Black Zetsu shook his head in a frenzy. The raison d'etre of his entire existence for so many years had been the resurrection of his mother, and now he found out that she was finally dead. How could he accept that?
It was simply unthinkable!
A thousand years of obsession turned to dust overnight. Anyone else in his place would probably just go crazy.
—That's right, that's right, that's how it should be," he muttered. "It's just a Mangekyo Sharingan."… But the Divine Tree is the source of the Sharingan itself! How can a pathetic pair of Mangekyo eyes destroy him? It's all right! It's okay, my mother is definitely going to be fine!
— no! Power, come on, get out!
In the darkness, Ootsutsuki Kaguya desperately tried to awaken the power in her body. At that moment, she felt like she was burning up from the inside out. The drained chakra gushed out like spring water, and for a moment she felt an unprecedented surge of strength.
But she knew it was just an illusion. She was really burning everything she had, and that power was only temporary.
Even when she was fighting with her two sons, she didn't put in that much effort.
After all, even if she had been defeated by them, she would not have died. But now... now she was really in danger of death!
A terrifying force burst out of her body. She immediately tried to break the Chains of the Evil God that had entangled her. Although she had only been bound by them for a short time, she had already learned their monstrous nature.
These chains roughly sucked all the energy out of her. Moreover, they continued to dig into her flesh, as if they were going to take root and grow inside her. It was something monstrous!
She tried her best to break free of the Evil God's Chains, but realized that she couldn't control the ones that had already entered her body. She saw that the chains consisted of a special chakra. The attempt to absorb them with the help of the Divine Tree failed — they were too much for him.
What an irony! The chakra-powered Divine Tree couldn't even absorb them.
"What kind of monster is this?"
In order to survive, Ootsutsuki Kaguya had to sacrifice a part of his body. It was the only way to get rid of the Evil God's Chains that were parasitizing her.
Where the chains dug in, that part had to be cut off. Fast, precise, ruthless. Any delay, any remaining particle, and these chains began to grow wildly, devouring everything in their path.
Run away! Run away!
Ootsutsuki Kaguya was rushing away, trying to use space-time techniques to escape, but she discovered that the space was sealed.
What despair!
Another Evil God Chain rushed towards her. She turned around and struck back. A terrifying force crashed down on the chain, but it, contrary to expectations, did not shatter into pieces. Only cracks appeared on its surface.
The Evil God's chains were originally incredibly strong. If they had seemed fragile before, it was only because the opponent was too strong. Now that Uchiha Yue's power had increased, their strength could not remain at the same level — the chains became stronger with the growth of their master.
— no! No!
In the end, the many chains wrapped around Ootsutsuki Kaguya's body again. No matter how she struggled, she couldn't escape a fatal fate.
"Oh, Ootsutsuki Kaguya?"
Uchiha Yue looked at the withered, exhausted figure, tore out the Chains of the Evil God from it and, lifting his head, looked at it. Then, losing interest, he threw it aside.
He wasn't too interested in the Divine Tree.
Ootsutsuki Kaguya's body, light as a feather, slowly sank down.
She stared blindly into that darkness, and her heart was filled with despair and pain. She didn't understand what had become of this world, why her fate was so bitter. As soon as she was resurrected, she died at the hands of her own son's descendant. And it wasn't an epic three—hundred-round battle, it was just crushed. She, who possesses the Divine Tree, the source of all the chakra and all the bloodlines in the Shinobi world, was crushed by some local resident who possessed only a pair of eyes with a Mangekyo Sharingan.
From the very beginning to the very end, Uchiha Yue never really attacked her. The only thing he did was just pull her back out.
"What kind of monster is this?!"
"How could the Mangekyo Sharingan become so powerful?!"
Ootsutsuki Kaguya's body fell to the ground next to Ootsutsuki Isshiki's body.
The remnants of consciousness and the echoes of the connection with the Divine Tree allowed her to understand who she was lying on.
"Ootsutsuki Isshiki? How can you still be alive? I killed you back then..."
"How is this possible!"
With this last question, Ootsutsuki Kaguya's consciousness plunged into darkness.
The child of the prophecy has been defeated!
Jigen deceived us, there is no Child from the prophecy, all predictions are lies!
Uchiha Yue is invincible, the world will be destroyed!
We're all going to die!
It's over! It's all over!
This news quickly spread throughout the Shinobi world. It was already impossible to hide them, and it was pointless. The destruction of the world had become a foregone reality, and death awaited everyone.
"This can't be happening... how could this happen?"
— Yes, how could the Child from the prophecy lose?
— There has never been anything like this in history!
— If the Child from the prophecy had lost, we would have known about it long ago!
The scientists who brought the news of parallel worlds to the Shinobi world were in complete confusion and perplexity.
If there are parallel worlds, then a monster like Uchiha Yue should have appeared in them at the same moment. And their counterparts in those worlds also had to find the Dragon Vein and get information about other realities.
If something had gone wrong in that world, they would certainly have taken the chance to escape to a parallel world.
And that moment would have happened in the past of their own world. If they found out about the existence of parallel worlds, they would definitely destroy Uchiha Yue in advance.…
"Wait a minute… I understand! One of the scientists suddenly exclaimed.
What did he understand?
If the Child of the prophecy could be defeated, then there must be two types of parallel worlds. The first type is those worlds that have not received news from the future in the past. Their world developed naturally until it was destroyed by Uchiha Yue. Faced with hopelessness, in utter despair, they chose to escape to a parallel world.
And that parallel world is the second type — the world that, having received a warning, dealt with Uchiha Yue in advance and prevented a universal catastrophe.
Their world belonged to the first type, a world of endless despair, doomed to destruction.
Earlier, in their euphoria, they had completely overlooked this. Of course, this was partly due to how little time had passed since their return.
Realizing this, they immediately began to spread information about parallel worlds, and they themselves, without wasting a minute, went to the Dragon Vein and fled.
Whether the other Shinobi would believe in the existence of other worlds was their business. Their life or death was no longer the concern of scientists. They were saving their own skins.
In such a desperate situation, the news of parallel worlds spread instantly. Huge crowds of people rushed to the Dragon Vein to cross over to another reality. Fortunately, they still had a little time before the Area of Dead Silence covered this place, otherwise there would only be hopelessness.
In the Pure Lands.
"I didn't think there was such a backup way. Great, the world can still be saved! No, I also have to go to a parallel world, transfer these souls there, and at the same time warn another version of myself about Uchiha Yue's threat!"
In order to save as many lives as possible, the Sage of the Six Paths decided to break his principle of non-interference. He began to appear in the dreams of those who did not yet know about parallel worlds, and to convey this message to them.
Meanwhile, in Kamui's dimension.
People here still didn't know what was going on in the Shinobi world.
Their main task was to get out of this hell. After gathering all the resources and relying on the previously obtained data on Kamui's research, they managed to create a space-time gate in a few days. This was made possible only due to several factors: the existence of techniques in the Shinobi world like Summoning and Flying Thunder God, affecting the space-time continuum, Kamui's research data, universal cohesion, and the fact that almost all one hundred thousand people present were Shinobi.
Otherwise…