As White Zetsu finished speaking.
A colossal Bodhisattva Statue with countless gigantic arms towered in the middle of the forest!
"Wood Human Technique? But... isn't it a little short?" Uchiha Yuzhen was puzzled when he saw that the Wood Golem was only about thirty meters tall.
He had already recognized this Special White Zetsu—"Tobi."
At this point, though, Obito hadn't joined them yet, so naturally, the creature didn't have a name.
Thinking of this, Uchiha Yuzhen suddenly understood.
"I was wondering why this Wood Human was so short... turns out the time hasn't come yet!"
He remembered!
For Tobi's Wood Human Technique to reach Hashirama Senju's level, and for it to gain the ability to use all five nature transformations,
it needed Yamato.
While Uchiha Yuzhen was thinking this over, Tobi made the giant Wood Golem raise its fist.
It swung down at Yuzhen!
"Die... you damn brat!"
"Honestly... why do people always pin their hopes on things they can't accomplish?" Facing the straightforward attack, Uchiha Yuzhen sighed.
Then he lowered his eyes and turned the hilt of his sword.
Whoosh—!
In an instant...
He appeared behind Tobi!
Stab!
The Ninja Blade plunged into Tobi's body.
"Hey... did you forget that I can use Flying Thunder God?"
Standing behind Tobi, Uchiha Yuzhen mocked him with a cheerful smile.
"Uchiha brat, you fell for it. You really think I'd forget about that?"
Tobi turned around and sneered at Uchiha Yuzhen.
As soon as he finished speaking, Tobi's body began to writhe.
At the sight, Yuzhen's Sharingan seemed to notice something, and his expression changed. "No!"
Yuzhen hurriedly swung his Ninja Blade.
Rip—!
Tobi's body split in two.
As Tobi was split in half, the giant Bodhisattva Statue beneath them changed as well.
Amid a rumbling roar...
The Wood Human Technique dissipated.
"Well, well, well. You really are the most unusual White Zetsu. Who knew you could even escape by sacrificing your tail?"
Uchiha Yuzhen's expression was neither good nor bad.
He gazed at White Zetsu's body, now split in two on the ground, and sighed.
He'd still let him get away.
That Wood Human Technique had just been a decoy.
Yuzhen realized what had happened.
When the Wood Golem appeared, Tobi had already used its wooden body as cover to secretly slip underground,
taking the part of his body that held his thoughts with him.
He had sacrificed most of his body to render Flying Thunder God useless,
while the part that hadn't been marked by the Flying Thunder God Seal—the part that also contained his thoughts—escaped.
It was truly astonishing.
"No wonder he was such a formidable character in the original story, stirring up trouble alongside Obito and surviving until the Fourth Shinobi World War."
"But I didn't come away empty-handed... I got my hands on the biggest prize."
Uchiha Yuzhen looked at the White Zetsu Remains on the ground.
His spirits lifted!
White Zetsu Cells—and the Tobi version, no less.
Just how powerful were Tobi's White Zetsu Cells?
Uchiha Obito had demonstrated it perfectly in the original timeline with his utterly unrestrained Kamui!
This gain was enough to thrill him.
It was true that with the Senju Affix, and the possibility of upgrading his Affixes later, he no longer had to fear the side effect of blindness.
But the other Uchiha were still afraid!
After this mission, where he'd been manipulated every which way, he'd finally come to his senses!
He needed to build up his own influence!
He never wanted to go through that sort of manipulation...
The kind where people could use him and then sell him out without a second thought.
If he was going to build up his influence, he planned to start with the Uchiha Clan.
The reason was simple.
The Uchiha were relatively easy to handle.
As long as you could beat them into submission and had greater Dōryoku than they did,
and were also good with words,
you could win them over.
That was simply how the Uchiha were.
If you wanted me to listen to you, you had to beat me first.
Madara was like that, Obito was like that, and Sasuke was even more so.
Those three were prime examples of Uchiha. At first, they all had their own ideas.
But once they were defeated, they switched sides completely.
And he himself came from the Hokage Lineage, a true-blooded descendant. It should be even easier to win over the Uchiha, who had long regarded becoming Hokage as their greatest ambition.
Now that he'd decided to start building his influence within the Uchiha Clan, this Special White Zetsu body—which could keep the Mangekyō Sharingan from going blind—was an extremely important resource!
With that thought, he walked over to White Zetsu's remains.
Yuzhen gathered up the White Zetsu body, which had been cut in half, and sealed it inside a Space Scroll. Then he turned around, intending to collect the other spoils of war.
The special Ninja Blades belonging to the Mist Ninja Seven—
Just then, he heard a sound from the forest.
"Hm? Are there still enemies lying in wait?" Uchiha Yuzhen was baffled. The Kirigakure controlled by Madara couldn't possibly have another trick up its sleeve, could it?
He was about to draw his Ninja Blade when his Sharingan caught a glimpse of Green Light.
Within that glow, he recognized a familiar Chakra Circulation Mode.
He immediately relaxed.
"Whew... so it's him..." When he saw who it was, Yuzhen shut off his Sharingan and let out a breath.
The tension that had gripped his whole body eased.
Boom! Boom!
A figure whose movement made the air roar accelerated midair,
then landed not far from Yuzhen.
The figure radiating Green Light spotted Uchiha Yuzhen.
"Jonin Yuzhen, are you all right?"
The Uchiha clothes were easy to recognize, and the figure identified him at once.
"Everyone except one who got away has been defeated. You can release the Eight Inner Gates, Uncle Dai..."
Hearing this, the figure scanned the surroundings.
When he saw that Uchiha Yuzhen was the only one standing and everyone else was lying down,
he relaxed and released the Eight Inner Gates.
"Whew... looks like the enemy wasn't very strong... Was the intel wrong?"
"By the way, Jonin Yuzhen, how did you recognize me?"
Might Duy was puzzled after releasing the Eight Inner Gates.
By rights, a genius like Yuzhen shouldn't have recognized him.
How had he figured it out?
Faced with Might Duy's confusion, Uchiha Yuzhen sighed helplessly.
"I've been Guy's team leader for a while now. Of course I can recognize his father."
That was a lie.
The real reason he recognized him was that the thick eyebrows and skintight outfit were unmistakable.
Besides, in this incident, Might Duy was supposed to arrive around this time,
to save Might Guy, Shiranui Genma, and Ebisu.
After replying to Might Duy, Uchiha Yuzhen
walked over to the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and picked up their Ninja Blades one by one.
He also cut off the heads of the attackers who were there, including those of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen,
and sealed them inside a scroll.
Might Duy finally got a good look at the faces of the shinobi,
as well as their special Ninja Blades.
When he saw all this...
his mouth fell open in shock.
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