Ordinary puppeteers used their own Chakra as support. Because their Chakra was limited, their puppets could not be sent too far away. Mukade, on the other hand, had used the Chakra of the Dragon Vein as support.
Then what was the energy source behind these puppets?
Uchiha Itachi did not know, so he simply drew a question mark on the paper.
Energy source unknown!
Immediately afterward, they saw a scene that shook them to the core. A massive meteor fell from the sky, crossed over the Hidden Leaf Village, and smashed hard into the ground, creating a terrifying explosion cloud.
In the face of nature's power, the abilities of living beings seemed laughable. Perhaps even the Nine-Tails, using a full-power Tailed Beast Ball, would only amount to a casual strike compared to a meteor from beyond the sky.
As the perspective gradually pulled back, the entire Shinobi World appeared before everyone's eyes. To their surprise, the entire Shinobi World was actually a sphere?
No wonder it was called Earth. It really was a ball!
For ninja in the Shinobi World, most of whom generally had the education level of elementary school dropouts, the single fact that the Shinobi World was a sphere was enough to shock everyone.
Even the various Kage had very limited understanding in this regard.
Even though all kinds of modern electrical appliances, movies, railroads, and so on appeared later, their understanding of the Shinobi World itself remained at a very low level.
Or rather, this was itself an unreal world forcibly pieced together.
"So this is what the Shinobi World looks like?"
Tsunade spoke in shock.
"In a place like this, humans really are tiny."
Namikaze Minato sighed.
"Doesn't that mean the stars in the sky are all like this too? If that's true, then crossing the starry sky…"
Hatake Kakashi spoke in shock.
The more they understood, the more terrifying the Otsutsuki Clan seemed.
"Very soon, Earth will be destroyed!"
Along with that voice, a white-haired boy appeared before everyone's eyes. But immediately afterward, a terrifying scene happened. The boy opened his eyes, and everyone discovered that there were no eyes in his sockets at all. They were just dark, empty holes.
Yet he seemed able to see everything around him all the same.
"Otsutsuki Toneri from the moon?"
That thought instantly appeared in everyone's mind. It seemed there was only one possibility.
But no one had expected Otsutsuki Toneri from the moon to have no eyes. He was actually blind.
"So this is why he came to the Shinobi World to seize a pair of Byakugan with enough purity? The Hyuga sisters were both his targets?"
Namikaze Minato rubbed his chin and thought of the most likely answer.
In the earlier video, those masked puppets first captured Hyuga Hanabi, then immediately went after Hyuga Hinata. Clearly, their targets were the two sisters.
It was just that Hyuga Hinata had happened to run into his precious son, Uzumaki Naruto, and was saved by him.
Otherwise, both of them probably would have been taken away by Otsutsuki Toneri.
No wonder the diary had mentioned Hyuga Hanabi's eyes. The result should have been decided at that moment.
The older sister was saved, while the younger sister's eyes were taken?
"His eyes are Hyuga Hanabi's. Was it his body's strength being sufficient, plus Byakugan of enough purity, that allowed them to fuse into the Tenseigan?"
Uchiha Itachi murmured to himself. He knew some things about how the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan evolved, so he had his own views on how the Byakugan evolved into the Tenseigan.
"Because most members of the Hyuga Clan are restricted by the Caged Bird Seal, the number of people he can target is very limited. So in reality, the only ones who could become Otsutsuki Toneri's targets are probably those few members of the Main House." Uchiha Itachi knew the characteristics of the Caged Bird Seal. Once the Byakugan of a Hyuga Branch House member were dug out, or once that member died, the Byakugan would immediately be sealed and destroy themselves.
In other words, once the Byakugan left their original owner, they became useless. Unlike the Sharingan, which was practically plug-and-play.
So that was why Kaede Kitahara said that while the Caged Bird Seal restricted the Hyuga Clan's Branch House, it might also be protecting the Hyuga Clan's Branch House?
From the perspective that the Byakugan could be dug out by others, the Caged Bird Seal did indeed protect the Hyuga Clan's Branch House.
It was just that no one knew what the people of the Hyuga Clan's Branch House thought of such protection.
"So is there a possibility like this? For the Byakugan to go further and possess a so-called second stage or third stage comparable to the Mangekyo Sharingan, does it require an even stronger body? And after arriving in the Shinobi World, did the Hyuga Clan undergo some unknowable degeneration, completely losing the ability to awaken the second stage or third stage?"
Uchiha Itachi made his deduction in his mind.
"Since they may be remnants of the original Otsutsuki Main House, the number of remnants couldn't have been large. There may only have been a few, or perhaps a dozen at most. If there were too many, it would have been hard to escape pursuit. Did they come to the Shinobi World and intermarry with ordinary people, causing their bloodline to degenerate?"
Uchiha Itachi immediately found himself a good piece of reasoning. This could also explain why the Hyuga Clan was so obsessed with internal marriage.
Perhaps it was because they had noticed the degeneration of their own bloodline. They had fallen all the way from a so-called god clan to a first-rate noble clan in the Shinobi World, far beneath what they had been at their peak.
So in order to slow the process of bloodline degeneration, they had no choice but to maintain the system of internal marriage.
This was actually present within every major ninja clan as well. They all encouraged clan members without direct blood relations to marry each other. They simply did not forbid marriage with outsiders.
And the purpose was also to ensure the purity of the bloodline and increase the chance of awakening a Kekkei Genkai.
For example, in the Uchiha Clan, if both parents had awakened the Sharingan, then the child's chance of awakening the Sharingan would be very high. If only one parent had awakened the Sharingan, then that chance would be greatly reduced.
If neither parent had awakened it, the chance of the child awakening it would be very low.
As for someone like Kaede Kitahara, whose ancestor from some generation long ago might have merely been a member of the Uchiha Clan, someone whose surname had even been changed, yet who still awakened the Sharingan, that could be called unheard of.
As far as Itachi knew, Kaede Kitahara was the only such case.
"Now everything can be explained. Is the Hyuga Clan unable to awaken the second stage of the Byakugan because their bloodline has become too mixed? If so, then the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon should have a very pure bloodline and no such problem. But why would they also need the Byakugan of the Hyuga Clan from the Shinobi World?
"Is it because completing the evolution of the Tenseigan itself requires fusing with the Byakugan of a distant branch?"
Uchiha Itachi frowned. If they followed that line of reasoning, was that not the complete opposite of the Mangekyo Sharingan's requirement to fuse with a close relative's eyes?