It was a pity that after about two years, although the Sea Ninja Village was developing rapidly, it had never directly gone to war with Konoha—mainly because the current strength of the Sea Ninja Village was still growing exponentially, and life was getting better and better, so there was no need for war with Konoha in the short term.
Perhaps one day when the strength of the Sea Ninja Village reaches its peak, or if they feel they can easily crush Konoha, they Will bring this matter up again and then go find trouble with Konoha.
Uchiha Obito's expectations fell through, and although he was somewhat troubled, there was nothing he could do. As for Black Zetsu, he didn't care at all—in fact, the only ones who truly feared the Uchiha Clan were Uchiha Obito and Uchiha Madara.
Black Zetsu knew very well in his heart that without the Chakra of Indra and Ashura, no matter how hard the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan worked, they would never be able to produce the Rinnegan.
In fact, if the Uchiha Clan could be preserved, it would be a better outcome for Black Zetsu—over the past thousand years, his plans had failed countless times, and he had long since developed an extremely conservative personality.
If the Uchiha Clan were to be completely wiped out, it would probably not be easy to produce the Rinnegan in the future, and the plan would have to be a desperate gamble.
Although this plan was already the closest to success, until the very end, who knew what the outcome would be? Black Zetsu naturally wanted to keep some backup options.
However, the issue with White Zetsu was different. If one were to say who the true greatest contributor to the Infinite Tsukuyomi Plan was, it wasn't actually the mastermind Black Zetsu, but these hardworking tools, the White Zetsu!
It was precisely because of these numerous, highly flexible, and stealthy White Zetsu, who could even directly replace others at times, that the Infinite Tsukuyomi Plan could proceed so smoothly. Otherwise, let alone Uchiha Obito, even if the entire Akatsuki Organization were included, they wouldn't have been able to collect all the Tailed Beasts.
One must know that the existence of a Jinchuriki is a top secret of a Ninja village, let alone their whereabouts. Although there were occasional special cases like Gaara and Uzumaki Naruto, in most situations, it was not easy to find out exactly where a Ninja village's Jinchuriki was.
Because of their powerful Chakra, a Jinchuriki's combat characteristics are extremely obvious. Basically, as long as a battle occurs, they are destined to be discovered. If all the Tailed Beasts could not be collected in a short period of time, the existence of the Akatsuki Organization might be completely exposed after just one or two attempts.
By then, with several major Ninja villages joining forces, even Nagato with the Rinnegan would definitely not be a match—Nagato is very powerful, but that doesn't mean he is invincible; it could even be said that he still falls within the category of a normal Ninja.
The so-called normal Ninja is the type who probes each other, conceals their own information while testing the opponent's, and then looks for weaknesses to strike them down in one blow.
Although Nagato's abilities are very strong, once his information is completely revealed, he still falls within the scope of what a Ninja village can handle.
It could even be said that Nagato is the ceiling for ordinary Ninjas. Above him are those monsters that ordinary Ninjas have absolutely no way of defeating, whether they know their information or not.
Under these circumstances, the Akatsuki Organization eventually collected most of the Tailed Beasts, allowing the plan to succeed. It must be said that White Zetsu, with his powerful intelligence-gathering abilities, was the one with the greatest contribution.
Therefore, if the secret of White Zetsu were to be leaked now, before the plan has even fully unfolded, the blow to the entire Infinite Tsukuyomi Plan would be almost fatal!
Vegapunk's intuition was correct; just as night began to fall, Uchiha Obito had personally arrived at the outskirts of the Loulan Base.
Regarding this, a somewhat worried Black Zetsu also followed Obito here without hesitation—there was no other choice. Although his plans hadn't succeeded in a thousand years, he considered himself well-informed and didn't believe there was anything left in the Ninja World that exceeded his imagination.
However, the unfamiliar White Zetsu still shattered Black Zetsu's habitual psychological advantage. How exactly were the opponent's White Zetsu created?
Most importantly, even if White Zetsu were created using gene-cloning technology, those White Zetsu should naturally obey his commands; at the very least, he should have some sense of them. How could such unfamiliar White Zetsu appear?
Unless there is a second God Tree in this world! Could it be that a new Ōtsutsuki has descended upon this Ninja World?
Black Zetsu knew very little about the Ōtsutsuki Clan. After all, when Ōtsutsuki Kaguya split him off, she only wanted him to save her and wouldn't instill too much knowledge in him. But at least he was aware of the existence of the Ōtsutsuki Clan and knew that Ōtsutsuki Kaguya was at odds with them.
Under such circumstances, how could Black Zetsu possibly feel at ease? Uchiha Obito's Kamui ability was indeed incredibly rare, considered a scarcity even within the Ōtsutsuki Clan, but if he wanted to rely solely on this ability to test an Ōtsutsuki, that would be far too wishful.
It wouldn't matter if Obito was caught, but if everything about the Infinite Tsukuyomi was dragged out, even his Mama might be in danger! He certainly couldn't just sit there and wait.
"Black Zetsu, your reaction this time is very unusual! Is there some secret here?"
Standing on a sand dune, the cold wind blew past Uchiha Obito's collar, making his black coat with red clouds flutter loudly.
"Hmm... I have a bad feeling..." Standing behind Obito, Black Zetsu, who looked like a Pitcher Plant, spoke. No expression could be seen on his Yin-Yang Face, but his behavior was already out of the ordinary, so Black Zetsu did not deny it.
"A feeling, huh... It seems there really are quite a few secrets here." Uchiha Obito didn't think that the feelings of Black Zetsu, who wasn't even human, would necessarily be wrong. As Uchiha Madara's Will, it seemed quite normal to him that Black Zetsu had some extraordinary abilities.
"Speaking of which, the changes in both the Land of Wind and the Land of Water during this period have been quite significant! As far as I know, these changes should be because of that little fellow named Vegapunk, right?"
Uchiha Obito suddenly asked. Hearing this, Black Zetsu nodded: "Indeed, that guy can truly be called a genius among geniuses! Unfortunately, we haven't had much contact with him all this time."
With most of the White Zetsu in hibernation, it was naturally impossible for Black Zetsu to collect all the information, especially since Vegapunk and the others possessed Observation Haki and were extremely sensitive to White Zetsu's surveillance. After nearly being caught several times, all the White Zetsu had stayed away from them.
Thinking about it now, such a dangerous person should have been eliminated early, rather than being allowed to research whatever dangerous technology he wanted.
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