Ye Chen was trapped deep within an unknown genjutsu.
The pitch-black, fathomless space before him had robbed him of all sense of direction.
This was what Ye Chen saw after deliberately opening his eyes.
What astonished Ye Chen even more was that, after entering the illusion, he had actually lost contact with the system that had never failed him before.
Ye Chen tried circulating the chakra within his body, attempting to shatter the illusion through brute force.
However, even the vast reserves of chakra within him had stopped responding.
Unlike the system he had lost contact with, Ye Chen could clearly sense the existence of his own chakra.
Yet that immense amount of chakra seemed to have been sealed away. No matter how hard Ye Chen tried to mobilize it, there was no response.
Ye Chen was quite surprised. The sophistication of the old man from Kusagakure's genjutsu far exceeded his imagination.
Or rather, the old man from Kusagakure had been "hiding his abilities" from the start, deliberately misleading Ye Chen into thinking that the genjutsu he possessed was quite "ordinary."
Ye Chen admitted that he had been careless.
How could a Kage Level expert possibly be so weak?
Even an Early Kage Level expert was a terrifying existence that lower-ranked ninja could scarcely hope to reach.
Despite losing most of his "support," Ye Chen did not panic too much.
First, he carefully examined the deep, desolate, pitch-black space before him.
Searching through his memories, the name of a ninjutsu immediately flashed into his mind.
Genjutsu: Eternal Dark Domain?
However, as soon as this thought arose, Ye Chen shook his head and dismissed it.
Genjutsu: Eternal Dark Domain was a type of dojutsu.
And dojutsu was a rare form of ninjutsu that only special groups of ninja with inherited kekkei