That place was occupied by the Dragon Spring in the past. The once-prosperous Loulan, fueled by this power, has now turned into a bottomless abyss, gaping like a passage to the very heart of the earth. Above her, space-time itself was distorted and torn, and an unbearably heavy, oppressive feeling fell on the souls of all living beings.
Darkness gushed out of the rift, thick as ink. Wherever it penetrated, all the light and all the energy were absorbed without a trace. The darkness that devoured an entire star was spreading at a terrifying speed!
What is a planet in the face of a star? Just a speck of dust.
The light was fading before my eyes. The sun's rays that washed over the world now flowed like a single river into the insatiable darkness. The world was rapidly plunging into darkness, and in the blink of an eye, the place where Loulan once stood was swallowed up.
"Oh, Ootsutsuki Isshiki, die!"!!
"You should be the one to die!"!!
Boom!
Two Ootsutsuki Isshiki came together in a fierce battle. There was only one desire in their eyes — to defeat their copy and survive. Only by killing the other self could one of them be resurrected with the help of the Child from the prophecy and leave this doomed world.
"We've lost!" There wasn't enough time!
— It's over!
— It turns out that we haven't changed anything!
— Brother, what if we hadn't founded Konoha back then?..
"If we hadn't taken those two idiots, Shimura Danzo and Sarutobi, as our students."…
Looking at this bottomless, terrifying darkness, countless Senju Tobirama froze with expressions of sorrow and despair on their faces. There was too little time. They hadn't even managed to create an artificial Dragon Spring, and the end had already arrived. As for the spaceship…
So far, he was only half done.
It was not so easy to build a spaceship.
— I'm sorry about everything! Senju Hashirama said with bitterness and sorrow, looking at the spreading darkness.
The Uchiha clan has lived its life for so many years. Even in the Era of warring states, people died, children were sent to the battlefield, but at least the common people did not have to fight, and the clan was not on the verge of destruction. And after joining Konoha, just a few decades later, the Uchiha clan fell. And he didn't just fall, but gave birth to Uchiha Yue, a walking natural disaster. If he hadn't founded Konoha back then, could things have been any different?
It got dark.
A moment ago, the sun was shining, and now the world is plunged into semi-darkness. The light was rapidly disappearing, everything was dimming. But not only that.
The whole world felt cold. Even in warm clothes, people felt chills by the heated fireplace.
…
Uchiha Izumi stared at the scene in shock. The scene before his eyes surpassed anything he could have imagined.
Such a power... it completely surpasses the limits of the Shinobi world! Even the Sage of the Six Paths is not capable of such a thing. Only the echoes of his power affect the whole planet!
What kind of power did he get? The absorption of worlds?
Okay, calm down, calm down. I need to calm down!
He took a deep breath. Things are bad. Very bad.
Now he understood why those Shinobi were so terrified.
We're both hitmen... yes, that's right! If I can meet Uchiha Yue, perhaps I, as his countryman, will be able to convince him to stop!
He clenched his fists, inhaling the icy air. A plan formed in his mind.
And so, total darkness fell. The last ray of light disappeared.
Until the very end, the two Ootsutsuki Isshiki were unable to defeat each other. The darkness swallowed them up, but even at the last moment they did not retreat, they did not give in to each other The Child from the prophecy. If you're going to die, then the other copy shouldn't live either.
Parallel versions are still not you. They have the same memory, the same thoughts, the same blood, but they are not you. Even if it's a different you, he's still someone else.
So they fought to the death, cursing each other. Why doesn't the other copy give up, why doesn't it agree to die? After all, it was only necessary to sacrifice oneself, and then Ootsutsuki Isshiki would be able to escape from this planet.
But they didn't know that even if they resurrected, they wouldn't have a chance.
Uchiha Yue has already swallowed one sun and started on the second. His strength grew exponentially. They were not destined to leave this solar system.
The end has come to the Pure Lands.
A hopeless, pitch-black darkness broke through space and began to spread across the afterlife. The souls that lived there were rapidly melting away, swallowed up by the darkness. The Sages of the Six Paths looked on in utter despair, unable to do anything about it. What they saw was just an echo of Uchiha Yue's power.
How could they stop it?
Their power of the Six Paths was great, but for Uchiha Yue, it was nothing more than food.
Uchiha Izumi stood in the darkness. Cold, unbearable cold.
He could feel the energy leaving his body. Consciousness sank into sleep.
My physical strength ran out, my life faded away, and last of all... my soul dissolved.
There was no place for souls in this eternal darkness.
But at the very moment when Uchiha Izumi died…
Time has stopped!
The darkness that was spreading uncontrollably and violently froze like a fly in amber.
In the main world, everything froze, as if it had turned into a landscape in a painting. Uchiha Yue also froze on a long-extinguished star.
The star, so huge and terrifying for any planet, was just a speck of dust in the universe. What was there in the universe—even on the scale of a galaxy, it was negligibly small.
And in the next moment, time flowed backwards.
Everything returned to that very day: parallel world number two, three days before the destruction of the Uchiha clan.
In parallel world number two, Uchiha Izumi opened his eyes.
"Phew, I'm alive!"
He raised his hand, feeling the pulse of life in his body, and exhaled with relief. He's alive, and that's the main thing.
His ability was still working!
— Well, it's time to start my plan! Uchiha Yue, fellow countryman, I'm going to stop you!
"I have to save this world!"
Uchiha Izumi's gaze was filled with unwavering determination. If he can't stop Uchiha Yue…
His position was akin to that of a gamer. A player who can persist indefinitely and try to defeat different bosses. But if you don't defeat Uchiha Yue, then all his saves will become a dead end. The game will end.
Except he wasn't a real player.
For him, "broken save" meant the end of everything.