Konoha: Starting with a sign-in for Hashirama cells

"Since there were no signs of struggle, fighting, or resistance, was it voluntary?" Naruto asked.

“Impossible.” Xiao Nan shook her head and said, “He would tell me everything and discuss it with me. Even if he wanted to leave, he wouldn’t leave without saying goodbye.”

"If it wasn't voluntary, then it was forced." Naruto rubbed his forehead. "Who could force him?"

Black Zetsu?

Please, if Black Zetsu had that ability, he would have controlled Nagato and resurrected Madara long ago.

Obito?

Obito was able to render Nagato powerless and forcibly take him away.

If Obito had that ability, he would have taken action long ago and stolen the Rinnegan.

“There is one person,” Xiao Nan said hesitantly.

"He claims to be Uchiha Madara, wears a mask, and I've never seen his real face, so I'm not sure if it's true, but he's very mysterious."

"If anyone could suppress Nagato, he is the most likely candidate, perhaps because he used some trump card."

Naruto pondered, "What's the trump card?"

Madara left a talisman on Obito's heart, suggesting he might have other methods of control.

Therefore, it's impossible that Madara didn't have a backup plan for Nagato. Whether he passed these plans on to Obito is unknown.

“Black Zetsu escaped, sought out Obito, and persuaded him to attack Nagato in order to seize the Rinnegan and control the Gedo Mazo,” Naruto thought to himself.

"Are they trying to resurrect Madara by using the Akatsuki to find him again?"

"After sensing me, it wasn't confident of defeating me, so it deliberately left. That's strange. Having already obtained the Rinnegan, why did it take Nagato with it? Could it be..."

"Nagato isn't dead? They want to sacrifice Nagato to revive Madara?"

Using the known clues, Naruto roughly deduced a direction, walked out of the secret room, came outside, and formed hand seals.

“Spiritualism, heretical statue.”

The power of the Rinnegan and the chakra of Sage Mode have been used up, but the Gedo Mazo is nowhere to be seen.

How can this situation be explained?

Is the Gedo Mazo in Obito's Kamui dimension?

Or is the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path sealed away?

I don't understand.

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Deep underground.

The lava was flowing slowly.

Black Zetsu crouched on a narrow foothold, looking very nervous. When Feather Robe didn't appear for a long time, it breathed a sigh of relief.

He had never considered absorbing the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path before, for fear of attracting Hagoromo.

This time, in order to protect the Gedo Mazo from falling into Naruto's hands and greatly reducing the chances of rescuing her mother, she reluctantly decided to...

Absorbed into the body!

"If I had known it would turn out this way, I shouldn't have tried to dissuade my mother in the first place," Hei Jue lamented.

If Mother had the Gedo Mazo as her vessel, she could have bypassed Sasuke and become even stronger, thus avoiding being suppressed by Naruto and ending up in this situation.

What's past is past, and there's no use regretting it now. It's time to think about what to do next.

"Why would they seek out the Land of Rain?" Black Zetsu wondered, completely puzzled.

"Speaking of which, he seems to know a lot of things, even the fact that his mother was sealed away by Hagoromo and Hamura."

"Could it be that they possess the ability to see the past and the future?"

It's quite bizarre; after this incident, Blackbeard is even more wary of Naruto.

"With the Gedo Mazo as its vessel, it surpasses countless Hidans," Black Zetsu thought to himself.

Kaguya's chakra is the same as the God Tree's chakra.

The Divine Tree's chakra does not necessarily mean it is Kaguya's chakra.

It sounds a bit convoluted and is difficult to explain in just a few words.

When combined with the Ten-Tails' body, which is also the body of the Divine Tree, and the Gedo Mazo, the Gedo Mazo can be fully activated.

If things continue to develop naturally, by absorbing the natural energy of this planet to expand and increase chakra, one day, he can recover to his complete form.

In the story, Obito failed to capture the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails, but activated the Ten-Tails using only a portion of the chakra of the two tailed beasts.

Subsequently, through several stages, it gradually evolved into the complete sacred tree.

It is not necessary to have all the chakra of all the tailed beasts; it is enough to gather a complete set of God Tree chakra.

"Too slow..." Black Zetsu tried to absorb natural energy and found that the efficiency was outrageously low.

At such a slow pace, imagine how difficult it must have been for it to grow to a semi-complete form, only to attract the Feather Robe and be sealed away.

