Chapter 10: Isshiki's Gift and Kiyoshi's Transformation
Not knowing how long had passed, Kaguya Sugito and Kaguya Nobuya, who had been knocked unconscious by Isshiki at the village entrance, slowly woke up. The two looked at each other and showed bitter smiles. They struggled to get up, pulled out the black rods inserted into their bodies, and supported each other as they walked towards the place where the battle had occurred.
"Who exactly was that monk? He was able to defeat both of us instantly!" Sugito asked.
The two, shallow and arrogant, had no idea how powerful truly strong individuals could be. Under Kaguya Musashi's leadership, the Kaguya clan was becoming increasingly mindless and arrogant.
The two usually showed no respect when they saw the Mizukage, and even dared to think about challenging the Mizukage. Not understanding Isshiki's abilities, the two couldn't imagine where in the ninja world someone with such strength could exist.
Arriving at the location of Genji and Jigen's battle, they looked at the ground covered in white bones and bone fragments. The two recognized their clan's Kekkei Genkai and knew it was Genji's ability.
Continuing towards the location of the second battle, they looked at the bone bullets scattered everywhere and the three piles of ashes left on the ground. This time, the two couldn't identify anything. After all, they hadn't awakened their Kekkei Genkai and didn't understand the Ash Bones Technique, which could be said to be the ultimate move among the Shikotsumyaku abilities.
Why were there three piles of ashes? It turned out that when Kiyoshi left, he took a portion of the ashes from Isshiki's remains and created the illusion that he had also died due to the Ash Bones Technique, hoping to deceive Kaguya Musashi, who also possessed the Shikotsumyaku, so that he would no longer pursue him.
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On the other side, Kiyoshi, who had already gone far away, was slowly feeling the changes in himself.
As Isshiki Otsutsuki, who could be said to be a boss-level existence, his first kill was a huge drop. Genji had returned to the Pure Land, so all the "gold coins" dropped belonged to Kiyoshi.
Life is like this; every path is filled with flowers and thorns. After the thorns, flowers should follow. For Kiyoshi, it was truly the end of hardship and the beginning of happiness.
Isshiki's death caused the "Karma" seal that Isshiki had just carved on Kiyoshi to disappear. However, the information of Isshiki Otsutsuki, which had been unfrozen and dissolved, still remained in Kiyoshi's body and had been mostly unfrozen, but without Isshiki's consciousness, powerful Chakra, and strength.
The "Karma" that had lost Isshiki's control was the most perfect nourishment for Kiyoshi. And the mostly unfrozen information from Isshiki contained various secret knowledge of the ninja world over the past thousand years and all of Isshiki's memories after arriving on the planet where the ninja world was located. This memory and knowledge could be said to be the best gift for Kiyoshi, who was isolated in a remote corner.
For Kiyoshi, as a descendant of Hamura Otsutsuki, the direction of bloodline awakening and evolution was Kaguya Otsutsuki. Kiyoshi's bloodline had already shown initial atavism and possessed some of the characteristics of the Otsutsuki. Therefore, the purely ownerless "Karma" was like a perfect panacea for Kiyoshi. Everything about Isshiki was being slowly devoured and digested by Kiyoshi, merging into his bloodline.
Kiyoshi walked aimlessly. He had never strayed far from the exiled village. The farthest place he had been was only the lake near the village.
Kiyoshi, who had absorbed Isshiki's memories, was annoyed to discover that Jigen, or rather Isshiki, had never visited the borderlands of the Land of Water in the past thousand years.
Therefore, an awkward situation arose: Kiyoshi was lost.
Helpless, Kiyoshi could only choose a direction and keep walking forward. Along the way, he casually dealt with several wild beasts that wanted to eat him. He kept one of them, a giant bear, as food.
Because he had left in too much of a hurry, Kiyoshi hadn't taken the storage scroll that Genji had left behind. Therefore, Kiyoshi could only draw out his spine and transform it into a long bone whip, dragging the giant bear forward.
Shocking! The dignified Kekkei Genkai, Shikotsumyaku, was actually used to carry food!
The "Karma" devoured by the bloodline was constantly and imperceptibly improving everything about Kiyoshi. According to the current progress, Kiyoshi could feel that it would take about five years for him to completely digest the gift left by Isshiki.
Soon, three days passed, and Kiyoshi's body had also healed. Along with the recovery of his injuries, Kiyoshi's body sent hunger signals.
During the recovery period, his body had also wisely postponed the time to replenish energy. Now that his body was normal, the evolution of his bloodline required a large amount of energy, and the signals from his body kept urging Kiyoshi to eat.
Finding a cave, Kiyoshi tidied it up simply and built a makeshift stove with branches. He dragged the giant bear over, drew out a bone blade from his body, completely dismembered the remaining parts of the giant bear, and placed them on the rack he had built above the stove. He circulated his Chakra, and a flame appeared in the palm of his hand. After lighting the stove, he began to cook the bear meat.
After the awakening of the Otsutsuki bloodline, one naturally possessed the seven attributes of wind, lightning, water, fire, earth, yin, and yang. Although Kiyoshi hadn't learned Fire Release, his talent was there, and he could still manage to manipulate Chakra to transform it into flames.
ps: Nagato's seven attributes were subtly caused by Madara Uchiha transplanting the Rinnegan when he was young.
Kiyoshi quickly ate his fill. Most of the remaining bear meat went into Kiyoshi's stomach, transforming into resources for Kiyoshi to improve his strength. It could only be said that it was a good bear!
Inside the cave, Kiyoshi sat cross-legged on the ground, the Chakra within his body constantly circulating according to a familiar route. During the Chakra flow, Kiyoshi also continuously compressed his Chakra according to the methods he had obtained from Isshiki's memories, making the quality of his Chakra even higher.