Ye took a deep breath and continued to drop a bombshell.
“Simply put, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya is an alien. She came here and planted a divine tree.”
“The divine tree’s mission is to drain the energy of the entire world and bear a Chakra fruit.”
“Later, Kaguya ate the fruit and became the first person in the Ninja World to possess Chakra, becoming known as the Rabbit Goddess.”
“She gave birth to two sons. The eldest son is called Otsutsuki Hagoromo, and the youngest son is called Otsutsuki Hamura.”
“After the two sons grew up, they found their biological mother’s methods too cruel, so they simply joined forces to seal their own mother away!”
“The eldest son, Hagoromo, stayed behind to found Ninshu, while the youngest son, Hamura, went off to guard the seal.”
Hearing this, Tsunade directly raised her hand to interrupt.
“Wait! The one who founded Ninshu is clearly the Six Paths Sage! Where on earth did this messy Ōtsutsuki of yours pop out from?”
“The Six Paths Sage is just a myth and legend anyway. Do you take me for a three-year-old child?”
The way Tsunade looked at Ye right now was just like looking at a psychiatric patient.
“No need to rush.” Ye waved his hand.
“The true name of the Six Paths Sage is none other than Otsutsuki Hagoromo! Don’t refute me just yet; once you listen to what happens next, you will understand everything.”
“Otsutsuki Hagoromo also had two sons. The eldest son is called Indra, and the youngest son is called Ashura.”
“Indra inherited his old man’s power of Yin Release and naturally awakened the Sage’s Eye, which is also the source of the Sharingan! He even invented hand seals to release Ninjutsu.”
“The youngest son, Ashura, inherited the power of Yang Release and awakened the Sage Body. He didn’t invent much; he just had a good temper and liked making friends.”
“Later, before the Six Paths Sage died, he passed Ninshu down to his youngest son, Ashura. At this, the eldest son Indra wouldn’t have it!”
“Why didn’t you pass it to me when I am stronger? Thus, the two brothers directly fell out and began a slaughter that lasted for a thousand years!”
“The more people fighting on both sides, the larger it grew, eventually dragging the entire Ninja World into it and ushering in the long Sengoku era.”
“The bloodlines of Indra and Ashura were passed down from generation to generation, eventually evolving into the Uchiha and Senju respectively. And the original Sage’s Power slowly degenerated into the current Sharingan and Sage Body.”
“In other words, tracing back to the roots, our two clans actually share the same ancestor!”
Ye finished speaking in one breath, leaving time for Tsunade to slowly digest it.
Taking advantage of Tsunade’s momentary daze, Ye stared intently at the small slug crawling on Tsunade’s shoulder, his two tomoe Sharingan spinning rapidly.
Dropping such a shocking bombshell here, besides fooling Tsunade, he had an even more important purpose: to test the Slug Sage!
In the original work, the Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku was an old monster that had lived for over a thousand years, and even participated in the Six Paths Sage brothers sealing their own mother.
As long as this old immortal could be tricked out to act as an assist, winning Tsunade over would be as easy as flipping one’s hand.
However, Ye stared with his widened Sharingan for a long time, but aside from twisting its soft body a couple of times, the small slug didn’t make a peep.
Could it be that the medicine administered wasn’t fierce enough?
“Impossible! Absolutely impossible!”
Tsunade abruptly stood up, her eyes flush red, and her voice trembling.
“How could the Senju and Uchiha share an ancestor? And be the spawn of aliens?”
“Just because the two ancestors didn’t get along in temperament, the two clans slaughtered each other for hundreds of years?”
“I don’t believe it! I absolutely don’t believe this is true!”
Tsunade’s face flushed red as she roared at the top of her lungs.
The family faith she had upheld for over a decade was facing the brink of collapse at this moment.
Looking at Tsunade who was on the verge of collapse, Ye was just about to strike while the iron was hot and add fuel to the fire.
Suddenly!
The surrounding environment trembled violently without any warning!
The originally damp ground beneath their feet began to wriggle frantically.
“What is going on?!”
Awakening from this sudden turn of events, Tsunade temporarily suppressed the collapse in her heart and vigilantly looked around.
Ye also turned his head sharply, his two tomoe shrinking abruptly as an unconcealable shock surfaced on his face.
At the end of his vision, dense, mountains-and-plains full of small slugs converged and blended like ocean waves.
In just two or three minutes, a colossal, super-giant slug so massive it blotted out the sky and had no end in sight stood towering before the two of them like a mountain of flesh!
This was the true master of Shikkotsu Forest, the complete form of the Slug Sage!
In Naruto’s setting, there was actually only one slug in the entire Shikkotsu Forest.
What Tsunade usually summoned was merely a drop in the bucket among its endless split bodies.
When all the split bodies fused into one, it was the moment this ancient existence truly awakened!
“Little Tsunade, everything he just said is true.”
As soon as the voice fell, a viscous, warm, transparent liquid surged out from the ground without warning, instantly enveloping Ye and Tsunade inside.
Before the two could even react, their bodies were directly teleported by this power to the top of the Slug Sage’s head, hundreds of meters high.
The moment the mucus enveloped them, it tightly clung to Tsunade’s body, outlining her proud figure down to the finest detail.
Although it was only for an instant, Ye still feasted his eyes and secretly enjoyed it.
“Slug? Why did you get so big?”
Tsunade widened her beautiful eyes, looking in disbelief at the skin as wide as a public square beneath her feet.
“Little Tsunade, I am the Slug Sage. Usually, I am dormant; what you have seen is merely a wisp of split consciousness.”
The older-sister voice sounded once more, brimming with the vicissitudes of years.
It worked!
Ye was ecstatic inside; the old immortal was finally tricked out!
Before Ye could speak, the Slug Sage’s voice turned to him once again.
“Brat of the Uchiha family. How do you know the details of the Ōtsutsuki Clan?”
“Did they really descend just to drain the planet’s origin? Can you tell me in detail?”
The tone unexpectedly carried a hint of urgency and thirst for knowledge.
Ye’s eyeballs rolled, and he spoke right off the cuff.
“Slug Sage, it seems you have also mastered quite a few secrets from a thousand years ago.”
“Why don’t you pick what you know to talk about first, and then I will answer based on your doubts. Let’s compare notes!”
“Very well. I will first tell you about the past that I know, letting you recognize the truth of this world.”
The Slug Sage had a surprisingly good temper; not only did she not get angry, but she agreed very readily.
Indeed, the gentle personality of the clone originated precisely from the main body.
This sage who had lived for a thousand years was not some fierce and malicious entity.
“Back then, after Ōtsutsuki Kaguya ate the fruit of the divine tree, she indeed relied on absolute power to forcibly suppress all wars.”
The Slug Sage’s voice carried a hint of reminiscent solemnity.
“But later on, she turned all humans in the world into white cocoons, hanging them on the divine tree, intending to drain them dry and bear another fruit.”
“The divine tree taking root had already drained half of the earth’s vitality. With her doing this, the entire world instantly became lifeless, filled everywhere with natural and man-made disasters, plunging the living into misery…”