"Although it's a pity, your usefulness is too small... Yomi Tsu ze Watari!"
Uchiha Yoichi's eyes transformed into Six-Tomoe Rinnegan, the domain of life and death instantaneously opened, encompassing part of the giant turtle's body, and began absorbing its life force.
Though the giant turtle was controlled by Sharingan Genjutsu, its life force continuously drained away. Facing impending death, it instinctively started to struggle; however, its struggle was futile, as its life force flowed unceasingly towards Uchiha Yoichi like floodwaters from a dam.
Yet, the giant turtle's size was too massive, even the five-kilometer radius of the Yomi Tsu ze Watari domain couldn't completely encompass it; this turtle's size probably exceeds the Forest of Death.
While absorbing its life force, Uchiha Yoichi utilized the Flying Thunder God Jutsu to switch locations twice; finally, after more than ten minutes, he completely absorbed the giant turtle's life force.
Before dying, the Sharingan Genjutsu on the giant turtle was lifted. It let out a mournful cry and then died completely.
Even in death, Turtle Island did not sink. Likely, the empty void occurring from the drained life force left an empty cavern below the turtle's shell.
"Such immense life force... It might allow Gates to evolve and still have plenty left over; if the Second Generation Hokage handles the Hidden Sand Village well, I might as well revive him too."
With the life energy in hand, Uchiha Yoichi used the Flying Thunder God Jutsu to return to his courtyard, conveniently beside Gates.
Upon seeing Uchiha Yoichi return, Gates immediately stood up, panting like a husky, and asked, 'Master, did it succeed?'
"Was there a big commotion when you leveled up?"
'Probably not, but it's best to be outside, using my original body would be more comfortable.'
After speaking, Gates grinned with his bear mouth to signal Uchiha Yoichi to sit on him; he intended to carry his master out.
However, Uchiha Yoichi directly kicked Gates' hefty rear, that silly bear with milk as its mother, then informed Mikota and Minami before taking Gates to the village outskirts.
"Let's do it here, I hope you'll succeed in leveling up."
After speaking, an almost substantial amount of life energy appeared in Uchiha Yoichi's hand. As he took out this immense life energy, the surrounding forest was affected, sprouting new leaves, and the grass grew visibly.
'Master, is all this for me! Thank you, Master...'
"Thank my foot! Aren't you afraid of bursting? If you can digest half, consider yourself having a good appetite."
Uchiha Yoichi unreservedly scolded the silly bear; even now it was restored to only over thirty meters, while the giant turtle was over tens of kilometers in size and lived for hundreds of years.
Judging by the giant turtle's life force, it could have lived another thousand years, but it encountered Uchiha Yoichi.
Hence, Uchiha Yoichi divided a third of the life energy and threw it straight into Gates' mouth, Gates instinctively swallowed it, but before it could lick its lips, its entire body uncontrollably began to grow larger.
"Roar!!"
The Earth Bear standing with four limbs thirty meters high raised its head and let out a roar; the recent life energy was still too much for Gates, directly prompting it to start evolving.
Golden light gradually appeared on Gates, its limbs, paws, and fur were all slowly undergoing changes.
After Uchiha Yoichi dodged to the side, he quietly watched Gates' condition, but he suddenly noticed the nearby ground's energy rapidly converging towards Gates.
"Has it already started evolving?"
At this moment, as Gates stood with four limbs, its body size was already over forty meters, but it continued to grow bigger, its fur gradually developed a hint of gold, and its aura grew increasingly potent.
It seems to have endured, forcing Gates to evolve immediately, otherwise, it would have burst.
After over half an hour, the ground's energy continued to gather, and Uchiha Yoichi was constantly monitoring Gates; if Gates couldn't hold on, he would seal Gates off and let it gradually digest the energy.
Such powerful life energy, for any other ninja, would generally be sealed inside to digest slowly; sudden bursts would be unbearable for anyone.
And Gates straightforwardly stuffed it inside, then forcibly digested it... fortunately, Gates succeeded.
"Roar!"
A massive roar followed, yet this time Gates' roar contained joy; at this point, Gates standing with four limbs on the ground was over fifty meters high, and if it stood upright, it might approach a hundred meters.
Now Gates was completely the Earth Bear King.
"Gates, since you've evolved, let me see your evolved strength!"
Uchiha Yoichi appeared before Gates, and an overwhelming amount of Chakra surged from his body, quickly condensing into a Susanoo Skeleton.
Crack, crack...
Within a short span of ten seconds, Gates' bear face was shocked by the towering, deep blue Susanoo of four or five hundred meters ahead.
Even standing upright, it couldn't reach the Susanoo's knee, how could it fight?
Gates simply flipped over and laid down, exposing its soft belly, suggesting it wouldn't fight.
"Get up, you lazy bear, if you don't fight, I'll step down!"
Gates, hearing Uchiha Yoichi's words, remained unmoved; its huge bear body rolled on the ground, crushing a lot of the forest but stayed down, refusing to battle Uchiha Yoichi.
Finally, Uchiha Yoichi had to let it off, allowing Gates to showcase its strength briefly before getting brought back.
"Go sleep in the courtyard, tomorrow I'll send you to the Land of Rain battlefield, you lazy bear!"
Upon bringing Gates back, Uchiha Yoichi gave it a fierce kick, which Gates didn't mind. It rolled twice on the grass before reaching the usual sleeping spot, then relaxed to sleep.
Though there wasn't a battle earlier, it did fire dozens of Beast King Roar Bullets, consuming quite a bit of energy; fortunately, it quickly recovered while treading on the earth.
The Beast King Roar Bullets also carried an annihilation effect, and it took Uchiha Yoichi forming five Sage Art: Wood Block Walls to block one of Gates' Beast King Roar Bullets.
Moreover, the Gravity Jutsu became thirty times stronger, now having a slight effect even on Uchiha Yoichi, and Gates' Shield had strengthened further; aside from the Tailed Beast Ball, virtually no ninjutsu could breach its Magic Shield.
After testing all of Gates' abilities, Uchiha Yoichi gauged that aside from the Nine-tailed, the other eight Tailed Beasts likely couldn't rival Gates.
"Mr. Yoichi, you're back."
Upon seeing Uchiha Yoichi return, Mikota stepped forward to help him change shoes, saying, "Sasuke and Karin are asleep."
"Mikota, go take a bath, you and Minami together, I have a surprise for you both."
Upon hearing that, Mikota's face slightly reddened; though no one else was present, such words were somewhat embarrassing, prompting Mikota to playfully scold, "Mr. Yoichi, don't be so bold..."
"This time, it's genuinely something good..."
Uchiha Yoichi didn't elaborate further, directly leading Mikota upstairs; he'd previously discussed life energy with Mikota and Minami, and Tsunade had already enjoyed it.
Mikota was now in her thirties, well-maintained with a mature allure, but naturally desiring youthfulness deep down.
After they returned upstairs, both Mikota and Minami received a surprise, and Uchiha Yoichi earned the same reward; tonight he truly played the lord, with an entirely self-driving experience.