Touch Our People and You're Dead!

The system bragged, "Once you go back, what happened today won't have existed at all. The Dragon Vein has a negligible influence on the Naruto World. You could even say it makes no difference whether it's there or not. That's because the Dragon Vein will vanish from this world completely afterward. Rōran only exists thanks to the Dragon Vein, so it'll probably disappear too. As for its people, whether they remain is uncertain, but Sara is bound too closely to the Dragon Vein. She'll definitely vanish completely."

Uchiha Yi frowned at the system. "Then how do I save Sara?"

The system scoffed. "What's so hard about that? Make Sara your Familiar, and you can take her straight back to your original time and space!"

Uchiha Yi was a little surprised, but quickly caught on. He stopped staring at Minato Namikaze and deactivated his Rinnegan.

Sara had just opened her eyes when she saw Uchiha Yi standing before her.

Uchiha Yi said, "Sara, there's something I need to tell you. Once I take the Dragon Vein, it'll be as though it never existed. Rōran will disappear along with it, and you'll be gone for good too."

Sara's eyes widened in bewilderment. "Then... how can I keep from disappearing?"

Uchiha Yi said, "Just become my Familiar. Then you can return to my original world with me."

Sara's cheeks flushed slightly as she asked softly, "A Familiar... isn't that just a maid?"

Uchiha Yi waved his hand. "Not a maid. A Familiar!"

Sara didn't argue and simply nodded. Just then, the system notification sounded, and his second Familiar was secured.

With Sara's situation settled, Uchiha Yi brought her into his Flying Thunder God Space.

He suddenly remembered what the system had said earlier: once the Dragon Vein vanished, its entire existence would be erased, leaving not even a historical record. This would cause a spacetime paradox, but the system had already handled it. There would be no parallel world.

By now, Naruto and Yamato had vanished from his space, a result of spacetime repairing itself. The impact was so great that many things would change. For instance, Minato Namikaze and the others would never have come to Rōran, and Rōran itself would no longer exist. It was a different sort of reset.

Uchiha Yi didn't care about any of that. What mattered more to him was that, because of the spacetime reset, the next day until his return would be the period before this parallel world disappeared. Once it was all gone, everything would return to the course of his original timeline, and nothing he did would have any effect.

Uchiha Yi looked up at the moon in the night sky, his gaze settling on the enormous Tenseigan up there.

He currently had a silver skill equipped. If he could absorb that Tenseigan, his Byakugan could evolve into a Tenseigan.

He had originally set his sights on Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan too, but the system had said it was an important item in the Naruto World. Losing it would affect the original timeline, so it was best left alone.

Uchiha Yi was a little disappointed, but obtaining the Tenseigan on the moon was already a great prize.

He had been eyeing the Ōtsutsuki Clan on the moon for a long time and had kept searching for a passage leading there. This time, he had actually found one.

Although he hadn't marked the passage with a Flying Thunder God Formula, he was fast. He soon reached the location, passed through the spatial passage, and emerged on the moon.

When Sara learned he was going to the moon, she wanted to see it too, so she had stayed outside waiting.

Sara looked around in surprise. "So this is the moon? It's not quite what I imagined."

Having heard long ago that people lived on the moon, Sara had thought it would look like some fairyland.

But Uchiha Yi merely glanced around, finding nothing remarkable about it. After all, it was no different from what he remembered from his previous life-no Chang'e, no Jade Rabbit.

If there was any difference, it was that this moon was a little smaller than he had imagined. Ultimately, it was just something the Sage of Six Paths had created with Planetary Devastation.

But when he turned toward the Shinobi World, the view from here was breathtakingly beautiful.

"That's the world we live in? So that's what it looks like. It's nothing like what I used to imagine."

Sara shook her head, brimming with excitement.

Hmm? They're here?

Uchiha Yi abruptly looked in a certain direction. He could sense several chakra signatures approaching rapidly.

"Sara, head back inside!"

"Okay!"

Sara evidently realized something was happening too. She nodded, and Uchiha Yi brought her into his Flying Thunder God Space.

Whoosh, whoosh-

Moments later, five or six figures appeared and surrounded Uchiha Yi.

"Who are you? How did you get here?"

The leader sounded utterly astonished. Someone had actually managed to reach the moon and enter their Ōtsutsuki Clan's territory. This was far too unusual.

Uchiha Yi didn't answer. He merely watched the six people before him, silently marveling. As expected of the Ōtsutsuki. They're alert, all right. They noticed the moment someone arrived, and they've even sent out someone at Kage Level.

Uchiha Yi could clearly sense the immense chakra within the middle-aged man who had spoken. At the very least, this fellow was at pseudo-Kage level.

"Seize him!"

When Uchiha Yi remained silent, the middle-aged man barked the order, and all six attacked at once.

"Gentle Fist: Combined Assault: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms!"

The six shouted in unison, unleashing One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms together. With six people combining their strength, its power was countless times greater than the original Eight Trigrams Palm performed alone. This assault was enough to beat an ordinary Kage-level fighter into the ground.

But they had never imagined their opponent would be Uchiha Yi.

"Kamui: Intangibility!"

Uchiha Yi's body flickered and became intangible. All six attacks missed.

"Fall back!"

The middle-aged leader immediately sensed something was wrong and hurriedly led the others in retreat.

"Who exactly are you?"

