Feast of the Mortal World, a Century-Long Mission!

Sizzle!

Black lines spread from the diamond-shaped Dark Release mark beneath the Gate of the Great God, connecting its two ends. Lines also extended above and below the mark, linking it to the marks beneath the adjacent gates until they reached the Samsara Eight Trigrams Array at the far end. The Ten Directions Absorption Array activated!

"Phew..." Tobirama lowered his hands after completing the Hand Seals. His earrings swayed. Activating the array had consumed a vast amount of chakra, but nowhere near enough to exhaust the Talisman Release Earrings.

Everyone immediately noticed that the Divine Tree's chakra absorption had surged. If it had flowed like a rushing river before, now it was as vast as the Boundless Sea!

The Divine Tree had been planted, and the problem of harvesting its fruit early had been solved. But a new problem now faced Yu.

The fruit would be harvested in ten years by the outside world's reckoning. Inside the Double-Moon Space, however, the Divine Tree would need a full hundred years to grow!

Countless Moon Beasts lived here, and even death could not keep them down. What if they approached the Divine Tree? Over a hundred years, other unforeseen dangers were bound to arise!

Someone had to stay behind and guard the Divine Tree for a century!

In the Shinobi World today, only the five people present could protect the Divine Tree in this harsh environment. Yu, as the head of the Shinobi World and leader of the Ninja Kingdom, could not stay. Mito was pregnant, so she could not stay either...

That left Madara, Hashirama, and Tobirama!

A hundred years!

As silence fell over the group, Tobirama drew a deep breath and broke it. "Let me stay. No one is better suited..."

"Tobirama!"

"Tobirama!"

Hashirama and Mito cried out.

"..." Madara