Fortunately, the changes in the Ling were changes in flesh and blood, so it was impossible for them to be seen as fake. Ling had truly gone to great lengths to acquire the Rinnegan.
With one Rinnegan gone, the strength of both Yahiko and Six Paths Madara would be greatly reduced, and she could also research the Rinnegan, and the Ling could also use the Rinnegan.
This plan of killing three birds with one stone was indeed perfect: first, it allowed her to acquire the Rinnegan; second, it made Black Zetsu aware of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's existence, making him uninterested in dealing with her; and third, it made Black Zetsu and Jigen fight each other.
Then, Ling, in the form of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, used a physical Shadow Clone to attack Yahiko, while she herself acquired the Rinnegan.
"Super Shinra Tensei!" Yahiko let out a hoarse growl from his throat, and brilliant white light erupted, the tangible repulsive force shattering the air and earth.
At this moment, Hanzō wanted to escape, but it was too late. The repulsive force in front of him was like a wall, pressing hard against his body.
In just an instant, his breathing mask shattered, and his face was twisted and spread open, covered in blood and snot, accompanied by the poisonous gas he exhaled.
The esteemed Demigod Hanzō was now like a dead fish washed ashore by the waves, slamming hard against the cliff face behind him.
The cliff also could not withstand the terrifying repulsive force. A cliff dozens of meters high was directly leveled, and Hanzō, who was squeezed into the mud, now had shattered internal organs, but he still desperately protected the Rinnegan in his hand.
Along with thousands of tons of rock and soil, he was pushed hundreds of meters away, leaving only a fan-shaped pit seven or eight meters deep at the original spot.
As the fluctuations subsided and the smoke cleared, Demigod Hanzō was now unconscious on the pile of earth and rocks, but he was not dead yet; after all, it was quite difficult for Shinra Tensei to kill a Kage-level expert.
Strands of purple poisonous gas drifted out with Hanzō's weak breathing. This was also why Hanzō wore a breathing mask, because after he was transplanted with a poison sac, even his breath carried poisonous gas.
Black Zetsu wanted to collect the Rinnegan, but suddenly, a white-clad man with horns on his head emerged from the mud. The moment he saw him, Black Zetsu felt his soul about to fly away in fright.
Oh my god, what did he see? Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, wasn't he dead? Even if he wasn't dead, he shouldn't have been completely revived, right? What was he doing, feigning death for a thousand years?
Black Zetsu had experienced more fright in these past few years than in the previous thousand. Seeing Ōtsutsuki Isshiki today was truly an eye-opener for him. In this Ninja World, anything could happen these days.
And in the mud beneath Hanzō, while Black Zetsu was momentarily stunned by the sight of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, Ling's hand emerged from the ground, pinching the test tube containing the Rinnegan in Hanzō's hand and taking it.
Then, she silently put it into the toad's belly and directly used the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear at the border of the Land of Grass. This mission was a complete success.
On the other hand, Ling's physical Shadow Clone, disguised as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, openly reached out, intending to pluck out the Rinnegan from Yahiko's eye.
Konan tried to stop him, stabbing "Ōtsutsuki Isshiki" with a paper Kunai, but unfortunately, when it reached "Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's" body, it was blocked by an invisible barrier, unable to penetrate even an inch.
"Annoying human woman!" Ling's physical Shadow Clone acted superbly, perfectly portraying Ōtsutsuki's arrogant and dismissive gaze towards mortals.
Tiger Burial's invisible defensive shield also startled Konan. This kind of ability, beyond comprehension, did not seem like Ninjutsu at all.
"Ōtsutsuki Isshiki" casually grabbed Konan's neck, then slowly tightened his grip, seemingly intending to torture Konan to death. In an instant, Konan was choked unconscious.
"Ōtsutsuki Isshiki! How is this possible!!!" Black Zetsu's inner world was no less than a magnitude 10 earthquake. He had seen Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's appearance in his mother Kaguya's memories. One must know that his mother was merely a low-ranking Ōtsutsuki, while Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was a high-ranking existence.
Logically, a thousand years ago, his mother Kaguya should have been fed to the Divine Tree as nourishment, but he never expected Kaguya to ambush Isshiki, making him the nourishment for the Divine Tree instead.
And although Kaguya knew that Ōtsutsuki were not so easy to kill, because she knew about the existence of the Karma Seal, now Black Zetsu recognized Ōtsutsuki Isshiki at a glance and knew that it couldn't be a human disguise.
Because besides his mother Kaguya, no one else had seen Isshiki's appearance, so Black Zetsu felt that he was having too much trouble. First, there was the Null Organization, specifically designed to deal with Ōtsutsuki.
Then even Ōtsutsuki Isshiki emerged. In the future, would more Ōtsutsuki arrive? No wonder his timid mother wanted to create a large number of White Zetsu.
But alas, his poor old mother, a pitiful woman without combat wisdom or experience, how could she know that even tens of millions of White Zetsu were nothing more than Chakra pills that Ōtsutsuki could pluck at will?
However, even if it was Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, Black Zetsu absolutely could not let him take the Rinnegan just like that. So, while "Ōtsutsuki Isshiki" was clutching Konan's neck, he immediately brought White Zetsu to possess Yahiko's body.
Then he quickly pulled away, looking at Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with extreme vigilance. He only knew that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had very powerful spatial abilities.
Black Zetsu intended to use Earth Explosion Star to try and seal Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, though he didn't know if it would work. But desperate times called for desperate measures; he couldn't just surrender.
Black Zetsu's appearance possessing Yahiko seemed to be within "Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's" expectations. He merely watched Black Zetsu use the Rinnegan's ocular jutsu with indifference.
Watching the gravitational core of Earth Explosion Star fly into the sky, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki released Konan, who had long since been choked unconscious, tossing her to Black Zetsu like trash.
"Kaguya's third son, hehe, what if I leave this Rinnegan to you? Remember to tell Kaguya, the day she revives, will be the day she is refined into a Chakra Fruit!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had no self-awareness of threatening someone's mother in front of their son. After all, what Ōtsutsuki did had nothing to do with her, Uchiha Ling.
"The hatred of a thousand years of death, that damned hussy, she deserves to die, and being trapped in the moon is what she deserves. Ōtsutsuki's third son, revive Kaguya as soon as possible, otherwise, the next time we meet, you will also be refined into a pill."
As Earth Explosion Star activated, countless amounts of earth flew into the black sphere in the sky, including the earth beneath Black Zetsu and "Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's" feet.
"Next time we meet, I hope you can bring me a surprise, Kaguya's third son."
"Sukuna Hikona!"
As "Ōtsutsuki Isshiki" finished speaking, his body seemed to shrink slowly, then disappeared as if it had shrunk to the extreme.
How could Ling know any Sukuna Hikona? She merely controlled her body to shrink a bit, then used Flying Thunder God to teleport away.
However, in Black Zetsu's eyes, he was utterly convinced. This jutsu was Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's unique ocular jutsu from his mother's memories. Now that he could even use this jutsu, it must undoubtedly be Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
He, Black Zetsu, thought he was the only mastermind behind the scenes in the Ninja World. Now it seemed the waters of the Ninja World were too deep, with all sorts of aliens appearing. He seemed unable to control it anymore.
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