Three days had passed since Uchiha Madara carried Senju Hashirama in a bridal style. Although the entire scene had been recorded by Black Zetsu's White Zetsu team with cameras.
But no one dared to review it; they couldn't withstand the combined assault of Madara and Hashirama.
Senju Hashirama, due to this incident, had confined himself to his room in the Senju clan compound in Konoha, not coming out to eat for three days and three nights.
Uchiha Madara, with a gleeful mood, temporarily resided at the Eternal Base with Izuna. He couldn't return to the Uchiha clan compound in Konoha, and his own lair had been ransacked by Lin Yu.
Furthermore, Izuna's body was a clone, and his eyes were not the Mangekyo Sharingan from his lifetime but a clone of a three-tomoe Sharingan. Madara needed to earn money to get a Mangekyo pair for his brother from Orochimaru.
Thus, Madara began his life as a wage slave for the Eternal Organization.
...
In a large laboratory, Black Zetsu sat nervously on a chair. In the oval pit beside him lay the Ten-Tails, fast asleep, the very one brought to the ninja world by Isshiki.
It was now being kept and nurtured here.
Lin Yu flipped through documents and slowly said, "Black Zetsu, I told you before that I could help you revive Ōtsutsuki Kaguya. Now all the factors are in place. Do you think it can succeed?"
Black Zetsu's dark face showed no expression. After a long while, he weakly said, "Actually, I don't think it can necessarily succeed. Mother has merged with the Divine Tree. Using this Ten-Tails might not be enough to revive Mother."
"Is the Ten-Tails Kaguya, and Kaguya the Ten-Tails?"
Black Zetsu stated solemnly, "That statement is imprecise. The Ten-Tails and Mother are two separate individuals. It was only later, after Mother consumed the Chakra Fruit and merged with the Divine Tree, that the saying 'the Ten-Tails is Mother' came about."
"The original plan to revive Mother was to gather the nine Tailed Beasts, have Uchiha Madara become the Ten-Tails jinchūriki, activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and then have me guide Mother's will. Mother could then be resurrected in the Ten-Tails jinchūriki's body."
"It's a pity that all of this was ruined by you... Boss."
Speaking of which, Black Zetsu felt a great sense of regret. If not for Lin Yu's appearance, he might have been able to revive his mother through his own machinations in a few more years.
Lin Yu asked, "Then why did you agree in the first place if you knew it wouldn't work?"
Black Zetsu glanced at the Ten-Tails beside him and said, "Although Mother merged with the Ten-Tails and gained infinite power, two wills appeared within her body: one was Mother's, and the other was the Ten-Tails'. However, most of the time Mother's will dominated, which is why she appeared in human form. If the Ten-Tails' will gained dominance, she would transform into a Tailed Beast. This is a drawback."
"In my heart, Mother is perfect, but I was powerless to stop all this. However, your appearance, Boss, has given me hope, the possibility of making Mother even more perfect!"
Lin Yu frowned, "You want me to separate Kaguya and the Ten-Tails' wills? I'm afraid I can't do that."
Black Zetsu shook his head, "I know you have that soul-devouring sword, Boss, but will is not the same as a soul. It's more like a chakra lifeform."
"But just like only one dog can gnaw on a bone, and only one Divine Tree can be planted on a planet. At least, one must wither before another can be planted. What would happen if two Divine Trees were planted simultaneously?"
"And any more question marks and I'll kill you!"
Black Zetsu immediately put on a fawning smile and said, "The Ten-Tails' role is to devour chakra and use the nutrients of the entire planet to produce a Chakra Fruit. The Ten-Tails has no concept of a race. Whoever tries to snatch its chakra will be attacked. Conversely, if a Ten-Tails has two Ten-Tails wills within it, what would happen?"
*Slap!*
Black Zetsu clutched his swollen cheek, tears welling up. He was actually hit with Yin-Yang Release! This was inhumane!
"The greatest possibility is that the weaker side will be devoured by the stronger side, and Mother can reap the benefits. Even if the Ten-Tails' will doesn't perish, it will at least be a mutually destructive outcome. This way, Mother can firmly suppress the Ten-Tails' will."
"No!"
Lin Yu immediately interrupted, "The Ten-Tails' will must be destroyed! How can two wills appear in one person's body! Absolutely not!"
He was joking! If he ever got his hands on Kaguya in the future, and during that... the Ten-Tails' will suddenly showed up, wouldn't it all be ruined!
Absolutely not!
Black Zetsu was stunned. He felt that at this moment, Lin Yu was more like Mother's son than he was, a sense of kindred spirits.
"Boss, you... *sob sob*, I'm really going to cry myself to death!"
*Bang bang!*
"Stop rambling and continue talking!"
Black Zetsu rubbed the large lump on his forehead, feeling wronged. "Moreover, deceased Ōtsutsuki members cannot evolve the Ten-Tails into a Divine Tree. But if the body of the Gedo Statue is added, it would be enough."
Lin Yu was confused, "Then I still have to activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi?"
Black Zetsu shook his head and said, "Boss, you're falling into a misconception. In my plan, the Infinite Tsukuyomi is indispensable. Mother's resurrection first requires a Ten-Tails jinchūriki, a vessel that can contain Mother's will, and then infinite chakra. The Infinite Tsukuyomi has only one purpose: to provide Mother with an endless supply of chakra."
"As the progenitor of chakra, Mother is not comparable to the chakra of a mere nine Tailed Beasts."
"Once all these external factors are gathered, I will awaken Mother's will, and Mother can reappear in the world."
Lin Yu felt something was wrong and asked, "So?"
Black Zetsu rubbed his hands with a grin and said, "With your current Six Paths level chakra, Boss, although there's still a gap compared to Mother, I feel that draining ten Bosses and activating the Infinite Tsukuyomi wouldn't be too different."
"Damn it all!"
Lin Yu suddenly felt a wave of emptiness. Kaguya hadn't even been revived, and he was going to be drained ten times over by Kaguya?
And possibly more than ten times.
Although Lin Yu was confident in his own chakra reserves, even before reaching the Six Paths level, he already far surpassed Kurama. Now, there was no end in sight.
But how could he, alone, compare to the entire ninja world?
"Perhaps I'll need to prepare a lot more senjutsu chakra then."
Lin Yu pondered for a long time. A plan was still a plan; the feasibility of execution still needed to be considered. He also had to guard against the possibility that after being drained by Kaguya, she would abandon him, which was highly likely.
"I need some time to prepare. Go talk to Orochimaru about the success rate of the plan and have him offer some suggestions for improvement."
"Orochimaru? He's a researcher, is he capable?"
Black Zetsu hesitated, but in the end, he handed Lin Yu a scroll.
"What is this?"
"Six Paths — Ten-Tails Coffin Seal."
*Bang!*
Black Zetsu became a shooting star and flew out of the laboratory.
"Draining me wasn't enough, and now you want to take over my body? That's just inhumane!"