Time flowed on. Another year passed after Uchiha Shisui joined Uchiha Madara's team.
With Uchiha Shisui as an insider, Sarutobi Toru made enormous gains, at least when it came to White Zetsu.
As long as Chakra was fed into the artificial God Tree, White Zetsu could be created. Even Uchiha Shisui did not know whether these White Zetsu were replicated from Hashirama Cells or transformed from humans who had lived in ancient times.
He only knew that these White Zetsu were genuine, usable White Zetsu, not White Zetsu spore Clones.
Whenever White Zetsu were produced, Uchiha Shisui would secretly brand the more outstanding individuals with Flying Thunder God Marks before sending them out to gather intelligence.
The result was obvious. In just one year, Sarutobi Toru had stolen over a hundred White Zetsu through this method.
That might have sounded like a lot, but Uchiha Shisui alone had created over a thousand White Zetsu in that year. Thus, the disappearance of nearly a hundred White Zetsu caused no stir whatsoever on Uchiha Madara's side. Or rather, they had not noticed the disappearance of those White Zetsu at all.
After all, White Zetsu were fairly ordinary in strength. They could easily gather intelligence only because of their ability to conceal themselves and transform. If they encountered something like a barrier, being discovered and killed was hardly surprising, so Uchiha Madara and the others simply did not care whether White Zetsu lived or died.
Inside the Reincarnation Warehouse.
"Crunch!" Sarutobi Toru took a bite out of a knockoff White Zetsu Chakra Fruit and wiped the corner of his mouth.
"My Chakra does not seem to be increasing much anymore. Sigh, it looks like these knockoff Chakra Fruits have their limits too!"
After obtaining more than a hundred White Zetsu test subjects, Sarutobi