Naruto: Starting with the Two Kamui

Whoosh! With a flick of his sleeve, Yubi opened the Yomotsu Hirasaka.

The sacred tree stands alone on the cold, moonlit earth, and judging by its growth, it is already three or four hundred years old.

Ubichiri said, "This is the Land of the Moonlit Maidens, the latest breeding ground chosen by my clan..."

Long Shi asked, "In the Kingdom of Jianyue... does this divine tree have no guardian?"

Uhichiro said, "We don't need guardians for now. The humans of the Moonlit Kingdom are relatively new and don't yet possess the ability to use chakra. In the next six or seven hundred years, it's highly unlikely that any of them will venture into this place. Of course, just to be on the safe side, our clan will definitely send down guardians to retrieve the fruit before it ripens..."

Long Shi's gaze darkened: "Then the humans of this land... will they die as the divine tree matures?"

Ubiquitous pondered, "Perhaps... we won't see the moon."

Dragon Style and Sona both looked up.

The moon is a strange source of chakra born in Takamagahara... It was initially controlled by the Kaguya clan, and only after the Kaguya clan was wiped out did it become the exclusive domain of the Otsutsuki clan.

Why...why would it appear in a lower realm?

"Teacher, what exactly happened?"

"Alas." With a complex and heavy heart, Ubiquitous recounted a past event: "The one who planted the divine tree on this land back then was Queen Night Bamboo."

Ryuji exclaimed in surprise, "The mother of Princess Kaguya!?"

"Indeed," Uhiya continued, "Naya Take was once a princess of the Kaguya clan. The moon you see now is her creation, and it's also the origin of the name 'Kuni Mizuki' (Land of Seeing the Moon)."

Long Shi asked, "Princess Ming Yezhu...why did you do this?"

Ubiji said, "Nagatake took pity on the people of this land and could not bear to see them perish because of this divine tree. Therefore, he did not hesitate to disperse his original form and transform into the moon to lighten the burden on this land."

"When she dispersed her original body, she was pregnant with the third princess, which resulted in Kaguya being physically weak from birth. When King Chuigen learned of this, he was furious and banished Princess Mingyezhu to the cold palace..."

After pondering for a long time, Ryushiki noticed a suspicious point: "Kaguya was initially on good terms with our clan, even to the point of intermarriage. So how exactly did they wipe out their clan...?"

"This..." Ubiquitous looked at Sona, then hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

"Heh heh... What's so hard to say?" Sona chuckled. "Isn't it just that after the Great Melee, those peasants wanted to use the Infinite Tsukuyomi to control humanity, but the Kaguya clan refused to cooperate? Because the Infinite Tsukuyomi technique requires summoning the moon, and since the Kaguya clan wouldn't cooperate, it couldn't be activated. In the end, the peasants thought they might as well go all the way and took advantage of the situation, eliminating the Kaguya clan and taking all the moons they became after their deaths for themselves."

"Such a thing is true...!?" Long Shi was stunned.

"Hehehe..." Sona chuckled again, "By the way, my father was the son of King Shinra, and my mother was also from the Kaguya clan, but they're both long gone..."

Long Shi exclaimed in surprise, "If it's truly King Zhenruo, then wouldn't that mean...?"

Otsutsuki Shinwa, one of the progenitor gods, was the younger brother of Sugune-o along with Hannya-o. He was the undisputed second-in-command of the Otsutsuki clan!

In terms of blood relation, Sona is the granddaughter of King Zhenruo and the grandniece of King Chuigen!

After knowing her for so long, Long Shi only just found out about Sona's background!

Thinking back to that night when they first met... Sona's lonely figure under the moonlight, it seemed that Dragon had figured something out.

As he turned away, seemingly wiping away tears unintentionally, Long Shi momentarily thought he had misread it!

But perhaps... that's not the case.

Long Shi hurriedly apologized, "I'm sorry, Nana... I shouldn't have asked that question."

"Hehehe..." Sona laughed, "Don't flatter yourself. This old lady doesn't need your consideration. Life and death are predestined, wealth and honor are determined by fate. Being born into this boring race, dying early is a kind of relief."

Sona looked at Ubidear: "Speaking of which, weren't we supposed to be looking at humans? Why are you showing us this broken tree?"

"Ah..." Ubiquitous rubbed his nose, and said gently, "Look at me, I've forgotten the important matter. Come on, let's go see the humans here..."

Sona gazed deeply at the cold, lonely moon, then turned and followed Uhdi's steps.

Chapter 913 The Dragon's Past: Loss Leads to Trust

Tenjiuju, a life-related treasure invented by Ryu-shiki.

Here you'll find understated yet luxurious decor, spacious and comfortable seating, warm and soft lighting, soothing and beautiful music, and air conditioning that keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer... But all of these are secondary; the three main secondary treasures are the true essence of the Heavenly Wine House.

The 'Heavenly Wine Gourd' can brew an endless supply of fine wine, allowing even those with immense chakra to experience the feeling of being completely intoxicated!

The 'Bubble Teapot' can brew an endless supply of fragrant tea. Even the most aggressive person can instantly transform their anger into peace after taking a sip!

The most amazing thing is the third one, which can instantly cook up an excellent and delicious dish just by telling the name of the dish - 'Tianxiang Hot Pot'!

"Tianxiang Hot Pot, steak, medium-rare..."

Bang!

A beam of light shot out from the rim of the Tianxiang Hot Pot and landed on the plate, revealing a perfectly cooked steak, medium-rare, with excellent color, aroma, and taste!

