It doesn't matter, I'll make a move

Like Jiraya, Tsunade had come harboring a faint hope. Why had Uchiha Yue shown no reaction for so long? If he truly hated Konoha, he should have charged over by now and annihilated it.

"Perhaps Uchiha Yue holds the great Will of Fire in his heart, still loving Konoha! It's just that his power is out of control now. If I can get close to him and make him remember that great Will of Fire buried in his heart..."

"Maybe then Uchiha Yue will put away his current power and willingly accept their judgment!"

As a member of the village, harming one's comrades is unforgivable. Uchiha Yue must pay the price for his actions!

What, you bring up Shimura Danzō? You bring up Orochimaru? How can that compare? It's different! Danzō did what he did for the village. Orochimaru was already driven out. That's not the same.

If only Uchiha Yue could realize his mistake and take his own life like White Fang.

Unfortunately, no one yet knew what Uchiha Yue's situation truly was, nor did anyone know what he was thinking. Even his appearance was sketched from vague impressions.

As for what Uchiha Yue actually looked like—that was anyone's guess.

Alas, Tsunade's hope was shattered. As she pressed forward, her chakra and other biological energy drained continuously. Her body grew colder, her consciousness began to blur, and she understood just how laughable and foolish her thoughts had been.

Unless she possessed an endless torrent of massive chakra capable of resisting this domain's absorption and freely traversing the Dead Silence Domain, she couldn't even reach Uchiha Yue's location.

"The life inside here..."

Soon, Tsunade crouched down in exhaustion. The chakra maintaining her Yin Seal had vanished. The beautiful woman from moments ago was now a wrinkled, saggy old hag. Her breathing grew labored, and her legs could no longer support her.

At such a distance, without the rope behind her, Tsunade would have been buried in this Dead Silence Domain today.

Tsunade weakly tugged the rope. In that moment, she understood her own weakness. The rope behind her began to move, pulling her back out.

As she fled, Tsunade carefully observed the plants along the way. They were completely dead, yet without bacteria or insects, and not much time had passed, they didn't look dead—more like frozen, as if they would revive when the ice melted in spring.

But Tsunade knew it was an illusion. This domain held no trace of life. Plants, things, bacteria—no matter how tiny the organism, none could survive in such a hopeless environment.

Compared to this Dead Silence Domain, the planet's ice age was heaven versus hell for living beings. The former at least allowed some creatures to barely survive. The latter...

"This is... hell!"

Tsunade's body was slowly dragged by the rope toward the domain's edge. Having learned that the Dead Silence Domain only absorbed energy and had no other properties, entering and surviving safely at this stage required nothing more than a rope.

But that was only for now.

The reason a simple rope still allowed safe survival was that they still had places to take shelter. Once this Dead Silence Domain enveloped the entire planet, unless they fled the planet beforehand...

By then, even trying to escape the planet would be impossible.

When Shizune and the others finally dragged Tsunade out with great effort, her chakra was nearly gone. Her body curled up, almost unconscious. Despite preparations and already overestimating Uchiha Yue's power, Tsunade had still underestimated the terror of this Dead Silence Domain.

Fortunately, her condition was merely energy depletion—unlike Jiraiya, whose excessive energy consumption had caused his flesh to die.

"Tsunade-sama!"

Shizune and the others rushed to treat her. After confirming she was barely alive, they immediately carried her far from the Dead Silence Domain.

Not long after Tsunade and her group fled, Jigen, under Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's control, arrived at the edge of the Dead Silence Domain.

"So this is the power of that Uchiha Yue? A mere Ninja World native..."

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki gazed at the Dead Silence Domain and reached his hand inside. After feeling it for a moment, he withdrew.

"Why is this... how can this be..."

He stepped back, staring fixedly at the Dead Silence Domain, as if trying to see through the frosted-glass-like space to the core hidden deep within.

"Kaguya, you bitch! You've left me quite a surprise! Good, good! Very good indeed!"

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki ground his teeth, speaking each word with fury clearly reaching its limit.

"And Shimura Danzō! Good, very good, you mongrel—I'll remember you!"

After reaching inside, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki discovered that even a powerhouse like him, a master of chakra domains, could not stop his energy from being devoured and absorbed by this Dead Silence Domain. It was an utterly terrifying method of energy absorption.

In that moment, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was certain: this Uchiha Yue, that damned, lowly Ninja World native, had awakened the Divine Tree's original ability!

He stared at the ever-expanding Dead Silence Domain, his expression grim beyond measure. Uchiha Yue could indeed be called a natural disaster for the Ninja World's creatures—no, not just for the natives, but even for him.

Once Uchiha Yue's power grew to cover the entire planet, even he would be doomed. All things would become void. All things would perish.

"It seems I must act. For now, Uchiha Yue's power hasn't reached the point of covering the whole planet or even half of it. He's not strong enough yet. I still have a chance!"

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki took a deep breath. He...