Pitch-black darkness.
Once the substance expanded from the Truth-Seeking Orb enveloped them, all perception of the outside world vanished. Even the Byakugan's penetrating vision could not see through that thin, black spherical shell.
Neji Hyuga used Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Palms, raining blows against the Truth-Seeking Orb's inner wall, but the chakra he released vanished without a trace, like a clay ox sinking into the sea. He tried using the Flying Bird Eye Technique to create a nature energy clone outside, yet he could not budge the Truth-Seeking Orb in the slightest-
Just as Neji Hyuga ran out of options, someone seemed to lift him by the back of his collar, and his entire body suddenly slipped into a hazy gray Void Space.
The black Truth-Seeking Orb still existed, and he was still inside it, yet he could "walk" out of the sealed sphere without any resistance. Bewildered, he looked back and realized that although he seemed to be walking, he was actually floating. The person holding his collar was a woman with long gray-white hair, a moon-white robe, two pointed horns on her head, a vertical mark between her brows, and a cool, aloof face with Byakugan eyes.
Within this strange dimension, which seemed to overlap reality without intersecting it, two more identical Mysterious Kaguyas emerged leisurely from the spheres expanded from the Truth-Seeking Orbs imprisoning the others. One held Shiho's hand, while the other escorted the sisters, Hinata Hyuga and Hanabi.
"Oh, has the great Sage finally taken an interest in a mere mortal like me?
Why did I just sense the Rinnegan's ocular power coming from you?"
At that moment, in the real-world dimension outside, Wu Yu happened to be speaking with Obito Uchiha, who had already become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. During their conversation, Wu Yu actually