He had activated his Byakugan when he attacked, but what unnerved him was that he couldn't see anything when he examined his opponent. The man's body was actually immune to his Byakugan.

That alone had prompted him to order the attack immediately. Now, however, he was completely certain: this opponent was terrifying, and absolutely no pushover!

"Shouldn't you introduce yourself before asking someone else who they are? Why attack right off the bat?"

"Is this how your Ōtsutsuki Clan treats its guests?"

The middle-aged man's heart sank. This felt bad. His opponent actually knew they were Ōtsutsuki, which meant his purpose here couldn't be simple.

"Don't hold back! Give it everything!"

He roared, and an even fiercer surge of chakra erupted from his body. It even carried a trace of Yin-Yang Release, faintly exuding an oppressive force.

The remaining five didn't dare hesitate either. They shouted together, "Gentle Fist: Combined Assault: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms!"

The five once again blasted waves of palm strikes toward Uchiha Yi.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon!"

A Lightning Dragon appeared out of thin air and slammed straight into the five, sending them flying and turning them into charred husks.

"You're asking to die!"

Seeing his subordinates killed, the middle-aged man flew into a rage.

"Yin-Yang Release: Eight Trigrams Fist!"

With unusual chakra wrapped around both fists, the middle-aged man lunged at Uchiha Yi.

Yin-Yang Release?

A flicker of surprise crossed Uchiha Yi's eyes. This fellow could actually use Yin-Yang Release? But when he remembered that this branch of the Ōtsutsuki descended from Hamura Otsutsuki, he understood. Their legacy had never been broken, so naturally they had inherited the Ōtsutsuki's Yin-Yang Release.

"Universal Pull!"

His Rinnegan activated instantly, and a powerful repulsive force blasted the middle-aged man away. This was Uchiha Yi's first encounter with Yin-Yang Release, after all, so he didn't dare be careless.

The result left him a little disappointed. This Yin-Yang Release was far too weak.

After that single move, two newly formed Truth-Seeking Orbs instantly transformed into arrows and pinned the middle-aged man firmly to the ground.

Uchiha Yi's Truth-Seeking Orbs could seal another person's chakra. As long as their chakra wasn't stronger than his, they couldn't use it once pinned.

The chakra surging around the middle-aged man's body vanished instantly, and he collapsed there.

"You..."

The middle-aged man stared wide-eyed, wanting to say something, but Uchiha Yi gave him no chance. He activated Tsukuyomi: Illusion Realm directly and began plundering the information he needed from the man's mind.

Afterward, a flicker of astonishment crossed Uchiha Yi's eyes. From the man's memories, he learned that the Ōtsutsuki Clan had recently undergone an internal conflict. The Branch Family had wiped out the Main Family completely. Now, only members of the Branch Family remained on the moon.

"Looks like my luck picked a good time."

Uchiha Yi shook his head. He had originally hoped to face all the Ōtsutsuki, only to take out their leader straight away.

He paused, then released a gravitational force and ripped out the Byakugan of the middle-aged man and his five subordinates.

He had already set his sights on the enormous Tenseigan overhead. He had no use for these Byakugan just yet.

Continuing onward, he followed the middle-aged man's memories and found the entrance to the Ōtsutsuki Clan's residence. The entrance was right...

Just as he reached the entrance, he ran into a large crowd of Ōtsutsuki lying in wait. Clearly, these bastards had already received word and were waiting for him to walk into their trap.

With an angry roar, everyone charged at him, howling.

"Tch. Here to throw your lives away?"

Uchiha Yi shook his head. He couldn't even be bothered to form hand seals and simply snapped his fingers.

Boom!

The next second, black flames mixed with a thunderstorm blasted outward, filling the sky.

Caught off guard, all the Ōtsutsuki were engulfed by the fiery rain. The weaker ones burned straight to ash, while the rest fell to the ground with severe injuries.

Only two people present remained standing. According to the memories he had obtained earlier, they were the two Ōtsutsuki Elders, Chiga and Yuma.

Chiga's face turned green with fury. Yuma clenched his fists and roared, "You damned invader! Touch our people and you're dead!"

Uchiha Yi couldn't be bothered to waste words on them. He flashed in front of Chiga and lashed out with a kick.

With a muffled thud, a cloud of blood burst like a little firework. Chiga's left shoulder and half his internal organs were smashed to pieces by the kick, killing him on the spot.

Yuma had no time to stop him. His reaction was already fast enough that he sensed something wrong the instant Uchiha Yi disappeared, but he was still too late.

Trembling with rage, Yuma unleashed Five Hundred Twelve Palms with Yin-Yang Release. His hands moved so fast that only afterimages remained. Empowered by the Sun Eye's ocular power, each strike was fiercer than the last, even making the surrounding space tremble. Had Obito faced this, he wouldn't have been able to evade it with Kamui.

But did Uchiha Yi need to dodge?

He raised his hand and unleashed Universal Pull. An immense force blasted Yuma backward, shattering a nearby stone pillar on impact while leaving his Byakugan completely intact. Had Nagato been here, he probably would have wanted to crawl into a crack in the ground out of shame.

Uchiha Yi controlled the power of this Universal Pull perfectly. Even the grunts who had survived the fiery rain were killed by its shock wave.

He collected everyone's Byakugan. Just as he stepped through the Ōtsutsuki's entrance, he sensed a dangerous presence.