The Wood Clone took one last, lingering look at the vast, intricate seal, at Kaguya lying silent within it, and at Black Zetsu slumped beside it like a puddle of sludge.
He reached out from a safe distance, holding his hand against the seal's invisible barrier.
He was neither trying to break it nor channeling chakra into it. He was simply using his own perception to examine the exceptionally sophisticated structure of the seal that the Sage of Six Paths Brothers had created together.
Cold, solid, vast, endlessly renewing... it was like a small, independent world, cutting Kaguya off from the outside completely.
He could sense the exquisitely intricate Yin-Yang Release chakra circulating within it, forming a perfect, stable cycle that outside forces could not easily interfere with and those inside could not break through.
Unless someone possessed power surpassing that of its casters or held the "key" to its core, breaking it by force was virtually impossible.
No luck, just as I thought...
The Wood Clone sighed inwardly and shook his head.
This attempt could essentially be declared a failure.
Neither Kaguya nor Black Zetsu could offer an immediately effective way to escape.
Since staying served no purpose and lingering might only increase the risk of exposure, the Wood Clone made his decision at once.
He formed a simple hand seal.
Poof!
With a soft sound, the Wood Clone turned into a cloud of white smoke and quickly dispersed through the dim space of the Moon Sealing Site.
At the same time, his conversations with Kaguya and Black Zetsu, his examination of the seal, and everything else that had happened on the moon became a clear stream of information, crossing the barrier of space and returning to the consciousness of Naruto's original body in Konoha.
The kikaichū that had