In the following month, Uchiha En frequently visited Minato Namikaze's home to check on Naruto and the Tailed Beast within him.
According to Uchiha En's observations, there were no issues with the Tailed Beast inside Naruto; the overall situation was stable.
Seeing this, Uchiha En no longer hesitated. He and Asana traveled to an uninhabited desert in the Land of Wind.
The reason for choosing this location was twofold: first, it was remote, so there was no need to laboriously set up a Barrier, and they wouldn't be disturbed; second, the appearance of the Ten-Tails might cause natural anomalies, and hiding here meant not worrying about being noticed.
"Asana, I'm about to begin. Please keep watch for me."
Asana nodded upon hearing this.
Uchiha En then took out the Gedo Statue's arm and the sealing scroll containing the Tailed Beast Chakra from a sealing scroll.
Then, Uchiha En attempted to slowly inject the Ichibi's Chakra into the statue arm.
Upon sensing the Ichibi's Chakra, the statue arm suddenly generated a suction force, instantly absorbing all of the Ichibi's Chakra.
Uchiha En opened the other seals and transferred the Chakra of the Two-Tails through Eight-Tails into the statue arm's seal.
Finally, it was the Nine-Tails Chakra. Uchiha En unsealed the Nine-Tails Chakra, and the statue arm instantly absorbed it as well.
After absorbing the Nine-Tails Chakra, the appearance of the statue arm changed. The several-meter-long statue arm instantly began to compress, its volume continuously shrinking, eventually transforming into a reddish-black sphere the size of Uchiha En.
Its appearance and color strongly resembled the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball from the original work.
"Crack~ crack crack!" After about ten minutes, crisp sounds emanated from the reddish-black sphere, and cracks appeared on its surface.
"Crack!" Accompanied by a loud bang, the sphere shattered, and a miniature Ten-Tails appeared before Uchiha En.
However, this Ten-Tails looked as if it were dead; its eyes were tightly closed, and it remained motionless.
Seeing this, Uchiha En quickly threw the rat talisman towards it.
As the rat talisman merged into the Lesser Ten-Tails' body, its eyes instantly opened.
Looking at the crimson Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan before him, Uchiha En felt a hint of pressure.
However, in the next second, the Lesser Ten-Tails' form changed again, reverting to a black and red spherical shape.
This time, the sphere took a full day and night to show any changes.
Last time, the Lesser Ten-Tails emerged from the sphere by breaking it; this time, the sphere compressed little by little, eventually transforming into the Ten-Tails' form from the original work.
As the Lesser Ten-Tails' metamorphosis completed, dark clouds instantly covered the sky. The desert, which hadn't seen rain for many years, gathered thunderclouds, followed by howling winds and roaring thunder.
This scene was very similar to the natural anomalies caused by the Ten-Tails in its second form when it was uncontrolled by Obito and Madara in the original work.
Meanwhile, Black Zetsu, who was lurking outside the Akatsuki Organization in the Land of Rain, suddenly felt a surge of Chakra. To Black Zetsu, the source of this surge felt as if the Ten-Tails had been resurrected.
However, Black Zetsu, being Kaguya's will, was all too familiar with the Ten-Tails and immediately dismissed this idea because the scale of the natural anomalies was too small to compare with the Ten-Tails.
But the surge of Chakra was undeniable.
Black Zetsu hesitated for a moment, then burrowed underground and found Obito.
At this moment, Obito was sitting on the stone chair Uchiha Madara had used in his lifetime, recalling the contents he had seen on the Uchiha Clan's Naka Shrine stone tablet, as well as the words Uchiha Madara had told him.
Uchiha Madara was on his deathbed at the time, and when he told Obito the story, he recounted it without any emotion, as if the protagonist of the story were not him.
But even so, the era of war and strife still involuntarily flashed before Obito's eyes.
Two youths, unaware of each other's identities, formed a deep friendship by skipping stones. They spent every day together, grew up together, and dreamed of building a Village where every child could thrive. This dream seemed so distant at the time.
But fate is always capricious, and eventually, the two youths were forced to stand on opposite sides due to their clans.
Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara rose in the flames of war, crushing their peers and surpassing the older generation.
After Uchiha Madara's father, Uchiha Tajima, and Senju Hashirama's father, Senju Butsuma, died, the two youths and their younger brothers became the new leaders of their clans.
Afterward, they each gained new powers: the Mangekyo Sharingan and Wood Release.
The battles between the Senju and Uchiha continued for decades. The Uchiha Clan gradually fell into a disadvantage, and even Uchiha Madara's younger brother, Uchiha Izuna, was killed by Senju Tobirama.
Then Uchiha Madara fused his younger brother's Mangekyo, obtaining the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and fought Senju Hashirama again.
And Obito's eyes gleamed when he heard about Uchiha Madara's Susanoo. He couldn't imagine such power; just hearing about it from Uchiha Madara made his blood boil.
Ultimately, the Uchiha Clan still lost. When Senju Hashirama was willing to sacrifice his own life for peace, both Uchiha Madara and the Uchiha Clan were deeply impressed by this man.
Thus, the Senju and Uchiha allied, the two strongest clans in the Ninja World, and the two strongest Ninja in the Ninja World united.
This power was enough to sweep away all obstacles to peace, especially since the strength of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara surpassed everyone's imagination; they had no rivals except each other.
With the power of these two, Konoha was established in the most fertile Land of Fire.
Everything was beautiful, and the Village continued to flourish. For peace, Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara even worked together to subdue the Nine Tailed Beasts, intending to distribute them to various Villages.
It was at this time that Uchiha Madara discovered the flaws in the Village and happened to decipher the motto left by the Six Paths Sage on the stone tablet in the Naka Shrine's secret room, seeing the true path to peace. It was then that Uchiha Madara decided to leave Konoha.
"The true path to peace? What is it?" Obito remembered asking Uchiha Madara this question with great curiosity at the time.
And Uchiha Madara's answer was: "When you also possess the Mangekyo Sharingan, go to the Naka Shrine's secret room and find the answer yourself."
During the Night of the Nine-Tails, Obito saw what Uchiha Madara had spoken of.
"Obito, I sensed an abnormal Chakra fluctuation in the Land of Wind. This Chakra fluctuation feels somewhat like the Ten-Tails, you..."
Before Black Zetsu could finish speaking, Obito stood up from the stone chair.
"Where exactly is it?" Obito asked.
Black Zetsu told Obito the location, and Obito activated Kamui, disappearing underground.
Anything involving the Ten-Tails could potentially affect the Eye of the Moon Plan, and Obito would not allow anyone or anything to hinder the implementation of the Eye of the Moon Plan.
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