Konoha: Starting with a sign-in for Hashirama cells

It peered around for a while, but found nothing. It tilted its head and thought for a moment, then retreated back into the tree and silently disappeared underground.

He hadn't gone far, stopping in the bushes a dozen kilometers away. Using his X-ray vision to lock onto the departing White Zetsu, Naruto patted Hinata on the shoulder: "I'm going."

"Be careful," Hinata said. "You must be careful."

Naruto nodded.

In front of Hinata, his body rapidly faded and disappeared.

However, it was originally Indra's unique eye technique, which was refined into a chakra fruit, entered Naruto's stomach, and became his ability.

The effect is that one can freely control the virtuality and reality of all objects, including oneself, but it has no effect on living beings.

Its usage conditions and limitations are very similar to those of the Otsutsuki Isshiki's Shona Hikona.

In his intangible state, Naruto can pass through walls, barriers, and the ground; he can go anywhere, both in the sky and on the ground.

When blurred to a certain degree, it appears to outsiders as if the person has disappeared.

"Land, trees, and water, can move freely in these three environments and blend in perfectly without being noticed."

"Even the Byakugan's X-ray vision has difficulty locking onto White Zetsu that has merged into the ground. No wonder it can be entrusted with such an important task as intelligence gathering within the Akatsuki."

Regardless of White Zetsu's actual combat ability, his stealth ability is among the best in the ninja world.

Lost in his thoughts, Naruto followed closely behind White Zetsu, sensing the malice within him.

He had two purposes for this trip.

They captured a large number of White Zetsu, kept them in captivity, and intended to use them as tools for future applications of the Samsara Rebirth Technique.

Let's follow this line and see if we can find Obito.

I've already informed Sakura, Ino, and Sasuke beforehand. If they find Obito, there's no question, the whole team will attack together.

"Although Obito lost an eye, he still has the Rinnegan with nine tomoe. Hinata's spatial barrier may not be able to completely suppress his Kamui."

"Sasuke's power is still needed here."

Three days have passed since Sakura was rescued.

Naruto didn't just spend these three days playing games with Hinata; he also took time to rest and recuperate.

Naruto was also thinking about tactics, or rather, tactics with Obito as the hypothetical enemy. He had been devising these ideas since his time in the Ninja Academy.

Based on his existing capabilities, Naruto devised two plans.

The first plan is centered around Hinata's spatial barrier.

By limiting Obito's Kamui and outnumbering him, Obito had no chance of survival.

Even if Obito uses Izanagi, a forbidden technique that can reverse all adverse factors, including death.

With the expansion of the Truth-Seeking Ball, the ultimate technique capable of obliterating and annihilating everything, even Obito couldn't escape.

Yes, if Kaguya gives up resisting and actively cooperates, Naruto can use all of her abilities.

After all, he now possesses the Bloodline Limit, and is a divine tree that has not yet blossomed or borne fruit. It is not difficult for him to control and utilize Kaguya's abilities.

If Hinata's spatial barrier fails to contain Obito, then Kamui, imbued with the power of the Rinnegan, will have to resort to the second option.

This tactic is based on Hidan's Death Possession Blood.

At the start, try to obtain Obito's blood. Then, control Hidan, who hasn't been released yet, and activate the Death Possession Blood.

On one side, Hidan was relentlessly killing himself, sharing his status and providing synchronous feedback to Obito, causing powerful interference and influence on him.

On one side, Naruto used the Susanoo's Golden Balance to sacrifice his own power and proportionally exchange it for Obito's power, greatly weakening Obito.

With this double pressure, even if Obito had ten lives, he wouldn't be able to die under the combined attack of Hinata, Ino, and Sasuke.

It can be said that Naruto had considered every aspect before taking action.

Regarding the issue of physical depletion after using the Reincarnation and Rebirth method for a short time...

Well, since I'm playing support anyway, I don't need to deal much damage, so this discomfort can be ignored.

Unaware that a tail was following behind, White Zetsu was like a lively and agile little fish, swimming, diving, diving, and diving deeper and deeper in the soil.

Sometimes they would run into extremely hard objects. At such times, White Zetsu would mutter a few complaints to himself, then walk around them and continue on his way.

Earth's crustal movements often cause changes in underground pathways.

After traveling for about ten hours, Naruto began to wonder if he had been discovered or noticed.

Naruto had seen White Zetsu's memories before, not just seen them, but quite a few, but unfortunately, there was no valuable information or clues.

Unlike humans.

The White Zetsu's body structure is extremely strange and peculiar.

It's understandable, since it's a life form transformed from the divine tree.

