A Punch Through the Earth to Capture Black Zetsu Alive

Kakashi closed the scroll, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

"We need to find Minato-sensei immediately."

Kakashi's voice was urgent.

This intelligence was too deadly.

Iwagakure had never intended to conceal their supply route.

They had used it as bait, intending to swallow Hidden Leaf's frontline forces whole.

Obito leaned over for a look.

Although he could not understand all the tactical symbols.

Even an idiot could tell what those huge red crosses representing encirclement meant.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Obito grew anxious.

Qian Ye did not waste any words.

He glanced at the ruins behind him.

Then at the patch of seemingly ordinary earth to their right.

"Go."

Qian Ye left behind that single word.

Then he leaped onto a tree trunk.

Kakashi and the other two followed close behind.

The four figures quickly melted into the night.

Racing in the direction Minato Namikaze had gone.

The clearing outside the mine returned to dead silence.

The wind blew through the broken stumps.

The air reeked of blood and gunpowder.

A full five minutes passed.

From the earth on the right.

A black-and-white pitcher plant slowly rose from the ground.

White Zetsu twisted his neck.

Looking at the devastation all around him.

He could not help clicking his tongue.

"What a terrifying brat."

"He tore apart Hidden Stone's demolition squad all by himself."

There was a hint of schadenfreude on White Zetsu's half-face.

But Black Zetsu could not laugh at all.

His yellow eye stared in the direction Qian Ye had left.

His entire mindset had collapsed.

He had lived for over a thousand years.

He had secretly manipulated the reincarnations of Indra and Asura.

Even someone like Madara Uchiha, standing at the pinnacle of the Ninja World, had been within his calculations.

But he had