They, the researchers from Mount Myoboku, had to study ways to strengthen the Child from the prophecy in order to turn it into a weapon against Uchiha Yue.
Despite his disappointment, the Great Sage Toad did not give up - it was all for the sake of saving the world. He immediately sent all the toads with research abilities to find a solution, and even decided to lead from a distance himself, devoting the rest of his life to serving the Shinobi world.
Unite to win! Destroy Uchiha Yue!
The Shinobi world, realizing the harsh reality, rallied under the banner of the Child of Prophecy, raised by Ootsutsuki Isshiki, and achieved unprecedented unity. Every day, all kinds of brilliant ideas were put forward.
Never before in its entire history has the Shinobi world been so united in its desire to kill one person!
Time passed silently.
The third month had passed unnoticed since Uchiha Yue had awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan, and the fourth had begun, nearing its end. The concentration of natural energy in the Shinobi world has dropped to a critically low level. The Great Toad Sage finally fell into despair. Now there was only one thing left — to kill Uchiha Yue.
After his death, Mount Myoboku will lose its status as a holy land, and new sages will no longer appear. If this was the era before the appearance of the chakra, these would be real dark times.
Which wise men? What are intelligent animals? Nothing like this could exist anymore!
The only ones who would have retained their minds would have been humans. Their intelligence did not depend on natural energy, it was an integral part of them.
Humanity is a natural—born intelligent being, endowed from birth with great wisdom, inaccessible to them, animals.
No amount of natural energy could make up for this—it was a matter of their very nature.
If it weren't for the chakra, that supernatural force that compensated for their innate flaws, the disappearance of the natural energy would have led to the complete extinction of Mount Myoboku. Anyone who wandered in there would only see a pile of croaking imbecile toads.
— Sage, why did you become an idiot?
"Ah, great sage, I'm sorry, I didn't notice you and accidentally crushed you!"
The Great Toad-Sage remembered how he once saw a fox demon, which for some reason lost its natural strength and turned into an ordinary animal. The man stepped on his head, and his skull cracked. The fox let out a piercing scream, wet himself, and his body convulsed. So the demon, who once easily killed people, died ingloriously.
Just seeing this scene filled his heart with sorrow and pain.
In those days, natural energy was everything to them, the lower beings. They called themselves sages, people called them demons — they seemed omnipotent. However, only the Great Toad Sage knew that all this so-called power was an illusion. In the past, they were nothing more than plankton floating with the flow of natural energy.
They seemed incredibly strong, but it was only an appearance.
However, now, thanks to the chakra, the toads from Mount Myoboku have finally gone beyond their previous standard of living. Their minds have become inheritable. The disappearance of the natural energy will cause great damage to Mount Myoboku, but it will not destroy them.
Once they kill Uchiha Yue, their legacy will not be interrupted. The natural energy will recover over time, and then new sages will certainly appear on Mount Myoboku.
The disappearance of the sages is a better fate than the death of the entire mountain.
Besides, there were advantages to the current situation. In the end, they passed senjutsu to the entire Shinobi world. Previously, the very existence of the sage's techniques posed a threat to Mount Myoboku, but now that no one could use them, the threat was over.
Their heritage spanned many centuries, and their ninjutsu was also by no means weak!
In fact, for a sage like the Great Toad Sage, who had long since reached the limit of his life and maintained his existence solely through senjutsu energy, the ratio of the effectiveness of the sage's techniques and ordinary ninjutsu was completely different. Ninjutsu was more convenient.
Excessive use of senjutsu was damaging his body. He was already on the verge of death— what was the point of pulling out the oxygen tube and then putting it back in?
It was different with ninjutsu. A chakra is a fusion of spiritual and physical energy. If you didn't push yourself to the extreme and demand more from your body than it could give, in fact, it was akin to physical training or reading a book, which drains your strength and mind. How can an old man burn his life by walking or reading?
That's why there were so many ninjutsu techniques on Mount Myoboku.
— What is happening in the Shinobi world?
On the moon, Ootsutsuki Toneri interrupted his training that day. In his spare moment, he took a look at the Shinobi world. If he hadn't been blind, he would have seen a huge black spot on the azure planet.
Alas, he was blind. And although he could perceive the world around him through the chakra, seeing it in volume and not being completely cut off from reality, the blind man remained blind. The world he could sense had its limits.
That is why, until Uchiha Yue's power became overwhelming, Toneri did not notice any anomalies in the Shinobi world.
But now, he finally noticed something was amiss.
"What happened anyway?" Something is wrong, not at all!
Ootsutsuki Toneri felt uneasy. He hurried to the foot of the giant Tenseigan and, connecting with it, fixed his gaze on the world of Shinobi.
However, what he saw made his heart stop, and his face reflected the deepest shock.
—What the hell is this?"
He stared in horror at the bottomless darkness spreading like mold across the Shinobi world. This picture surpassed anything he could have imagined. The Shinobi world wasn't supposed to look like this.
He didn't understand what was going on, but he realized that the Shinobi world was definitely facing some kind of threat.
—Wait... this place..." he suddenly noticed something else. — This is the Land of Fire, the place where Konoha is located! Oh no, Hinata!
Ootsutsuki Toneri shuddered, a foreboding showed on his face. His fiancee was still in Konoha. And even though Hinata didn't even know about his existence, that didn't stop him from unilaterally considering her his future wife.
And most importantly, he needed her clean Byakugan. Without those eyes, how could he have awakened his inner strength, destroyed the Shinobi world, and created a new one?
— We must not delay, I must go down.