When the possessed member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan mentioned the shinobi down on the planet, his face was full of arrogance and disdain.
"Hmph! Those lowly insects could all die out for all I care!"
Hearing this, Black Zetsu seemed to smile even more broadly with facial features that had never existed in the first place.
That's right. Keep that hatred alive...
Mother will soon see the light of day again.
Black Zetsu had also stumbled upon a pleasant surprise. After the body he controlled received a transplant of that Hyuga Clan shinobi's Byakugan, a strange chemical reaction had actually occurred. The Byakugan seemed to have undergone some kind of mutation.
Although the Moon Otsutsuki Clan's power had originally been pure, it had deficiencies due to the dilution of their bloodline.
Those deficiencies had actually been perfectly remedied by the Byakugan of the Shinobi World's Hyuga Clan.
Once made whole, these Otsutsuki puppets possessed terrifying ocular power and chakra as vast as the sea.
As soon as this army finished assembling, it could launch a devastating attack directly on the Shinobi World.
Black Zetsu gazed at the blue planet and silently recited in his heart.
Kirigakure... Sixth Mizukage Gekkō Raito... I'll be back soon. That world belongs to Mother!
Black Zetsu was busy running his pyramid scheme on the moon, hoodwinking the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
Meanwhile, Sasuke was leading his clansmen along the danger-ridden border to investigate the movements of the Three Great Shinobi Villages.
Whether a war broke out in the Shinobi World depended entirely on how those three rogue shinobi villages played their cards.
Yet at that very moment!
In an underground secret chamber deep within the Mizukage Building, sealed off by layer upon layer of barriers, Gekkō Raito was conducting a mad experiment-fusing two Ten-Tails.
The fusion process