Konoha's Panic

Obviously, he knew that what he had just said was nothing but wishful thinking. People had already been killed, the Hokage was already dead, and that monster had committed an irredeemable crime. How could a few words of talk-no-jutsu possibly make him surrender?

Dream on!

However...

"No, maybe it really is worth trying."

A Hyuga Clan ninja without the Caged Bird Seal on his forehead walked over and looked at the clansman who had made the suggestion.

"Elder!"

"Go and try it. After all, it was your idea."

However, the elder of the Main Family merely looked at him coldly and gave the order.

"Huh? Me?"

The Hyuga Clan ninja froze and pointed at his own face. He was supposed to persuade that monster? Seriously?

"Of course you. Hurry up and go!"

The Main Family elder nodded. He did not care about the life of this Branch Family ninja at all. If the lives of a hundred Branch Family ninjas could be exchanged for the safety of one Main Family ninja, they would do it without hesitation.

To the Hyuga Clan's Main Family, the Caged Bird Seal did not merely protect their bloodline. It also gave them fellow clansmen they could use to take the blame, die in their place, and handle all sorts of menial tasks. In short, the Main Family-Branch Family system was an excellent system for the Main Family.

Naturally, if there was even a chance to save themselves at the cost of just one Branch Family member's life, these Main Family members would act without hesitation. After all, it would not be them dying.

"This..."

The Hyuga Clan ninja looked troubled, but seeing the Main Family elder's expression, he gritted his teeth and left.

Before long, he arrived in an incomparably frigid area where it seemed snow had begun to fall.

"So cold... This guy's power is terrifying. No, just getting close makes me feel the heat, Chakra, and stamina in my body constantly draining away. This really is a monster!"

The Hyuga Clan ninja looked at the scene before him. A few snowflakes had already begun falling from the sky, while the surroundings had grown incredibly dark. The moon was clearly overhead, yet barely any moonlight could be seen. Raising his head, he could vaguely make out a blurred figure in the sky, wrapped in countless streams of light.

"Something's wrong. Very wrong. Why has he stopped moving...?"

He shook his head and slowly began retreating. Then, he sharply noticed that the frigid area was continuously expanding. It was not expanding slowly, either. A rough estimate made cold sweat break out across his body, because at this rate, it would not be long before all of Konoha was engulfed.

If they had not evacuated Konoha by then, they would undoubtedly die without even a burial site. They would lose even the chance to flee. In that environment, the power within their bodies would not last long at all.

"No, I have to notify everyone in the village immediately and tell them to hurry up. We can't delay any longer. We have to move faster, or else..."

The Hyuga Clan ninja immediately turned and began to run. Fortunately, he had not gone deep into the area enveloped by Uchiha Yue. Otherwise, he might not have had the strength to run back out.

As for why he had come here, that monster was hanging in the sky right now. He did not even have a chance to approach him, so how the hell was he supposed to use talk-no-jutsu?

Soon, after the Hyuga Clan ninja brought the news back, the Konoha Ninja accelerated their evacuation once more.

"How could this happen... The Uchiha Clan... Nii-san..."

Within the crowd, Uchiha Sasuke looked toward the distant sky, where everything had already darkened. What had happened today had nearly overturned everything Uchiha Sasuke believed. Even now, he could not believe that the brother he had always admired had actually attacked their clansmen.

The Uchiha Clan had been exterminated. At that moment, Uchiha Sasuke was utterly lost. He did not know why things had turned out this way. Everything from the past had been completely overturned today. The brother he had hated so deeply had probably died as well.

For a moment, he did not know what to do. Yet he felt no hatred toward Uchiha Yue. After all, Uchiha Yue had killed that so-called brother of his and avenged their clansmen.

"Run! Hurry, hurry! Don't take anything with you! Leave Konoha! Get out of Konoha now!"

At that moment, several ninjas appeared along the edge of the crowd. They shouted furiously as they drove Konoha's residents to flee.

At the same time, after learning just how terrifying Uchiha Yue was, Konoha's barrier unit arrived at the area shrouded by Uchiha Yue's force field and began erecting barriers, hoping to delay the field's spread and buy time for everyone else in Konoha to escape.

As the barriers unfolded, the spread of that freezing region truly stopped. However, before the ninjas could breathe a sigh of relief, their expressions changed. The Chakra within their bodies began to be crazily drained away like flowing water. In mere moments, all their Chakra was emptied, and the barriers collapsed on the spot.

Caught off guard by the sudden loss of their Chakra, the barrier unit members collapsed weakly to the ground. Frigid darkness enveloped them, and the tiny amount of energy remaining in their bodies began to drain away uncontrollably. Fortunately, their companions were nearby and immediately pulled them out. Otherwise, in their current state, they might have died in there.

"Run! We can't stop it! We have no way to deal with this monster! Run! Run!"

The barrier unit members kept shouting, their eyes filled with terror. This was not merely a monster—it was a monster beyond the reach of human strength!

Soon, under the frantic urging, all of Konoha's villagers left Konoha in an extremely short time.

"Hehe, run. Run as much as you want. You won't be able to run for long. Your fate has already been decided! The fate of this world has already been decided! Hahaha! Come on, resist me! Hahahaha!!!"

High in the heavens, Uchiha Yue watched Konoha's residents fleeing with their families like ants. Not only was he not angry, he instead grinned. The Ninja World was only so large. Where could they possibly run to?

Standing within the halo, he raised a hand and felt the increasingly vast, surging energy within his body.

"Damn it! How did this happen?! Who exactly is this guy? Why does he know my identity?"

Uchiha Obito roared with an incomparably gloomy expression. Then he summoned a White Zetsu, cut off its arm, and attached it to his own wrist.

"Obito, how did things go? Did you exterminate the Uchiha Clan? Hm? What happened to your hand?"

At that moment, a black figure emerged from the ground before him.

Black Zetsu had barely finished speaking when...