Black Zetsu Was Nearly Scared to Death

It was precisely because he had been certain that bastard was completely dead that he had dared to emerge and incite his two sons to slaughter each other. If that bastard had not died, how could he possibly have allowed Black Zetsu to sow discord between them?

Impossible!

How could it be that bastard?

But now, in the entire Ninja World, aside from that bastard, there seemed to be no one capable of facing Uchiha Yue head-on.

How could he not be dead?

No, no, he had to be dead. If he were not, Black Zetsu would have been discovered and slapped to death long ago. After all, he knew that so-called brother's personality—it was that of an absolute good man. If he were truly still alive, he would never have stood by and watched the Ninshu he had founded collapse and fall apart.

After all, that guy's primary reason for sharing Chakra had been to let everyone use it to better understand one another and live better lives, not to have them become ninjas and use it for war and fighting.

What exactly was going on?

For a moment, Black Zetsu's mind fell into complete chaos. He had always believed that the Sage of Six Paths was dead, which was why he had dared to come out and make trouble, why he had dared to carry out his plan to revive his mother. If that guy was not dead, then wasn't his plan doomed to fail?

How could that be allowed?!

"Dammit, what the hell is going on? Who is fighting a monster like Uchiha Yue? Who is it? It can't be that bastard Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, absolutely impossible. He's dead, completely dead!"

Black Zetsu's face grew darker and darker as a hair-raising feeling surged through his heart. At that moment, he felt as though the world were a massive fish tank, and he was a fish inside it, every movement of his clearly seen by someone.

Still, as he had said, if the Sage of Six Paths were alive, he would never sit back and watch the Ninja World become what it was now.

Unable to make sense of it no matter how much he thought, Black Zetsu only grew more confused. Could it really be some top-tier expert hidden within the Ninja World, someone who had never fought before, a peerless powerhouse capable of rivaling—or even surpassing—the Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju of the past?

Thinking about it carefully, that actually made some sense. His previous belief that he should have known if such a powerful expert existed in the Ninja World had been wrong. After all, the Ninja World was so vast and populated, and he had devoted all his energy to reviving his mother. Moreover, unless Chakra was refined, even the strongest person would normally have very little Chakra within them as long as they were human.

Only the innate Chakra that operated together with the body's life cycle.

Yes, that was it. The Sage of Six Paths could not possibly still be alive. It had to be... no, it absolutely had to be some peerless master hidden in the Ninja World who had never made a move, fighting Uchiha Yue!

That was what Black Zetsu thought. Whether it was true or not, he had to believe it was.

"I understand now. Maybe there wasn't any battle at all. Maybe Uchiha Yue is practicing ninjutsu!"

At that moment, Uchiha Obito's words struck Black Zetsu's mind like thunder.

That was it!

Practice! Before Uchiha Yue obtained his current power, he had merely been a weakling from the Uchiha Clan who could barely refine Chakra and could not even cast a single ninjutsu. He was a pure-blooded ordinary human through and through. He simply did not know ninjutsu.

Other than stats, he only had mechanics. Every single one of his attacks was a damn basic attack. Precisely because he did not know any ninjutsu, such a huge commotion was most likely caused by him learning ninjutsu.

After all, how powerful would someone in the current Ninja World have to be to withstand that terrifying suction force and fight Uchiha Yue after losing more than half their Chakra and stamina? It was impossible!

Black Zetsu felt that even if Uchiha Madara were resurrected and entered with a pair of Rinnegan, he probably would not be able to do anything to Uchiha Yue. One mistake, and he might be completely finished.

After all, high-powered techniques were basically energy attacks, and using energy to bombard that Dead Silence Domain was like throwing meat buns at a dog—once they went in, they would never return!

Attacking that so-called domain with abilities would not place any burden on Uchiha Yue, nor was there any possibility of destroying it. Through their probing, Black Zetsu and the others had more or less figured out that although it was called the Dead Silence Domain, it was not a domain in the conventional sense at all.

It was something like solar radiation. The area shrouded in darkness was where Uchiha Yue absorbed and consumed energy. It was a region, not a force field. Attacking that domain was like attacking an area bathed in sunlight and believing that such an attack could harm the sun itself. It was utterly absurd—something only someone with a problem in their head would think.

"Then let me ask you this: how long did that battle last?"

At that moment, Black Zetsu thought of another question. Since Uchiha Yue might have been fighting someone, what was the result now?

There were only two possibilities: success or failure.

If the Sage of Six Paths were still alive, then Uchiha Yue should already be dead!

Black Zetsu thought this, unaware of Uchiha Yue's immortality. He even naively believed that the reason they could not deal with Uchiha Yue was simply because the Dead Silence Domain was too impossible to overcome, and because that thing was not flat but a perfect sphere.

Perhaps they could kill Uchiha Yue, but only if they could cross the Dead Silence Domain that absorbed all energy. That condition alone completely stymied them, making it impossible to fight Uchiha Yue at all.

They could not possibly go through endless hardship to reach Uchiha Yue, only to be left weak all over, with nearly zero Chakra in their bodies, and collapse to the ground and die on their own after merely looking at him.

"How long? Oh, it's already over. Not long after that mushroom cloud appeared, the domain calmed down again and went back to hanging there motionlessly like before. That person was probably killed by Uchiha Yue! Ah, what a pity. It's my first time seeing someone actually barge in and fight Uchiha Yue directly! He was really amazing!"

White Zetsu shrugged as he spoke.

"As expected... he was probably just testing his own ninjutsu. Whew... that scared me to death. I thought that bastard Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, who betrayed Mother, was still alive!"

Black Zetsu let out a sigh of relief inwardly.

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