You had to know that in the ninja world, ordinary wars would also cause casualties, but their scale was relatively small.
But once powerhouses like Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama stepped onto the stage of history, things became completely different.
Their appearance caused the brutality of war to skyrocket, directly rising to a level capable of destroying entire nations.
And for thousands of years, every one of their reincarnations was a peerless expert.
Wars ignited because of them never ceased, and the number of innocent people who died because of it was simply beyond counting.
Yet Otsutsuki Hagoromo turned a blind eye to all of this tragedy and completely ignored it.
As if the lives lost to war were no more than worthless weeds.
As long as Kaguya could ultimately be sealed successfully, all other sacrifices could be easily wiped away.
Such conduct was truly chilling to the bone.
When Rengoku first came into contact with this part of the story, he had already keenly seen through the flaws within it.
You had to know that Otsutsuki Hagoromo had lived for so many years.
How could he possibly not understand Indra and Asura's respective personalities?
Yet what was baffling was that even so, at the moment of his death, he deliberately provoked conflict between the two of them.
His obvious goal was to plunge them into endless cycles of reincarnated entanglement.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo, who possessed the Yin Yang Seal capable of sealing Kaguya, who could with a casual gesture bring Naruto back from the dead and help Sasuke awaken the six tomoe Rinnegan, and who had many such abilities. If he truly wanted to stop the two of them from continuing to fight, then over the long span of a thousand years, he absolutely had more than enough chances to do so.
At this moment, shock appeared on Otsutsuki Hagoromo's face. He had not expected Rengoku to understand events from so long ago so thoroughly.
Suddenly, he frowned deeply and asked in a grave voice, "Just how did you come to know all these things from a thousand years ago?"
Because he spent most of his time in a state of sleep, his sense of the passage of time was quite blurry. Sometimes a single slumber would last dozens or even hundreds of years.
So in Otsutsuki Hagoromo's impression, the things Rengoku spoke of felt as if they had only happened a few years ago.
However, when he stared intently at Rengoku's young face, he immediately realized something.
The fact that Rengoku knew those secrets from a thousand years ago was itself already a huge mystery.
Rengoku twisted his neck. This old bastard had barged into his mental world with malicious intent.
Anyone with eyes could tell this guy was no good. Why would he indulge him?
"You came here looking for me. Don't tell me you just wanted to chat?"
Rengoku did not answer Otsutsuki Hagoromo's question directly, instead coldly throwing back a question.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo's gaze was like fire as he locked onto Rengoku and said in a deep voice, "It is precisely because of your sudden appearance that the predetermined track of destiny has undergone earth shattering change and deviation."
He paused, then continued, "You should not have appeared here in the first place, and you should not have disrupted the original order."
Faced with this accusation, Rengoku looked completely unconcerned and said lightly, "So what? I'm already here."
Otsutsuki Hagoromo's expression turned cold as he shouted sternly, "You must understand that once you deviate from the track of fate, the future direction of the ninja world will become unpredictable and out of control!"
"If my mother manages to break free, then the entire ninja planet will face total destruction and be wiped out!"
But Rengoku just scoffed at that, the corner of his mouth lifting into a mocking smile as he sneered, "So called fate is nothing more than an excuse for your own incompetence."
"Besides using this method to seal Kaguya, you probably couldn't think of any other way, could you?"
He then continued to attack mercilessly, "I don't care about that vague, empty fate you keep talking about."
"No matter who is missing from this world, it will still keep turning as usual."
"Stop holding your mother up on some lofty pedestal. She is nothing more than a member of the Otsutsuki clan."
Seeing Rengoku's stubborn, unyielding attitude, Hagoromo unleashed endless killing intent at him and shouted angrily, "Hopelessly stubborn. For the bright future of the ninja world, you cannot be allowed to live today!"
Before the words even finished, terrifying eye power erupted from Otsutsuki Hagoromo's massive body like a volcanic explosion.
His Rinnegan shone with a heart stopping light as they glared straight at Rengoku.
However, in the face of this powerful attack, Rengoku only felt his body become a little heavier, as if he were submerged in bottomless water.
He casually moved his hands and feet and found that although his movements were somewhat hindered, he was not completely frozen as he had expected.
Seeing this, Otsutsuki Hagoromo showed an expression of utter shock and cried out in disbelief, "How is your soul so tough?"
Rengoku tugged the corner of his mouth in disdain and mocked, "Hmph! Old geezer, looks like you're nothing special after all!"
In the next instant, countless dazzling bolts of lightning poured down like a torrential rain in Rengoku's mental world.
They slammed fiercely into Otsutsuki Hagoromo's body.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo did not dare to be careless in the slightest and hurriedly mobilized all his chakra, forming a pale purple protective sphere over his body.
That sphere was like an unbreakable shield, blocking all the dense, never ending lightning outside.
Even so, the immense power Rengoku displayed still left Otsutsuki Hagoromo deeply shaken.
He had never imagined that someone could possess such vast soul power.
And now, as the fierce clash between the two continued, Rengoku's entire mental world began to shake violently, as if it might collapse at any moment.
Then, the previously dim sky suddenly burst with a blinding light, and a massive sun abruptly appeared.
Sunlight shone down onto Otsutsuki Hagoromo's body.
Wisps of blue smoke suddenly rose from him, as if he were being roasted by blazing flames.
That intense, searing pain instantly spread through his entire body, making him let out a muffled groan.
As the pain worsened, his form began to turn hazy, as though he might vanish into nothingness at any time.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo knew that on the spiritual level, he was simply no match for Rengoku.
Left with no choice, he used everything he had to scramble in a sorry state out of Rengoku's body.
At that moment, Rengoku, who had kept his eyes closed, slowly opened them.
In an instant, his malicious sensing ability detected that Otsutsuki Hagoromo had already fled.
And Karin, whom he was holding tightly in his arms, looked at Rengoku with worry on her face and asked with concern, "Master, what's wrong? What happened?"
Because Karin could not see the existence of soul bodies, she was completely clueless about what had just occurred.
Even so, she still obediently nestled in Rengoku's arms, quietly waiting for her master's reply.
In truth, although Rengoku had engaged Otsutsuki Hagoromo in a fierce and lengthy exchange in his mind, in the real world it had only lasted for an instant.
After all, the flow of time between the consciousness space and reality was completely different.
After a while, Rengoku gently released Karin from his arms and softly patted her head, comforting her, "Don't worry, I'm fine. Go call Kato Dan and Kurama Yakumo to come see me."
Hearing her master's order, Karin, though still a little uneasy, nodded without hesitation, "Yes, Master!"
Then she turned and hurried away to look for the two of them as instructed.
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