Isekai Life as Ōtsutsuki

"And how do you want to find if it is hidden from everyone's eyes? Hopefully, that Key from Heaven Punishing Divine Emperor Mo E points the way..."

Qianye Ying'er pouted slightly as she could hear the sarcasm in his voice.

Still, nevertheless, she nodded at his words because, indeed, the Key from Heaven Punishing Divine Emperor Mo E was pointing the path.

"And to your sarcasm and idiocy, it indeed is... so shut up and follow me."

She said that after Ōtsutsuki Yakou returned from his mental breakdown, as she called it, he was sometimes becoming unbearable...

Compared to the calm and almost robotic behavior he had before, this was like comparing heaven and earth.

Though, while she wouldn't admit it in front of him, or rather in front of anyone, she liked "Him" of today more... he seemed more humane even if he wasn't a human.

Compared to previous Ōtsutsuki Yakou, who was focused only on gaining strength and cultivating, this one even joked around...

She knew Yakou for several months as they were staying in the God Realm of Absolute Beginning together and waiting for the God Tree to bloom and give birth to the Brahma Fruit so that she could make a comparison.

Though she wondered what others would think of his change, especially his fianceé, she knew that Ōtsutsuki Kirihara would be shocked to the core to meet personally changed Ōtsutsuki Yakou.

"It is not far away..."

Qianye Ying'er then followed the path that the Key left behind, Heaven Divine Punishing Emperor Mo E, and it didn't take them long before they arrived at empty plains full of grey dust and nothing else.

"It is here."

She said as she raised the Key of Heaven Divine Punishing Emperor Mo E into the air, and soon enough, the Key started shining in a bright light, and space was warping around them, cracking and changing.

"So it worked."

For a moment, Yakou was surprised that it actually worked, and indeed, before them, it was a secret realm, but there was something that was giving him a horrible feeling.

Yakou trusted his instincts very much because they saved his life several times during his life and never let him down.

"Stop!"

He grabbed Qianye Ying'er, who wanted to enter the secret realm, and held her back.

"What this time!"

The former Crown Princess of the Brahma Monarch God Realm frowned when she felt Yakou holding her back, but soon enough, she paled slightly when she noticed that the third eye on his forehead was shining in a bright blue light, and its pattern was spinning at a fast speed.

"Something didn't really work with me, so I used Senrinjōnegan to check on the barrier, and look what I found..."

Yakou said as he took a rock from the ground and threw it on the barrier of the secret realm.

Under the astonished gaze of Brahma, the monarch goddess, the rock was suddenly devoured by a weird aura.

"That's... the Aura of Abyss of Nothingness..."

If she entered... she would be corrupted by the Aura of Abyss of Nothingness and most probably devoured alive and killed.

"Yes... It seems that Heaven Punishing Divine Emperor Mo E prepared one more backup plan in case someone obtains the secret realm where the Key was and said person wasn't his Inheritor or something else..."

Yakou carefully went in front of the Barrier made of the Aura of Abyss of Nothingness, then after that, he activated his Tensei-Mangekyō Sharingan and started scanning the entire Barrier more closely.

Looking through every nook and cranny of the thing, as his expression began to morph in anger because it wasn't a pleasant discovery.

"How bad is it?"

He then looked at the beautiful golden-haired Brahma Goddess and deactivated his Tensei-Mangekyō Sharingan, and his expression softened a bit when he looked at her beauty.

"Not good... Entire Barrier would allow only those who have the essence of the Heaven Punishing Divine Emperor Mo E inside their very own souls to pass..."

Even Yakou was surprised at how thorough the Heaven Punishing Divine Emperor Mo E was when he was hiding the Fragment of the World-Defying Heaven Manual.

"Passing through the barrier with force would be too dangerous, and if it was forcefully broken, there is a deathtrap installed, which would cause the barrier to detonate and release a huge amount of Aura of Abyss of Nothingness."

Even Qianye Ying'er frowned deeply when she heard that because this made the situation a hundredfold more complicated than it really needed to be.

"Can't you use Ten-Tails for the God Tree to drain the energy from the barrier?"

She asked as Yakou nodded at her suggestion because that was plausible, but he discarded it soon after.

"That is actually a good idea, but it would take a long time... the barrier is directly connected to the Abyss of Nothingness itself, and we don't have that much time."

Because the Barrier was directly connected to the Abyss of Nothingness, it was being powered by it directly.

For the God Tree to drain the Barrier, it would need at first to grow strong enough to drain more energy from the Barrier than the Barrier was getting from the Abyss of Nothingness.

And as Yakou looked at its runic work, he knew that it would take even years at best.

Naturally, something that was created by peak Creation God Heaven Punishing Divine  Emperor Mo E, whose strength was probably comparable to peak Holy Venerable Stage Holy Lord Realm cultivator, couldn't be bypassed so easily.

"But... to be not only a messenger of bad news, I also have good news!"

Then he turned around, and he shouted cheerfully.

"Fortunately, the Barrier is far from the top state. Countless years have passed, and the power of the barrier had diminished greatly, and its power is weaker... and there are already weak points in it..."

Yakou explained as he managed to create a plan on how to deal with it, though he himself didn't know if it would really work.

"I think we may use the weak points to pass through the barrier with the help of the Key if we replicate the aura of Heaven Punishing Divine Emperor Mo E into a Fūinjutsu Seal, which would, in turn, be amplified by your own connection to the Heaven Punishing Divine Emperor Mo E through your Brahma God Species..."

Yakou's plan was to fool the barrier into thinking that Qianye Ying'er was a direct descendant and Inheritor of the Heaven Punishing Divine Emperor Mo E.

It was a dangerous plan, but it was the only one that was feasible in a short time.

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