Left Eye Sharingan, Right Eye Byakugan

Afterward, the two great clans began collecting the bodies.

Because Black Zetsu had appeared to disrupt things, the battle had ended abruptly, and neither side had suffered many casualties.

But when the two clans saw the bodies of their clansmen with their eyes gouged out, they flew into a furious rage.

"Black Zetsu! The Uchiha Clan (Hyuga Clan) will never rest until you're dead!"

Not even the Rain Country's endless rains could extinguish the fury in the two clan heads' hearts.

"Pass down my order! From this day forward, whenever any Uchiha (Hyuga) clansman sees Black Zetsu, no matter the place or circumstances, they are to fight him to the death!"

"Yes!"

The Uchiha and Hyuga clansmen all roared as they accepted their clan heads' orders.

They were grief-stricken and enraged. They were all iron-blooded warriors who feared no death, believing that dying on the battlefield was an honor. But they feared that even after death, someone would desecrate their bodies and deny them their final dignity. That was an unbearable humiliation!

"Black Zetsu..."

Within the crowd, Uchiha Madara murmured to himself.

As the eldest son of clan head Uchiha Tajima, he was naturally no stranger to Black Zetsu.

Starting several years ago, Black Zetsu had appeared on battlefields like a ghost. No one knew who he was or where he came from. Even the name "Black Zetsu" had only been revealed during one of the Uchiha Clan's pursuits, when he had said it himself. Before that, the Uchiha clansmen had called him the black bastard, or black ghost.

Black Zetsu seemed to harbor an extreme obsession with eyes. Whenever he appeared on the battlefield, he did nothing except obsessively gouge out the eyes of Uchiha and Hyuga corpses. Over the years of warfare, the two great clans had suffered terribly at his hands. Countless clansmen had had their eyes gouged out by him, yet they had never managed to kill him. His life-saving methods were endless, and he was slipperier than an eel.

"No matter where you came from, if you dare defile the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan, I will make you pay in blood!"

Uchiha Madara made up his mind.

Meanwhile, deep underground, Uzumaki Shusen was fleeing for his life at high speed.

When it came to combat ability, he knew he could not compare with top geniuses like Uchiha Madara, Hashirama Senju, and Hyuga Tenjin. Thus, over the past sixteen years, he had focused almost all his efforts on survival, developing a unique Five-Elements Cowardly Escape. Earth Release when he encountered earth, Wind Release when he encountered wind, Water Release when he encountered water—the five elements could be switched between freely.

After mastering the Five-Elements Cowardly Escape, Uzumaki Shusen could say without exaggeration that if he truly wanted to escape, even a Kage-level expert could not keep him. This was also his greatest source of confidence when it came to gouging out eyes on the battlefield!

After fleeing over a hundred kilometers underground in one breath, Uzumaki Shusen was about to reach his destination. He first used Mind's Eye of the Kagura to sense his surroundings. Once he confirmed there were no unusual chakra fluctuations within a ten-kilometer radius, he undid the seal on his right eye. His right eye instantly turned into a pure white Byakugan, while veins bulged violently at his right temple.

"There's no one within two kilometers either. It seems I'm completely safe now."

Uzumaki Shusen let out a breath of relief. Perhaps someone could use sealing techniques to block Mind's Eye of the Kagura's chakra detection, but they could never evade the Byakugan's surveillance. All ambushes and schemes were meaningless before the Byakugan.

Some might think Uzumaki Shusen was being overly cautious, but that could not be helped. What he was doing could cost him his head. The more cautious he was, the better.

He then resealed his right eye. As a member of the Uzumaki Clan, he had long mastered all kinds of sealing ninjutsu, and his right eye reverted to normal.

Uzumaki Shusen passed through layer after layer of soil before finally arriving at an underground passage. Many glowing crystal spheres were embedded in its stone walls, providing illumination.

The moment his feet touched the ground, Uzumaki Shusen dispelled his Transformation Jutsu with a puff. He changed from Black Zetsu into a handsome young man with sharp brows and bright eyes, his vivid red hair dazzlingly eye-catching.

This was his true appearance, no longer hidden beneath a disguise.

"I was still too reckless tonight. Not cautious enough." Uzumaki Shusen frowned as he reviewed his mistakes from the day.

"I should have first confirmed whether that Uchiha girl was truly dead before taking her Sharingan. If I hadn't been discovered so early, I definitely could have gotten many more eyes!"

"I'll have to be more careful next time."

After passing through the corridor, Uzumaki Shusen entered a spacious laboratory.

Inside the laboratory, two Shadow Clones identical to him were busy conducting research beside a worktable. They wore white lab coats and held scalpels, and beneath the dim lights, they looked exactly like evil black-market surgeons.

Two enormous test tubes stood beside the Shadow Clones. They were filled with an unidentified yellow liquid, with over a hundred Byakugan and over a hundred Sharingan floating and sinking in the respective tubes. The sight was particularly horrifying.

Uzumaki Shusen opened the test tubes and poured the dozens of Byakugan and dozens of Sharingan he had obtained tonight into them separately.

Looking at the densely packed eyeballs before him, a sense of pride and accomplishment welled up within him. These were the fortune he had accumulated over the years!

The transparent glass of the test tubes reflected Uzumaki Shusen's handsome face. His right eye was a gem-like, snow-white Byakugan, while his left eye was a scarlet Sharingan, its three black tomoe spinning rapidly.

He felt that he had taken another step closer to invincibility!

Sometimes, Uzumaki Shusen felt that he was truly unlucky. Of all places to transmigrate to, he had ended up in the darkest and cruelest era of the Naruto world—the Warring States Period—and he did not even have some cheat system!

The Warring States Period could be summed up in one sentence: life was not worth celebrating, and death was not worthy of sorrow.

Because the Fire Country's daimyo was utterly incompetent, wars between the various ninja clans were frequent. Even young children had to go to the battlefield. Uzumaki Shusen had been only five years old the first time he went to war. If not for his older sister Mito's protection, he likely would not have survived until now.

Back then, five-year-old Uzumaki Shusen watched clansmen fall and die before his eyes. Having already lived one life, he understood even more deeply how fragile and precious life was. His understanding was even deeper than Orochimaru's in the original work!

Thus, from childhood onward, Uzumaki Shusen had set a conviction for himself: survive.

No matter what, he had to preserve his own little life. He had to live until the very end!

However, it was impossible to survive in the Warring States Period without strength. To that end, Uzumaki Shusen had tried every possible means to improve himself. He developed the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, developed the Five-Elements Cowardly Escape, developed the Rasengan...

Until one day, when he watched from afar as the Nine-Tails Fox wiped out a ninja clan trying to capture it with a single Tailed Beast Bomb, he finally realized that before absolute power, it was useless no matter how many ninjutsu he developed. Even if he reached Tobirama's level, one Tailed Beast Bomb would still reduce him to dust.

Later, Uzumaki Shusen spent some time contemplating life and came up with another path to becoming stronger.

From then on, Black Zetsu—the nightmare of the Uchiha and Hyuga Clans—was born.

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