Although extremely annoyed with Urashiki competing with him, Momoshiki knew this wasn't the time to have internal strife with Urashiki, especially now that Urashiki had consumed a 'Chakra Fruit' and achieved 'Kekkei Mora'!
Then, he glanced at Toneri who was frozen in time and asked Urashiki: "What do you think is the relationship between him and Isshiki?"
Urashiki, carrying the fishing rod, grinned: "Hmph, need you ask! That guy must be a partner carefully selected by Isshiki. Otherwise, why guard this satellite? Isn't it just acting as a sentry to give early warning here!"
The actions of the Otsutsuki clan are often in pairs, just like Isshiki and Kaguya before.
Although Kaguya betrayed Isshiki, causing Isshiki to fall into a parasitic state, only able to survive in the form of 'Karma', from a long-term perspective, Isshiki must recruit another companion. And as Kaguya's blood descendant, Toneri Otsutsuki perfectly fit this candidate from any angle.
This was also the reason why Urashiki immediately used a technique to imprison Toneri after noticing something wrong, because he was worried that Toneri would send a message to Isshiki, notifying him of the news of their descent. If Isshiki received the news in advance and hid, the difficulty of them wanting to snatch that 'Chakra Fruit' from Isshiki's hands would greatly increase.
"En!"
Momoshiki approved of Urashiki's judgment.
Toneri appearing on the moon's surface, the implication of early warning was very obvious. Plus, Toneri clearly hadn't consumed a 'Chakra Fruit', so from any angle, Toneri looked like Isshiki's subordinate.
Shifting his gaze away from Toneri, Momoshiki looked again at the shinobi world beneath his feet: "Is this the shinobi world? Such abundant energy!"
Urashiki's eyes lit up, softly echoing: "Yeah!"
Compared to those worlds they plundered before, the energy contained in the shinobi world beneath their feet was obviously much more abundant, and this was under the circumstance that it had already nurtured two 'Chakra Fruits'!
Boom...
Just then, a violent wave of chakra came from below!
Momoshiki frowned: "That is..."
Urashiki was somewhat flustered and exasperated: "It's the aura of our Otsutsuki clan, such strong chakra! Damn it, could there be other clansmen trying to beat us to it!"
The violent chakra wave erupting in the shinobi world instantly disrupted Momoshiki and Urashiki's plan. They exchanged a glance, then hurriedly soared into the air, pouncing towards the shinobi world.
Shinobi World, ritual site.
A terrifying chakra storm swept across the entire mountain peak, and Hiruko standing in the center of the storm laughed maniacally: "More, give me a little more, hahaha!"
Observation area.
Amado frowned tightly, staring fixedly at the instruments in front of him.
These instruments were newly developed by the Research Institute, and the upper limit of data they could measure was several times higher than the previous version. Yet even so, the row of instruments in front of him were all sounding long alarm sirens, showing that the ritual data had exceeded the measurement limit.
"Is he... is he crazy?!"
Tsunade on the side had a face full of incredulity.
She knew Hiruko wanted to play a big game, but she didn't expect Hiruko to play this big, actually secretly doubling the power of the ritual again. It was simply unreasonable.
Unlike others, Orochimaru had a smile on his lips.
As someone who had undergone the ritual, he knew very well how terrifying Shibai Otsutsuki's chakra was. His ritual power at that time was already the limit. Continuing to increase the ritual's power would not improve the ritual's effect but would greatly increase the probability of ritual failure.
A mere mortal body actually wanted to extract more power from Shibai Otsutsuki's remains; it was simply overestimating oneself.
So Orochimaru finally gave his evaluation of Hiruko: "Too greedy!"
Center of the ritual.
At this time, Hiruko's eyes were crimson, and colloidal 'Chimera buds' swayed around him like dancing demons.
Until this moment, he had no intention of retracting the 'Chimera buds' into his body, still thinking of using the blessing of the ritual power to make the 'Chimera buds' that swallowed the sacrifices stronger.
The price of doing this was that Hiruko was already on the verge of losing control. With a slight mistake, he might not even leave a whole corpse.
As the leader of the medical team, Tsunade could not sit by and ignore this. She hurriedly turned on the loudspeaker equipment and shouted: "Hiruko, stop being crazy, immediately store the 'Chimera buds', otherwise you will die!"
Hiruko scoffed.
Immediately, he took out a syringe from somewhere, stabbed it fiercely into his body, and injected the medicine in the syringe into his body all at once.
Sizzle sizzle...
In an instant, with the injection of the medicine, the crazily swaying 'Chimera buds' instantly withered, as if drained of vitality.
And taking this opportunity, Hiruko activated the 'Chimera Technique', storing the 'Chimera buds' suppressed by the medicine into his body all at once.
"What medicine is that?"
"Is this part in the plan?"
"Hiruko must have hidden something from us!"
In the observation area, the leaders of various groups discussed one after another. This move by Hiruko completely exceeded everyone's expectations.
"This bastard!"
Tsunade's face looked bad.
Amado didn't care about these, his eyes still staring fixedly at the few instruments that were still working.
"Heh!"
Orochimaru chuckled lightly.
His viewpoint remained unchanged. The mistake Hiruko made had nothing to do with the ritual process, but was being too greedy!
At the ritual site, as Hiruko stored all the 'Chimera buds' into his body, the ritual reached the final moment. As long as Hiruko could withstand the 'Chimera buds' and fuse the power of the sacrifices swallowed by the 'Chimera buds' with himself, he would have completed the ritual.
Soon, standing in the center, Hiruko's chakra aura rose rapidly. In just a few breaths, it exceeded the measurement limit of all instruments in the observation area, even reaching a point where Orochimaru, who was watching the battle, squinted slightly and felt a desire to investigate.
Tsunade was shocked, murmuring: "So... so strong!"
Sasori stiffly took a step back.
The chakra lingering on Hiruko's body had reached a point where it felt tangible, making him, who had abandoned his flesh and blood body and only kept a chakra core, feel a sense of suffocation blowing against his face, so he subconsciously wanted to stay away.
The leaders of other groups also couldn't hide their shock one by one.
Although Hiruko didn't turn into a huge flesh cocoon like Orochimaru before, the chakra aura lingering on his body surpassed Orochimaru at that time!
Hiruko coldly swept his gaze over the people in the observation area, grinning hideously: "You idiots, do you see, I am the true genius!"
"Is that so..."
Suddenly, a strange voice sounded behind Hiruko.
Hiruko was startled: "Who is it!?"