Ancient Ruins

As Yemo carefully observed his surroundings, he became increasingly surprised. There were many passageways on the cliffs around him, and the one they were standing in was just one of them.

"What should we do now?!"

Everything before him was so bizarre and strange, especially the towering tree, hundreds of meters tall, which far exceeded Kakashi's experience. Kakashi's mind was still in a complete mess, let alone knowing what to do.

"I don't know either!"

Yemo smiled bitterly. He wasn't much better off Kakashi. His mind was in a mess right now. Who could have imagined that they would come to such a place with the four clan elders?

Suddenly, Yemo's gaze inadvertently fell upon something. He focused his attention and looked down, only to see that there were some stone tablets at the very bottom.

"There's a stone tablet down there. Let's go down and take a look!"

After saying this, Yemo leaped down, stepping on the protruding rocks on the cliff, and landed on the ground with a few jumps. Kakashi followed closely behind and jumped down as well.

The two walked up to the stone tablet. They couldn't see it clearly from above before, but now that they were closer, they found that the stone tablets were broken and had cracks on them, indicating that they were very old.

The stone tablet was inscribed with some white characters. When Yemo approached it, he realized that the characters were not modern characters, but a strange tadpole script.

At that moment, Kakashi suddenly spoke up from behind, "I think I've seen this kind of writing before. It's from before the Warring States period, so it's over a thousand years old. It seems this place has existed for over a thousand years; it must be some kind of ancient relic."

"Really? Do you know him? Kakashi?" Yemo asked in surprise, wondering if the writing on it might contain important information about this place.

Shrugging, Kakashi said, "Yemo, you overestimate me. These characters are thousands of years old. I've only seen them on some things. There are definitely people in the village who know this script, but it's definitely not me."

"You don't need to tell me that, I already know," Yemo said irritably. "If we wait until we copy these down ourselves and send them to the village, and then wait until the village translates them before sending them back, it'll be too late. The point is, the sooner we know the information recorded on these, the better."

Kakashi spread his hands, looking like he didn't know what to do, and said, "How about this? Since we don't know each other, let's make a copy first, and then take the contents to Minato-sensei and Kosuke- sama. Maybe they'll know something."

"This is the only way!" Yemo couldn't think of any other good solutions, so he had no choice but to do this.

Without further ado, Kakashi took out the scroll he always carried and carefully engraved the text on the stone tablet. Yemo did not Kakashi Kakashi's work.

He walked to the side and curiously looked around. In the vast space, only this big tree existed, and apart from him and Kakashi, the two fire people, there was no trace of any other living beings.

The problem is that the four clan elders had already entered before they arrived, but now where are they? There's no sign of them.

Lost in thought, Yemo inexplicably walked up to the large tree. Looking at the strange tree before him, Yemo inexplicably stretched out his hand and placed it on its thick trunk.

The next second, Yemo shuddered, his eyes went blank, and the massive Chakra within him surged wildly into the tree trunk through his arm, causing his body to convulse uncontrollably.

"Yemo!"

Kakashi, who was engraving the inscription on the monument, noticed that Yemo suddenly stopped moving and the surroundings became unusually quiet. He called out but received no reply. Feeling something was wrong, he quickly turned around and saw Yemo's palm pressed against the trunk of a large tree, his body convulsing.

Upon seeing this, Kakashi's expression changed instantly. Although he didn't know what had happened, he could tell that Yemo was in a very bad situation. Kakashi rushed out, even throwing the scroll to the ground.

Circulating his Chakra, Kakashi raised his right palm and struck Yemo's arm. Kakashi used all his strength in this strike, enough to break a large tree, but when he struck Yemo's arm, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, not even causing a ripple. In fact, Kakashi's own body was sucked into the tree.

Now Kakashi finally understood what Yemo felt. A suction force firmly attached him to the tree trunk, and his Chakra surged wildly into the tree.

Unlike Yemo Kakashi, Yemo possessed a massive amount of Chakra and could withstand the suction, Kakashi's Chakra was almost completely drained in no time, and his face turned deathly pale. No matter how much Kakashi struggled, he could not escape the suction force.

"Otherwise, if this continues, we'll die here!"

Kakashi gritted his teeth, his mind made up. He took a Kunai from his ninja tool pouch on his back with his left hand, swung it, and slashed down at his right hand Kunai hesitation. Losing an arm was better than dying here.

Just as Kakashi was about to swing his Kunai cut off his arm, a surge of power suddenly erupted from the dazed Yemo's body. This power was not only powerful but also very strange, and it instantly sent Kakashi flying as he was about to swing his kunai Kunai cut off his arm.

Kakashi fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust. His Kunai flew out of his hand, tumbling dozens of times in the air before crashing to the ground with a clang.

Cough cough... Kakashi coughed lightly as he got up from the ground. He was still in shock from what he had just witnessed. He hadn't been able to break free for so long, and the power he had used to cut through his opponent's defenses had been so easily dispersed.

Although he didn't know exactly what had happened, Kakashi knew that the power he had just felt originated from Yemo's body. His gaze was fixed on Yemo, and he asked with a mixture of worry and curiosity, "Yemo, what happened to you?"

On the other side, after Yemo unleashed that nameless power, his dazed eyes gradually cleared, and his consciousness returned.

He gripped his right hand tightly with his left, braced his feet against the tree trunk, and with all his might, with a shout, finally broke free from the tree's pull and fell to the ground with a thud.

Whew... Whew...

Yemo lay on the ground, panting heavily, covered in sweat, looking as if he had just done something strenuous and was completely exhausted.

Kakashi, panting heavily, walked over to Yemo, patted Yemo on the shoulder, and then plopped down next to Yemo.

Looking at Kakashi, Yemo panted, "We barely escaped death; we were almost drained of our humanity. By the way, did you feel that strange sensation?"

Nodding, Kakashi was very puzzled by what had just happened and said, "Of course I felt it. How could such a thing happen?"

"I'm not entirely sure either, but rather than the strange tree attracting us, it was more like our Chakra seemed to have gained consciousness, surging wildly towards the tree uncontrollably," Yemo paused, then paused for a long time before finding the right words to describe the feeling, "That feeling... that feeling... it's like the joy of children who have been separated for many years desperately wanting to return to their parents' embrace."

Kakashi thought Yemo's description was very apt, "That's right, that's the feeling!" But then Kakashi added, "Why do I have this feeling? What's going on with this tree!"

Chakra, as the source of a ninja's power, is essential; without Chakra, a ninja is not a ninja. Chakra is an energy produced by the perfect fusion of various components of energy in the human body. Logically, Chakra is created by the ninja himself, so why does the Chakra surge wildly into this strange tree in front of him?

This was not only what puzzled Kakashi, but also what worried Kakashi and even terrified him. Although Kakashi could not be said to be well-read and knowledgeable about the past and present, this was something that probably no one had ever thought of, and no one would believe if he told them, but it really happened.

Let alone Kakashi, Yemo now sees the tree in front of him not just as strange, but as bizarre. It's just too bizarre. Even now that he's calmed down, Yemo still finds it hard to believe.