[Mountains' Graveyard]
After Black Zetsu emerged from underground, he found the place still completely empty.
He arrived at the large pit where the corpse poison had been mixed before, but now it was completely empty too.
Other than a few White Zetsu standing nearby, there was no one alive in the entire Mountains' Graveyard.
"Has Obito come back recently?"
Ordinary White Zetsu were originally soldiers created by Kaguya, so they had almost no emotional reactions.
They simply answered calmly, "No."
Black Zetsu waved his hand, "You don't need to stay here anymore. Go hide near Konoha."
"Yes."
Several White Zetsu immediately used the Mayfly Technique and headed toward Konoha.
Although Black Zetsu got the information he wanted from this operation, Hidan was also trapped in Konoha.
But that wasn't the important part. The important part was that Konoha's defenses this time were far too complete.
They said Konoha suffered huge losses, but in reality, the ones who died were civilians and merchants from the outer city.
The real Konoha people had barely suffered any losses.
And the Uchiha seemed to clearly know that Hidan had an immortal body.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have taken away his blown-off head.
'Was it a coincidence? Or did someone leak information?'
Black Zetsu thought about it for a long time but couldn't make sense of it, so he stopped thinking about it for now.
Anyway, he had already gotten the information that Minato was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
The good news was that this meant all the tailed beasts from One-Tail to Nine-Tails were in the ninja world.
The bad news was that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was Namikaze Minato, who could use the Flying Thunder God Technique.
Black Zetsu, the old schemer who had hidden himself for a thousand years, naturally understood how terrifying the Flying Thunder God Technique became with Nine-Tails chakra supporting it.
But his preparations on the moon were almost complete too. It was time to begin pushing the plan forward.
After making up his mind, he also used the Mayfly Technique.
But the place he was heading to was the extremely distant Land of Snow.
———
After firing one shot, Obito was very satisfied with both the power and range.
This superweapon of Ancor Vantian really was impressive.
Its power was about the same as a Tailed Beast Bomb, and the longer it charged, the stronger it became.
And the key point was that this thing could fire much farther than a normal Tailed Beast Bomb.
A normal Tailed Beast Bomb could only reach a few kilometers at most.
This superweapon was a kind of energy cannon, similar to Kumogakure's Space-Time Chakra Cannon. Its range could easily reach several hundred kilometers.
"When are you going to capture Rasa again? The life energy from those villagers won't keep this thing flying for long," Moryo said.
The flying fortress constantly consumed energy while staying in the sky.
If those villagers were drained dry and Obito didn't keep supplying energy himself, then they would have to consider capturing tailed beasts.
Although Obito successfully achieved his goal during the attack on Konoha, being on the verge of death had also caused Rasa to break free from control.
The expression on Obito's face was relaxed. Clearly, he was in a good mood.
"There's no need to worry about not finding him. When I controlled Rasa, I left chakra on him. I can easily track his location."
"Besides, in a couple of days, there won't be anywhere left in this ninja world for him to stay."
Moryo naturally understood what Obito meant and smiled.
"Good. Your current body is a little weak right now anyway. You can make some adjustments."
Obito narrowed his eyes slightly.
"The Zero-Tails doesn't have much energy left now. Strengthening the body takes a lot of energy."
Moryo shrugged, "You know very well where the Zero-Tails' energy comes from."
"If you don't want those painful memories to drown you, then your only choice is to search for execution grounds, battlefields, or other places where disasters happened."
A thoughtful look flashed through Obito's eyes.
"Black Zetsu agreed to attack Konoha together this time because he clearly wanted to understand the situation before starting to act."
"I don't know when he'll revive Uchiha Madara, but I'm running out of time."
"Heh!", Moryo looked at Obito with an amused expression.
"In that case, I'll give you all of the Zero-Tails' abilities. I also need to go look for the dragon vein energy collector."
Obito asked curiously, "You found a clue?"
Excitement flickered in Moryo's eyes, "When you met Black Zetsu last time, where was it?"
Obito replied strangely, "The sacred land, Horu. Don't tell me it's there?"
"We'll know after taking a look," Confidence flashed through Moryo's eyes.
———
[Land of Snow]
Just as the name suggested, this was a world wrapped in ice and snow.
Located on the edge of the ninja world, the temperature here was extremely low, and snow fell all year round.
The climate in this place was so harsh, and there was nothing valuable here either.
Naturally, nobody was interested in this land.
Rather than calling the Land of Snow a country, it was more accurate to say it only had a pitifully small number of cities.
Fishing and the export of a special kind of ironwood were the main industries here.
Most of the ground here was frozen flat ice, so there were many roads vehicles could travel on.
There were quite a lot of vehicles in this place.
But that had little to do with Black Zetsu. The place he was going was a remote area of the Land of Snow.
He traveled in secret the entire way. Even with the Mayfly Technique, it still took some time.
He arrived at a cave in a remote area of the Land of Snow.
Black Zetsu continued inside. The temperature in the cave was slightly higher, above freezing.
But other than a pool of water, the place was completely bare.
Black Zetsu emerged from underground, looked at the rippling water surface, and jumped in.
Splash!
Water sprayed everywhere as Black Zetsu sank all the way to the bottom.
Large clusters of glowing light surrounded Black Zetsu, and then a flash of white light appeared before he vanished without a trace.
Space shifted.
Black Zetsu had already arrived inside another stone cave. A giant crab over five meters tall was guarding the place.
He did not alert the huge crab and simply used the Mayfly Technique to sneak away.
In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the edge of a cliff. Sea and sky connected together here as if they were one.
Above the sky hung a glowing artificial sun that gave light but no heat.
That's right, this was inside the moon.
Black Zetsu jumped onto a flying machine parked beside the cliff.
Beep!
The aircraft lit up, then moved at incredible speed toward an enormous ancient castle at the center of the moon.
Before Black Zetsu arrived, inside the castle, an old man with completely white hair and beard walked out together with a young boy whose eyes were closed.
They were the Second Elder Otsutsuki Aoto and Otsutsuki Toneri.
"Lord Black Zetsu hasn't come for a long time," Otsutsuki Toneri greeted him happily.
After all, Lord Black Zetsu was the person Otsutsuki Hagoromo, the Sage of Six Paths, left behind to monitor peace in the ninja world. He shared the same responsibility as descendants of Hamura like them.
The Second Elder Aoto had the same calm expression as a White Zetsu.
At Black Zetsu's signal, his expression suddenly became lively again.
"Lord Black Zetsu must have come because something important happened. We shouldn't stand here."
As he spoke, he led Black Zetsu inside.
Otsutsuki Toneri obediently followed behind. After the First Elder passed away, the Second Elder was his only remaining relative.
A few years ago, the Second Elder Aoto had become extremely sleepy and weak. Toneri had thought the Second Elder was about to leave him too.
Unexpectedly, the Second Elder managed to hold on, and now he even seemed to be in better spirits than before.
It was also after that that the Second Elder Aoto told Toneri that Hagoromo's descendants were also watching over the ninja world.
If the ninja world strayed from the correct path, they would destroy it just like Toneri and the others.
That person was Lord Black Zetsu, and Lord Black Zetsu had lived for a very long time, making him their senior.
Black Zetsu had visited the moon several times already and had also taught Toneri many things.
Toneri respected him greatly.
After the group entered together, Black Zetsu immediately brought bad news as soon as he spoke, "I'm afraid another great war is about to break out in the ninja world."
(End of the Chapter) ✅