Encountering a God-Level Being

A red portal suddenly appeared and Ryosuke stepped out of it.

"This place is okay."

Ryosuke looked around and felt that it was about right.

He had just used Yomotsu Hirasaka to travel to several different places, but they were either too small or had terrible environments.

But this one seemed to be a planet.

Although the surrounding land was barren, once Ryosuke used his Kagura Mind Eye, he discovered forests and oceans in other parts of this planet.

There was no one on this planet.

That is, there were no intelligent creatures like humans. Only animals—massive ones, almost dinosaur-like were present.

"Let's take a look at the power of the Twelve Tomoe Rinnegan first." Ryosuke muttered to himself.

In an instant—

He opened his eyes, and a red light flashed. An astonishing pupil power surged forth.

"Shinra Tensei!"

Ryosuke raised his hand, and with a loud bang, everything around him was instantly obliterated.

The destruction spread rapidly, covering the entire wasteland nearby before blasting apart the distant forest and lake.

After a moment—

Ryosuke withdrew his hand, floating into the air as he observed the ruined ground below.

"The smallest-scale Shinra Tensei already has a radius of over a thousand kilometers."

He studied the devastation and muttered to himself.

"Now, let's test large-scale Shinra Tensei and Super Shinra Tensei."

Just as his voice fell—

Boom!

Ryosuke suddenly turned his head to the left.

"There."

Whoosh!

In the next second, he vanished into thin air.

One second later, thousands of kilometers away—

Ryosuke reappeared, gazing at an open white portal in the distance.

"Huh? I didn't expect to find someone on such a barren planet."

The three figures stepping out of the portal all turned to look at him.

"The Ōtsutsuki clan."

Ryosuke's eyes narrowed slightly.

The next moment—

Boom!

A burly Ōtsutsuki suddenly appeared behind him, throwing a punch.

"Mortal, die!"

A cold glint flashed in the burly Ōtsutsuki's eyes.

But in the next second, he realized that his fist had been caught.

"Too weak."

Ryosuke shook his head.

Crack!

With ease, he twisted off the burly Ōtsutsuki's arm.

"Ahhh!!!"

The Ōtsutsuki screamed, but before he could react, Ryosuke dug out his pair of blue Rinnegans.

"I'll be taking these."

After saying that, Ryosuke casually waved his hand.

Boom!

The burly Ōtsutsuki was instantly blasted apart, turning into a mist of blood in mid-air.

Ryosuke stored the Rinnegans and the severed arm.

The Rinnegan was sealed inside a jar and placed into the storage space in his palm.

The severed arm, however, was tossed into the system's biological pheromone warehouse—for later talent entry transformation.

Speaking of which, today, four talent entries should be finished upgrading.

Tsk tsk~!

Looked like it is Ryosuke's lucky day.

After a moment, he lifted his head and locked eyes with the two remaining Ōtsutsuki.

The entire battle had lasted only two or three seconds. The other two Ōtsutsukis clearly hadn't expected him to be so strong.

In just one exchange, he had effortlessly crushed their comrade.

"Heshiki, kill him."

The long-haired Ōtsutsuki in the lead ordered the one beside him.

Hearing the order, Ōtsutsuki Heshiki nodded.

In the next second, he disappeared from sight—reappearing above Ryosuke.

"Karma Seal, Unseal!"

Heshiki shouted, and white patterns appeared across his body.

Then, he threw a punch at Ryosuke—one powerful enough to put any ordinary Six Paths-level powerhouse to sleep.

This Ōtsutsuki Heshiki, after using Karma Seal, had reached the peak of the Six Paths level.

"Shinra Tensei!"

Ryosuke raised his hand.

With a boom, Heshiki was instantly repelled. The clash of forces nearly tore apart the surrounding space.

"Beyond the Nine Tomoe Rinnegan, huh?"

In the distance, the long-haired Ōtsutsuki observed coldly.

But in the next second—

His eyes widened.

"Bansho Ten'in!"

Puff~!

With a mere gesture, Ryosuke pulled Ōtsutsuki Heshiki toward him and appeared right before him.

His arms vanished like a ghost—before gouging out his eyes.

"Not god-level. Just an ant."

Ryosuke grabbed Heshiki's head.

Heshiki rained punches on him, but they had no effect.

At some point, Ryosuke's attire had changed into the Robe of God.

This "Robe of God" was the name he had given to his Godly Rinnegan's materialized form. It had no official name.

And as long as he wore this robe—any attack below the god level was completely ineffective against him.

Therefore, no matter how desperately Heshiki attacked, it was meaningless.

The next second!

Crack!

Ryosuke crushed Heshiki's head.

Of course, he had already extracted a sample of Heshiki's biological pheromones into the system's storage beforehand.

After all, this guy was a peak Six Paths-level entity.

The talent entries he could generate should be similar to those from the last Ōtsutsuki.

There was no way he was passing that up.

Boom!

A burst of energy surged into Heshiki's body, instantly obliterating him.

Ryosuke clapped his hands, then turned his gaze indifferently toward the last remaining Ōtsutsuki.

This one… was strong.

Ryosuke could sense an overwhelming power emanating from him.

