Inside the deep underground pit.
At that moment, Black Zetsu eerily crawled out of the ground, then wound his way onto Huang Tian's body.
Soon, Huang Tian's entire body seemed to be covered by a layer of shadow.
"B-Black Zetsu? What are you doing?"
"You actually colluded with humans behind my back?"
Huang Tian discovered to his horror that he could no longer move!
It was as though this body no longer belonged to him.
Black Zetsu was extremely excited, as though he had finally found meaning in life.
"What collusion? Lord Qi Yuan is my only master now."
"You and Cangnan were nothing but pawns in my hands."
He kept chuckling, then suddenly felt two strange gazes turn toward him.
Hongye and Yanling had been scrutinizing him all along.
Black Zetsu hastily corrected himself. "I misspoke. Lord Qi Yuan's pawns!"
Huang Tian's eyes widened when he heard Cangnan's name.
"C-Cangnan??"
White Zetsu picked up the conversation with a grin. "Huang Tian, you big idiot, you didn't really think you created us, did you?"
"How could you possibly create us without the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path? How pathetic. You're at death's door, and you still don't know Cangnan's true colors."
"And without Cangnan's help, do you think you could control two Rinnegan?"
"Ho ho ho! Surely no one actually thinks he's the chosen one!"
Hongye and Yanling shifted their gazes from Black Zetsu to White Zetsu, who instantly felt fate seize him by the throat.
"Master, Master, you're the chosen one!!"
Someone had tried to control the Rinnegan in the past and passed down clues about the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Yet after obtaining the Rinnegan, Huang Tian had been completely unable to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and had assumed it was