Ōnoki Surrenders

As for Otsutsuki Shibai's inner thoughts, even though Yuzhen's future-seeing vision was ineffective against him due to the sheer superiority of his existence, Yuzhen still guessed the general idea through his experience as a ninja.

After all, ninja combat was a war of information and deception.

And deception required extensive psychological games.

From the perspective of a top-tier ninja like Uchiha Yuzhen, Otsutsuki Shibai's approach was not particularly complicated.

He simply intended to have Kumogakure hold off, or even defeat, Konoha's main force.

That would make Yuzhen rush over there... to see what exactly was going on.

Then, after lying in wait in the Land of Lightning for some time, he could use traps prepared in advance to ambush him.

Of course, even if Konoha's main force had not been held back or defeated by the Cloud Ninja manipulated by Otsutsuki Shibai, Yuzhen would definitely have gone over to investigate out of curiosity.

On this point, both he and his opponent understood it perfectly well.

It couldn't be helped. When someone appeared on the entire planet whose future could not be observed...

any intelligent lifeform would be curious.

And that curiosity...

would drive him to the Land of Lightning to cause trouble for Otsutsuki Shibai.

"A simple yet effective scheme. But if you want to claim the final victory, your strength has to surpass mine first!"

Yuzhen chuckled inwardly.

In the Original Timeline, during the era of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Otsutsuki Shibai had left behind his body's cells in the Ninja World to carry out little schemes.

It was obvious at a glance that this fellow had certain designs on the Ninja World, yet was unable to directly "descend" due to some related restrictions.

Now, however, he could directly control his original body and send down power capable of