Spiritual power absolutely cannot be faked, so that means Miroku must have mastered the Shadow Clone Technique.
With a face full of doubt, Obito said, "A shrine maiden actually managed to learn ninjutsu? That's really unbelievable!"
Beside him, the demon lowered his head and pondered for quite a while before slowly speaking, "Don't forget, she's already mastered high-level taijutsu like the Strong Fist style. So what's so strange about her learning shadow clones?"
"After all, in theory, unless her own body has some limiting factors."
"Otherwise, compared to the master-level taijutsu Miroku is showing now, the difficulty of learning shadow clones is nothing in comparison."
What the demon said was indeed an undeniable fact, because under normal circumstances, if there are no special physical handicaps or other irresistible reasons, it actually isn't that hard for an ordinary person to learn shadow clones.
However, the information they had in hand right now was far too limited, so they could only follow this lead and analyze based on it.
After thinking for a moment, Obito decided to go back to the battlefield to check the situation.
He opened the Kamui space, and with a flicker of his body, he once again returned to the smoke-filled battlefield.
By now, the battlefield was actually completely empty, not a single trace of anyone left.
Obito frowned deeply, quickly crouched down, and started carefully examining the ground.
He tried to look for any possible lingering traces of energy fluctuations, and at the same time asked the demon beside him:
"Judging from your current injuries, about how long will it take you to fully recover?"
Hearing this, the demon shook his head and replied, "The injuries I took this time really aren't light, and this body I've borrowed temporarily is far too poorly compatible with me. I'm afraid it'll be hard to fully recover for many years to come."
Hearing that, Obito could not help but lift his head in confusion, and asked with a shocked face, "What? Even White Zetsu's body can end up incompatible with you?"
In Obito's eyes, White Zetsu was like some kind of universal medicine, able to adapt to all kinds of different environments and mission needs.
You could almost say there was nothing he could not do.
If any part of his own body broke, he could just replace that part with White Zetsu.
But when it came to the demon, it actually didn't fit.
After a short silence, the demon spoke, "This fellow called White Zetsu has a body with an extremely strong plant attribute."
"You should know, the stronger the plant nature, the harder it is for me to merge into it."
Hearing this, Obito already understood what kind of existence White Zetsu really was, and at the same time understood what the demon meant.
However, he did not show much concern about it, because right now Obito only cared about one thing above all else
how to make himself even stronger.
Obito's gaze anxiously swept back and forth across this stretch of land, and he muttered, "Why can't I feel even a trace of earth energy here?"
He busied himself for quite a while and finally discovered that what was left on the ground were only some massive craters formed by the explosions. The earth energy that had originally been hidden underground had clearly been completely exhausted.
At this time, there was also a hint of helplessness in the demon's voice, "Earth energy is an extremely violent and hard-to-tame type of energy to begin with."
He paused, then went on to explain.
"If earth energy that hasn't been properly converted is released directly, not only is it extremely polluting, but the destructive power it causes is beyond imagination."
"Even I can only carefully absorb and convert a very small amount of earth energy."
"Besides, spiritual power has a natural attraction to earth energy."
"This time Miroku used such an enormous amount of spiritual power, which caused the earth energy buried deep underground to surge out like a tide."
"It all rushed to overflow outward, eventually triggering that earth-shattering explosion and using up all the earth energy that had been accumulating here over so long in one shot."
Obito gently stroked his own eyes, feeling that powerful ocular power continuously surging inside them.
He knew very well that with the amount of ocular power he had stored now, it was only a matter of time before he reopened the other Sharingan.
In this moment, the only thing in his heart was to accumulate his strength as much as possible.
After all, even Namikaze Minato, who had already died, had now successfully been revived. How could those few weak ninja villages possibly stand against that?
Not to mention that the power leaking from Minato's body, which seemed to be the Nine Tails' power, made Obito extremely wary.
Even though he did not know exactly what that power was, with his sharp senses he could clearly feel that it was indeed the Nine Tails' energy.
As for Obito and Black Zetsu lurking in the shadows, their ultimate goal was the same: to plunge the entire ninja world into chaos.
Only then could he gain more opportunities.
As for the intense ninja war that was about to break out between Konoha and the other three great ninja villages, deep down, Obito was actually hoping they would fight until their heads were smashed and they were completely at each other's throats.
Ideally, he wanted to see these opposing forces slaughter each other until their brains were beaten into mush like pig brains. That would undoubtedly be the most advantageous situation for him.
However, even though Obito's Mangekyo Sharingan Kamui was extremely powerful in terms of utility, in front of Rengoku, it still seemed somewhat lacking.
He could barely even protect his own life.
By now, he had already lost what little trust he had in Black Zetsu.
In his eyes, Black Zetsu was nothing more than a pawn that could be used for the time being.
The same went for the demon who knew so many hidden secrets. As long as there was an opening, he would not hesitate to use him.
"Looks like I'll have to lie low for a while."
Obito slowly lifted his head, his gaze drifting toward the direction of the Mountain Graveyard, and thought to himself, 'Who knows how far along Black Zetsu's plan has gotten by now?'
———
But at this moment, Black Zetsu was not at the Mountain Graveyard.
After finishing all the arrangements around the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, he was already rushing to prepare a second backup plan without stopping.
Right now, the place where Black Zetsu was located was Hiruko's secret base
[Mount Sumeru]
Even though many things had happened since the time Hiruko attacked Sarutobi's squad, from the perspective of time, actually not that much had passed.
Thinking back to that battle where Rengoku set Obito up, Obito and Black Zetsu had nearly lost their lives, and even the precious Rinnegan had been destroyed.
In that situation, Black Zetsu and Obito were completely overwhelmed.
They simply had no energy left to contact Hiruko, who was far away on Mount Sumeru.
So Hiruko had remained hidden there the entire time, single-mindedly researching his own Chimera Technique.
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