Naruto: The Primal Hyuga Pierces the Shinobi World

"Is this right here?"

Shinichi murmured softly, then formed hand seals, and a shadow clone appeared beside him. Without Shinichi's command, the clone plunged into the water the moment it appeared and sank to the bottom.

Beneath the icy pool lies another hidden paradise.

All around was chaos. As far as the eye could see, there were countless strange spheres emitting a pale yellow light, like miniature versions of the moon. Accompanying them were countless rock spheres, suspended in space.

Before the shadow clone could observe for long, suddenly everything blurred and vanished instantly.

"what happened?"

Upon opening his eyes, the shadow clone suddenly found himself in a study. Looking down, he discovered that he had shrunk several times over, and was actually a child's hand.

Suddenly, the study door opened.

A young man named Hiashi entered the study, smiling broadly as he addressed Shinichi:

[Let's go, Shinichi, this afternoon is the Byakugan practice!]

Upon hearing this, Shinichi Hyuga instinctively stood up. However, the moment he stood up, the surrounding scenery shifted, and he found himself in the Hyuga clan's dojo. Before him, Hiashi stood in a fighting stance, ready to fight. Seeing Shinichi standing there in a daze, Hiashi shouted:

【Attack here! Shinichi. 】

It's not time to rest yet!

The scene changed quickly. Shinichi slightly raised his head to look at the young-looking Hiashi, then suddenly shook his head and chuckled:

"Illusion..."

"My childhood memories?"

"open!"

Shinichi formed a hand seal with one hand, and with a burst of violent chakra, all the surrounding scenery disappeared.

Instead, the chaotic scene they had just been in was replaced.

"A passageway..."

Those spheres of light, resembling miniature versions of the moon, guided the way, and the shadow clones, without hesitation, proceeded along the path.

Before long, another cold pool appeared before them.

As before, the Byakugan could not see through the scene in the pool, and the shadow clone stepped into the water again without any hesitation.

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After crossing the icy pool twice in a row, the scene before Shinichi Hyuga's shadow clone underwent a tremendous change.

At the bottom of the icy pool was a bright "round mirror." After passing through it, Shinichi arrived at the bottom of another lake. Unlike the previous icy pool, the water here was real and would not penetrate a person's skin.

"Um?!"

The water pressure changed, and Shinichi Hyuga noticed it. He looked up at the light on the lake and quickly swam to the surface.

"Oh!"

A wave rose from the center of the lake, and Shinichi Hyuga leaped out of the water, landing steadily on the ground. Looking around, Shinichi found himself in an underground cave. Looking up, his Byakugan peered through layers of earthen walls, revealing the desolate lunar surface riddled with craters.

After passing through that strange passage, Shinichi Hyuga's shadow clone actually arrived underground on the moon!

Contrary to expectations, the fresh air, mixed with the strong scent of earth, filled my nostrils. Although it didn't smell very pleasant, the natural environment here had clearly been transformed into a place where humans could adapt and live.

Just as Shinichi Hyuga was about to continue his investigation, a strong, foul wind swept in, and a loud noise suddenly came from a dark cave not far from the pool.

Hinata glanced to the side and saw a giant crab, nearly five meters tall, rushing through the passage and heading this way at high speed.

Upon seeing the giant crab, Shinichi Hyuga belatedly realized that the area around the cave did not have hard soil or rock layers, but rather mostly soft, moist mud.

Without a doubt, this is probably the nest of this giant crab.

Shinichi Hyuga's appearance disturbed the owner of this place, and the presence of a stranger made the "giant beast" in front of him wary.

The giant crab scurried into the cave, and the moment it saw Shinichi Hyuga, it swung its huge pincers at him.

Although it was merely a shadow clone of Shinichi Hyuga, it was still imbued with Shinichi's chakra, and not just anything could pose a threat to Shinichi's shadow clone.

Although giant crabs are enormous, these behemoths often do not possess any special abilities and rely solely on their large size to hunt in the wild.

Seeing the attack coming, Shinichi Hyuga immediately countered with a "Bagua Empty Palm" strike. The seemingly casual strike landed heavily on the giant crab, piercing through its chest and abdomen. Yellowish-brown liquid flowed continuously from the wound, and the massive crab collapsed with a thud.

It only twitched once before it completely stopped breathing and became a corpse.

A strong fishy smell filled the air, and a thick yellow fluid kept flowing from the crab's wounds.

Silence returned to the surroundings. The shadow clone had killed the giant crab in a single strike, but Shinichi's shadow clone showed no intention of leaving. To be on the safe side, he decided to stay a little longer to prevent any further changes or to ensure that his main body could adapt to the environment.

