The Chakra within Uchiha Yue was poisonous—an unadulterated toxin to any intelligent life-form. After devouring Uchiha Yue's Chakra, he discovered that he simply could not digest it. On the contrary, the Chakra was like a living thing; the moment it entered his body, it began corroding and assimilating the Chakra within him. If he did not deal with it immediately and instead allowed that Chakra to remain inside him...
He might be eaten hollow by it and turned into an empty shell.
"What exactly... are you?"
Incredibly high potential for growth, immortality with no visible limits, and bizarrely active Chakra—was this really a creature that could exist in the Ninja World? Could such a life-form truly be born on this insignificant little planet called the Ninja World?
Not even the Ōtsutsuki Clan possessed abilities this bizarre and sinister. A monster—even someone as proud as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had to admit that the guy before him was an absolute monster! A fiend!
If not for those Mangekyō Sharingan, if not for Uchiha Yue's human form, he would have suspected that this was not a creature of the Ninja World at all, but some horrifying, bizarre, unimaginable extraterrestrial life-form from the depths of the universe.
"Me? Hahaha! Of course I'm... human! Come on! Didn't you want to devour my power? Hahaha! Come on! Come on! Since you want to devour it, I'll give you all my power! Hahaha!!!"
Uchiha Yue slowly rose to his feet and spread his arms, embracing the world. The next moment, the Chakra around him surged wildly like a tide. His originally deep-blue Chakra transformed instantly, becoming a blazing, constantly leaping special Chakra that crackled with tiny explosions.
In the next instant, Uchiha Yue flashed before Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and drove a fist at him.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki raised a hand, and the two fists collided once more. Before, this punch would have blown Uchiha Yue's arm apart, and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki would have pressed the advantage and smashed Uchiha Yue's head. But this time...
The layer of Chakra on Uchiha Yue's body began compressing the instant it came into contact with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's fist, and then...
Boom!
A violent explosion rang out. A small mushroom cloud slowly rose, breaking through the restraints of the Dead Silence Domain.
As the mushroom cloud rose, the ninja from the major Ninja Villages stationed on distant mountaintops to monitor and observe the Dead Silence Domain finally realized that something was wrong. No, they had noticed something was off earlier.
For all these days, the Dead Silence Domain, which had never moved and had only continued expanding outward, suddenly began to move. This made them incomparably nervous. After all, though he was called a natural disaster, Uchiha Yue was still a living person.
Such an enormous Dead Silence Domain, if it moved around and wandered into any country at random, could destroy that nation merely by roaming about.
But after watching for a while and realizing that the Dead Silence Domain was merely swaying left and right without any pattern, like someone rolling around in bed while asleep, they relaxed slightly.
As they had said before, Uchiha Yue was a living person. Perhaps he had stayed still for too long, gotten tired, and wanted to stretch his legs?
But now, they finally realized that this was no mere tiredness or desire to walk around. With such a commotion, a battle seemed to be taking place inside!
"My God, just what kind of powerhouse could withstand that terrifying absorption ability and enter it to fight Uchiha Yue?!"
On a distant mountaintop, the ninja of Iwagakure stared in shock at the slowly rising mushroom cloud. At once, they began contacting their village to report what had happened.
The other Ninja Villages did the same. Some ninja even went directly to the edge of the Dead Silence Domain, intending to see what was happening. Unfortunately, although an extremely fierce battle was taking place within, it looked utterly calm and deathly silent from the outside. Only at the outermost edges could they barely make out anything.
Once they looked deeper in, all they could see was profound darkness.
If not for that mushroom cloud, they would not even have known that a battle was taking place inside.
Within the Dead Silence Domain.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki stood amid the ruins. From Uchiha Yue's first death until now, he had finally been injured!
Drip!
A drop of blood fell to the ground. He looked at his hand. It was a bloody mess, the bones in his fingers shattered. It looked as though nothing was wrong on the surface, but in truth, it had already become a lump of pulp.
"Truly powerful! But how long can you keep up that kind of power?"
Uchiha Yue slowly emerged from the smoke and dust with a wide grin. The next moment, he charged again.
"Monster!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki took a step back and flew into the air. Immediately afterward, countless Chakra Black Rods rained down like raindrops, turning Uchiha Yue into a pincushion.
However, those black rods made of Chakra only inflicted piercing wounds on Uchiha Yue. His body rapidly began absorbing the Chakra that formed the Chakra Black Rods.
Next, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used every method at his disposal. He even raised his power to the limit achievable at his current stage and completely sealed Uchiha Yue away. Yet within seconds, Uchiha Yue devoured the Chakra that formed the sealing technique and crawled back out.
He could not be killed! He could not be sealed!
Monster! A true monster!
At that moment, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was completely numb. Everything happening now was utterly different from what he had imagined. In his original plan, Uchiha Yue should have already been completely killed, his eyes taken, and implanted into Jigen's body.
Yet ninety seconds had already passed, and he still had not killed Uchiha Yue or taken those eyes.
It was not that he could not kill Uchiha Yue. It was that Uchiha Yue could not die!
Such terrifying immortality was something even the Ōtsutsuki Clan had never possessed! Before the Ōtsutsuki Clan consumed the Divine Tree's fruit and fused with the Divine Tree, even someone like him had nearly died after being cut in half. If he had not encountered Jigen back then, he would already be dead.
Even resurrection required a suitable vessel and the planting of Karma. But what about Uchiha Yue?
He needed no conditions at all. He simply resurrected so easily.
After several dozen seconds of battle, he had more or less figured out Uchiha Yue's specific ability: a...
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