Obito: It's Destiny!

For Black Zetsu, this outcome was acceptable. After all, in his view, only Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo could deal with Uchiha Yue now. If Uchiha Yue vanished, he couldn't imagine anyone else killing him except Hagoromo.

"It really does look like he's training a jutsu. Troublesome. Good thing I have the Kamui Dimension."

Uchiha Obito shook his head, growing more certain that Uchiha Yue was simply practicing ninjutsu. And so, Black Zetsu was led astray by Obito as well. After all, White Zetsu hadn't seen anyone enter, nor had he spotted anyone escape after things calmed down.

Besides, the duration was far too short—just over a minute. That wasn't even enough time to cast a single jutsu, let alone fight.

Soon, they found Nagato and reported what White Zetsu had discovered. At first, Nagato's heart jolted. He instinctively thought there was another top-tier fighter in the Ninja World who could withstand the absorption of that Dead Silence Domain and force their way to Uchiha Yue for battle.

After all, even he couldn't do something like that. If such a powerhouse among powerhouses, an expert among experts, had been lurking in the shadows without this incident with Uchiha Yue, it would have been an enormous hidden threat to his previous plans.

It might even have caused those plans to fail completely, to collapse entirely.

But after Black Zetsu and the others explained further, Nagato understood—he had been overthinking it. There was no hidden expert. It was just Uchiha Yue training a jutsu.

"If that's the case, then defeating Uchiha Yue will only become more difficult."

Nagato shook his head, helpless. Uchiha Yue in his normal state was already so hard to deal with that he had no idea how to beat that monster. Now, with even more jutsu under his belt, Uchiha Yue would be even more unstoppable, more despair-inducing.

"If only that domain weren't there."

Nagato thought to himself. He didn't believe he was truly weaker than Uchiha Yue. After all, he was the Kami of the new world, wielding the Rinnegan!

The only reason he could do nothing against Uchiha Yue was that Dead Silence Domain—indestructible, unblockable, uncrossable. To kill Uchiha Yue, he had to cross it. To make the domain disappear, he had to kill Uchiha Yue.

Well, that was a deadlock.

With that domain in place, unless he obtained an ultimate weapon and gained terrifying chakra far beyond his current level, he could only endure the domain's absorption and reach Uchiha Yue to kill him.

As for now, that was out of the question. With such a wide range, if he ran in, he'd probably meet Uchiha Yue already drained of strength, barely able to cast a single basic jutsu, a useless wreck. He might even die there without Uchiha Yue lifting a finger.

"It doesn't matter. I'll step in. If we really can't deal with Uchiha Yue, we'll take the seeds we've chosen and go into hibernation in the Kamui Dimension, waiting for Uchiha Yue to die of old age."

Uchiha Obito was unconcerned. Ever since Black Zetsu had enlightened him, he didn't care anymore. With the Kamui Dimension at his disposal, if there was truly no other way, he could just hide inside.

These days, he and Black Zetsu had been researching sealing jutsu nonstop, trying to develop one that could preserve a person's state and put them into suspended slumber once applied.

This was part of their plan. They wouldn't be the ones sleeping. Instead, while everyone else was asleep, they would strike at the tailed beasts, gain ultimate power, kill Uchiha Yue, and create the world of their dreams.

"Mm. How's the information spreading?"

Nagato nodded, then asked.

"It's going well. By now, almost the entire Ninja World knows what happened in Konoha, and they know about the threat Uchiha Yue might pose. Every ninja village, big or small, has already sent shinobi to observe near Uchiha Yue's location."

Black Zetsu's voice rang out.

It wasn't just that they knew—Sunagakure's shinobi had been completely wiped out. They had underestimated the terror of that Dead Silence Domain. Fortunately, only a little over ten days had passed, and Uchiha Yue's absorption ability was still growing. For now, they could still use the simplest, most primitive method to explore.

That was tying a rope to themselves and pulling the person out when they couldn't hold on anymore.

But this method only worked because Uchiha Yue's current energy absorption rate hadn't yet covered the entire Ninja World.

If his absorption rate reached a level where it could efficiently drain kinetic energy, a person who entered would immediately become unable to move—unable to advance or retreat—because their kinetic energy was being absorbed. Even with a rope tied to them, if the pulling force from outside couldn't overcome the domain's absorption rate...

A person weighing just over a hundred pounds would feel like they were trying to pull a mountain.

In fact, Uchiha Yue's absorption ability had already started touching on this. When Tsunade entered and realized she couldn't hold on, she planned to retreat immediately. Under normal circumstances, with the energy she had left, she could have been safely pulled out—at worst, weak and exhausted, nowhere near death.

The reason she ended up in a near-death state was that pulling her out required far more force than usual. If the person pulling her hadn't been a shinobi but an ordinary civilian, by the time she was dragged out...

Her corpse would have long since gone cold.

"Now we just wait for time to do its work. They'll realize how terrifying Uchiha Yue is. He's not human! And when that happens, that's when we make our move."

Uchiha Obito stepped forward. Soon, very soon, he would achieve his goal. He felt this was his destiny. Yes, that was it. If not for fate, how could he have awakened these eyes? If not for fate, how could he have joined forces with Uchiha Itachi to destroy the Uchiha Clan, only to spawn a monster like Uchiha Yue? It was all fate's choice!

Fate had given him a faster path to realize his plan!