At this moment, from the distant Moon, a mysterious and powerful probing force suddenly swept down.
That power was like an invisible giant net, quickly covering a vast area.
However, for Otsusuki Hagoromo, the appearance of that power was caught by his keen senses almost instantly.
"Descendants of Hamura?", Otsusuki Hagoromo frowned slightly, a trace of doubt rising in his heart.
He was extremely familiar with that power coming from above the Moon, because that was where the descendants of his younger brother, Otsusuki Hamura, lived.
And he knew very well that whenever war broke out in the ninja world, those descendants from the Moon would always come to investigate and look for the whereabouts of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Back then, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had been sealed on the Moon.
In fact, the two brothers, Hagoromo and Hamura, had once made a secret agreement.
If their mother, Otsusuki Kaguya, ever managed to break free and could not be sealed again, then the two of them would join forces to destroy the entire ninja world.
Unfortunately, before Hamura died, he was unable to pass this plan on truthfully to his descendants, so he only left behind a single last message, "If the world my brother created strays from the ninja way, then destroy that world."
If the Sage of Six Paths could no longer control the ninja world, then the Hamura lineage on the Moon would become the final trump card and backup the two brothers had left behind.
The powerful force from the Moon kept sweeping back and forth.
Before long, those forces quickly gathered together and precisely locked onto the direction of the Mountains' Graveyard.
Immediately after, a dazzling beam of light shot out from the surface of the Moon, like lightning tearing through the night sky as it streaked straight toward that place.
"Hm? What on earth is going on?", Otsusuki Hagoromo muttered in surprise.
You had to know that a very long time ago, Otsusuki Hagoromo had left a summoning contract mark on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Anyone who possessed the Rinnegan could use that mark to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to their side.
Back then, Uchiha Madara had relied on his pair of Rinnegan to successfully summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path from the distant Moon into the ninja world.
Even though Hagoromo at this moment existed only in the form of a soul, those Rinnegan of his that shone with radiant light could still keenly sense the exact location of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Yet what confused him was that he could clearly feel that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was no longer in the ninja world.
Instead, it had been summoned back to the Moon once again.
This situation left Otsusuki Hagoromo deeply puzzled.
Because under normal circumstances, if the Rinnegan still existed in this world, then Hamura's descendants should not have been able to wrest control of it.
So where exactly did things go wrong?
'Could it be that the Rinnegan has been hidden away?'
Not long after, his perception of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path completely vanished without a trace.
This meant that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had been sealed away thoroughly and completely.
At this thought, Hagoromo could not help but knit his brows tightly, feeling that things had become extremely troublesome.
'And who is the one behind this whole chain of changes?'
As Otsusuki Hagoromo's thoughts raced, his figure turned into a streak of light and shot off toward the Land of Wind at an astonishing speed.
After only a brief moment, he arrived at the border of the Land of Wind, at a place that had just experienced a bloody slaughter and was now a scene of utter devastation.
Corpses lay scattered all over the ground, blood had soaked vast stretches of land, and the air was filled with a thick, choking stench of gore.
Not far away, many Uchiha clansmen from Konoha were busy cleaning up the battlefield.
Not long ago, the energy fluctuations from the Moon had been sharp enough that even Karin had noticed something was wrong.
Naturally, Rengoku was also on high alert and did not dare to be the slightest bit careless.
At this moment, he was inside a tent, biting down on Karin's wrist and using her special physique to quickly restore his own chakra and eye power.
Otsusuki Hagoromo's sensing ability was, of course, extremely strong.
Almost instantly, he easily locked onto Rengoku's location.
Then, without the slightest hesitation, he passed through layer after layer of tents, silently approaching where Rengoku was.
Just as Otsusuki Hagoromo drew near, Rengoku had already finished repairing his physical condition.
In the next instant, within Rengoku's malicious intent sensing, a powerful wave of hostility surged up like a tide, making every hair on his body stand on end.
He pulled Karin tightly into his arms, and at the same time his eyes swept warily over every corner around him.
"Who?"
With a furious shout, Rengoku instantly opened his Mangekyo Sharingan.
He focused with all his might and searched in all directions, but what was shocking was that even with those eyes that possessed powerful insight, he still could not find the slightest trace of a suspicious person.
However, Rengoku did not stop there.
Right after that, he also activated the Mind's Eye of Kagura, trying to locate the enemy in another way.
But the result was just as disappointing. In that unique field of vision of his, there was nothing but empty space.
Even so, the sense of malice coming from deep within his heart kept sending out nonstop warnings, telling him that danger was closing in.
Rengoku frowned slightly and fell into brief thought.
A moment later, as if he had suddenly realized something, his eyes lit up and the answer was already clear in his mind, 'So it is a soul body.'
Just then, without any warning at all, Rengoku felt his vision suddenly go black, as if the entire world had been swallowed by endless darkness.
When he regained consciousness, he found himself in a strange and mysterious place his own consciousness space.
Rengoku blinked, and then his vision gradually became clear.
He saw a figure quietly sitting inside his consciousness.
Looking closely, it was none other than Otsusuki Hagoromo.
"No wonder I couldn't find anyone no matter where I looked. So it was you."
A trace of realization flashed in Rengoku's eyes. In the ninja world, most soul bodies, because of the limits of their own power, could not move around freely.
Unless they had mastered special ninjutsu that could manipulate the soul, like the Spirit Transformation Technique; or possessed a special constitution different from ordinary people, like earthbound spirits; or else were powerful souls strong enough to resist the pull of the Pure Land.
Obviously, the Otsusuki Hagoromo before him belonged to the last category.
Rengoku had never expected that he would run into this famous great filial son of the ninja world so early.
Otsusuki Hagoromo was also the number one force pushing the fate of the ninja world forward.
"It seems you know quite a lot about who I am."
Otsusuki Hagoromo's voice was deep and commanding, faintly carrying a tone of looking down from above.
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