From the night of genocide, marching towards the strongest.

Sasuke nodded slightly and said, "From now on, let me explore on my own."

"understood."

Shouqi the little lizard responded and then turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared from the spot.

"Let me see what secrets are hidden here."

Sasuke looked at the dark red earth beneath his feet and murmured, as if the earth would bleed dark red blood if he stepped on it even slightly.

"Earth Release: Rock Concealment Technique!"

This is an earth-style ninjutsu that allows one to become invisible and move through rocks and soil. It is not difficult to learn and is not uncommon.

Whoosh!

Sasuke's figure seemed to transform into a stream of water and slowly disappeared into the earth.

One hundred meters!

Two hundred meters!

Three hundred meters!

Sasuke dived down to a depth of over a thousand meters before the view suddenly opened up.

tread!

Sasuke landed on a giant passage, which was nearly a thousand meters wide and five hundred meters high. Even someone as imposing as Sasuke could walk freely on this passage without any difficulty.

The passageway is surrounded by various corridors, paths, caves, and pits, and there are even bridges, roads, carvings, and reliefs.

This place is less a passageway and more a vast, ancient, and mysterious city!

A city belonging to underground lizards!

The Kingdom of Lizards!

"Sure enough, just as I guessed, there is a little-known history in the Grass Lizard Marsh."

Sasuke glanced around at the scenery, his eyes flickered slightly, and he thought to himself.

Indeed, how could it be simple to have a summoning beast that belongs to one's own psychic realm?

Ta Ta....

Footsteps echoed through the vast, empty underground passage as Sasuke walked and looked around, heading towards the end of the winding, dimly lit passage.

At that moment, a glimmer of golden light emanating from the darkness on the left caught Sasuke's attention.

"what?"

Sasuke let out a soft "hmm" and murmured, "Chakra? Or Earth Release?"

Shadow of Devouring!

With a raised left hand, a massive, vacuum-like suction force surged forth, pulling the object radiating golden light toward Sasuke's hand scroll.

"This is?"

Sasuke raised an eyebrow as he looked at the fist-sized, clear, golden stone in his hand.

The stone feels warm to the touch, has a delicate texture, and its surface and interior have patterns similar to those created by flowing water droplets.

"amber?"

Amber is a transparent fossilized organism, a type of resin fossil.

The resin secreted by trees drips down and, by chance, is buried underground for millions of years. Under the influence of pressure and heat, it petrifies and forms amber. Some amber even contains small insects and animals.

Amber, also known as fossilized pine resin, is said to have the power to bring good fortune, ward off evil, and bring peace and tranquility to the home.

Even before chakra became widespread, this world was filled with natural energy.

These resins, buried underground for millions of years, contain powerful earth-elemental energy.

"It is a treasure, but it still doesn't meet my requirements."

The energy contained in this piece of amber is similar to that of the sea coral and lightning shell I received from Tianzhi before, both being at the level of one or two stars.

As usual, after acquiring the amber, Sasuke continued walking towards the end of the passage.

After walking for a long time, Sasuke's vision came into view of a huge statue, which was a hundred meters tall. It was a statue with a huge body, a ferocious and majestic head, a pair of wings that covered the sky, and a long and winding tail with thorns at the end!

A giant dragon!

This is a statue of a giant dragon!

"As expected, the ultimate goal of Grass Lizard Swamp is also to transform into a dragon!"

Sasuke breathed a sigh of relief and strode forward. When he reached the foot of the dragon statue, he discovered a huge steel gate beneath its stone base.

It's about thirty meters tall, and in the center of the gate is a majestic dragon, surrounded by various mysterious runes and spells.

However, Sasuke's mind was not on the dragon; instead, he focused his attention on the huge relief sculpture next to him.

These bas-relief images, mysterious and ancient, seem to be slowly telling a story of history.

There are ten relief portraits in total. The first to the fifth portraits all introduce the origin of the lizard clan of the Grass Lizard Marsh.

Through the five relief paintings, Sasuke learned that Kusashizawa was once a sacred training ground like Ryuchi Cave and Mount Myoboku.

This sacred place is for cultivating immortal arts, with the ultimate goal of transforming into a giant dragon.

In the process, they will inevitably fight against various other extraordinary creatures, including snakes, toads, apes, turtles, and birds.

There were even humans!

