She thought to herself, 'So that means Rengoku's current strength can probably already stand shoulder to shoulder with his grandfather.'
Thinking of this, the weight hanging over her heart eased a little.
'Looks like this battle for him was nothing more than a small test of his blade. There is not much danger.'
At that moment, a figure came up beside Rengoku.
It was Karin. She gently tugged on the corner of Rengoku's clothes, then stood on her tiptoes, leaned close to his ear, lowered her voice, and said, "Shishou, Shishou, how about you recover a bit first?"
Karin's astonishing recovery ability was still a little known secret to this day.
Among all the people present, only Rengoku and Tsunade knew about it.
That was why she asked Rengoku so carefully.
The people around them, seeing Karin and Rengoku whispering to each other, did not show anything strange. They seemed long used to it.
After all, everyone knew how much Rengoku doted on Karin.
But at this moment, only Tsunade's gaze looked a bit odd. The way she looked at Rengoku was full of a teasing meaning.
The reason for this was not complicated.
Back when Rengoku had been seriously injured, his body pierced through, he had been lying unconscious in a hospital room after being treated.
And that hospital room actually had surveillance equipment installed.
Karin's attempt to sneak a kiss on Rengoku had been completely recorded by the cameras.
Even though Tsunade was not personally watching the monitors at the time, Kabuto later specifically told her about it.
Normally, for something like this that was purely someone else's private matter, Tsunade would not interfere.
But the problem was that Karin was still young, far too young.
And Rengoku, who was right in the prime of his youth, ever since he successfully awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, had been constantly sending all kinds of little children to the Uchiha clan.
Not to mention the other Uchiha. They were either unusually violent and hot tempered, flying into a rage at the slightest thing, or they were cold and aloof, hard to get close to.
Even someone like Shisui, who was known everywhere as a good guy, had no spare mood to patiently coax kids to be happy.
Only Rengoku alone always took pleasure in it.
With things like this, it was hard not to start wondering, 'Could it be that Rengoku has some kind of special fetish?'
'About Karin's feelings that has clearly gone beyond a simple master and disciple relationship, does Rengoku know?'
'Or does he not know?'
'Or does he know and pretend not to know?'
"Yeah, I will recover in a bit."
Even though this was already the second time he was using the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to build the War God Susanoo, and it was indeed much easier than the first time, such powerful strength always came with consumption. Right now his pupil power and chakra had been used up quite a lot.
Looking around, Sand Village now only had about two to three thousand troops left.
But one had to keep in mind that the Land of Wind had always been known for being poor.
Because of that, he had made up his mind to wipe out all of Sand's external combat forces in one go.
To trap Sand Village inside the Land of Wind, paving the way for the series of plans that would follow.
If he wanted those plans to move forward smoothly, restoring his own strength as quickly as possible was extremely important.
At this moment, Kurama Yakumo looked up at the vast sky, her face full of curiosity as she asked, "Lord Hokage, look at those souls floating up into the sky. Could it be that the legendary Pure Land is really up in the heavens?"
Under normal circumstances, ordinary people could not perceive the existence of souls. Only those in a soul state could see them.
Although Kurama Yakumo was not using the Spirit Transformation Technique right now, Ido could still clearly see large numbers of souls rising into the air.
Ido was originally a soul that had split off from Kurama Yakumo, so the two of them could communicate quickly and without any barrier.
But Rengoku himself only knew about the Pure Land in a very shallow way.
"The Pure Land is another space independent from our ninja world. After people die, their souls are all drawn there."
"Even though it looks like the souls are floating up into the sky, the gate to the Pure Land might open in many places," Rengoku's current power system had not yet touched the realm of souls.
And he was not someone who specialized in this kind of research. He only had a rough idea, so he could only give a simple explanation.
In his view, handing these complicated and profound things directly to Orochimaru, who was good at research, was far more effective than racking his own brain over them.
However, Rengoku did not know what would happen when a huge number of dead souls, carrying massive amounts of energy, all surged toward that mysterious Pure Land.
At that very same moment, a vast yet extremely hidden energy swept down from the sky like a light breeze.
This power was far too well concealed, so much so that the vast majority of people in the entire ninja world did not notice anything at all.
But Rengoku, who had extraordinary perception, the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Kagura's Mind Eye, and Malice Sensing, clearly sensed that something was off.
He suddenly raised his head, his eyes locking tightly onto the sky above.
Then he turned to look at Karin and Hinata beside him, only to see that the two of them still had no reaction at all.
It seemed they had not sensed this hidden energy fluctuation.
However, not long after, another even more obvious wave of energy suddenly fell from the heavens.
"Huh?"
This time, even Karin finally noticed something.
She could not help but let out a small cry, staring in shock at the place in the sky where that energy had fallen.
She turned her head to look at Rengoku, "Shishou, what is that?"
Rengoku patted Karin's hair,."That is a new enemy."
"Are there people on the moon?", Like most people, Karin did not really know much about the moon.
Rengoku looked up at the moon and said in a low voice, "There are, but not many."
'Judging by the timeline, Toneri should be about the same age as Naruto right now, around ten years old.'
'So the ones causing this kind of disturbance has to be other members of the Otsutsuki clan.'
'How many people are still on that moon?'
Rengoku thought about it for a bit too long, to the point that the people around him all noticed something was off.
From his conversation with Karin, it was clear that there were actually people on the moon, and they had extremely powerful strength.
"Rengoku, what is going on with the moon?", Tsunade asked curiously.
Although Rengoku had told her before that the future enemies included the Otsutsuki, he had not gone into detail about things like Otsutsuki Toneri.
Rengoku shook his head, "There are still enemies on the moon, but according to the flow of time, they should not be appearing right now."
"We will talk about it in detail after we go back."
Then he turned to Itachi and Shisui and said, "There are still many crises in the entire ninja world. The easy victory in front of us is nothing to be happy about."
"You have to grow up faster. In the future, it cannot be just me alone."
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