Beneath the Five Kage Talks, White Zetsu's pale face twitched violently, beads of sweat the size of beans sliding down its forehead.
"Uchiha Chuan... can actually foresee the future?!"
Its trembling voice echoed through the empty underground passage, and it immediately relayed the news to Madara Uchiha, thousands of miles away, through a special mental link.
"What?"
Madara's eyes abruptly widened, a rare flash of shock crossing his scarlet Rinnegan. The intelligence scroll in his hand fell to the ground with a slap.
"Precognition..." Madara's fingers unconsciously tapped the armrest of his stone chair, producing dull echoes in the silent cave. "No wonder he was able to discover White Zetsu's tracks."
Madara frowned deeply. The abilities this junior had displayed had already far exceeded his expectations. What unsettled him even more was—what price did this precognition demand? And how many of his secrets had Uchiha Chuan learned through it?
"Interesting..." A cold curve rose at Madara's lips, and a dangerous gleam flashed through his Rinnegan. "It seems I still underestimated this junior."
Considering that Nagato had already left Konoha, Madara swiftly adjusted his strategy—sit back and watch the tigers fight. He only needed to protect several crucial chess pieces: Obito Uchiha, Uchiha Shota, and...
"Newborn Shisui Uchiha..." A sharp glint flashed in Madara's eyes.
Just two days earlier, Shisui Uchiha had been born. Those pure eyes, as though they could see through people's hearts, had drawn Madara's attention at once.
At the same time, within Konoha's Uchiha Clan Territory, a technological revolution capable of overturning the Shinobi World's balance was quietly unfolding.
"Clan Head Fugaku." Uchiha Chuan handed a metal token glowing with a dim blue light to Fugaku Uchiha. "This is the 'Teleportation Phone' I've developed over the past few days."
Fugaku carefully accepted the exquisite metal token. It