Outside Amegakure, deep underground.
In the absolute darkness, only a pair of yellow eyes slowly lit up.
Black Zetsu floated silently among the rocks, his body seeming to blend into the surrounding shadows, with only his eyes giving off an eerie glow.
Nearly a week had passed since the battle with Ryota Uchiha, but the faint unease in Black Zetsu's heart had never faded.
Ryota Uchiha's "Time-Reversal Trace" dojutsu was far too troublesome. As long as he was not killed instantly, he could keep restoring his condition.
And Lin Ze... was even harder for it to fathom.
"The coordinated ambush in three months..."
Black Zetsu muttered to himself, a trace of gravity flashing through his yellow eyes.
Nagato, Obito, and every member of the Akatsuki were theoretically enough to surround and kill the wielders of three pairs of Eternal Eyes.
But theory was ultimately just theory.
Lin Ze had not fought in five years, and according to Obito, he had grown considerably stronger. Merely standing there, he gave Obito an overwhelming sense of pressure.
Add to that the bizarre Azure Dragon Form, the Summoning Beasts of Ryūchi Cave, and "Crescent Moon," which had vanished after the battle with Obito in the waters of the Land of Whirlpools...
They were all variables.
More importantly-
Black Zetsu had already exposed his "All-Killing Ash Bones" ability.
Having lived for a thousand years, he naturally knew that battles in the Shinobi World had always been wars of intelligence.
Once an ability was known, the enemy would try every possible means to counter and overcome it.
Ryota Uchiha had suffered from it once. The next time they met, he would never give it another easy chance to land a hit. And Lin Ze...
If that man took action himself, Black Zetsu had no certainty of