I'll Handle It

Like Jiraiya, Tsunade had come with a sliver of hope in her heart. Why had Uchiha Yue shown no reaction after so long? If he truly hated Konoha, he should have rushed over and destroyed it by now.

"Perhaps Uchiha Yue still carries the great Will of Fire in his heart. Perhaps he still loves Konoha. It's just that his power is out of control now. As long as I can get close to Uchiha Yue and remind him of the great Will of Fire hidden in his heart..."

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

As a member of the village, harming one's comrades was an unforgivable act. Uchiha Yue had to pay for what he had done!

What, you mentioned Shimura Danzō? You mentioned Orochimaru? How could those be the same? They were different! Danzo had done it for the village, while Orochimaru had already been driven out. It was different.

If Uchiha Yue could understand his mistakes and kill himself like White Fang, that would be ideal.

Unfortunately, no one knew what Uchiha Yue's current condition was, nor did anyone know what he was thinking. Even Uchiha Yue's appearance had been drawn based only on a few vague impressions.

As for what Uchiha Yue actually looked like, no one knew.

Unfortunately, Tsunade's hopes were shattered. As she continued forward, the Chakra and other biological energy within her were continuously drained away. When her body grew colder and her consciousness began to blur, Tsunade understood just how laughable and foolish her thoughts had been.

Unless she possessed an endless supply of immense Chakra capable of resisting the absorption of this domain and allowing her to move freely through the Dead Silence Domain, she would not even get to see Uchiha Yue himself.

"The living creatures in here..."

Not long afterward, Tsunade wearily crouched down. The Chakra sustaining the Yin Seal had been exhausted. Tsunade, who had just been a stunning beauty, had now become a wrinkled, sagging old woman. Her breathing grew increasingly heavy, and her legs no longer had the strength to keep walking.

Over such a vast distance, if not for the rope behind her, Tsunade would likely have been buried in the Dead Silence Domain today.

Tsunade weakly tugged on the rope. At that moment, she understood her own weakness. The rope behind her began to move, pulling her outward.

As she fled this place, Tsunade carefully observed the plants along the way. They had completely died, yet because there were no bacteria or insects, and because not much time had passed, they did not seem dead. Instead, they looked frozen, as though they could regain their vitality once the ice melted next year.

However, Tsunade knew it was all an illusion. This domain had been completely stripped of the aura of life. Plants, objects, bacteria, even the tiniest organisms could not survive in such a desperate environment.

Compared to this Dead Silence Domain, a planetary ice age was simply the difference between heaven and hell for living beings. At least some creatures could barely survive in the former. As for the latter...

"This is... hell!"

Tsunade's body was slowly dragged by the rope behind her toward the edge of the domain. After learning that the Dead Silence Domain had no other trait besides absorbing energy, safely entering it and surviving only required a rope at the current stage.

However, that was only true at the current stage.

They could safely survive with nothing more than a rope now only because they still had places to take shelter. Once the Dead Silence Domain enveloped the entire planet, unless they escaped the planet in advance...

Otherwise, by then, even escaping this planet would become impossible.

When Tsunade was painstakingly pulled out by Shizune and the others, the Chakra in her body had nearly vanished. Her body was curled into a ball, and she was almost unconscious. Even though they had prepared themselves and estimated Uchiha Yue's power as highly as possible, Tsunade had still underestimated the horror of the Dead Silence Domain.

Fortunately, her current state was merely due to excessive energy depletion. It was not like Jiraiya, whose flesh had necrosed from excessive depletion of bodily energy.

"Lady Tsunade!"

Shizune and the others hurriedly treated Tsunade. After confirming that she was barely still alive, they immediately carried her away from the Dead Silence Domain.

Not long after Tsunade and the others escaped, Jigen, under Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's control, also arrived at the edge of the Dead Silence Domain.

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

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

"Why is this... How is this possible..."

He took a step back and stared fixedly at the Dead Silence Domain, seemingly trying to see through the space that resembled frosted glass and glimpse the core hidden deep within it.

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

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki spoke through gritted teeth, word by word. Clearly, his rage had reached its limit.

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

After extending his hand inside, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki discovered that even a powerhouse like him, a grand master of Chakra domains, could not stop the energy in his body from being devoured and absorbed by the Dead Silence Domain. This was an exceptionally terrifying method of energy absorption.

At that moment, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki became completely certain that this damned, lowly Ninja World native, Uchiha Yue, had awakened the Divine Tree's fundamental ability!

He looked at the Dead Silence Domain, which was still continuously expanding, his expression turning incomparably grim. To the living beings of the Ninja World, Uchiha Yue truly counted as a natural disaster. No, not just to the natives of the Ninja World. Even to him, Uchiha Yue counted as a natural disaster.

Once Uchiha Yue's power grew to the point where it covered the entire planet, even he would certainly die. All things would become void; all things would perish.

"It seems I must act. Uchiha Yue's power has not yet reached the point of covering the entire planet, or even half of it. His power is not strong enough yet. I still have a chance!"

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki took a deep breath. He...