After another night of fierce battle.
Xuandou quietly left the Imperial Palace bedroom and flew east of Azure Tide Port.
Half an hour later.
He arrived in a desolate forest, landed, and chose a clean boulder to sit on cross-legged.
Before long, a ninja in a black robe descended from the sky.
It was Obito, who had volunteered a few months earlier to infiltrate Kara.
"Have you arrived already?" Xuandou asked.
"Yes," Obito replied with a nod.
He crushed something like a small black pebble in his hand and stood quietly in place.
Xuandou, meanwhile, kept his eyes closed as he sat cross-legged on the boulder.
Neither had any intention of saying much.
A spatial disturbance rippled through the air, then a black hole the size of a bottle opening appeared in midair.
Under Obito's gaze.
A pea-sized White Figure stepped out of the black hole and hovered in midair, watching Obito and Xuandou.
"I really didn't expect," Xuandou rose to his feet, "that you would actually dare to come."
When he had first received word that Obito had been exposed, he had thought he would have to expend a Life Reincarnation Card to resurrect him.
Yet unexpectedly, during yesterday's enthronement ceremony, he had received a message from Obito asking him to find an uninhabited area the following day-today.
Kara's ultimate leader, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, wanted to meet him.
Xuandou had thought Ōtsutsuki Isshiki would either deceive him by not coming or bring Jigen, Kashin Koji, and the other Kage-level fighters to ambush him.
He had never considered that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki would come alone to their meeting.
A strange thought rose in Xuandou's mind:
Had Ōtsutsuki Isshiki gotten something slightly wrong about my current strength?
Wasn't he afraid he would never make it back once he came?
Indeed, Xuandou was already