As a transmigrator, Izayoi's narrative layer was much higher, at least higher than anyone on this planet.
A thousand years had passed, and many people believed that the Sage of the Six Paths and the Ninja Sect were just figures and forces from myths and stories.
But Izayoi knew that this was real.
He also knew that the Sage of the Six Paths had a mother and a younger brother.
After the two brothers sealed their mother, the Sage of the Six Paths became the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki and embarked on a journey of atonement.
As for Ōtsutsuki Hakamada, he married and took concubines, developing his family through the birth of children.
After the Sage of the Six Paths was no longer the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, he placed the Outer Path Statue on the moon.
To guard the Outer Path Statue, Ōtsutsuki Hakamada led part of the Ōtsutsuki clan to migrate to the moon.
The branch of the clan that remained on Earth gradually transformed into the Hyūga clan over the millennia.
Just as the Sage of the Six Paths possessed the ultimate Dojutsu, the Rinnegan, his two sons could potentially obtain the Rinnegan once the two extremes came together.
Ōtsutsuki Hakamada also possessed the ultimate Dojutsu, the Tenseigan, a Dojutsu with the power to destroy and create.
His descendants, if they met the conditions similar to the "extreme unification," had a chance to awaken the Tenseigan.
And unlike the Rinnegan, which had a high level of difficulty to obtain, the Tenseigan also had a secret method to fuse a large number of Byakugan into it.
The Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon was wiped out because of this method.
Now, on the moon, there should only be Ōtsutsuki Shiren left.
At the age of three, Izayoi had a sudden inspiration, temporarily abandoning the idea of copying the talent perks of Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke. Instead, he thought of Ōtsutsuki Shiren.
As a descendant of the branch family of the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon, Ōtsutsuki Shiren possessed pure Ōtsutsuki blood. His degree of ancestral return was as high as that of Ōtsutsuki Ashura and Ōtsutsuki Hakamada.
This purity allowed Ōtsutsuki Shiren to have the same kind of talent as the Sage of the Six Paths.
Uchiha Madara had to fuse the cells of Senju Hashirama before he awakened the Rinnegan, and he only did so when he was old and near death.
But Ōtsutsuki Shiren, in just a few days, could evolve his Byakugan into the Tenseigan.
Upon awakening, he could enter the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, condense the Truth-Seeking Balls, unleash the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Blast, and the Gold Wheel Reincarnation Blast that could split the moon.
His talent and chakra were far more amazing than even Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke.
If he came to Earth to live, he would be the first true powerhouse.
And if he brought the medium for using the massive Tenseigan with him, unless Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama were resurrected, or the Sage of the Six Paths intervened, the ninja world would fall under his control.
If he were a bit harsher, he could seize the Byakugan from Hinata or Hanabi early on.
In that case, there would be no such thing as "Shippuden"—only the legend of Shiren.
Unfortunately, Ōtsutsuki Shiren was a typical chuunibyou, a shut-in who, unless the ninja world truly became hopeless, would not come down from the moon before reaching adulthood.
However, Izayoi knew that as a child, before his father passed away, Ōtsutsuki Shiren had come to Earth and visited Konoha. Using the medium for the massive Tenseigan, he secretly saw Hinata once.
He fell in love with Hinata at first sight but did not disturb her life. Instead, he thought he would come back and propose to her once he became an adult.
To his surprise, his "fiancée" already had someone she liked, and he was merely one-sided.
Izayoi didn't have much opinion on this foolish chuunibyou shut-in.
He speculated that the year Ōtsutsuki Shiren came to Earth was when Hinata was three years old.
Because after Hinata's third birthday, Hiashi died in place of his brother, making Hinata's status change slightly.
The personality that followed made Hiashi completely disappointed in his eldest daughter.
Hinata's grandest birthday celebration was the year she turned three.
Thus, Izayoi decided to take a gamble.
He would use his only copy talent perk on Ōtsutsuki Shiren.
There were opportunities to obtain the talent perks of Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke, but the talent perk of Ōtsutsuki Shiren only had one chance. If missed, it wouldn't be available until two years after Shippuden.
Now, the personal information displayed on the screen confirmed that Izayoi had made the right gamble.
He hadn't just wandered around outside the Hyūga clan compound on Hinata's third birthday. Instead, he had been wandering aimlessly that entire year.
Outward appearances could be deceiving, but talent perks would never lie.
Izayoi could see the bubbles above people's heads, regardless of how Ōtsutsuki Shiren and his father disguised themselves. As long as they weren't puppets or invisible, they couldn't escape his sight.
Heaven didn't disappoint the determined. Through Izayoi's efforts and caution, he finally saw the blind Ōtsutsuki Shiren and his father in the crowd during Hinata's third birthday, which also coincided with the Hidden Cloud emissaries' visit to Konoha.
It was fortunate for the Hidden Cloud emissaries.
Had this father-son pair stayed until the evening and attempted to kidnap Hinata, it would have been a disaster.
However, the father and son only used the medium for the massive Tenseigan to take a distant glance at Hinata, who wasn't attending the celebration, and then left Konoha.
Ōtsutsuki Shiren, born blind, did not have the talent perk of Byakugan.
Nor did he possess any other low-level talent perks—only one high-level perk, a red bubble, labeled "Ōtsutsuki Bloodline."
Izayoi had seen similar talent perks on the members of the Hyūga clan, but the color was different.
For them, the Ōtsutsuki bloodline perk was blue at best.
Even Ōtsutsuki Shiren's father only had a purple-colored Ōtsutsuki bloodline perk, not even gold.
Only Ōtsutsuki Shiren's perk was red—surpassing gold, the highest known level.
Izayoi didn't hesitate and copied this talent perk immediately.
Three years later, Izayoi began his journey of defying fate.
After completing his first Chakra extraction, Izayoi's talent perk, Chūnin Aptitude (Green), upgraded to Kage-Level Aptitude (Gold).
As the name suggested, as long as he didn't die prematurely and continued to grow, he would eventually reach the level of Senju Hashirama or Uchiha Madara.
Once he took Hinata or Hanabi's Byakugan and transplanted it, he could condense the Truth-Seeking Balls and become a Six Paths-level existence.
A few months later, Izayoi unlocked a new talent perk—All-Attribute Constitution (Purple).
It turned out that Izayoi had the same All-Attribute Constitution as Senju Tobirama, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Orochimaru, and Hatake Kakashi.
At the age of five, Izayoi unlocked another new perk, which scared him greatly.
Because… he unlocked the Byakugan!
Yes, he didn't just turn his eyes into Byakugan; he actually unlocked it.
Under the influence of his Ōtsutsuki bloodline, Izayoi's eyes were normal by default. But once he activated the Byakugan, veins would bulge on his temples, and his pupils would turn white.
This discovery relieved Izayoi. Otherwise, he might have to wear sunglasses all the time, or disguise himself like the original Hatake Kakashi and buy some contact lenses.