At the thought of a thousand-year-old deity, a powerful Otsutsuki, silently watching over the entire Shinobi World, an inexplicable sense of awe and dread instantly rose in everyone's hearts.
Everyone beneath the heavens stared at the Sage of Six Paths appearing on the Sky Screen. Only Black Zetsu, concealed in the shadows, trembled uncontrollably.
He hid in a dark corner, his heart turning ice-cold as unprecedented panic swept through him.
For all these years, he had plotted alongside Madara and schemed alongside Obito, setting up his game one move at a time and exhausting every means to revive Kaguya.
Until just now, one thing had baffled him.
Madara had already come this far. He had assembled the Ten-Tails, entered Six Paths mode, and reached the pinnacle of the Shinobi World, claiming almost every victory imaginable. Why had he still lost to Naruto and Sasuke in the end?
Only now, upon seeing the scene on the Sky Screen, did Black Zetsu finally understand!
No wonder Naruto and Sasuke kept turning certain defeat into victory, escaping death time and again!
All along, Hagoromo, the Sage of Six Paths, had been silently watching over the entire Shinobi World!
His thousand years of scheming were nothing but a joke in the eyes of this sage who looked down upon the world.
Black Zetsu screamed inwardly, overwhelmed by despair.
"Damn it... so that's how it was..."
"As long as Hagoromo is around, no matter how I scheme, no matter how I try to revive Mother, he'll stop me in the end!"
At that moment, Black Zetsu panicked completely.
The plan he had once been so certain of, his hope of reviving Kaguya, suddenly teetered on the brink of collapse.
He had always believed himself to be the mastermind controlling everything. Only now did he realize