A vibrant picture of the ancient ninja world, where all kinds of flowers bloomed and humans and demons coexisted, unfolded before Sasuke!

Seeing this, Sasuke's eyes flashed, and he focused his gaze on the sixth relief portrait.

it's dark!

The once vibrant scene of blooming flowers instantly transformed into a gloomy, dark curtain of clouds that blotted out the sun, with thunder and lightning flashing across the sky. A strange seed fell from the heavens and pierced the earth!

The seventh image depicts a seed that, after taking root in the earth, grows like a thief, plundering all the life and resources of the land, drying up rivers, turning plains into deserts, and turning living beings into corpses!

The seed grew into a towering, cloud-covering, demonic tree!

The final scene of the seventh relief depicts the ancient creatures, sensing something amiss, rushing towards the sacred tree.

"The Ten-Tails of the Sacred Tree!"

Sasuke took a deep breath, feeling that he had realized the truth behind the destruction of the Grass Lizard Swamp.

As he continued looking at the seventh portrait, his eyes widened in surprise, and even his usually calm demeanor couldn't help but elicit a gasp.

"How could there be two people?!"

"A thousand years ago, wasn't Kaguya Otsutsuki the only one?!"

In the eighth painting, after the ancient creatures arrived, two people emerged from the divine tree.

Perhaps it's no longer appropriate to describe them as human; they should be described as gods or demons!

Under the attack of these two godlike and demonic beings, almost all the ancient creatures were powerless to fight back.

One by one, they were either killed or captured alive, and the final scene depicted a landscape strewn with corpses.

The ninth painting depicts the ancient creatures being sacrificed to the eerie divine tree by the two god-like beings, who became its nourishment.

The last picture is of an egg hidden deep in the earth.

After viewing the ten reliefs, Sasuke frowned and muttered to himself:

"Wait, how can there be two people? Both the manga and the anime mention that the Otsutsuki clan came to Earth a thousand years ago, but only Kaguya Otsutsuki was mentioned... Wait a minute!"

Suddenly, Sasuke had a flash of inspiration and realized something. He stared intently at the two "people" on the relief and said, word by word, "Neither of these two guys is Kaguya Otsutsuki!"

The faces of the two large tsutsuki in the relief image are both blurry and indistinct.

However, both of their eyes were perfectly clear.

However, the two people's eyes were completely different in shape and color.

A person is formed by black wavy circles.

Rinnegan!

The other one is shaped like the whites of an eye, but it shines with a golden light, like a tiny sun's pupil!

It's neither the Byakugan nor the Tenseigan.

Instead, it's like the golden Byakugan that Sasuke saw in episode 65 of Boruto: Momoshiki Otsutsuki had when he entered his battle form!

One of them is like a demon, and the other is like a god!

Kaguya Otsutsuki always had the Byakugan; even after eating the Chakra Fruit, she only gained one more Rinne Sharingan.

The whites of his eyes may have become stronger, but their shape has not changed.

Therefore, the two figures on the relief are not Kaguya Otsutsuki, but someone else entirely!

"Thousands of years ago, in ancient times when people did not yet know the true meaning of chakra, there were already constant wars and endless conflicts..."

Sasuke closed his eyes, silently recalling all the information mentioned in the original work, then opened his eyes and slowly exhaled a long breath.

"So that's how it is. It wasn't Kaguya Otsutsuki who planted this divine tree, but an even earlier Otsutsuki!"

Sasuke clearly remembered that Kaguya Otsutsuki only descended upon the ninja world a thousand years ago.

By then, the sacred tree had grown into a tree that could block out the sky, and it had been worshipped by people for a long time.

Moreover, both the manga and the anime have mentioned that the Divine Tree has existed for thousands of years.

A thousand years can hardly be called several thousand years, right?

Moreover, Sasuke knew that there were still about twenty years left in the thousand-year cycle from Kaguya's era to the present.

Thinking about this, Sasuke felt that the history of the ninja world had unveiled a corner of its mysterious veil to him.

The Otsutsuki clan has a lifespan of a thousand years!

In the first millennium, two unknown members of the Otsutsuki clan came to this planet and planted the Divine Tree.

At that time, the ninja world was home to all sorts of extraordinary creatures, such as the lizard clan and even the mythical monsters.

As the Otsutsuki clan sought to harvest planetary resources and plunder chakra, they naturally wouldn't let these powerful superhuman beings go unpunished.