The Surgery Was a Success

"Don't look so hostile. I couldn't care less how you humans slaughter one another."

Xuanye found that easy enough to believe.

Compared with Mount Myoboku, which relied on prophecies to stir up its contractors wherever they went, Ryūchi Cave and Shikkotsu Forest really did keep a low profile. They barely placed any special demands on their contractors at all.

Take Kabuto. Even after he started the Fourth Shinobi World War, dug up graves everywhere, used Impure World Reincarnation on the dead, and casually meddled with the boundary between life and death, the White Snake Sage hadn't cared.

It was only humans killing humans. As long as Ryūchi Cave wasn't dragged into it, she let them do as they pleased.

Xuanye's Rinnegan faded. He didn't even retain its appearance; his eyes returned to ordinary black.

But the White Snake Sage's words still put him on guard.

If she knew everything that happened on the earth, then this old monster must have noticed something unusual about Xuanye long ago. Perhaps even his stranger secrets couldn't escape her notice.

How much did the White Snake Sage know?

"You seem to know a great deal about me."

The White Snake Sage fell silent for a moment. When she finally spoke, her tone had softened a little.

"You don't need to be so wary of me. Those Otsutsuki from space really are detestable. On that, we stand together."

The Otsutsuki came to the Ninja World for one purpose and one purpose only: to plant a Divine Tree, plunder Natural Energy, and harvest a Chakra Fruit.

The Three Sacred Lands had all arisen in places rich with Natural Energy. By their very nature, they stood against the Otsutsuki.

That was why Mount Myoboku searched so eagerly for its so-called Child of Prophecy. It wanted someone to