Crack!
Black Zetsu was forcibly separated from White Zetsu by Kamui and transferred into the alternate space.
Whoosh!
Kai immediately warped himself into the same space.
Inside the Kamui dimension, Black Zetsu was sprawled across a floating platform, its brown eyes filled with shock and fury as it glared at Kai.
“Why are you doing this?! I am Madara-sama’s will!”
Kai smiled.
“No. You’re not Madara’s will.”
“You’re Kaguya’s will.”
“You tampered with the Uchiha stone tablet and manipulated Madara into carrying out the Eye of the Moon Plan. Your real goal was to resurrect your mother—Kaguya Ōtsutsuki!”
Black Zetsu was struck as if by a bolt of lightning.
“You… How do you know all of this?!”
“You’re definitely not some ordinary brat! Who the hell are you?!”
“Who I am isn’t important.”
“What matters is that you’re going to die here.”
Kai formed the hand seals for Fire Release while simultaneously activating Kamui.
Fire Release: Blast Wave Wild Dance!
Whoom!
Flames erupted.
As Kamui twisted the space around them, the flames were amplified several times over, surging toward Black Zetsu like a raging inferno!
Black Zetsu’s greatest advantage was its ability to merge with the earth and utilize its power, even using that connection to employ Wood Release.
But inside the Kamui dimension, that ability was completely useless.
“AAARGH!! Damn it!!”
The flames struck Black Zetsu head-on, eliciting a scream of agony.
But Black Zetsu was, after all, the will of Kaguya herself.
It wasn’t so easy to kill.
It immediately shouted toward the Spiral Zetsu wrapped around Kai’s body.
“White Zetsu! What are you waiting for?! Stop this bastard!”
“…”
Spiral Zetsu didn’t move.
It seemed to be weighing its options.
Kai stopped and looked toward it.
“Swirly-head, this is the moment you choose your side.”
“If you make the wrong choice, you’d better think carefully about the consequences…”
The atmosphere became tense.
Silence stretched on for a long while.
Finally, Spiral Zetsu spoke in a half-playful tone.
“Well… I only care about poop.”
“Poop.”
“What does it look like, Obito? If you can tell me that…”
Kai smiled.
“Sure.”
“Not only will I tell you what poop looks like, I’ll even explain how it’s made…”
“It’s a deal.”
And just like that, tempted by the mysteries of poop, Spiral Zetsu chose Kai’s side.
“You bunch of bastards!!”
Black Zetsu roared in fury.
“Let’s go, Swirly-head!”
Crack!
Crack!
Crack!
Branches suddenly burst from the Hashirama clone attached to Kai’s right shoulder.
Kai violently swung his arm.
A mass of wooden branches shot toward Black Zetsu.
Black Zetsu hurriedly dodged, but several branches still struck its body.
“This kind of thing…”
Black Zetsu gritted its teeth and tried to pull the branches out.
“Not so fast!”
Kai formed another set of hand seals.
Wood Release: Cutting Sprigs Jutsu!
Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!!
“AAARGH!!!”
Barbs rapidly sprouted from the wooden branches, turning Black Zetsu’s body into a bloody mess!
Kai changed his hand seals again.
Combining the technique with Kamui, he unleashed an even more powerful Fire Release.
Whoom!
The flames engulfed Black Zetsu once more.
“My nearly thousand years of planning…”
“To think I’d be destroyed by a rookie brat from the Uchiha clan…”
In a roar filled with unwillingness and rage, Black Zetsu—the mastermind who had manipulated the history of the shinobi world for centuries—was finally eliminated by Kai, a transmigrator who had only just arrived in this world.
“Ha… ha… ha…”
Kai panted heavily.
Thanks to the Senju cells in his body, his chakra reserves were extremely abundant.
But he had only recently arrived in this world.
He was still unfamiliar with forming hand seals and manipulating chakra, so performing ninjutsu like that consumed considerably more chakra than it normally would.
As he became more accustomed to hand seals and chakra control, this excessive consumption would gradually decrease.
Kai left the Kamui dimension and returned to the underground hideout.