This power—

Even exceeded Ryosuke's own, under normal conditions.

"The power of a god."

"A god-level powerhouse from the Ōtsutsuki clan?"

"I didn't expect to meet one so soon."

Ryosuke murmured.

Then, the corners of his mouth curled into a grin.

Very good!

He had long been looking forward to a battle with other god-level powerhouses.

"Outlander, how did you get your eyes?"

Zero stared at Ryosuke indifferently, as if he didn't care about the death of his two fellow clansmen.

The Ōtsutsuki clan was truly indifferent.

But that was also because of how long they had lived.

The Ōtsutsuki clan was practically immortal.

Because they had existed for so long, many of their emotions seemed to have disappeared.

Whether it was outsiders or their own clan members, they felt nothing.

They considered themselves a divine race, while viewing all other intelligent beings as ants.

Even the death of their own kind didn't faze them. They simply saw the weak as unworthy of survival.

Ryosuke wasn't surprised. This was just how the Ōtsutsuki were.

If every member of the clan had been as sentimental as Kaguya, they likely wouldn't have remained the dominant force in the universe for so long.

"Of course, I obtained them naturally. What else?" Ryosuke smirked and said.

"Lies!"

Zero's gaze sharpened.

"Rinnegan is a power that only the blood of the Ōtsutsuki clan can awaken. You, a mere foreigner, have no right to possess it."

"Judging by your actions just now, you must have stolen those eyes from my kin, didn't you?"

He was clearly referring to Ryosuke's casual act of plucking Heshiki's Rinnegan.

But that was really just something Ryosuke had done on a whim.

The last time he had met an Ōtsutsuki, he hadn't even bothered taking their Nine Tomoe Rinnegan.

Of course, that time, he had been in a playful mood.

This time, however, the difference in strength was so vast that he barely felt anything when crushing the two Ōtsutsuki.

So he took their Rinnegans on impulse. Maybe it was because of Obito.

After all, he had just plucked out Nagato's eyes not long ago.

Seeing the Ōtsutsuki's Rinnegan, Ryosuke couldn't help but be reminded of that moment…

And then he simply took them.

"You can think whatever you want. That's your freedom."

Ryosuke shrugged indifferently.

His attitude irritated Zero, who had grown used to being worshipped.

He could see that Ryosuke was stronger than most of his clan but he had yet to reach the god level.

A mere quasi-god!

How dare he act so arrogantly before him?

If most Ōtsutsuki saw non-Ōtsutsuki beings as insects, Zero saw even his fellow non-god-level Ōtsutsuki as lesser beings.

In his eyes, only those who had reached godhood were worthy of standing on equal ground with him.

"Mortal, your arrogance will be your downfall." Zero's voice was chilling.

The next moment—

A golden light flickered in his eyes.

His Rinnegan, once blue, turned into a pair of golden orbs, each adorned with eighteen tomoe.

Godly Rinnegan!

Nine tomoe was the limit of a normal Rinnegan but eighteen tomoe was the threshold of a Godly Rinnegan.

At this moment, Zero clenched his fist.

Crack!

The space around Ryosuke shattered.

Countless fragments of space condensed into a massive hand, clamping down on Ryosuke.

"To defy a god… There is a price to pay." Zero declared.

But just then—

"Karma seal, unseal!"

95% of the Karma seal's power was released.

There was no brutal transformation.

Instead, elegant marka surfaced across Ryosuke's body, enhancing his already commanding presence.

The Ōtsutsuki gained horns and bone protrusions when unlocking their full power.

But Ryosuke's transformation only made him look more majestic, and divine.

Boom!

A terrifying force erupted from his body.

In an instant, Zero's power was shattered.

Unsealing just 95% of the Karma seal's power had allowed Ryosuke to transcend the Six Paths level and step into true godhood.

And this was still not his full power.

But it was enough to shake Zero to his core.

"The Power of a God!!!"

Zero's golden Rinnegan trembled with disbelief.

Aside from his two ancestors, he had never encountered another true god-level being.

Yet here stood one before him.

And he wasn't even an Ōtsutsuki!

Impossible!!!

Zero refused to accept reality.

In his eyes, all non-Ōtsutsuki races were inferior. They had no right to possess divine power.

But now, the scene before him shattered everything he believed.

"Impossible! This is impossible!!"

Zero roared.

"You cannot have divine power!"

"And…"

And this divine power was stronger than his!

Aside from the Supreme Ancestor, whom he had never met, the strength of this foreigner's divine power was nearly on par with his other ancestor.

No—

It was even greater.

Zero knew that within the god level, there were three distinct tiers.

Beginner god—The weakest stage of divinity.

This was where he stood, having reached the pinnacle of this tier, and just on the verge of advancing.

Peak god—The ultimate limit for most divine beings, and a near-impossible threshold to surpass.

This was his ancestor's level. The strength he had long pursued.

Then, finally!

Invincible god—A realm where no other god could be a match.

The true pinnacle of the universe.

The Supreme Ancestor of the Otsutsuki clan was rumored to have reached this level.

And it was the foundation of the Ōtsutsuki clan's rule over the cosmos.

Yet now—

This outlander before him…

Was he already there?!