Konoha did not lift the restrictions on White Zetsu's soil perception.
The terms of the exchange were changed to another form.
If the entrance was verified, the outermost sealing layer of the isolation chamber would be weakened by ten percent at a fixed time each day.
Neither the spatial barrier nor the restrictions on outside communication would be relaxed.
White Zetsu would merely be allowed to sense a sealed pot of heat-treated soil with no connection to the ground.
He could receive environmental stimulation, but could not establish a transmission channel through the soil.
White Zetsu was deeply dissatisfied.
"How does a pot of dead soil count as the outside?"
Shikaku replied, "What you're offering is an entrance, not your freedom."
Neither side trusted the other.
The exchange could rely only on verifiable results.
White Zetsu provided three sets of coordinates.
An abandoned well in eastern Land of Fire.
A grotto in southern Land of Rivers.
And the basement of an abandoned granary in the Land of Grass.
He claimed all three contained Space Mediums.
The investigation team did not check them in sequence.
Three teams each received one location, without knowing the other coordinates.
Only the grotto in the Land of Rivers yielded genuine spatial residue.
The abandoned well in the Land of Fire contained a nest of ordinary snakes.
The granary in the Land of Grass concealed an old trap that could be detonated by Sensory Ninjutsu.
The two false coordinates caused no casualties.
The well team first lowered a copper bell containing no chakra, using its vibrations to check for cavities in the well walls, then had a summoned snake determine whether the nest had been deliberately driven there.
The granary team stopped outside the authorized area and used only a disposable probe to touch the underground