The disturbance had already alerted all the White Zetsu.
They had left the Gedo Statue and gathered around the area.
Kai remained on guard, ready to retreat into the Kamui dimension at the slightest sign of trouble.
At that moment, Spiral Zetsu spoke.
“Don’t worry. All the White Zetsu are connected to one another.”
“Besides, we never really liked Madara.”
“He called us inferior artificial humans and treated us like disposable pawns.”
“But we’re artificial humans with feelings too…”
“Ah, Spiral Zetsu. You really are a good kid…”
Kai sighed.
He finally relaxed.
For the next several months, Kai remained inside the underground hideout.
With the White Zetsu’s guidance, he gradually became proficient in basic chakra control.
Things like concentrating chakra in the soles of his feet, sticking to water and ceilings, and performing basic ninjutsu all became second nature.
Obito’s chakra nature was extremely versatile.
He possessed Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Water, and Yin Release.
The only nature he lacked was Yang Release.
Deep inside the hideout, Kai discovered the containers Madara had used to preserve biological specimens.
He placed Rin’s body inside one of them.
He also found the various ninja tools and scrolls Madara had collected during his lifetime.
And so, half a year passed.
By then, Kai had gotten the hang of all the basic aspects of being a shinobi.
With the power of Dual Kamui, he was confident that even if he faced a shinobi at the Kage level, he wouldn’t be afraid.
But…
If he encountered someone at the level of the Six Paths…
Kai would still feel a little uneasy.
And that was without even considering Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
In the future, there would be Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki, Kinshiki Ōtsutsuki, Urashiki Ōtsutsuki, and even Jigen—who was actually Ōtsutsuki Isshiki in disguise.
Every one of them would be an extremely troublesome enemy.
If he wanted to fight them…
His current strength was nowhere near enough.
Therefore, obtaining the Ten-Tails was essential.
And to revive the Ten-Tails, he needed the power of the Rinnegan.
Nagato possessed a ready-made pair of Rinnegan.
However, those Rinnegan originally belonged to Madara.
Using them would place an enormous burden on Kai’s body.
At most, he could transplant one eye.
But doing that would mean sacrificing the Kamui of one of his eyes.
Kai wasn’t willing to pay such a price.
The Rinnegan evolved from the Sharingan, and it could still utilize the abilities of the original Mangekyō Sharingan.
Compared to taking a shortcut through transplantation, Kai would rather evolve his own eyes.
But to evolve the Sharingan into the Rinnegan, he needed to combine the powers of both the Senju and Uchiha.
Kai already possessed a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan.
But…
His Senju power was still incomplete.
The Hashirama clone attached to the left half of his body was nothing more than an ordinary White Zetsu.
It was far too inferior.
“What I need most right now is a complete Hashirama Sage Body!”
Kai raised his head and looked toward the Hashirama clone attached to the Gedo Statue.
According to the White Zetsu, this artificial body had no consciousness, but its resemblance to Hashirama was the closest of all the clones.
It was almost identical to Hashirama himself.
However, Kai had no idea how to properly fuse with it.
Madara had once transplanted a piece of Hashirama’s flesh into his own wounds, allowing him to obtain a portion of Hashirama’s power.
It wasn’t until the latter years of his life that Madara finally awakened the Rinnegan.
But Kai’s ambitions were much greater.
He didn’t want a portion.
He wanted all of it.
That meant he needed the right method.
After all, Hashirama’s power was extremely difficult to control.
There is one person who should be able to do it…
Kai thought of the man who possessed the core knowledge of the shinobi world’s forbidden technologies.
One of the Legendary Sannin.
Orochimaru.
“White Zetsu, where is Orochimaru?”
Gurgle…
A White Zetsu emerged from the Gedo Statue.
“Orochimaru is in a secret base somewhere in the forests of southern Fire Country.”
“Though… it seems like he’s preparing to move.”
“Then we’d better go meet him.”
Swish!
Kai pulled a black cloak from the wall and draped it over himself.
Then he strode out of the hideout.
Add to Collection.
Send some Power Stones.