"Where did Uzumaki Naraku come from, anyway?"
Not far from the battlefield, a figure shrouded in a massive Pitcher Plant slowly emerged from beneath the ground, revealing itself.
Beneath the Pitcher Plant was a strange body split black and white—it was Zetsu.
As he watched the golden figure single-handedly suppress both the Blue Susanoo and the massive wooden statue ahead, a thoughtful look flashed through Zetsu's eyes.
Black Zetsu, in particular, was more astonished than anyone else.
Having lived for nearly a thousand years, Black Zetsu had witnessed the origins of ninjas and all their subsequent development.
Yet in Black Zetsu's memories, throughout those nearly thousand years, no one had ever reached Uzumaki Naraku's level.
Though Uchiha-Uzumaki Clan hybrids were rare, Black Zetsu had seen them before. In his impression, even if those hybrids awakened two Kekkei Genkai, their strength and talent were only somewhat greater than those of ordinary Kekkei Genkai users.
Some had even wasted too much time training two Kekkei Genkai at once, resulting in mediocre achievements. Some did not even possess jonin-level strength.
But the combat power Naraku displayed now forced him to change that view.
In Black Zetsu's eyes, Naraku's current strength had already surpassed that of the First Hokage and Madara back then—Madara before he awakened the Rinnegan, of course.
Just as the First Hokage had realized, Black Zetsu also recognized something: Naraku now was like a fusion of the First Hokage and Madara.
An Uchiha combined with a Senju or an Uzumaki was practically equivalent to the Sage Eyes combined with the Sage Body.
At this thought, Black Zetsu's expression turned even uglier. He knew full well what the Sage Eyes and Sage Body together represented. The reason Madara had been able to advance beyond the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and awaken the Rinnegan