Forget about saving its mother, it can barely save itself.

"Ideally, one should absorb an enormous amount of chakra in one go, and then use that chakra to release Infinite Tsukuyomi and absorb the chakra of all humanity."

"At that time, kill Naruto, release Mother, and give all the power to Mother."

"Mother in her prime, be careful not to get sealed again, then you won't need to fear the Feather Robe."

"Perfect."

Black Zetsu stopped absorbing natural energy and, incidentally, calmed the Ten-Tails, which had been activated and was eager to reclaim all its chakra.

"I can't make a move too often. Right now, I'm no match for Naruto," Black Zetsu thought cautiously.

"If we attract Yu Yi's attention, that would be even worse."

"We still need to revive Madara and let him and Obito lead the charge to help me capture the Tailed Beasts."

"Therefore, we need to find Ban first, and at the very least, he must be within the scope of the cycle of life and death."

With the plan complete, Black Zetsu opened Yomotsu Hirasaka and stepped inside.

Chapter 162 Divine Might Space, Battle Against Obito

Rain Ninja Village.

Naruto removed the chakra rod from Pain's body and placed it in his own hand.

In the story, Naruto used this method to trace Nagato's location in reverse.

“I don’t feel anything…” Naruto raised an eyebrow.

Is it because the distance is too far?

Or are we in another dimension?

unknown reason.

"How could this happen?" Xiao Nan shook her head slightly, her brow furrowed with worry.

"Do you know where that masked Madara is?" Naruto asked.

“He’s always the one who comes to us first. We don’t know where he is,” Xiao Nan shook her head.

There's nothing we can do then. The world is so big, finding someone is like finding a needle in a haystack, let alone someone like Obito who has space-time eye techniques and can appear and disappear unpredictably.

Naruto is having a headache.

Suddenly, I thought of Kakashi's Kamui and Ino's Yomotsu Hirasaka. It seems that finding Obito won't be a difficult task.

He thought for a moment, then formed the hand seals for a summoning jutsu, summoning Hatake Sakumo.

“These are my six Paths clones. We can share any clues we have. If Masked Madara comes looking for you, I will come immediately.”

Konan suddenly asked, "Why did you come looking for Nagato? And how did you learn about Nagato?"

It's important to know that since the Six Paths of Pain appeared, Nagato has never appeared in public again. In the eyes of those who knew Nagato, he was already dead.

"It's normal that you don't understand, because this is the power of the Rinnegan." Naruto lied through his teeth.

Konan remained silent; she didn't have the Rinnegan and couldn't verify its authenticity.

Before he could say anything more, Naruto vanished into thin air, leaving only Sakumo Hatake behind, who retreated to a corner, his presence reduced to almost nothing.

Upon returning to Konoha, Naruto went straight to Kakashi.

Kakashi was forced to redouble his efforts as his subordinates repeatedly overtook him.

He paused his workout, retreated to the shade of a tree, wiped his sweat, and drank water: "Why did you think of asking about my Sharingan?"

“I’m curious,” Naruto said.

"Curious..." Kakashi was speechless.

"Actually, it's nothing. In order to prevent it from continuing to drain my chakra, I sealed it with a sealing technique. I'll unseal it when I need to use it."

"Use the saved stamina and chakra to train your body, practice ninjutsu, and clear the Eight Gates within your body."

“I can see that the power of your Sharingan, teacher, is very strong, far exceeding that of the three-tomoe Sharingan.” Naruto went straight to the point.

"Has it advanced to the Kaleidoscope realm? Has it awakened any eye techniques? What kind of eye techniques are they?"

"As expected of the Rinnegan, he could even see that." Kakashi exclaimed.

"Indeed, it has advanced to the Kaleidoscope realm. As for the eye techniques, they are too much of a burden for me, so I haven't tried them."

"Intuitively, I feel that if I use it, I will most likely have to be hospitalized, which would be a waste of time and not worth it."

"I'll test it again once I think of a way to reduce the load."

Naruto patted Kakashi on the shoulder.

Kakashi was puzzled, then his eyes widened in disbelief: "This! This is!"

My body is brimming with power; I've never experienced such abundant chakra in my entire life.

This is Kurama's chakra, a unique ability possessed only by Yang Kurama, a one-of-a-kind among the Tailed Beasts—the ability to transfer chakra remotely.