Ōtsutsuki Ken's [Clan Plunder] eye technique devoured Elder Natsushiki's body in an instant.
But in the very next moment, Ken's face twisted with fury.
Natsushiki's most important treasure, his nine tomoe golden Rinnegan, had been stolen.
Brook had slipped nimbly into the Kamui dimension, grabbed Natsushiki's distorted head, and extracted his nine tomoe golden Rinnegan, his high purity Byakugan, and his special eye. Then he fused them all into his own eyes.
The time limit for their forced advancement arrived.
Both Brook and Ken left the white Rinnegan state and returned to the form of three nine tomoe golden Rinnegan.
Then, almost at the same time, both of them began frantically devouring Natsushiki's power.
But...
Not enough.
It still was not enough.
In the end, neither of them truly advanced into the godlike state of the white Rinnegan.
However, Ken was now slightly stronger than Brook, because Natsushiki had absorbed a massive portion of the Ōtsutsuki clan's power into his body before being devoured.
Brook, on the other hand, had gained Natsushiki's powerful eye techniques, giving him a greater advantage in terms of skill and versatility.
To close the gap, Brook also devoured every Ōtsutsuki elite he had captured in the ruins of the Northern Underworld. This greatly strengthened his [Yomotsu Hirasaka] and gave him many new special eye techniques.
Because of this, Brook even kept ten golden Rinnegan with no tomoe or three tomoe and transplanted them onto his arm.
Ken could see into Brook's Kamui dimension, but he did not attack immediately. Instead, relying on his advantage as an Ōtsutsuki elder, he rushed straight toward the Ōtsutsuki treasury, intending to empty it along with the hidden stores of the other elders.
However, Brook possessed the memories of two elders. How could he possibly let those resources go?
The two fought while madly competing for everything the Ōtsutsuki clan owned.
"Outsider, I will definitely kill you!"
Ken had never imagined that Brook would be so familiar with the Ōtsutsuki territory, or that he would dare steal what rightfully belonged to him.
This bastard could devour others, perfectly seize their chakra and eye techniques, and even read their memories.
That was far more terrifying than Kenshiki's [Clan Plunder].
"Someone else told me that before," Brook said casually. "He's dead now."
At this point, apart from Ken's overwhelming chakra reserves, his eye techniques were no longer much of a threat to Brook.
This was a classic case of an eye technique talent that was powerful at home, but weak outside.
However, Ken's divine arts were still terrifying. In a direct head-on clash, Brook was indeed no match for this ruthless man who had slaughtered his own clan.
After plundering the treasuries of two elders, Brook immediately vanished into the void and stopped fighting Ken over the Ōtsutsuki clan's main treasury.
Because so many Ōtsutsuki had died just now, the area around the Origin Star was filled with countless alternate dimensions.
Earlier, Brook had obtained a [Spatial Fusion] eye technique from one of the Ōtsutsuki elites he devoured.
Now, with so many Ōtsutsuki elites absorbed, Brook's [Yomotsu Hirasaka] had been greatly enhanced. He began using his terrifying spatial power to plunder and merge these alternate spaces like a madman.
One by one, those spaces fused into a small world.
To create a microcosm within his eye, Brook engraved this eye technique directly into the nine tomoe golden Rinnegan on his forehead.
As hundreds of alternate dimensions merged, they were finally incorporated into the origin space within Brook's [Amenominaka].
He also connected [Benzaiten] and [Kichijoten] to that origin space, finally giving himself a true miniature world.
Brook threw the countless personal fortunes of the Ōtsutsuki clan into [Benzaiten] and [Kichijoten]. The wealth he gained was in no way inferior to the treasure vault of the Ōtsutsuki Origin Star.
By the time Ken noticed what was happening and understood it, Brook had already evacuated the Origin Star with countless riches and returned to the Monster Planet through [Yomotsu Hirasaka].
Ken remained behind, cursing Brook endlessly.
But he did not pursue him.
Instead, he immediately began absorbing the chakra fruits and elixirs accumulated by the Ōtsutsuki clan over the years.
Then, in his capacity as an elder of the Ōtsutsuki clan, he sent an urgent recall order to every clansman planting Divine Trees across the universe.
He ordered all Ōtsutsuki to bring back their Ten-Tails Divine Trees and half-ripe fruits and return to the Origin Star immediately.
