My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 157

You were about to use Flying Thunder God to leave this place.

Suddenly, you remembered that the floating island had completely disappeared, turning into nourishment during your Otsutsuki ascension.

Although you had already acquired an Otsutsuki physique, you still felt it was necessary to set up a foothold before completely eradicating Black Zetsu and his cohorts.

And you had grown accustomed to living on the floating island; it felt like home, so its sudden disappearance was a bit unsettling.

Thus, you activated Magnet Release, flying at high speed to the original site.

Reaching out, four masses of chakra, each with different colors and forms, appeared in your palm.

These were the remnants of the four tailed beast chakras.

Originally, they were used to power your floating island, but with your ascension to Otsutsuki, these tailed beasts were crushed into pure chakra, devoid of any special properties, serving as nourishment in that process.

They could no longer be separated in any form.

However, you had stopped your destructive absorption just as these chakra aggregates were about to collapse due to your actions, thus preserving a small portion of chakra that still contained the essence of the tailed beasts.

This way, the tailed beast chakra could slowly absorb the chakra diffused throughout the ninja world over time and recover…

By then, once you gathered all nine tailed beasts and obtained a segment of the Gedo Statue’s branch from Nagato, you would be able to prepare to plant your own miniature God Tree!

This was also a path to the Six Paths level.

Always having multiple contingencies was an experience you had cultivated over a long time…

After roughly shaping the floating island’s embryo with Magnet Release and Shikotsumyaku, you opened the Scroll of Seals, which you had obtained from Konoha long ago, and found the page detailing Wood Release.

After only a few glances, you skillfully created ten Wood Release clones.

It was said that the prototype of Shadow Clones was Wood Clones.

And Wood Clones, compared to Shadow Clones which break with a single hit, were undoubtedly much tougher. Even with broken limbs, they could still fight, sometimes even more durable than the ninja’s main body!

Calculating the time, it was also the day you had agreed with Nagato to capture the second batch of tailed beasts.

You simply left the Wood Clones in place to continue perfecting the construction of the floating island. Once completed, they would research the structure of sealing jutsus for you.

Your main body then activated Flying Thunder God, preparing to meet Nagato in Amegakure.

However, just as Flying Thunder God was activated, you gazed at the endless void.

The mysterious gray energy previously obtained from the Zero-Tails reappeared, and just like when it analyzed your bloodline, it surged into your eyes.

In an instant, the boundless void before you transformed into an endless expanse of runes again.

At this moment, you suddenly felt as if you could control it, so you gently waved your hand.

The next moment, you appeared in the desolate desert a hundred miles away from Amegakure!

“Damn it!”

You cursed under your breath, then instantly concealed your presence.

But at this moment, the gray energy in your eyes activated again, causing a layer of translucent, mysterious runes to appear on your body’s surface.

You had a feeling that you were completely invisible, not like Kamui’s spatial disappearance, nor your superimposed Light-Transparent Escape’s double invisibility that suppressed your aura and made you transparent.

It was a conceptual invisibility!

However, this invisibility also brought an extremely terrifying consumption. In just a moment, it consumed one-tenth of your chakra.

One must know how vast the Otsutsuki clan’s chakra reserves were.

But with such immense chakra, the consumption was so rapid that you dared not casually speculate on what kind of existence the original owner of this gray energy was.

It was probably far beyond the Six Paths level!

But there was also good news: after you became an Otsutsuki, this gray energy could be driven by consuming chakra, unlike before when it only consumed pupil power and almost blinded you!

It seemed that only by truly ascending to the Six Paths level could one glimpse what kind of existence its original owner was…

You deactivated the conceptual invisibility effect and then activated Flying Thunder God again.

This time, you didn’t idly touch the mysterious runes in the void but watched quietly, trying to memorize a few. Unfortunately, Flying Thunder God activated too quickly; even if you could see them clearly, you couldn’t memorize such complex characters.

However, you also had a feeling that the original owner of this object must be related to the concepts of space and existence. This was why, although it could enhance you in all aspects, it only actively displayed special effects when interacting with these two concepts.