After all, it's an unknown place. To be honest, if the surrounding environment really has a serious impact on people, it will be too late by the time the person realizes it.

Life is only once, and Shinichi Hyuga did not encounter the legendary prophetic child on this trip. He did not want to gamble with his life.

After standing still for more than ten minutes without any new enemies appearing or any other abnormalities occurring, the shadow clone turned into a wisp of white smoke and disappeared into the cave.

Everything the shadow clone experienced was transmitted back to Shinichi Hyuga's mind, and Shinichi Hyuga gained a preliminary understanding of the passage to the moon.

Without further hesitation, Shinichi leaped lightly into the icy pool before him.

Just as the shadow clone experienced, the moment Shinichi Hyuga stepped into the icy pool, the scenery around him changed drastically, as if Shinichi had been pulled into an illusion.

Having anticipated this, Shinichi didn't linger in the illusion for even a second longer, immediately breaking free. After traversing a somewhat dreamlike passage, a pool of water appeared at the end of the passage.

As Shinichi Hyuga leaped out of the water, a cave beneath the surface of the moon came into view.

"As expected...we've arrived on the moon!"

Shinichi Hyuga peered through his Byakugan at the dome, his gaze piercing through the soil to see the cosmic landscape beyond the moon. Seeing the distant blue planet, Shinichi felt a sudden sense of unreality.

I never imagined that I would be able to see Earth from this perspective in the Naruto world.

Such a novel experience was something that Shinichi Hyuga had never encountered before, not even before his time travel.

Even if you could find some pictures and videos of this perspective online in your past life, the feeling is completely different when the real universe comes into view.

"Moon...."

"Is this the perspective of the Otsutsuki clan?"

For some reason, Shinichi Hyuga suddenly thought of the Otsutsuki clan. This race, capable of "interstellar colonization," should have long been immune to such beautiful sights, right?

Or...

Are the most beautiful and attractive stars more precious "food" to them?

Slowly withdrawing his gaze, Shinichi Hyuga took a step forward, retracing the path the giant crab had taken.

His glare had already helped him find the "exit" of the underground cave.

After walking for more than ten minutes in the dimly lit stone corridor, a ray of light finally illuminated the dark passageway.

Shinichi Hyuga quickened his pace and soon left the corridor, where a bright and open space opened up before him.

He stood at the entrance of a cave on a mountain cliff, with an endless expanse of azure sea before him. The dazzling sun hung in the sky, and behind Shinichi Hyuga lay a desolate ancient city.

The ancient town is built against the mountain, and the rustic bricks and tiles are covered with moss. The whole town is quiet and utterly silent.

Shinichi Hyuga leaped and landed on an open space in the ancient city. He glanced at the surrounding ruins and judged from the weathering marks that these buildings were at least a hundred years old.

The city was vast, stretching as far as the eye could see, yet Shinichi Hyuga, scanning it with his Byakugan, could not detect the presence of any living beings within it.

This is a lost town...

Shinichi Hyuga followed the stone path into the city, hoping to find some valuable clues, but after wandering around for a while, he found nothing useful in the city.

Not to mention meeting any people, you can't even find any words or books.

"Are we looking in the wrong direction?"

"This place has been abandoned long ago?"

After staying in this space for a while, Shinichi Hyuga sensed something was amiss. Wait, the moon doesn't have an atmosphere... what are these things in front of me...?

Shinichi Hyuga frowned, carefully observing his surroundings once again to see what was so special about them.

After a thorough investigation, Shinichi Hyuga finally discovered that the city-state he was in was actually an ancient underground city!

The sun hanging in the sky, and the azure sky...

It's all fake. Someone used powerful chakra to create this natural environment where people can live in harmony.

"That's really... a huge investment!"

Very few people can replicate Earth's living environment almost perfectly; probably only those two legendary figures could achieve it.

That was the Sage of Six Paths and his younger brother, Otsutsuki Amemura.

They preserved the moon's surface and built this enormous, terrifying underground palace inside. Only Hagoromo Otsutsuki could have accomplished something like this.

As he pondered, Shinichi Hyuga used his Byakugan to examine the artificial sun in the sky. To his surprise, the surface of the sun seemed to be covered by some kind of barrier that could specifically block the Byakugan. His Byakugan was unable to penetrate the barrier and see the scene inside the "sun".

Based on the information gathered so far, Shinichi Hyuga guessed that what he was looking for was probably inside the sun!

Judging from the city-state before us, there are no longer large numbers of descendants of Hagoromo Otsutsuki living here.

It seems that... the Otsutsuki branch on the moon has long been embroiled in internal war, with both the main family and the branch family using their strongest forces to suppress each other.