Those who were already shocked by Madara's appearance were now even more stunned by Black Zetsu's words.
'Uchiha Madara was also a pawn?'
"A millennium of scheming... a millennium of waiting..."
Black Zetsu's voice became distant and fervent, as if chanting some evil hymn.
"Guiding the reincarnations of Indra and Asura to fight each other..."
"Gathering the Tailed Beasts, reviving the Ten-Tails..."
"Searching for the suitable 'vessel' and 'sacrifice'..."
"All of this, just to welcome the one true, only God of this world!"
Its arm suddenly thrust with force, accompanied by the sickening sound of tearing flesh.
Obito's heart was crushed by Black Zetsu's own hand.
"Gah!" Obito let out a short scream, then fell completely silent, lifeless.
But no one paid him any mind, as if a mere stray dog had died by the roadside.
The next moment, vast amounts of Chakra surged from the earth, madly pouring into Obito's body.
Obito's body swelled, deformed, and finally transformed into a woman.
Pale skin, silvery-white hair, horns on her forehead, eerie Byakugan eyes, and a single crimson Rinne-Sharingan on her brow.
The woman was expressionless, her gaze hollow and indifferent, as if everything in the world was merely dust in her eyes.
She simply stood there, not even deliberately releasing any aura.
Yet everyone present, whether the Five Kage, ordinary Ninja, or Madara, felt a primal pressure and fear, rooted in the very hierarchy of life and the instinct of the soul.
If Six Paths Obito' power was like a blazing, violent sun… powerful, but at least still visible,
then Kaguya's very existence was like the vast, boundless universe.
Her level of power had completely surpassed the comprehension and understanding of everyone present.
Simply gazing at her from a distance, they felt no shred of will to resist.
Such a terrifying gap left everyone present in despair.
"Mother, welcome back." Black Zetsu's dutiful son voice was filled with excitement... a millennium of effort had finally borne fruit.
Kaguya's hollow, indifferent gaze slowly swept over the ant-like humans below.
Her eyes finally settled on Naruto and Sasuke, who had just defeated Obito and were now barely standing.
Sensing something special about these two insects, she slowly raised her right hand.
With a mere light clench, the space around Naruto and Sasuke solidified.
Kaguya's pale palm made a grasping motion in the air, and Naruto and Sasuke's bodies, as if pulled by invisible strings, involuntarily lifted off, crossing dozens of meters in an instant. Kaguya gripped one in each hand like chicks.
"Naruto! Sasuke!" Kakashi and the others were enraged, but couldn't even move a finger.
Kaguya's intangible pressure pinned them in place.
"Hahaha!" Black Zetsu laughed triumphantly and arrogantly, floating beside Kaguya's hand, looking at the two easily restrained figures, especially Sasuke's still cold eyes, and sneered:
"Do you see now? Uchiha Sasuke! Uzumaki Naruto!"
"Your pitiful strength is nothing before a true God!"
It reveled in the satisfaction of a millennium-long scheme finally succeeding.
However, Sasuke, firmly gripped in Kaguya's left hand, suddenly smiled.
"You shouldn't have grabbed me. At this range, you can't escape."
Black Zetsu paused, 'Had this guy lost his mind?'
But the next moment, it inexplicably felt Sasuke had changed into someone else.
A terrifying pressure erupted from Sasuke's small body, like a slumbering primordial beast awakening.
Kaguya's hollow, indifferent gaze, for the first time, showed intense disturbance.
Her left hand, gripping Sasuke, recoiled instinctively, as if burned by a billion-degree brand.
The instant she let go, a fearsome aura burst from 'Sasuke': "Twenty-Times Kaioken!"
"Something's wrong. This person is definitely not Uchiha Sasuke!" Black Zetsu was horrified.
'Sasuke' threw a punch. Space shattered into fragments, the very rotation of the planet seemed to halt.
Kaguya didn't even have time to react before she was blown apart by that punch.
For the first time, her hollow eyes showed pain, and an unbelievable fear.
The Sage of Six Paths, silently observing everything, felt a chill run down his spine.
'What terrifying power was this? Could raw strength reach such a level?'
'With just one punch, Mother was actually brought to the brink of death.'
'This is even more terrifying than the members of the Otsutsuki Clan's main family's members Mother once described to me!'
Just as everyone was still reeling from the shock of that punch, another sound of tearing space echoed.
Then, a somewhat disheveled figure stumbled out of a spatial rift.
The newcomer wore white robes, had pale skin, and carried a uniquely shaped red fishing rod.
As soon as he appeared, he laughed maniacally: "Hahahaha, Uchiha Sasuke, you're doomed! This time, I've traveled back to when you were at your weakest..."
But his laughter quickly cut off.
His eyes instantly locked onto Sasuke in the midst of the battlefield, frowning slightly: "Am I too late? Not on the night of the clan massacre."
But he quickly regained composure: "Hmph, even if I'm a little late, Uchiha Sasuke at this point in time would be, at most, someone who just awakened the Mangekyo or just transplanted Uchiha Itachi's eyes?"
"To me, Otsutsuki Urashiki, he's just a slightly tougher bug!"
However, a strange expression appeared on 'Sasuke's' face.
It was, of course, Setsuna piloting him now. He thought to himself: 'Otsutsuki Urashiki? From his words, it sounds like in the future timeline, Sasuke gave him a severe beating, nearly killed him.'
'So he holds a grudge and traveled 'back in time' to get revenge on a weaker Sasuke?'
Setsuna couldn't help but chuckle: 'Heh, this guy is really unlucky. He just had to pick this point in time, when I'm still around.'
Instead of any tension about this unexpected 'prey', Setsuna felt a pleasant surprise.
'I was just thinking that dealing with Kaguya's remnant body and Ten-Tails Chakra would be a bit troublesome, possibly affecting the Ninja World's ecosystem long-term...'
'And now, right on cue, comes a lively, Chakra-rich, high-quality 'Otsutsuki-brand' sacrifice?'
Urashiki, oblivious to the danger, swung his fishing rod: "Uchiha Sasuke, the magnificent future you were to write ends here!"
Setsuna casually caught the hook, then yanked hard.
An irresistible force instantly pulled Urashiki forward. Before his bewildered eyes, 'Sasuke's' fist connected with his face.
This punch lacked the terrifying force that shattered space against Kaguya, but in Urashiki's blue-purple Rinnegan's dynamic vision, that slowly approaching fist seemed to infinitely expand, filling his entire field of view.
The space around the fist appeared frozen.
A deathly crisis, originating from the instinct of life, instantly flooded his entire being.
"No!" Urashiki screamed in terror, trying to use his Rinnegan's ability to flee.
But the surrounding space and time were frozen... he couldn't escape.
Bang.
A muffled sound rang, so faint it was almost inaudible.
Urashiki was blown apart, shattered into 'bits'.
"Wh... why..." Urashiki used his last strength to squeeze out a broken, despairing howl, "How are you now infinitely stronger than in the future? Was your strength actually declining?"