"—Yuhao. Yuhao!"
"!!?" Huo Yuhao's eyes snapped and gasped, taking a deep breath. He froze.
He can see everything! From the smallest atom drifting in the currents of different colored energy particles; each nucleus glowing like a tiny sun, electrons orbiting in elegant loops and rhythm.
He understood what these are, they were heaven and earth principles.
The laws that made everything and anything within this world work.
Such a mystical observation was the bench mark of reaching the Spirit Domain Realm, yet he was surprised to see he could even peer "deeper" into the laws of heaven and earth.
No, he was seeing beyond the boundaries of "earth" itself! Beyond the fundamental laws that was set for this world.
He saw the clouds not as vapor, but as clusters of geometric formulas vibrating in harmony.
He saw the stars not as distant lights, but as colossal furnaces of law, beating like hearts in the endless dark.
And then...
His sight pushed further.
Past the atmosphere.
Past the starry dome.
Past even the conceptual barriers that separated Planes.
He saw cosmic strings, vast luminous threads stretching across a void that wasn't the Douluo Continent's sky: it was the Solar System!
Huo Yuhao's breath froze in his chest.
Celestial bodies hung before him in impossible clarity, each one alive with their own respective planar laws and cultivation systems.
Magic, Qi, Battle Aura, Bloodline...
'It's so beautiful...' Tears subconsciously rolled down from his pure eyes.
Unbeknownst to him, blood slowly seeped out of his orifices. The information he was gathering was beginning to become too much for his mortal brain to handle.
'No!' Huo Yuhao winced and forcibly shut his eyelids.
He repeatedly took deep breaths, trying to minimize his "gaze". To pull back his sense of sight to remain within the continent, to be just within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
After a few minutes he opened his eyes.Though this time they were dimmer and restrained; tightly compressed as if he were forcing an ocean back into a teacup.
His breath came out ragged.
He could see the minute details of the creation of soul power and spiritual power, melding together as they clung to the environment like invisible dust motes. He witnessed how the energies entered the bodies of the immortal herbs and medicinal plants, nurturing their 'bodies'.
'What's happening? I'm not even using Spiritual Detection, so how did my vision spread... so much? Is this the so-called blessing that Masashi told me about?' Huo Yuhao was amazed and wary of the changes happening to him.
"Yuhao? Yuhao?! What's happening to you?!"
Jianxin was worried and panicked at the changes happening to him; especially the blood trailing down from Yuhao's eyes, nose, and ears.
Her spiritual form flickered violently as she rushed to hold him.
You You and the other immortal herbs exchanged certain 'looks'. Ah Jiao made a very... 'threatening' gesture of moving one of her roots across her stalk.
"I swear, if you immortal herbs had something to do with this...!" Jianxin's eyes turned fiery, the entire space of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well trembled.
"N-No! We had nothing to do with this! I promise!" You You quickly responded. She nudged Ah Jiao to stop, mentally commanding the other immortal herbs to have no funny ideas.
They glanced at the trembling Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
"I-I swear on my life! My essence could only increase spiritual power and probably trigger a second awakening for his martial soul.... c-considering that it's his eyes."
Jianxin narrowed her eyes.
"I'm fine, Jianxin."
"Yuhao?"
Huo Yuhao patted her shoulder gently, his hand steady despite the blood covering his face.
"I'm fine," he repeated, offering her a small, reassuring smile.
Jianxin did not look convinced.
"Fine? You're bleeding from your orifices, Yuhao! That is not what fine looks like!"
"I've had worse," he joked weakly. He grunted and pushed himself upright, swaying just a little. Blood slid down his chin, pattering onto the ground in dark drops. His clothes were a mess now as well, stained dark-red with his blood.
A soft golden glow shimmered beneath his skin.
Very quickly, with the Life Gold, those injuries quietly disappeared.
He clenched his right fist, running a self-diagnosis.
"No physical changes as far as I can tell. My spiritual power has increased drastically, by my estimation it should be above the peak of what is called the Spirit Domain Realm, that's good."
"But what did that Ōtsutsuki Ancestor do to me? Who was he? To call even that Shibai Ōtsutsuki as a brat... could he be the first Ōtsutsuki?" Huo Yuhao muttered, feeling utterly confused.
Unfortunately, he didn't have any more information to go with to know more about the encounter with Masashi Ōtsutsuki.
More importantly, what was this nagging feeling? Huo Yuhao frowned. He felt as though something very important had changed. But what?
"Yuhao! Are you alright?! I was worried that something to you when you and that guy disappeared—holy shit." Skydream materialized beside him in his human form, voice loud and frantic, then abruptly stopped.
His jaw dropped.
He pointed at Yuhao's face with a trembling finger.
"W-Wait. Wait. TIME OUT! Why are your eyes like that?!"
Huo Yuhao blinked. "Like what?"