Moreover, the effects it had on invisibility and space were much more powerful than when it previously analyzed your bloodline…

You decided not to dwell on things you couldn’t understand.

When your strength was sufficient and the time was right, the truth would naturally surface.

Completing your planned objectives was more important. You dismissed your speculations and thoughts and went to meet Nagato.

This time, your targets were the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, Roshi, and the Five-Tails, Kokuo.

Both of them wandered extensively, making their locations extremely difficult to pinpoint. To obtain their exact positions, the intelligence network of White Zetsu must have been used!

After discussing with Nagato, you both agreed that while the plan to capture the tailed beasts ahead of schedule left no flaws for Black Zetsu to exploit, it did arouse his suspicion.

The locations of the tailed beasts to be captured this time were all handled by Black Zetsu, meaning that White Zetsu’s intelligence network had already been laid out, waiting for you to fall into the trap.

With your current strength, Black Zetsu’s meager combat ability, even with ten Obito added, would not be your match.

But what you wanted was to capture Black Zetsu, which was no easy task.

Fortunately, you were well-prepared for this!

And this time, you didn’t even need to fight; you just needed to guard against unexpected situations.

The first target was the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, Roshi. He was found in the Land of Rivers in the southern part of the ninja world. Similar to the Land of Hot Water, the Land of Rivers was also a resort destination, though its power struggles were not as rampant.

Half a day later, Konan arrived with Deva Path Pain at Roshi’s location, where you were already waiting.

Konan directly threw down a cube compressed from explosive tags.

The contingency plan originally prepared to deal with Obito was brought out and used prematurely.

In the fierce explosion, even though Roshi was a perfect Jinchuriki and the Four-Tails’ Lava Release had strong defensive capabilities, it could not withstand the boundless explosion.

Coupled with Deva Path Pain’s direct intervention, using Almighty Push, Roshi had no chance to escape.

He was literally blown down and flattened.

His tailed beast was extracted on the spot and sealed into a scroll.

You stood behind the heads of Black and White Zetsu emerging from the ground, watching the somewhat annoyed Black Zetsu.

If this guy wasn’t so slippery, you would have long since stomped him into oblivion!

However, you still had a mission at hand.

You needed to rendezvous with Kakuzu near the Land of Hot Water, and with a wide-range ninjutsu carpet bombing, kill White Zetsu again and capture the Five-Tails!

After all, Black Zetsu was not White Zetsu; he couldn’t be in two places at once.

And your speed in killing White Zetsu was definitely much faster than White Zetsu’s message transmission speed!

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Author’s Note:

I’m prepared for a drastic drop in traffic.

Tomorrow, I’ll start laying down original settings for the Otsutsuki and the ninja world to complete the subsequent plot.

Perhaps the over a thousand readers who have been following this story won’t be able to accept it.

Although saying this might be unfair to my readers who have always supported me, I’ve decided to prepare for the worst-case scenario—assuming half of them will abandon the book immediately and flood it with negative reviews.

Thinking about such a scene, it seems, it might not be entirely unacceptable.

After all, this is my third book written on Tomato:

From the first book, which received almost no positive reviews and was rushed to a conclusion due to my mental breakdown.

To the second book, which was bombarded with negative reviews right after its debut, and then reported and sent to the “small dark room” because the protagonist and the deceased heroine touched hands.

After being released, I maintained a daily income of 3 yuan for a month. Just when the book was being tested, it was reported and taken down a second time, completely breaking me.

Then, half a year later, I regrouped and started this book. Although there are still a lot of people cursing in the reviews:

Some say the pacing is too fast, others say it’s too slow.

Some say I broke the protagonist’s power balance, while others say I’m constantly suppressing the protagonist.

Some curse me for only following the original plot in fanfiction, while others say they can’t read it because I heavily modified the original plot.

Perhaps I’ve become numb from being cursed by these schizophrenic people!

Or perhaps the results of this book are already better than the previous two, so I’m content…

In short, I’m not trying to gain sympathy by saying all this; I just want to fulfill my promise of 1, 000, 000 words!

In short, I can’t always be just a fanfiction author; I need to have something of my own!

In short, I believe writing a book should first and foremost bring me joy!

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