As for Jiraiya's doubts, neither Tsunade nor Hiruzen responded.
Anyone could tell that Uchiha Keizumi possessing Wood Release was highly problematic. But Keizumi already had far too many questionable aspects about him—so adding one more, like Wood Release, didn't seem like such a big deal anymore.
And no one knew that, at this very mont, deep beneath the Valley of the End, a figure was rapidly moving underground.
That figure was none other than the "great filial son of the ninja world," Black Zetsu!
"The Tenseigan!"
"A Tenseigan has actually appeared in the ninja world!"
"How is it even possible for a Tenseigan to appear in the ninja world?!"
At this mont, Black Zetsu's mood could be described as utterly terrible. Not long ago, he had just recruited Kabuto and had even taken over all of Orochimaru's research on Impure World Reincarnation.
Everything had clearly been progressing in a positive direction—so why had a Tenseigan suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the ninja world?
"So what exactly is the Tenseigan? Why do you look so tense, Black Zetsu?"
On the other side, attached to him, White Zetsu asked in confusion. He felt that after all these years following Black Zetsu and Uchiha Obito, he had already seen quite a lot—so how had he never even heard of sothing like the Tenseigan before?
But Black Zetsu ignored White Zetsu's question. At this mont, his already dark face looked even darker.
At the sa ti, he was also thinking—could the birth of the Tenseigan offer even the slightest help to his plan to revive his mother?
"If I can persuade the one who awakened the Tenseigan to join my plan, then maybe I won't need any other plans at all. Just helping him master the power of the Tenseigan might be enough?"
"The Eye of the Moon Plan allows Mother to revive through Uchiha Madara's body… but if it's a Tenseigan-based plan, maybe I could guide him to directly shatter the moon?"
Black Zetsu's gaze flickered. Even though the flas of judgnt were still burning on his body, he seed to have completely grown accustod to them.
"No, that's not right. I need to investigate first—why would Ōtsutsuki Hamura's eyes suddenly awaken in the ninja world!"
Black Zetsu forcibly suppressed that tempting idea. He knew that Konohagakure had the Hyūga Clan, and over the past thousand years, he had examined them more than once.
But compared to the Uchiha Clan, the Hyūga Clan gave him the impression of being sowhat unambitious.
Or rather, it wasn't that they lacked ambition—it was that their bloodline had thinned to the point where they could barely even awaken the Byakugan's higher evolution, let alone anything beyond that. And after the birth of the Caged Bird Seal, the Hyūga Clan had declined even further.
Underground, Black Zetsu's mind was filled with countless thoughts. anwhile, on the battlefield above, the fight between Uchiha Keizumi and Hyūga Hiashi was becoming increasingly perilous.
The deep-blue sphere of light seed to possess the power to annihilate everything. Wooden giants rose one after another, while wooden dragons coiled and twisted.
A massive Susanoo stood at the center of the battlefield. Beneath its feet, magma surged endlessly. The wooden dragons roared, trying to crush the rotating barrier with their bodies, while the wooden giants attempted to suppress that deep-blue sphere.
Even the Susanoo controlled by Keizumi was moving. The power of Lava Release clung to it, making Keizumi resemble a god who wielded both fire and magma!
"Still… not enough?"
When Keizumi saw cracks beginning to appear on the magma-wrapped Susanoo blade the mont it collided with the Tenseigan's Rotation, his expression grew serious.
"Even without condensing Truth-Seeking Balls, the Tenseigan's Rotation already possesses so of their properties?"
Keizumi understood the nature of Truth-Seeking Balls. And at this mont, in his eyes, Hiashi's Tenseigan Rotation truly carried a hint of that sa all-destroying force.
"Or rather… is Hyūga Hiashi himself now equivalent to an oversized Truth-Seeking Ball?"
Keizumi frowned. Without mastering senjutsu, it seed his only option was to use Yin–Yang Release as well?
"No. Truth-Seeking Balls aren't truly indestructible!"
"Even genuine Truth-Seeking Balls can be forcibly shattered by overwhelming force—let alone this imitation that only carries part of their properties!"
Keizumi's gaze deepened. If he couldn't even handle this imitation of a Truth-Seeking Ball, then how would he face Uchiha Madara in the future?
Though, to be fair, Keizumi didn't even know whether Madara would still be revived…
Rumble—!
Trees began to twist and coil. The wooden dragons no longer attempted aningless strangulation toward Hiashi. The wooden giants began to converge. As Keizumi clapped his hands together, he pushed Wood Release to its absolute limit!
Countless trees twisted and intertwined. The massive wooden giants rged as if there were no boundaries between them. In just a short ti, a colossal wooden figure—nearly equal in size to Keizumi's Susanoo—began to take shape!
"Still haven't mastered senjutsu… otherwise, Wood Release alone might have been enough…"
Keizumi's gaze turned serious. The two gigantic beings stood side by side. Without even moving, their re existence alone created an overwhelming sense of pressure for any ordinary person.
But what was even more shocking was that the two massive entities began to rge.
Or rather, Keizumi was controlling the Susanoo—completely overlaying it onto the colossal wooden figure!
The enormous wooden golem, wrapped in wooden dragons, was now covered in a thick layer of Susanoo armor. The power that once allowed Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama to dominate the ninja world had, at this mont, rged into one!
Hiruzen's eyes flickered with a hint of daze. He had once heard his teacher say that during the battle at the Valley of the End, Madara had used Susanoo to cover the Nine-Tails, creating the Armored Nine-Tails.
Not long after that battle, his teacher's brother—the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama—had died.
Now, seeing the fusion of the wooden golem and Susanoo, forming this Armored Susanoo, Hiruzen felt as if he were witnessing the clash between Hashirama and Madara all over again.
However, Hiashi's condition was far worse than it appeared to outsiders.
Hiashi himself realized that the Tenseigan Rotation he had unintentionally created possessed unimaginable power—but he also sensed its severe drawbacks.
Even though the Tenseigan's chakra had raised his chakra capacity, his body was still that of a normal human.
The prolonged spinning of the Rotation had already left him dizzy. If he continued fighting, he feared that he wouldn't even be able to tell where Keizumi was standing.
But Hiashi could not stop.
And he did not dare to stop…
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