A large part of my memory is blank; the memories that can be seen are all like plain water—tasteless and devoid of substance.

"I'm so tired," Naruto sighed inwardly, but patiently continued following for another five hours.

As expected, the White Zetsu that Naruto was tracking encountered another White Zetsu.

Neither of them spoke, they simply touched each other's hands. Then, the White Zetsu that Naruto had been following turned around and headed back down to the ground.

The other White Zetsu dived downwards.

Naruto thought for a moment and decided to follow the White Zetsu that was diving down.

"These are... spores?"

Noticing that spores were falling in twos and threes wherever White Zetsu passed, Naruto frowned.

what does this mean?

Is White Zetsu undergoing metabolism?

"I didn't see anything like this in the White Zetsu memories I looked at, so it shouldn't be a common occurrence," Naruto thought to himself. "Is there some meaning I don't know about?"

After following them for a while, Naruto felt increasingly uneasy and turned back, immediately noticing something amiss.

"One spore is missing!"

"Who? Who took it? This place is not a place that ordinary creatures can reach."

Naruto quickened his pace, rapidly circling the area, and with the powerful perception of his Rinnegan, discovered subtle clues.

Following the clues, they caught up with a white Zetsu about a kilometer away.

All the White Zetsu looked the same, and there was no difference between them, but Naruto knew that this was the third White Zetsu he had seen today.

The reason is that this White Zetsu does not have the same malice as the first White Zetsu.

Furthermore, this White Zetsu was holding a second White Zetsu in its hand, scattering spores wherever it passed.

"The protective measures are pretty good, so many rings." Naruto's lips curled up slightly.

He had reason to believe that ahead lay Obito's hiding place on Earth.

Suppressing his impulse, Naruto patiently followed, even more cautiously than before.

Finally, they arrived at the destination. Naruto peeked out and discovered that it was a room of less than 30 square meters.

White Zetsu knelt on the tatami mat, holding spores in his hands, seemingly doing nothing.

Chapter 254 The Stronghold Hidden Deep Underground

Naruto peeked out, blurring his own form to appear invisible, and floated behind White Zetsu.

Without White Zetsu being aware of it, I observed its actions at close range.

White Zetsu held a spore in one hand and a pen in the other, writing on a piece of white paper.

"Is this some kind of secret? And is it being deciphered?"

"It's not written in the script of this era; it's more like the ancient script used by Hamura's lineage on the moon."

Naruto seemed to be deep in thought.

No matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see anything special about the spore. But when he looked at the white Zetsu, he would write something, then stop, clutching the spore tightly while closing his eyes to sense it.

There is only one explanation: deciphering.

There exists a unique method of communication between White Zetsu that only they know, and this method is extremely secretive, making it difficult for outsiders to understand.

Having not yet seen the big fish, and to avoid alerting the enemy, Naruto remained still and waited patiently.

Before long, the white paper, now written, was folded up with black ink. He then opened the lid next to it, put the paper inside, and then closed the lid again.

After waiting for a moment without hearing a sound of landing, Naruto realized something, maintained his intangibility, and reached into the lid.

They were shocked to discover that it was a narrow, bottomless, vertically descending cavern, with an entrance and passage so small that even a hand could not fit inside.

Without hesitation, Naruto followed the passage and dived down, quickly catching up with the folded paper that was still falling.

"One hundred meters, two hundred meters, three hundred meters."

The paper fell nearly a thousand meters before landing.

Naruto passed through the rock face, rocks, and walls as if they were nothing, and what came into view was a large number of white Zetsu moving back and forth, extremely busy.

"It must have been tough for you to dig out such a large space to move around in from so deep underground," Naruto thought to himself.

A rough count revealed that there were at least two thousand White Zetsu present.

Every White Zetsu had a dull, lifeless gaze and facial features, clearly indicating that they were being brainwashed and controlled by genjutsu.

Emotionless and robotic, they handle one intelligence-related task after another.

Naruto looked around, observing the layout and the number of people, but couldn't find his target, Obito. He was somewhat disappointed, but…

"That's right, this place was definitely created by Obito. It's one of his bases on Earth. Eventually, all this information will be delivered to him for his review."

"In other words, what I need to do is keep a close eye on this intelligence."

Last time, in order to send a message and find Sasuke, Naruto infused his chakra and eye power into a flyer, causing a brief rain of paper to fall on Earth.

On one hand, he wanted Sasuke's help, and on the other hand, he also wanted to lure out Obito.

Unfortunately, in the end they only captured White Zetsu, the most superficial one, the one in charge of peripheral matters.