Many Ōtsutsuki clansmen, unaware of what had happened, could only obey. Even if their Chakra Fruits still needed nine hundred years to mature, they had no choice but to pick them and hurry back to the clan territory.
Some Divine Trees that had only recently been planted, or had not yet borne fruit, were also forced back into their Ten-Tails form and taken back to the Origin Star.
At this moment, Ken and Brook seemed to have entered a pure contest of strength.
Both were using every possible method to become stronger than the other.
In the days that followed, both of them devoured madly to increase their power.
Those Ōtsutsuki clansmen who returned to the Origin Star were devoured by Ken if they refused to submit.
A large number of half-ripe Chakra Fruits and Ten-Tails Divine Trees were also devoured by him.
He exhausted the accumulated resources of the entire Ōtsutsuki clan and finally pushed the nine tomoe golden Rinnegan on his forehead into its original form.
A white Rinnegan without tomoe.
"Hahaha! I've finally become a god!"
Ken' let out a long howl that shook the entire Ōtsutsuki territory.
In that once glorious land, only a few dozen Ōtsutsuki clansmen remained, trembling in fear.
The Ōtsutsuki clan, which had once dominated the universe, had gone from supreme prosperity to near extinction in only a few short years.
Although they had produced an Ōtsutsuki god, it had come at the cost of exhausting nearly all of the clan's resources.
The entire Ōtsutsuki territory had become desolate and empty.
At that moment, Ken could no longer wait to kill that bastard Brook.
Not long after Shibai Ōtsutsuki entered the white Rinnegan state, his soul ascended and left this world, leaving only his body behind.
But Ken's was different.
He wanted to kill Brook first.
After that, he would spend another few hundred years trying to advance into the three tomoe white Rinnegan and ascend to the higher realm.
Meanwhile, Brook had absorbed all the personal wealth hidden inside those alternate dimensions, but he still failed to advance into the white Rinnegan.
This made him extremely anxious.
But to everyone's surprise, Brook, whose spatial abilities had greatly improved, actually detected a hidden alternate dimension on the primitive planet.
After forcing the alternate dimension open with great difficulty, he discovered the remains of a god-level beast inside.
After further investigation, he realized that it was the battle beast of Hirasaka, the god of the Northern Underworld.
Its name was Nue.
Only then did Brook understand why the monsters on this planet had become so powerful.
It turned out that this severely wounded divine beast had left behind traces of its bloodline and essence on the planet, helping the native monsters evolve.
In the end, knowing its time was running out, it sealed itself inside an alternate dimension to avoid being discovered by the Ōtsutsuki clan.
There, hidden from the world, it had quietly accepted death.
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Whatever its history had been, Brook devoured the corpse of the mythical beast the moment he obtained it.
After a period of digestion, his nine tomoe golden Rinnegan finally completed its transformation and became a white Rinnegan.
The instant he stepped into the realm of a newborn god, the Power of the Four Gods within him advanced once more and transformed into the Power of the Five Gods.
The power of the Ōtsutsuki God and the four Underworld Gods fused perfectly into Brook's transmigrator soul.
After gaining the power of a god, Brook casually integrated the divine beast's alternate dimension into his own small universe.
At that moment, he even felt as if he could fit the entire planet into that little universe.
Unfortunately, there was no sun inside his current cosmos.
Unless Brook was willing to use the eye technique [Never Setting Sun] to continuously create a small sun for it, his divine eye could not truly contain a complete living world.
"You're too late, you bastard! Prepare to die!"
Suddenly, Ōtsutsuki Ken's voice echoed across the entire planet as he launched a sneak attack on Brook.
From the moment his divine eye was born, he had gained the ability to rewind and review everything that had happened in the universe afterward.
If that white Rinnegan could see events from before its birth, Kenshiki would have gone straight to the Naruto planet and killed everyone Brook knew.
He had spent a huge amount of chakra to locate Brook. The moment he saw Brook absorbing the corpse of a divine beast, he attacked without hesitation.
"I didn't expect you to advance too."
Brook blocked Kenshiki's attack with a backhand strike.
He had not even had time to familiarize himself with the full abilities of the divine eye, yet his enemy had already come knocking.
If he had advanced even a little later, Kenshiki might really have killed him.
That divine beast dimension would never have withstood Kenshiki's attacks.
But now, they were standing on the same starting line again.
