What? Black Zetsu!

"Another one dead?"

Uzumaki Shusen kept his eyes and ears open, noticing the battle between the Uchiha girl and the Hyuga girl. His eyelid twitched.

"That Hyuga girl is terrifying. I've already dug out four pairs of Sharingan from under her hands alone!"

After sighing, Uzumaki Shusen used his struggle with a Hyuga clansman as cover and furtively approached the Uchiha girl's corpse.

"It hurts!"

Uchiha Yemei sucked in a sharp breath. The Hyuga girl's Vacuum Palm had badly injured her. Her chest felt like it was burning, as though it were about to explode. She could not even turn over.

"The Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist truly can't be underestimated. Damn it!"

Uchiha Yemei was filled with regret and indignation. Suddenly, she thought of that tenacious clansman who had conquered her with nothing but his spirit. Just as she forced herself to rise and rejoin the battle—

"Ah!"

From the corner of her eye, she saw that tenacious clansman get sent flying by an enemy again, screaming as he crashed toward her.

"Urgh!"

The strength Uchiha Yemei had summoned to force herself up was knocked right out of her. Her injuries worsened.

"These Hyuga clansmen are truly despicable!"

Uchiha Yemei heard the tenacious clansman lying atop her say this. Just as she was about to agree, a large hand suddenly touched her face.

At first, Uchiha Yemei thought nothing of it. But when two fingers settled over her eyelids in a gesture meant to gouge out her eyes, an icy chill suddenly surged through her entire body!

In that instant, she thought of a name—a name that was an absolute nightmare to the Uchiha Clan!

"Black Zetsu!"

"Black Zetsu has appeared!"

Uchiha Yemei screamed at the top of her lungs, heedless of everything else.

"Fuck!"

Uzumaki Shusen was startled by her sudden scream, and his eye-gouging motion paused.

So you weren't dead?

"What? Black Zetsu!"

The surrounding Uchiha clansmen were aghast.

"What? Black Zetsu!"

The Hyuga clansmen were no less shocked.

The words "Black Zetsu" struck like thunder, detonating the most sensitive nerve in both clans' hearts.

"What? Black Zetsu!"

Uchiha Madara and Hyuga Tenjin, locked in a decisive battle in the distance, both turned their heads at once.

Farther away, Uchiha Tajima and Hyuga Tenfu, who were also fighting a decisive battle, did the same.

For a moment, both clans stopped fighting. Everyone turned their eyes toward Uchiha Yemei, who had shouted Black Zetsu's name, and the Uchiha clansman pressing down on her.

"This is bad!"

Uzumaki Shusen sensed trouble. He had not expected to be exposed this way. He had clearly wanted to dig out a few more eyes.

At that moment, Uchiha Yemei suddenly rolled over and kicked out fiercely in a beauty-gazing-at-the-moon pose, her foot smashing heavily into Uzumaki Shusen's chin.

Crack.

This time, a bone really did fracture. Uzumaki Shusen was kicked into the air, and then his body burst into smoke with a pop, turning into a pitch-black humanoid creature that looked like mud.

"Good! It really is Black Zetsu!"

Seeing Uzumaki Shusen reveal his true form, the surrounding Uchiha and Hyuga clansmen instantly flew into a furious rage.

"Black Zetsu, you filthy bastard! Take my Eight Trigrams One Trillion Palms!"

The Hyuga clansmen flashed forward and, without another word, unleashed the Gentle Fist, raining blows down on Uzumaki Shusen.

Uzumaki Shusen was alone. There was no way he could contend with so many crazed Hyuga clansmen, so he flickered away in retreat.

"Black Zetsu, hand over your life!"

At this moment, the Uchiha clansmen had truly gone bloodthirsty. They collectively unleashed Fire Release, blasting out hundreds of Great Fireballs. The sight was even more spectacular than a missile barrage!

Boom!

A world-shaking explosion rang out, and a mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

"These people are insane!"

Uzumaki Shusen was battered into frantic leaps and dodges. He slapped out the flames on his body and fled into the distance at high speed, not daring to linger for even a moment.

"You bastard, where do you think you're running?!"

Hyuga Tenjin used the Body Flicker Technique, gathering vast amounts of chakra beneath his feet. He flashed in front of Uzumaki Shusen and immediately struck with a barrage of Eight Trigrams 128 Palms.

Even during his decisive battle with Uchiha Madara earlier, he had not used this ultimate technique. That showed just how overwhelming his killing intent was.

Uzumaki Shusen did not dare face his edge head-on. Hyuga Tenjin was a genius spoken of in the same breath as Madara and Hashirama. Though he had never appeared in the original story, legend had it that even by the late Warring States period, when Konoha was founded, his strength was no weaker than Madara's or Hashirama's.

"Ninja Art: Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"

Uzumaki Shusen formed hand seals with both hands and unleashed a ninjutsu he had painstakingly researched and developed himself. At this point, Tobirama probably had not even grasped the barest basics of this technique.

Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop!

White mist filled the air as hundreds of identical Black Zetsus appeared out of nowhere. Hyuga Tenjin's Eight Trigrams 128 Palms shattered more than half of them with devastating force.

The remaining Black Zetsus scattered in every direction, fleeing to confuse their pursuers.

"Stop!"

Uchiha Madara roared, gathering a huge mouthful of chakra before spewing it out.

"Fire Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame!"

A sea of fire surged forth. Even in his decisive battle with Hyuga Tenjin earlier, he had been unwilling to expend this much chakra.

Pop, pop, pop.

The inferno swept across the plains, setting the grassland ablaze as the scattered Black Zetsus were blown apart in the flames.

"Cheating bastard!"

Uzumaki Shusen cursed. His real body used Earth Release and plunged headfirst into the ground, rapidly escaping underground like a dragon entering the sea.

Hyuga Tenfu used his Byakugan to locate Uzumaki Shusen beneath the earth and decisively unleashed an Eight Trigrams Mountain Crusher. A laser-like beam formed from condensed chakra blasted out, piercing the surface and exploding a massive crater as dust and smoke swept through the air.

A moment later, the dust settled.

Only a horrifying crater remained at the scene. Other than that, not even a hair of Black Zetsu could be seen.

"Damn it, he still got away!"

Hyuga Tenfu said resentfully, his expression as ugly as if he had swallowed a dead fly.

His Byakugan could observe things only within a five-kilometer radius. He could still see that "Black Zetsu," but the enemy was currently fleeing deeper underground at an outrageous Earth Release speed. He could never catch up.

"Uchiha Tajima, tonight's war ends here."

Hyuga Tenfu said coldly, "Once our Hyuga Clan has killed Black Zetsu, we'll have a proper fight with your Uchiha!"

Uchiha Tajima gave him an expressionless glance and walked toward his clansmen.

He did not want to continue this battle either.

That Black Zetsu was simply too disgusting. Wherever he was, the Uchiha could never know peace.

In the past, on the battlefields between the Uchiha Clan and the Senju clan, Black Zetsu would always sneak through the earth in secret. Whenever an Uchiha clansman died, he would pop out and gouge out that Uchiha's Sharingan. He had even gone so far as to dig up Uchiha ancestral graves!

Tonight, Black Zetsu had been even more brazen, actually disguising himself as an Uchiha clansman and moving about the battlefield. Uchiha Tajima wished he could tear him to pieces!