Inside the secret vault of the Hyuga Clan's mansion.
"Sure enough …"
Looking through the genealogy of the Hyuga Clan, Hyōjin found that during the Warring States period, there were a lot of marriage records between the Hyuga Clan and the Kaguya Clan, but most of the women of the Kaguya Clan married into the Hyuga Clan, and almost no women of the Hyuga Clan married into the Kaguya Clan, so there was no record of the Hyuga Clan being the Kaguya Clan.
And from the few words in the genealogy, it can be clearly seen that the Hyuga Clan and the Kaguya Clan have a bloodline relationship, which should belong to the same ancestor.
But with the establishment of Muye, Kirin, and other Shinobi villages, the relationship between the Hyuga Clan and the Kaguya Clan quickly cooled down.
"Huh …"
Suddenly, Hyōjin, who was reading the genealogy page by page, suddenly realized something.
In the more than 900 years of history recorded in the genealogy, the population of the Hyuga Clan has always been maintained in the numerical range of about 3,000 people, and in the chaotic Warring States period, this was the top and largest Shinobi Clan along with Senju and Uchiha.
But for some reason, starting from 300 years ago, the population of the Hyuga Clan began to decrease year by year.
Today, including all the hidden members of the Hyuga Clan, there are only about 700 people in the Hyuga Clan, and most of them are old, weak, women, and children.
In the long 300 years of change, the population of the Hyuga Clan has decreased from 3,000 to 700, which may not be too noticeable, but in the ten minutes that Hyōjin flipped through the genealogy, the decrease in the number of the Hyuga Clan year by year is particularly eye-catching in his eyes.
"Is it because of the war?"
Suijin muttered under his breath.
War is the main culprit of the sharp decline in the population of many Shinobi Clans. Because of the several wars after the establishment of Muye, the huge Senju Clan suffered heavy losses, and the population declined sharply, coupled with the policy of the First Sama to completely integrate the Senju Clan into Muye's policy, leading to a large number of women of the Senju Clan marrying ordinary villagers, further diluting the bloodline of the Senju Clan, causing the Senju Clan to only exist in name today.
However, Hyōjin quickly denied his speculation.
Because when he looked through the genealogy records, he discovered that apart from a few hundred clansmen mysteriously dying three hundred years ago, there were no other records of a large number of clansmen dying within a short period of time.
However, this is also a matter of course. Even in the war, the Hyuga clan mostly plays the role of reconnaissance and garrison. They are neither like the Senju Clan who always takes the lead, nor are they as warlike as Uchiha, so the number of casualties is undoubtedly far lower than the average.
"It's not because of the war. There has never been a large-scale rebellion or internal strife in the family. Why is the family's population decreasing? Moreover, it's decreasing so smoothly that it doesn't attract any attention. It's as if there's a pair of hands controlling it in the dark … "
The doubts in Hyōjin's heart grew stronger and stronger.
In the cognition of ordinary people, the Hyuga Clan is already the top clan of Muye, and the Uchiha Clan, which is equally famous, seems to only have half of the population of the Hyuga Clan.
However, this view is just a misunderstanding by some people who don't understand the Uchiha Clan.
The real situation is that the number of ninjas in the Uchiha Clan is indeed far less than that of the Hyuga Clan, about half of the Hyuga Clan, but the number of Uchiha Clan is not less than that of the Hyuga Clan. On the contrary, if you count all the clansmen, the Uchiha Clan is far more than the Hyuga Clan. However, most of the Uchiha clansmen have not awakened the Sharingan, nor do they have the qualifications to become ninjas. They are almost no different from ordinary villagers, so it seems that the number of Uchiha Clan is less than that of the Hyuga Clan.
One must know that the area of the Uchiha Clan is the largest among all the Ninja Clans in Muye, and it is far more than the other Ninja Clans. All kinds of shops are available inside, and it is almost self-sufficient. It is completely like a village within a village, but because the location is too remote, in the corner of Muye, it doesn't look very eye-catching.
"The demise of Senju was caused by the decision of Hashirama, it was caused by human factors. And the Uchiha Clan has experienced the departure of Uchiha Madara, the internal strife when developing Izanagi, and a large number of casualties in several wars, but the number of clansmen is still maintained at a normal value. On the contrary, the number of clansmen is slowly decreasing, this is too strange! "
The more Hyōjin thought about it, the more strange he felt.
At this time, he suddenly thought of the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon.
In his impression, when the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon officially launched the rebellion, they already had the giant Tenseigan. Because of this, the Otsutsuki Clan was almost unscathed on the battlefield of the decisive battle with the Hyuga Clan.
In other words, the Otsutsuki Clan, which can transfer thousands of troops during the decisive battle, didn't suffer any losses at all.
So there is a very strange problem. The Otsutsuki Clan has a total population of nearly 10,000. On the moon, there is no foreign enemy, why did only Otsutsuki Samurai die for no reason?
"In a relative period of time, the total amount of Chakra is fixed, so the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon gathers the Byakugan of the deceased into the giant Tenseigan, which directly causes the giant Tenseigan to become stronger and stronger, and the Chakra of the deceased converges into the giant Tenseigan. Naturally, the number of newborns is greatly reduced, so the giant Tenseigan suppresses the population of the Otsutsuki Clan. The stronger the giant Tenseigan, the smaller the number of people in the Otsutsuki Clan?"
In a trance, Hyōjin had a bold guess in his mind.
"If my guess is correct, then Otsutsuki Samurai can be born under the suppression of the giant Tenseigan. Doesn't it mean that he must have the qualifications to awaken the Tenseigan?"
Following this thought, Hyōjin's eyes returned to the genealogy in his hand, and he wondered: "Then what is suppressing the population of the Hyuga clan?"
The population of the Hyuga clan in the shinobi world has been decreasing year by year. Although it is not as exaggerated as the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon, it is indeed there.
Unconsciously, Hyōjin's eyes fell on the record of the bizarre death of hundreds of clansmen 300 years ago.
"Based on the style of the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon, after knowing that a large number of Byakugan can be used to create the giant Tenseigan, it is impossible for them to willingly dig out the Byakugan of their own clan. They will definitely use various means to plunder the Byakugan to create the giant Tenseigan."
"And the Hyuga clan in the shinobi world is obviously a good target. After all, in terms of physique and skills, the Otsutsuki Clan, which has the inheritance of Otsutsuki Hamura, is much stronger than the Hyuga clan, and the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan also meets the standard of creating the giant Tenseigan."
"Calculating the time, it seems to be three hundred years ago …"
"But I remember that the giant Tenseigan on the moon is made of the Byakugan of the Otsutsuki Clan? The strange death of hundreds of clansmen in the genealogy, was it because the Otsutsuki Clan plundered the Byakugan, or the Hyuga clan at that time, in order to protect themselves … "
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