Chapter 176 - The Tower (Patreon)

Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension, Starveil Origin World, Planet Tengoku, Headquarters of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Obtaining the Key to the Tower was one part; the preparations for the entrance to the Tower were an entirely different thing. In fact, there were not many things that they could do to prepare for the Tower. 

One needed to know that there existed a certain limitation on the strength of the person entering the Tower; if someone entered the Tower too strong, too outside of the norms, then according to the intelligence that the Cathulhus gave the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Since they returned back to home, back to the Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension and the Starveil Origin Word, the Ōtsutsuki Clan was in the full go of gathering the people to enter the Tower of God.

Fortunately enough, it didn't take long to put together the team and for Yakou to use the Key to create the entrance to the Tower. As the Crown Prince of the Ōtsutsuki Clan was instructed by Lord Shibai, he was to depart for the Tower of God as soon as possible.

Obviously, the founder of the Ōtsutsuki Clan saw there was something to which others were obvious, but that didn't really matter right now. In the end, they gathered a team of five people that would enter the Tower of God. 

The sole person outside of the Ōtsutsuki Clan participating in that endeavor was Muzaka of the Werewolf Tribes. As someone who was a pure physical fighter and user of Aura, he wouldn't be constrained by the rules of the Tower.

Meanwhile, the Chakra of the Ōtsutsuki Clan would be most heavily suppressed due to the rules of the Tower. Yakou didn't know why the suppression aspects of the Tower of God were so strong; perhaps it was the intention of the creator of the Tower of God for the people to temper themselves.

Or the Tower of God was nothing more than just an experiment of some of the omnipotent beings who wanted to achieve some goals. He didn't know the reason, and in fact, the reasons didn't even matter at all because it wouldn't change anything.

The fact was, the moment he entered the Tower of God, he would be heavily suppressed, and right now, he was already finishing preparations for entering the Tower of God.

Not only he but also the Elders of the Ōtsutsuki Clan were preparing for the endeavor, as many of them were racking their brains off on how to ease their people during their time in the Tower. 

The Ōtsutsuki Clansmen who were chosen to go into the Tower were aware very well of the dangers that the Tower of God could pose to them, once their Chakra was suppressed to the limits. 

Ōtsutsuki Yakou, Ōtsutsuki Kirihara, Ōtsutsuki Bai Long and Qianye Ying'er were going on behalf of the Ōtsutsuki Clan. All four of them were using Chakra, or in the case of Qiuanye Ying'er, she was using the variation of the Chakra as her base energy.,

However, it was also obvious that all four of them had alternative means of preserving their combat prowess if it was needed. Ōtsutsuki Yakou had several other abilities that were not dependent on Chakra itself, similar to the Ōtsutsuki Kirihara. 

Ōtsutsuki Bai Long was a swordsman foremost who lived by the sword, so he would be less constrained by the lack of the Chakra; Qianye Ying'er was an especially smart person, so for her, the loss of the Chakra she had would be just a minor hindrance.

"When you enter the Tower, you should be prepared for everything... being in the place where Chakra is being suppressed is extremely uncomfortable and unnatural for the Ōtsutsuki Clansmen."

Ōtsutsuki Kenshin was giving some pieces of advice to his son, who listened attentively to every single of his word. 

"I was locked in such a place for a few thousand years when I was exploring one of the forbidden grounds of the Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension. After a few years, your body will get used to the environment, and depending on the nature of the place, you can recover some bits of Chakra, though it would be done at an extremely slow rate."

Ōtsutsuki Yakou had no doubt that the suppressive aspect of the Tower would be extreme; in the end, the Tower of God was created by someone who transcended all, someone who reached Detachment across the endless realities and dimensions.

"Thanks for the useful advice, father... anything else to say?"

Ōtsutsuki Kenshin was someone who traveled a lot across their Chaotic Source Dimension and visited several forbidden places across the Unicron Chaotic Source Dimension.

Once, during his travels, he was trapped in the forbidden zone that was suppressing all types of energies, reducing even almighty cultivators to the degree of ordinary mortals if they were unlucky.

"Yes, actually, one good piece of advice, and probably the best one, would be to never underestimate the natives of such a place, never, never, never... such things could lead to terrible disasters."

This was one of the few times he could hear his father talking about something in such a serious voice.

"Why?... I know that arrogance of the Ōtsutsukis, especially regarding the weaker lifeforms..."

Indeed this was one of the gravest weaknesses of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, which was their arrogance, something that they have been fighting for their whole life. Ōtsutsuki Yakou was no different in trying to reign his own arrogance so it not to cloud his judgment.

"Usually, the natives that are living in the areas like that are very powerful, and often they possess powerful and rather esoteric abilities. I once encountered few that could give even some of the most powerful Ōtsutsukis fight for their life."

Ōtsutsuki Kenshin still vividly remembered such people, who, despite lack of energies of any type and suppression of Daos and other things, were able to rise to terrifying heights in the aspect of body tempering and refining. 

"Even though many of them are technically weaker than you, due to the special environment in which they have been born and raised, they often develop some storage powers and abilities that are typically hard to counter. One of such people almost once killed me... It was the closest time I was to death."

His father sternly looked at him.