White Zetsu!
A thousand years ago.
To defend against her clansmen, who were certain to arrive someday in the future and punish her.
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki used the "Infinite Tsukuyomi" to control the people of the Shinobi World at the time.
Then she wrapped them in the branches of the "Chakra Divine Tree."
This allowed them, over the passage of time.
To gradually transform into these humanoid biological weapons with a certain affinity and ability for Wood Release.
Later, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki was sealed away.
Although some of the people who had not yet transformed into White Zetsu were rescued.
Others had already become White Zetsu.
They were preserved within the "Chakra Divine Tree," which was also the "Ten-Tails' shell," the "Demonic Statue of the Outer Path."
Together with the White Zetsu Madara Uchiha had created over the years using the life force of the "Demonic Statue of the Outer Path" and "Hashirama Senju cells."
The total number came to nearly a hundred thousand!
That was the explanation given in the "original work."
But Imu was highly suspicious of it.
Especially the notion that White Zetsu was meant to serve as an army against other members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
Compared to most ordinary shinobi, these White Zetsu did possess all kinds of abilities.
Powerful vitality, absorbing Chakra to transform, freely altering their bodily forms, merging with one another to increase their size and strength, and more.
But on those abilities alone.
They would not be enough even against the low-ranking guardians of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
Much less the guardians who were stronger by an unknown margin.
Forget a hundred thousand White Zetsu—even a million would not be enough!
That was why Imu doubted Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's purpose in creating White Zetsu.
However, what concerned him more at the moment was the true