Obito: It Was Fate!

Black Zetsu could accept this outcome. After all, he believed that only that guy Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo could deal with Uchiha Yue now. If Uchiha Yue vanished, he could not think of anyone besides Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo who could kill him!

"It looks like he really is practicing ninjutsu. This is troublesome... Good thing I have the Kamui Dimension!"

Uchiha Obito shook his head, becoming even more convinced that Uchiha Yue was practicing ninjutsu. Just like that, Black Zetsu was led astray by Uchiha Obito as well. It could not be helped; White Zetsu had not actually seen anyone enter, nor had he seen anyone escape after things calmed down.

And it had lasted far too briefly—just over a minute. That was not even enough time to fire off a single shot, much less fight.

Not long after, they found Nagato and told him what White Zetsu had discovered. At first, Nagato was startled. Instinctively, he assumed that the Ninja World still held a supreme powerhouse capable of withstanding the absorption of that Dead Silence Domain and forcibly charging up to Uchiha Yue to fight him.

After all, even he could not do something like that. If not for Uchiha Yue, having such a peerless expert hidden in the shadows would have been an enormous danger to his previous plans.

It might even cause his entire plan to fail and collapse because of this undefined powerhouse!

However, after Black Zetsu and the others continued explaining, Nagato understood. He had overthought it. There was no hidden peerless expert at all; Uchiha Yue had merely been practicing ninjutsu.

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

Nagato shook his head, his face full of helplessness. Uchiha Yue was already incredibly hard to deal with in his normal state. Nagato did not even know how to defeat that monster. Now that Uchiha Yue had learned even more ninjutsu, would he not be even more invincible and despair-inducing?

If only that domain didn't exist.

Nagato thought this. He did not believe he was truly weaker than Uchiha Yue. He was Kami of the new world, wielding the Rinnegan!

The only reason he had no way to deal with Uchiha Yue was that Dead Silence Domain. It could not be destroyed, stopped, or crossed. To kill Uchiha Yue, one had to cross that Dead Silence Domain, yet to make the Dead Silence Domain disappear, one had to kill Uchiha Yue.

Fine, they were stuck.

With that Dead Silence Domain in place, unless he obtained the ultimate weapon and gained terrifying Chakra beyond what he possessed now, he could only withstand the domain's absorption and reach Uchiha Yue to kill him.

As for now, he should not even think about it. With such a vast range, if he ran in, he would probably become a useless wreck with no strength left and only enough power to perform a basic clone technique the moment he saw Uchiha Yue. Uchiha Yue would not even need to make a move; he would simply die there.

"It doesn't matter. I will act! If we really can't deal with Uchiha Yue, we'll take the seeds we've selected into the Kamui Dimension and sleep, waiting for Uchiha Yue to die of old age."

Uchiha Obito did not particularly care. Ever since Black Zetsu had awakened him to the truth, he had stopped caring. With the Kamui Dimension, if there truly was no other way, he could just hide in Kamui.

During this time, he and Black Zetsu had been continuously studying sealing techniques, hoping to develop one that could preserve a person's condition after being applied and put them into slumber.

This concerned their plan. When the time came, they would not enter slumber. Instead, while everyone else slept, they would act against the Tailed Beasts, eventually obtain ultimate power, kill Uchiha Yue, and create the world of their dreams.

"Mm. How is the news spreading?"

Nagato nodded, then asked.

"Very successfully. Nearly the entire Ninja World now knows what happened in Konoha, and they know about the threat Uchiha Yue may pose. Every Ninja Village, large and small alike, has already dispatched ninja to observe the area near where Uchiha Yue is."

Black Zetsu's voice rang out.

They did more than know. Sunagakure's ninja had even been wiped out to the last man. 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 constantly growing. For the time being, they could still explore it with the simplest and most primitive method.

They tied a rope around someone's body and pulled them out once they could no longer endure it.

However, that method only worked because of Uchiha Yue's current energy absorption rate and because he had not yet covered the entire Ninja World.

If Uchiha Yue's energy absorption rate reached the point where it could efficiently absorb kinetic energy, anyone entering would likely become unable to move the moment they stepped inside as their kinetic energy was absorbed. They could neither advance nor retreat. Even with a rope tied around them, if the pulling force from outside could not exceed the domain's absorption rate...

A person weighing barely over a hundred pounds would feel as though they were dragging an entire mountain.

In truth, Uchiha Yue's absorption ability had already begun to extend into this area. When Tsunade entered it and realized she could not hold on, she had intended to retreat immediately. Under normal circumstances, with the energy remaining in Tsunade's body at the time, she could have been pulled out safely. At most, she would have been weak all over and utterly exhausted; she would never have fallen into a near-death state.

The reason she ended up like that was because pulling Tsunade out required more strength than it normally would. If the person pulling Tsunade out at the time had not been a ninja, but an ordinary person, then by the time they got her out...

Tsunade's corpse would most likely have gone completely cold.

"Now, all we need to do is wait for time to work its course. They will discover Uchiha Yue's true terror. He simply isn't human! When that time comes, it will be our turn to act!"

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

It was fate that had given him the chance to realize his plan more quickly!