After the One-Tail through Seven-Tails had all fallen into Akatsuki's hands, they temporarily went quiet for a while.
The interval was not long, and the reason was simple: they needed this time to seal the Tailed Beasts and allow the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to absorb and digest all seven of them.
Nagato's Rinnegan ultimately belonged to Uchiha Madara. He himself was not particularly skilled at controlling the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and needed roughly several months to rebalance the chakra within it.
Most importantly, he had his own ideas. He did not agree with the Infinite Tsukuyomi Obito had spoken of. When Yahiko was alive, he had criticized it as an illusory escape from reality, and that had deeply influenced Nagato.
In his heart, he had his own way of achieving peace.
He intended to turn the Tailed Beasts into terrifying weapons and distribute them among the major nations. The dreadful power of those weapons could swallow the entire Ninja World in an instant. Under the pressure of potential annihilation at any moment, the ninja would naturally learn peace.
Conflict was the nature of every animal in nature, humans included, while avoiding self-destruction was the instinct of every species.
It was hard to imagine that the once-timid Nagato would come up with such a method. In a sense, it was an extremely reliable course of action.
Before anyone developed the means to counter such destructive weapons, the entire world would foreseeably remain in a state of relative balance.
Even if conflicts occasionally arose, they would only be on a very small scale, or between smaller nations.
Perhaps in the end, this place might even develop into something like the Blue Planet of some distant other world, with a so-called United Ninja Village emerging, while the