Chapter 676
The exposed Otsutsuki provided the people of the ninja world with another topic for after-dinner gossip, but the wave did not last long and soon subsided in people's daily lives.
The reason for this is that in addition to the time when the last episode of the sky curtain happened, it was too long ago, and more importantly, it was because people's vision and knowledge were constantly improving in watching movies again and again.
And the evaluation and analysis of the two Otsutsuki were basically expressed through the discussion of the last bullet screen, so people naturally would not always focus on the two Otsutsuki who were defeated by Naruto, Sasuke and the Five Kage.
If you have that time, you might as well recall the fear of being dominated by Uchiha Madara. At least this is a native local. It is enough to step on the two outsiders who ran to the ninja world to show off their power but were beaten like dogs.
Of course, not everyone took the Otsutsuki seriously.
Apart from the intelligence agencies of various countries, if we talk about who in the ninja world is most concerned about Otsutsuki, it is naturally Hyuga.
Unfortunately, Hyuga's investigation direction of "another bloodline" was wrong from the beginning, not to mention that there is very little information about "another bloodline", so Hyuga naturally cannot obtain any valuable clues for the investigation of Otsutsuki.
The turmoil in the ninja world did not disturb Naruto's training journey at all.
In the cycle of tasks, training and rest, Naruto moved forward as fast as a clockwork. In just one year, he completed the one-handed display of the spiral shuriken and the complete liberation of the nine-tailed fox.
And by opening the seal, Naruto naturally saw the chakra of Minato and Kushina sealed in his body, realizing his long-cherished dream of meeting his parents.
After fulfilling his wish, Naruto was extremely relaxed and smooth both physically and mentally. He then began to practice the Nine-Tails and Sage transformation. I believe that it won't take long before he can fully grasp the changes in these two forms.
It is worth mentioning that during this period, Naruto went to the Land of Demons to help Shion eliminate the demons, but during this process, the two did not get along very well.
The reason is that due to the lack of common adventure experiences, Naruto's empathy for Shion could not offset Shion's savagery, and finally the two parted unhappily, leaving Jiraiya speechless.
'If it weren't for that little girl Hinata, with the way you treat girls, you would definitely be single for life...'
On the other hand, Sasuke and Itachi's investigation journey did not make much progress.
Let alone how much information the Uchiha has lost in the continuous migration and reproduction over the past thousands of years, even if it has been preserved, the source can only be traced back to the Six Paths Sage at most, and don't expect to get any clues about Otsutsuki from it.
Even if there are sporadic records that mention the Otsutsuki, Black Zetsu, who has been lurking in the ninja world for thousands of years, will definitely erase the most important and critical parts.
In this case, how likely are Itachi and Sasuke to find out the truth about the Otsutsuki? After all, even Uchiha Madara has been kept in the dark.
The investigation has made little progress, and Sasuke is not like Naruto in terms of strength growth, who makes progress almost every day.
Limited by the growth of the Mangekyō, Sasuke's pupil power cannot be enhanced for the time being, and the development of the Chidori series of ninjutsu has also reached a bottleneck. Therefore, Sasuke can only continue to familiarize himself with the existing means and strive to use one point of chakra to achieve two points of effect.
Fortunately, because of the good cooperation with Orochimaru before, Sasuke can get some help from him.
Although the plan to obtain the Eternal Mangekyō through cloning has not yet shown any signs of success, Orochimaru's recent research on Hashirama's cells has yielded some new results, and this result can be used on Sasuke, allowing him to ignore the side effects of the Mangekyō for a short period of time.
As for the price Sasuke paid to obtain this result, I have nothing to say.
The sky curtain was only shown three times this year. Although the specific content also involved the past or future activities of some masters, as mentioned before, everyone's vision has been improved. Therefore, in addition to increasing the workload of the intelligence team, the discussion it caused did not last long.
There was only one person (?) who was always nervous when the sky curtain was lit up again and again, fearing that his plan and identity would appear on the sky curtain. He was Black Zetsu, who was running around to revive Kaguya.
The increasing pressure made Black Zetsu almost sleeplessly looking for Obito's traces, and his actions became more and more aggressive. There were even several times when he caused quite a stir and attracted the attention of some people in the black market.
Black Zetsu was very worried about this.Of course, he would not care. In his opinion, although he was not strong in combat, he was the best in hiding and escaping. He said that there was no first in the second ninja world, and some cats and dogs who made a living in the black market could not touch him.
Even if Uchiha Madara was resurrected, Black Zetsu was confident that he could say something from the bottom of his heart to him. Perhaps only when Otsutsuki took action could he completely ignore his ability.
Based on this idea, while Black Zetsu was looking for Obito, he was also consciously collecting everything to deal with Otsutsuki. Ninjutsu secrets, blood limit, ninjutsu relics and unknown tools were all within his scope of investigation.
After a period of time, he collected a lot of things, but either Black Zetsu could not use them, or Black Zetsu did not know the function, or Black Zetsu could not use them and did not know the function...
In short, since he could feel that these items contained a lot of energy, Black Zetsu temporarily collected them. Perhaps when Kaguya was resurrected later, some of them would come in handy.
Then on this day, on a high mountain with dense trees, Black Zetsu found Obito, who was untidy and unkempt, in a secret cave near the mountainside.
"What are you crazy about, Obito! Have you forgotten Madara and your dream! Have you been hiding here for so long?" Black Zetsu was immediately furious.
Since the failure of the raid on Grayer Institute and Sand Village, Black Zetsu and Obito's contact has been completely cut off. Who can understand how bad his mood and how much pressure he has been under during this period of time? If there is no need for Obito's help now, Black Zetsu would like to possess him directly to complete his plan.
Restraining his anger, Black Zetsu slowed down his tone and said sincerely: "I know that you are a little discouraged because you failed to capture the tailed beast, but we are not completely hopeless. As long as we can revive Madara, everything will go smoothly, so you pack up immediately, and we will go to the Hidden Rain Village now, and use the backup left by Madara to control Nagato."
As soon as they met, Obito heard Black Zetsu say this long paragraph, but his eyes were unusually calm, which formed a sharp contrast with his unkempt appearance.
Looking at Black Zetsu, Obito asked in a flat voice: "You have also seen the sky curtain during this period of time, so let me ask you, why do you think that the backup left by Madara can still work when you already know his layout? Do you think Nagato will not be prepared at all?"
(To be continued)