Chapter 543 - 544: Futile

"That is, the Infinite Tsukuyomi Plan!"

Black Zetsu waved its small hands, which looked like little chicken claws growing from its body, as if it were painting a grand blueprint.

"The version I told Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito before was just the surface of the plan.

Collect the Tailed Beasts, gather all the Tailed Beast Chakra, awaken the Ten-Tails, let Uchiha Madara become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, then activate the ’God: Nativity of a World of Trees’ to make the Divine Tree appear, and then use the Infinite Tsukuyomi with the Eye of the Moon to achieve ’eternal peace’...

But that was just a smokescreen!"

Its beady eyes flashed with fanatical light. It glanced at Kaguya inside the Seal, then reluctantly shifted its gaze to Naruto’s Wood Clone: "The true core, the part that even Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito don’t know, is this.

When the Ten-Tails is awakened and the massive Chakra is gathered to its Peak, I, as the manifestation of my ’Mother’s’ will and a portion of her power, will be able to take advantage of that moment to counter-corrode the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

Allow Mother’s consciousness to directly revive within the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, seizing their body and all their Chakra!

In this way, Mother will not only be able to escape, but will also instantly regain the power she had at her Peak before being sealed!"

Black Zetsu became more and more excited as it spoke, as if it had already seen the scene of Mother reigning over the world: "This is the only correct way to save Mother, to restore her to her prime, or even make her stronger!

What ’breaking the Seal’? That is too low-level. What we want is a perfect resurrection and the return of power!"

However, the response to its impassioned speech, which it thought hid a shocking secret, was—

Naruto’s Wood Clone’s face instantly darkened.

Putting aside the fact that he already knew about this plan, wasn’t the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki his Main Body?

A nameless anger flared up instantly.

He risked sneaking in here and masking his presence, not to listen to Black Zetsu repeat, like a broken record, that crappy plan he already knew about and had personally thwarted.

"Damn you!"

The Wood Clone expressed his inner irritability and disappointment in the most direct way, shouting out: "You born idiot, tell me something I don’t know!

Don’t waste time here repeating that outdated, eight-hundred-year-old crappy plan of yours!"

A Clone’s personality is somewhat different from the Main Body; this Clone had a more irritable personality.

He cursed immediately after hearing Black Zetsu’s words.

This sudden outburst was like a bucket of ice water, scaring Black Zetsu, who was in a state of high excitement, so much that its entire "body" shook violently, and those two little chicken claws froze in mid-air.

Its beady eyes were filled with astonishment and grievance.

This was the ultimate plan it had plotted for a millennium and believed was flawless!

How did it become "eight-hundred-year-old" nonsense in the eyes of this "foster father"?

"B...but..."

Black Zetsu’s voice weakened, filled with panic, "I only know this method can save Mother... As for others, I, I don’t know..."

Its little chicken claws waved frantically, trying to explain: "As for directly breaking this Seal... If I could solve the Seal set by Hagoromo and Hamura, I would have saved Mother long ago. Would I have needed to plot for a millennium?"

Black Zetsu’s tone was filled with deep powerlessness and frustration.

It was essentially a product of Kaguya’s will, skilled in schemes and Spiritual corruption, but it was truly helpless against the Sealing Jutsu set by the Six Paths Sage brothers, so it could only try to achieve its goal indirectly from the outside.

Just as the atmosphere reached a stalemate and the Wood Clone began to consider whether to give up this probe and just deal with Black Zetsu, Kaguya, who had been listening quietly in the center of the Seal, spoke again.

Her voice remained ethereal and calm, but it seemed clearer than before, as if she had focused more of her attention here.

"I do have a way."

Kaguya’s words made both the Wood Clone and Black Zetsu freeze.

Inside the Seal, Kaguya’s massive white body moved slightly; she seemed to be trying to bring her beautiful but expressionless face closer to the edge of the invisible barrier formed by the sealing energy.

Those pure Byakugan eyes looked at Black Zetsu and the Wood Clone outside.

"Inside Black Zetsu’s body, there remains a portion of Chakra I injected during my Peak, as well as a very small amount of my own flesh and tissue."

Kaguya said slowly, as if stating an objective fact, "That was the’seed’ I left behind when I created it, to ensure it could carry my will and exist for a long time."

Hearing this, Black Zetsu nodded excitedly.

Mother! Mother! Mother! Mother!

Kaguya continued: "If I can absorb Black Zetsu back and re-fuse this portion of Chakra and flesh.

Then, by using this ’anchor point’ of power derived from my own Peak period, I can briefly break through the Seal’s absolute isolation of my power."

Her "gaze" seemed to turn to Naruto’s Wood Clone: "At that time, I can take this portion of power that has broken through the Seal and transmit it out.

Although it is far from my prime, I can temporarily lend it to you, Hokage.

With you working from the outside, combined with this power, there might be a chance to forcibly break the Seal."

After listening, Naruto’s Wood Clone did not show a look of joy; instead, he scratched his forehead with a headache.

"The problem is," the Wood Clone pointed out the key point incisively, "Isn’t the characteristic of this Seal that ’nothing can get in from the outside, and nothing can get out from the inside’? If things could be sent in so easily with what Hagoromo and Hamura set up, would I have needed to go to such trouble to bring you here just to listen to your endless nonsense?"

If he could shove things inside, he would have thrown a Flying Thunder God Kunai in long ago.

He glanced at the dazed Black Zetsu, then at Kaguya inside the Seal, his tone filled with helplessness: "I originally thought that if you and Kaguya, mother and child, met, it might trigger some hidden mechanism or resonance known only to you that could break the Seal...

It turned out to be useless.

One only knows how to repeat old history, and the other proposes a method whose prerequisites simply cannot be met."

The Wood Clone had basically given up on the idea of relying on Kaguya or Black Zetsu to escape in the short term.

These two—one has been trapped until they are stupid, and the other has been running wild outside for a millennium but is still a loser at heart.

He glanced at Black Zetsu, having already made up his mind.

To ensure the Main Body could develop safely and avoid complications.

If he continued to delay here, and the Six Paths Sage Hagoromo or the Soul of Hamura, who might be monitoring this place, noticed the abnormality...

Then he would have to sell out Black Zetsu and immediately evacuate.

After all, the purpose of the probe had been achieved.

He confirmed that this "mother and child" pair currently had no reliable, immediately usable method for escape.

That was enough.

The rest would have to rely on himself.

Inside the Sealing Space, an awkward silence fell.

The method Kaguya proposed was theoretically feasible, but it was stuck at the first step.

Black Zetsu was completely deflated; it realized that its millennium of plotting might just be a joke in the eyes of a true powerhouse, and now even its value as a "key" could not be realized due to the characteristics of the Seal.

The Wood Clone had already started calculating the time and route for a safe evacuation.

This trip to the moon would likely end in vain.

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