Chapter 539 The Clan Chief's Question: Is the Branch Family Head Going to Rebel?

"What! You're saying the branch family head and his son went to your place and even used the Ten-Tails to devour your Divine Tree???"

Upon hearing Yang Shi's report, the eldest elder of the Otsutsuki clan immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

First of all, the clan's order to Zero was to return immediately. As for the Divine Tree of the Ninja World, it was to be temporarily guarded by Meishiki Otsutsuki. But now this father and son are completely disregarding the clan's orders!

Furthermore, the coordinates of Ōtsutsuki Yōshiki's location are significantly off from Rei's return trajectory. Does this mean he doesn't want to return to his clan? If he wanted to return, why would he go through all that trouble to travel around to Yōshiki's planet?

"Yes, the patriarch used some inexplicable reason to let a top-grade ten-tailed beast devour my inferior divine tree. My divine tree was supposed to blossom and bear fruit in two hundred years, but the father and son unreasonably destroyed all my efforts... I've wasted eight hundred years of my hard work. I hope the family can stand up for me!"

Ōtsutsuki Yōshiki poured out his grievances about the injustice, but the elder found it increasingly terrifying as he listened. In the end, he even barged into Ōtsutsuki Yūsō's residence and reported the matter to the clan leader.

"Recite everything you just reported!" the elder said sternly.

"Yes……"

Although Otsutsuki Yoshiki seemed a little nervous when he saw the clan leader, he still recounted everything!

"What exactly does Zero-type want to do?" Otsutsuki Yasou's eyes were as cold as knives, his voice filled with anger and confusion.

"Is he with you now? Hand over the magic mirror to him immediately!" Otsutsuki Yasou commanded in an unquestionable tone. He wanted to ask Otsutsuki Zero what he was up to!

"This……"

Otsutsuki Yoshiki's face suddenly turned pale. If the head of the family and his son found out that he had reported to the family, his life might be in danger!

"Hmm? What are you hesitating about???"

Otsutsuki Yasuoba wouldn't blindly believe Yang Shiki's words. Only if Yang Shiki could hand over the magic mirror to Zero Shiki could it prove that Yang Shiki wasn't lying and that Zero Shiki was indeed on his planet.

"Yang Shi, do as the clan leader asks. You can rest assured that we will handle the Ling Shi father and son's problem, and they will absolutely not dare to touch you. The clan guarantees this to you!" The First Elder saw Yang Shi's concerns and thus made his assurance.

Upon hearing the elder's assurance, Otsutsuki Yoshiki visibly breathed a sigh of relief, and the next moment he nodded emphatically.

Not long after, deep within a luxurious palace, Otsutsuki Yoshiki handed the magic mirror in his hand to Zero.

"Zero, what are you doing? Didn't I tell you to take your people back to your clan? And Netherworld, didn't I tell you to stay and guard the Divine Tree? Why are you and your son disobeying my orders?"

Upon seeing Zero and his son, Otsutsuki Yasou couldn't help but question them in a deep voice.

Despite the impending rage of Otsutsuki Yasou, Otsutsuki Zero remained remarkably calm.

"Wait a little longer, I will return in a thousand years..."

Upon hearing this, Otsutsuki Yasou and the Grand Elder widened their eyes instantly, their expressions showing disbelief.

"Do you know what you're saying? Zero..." Otsutsuki Yasou's voice gradually grew louder, and he even shouted the name Zero!

"Of course I know……"

Zero-Shiki Otsutsuki remained calm and composed, displaying the full authority of a branch family head.

"Why do this? And why wait a thousand years? The situation of the Creation Tree is very unstable. Why don't you bring people back to your clan to stabilize the tree? What exactly are you trying to do?"

The elder couldn't help but ask a question, the same question that Otsutsuki Yasou wanted to ask.

"It's such a waste that human was fed to the Tree of Creation..." Zero-Shiki Otsutsuki said coldly, his face expressionless.

"Damn it! Explain yourself!" Ōtsutsuki Yasou struggled to suppress his escalating emotions.

"Isn't that clear enough? My body is old, and that human is perfectly suited to carry my 'wedge'..."

Upon hearing Zero's words, Yasuo and the Grand Elder immediately realized what he was planning!

"You want to possess that human's body? Are you insane? That was a sacrifice from the Tree of Creation. If you take over the body, who will appease the Tree of Creation's wrath?" the elder sternly rebuked.

"You'll have to hold on for the next thousand years... Once I break through to the God Realm, or when the God Tree bears its second top-grade Chakra God Fruit, I will return to my clan to resolve the issue of the Creation God Tree..." Otsutsuki Zero replied in a very serious tone.

"You, the head of the branch family, are you planning to betray the family?"

Ōtsutsuki Yasou's face was grim, and the veins around his eyes were bulging. He finally asked the pointed question.

“I never intended to betray the clan. If the clan head insists on thinking that way, then there’s nothing I can do…” Zero-Shiki Otsutsuki stared at him fearlessly.

"Have you thought about the consequences of doing this? Your wife and children, your brothers, your faction..." Ōtsutsuki Yasō issued the most severe threat.

“If the clan leader really intends to do this… then when I break through to the Divine Realm and return to the clan, I will repay my clan members in the same way!” Otsutsuki Zero also issued a threat.

"Hehe... Hahaha! Zero, you've really got some guts!"

Otsutsuki Yasou was so angry that he laughed instead. He had forgotten how many tens of thousands of years it had been since he had been threatened.

"Break through to the Divine Realm... You? You're truly insane, to have such an unrealistic fantasy!"

The clan leader, Yasuo Otsutsuki, has been stuck at the peak of the God Realm for ten thousand years and has not been able to touch the threshold above the God Realm. Zero Otsutsuki is not even at the peak. What makes him dare to say that he will be able to break through to the God Realm within a thousand years?

What else could this be but utter madness? Even Otsutsuki Yasou suspected that this branch family head had suffered brain damage from that human's attack...

“I really can’t, after all, I’m old… but Chieftain, do you think he can?”

As Zero-Shiki spoke, he gave Mei-Shiki a wink, and the next moment Mei-Shiki revealed a young body that had fallen into a deep sleep.

That was Liu Yun's true form. At this moment, he looked as if he had lost consciousness, and his body was covered with dense 'wedge' patterns!

"You bastard! You actually had designs on him!" The elder couldn't help but shout angrily.

At this moment, both Otsutsuki Yasou and the Grand Elder were horrified by Otsutsuki Rei's ambition, but subconsciously overlooked another terrifying possibility...

So, has Zero-Shiki Otsutsuki already been defeated? And are the father and son in front of us just puppets?

It seems that the Otsutsuki clan hasn't even considered this possibility. After all, everyone in the clan, from top to bottom, is extremely arrogant. They would rather believe that there is a traitor in their own family than believe that a human could, or dare to, play such a trick on them...