Kenshiki glared at the white Rinnegan on Brook's forehead. He had used his ability to locate Brook as soon as possible, yet in the short time it took him to arrive, Brook had already completed his advancement.
It was infuriating.
Was this fate?
Was the world mocking him?
Those resources should have been enough for Brook to advance to the white Rinnegan, but originally, all of them should have belonged to Ken.
If he had obtained those resources, he would not have needed to devour so many of his own clansmen and drive the Ōtsutsuki clan to its current decline.
"There can only be one god in this universe. Die, old man!"
Taking advantage of Brook's recent advancement and unfamiliarity with the divine eye, Kenshiki launched a ferocious offensive.
He had once witnessed some of Ōtsutsuki Shibai's divine techniques and methods, so he was far more skilled than Brook in using this level of power.
Elemental attacks and metal weapons materialized from nothing, raining down on Brook in a storm.
"So this is how divine power is used."
Brook learned quickly from his opponent, and then surpassed him just as quickly. He combined all kinds of creation abilities, refining them into attacks even more intricate than Ken's.
The terrifying clash of energy and weapons shook the entire primordial planet.
Earthquakes tore through the land. Volcanoes erupted one after another. Countless primordial mythical beasts wailed in agony or died in the aftermath of the battle.
Ken grew even more furious and jealous.
Brook was improving too quickly.
He summoned weapon after weapon and attacked Brook relentlessly, his eyes locked onto every weakness he could find.
"Is this all you have?"
After fighting Ken for a long time, Brook finally realized that this old monster was not as terrifying as he had imagined.
His attack patterns were beginning to grow monotonous.
In the past, Ken had probably relied on overwhelming enemies with superior power.
But now, against an opponent on the same level, his flaws were gradually being exposed.
[Five Divine Aspects!]
Brook unleashed his newest technique.
It was no longer just the four avatars of the Underworld Gods. A fifth giant divine avatar appeared as well, and that figure was Brook himself.
[Dominion Over All!]
The moment Brook summoned the giant divine forms and revealed his contempt, Ken finally unleashed his strongest move after pretending to falter.
Brook's consciousness and body were split apart for an instant.
At that same moment, Ken pulled out his long-hidden, damaged divine weapon.
The Ōtsutsuki Divine Spear.
This was the weapon of the first Ōtsutsuki God. Ōtsutsuki Shibai had once repaired it, but when his soul ascended, he had been unable to take it with him.
Ken thrust the divine spear straight toward Brook's heart.
He knew the weakness of Brook's rune shield was there.
But in the next instant, time froze.
The divine avatars kicked Ken away at once.
Brook's consciousness immediately returned to his body.
"You tried to bait me? Tried to kill me with an eye technique?" Brook sneered. "Your acting still needs work."
Brook possessed far too many eye techniques. How could a few of Ken's tricks be enough to kill him?
He had merely been testing Kenshiki's trump cards.
And now, he had finally forced out a damaged divine artifact that was still threatening.
"Damn you!"
After being brutally beaten, Ken erupted with immense power and destroyed the Five Divine Aspects.
"Outsider! If we keep fighting like this, even destroying this planet will be meaningless!"
"From now on, we go our separate ways and develop our own paths!"
"Do not attack my people, and I will not harm yours."
Seeing that he could not gain any advantage, Ken's attitude changed.
At this point, he only wanted to find a way to nurture his three tomoe white Rinnegan over the next thousand years and then ascend to the higher realm.
If Brook insisted on fighting him to the bitter end, he would have no choice but to leave.
At worst, he would devour the remaining Ōtsutsuki clansmen, find a way to kill all of Brook's relatives, destroy Brook's home planet, and ascend to the upper realm immediately.
Although he did not know where Brook's relatives and clansmen were, as long as Brook returned, Ken's divine eyes would learn their whereabouts.
"No, no, no."
Brook smiled.
"You don't really think this is all my power, do you?"
The moment Ken heard those words, he became alert. Without another word, he opened a [Yomotsu Hirasaka] passage and prepared to leave this world.
After all, this place was clearly part of the outsider's setup. Who knew what traps or hidden cards Brook had prepared?
Brook smiled and made no attempt to stop Ken from entering the passage.
Because his real trump card was waiting in the ruins of the Northern Underworld.
After returning to that familiar, dark, and ominous space, Ken suddenly discovered that his [Yomotsu Hirasaka] passage could no longer be opened.
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