"Don't 'like what' me, look!" Skydream grabbed his shoulders and shook him. "Your eyes.... your eyes weren't like that before! That's not the Rinnegan, the Mangekyou Sharingan, not even the Sharingan! That...WHAT EVEN IS THAT?!"
Jianxin froze mid-step.
The immortal herbs collectively gasped.
Huo Yuhao stiffened, feeling apprehensive. "What do you mean?"
"Can't you—? Ah screw it. Does anyone have a mirror?"
"Here you go," Star Anise said as he created a large rectangular ice mirror.
"My eyes..." Huo Yuhao turned toward the mirror, and the world seemed to stop.
His breath caught in his throat.
His heart skipped a beat.
Staring back at him from the mirror was a unfamiliar and familiar pair of eyes.
"The Byakugan? How..."
Huo Yuhao furrowed his brows, feeling surprised, shocked, speechless; the mixed emotions he felt was a storm crashing all at once.
His eyes widened in realization.
'Despite how powerful the Sharingan, Mangekyou Sharingan and Rinnegan are. The Ōtsutsuki always have the Byakugan as their main pair of eyes. Could that blessing of his be... bloodline cleansing? My hair and complexion seemed a bit whiter than before.'
'He couldn't have just replaced my eyes either, he wouldn't do something so simple. That means I've... become an Ōtsutsuki? This is so confusing.' Huo Yuhao clicked his tongue, inspecting his body. The sudden change of his eyes brought more than just a new appearance, but more importantly newfound abilities and the likely lost of his old ones.
While the Byakugan does offers reliable abilities, they were simply far inferior compared to the more powerful and diverse abilities the Sharingan, Mangekyou Sharingan, and Rinnegan offer.
There was the opportunity of awakening it to the Tenseigan according to his memories of Sasuke, but he quickly dropped it.
The process of awakening the Tenseigan is confusing if he remembered it right. He needed another pair of Byakugan from the Hyuga Clan...
Which is impossible since they didn't exist here!
'My plans hinged on the abilities of my eyes! How am I supposed to move forward with my plans?! Shit. This—huh?'
He blinked, noticing two slits under his eyes and two more above his eyebrows.
'No. No way...!'
As he stared in disbelief, Skydream and Jianxin met for the first time.
"So you must be Skydream? I hope there's no bad blood between us, since I am part of the Great Beasts of the Star Dou Forest."
"Jianxin, I presume? Well, I didn't see you absorb my essence when I was in captivity, nor can I sense any lingering essence of mine on you. Then yeah, we're cool."
While Huo Yuhao was experiencing an identity crisis, both Jianxin and Skydream had a friendly conversation.
Since they were bound to Huo Yuhao, they should get to know each other as they were going to work together for a long time if Skydream's God plan comes to fruition.
"Ah Jiao, Star Anise. Give me your essences, I have to start reconstructing my physique."
"Human you—ah! What the heck is wrong with your face?!" Ah Jiao screamed. The other immortal herbs went stiff.
Skydream and Jianxin turned towards Huo Yuhao, and froze.
"Kiyaaa!!" Skydream shrieked, voice high-pitched like a little girl.
Jianxin was about to scream as well, but stopped. She turned to Skydream with a strange look.
"Kya?"
"..."
Huo Yuhao snorted, but didn't blame Skydream's reaction. After all, he now has four extra eyes on his face!
He had six eyes.
Two familiar crimson yes sat at the top — Sharingan, gleaming with three tomoe each.
Below them were the new main pair — Byakugan, cold white and all-seeing.
And beneath those—
The right eye glowed black and gold with eight divine spokes — Kokugan.
The left eye shimmered pale-blue, sclera dark and eerie — Jōgan.
And if he were to unravel his Eye of Destiny, he would have seven divine eyes!
Unprecedented in the entire history of the Shinobi world. Even in the Ōtsutsuki Clan it was extremely rare to find someone who has four powerful dōjutsus, five when counting the Eye of Destiny.
He was sure that Musashi must have some sort devious plot for giving him these eyes, but he'll take care of it in the he future.
Huo Yuhao wanted to test the prowess of his new eyes, but he was on a time constraint right now.
'After I undergo the Ice and Fire body refinement, absorb a new soul ring, I'm confident of fighting the Apostle and escaping.'
And after that, he was going to find that path of Godhood.
The Ice God, Sea God Tang San, the Ōtsutsuki Clan...
No matter who they were, for the sake of freedom, his mother, and his loved ones.
Huo Yuhao was going to win.
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AN: According to the movie, and I quote, "the Tenseigan can be acquired when an Ōtsutsuki is implanted with the Byakugan of a Hyūga: this combination of the two clans' chakra transforms the Byakugan into Tenseigan."
Which doesn't really make sense when you think about it!
See y'all next time on—!