Ever since he had taken Nagato's eye, Black Zetsu had been on the run.
Holding a Rinnegan in his hand, Black Zetsu was both immensely excited and terrified.
He had schemed and plotted for over a thousand years, yet he had rarely achieved anything through his own power.
Even though he was Kaguya's child, he had never possessed powerful strength.
The Rinnegan was the first truly powerful force Black Zetsu had encountered in his life.
"So this is the power of the Rinnegan. Even just one eye has given me such tremendous power..."
Black Zetsu felt the powerful ocular power emanating from his eye socket, his heart burning with fervor.
If Mother saw this, she would surely feel gratified, wouldn't she?
Black Zetsu touched a tree.
Before long, a White Zetsu emerged from it.
"Black Zetsu, they're practically going mad. They're desperately searching for you, even abandoning their plan to capture the Tailed Beasts," the White Zetsu clone said.
Black Zetsu said coldly, "They can't possibly find me. If I were so easily discovered, I wouldn't have survived until now."
Even in the Sage of Six Paths' era, Hagoromo had failed to discover him. How could those fools from the Akatsuki possibly do so?
"So what are you planning to do? Don't tell me you're going to capture the Tailed Beasts yourself? With only one Rinnegan?" White Zetsu asked.
"It's not impossible. To revive the Ten-Tails, we may not need to capture all nine Tailed Beasts. We only need the Chakra of the nine Tailed Beasts along with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path... but I don't want Mother's strength to be incomplete."
Only Kaguya revived through the nine Tailed Beasts, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki could be considered complete Kaguya, possessing immense