"The Uchiha Clan has an ancient stone tablet passed down through the generations. It still exists underground in Konoha, and it records the secrets left behind by the Sage of Six Paths. Without the Uchiha Clan's ocular power, there's no way to read it. Depending on whether one uses the Sharingan, Mangekyo Sharingan, or Rinnegan, the amount of information that can be deciphered increases in that order."
Obito began explaining his plan, but the Tsuchikage interrupted him right at the start.
"This story is ridiculous. Even the Sage of Six Paths has appeared."
"The Sage of Six Paths did indeed exist..."
Obito didn't care whether the Four Kage believed him.
"The Sage of Six Paths once saved the world from a certain monster. As for that monster, all of you have seen part of it—the Tailed Beasts. During the Sage of Six Paths' era, there was only one Tailed Beast. It was the Ten-Tails."
"The Ten-Tails? This is getting more and more absurd."
Mei Terumi seemed unable to accept Obito's words either.
"The One-Tails through the Nine-Tails that you know are merely fragments of the Ten-Tails, divided by the Sage of Six Paths. To save the world, the Sage of Six Paths developed a ninjutsu. That ninjutsu is still secretly passed down today—the Jinchuriki sealing system. That's right, the Sage of Six Paths was once the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki.
To suppress the Ten-Tails, he sealed it inside his body. However, the Sage of Six Paths knew that although he was called a god, he would eventually die one day. After his death, the Ten-Tails would once again wreak havoc on the world. Thus, before he died, he used the last of his power to divide the Ten-Tails' Chakra into nine bodies and scatter them across the world. These became the nine