While Yagyu was sleeping to recover his chakra, Obito Uchiha had already sealed all the escaped Tailed Beasts back into the Gedo Statue.
Whether it was the Two-Tails Matatabi or the Eight-Tails Gyūki, none of the Tailed Beasts that had scattered and fled were a match for Obito Uchiha, who possessed Kamui intangibility and one Rinnegan.
Obito's strength wasn't particularly great. Without Kamui intangibility, even with one Mangekyō Sharingan, his ocular power wouldn't be enough to subdue Tailed Beasts like the Eight-Tails. After all, a Jinchūriki is a Jinchūriki, and a Tailed Beast is a Tailed Beast.
But unfortunately, there were no "ifs." Obito not only had Kamui intangibility but also the Tailed Beast-specific chains of the Gedo Statue and the Rinnegan.
Faced with Obito Uchiha and the Gedo Statue, who couldn't be touched by any attack but could easily immobilize opponents with ocular power or chains and rapidly absorb their chakra, none of the Tailed Beasts stood a chance. They were defeated faster than Killer Bee had been against Nagato.
In fact, if it weren't for knowing that Kakashi's left eye could pose a threat to Obito Uchiha and that Madara Uchiha had left a curse mark in Obito's heart, which would allow Madara to control Obito upon his resurrection, neither Yagyu nor Black Zetsu would have allowed Obito to act so freely.
An Obito Uchiha without these weaknesses would be even more dangerous than Nagato.
Of course, Obito Uchiha didn't know the source of Yagyu and Black Zetsu's confidence, nor did he realize that his smooth capture of the five Tailed Beasts was due to their deliberate inaction.
By the time Obito had reclaimed the five Tailed Beasts, it was already completely dark.
The six major forces, having fought all day, had retreated to their camps to rest. The remaining White Zetsu clones, now only one-fifth of their original number, didn't recklessly attack the camps of the six major forces.
Their mission was simply to block the six major forces from reaching Amegakure.
Now that all eight Tailed Beasts had been sealed back into the Gedo Statue and the Akatsuki members had rested for half a day, the final battle was likely to take place tomorrow.
Of course, that was only what the White Zetsu clones believed.
Tonight happened to be a full moon. After a day of rain, the sky above the Land of Rain was unusually clear, with a bright full moon and a sky full of stars.
Such a starry sky was common in other villages but extremely rare in the perpetually rainy Land of Rain.
This coincidental night scene seemed to be telling Obito Uchiha that tonight was the perfect opportunity.
There was no better night to initiate the Eye of the Moon Plan!
However, to activate the Eye of the Moon Plan, the Ten-Tails had to be fully revived, not just partially awakened.
Thus, Obito Uchiha used Kamui to arrive at a room in the underground base.
"Heh… you sure acted quickly."
Hundred Faces, lying on the bed, sat up and looked at Obito Uchiha, who had changed his mask, revealing one Mangekyō Sharingan and one Rinnegan through the two small holes. He sneered, "When the Gedo Statue disappeared, I thought Pain had managed to escape. I didn't expect you to intercept him."
"I'll give you Nagato's body. Help me with something."
Obito Uchiha spoke indifferently. "Your goal was always Nagato's body and Kekkei Genkai. If you use the Ghoul Possession Technique to fuse with Nagato's body, you might gain his Uzumaki clan bloodline, or even a new Rinnegan."
Obito Uchiha lied without batting an eye.
In his eyes, Hundred Faces and Nagato were both "fools" who didn't know the truth of the world.
They had no idea who the Rinnegan truly belonged to. Only he knew that the Rinnegan was actually Madara Uchiha's, and besides controlling the Gedo Statue, it could also be used to become the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki through the Ten-Tails Coffin Seal Technique.
As Madara Uchiha's proxy, Obito Uchiha possessed the scrolls Madara had left behind, which contained all the techniques Madara had mastered.
Whether it was the Uchiha clan's Fire Release, the use of the Uchiha Flame Fan, various genjutsu of the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, or the Izanagi and Izanami of the Mangekyō Sharingan, or even the Six Paths Techniques and Yin-Yang Release of the Rinnegan, as well as the Ten-Tails Coffin Seal Technique to seal the Gedo Statue into his body and the Rinne Rebirth Technique to revive others—everything was there.
Obito Uchiha knew why Madara had handed over all these techniques to him without reservation. It was because there was a special curse mark in his heart.
This curse mark was Madara's failsafe. He wasn't afraid of Obito's betrayal.
It was precisely because of this that Obito Uchiha saw it as his own opportunity.
As long as he became the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki before Madara was revived.
The first Ten-Tails Jinchūriki was the Sage of Six Paths, the one who created the ninja way and spread chakra.
Such a being was undoubtedly stronger than Madara Uchiha.
And what Obito Uchiha was betting on was that the power of the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki far surpassed Madara Uchiha's, allowing him to ignore or overcome the curse mark.
If he won this bet, he would be the biggest winner.
If he did nothing, he would surely lose!
That was why Obito Uchiha was in such a hurry—he had a new plan.
