Upon hearing this, Madara Uchiha was about to turn around and look when...
"Hmph, what a piece of trash!"
Black Zetsu fully understood Hagoromo's plan from the moment Madara Uchiha was controlled by the Rinnegan.
In the brief moment before Madara Uchiha turned around, he detached himself from Obito's body and rushed towards Madara Uchiha's body.
Behind him, a towering black shadow pierced through Madara Uchiha's heart, activating the cursed technique within it.
"What--"
Madara Uchiha looked down at the dark figure that had emerged from his chest, his eyes wide open.
"You bastard!"
Madara Uchiha roared angrily, unleashing a massive Chakra in an attempt to break free.
"Give me a break. Do you really think you can get rid of all the things I've been planning for so many years just by having a one-off outburst?"
Black Zetsu controlled Madara Uchiha to accelerate the absorption of the Ten-Tails' body behind him, completely disregarding whether he could withstand this level of power.
Honestly, I underestimated you!
Black Zetsu's gaze was fixed on Hagoromo. "Although I had considered the possibility that you might have placed something on the Rinnegan, I never imagined that you would actually set it so that both eyes could only be controlled and activated after returning to Madara's body."
Madara Uchiha's body began to swell violently, floating in mid-air like a ball of flesh.
"But it's no use. Even if the Ten-Tails isn't complete, it's enough for me to revive my mother."
Black Zetsu sneered, as if mocking Hagoromo for making any effort in vain.
Hagoromo quietly watched Madara Uchiha's body gradually swell, ignoring Black Zetsu's words.
I felt it! It's my mother's Chakra!
In that instant, Black Zetsu sensed Princess Kaguya's Chakra, and then, along with Madara Uchiha's Chakra and his own, they converged towards that point.
Thump--
An imperceptible fluctuation reverberated in Hagoromo's ears.
The next instant, Hagoromo Yi entered an unknown space.
Hello, young man.
An aged voice came from above. Hagoromo looked up and saw a middle-aged man with two horns on his head and wearing a white robe sitting cross-legged, with a tin staff on his lap.
The Sage of Six Paths?
This attire and the Rinnegan in his eyes made Hagoromo Byakugan was the Sage of Six Paths he had been waiting for.
"It seems you know me."
The Sage of Six Paths gazed at the figure in the Hagoromo robes before him and spoke.
Hagoromo chuckled softly, took a few steps forward, and gradually became level with the Sage of Six Paths before sitting down cross-legged.
"I thought your Chakra was always wandering within the Shinobi World, but I never imagined it was actually in the space between the Shinobi World and the Pure Land."
This is why Hagoromo has never been able to sense the Sage of Sage of Six Paths 'Chakra.
"Those who have died should not interfere too much in the present world, otherwise unavoidable consequences will occur."
The Sage of Six Paths shook his head. He understood what Hagoromo meant, feeling that he had been monitoring everything in the Shinobi World.
"Maybe."
Hagoromo propped her cheek up with her hand. "So, now that you're here, why are you willing to come find me?"
"Seven years ago, I sensed something different about the entire Shinobi World; the threads of Child of the Prophecy became uncontrollable," the Sage of Six Paths said, his eyes fixed on Hagoromo.
"Things that haven't happened can never be considered changes."
Hagoromo understood that the Sage of Six Paths was referring to the time when Naruto was taken in as his student, and the time before the Madara Uchiha clan was wiped out.
"I know, that's why I haven't interfered too much."
The Sage of Six Paths chuckled softly.
Didn't you just say that you can't interfere too much in worldly affairs?
Hagoromo wasn't so easily fooled and retorted directly.
The Sage of Six Paths was taken aback, then couldn't help but sigh, "That may be true, but some things are still possible."
"For example, erasing your existence."
After Six Paths finished speaking, he looked up and stared directly at Hagoromo, his eyes suddenly bursting with power.
Hagoromo yawned boredly. Perhaps before he truly obtained Yin-Yang Release, the Sage of Six Paths could really do that.
But now things are different. He has obtained Yin-Yang Release, which can be considered a power belonging to the entire Shinobi World.
It is not like the Yin-Yang Release used by Obito and Madara Uchiha, who were called the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki in the original work.
Rather, it is true authority; a single thought can wield different powers Shinobi World.
"Really... at least give me some face, right?"
Seeing Hagoromo's nonchalant expression, the Sage of Six Paths' aura gradually weakened.
"Give you face? You should know that I now hold the reins of power over the entire Shinobi World, while you—because you've been using this power since your death, preventing me from perfecting myself."
Hagoromo raised her head and said without any politeness.
The current Sage of Six Paths actually retains a portion of power, which prevents him from achieving perfection.
"I can give you power."
The Sage of Six Paths stared directly at Hagoromo and slowly said, "However, I would like to ask, how do you intend to guide the Shinobi World in the future?"
"Would you, like I did back then, leave it up to the people of the Shinobi World to decide their own paths?"
"Now that you wield some power, are you aware that your very existence has caused the entire Shinobi World to shun you?"
Hagoromo chuckled softly, "Once I've finished what I need to do, I'll do it my own way."
"Don't you understand?!" The Sage of Six Paths was enraged by Hagoromo's behavior. "Because of your existence, the Shinobi World has begun to become less stable!"
"For example?"
Hagoromo pointed to a water mirror below the two of them, where everything seemed to be slowed down, and Kurotsuchi's expression was particularly clear in the water mirror.
That was a kind of madness.
"What is happening now is the consequence of your failure to handle things properly back then."
"These things didn't happen because of me. Since you made a contract with the giant Toad of Mount Myōboku, you should also know about what it prophesied, right?"
"That's a given fact, but you've accelerated it."
The Sage of Six Paths remained silent for a moment before speaking.
"Established--"
Hagoromo scoffed, "So, the descent of the Ōtsutsuki Clan more than twenty years later was also something you predicted?"
The Sage of Six Paths fell silent. Having once held power over the Shinobi World, he naturally knew why his mother had unified the Ten-Tails and become its Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
To date, there was another person who came to the Shinobi World with his mother back then, but due to his mother's betrayal, he became weak and near death, and thus became a parasite on a monk.
But he couldn't kill this guy, otherwise—
The Ōtsutsuki Clan will then arrive ahead of schedule.