Now Zetsu naturally did not dare to appear inside the Hidden Cloud Village. He manifested himself just outside the village.
He deliberately let the Cloud guards discover him and told them he wanted to see the Raikage.
The Raikage and people like Dodai quickly came out of the village to meet Zetsu.
"What are you here for?"
The Raikage glared at Zetsu with murderous intent, his tone unfriendly.
Zetsu had come alone this time because it was easier to run away by himself.
"I heard the Cloud suffered heavy losses this time, so I came to help."
Zetsu only knew that Rengoku had pushed back the Cloud. He did not yet know that the wooden puppets had all died.
Even so, Cloud would not swallow this grievance.
Once Moryo's Demon Legion reached the Land of Fire, Cloud people could not remain idle.
"What do you mean?"
Seeing the Raikage's severed arm, Zetsu said tempting words, "I have a technique to regrow severed limbs. I wonder if the Raikage is interested?"
The Raikage glanced at his missing arm and sneered, "Not interested."
Although losing his arm had weakened him considerably, he would not cooperate with someone of unknown origin.
Who knew how many traps the other side might set for him.
Zetsu said regretfully, "Fine, then. I have other cooperation to offer. Raikage, you might listen."
"Our organization's Hiruko and Konoha also have a grudge. We can jointly attack Konoha."
The Raikage pondered and said nothing, looking at Dodai beside him.
Dodai naturally took up the conversation, "We have no basis for cooperation. If we attack Konoha, each of us will have to fight on our own."
Zetsu of course knew a first meeting rarely produced substantive cooperation.
Now that Madara's Rinnegan was gone, he could not start a ninja world war in the short term.
But the more chaotic the ninja world, the more it benefited him.
He knew Nagato had terrified people by killing Hiruzen's squad with Shinra Tensei.
Although he had spread the rumor that Pain was dead, many still half believed it.
"No matter. As a meeting gift, here's detailed intel on all Akatsuki members," Saying this, Zetsu threw out a scroll.
Dodai did not take it. Instead he flashed aside and let it fall.
Zetsu said nothing further and sank into the ground and disappeared.
The Cloud people checked the scroll to confirm it was intact and then handed it to Dodai.
Dodai opened it, raised his brows slightly; he looked somewhat surprised.
He then gave the scroll to the Raikage, "Raikage, there is some value here."
The Raikage took the scroll. It recorded in detail the members of Akatsuki: Pain, Kisame, Konan, Sasori, Kakuzu, Senku.
The Raikage had heard of most of these others.
Their own intel system also had records, but not this detailed; this was a useful supplement.
But the Pain entry was valuable. It listed Shinra Tensei as Pain's secret jutsu.
A secret art that emits repulsive force in all directions.
Everyone in Hiruzen's squad was killed by that repulsive force.
But the Pain entry was marked as dead.
The scroll also explicitly stated that the Akatsuki and Uchiha Rengoku were on the same side.
"What is Akatsuki's true stance?", The Raikage was now confused.
Clearly Zetsu did not know the intelligence that Akatsuki had escorted Cloud people back, otherwise he would have noted it.
The Raikage's mind was not the best at parsing these things, so thinking too long made it freeze.
Dodai took the scroll, "Raikage, we don't need to consider Akatsuki's stance right now."
"Konoha encountered things first. Aside from Moryo's Demon Legion, there were Rock and Sand. We should observe and wait."
"The key information here is that Pain is dead."
"We can confirm that when Rock and Sand attack Konoha."
From the map, Cloud is farther away. So even if both sides dispatch troops simultaneously, Cloud's forces will arrive slower.
"We only need to prepare to attack when Rock and Sand move against Konoha."
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While Rengoku's clone had gone to the Land of Waves, Rengoku's bloodline fusion was reaching its final stage. After absorbing Karin's chakra, Karin's blood and habits transformed inside Rengoku's body, coming to coexist with Rengoku's own bloodline.
Thus the power of all things continuously manifested.
His dojutsu power rose and fell like tides.
Like a boulder smashing the sea surface, a tremendous dojutsu force suddenly erupted.
The instruments beside Rengoku gave a loud alarm.
Orochimaru came to Rengoku's side and carefully inspected his condition.
Rengoku slowly opened his eyes.
His Mangekyo Sharingan, based on three hollow triangles in an inverted V, had gained three additional solid triangles.
Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!
It was done.
He took a deep breath and then sat up from the bed.
"How is it? Has a new dojutsu appeared?"
Orochimaru checked Rengoku's bodily data as he asked.
Mangekyo Sharingan are rare, and Eternal Mangekyo even rarer.
So every experimental record was new.
Whether a new dojutsu had appeared was something even Rengoku did not know beforehand.
Rengoku reached out. Orochimaru clearly felt the senjutsu chakra inside his body decrease.
"Eh? Long distance transmission?", Orochimaru became interested.
Rengoku had not canceled his clone and had not touched him.
"How far can this dojutsu reach?"
Rengoku thought for a moment, raised his hand, and a ball of Three-Tails Isobu's tailed beast chakra appeared in his palm.
His Yagura clone was currently in the Land of Water.
"The distance in the ninja world should all work."
Orochimaru nodded thoughtfully and looked at the monitoring screen for Rengoku.
"Right now both your dojutsu power and bodily strength are still increasing."
"They will take more time to reach their peak."
Rengoku rubbed his eyes, "I feel the eye can still spawn another dojutsu, but the time has not come yet."
"No rush. You'll know it later."
"Your dojutsu power has already undergone earthshaking changes. Now check whether your previous dojutsu have been strengthened," Orochimaru reminded.
Rengoku closed his eyes briefly and opened them again. His shadow surged and two more clones stood up.
From the previous four (Senku clone, Orochimaru clone, Yagura mirror clone, the one that took Naruto out), it now became six.
Rengoku stared at one clone for a while, then directly extracted the senjutsu chakra from Orochimaru's clone.
Sage Mode!
After activating Sage Mode, Rengoku gripped his clone's arm hard and gradually increased force.
In the end he exerted all his strength. The clone's arm only sank slightly, with no real damage.
Rengoku looked a little absent. Previously clones had the same bodily strength as his real body.
But now it was somewhat amusing. With increased dojutsu power, the clones were harder than his original body.
Oh well. They were all his own flesh anyway.
Better to proceed with the next phase of the plan.
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