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His name was Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, originally a high-ranking Ōtsutsuki from the Otsutsuki Planet, and his strength was considered top-tier within the entire Ōtsutsuki Clan.
Several thousand years ago, he brought the lower-ranking Otsutsuki Kaguya from the main family to a top-tier life Planet teeming with life to plant the God Tree.
Based on his strength and the merit of this mission, as long as he returned to the clan with this God Tree fruit, he would most likely receive priority rights to consume it.
Once he consumed the God Tree fruit, his strength would surge drastically, allowing him to instantly become a top-tier expert of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
Although the Ōtsutsuki Clan had the method of planting the God Tree and harvesting its fruit, not every Ōtsutsuki had the opportunity to eat the fruit. Or rather, only a very small number of Ōtsutsuki could consume the fruit to complete their evolution.
Firstly, all previously harvested God Tree fruits had to be supplied to the strongest Ōtsutsuki, Otsutsuki Shibai.
Secondly, as time passed, Planets meeting the conditions for planting the God Tree became increasingly scarce.
Therefore, after Otsutsuki Shibai transcended and left, the only ones inside the Otsutsuki Planet who ate the God Tree fruit and completed evolution were those few top-tier leaders.
Unfortunately, just as he was sacrificing himself to catalyze the God Tree, he was unexpectedly ambushed by the lower-ranking Otsutsuki Kaguya he had brought along, ending up as the one sacrificed to the God Tree instead.
Fortunately, even when ambushed, his strength far exceeded Otsutsuki Kaguya's, allowing him to ultimately escape with a portion of his Soul and parasitize the body of a monk named Jigen.
Through Karma, he completely took control of Jigen's body and resurrected.
Unfortunately, because it was a body obtained temporarily and in haste, its compatibility with him was extremely poor, and the Root was fundamentally unable to fully unleash all of his power.
If he unleashed his full power, this body of his would not survive three days.
Coupled with the fact that Otsutsuki Kaguya's power had surpassed his after eating the God Tree fruit, he had no choice but to hide in the shadows.
For all these years, he had been disguising himself as an ordinary human, searching for a new vessel that could completely contain his power.
He did not pay much attention to the wars among those weak humans.
He already had a Ten-Tails in his possession; as long as he could find a new vessel, he could sacrifice his current body to the Ten-Tails, allowing him to replant the God Tree and acquire the God Tree fruit.
This was also the reason why he had never actively returned to the Otsutsuki Planet to request external aid.
If he harvested the God Tree fruit this time, he no longer intended to turn it in according to the rules; instead, he planned to devour it directly to enhance himself.
Having spent so many years on this Planet, he had long figured it out: as long as his own strength was formidable enough, then even if he broke some rules, returning to the Otsutsuki Planet would still not pose any major problems.
At most, there would just be some reprimands.
Strength was the most important thing.
However, just today, he suddenly sensed a rather powerful Ōtsutsuki aura appearing.
Worried that someone had been sent from the Otsutsuki Planet side, he hurried over to check out the situation.
"So it is the descendant of that bitch Kaguya."
After observing carefully, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He had already recognized that the powerful Ōtsutsuki aura did not come from a clansman of the Otsutsuki Planet.
Rather, it was the descendant of the second son born from the union between Otsutsuki Kaguya and a human.
Although the Byakugan had evolved into the Tenseigan and his strength had greatly increased, it was not much of a threat to him.
Even if he could not release all of his power, it was enough to easily defeat the opponent.
What somewhat surprised him was that there were actually humans who could defeat an Ōtsutsuki that had evolved the Tenseigan.
Although he was only a mixed-blood descendant, being able to evolve the Tenseigan meant he was considered quite talented even within the Otsutsuki Planet.
However, he did not pay too much attention to it.
Human lives were extremely short; no matter how powerful or talented a human was, after a few decades they would simply die, posing no threat to him.
Moreover, although the opponent's displayed strength was strong, it was still far inferior to his.
Even in his current human body state, it was enough to deal with the opponent.
"So you don't know the location of the Otsutsuki Planet."
Having knocked out Ōtsutsuki Toneri, Goku reached out and pressed his hand against his forehead, reading the relevant memories.
Only after reading them did he realize that Ōtsutsuki Toneri was a descendant of Ōtsutsuki Hamura, living on the Moon all along, and had no idea where the Otsutsuki Planet was.
"Oh, there is another expert!"
However, just as he threw Ōtsutsuki Toneri to Tsunade to handle and prepared to go back to continue studying Medical Ninjutsu, a figure suddenly flashed and vanished from the spot.
Just a moment ago, he had sensed a Ki similar to Ōtsutsuki Toneri's, and it was much stronger than Ōtsutsuki Toneri's.
"I've been discovered."
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki stiffened slightly as he looked at Goku who suddenly appeared before him, but he quickly calmed down.
He now looked like the human Jigen; as long as he didn't show hostility toward Konoha, the opponent shouldn't deal with him.
He did not fear the opponent, but neither did he want to complicate matters before finding a true vessel.
"You are actually... Ōtsutsuki Isshiki?"
Goku looked at the monk, a look of pleasant surprise appearing on his face.
Because Konoha had been attacked repeatedly, coupled with the opponent appearing at this time and carrying the same Ki as Ōtsutsuki Toneri, so after Appariting over, he immediately activated his mind-reading skill to check the opponent's identity.
To his astonishment, the person in front of him was actually that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki who had been ambushed and killed by Otsutsuki Kaguya several thousand years ago.
He had originally felt a bit regretful because Ōtsutsuki Toneri didn't know about the Otsutsuki Planet, but now he instantly became excited.
Because Ōtsutsuki Isshiki definitely knew the location of the Otsutsuki Planet.
"So you didn't die!"
"Invading my brain, you are courting death!"
Feeling that his memories were being forcibly read, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's expression immediately changed.
With a wave of his hand, a black rod so small it was hard to detect was hurled toward Goku. Just as it was about to touch Goku, he activated the Ninjutsu of his right black eye.
"Sukunahikona!"
The black rod immediately restored and grew larger, thrusting toward all major vital points of Goku's body.
The ability of the black eye he possessed was very simple: through visual gaze, he could shrink and restore any non-living object.
At the same time, he could also shrink and restore his own body.
It might not seem all that powerful, but combined with his physical fitness and combat experience, it could produce terrifying effects.
Often, enemies had no idea what was happening before they were killed by him.
Just like the black rod he shot out right now—because it was shrunk so small the opponent couldn't see it, it suddenly grew larger upon touching the body, piercing through them before they could even react in time.
"Whoa, that was close! I almost got poked!"
Goku caught several black rods in his hands, wearing a startled expression.
He hadn't noticed the suddenly appearing black rod attack either, so he had almost been pierced through his surface Ki by the black rod.
Fortunately, his reaction was extremely fast; just as the black rods were about to pierce through the Ki on his body surface, he caught all of them in his hands.
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