Several days later, inside a dark, damp cave hideout.
The thick coffin lid was kicked open with brute force, and a tall figure stepped out. He wore red plated armor from the Warring States Period, and his skin had a color reminiscent of clay sculpture. The whites of his eyes were black, and several faint cracks ran across his handsome face. Despite standing right there, he gave off not the slightest trace of life. He looked deeply unsettling.
Ye Uchiha looked around curiously. "Have I returned to the Shinobi World?"
He had clearly chosen to travel to the Shield Hero World, yet somehow a powerful pull had forcibly dragged him into this world, leaving him unable to move or speak. Taking into account the conversation between Kabuto Yakushi and Black Zetsu outside the coffin, along with his body's current condition, it seemed he had been brought back through Impure World Reincarnation.
Being under Impure World Reincarnation felt very strange. He could move around freely, hear, and see, yet he had no sense of pain, touch, or taste. Even when Ye Uchiha plunged his hand into his own heart and violently pulled it out, his damaged body shed no blood. Instead, it slowly restored itself over time.
Glancing around the dark, damp, eerie surroundings, Ye Uchiha wrinkled his nose. He disliked the atmosphere intensely and walked out.
He basked in the warm sunlight but could not feel a thing, an experience Ye Uchiha found thoroughly unpleasant.
"So where exactly am I?"
Ye Uchiha wandered through an endless forest, stopping and starting along the way. He had absolutely no idea where he was, and there were no signs of human activity anywhere around him. He could only let his instincts guide him.
He extended his chakra perception, but only after walking for