With elegant strokes, Long picked up his knife and fork, cut off a small piece, and savored it slowly in his mouth.

Gudong!Gudong!

To the right, Sona was drinking heavily.

"Hiccup." After a drunken hiccup, she put her arm around Long Shi's small shoulder and laughed, "Hehehe, let's have crayfish tonight~!"

On the left, Ubiquitous swirled his teacup, staring at the three treasures before him, and asked curiously, "Ryushiki, could you open these three treasures and let your master take a look?"

Long Shi said in a serious tone, "It can't be opened, it'll be useless once it's opened."

Ubiquitous was completely baffled: "What's the underlying principle? Yin-Yang Escape?"

Even Yin-Yang Escape can't create something out of nothing!

Ryushiki cut off another small piece of steak and put it in his mouth, chewing as he said, "Quantum theory states that the existence of something can only be established at the moment it is observed. So, conversely, the existence of something cannot be denied without the act of observation. Based on this theory, I tried to establish a hypothesis, and these three Noble Phantasms have confirmed my hypothesis..."

“Okay…” Yubidi took a sip of the fragrant tea from the teapot.

Long Shi added, "So you can't open it to look, otherwise you'll break the reference point, and these three treasures will stop working..."

"Ah...that kind of thing, it's all good now." After sipping the fragrant tea, Ubiquitous instantly became Zen-like, no longer thinking about those irrelevant things.

After a moment, Yuhiji asked seriously, "Disciple, we've been staying in the Moonlit Kingdom for a while now. How do you feel?"

Long Shi recalled everything he had seen these past few days.

The land of Jianyue Kingdom is small; it can be explored in half a day by flying.

The humans of the Moonlit Kingdom are weak, and their chakra is negligible.

Before the formation of a nation, people fought in tribal forms, and victory or defeat was determined by brute force.

Wiping the grease from his lips, Long Shiguan said, "A civilization of this caliber doesn't need our main branch to intervene. Sending a team of elite troops from our branch is enough to conquer it..."

Ubiquitous asked, "And what about humanity itself?"

Long Shi recalled something that had happened the day before.

Passing through a jungle, a group of tribal soldiers were bullying a young girl. The girl was covered in wounds and her eyes were numb.

Long Shi couldn't stand it, so he appeared in front of the group.

Faced with the lone, seemingly harmless dwarf, the large, well-trained, and armed human soldiers naturally showed disdain.

"Shorty, with horns..."

"I've never seen anyone with these features before. Which tribe do they belong to?"

"Take him back and let the chief interrogate him..."

Dragon Style made his move; he merely released a slight aura, and the soldiers who approached him were instantly killed.

The surviving soldiers cried out that it was a monster, a sorcery, and scattered like birds and beasts...

It was later learned that the bullied girl was also the daughter of a tribal chief, a princess in the true sense. After the tribe was defeated, she became a prisoner and a slave for the soldiers to vent their desires.

After examination, the girl was found to have multiple diseases, including severe anal fissures... It is unimaginable what kind of torture and abuse she suffered!

Long Shi wanted to save her, but then he thought that even if he saved her now, and even used his eye power to heal her emotional wounds, in this chaotic world, without any support and without any weapons, how dark would her future be?

Of course, there are options such as taking her back, or even using technology to give her survival skills.

But how many such tragic lives are there in this chaotic world? Should we save every single one we see?

To fundamentally prevent such tragedies from happening, perhaps the only option is to annihilate humanity!

Long Shi really had a thought, an impulse to kill everyone on this land!

But he quickly dismissed the idea.

My thoughts returned to normal.

Long Shi said, "From our perspective, we can't even consider these people as our own. We despise them deep down. Teacher, am I... too terrible...?"

Ubichi said, "It's not just you, the teacher often has this thought too..."

Long Shi asked in surprise, "Teacher too?"

Uhdi said, "Humans are destined to be unable to feel anything other than pity for beings much weaker than themselves. All they can retain is awe for life itself..."

After deep thought, Long Shi said, "Teacher, you're right..."

Yubidi asked, "Recognizing the insignificance of humanity, will you still remain true to your original aspiration and protect them?"

Long asked with a complicated expression, "Our clan also struggled and persevered step by step like this, didn't we..."

Ubiquitous said truthfully, "We've experienced everything that humans have experienced. If anything goes wrong, our fate will be far more tragic than that of that human girl..."

Long Shi said, "Then I've made up my mind, I will protect humanity..."

Ubiquitous: "Oh? So you're saying you're prepared to stand on the opposite side of your clan."

Long Shi replied, "I don't think protecting humanity means standing on the opposite side of a race."

"Oh? How so?" Ubiquitous looked at Ryushiki with great interest.

Long Shi said, "The fundamental conflict between our race and the humans of the lower realm is the relationship between supply and demand. Our race pursues the power of the divine tree fruit in order to survive. We cannot deny this pursuit. Whether it is pursuing the breadth of life within a limited lifespan or simply pursuing infinite life, pursuit is pursuit, and there is nothing wrong with it in itself."

Ubidi said, "So, you are definitely driven by 'desire'."

Long Shi said, "Solving the supply and demand relationship is more practical than extinguishing desires."

Ubichi: "So... do you have any good ideas?"

Ryushiki: "If there were a way to replace the Chakra Fruit, extend the lifespan of the clan, and increase power, the conflict would be alleviated."

Uhichiro: "That's true, but the Chakra Fruit can't be completely replaced, and desires won't disappear entirely. As long as humans still have value to be exploited, our clan will reach out to them..."

Dragon Style: "Therefore, I want to help humanity become stronger!"