Chapter 452 Shrinking the Circle

"I found the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Do you want to wait?"

"what are you saying?"

Black Zetsu was not unaware of the chaos that had just occurred with Naruto and his men. Now he said he had found the Eight-Tails scraps that he had obtained before. What else did he find this time? Could it be that the Nine-Tails had also been cut by Konoha?

"Didn't you just fail to capture him~"

"I have found the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki that I was looking for, but you know that large items cannot be transferred as quickly as I can by myself. You can only wait, or you can go and join me if you are in a hurry."

Black Zetsu spoke in a serious tone, and it didn't sound like he was joking.

"say clearly!"

"Some time ago, didn't a group of wave ninjas attack Konoha? They said they wanted to overthrow the regime. When they were acting, they activated a hidden mine in Konoha. They stole the Nine-Tails' chakra more than ten years ago to become Jinchūriki."

"Although it's just a defective one, it at least possessed the Nine-Tails Chakra."

"The ninjas of Konoha said that the Nine-Tails took back its chakra from the defective body, but the defective Jinchuriki was still alive and was finally released by Konoha."

"You know, if the Jinchūriki's tailed beast is taken away, he will die."

Even Obito should have understood what was said. The Jinchūriki was not dead, so he should have had some of the Nine-Tails' chakra to keep him alive.

"Foolish kindness, like what Konoha is capable of."

Wait for Obito to have another fight and try to snatch the Nine-Tails from Naruto?

Zetsu has given Obito more than one opportunity to do it himself, but he missed and failed. When his hollowness is cracked, he will still have to help. The Fourth Hokage has succeeded in doing so, as we have learned from past experience. The risk is increasing with time.

After waiting for a thousand years for this opportunity, this is undoubtedly the closest time to successfully releasing his mother. If he reveals his methods a little, even if he fails, it will only take a few more decades to kill two generations.

Apart from this, there are definitely other ways to obtain the Nine-Tails' chakra. This is just the plan that least exposes his "cunningness".

After being picky, he still only got some bits and pieces of the Eight-Tails' chakra. Now it was the Nine-Tails' turn. Obito was almost desensitized to it, so there was really no need to pursue "perfection".

"How fast can you come here? Has the Kyuubi's chakra been confirmed?"

"Of course, but I just caught it, and the earliest I can come here is before dawn, so be patient."

The location told to Obito was in the south of the Land of Fire, a safe area far away from the war. The round-trip distance to meet there was enough to cross the battlefield two or three times.

If Black Zetsu does not rely on roots to move, his walking speed is not much different from that of ordinary ninjas. Of course, Obito's own speed is not much different either. No matter where he is, even if he rushes to rendezvous, the time will be shortened by half. He'll have to summon the Outer Path Statue again by then. The whereabouts of the Outer Path Statue are not like his and Zetsu's, and cannot be hidden. He can neither guarantee that it will catch up with the moon tonight, nor the concealment of the action.

The initiators of war are far away from the battlefield?

...They had just run back to the base from the Land of Lightning. Even if Obito was wearing White Zetsu and didn't care about his physical strength, he would still want to rest for a while. So he simply decided not to go and wait for Zetsu to send him over.

"I'll wait for you to come over. The ceremony will be tomorrow night."

"For the entire day, proceed as planned. Get the White Zetsu moving and don't let those ninjas ruin my plans. Anyway, once the Ten-Tails is finished, the White Zetsu's role will be fulfilled."

"of course."

Although Zetsu is the one who basically does the work, Obito will not just sit back and do nothing. When they are not fighting, the presence of White Zetsu will make people fear him, but when a fight really breaks out, White Zetsu cannot stop those top ninjas, and Obito and Kisame will have to follow the White Zetsu army to fight guerrilla warfare depending on the situation.

If Ying fights with the enemy leader and doesn't lose, he wins. If the enemy actually escapes in the end, that's a huge win, a huge win.

On the other hand, Naruto's ability to distinguish between friend and foe was confirmed after he accurately captured several transformed White Zetsu at the base camp. The news spread, and the morale of the coalition forces was high. Relying on multiple shadow clones, Naruto appeared in the camps of various front lines wearing the tailed beast costume to help clear out potential enemies. Once the cleaning work was completed, he would immediately move out to attack.

The secret agents began to be eliminated. If the other party knew about it, perhaps they could not be completely called "secret agents". As the person who actually controlled the situation behind the scenes, Black Zetsu naturally knew more details than the Allied Headquarters.

He knew the abilities brought by the Nine-Tails' Chakra, and it did not require the perfect level of Jinchūriki to achieve the effects. Since Obito did not manage to strip Naruto of the Nine-Tails in the first place, the current situation was completely within Kuro's expectations.

Revolt? Of course! We have to put on a show and do it in full.

Seeing that they certainly could not stay, while Naruto was not yet in place, all the White Zetsu who had transformed and hidden in the coalition forces attacked together. The sudden last-ditch counterattack, although not in large numbers, also caused casualties. While cooling down the hot-blooded coalition forces, it also gave their logistical and medical staff something to do, slowing down the advance.

Obito only declared war on the leaders at the Five Kage Conference. It cannot be said that there were few ninjas who participated, but it can be said that they basically all learned about the situation at the time through hearsay. The Jinchūriki of each village were killed one after another. Compared with the crazy rhetoric of "illusion" and "world peace" from Madara's mouth, the pre-war mobilization propaganda said "this is a battle to protect the Jinchūriki", although it was just a superficial rhetoric, it obviously sounded more decent. What kind of strength can make the whole world fall into illusions at the same time? This bragging is somewhat outrageous. No one has ever fallen into any "peaceful illusion" in advance. If you have fallen into the enemy's illusion, what peace is there? It's almost like waiting for death.

As a result, the eight or nine-tailed Jinchuriki, the people they were protecting, both joined the battlefield and helped the ninjas on the front line to get out of trouble. It was obvious that the protection work had nothing to do with them anymore.

They said this was an opportunity to show off their strength like the Chunin Exams, but they didn't get much of the limelight. They were stuck on the front lines, unilaterally ambushed, and each had their own embarrassing moments. They pushed the enemy camp in one fell swoop, made the Akatsuki pay the price for their arrogance, and ended the war quickly.

The line of troops finally moved forward again and everyone set off.

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Xiao: Even the Outer Path Demon Statue was dispatched before, but no new members appeared. It seems that all means have been exhausted.

Since the secrets didn't work, they had to do it openly. They were probably going to send out the white stuff to fight the ninja coalition. The intelligence department could clearly sense that tens of thousands of chakra units were distributed on the way to their base camp.

The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, the Raikage, personally went out to fight against the enemy's ultimate weapon. Naruto was still able to accurately sense the enemy on the front line. There was no need to carefully explore the way anymore, and he began to shrink the circle around the enemy's lair.

Naruto's perception range usually looks quite impressive, but on the battlefield it is just a small circular mark on the big map. He has been maintaining the shadow clones, perception, and marching at a very long distance. No matter how much chakra he has, not to mention the Uzumaki clan, even the Nine-Tails can't withstand such uninterrupted consumption. The number of shadow clones gradually adjusts to a relative balance.

It doesn't matter if he can't tell Naruto's true form. Black Zetsu doesn't intend to attack Naruto himself. It is enough for him to know where his shadow clones are. The warning from the coalition forces has not changed at all in his eyes and is still like a sieve.