2 Flow of Time

For the Ōtsutsuki Clansmen, the flow of time was a weird thing. We were a very long-lived species and it wasn't totally unusual that some clansmen spent even decades or centuries on their mission.

Thought during the past years, my father, Ōtsutsuki Kenshin, returned from the frontlines after he managed to take some galaxies for the Clan from the Automatons. My father was a man of few words and always stoic.

Compared to my mom, who was bubbly and energic, they were creating a weird couple... really weird, even by my standards of weirdness. Naturally, the second my dad returned, he started teaching me Kenjutsu because he was one of the best swordsmen in the Clan.

Right now, I was already fourteen years old and was training in the training yard, my Kenjutsu against some battle dummies. Naturally, I was pretty strong myself and even though I just reached Tier 1 a not long time ago, I was able to beat even some strongest Tier 1s

While I was still far from becoming Tier 2 and I felt that I could reach it without eating Chakra Fruit, afterward, perhaps they would let me leave even sooner...

"Young Master, Patriarch is calling you."

While I was swinging my sword, I heard the voice of my attendant Ōtsutsuki Akisue who was a member of the Main Family who ate Chakra Fruit and was a fairly powerful Tier 2 Ōtsutsuki Clansmen.

He looked youthful, even though he was a few centuries old, with pale skin, pair of Byakugan and Rinnegan as his third eye on his forehead.

"I will be right there."

I wondered why grandfather was calling me officially like this because usually, he rarely called me aside from the time when I was scheduled to train with him.

***

Clan's Main Hall

My grandfather, Ōtsutsuki Amakusa, was elderly-looking Ōtsutsuki Clansmen and his age was too high; he often joked that he already forgot how old he was, which clearly may be a truth.

He was an old fossil that remembered times when Lord Shibai walked the Starveil Origin World before ascending as Higher Dimensional Lifeform.

"Today, you have reached your fourteenth year, so it is time to start walking the path to supremacy. Seeing that as Tier 1, you have the power to compete even against some weaker Tier 2 clansmen, I have decided to give you these two things."

As he stated, suddenly, one of the armored guards that stood next to him appeared in front of me and passed me a sealed box with complex Fūinjutsu which I opened as soon as I grabbed it and almost fainted from shock.

"There is one Supreme-Grade Chakra Fruit and one seed of the God Tree for you to plant. If my predictions are correct, you will become our key to the new Golden Age of our Clan. When you eat it, we will start your training in the Shinjutsu."

I spent a lot of time in the Clan's Library since I was born... and when I meant a lot, it was almost all of the time when I wasn't training or spending time with my mother as she insisted on relaxation time.

The first Golden Age of the Clan was during the times of Lord Shibai before he ascended as Higher Dimensional Lifeform. This was already millions of years ago...

The second Golden Age of the Clan came concurrently only a few tens of thousands of years later when one of the Clansmen from the Divine Lineage managed to find Dimensional Path to another Origin World.

From the records, it was an Origin World of cultivators like Xianxia stories from Earth.

What happened after was a total invasion of that Universe by the Ōtsutsuki Clan, who seeded the entire Universe with the God Trees and harvested countless worlds there.

They also looted an endless amount of other types of resources and techniques, which they incorporated into their own foundation.

This was also the time during which Lord Shibai ascended.

Since then, nobody has managed to find Dimensional Path leading to another Origin World and right now, it seems that my grandfather had a hunch that I would be able to do so. If yes and I managed to find some cultivation-based Origin World, it would be a tremendous boon for the Clan.

Since the Second Golden Age, the strength of our rivals was catching up and there was little room for the development of the Ōtsutsuki aside from attacking the territories of our rivals.

Naturally, I also needed to have some amount of luck to find a relatively weak cultivation Universe that could be easily conquered without big losses on our side, as the Ōtsutsuki Clan didn't have a really big population.

I looked at the Chakra Fruit with wonder... each one of them was a treasure to the Clan as it needed a long time to mature, depending on the world where God Tree took root. Naturally, there was also a requirement for the Ōtsutsuki Clansmen to be fed to the God Tree.

But that was what for the Branch Clan was created and it was the sole purpose of their existence. It was also one of the reasons why the Main Family looked down on them so much because they were nothing more than just genetically engineered faux Ōtsutsuki created by Lord Shibai eons ago.

But this was something that only members of the Divine Lineage or Elders of the Clan knew.

"Now go and eat the fruit..."

I nodded my head before I stored it in my pocket dimension and fled to home at lightning speed to eat the fruit.

Our compound was not far from the Patriarch's Hall, so I arrived very quickly and excitedly shouted to my mother that I got my first Chakra Fruit.

"Oh... you got Supreme-Grade Chakra Fruit as your first one..."

Supreme-Grade Chakra Fruit was created from a high-ranking life planet and used Ascended Ōtsutsuki Clansman as a sacrifice.

"Even I ate only a few in my life..."

Ascended Clansmen were those who were elevated from the Branch Clan to the Main Family... but in reality, they were specifically groomed to be sacrificed to the God Trees to create Supreme-Grade Chakra Fruits for members of Divine Lineage.

So yes... life for the Ōtsutsuki Clansmen that were not members of the Main Family was shit; either way, they would be used as servants, cannon fodder or become sacrifices at any time for eternity.