But to realize this plan, he needed the help of Hundred Faces, who was completely unaware of the truth of the world.
To achieve this, he needed to lie to deceive this "fool."
After all, the condition for Hundred Faces joining the Akatsuki was just a transaction between him and Nagato.
He needed to provide the Uchiha Flame Fan, while Nagato, after his death, would immediately leave the Akatsuki and obtain his body and Rinnegan.
Now that he had taken the Rinnegan, Hundred Faces undoubtedly held a grudge against him.
To gain Hundred Faces' help, he needed to offer some bait.
Thinking of this, Obito Uchiha's heart sank slightly.
Earlier, he had remembered forgetting to take Nagato's other Rinnegan. By the time he returned, Nagato's eye had already been taken.
And the White Zetsu clones no longer obeyed his commands. Black and White Zetsu were also nowhere to be found.
Clearly, they had discovered his "betrayal" and were already making other plans.
But his heart showed no signs of disturbance, nor did he sense Madara Uchiha's chakra. This meant that, as he had thought, they hadn't found a suitable host for the other Rinnegan and couldn't revive Madara Uchiha yet.
Even so, Obito Uchiha felt a sense of unease and regretted his arrogance.
After being cautious for so many years, he had made such a careless mistake at such a critical moment. He was truly an idiot!
As for Obito Uchiha's thoughts, Hundred Faces, of course, had no idea.
However, seeing Obito Uchiha take the initiative to offer him a way out, Hundred Faces played along, his eyes lighting up. But he didn't immediately agree. Instead, he asked warily, "What do you want me to help you with?"
"Help me reanimate two people." Obito Uchiha stated his condition.
"That's it?" Hundred Faces was even more surprised.
And this surprise also reflected Yagyu's feelings as the main body.
What kind of existence was worth Obito Uchiha offering Nagato's body as a price?
Having been transmigrated for over a decade, Yagyu had forgotten most of the plot except for the main storyline and some important events. For a moment, he couldn't recall.
It couldn't be to reanimate Madara Uchiha, could it?
Or maybe Itachi Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha?
But that didn't seem likely either!
Thinking this in his heart, Hundred Faces raised an eyebrow on the surface. "That's it?"
"That's it!" Obito Uchiha silently increased the stakes. "Help me reanimate two people, and continue to use the reanimated shinobi army to assist me."
"Deal." Hundred Faces nodded without hesitation this time, but also stated his own condition. "However, you must give me Pain's body first."
"No problem."
Obito Uchiha agreed without hesitation.
The space around them suddenly twisted into a vortex shape, with a small black hole at the center. Then, a corpse that looked like a withered tree flew out of the black hole and landed in front of Hundred Faces.
This corpse was Nagato.
Handing over Nagato's body to Hundred Faces, Obito Uchiha felt "heartache," but it was heartache for Hundred Faces.
When Hundred Faces used the Ghoul Possession Technique to fuse with Nagato's body, he wondered how he would feel upon discovering the truth.
"The second known wielder of the Rinnegan after the Sage of Six Paths, a child of destiny, died so miserably. Tsk tsk…"
Examining Nagato's corpse, Hundred Faces played along with Obito Uchiha's act, clicking his tongue and smiling playfully as he looked at Obito Uchiha. "I suddenly believe you really are Madara Uchiha."
Obito Uchiha didn't respond this time. Instead, he used Kamui again to twist space.
Then, a scroll flew out and was thrown to Hundred Faces by Obito Uchiha. "The medium is inside this scroll. I'll leave it to you."
"The Impure World Reincarnation requires living sacrifices."
Hundred Faces asked, "The White Zetsu clones have special properties that allow the deceased to be revived with power close to their peak. Will you capture two White Zetsu clones for me, or two living people?"
"Use White Zetsu clones!"
Obito Uchihu seemed to have anticipated this moment. As space twisted again, two more White Zetsu clones flew out of the Kamui dimension.
However, having already fallen out with Black and White Zetsu, Obito Uchiha didn't give the White Zetsu clones a chance to expose his identity. He had sealed their consciousness beforehand, leaving them in a comatose state.
Hundred Faces didn't pay too much attention. He opened the scroll, took out the medium inside, and immediately performed the Impure World Reincarnation.
"Impure World Reincarnation!"
As the chant rang out, white dust appeared out of thin air, as if attracted by a magnetic force, and gathered on the bodies of the White Zetsu clones, covering them and forming two mummies.
Soon, the appearance of these two mummies changed, taking on the forms of two people.
Seeing these two people, Hundred Faces suddenly understood and couldn't help but admire Obito Uchiha.
No wonder his Wood Clone couldn't find the graves or body tissues of these two—they had already been taken by Obito Uchiha in advance.
It seemed Obito Uchiha had already thought of this method.
But in the original story, he hadn't thought of this. Was it because of his influence?
Indeed, these two corpses were the rare traitorous ninja from Kumogakure, the Gold and Silver Brothers.
These two brothers were also among the few in the original story who could use Nine-Tails chakra.
Because they had once been swallowed by the Nine-Tails and bitten off a piece of its flesh, they had gained the Nine-Tails' chakra.
After capturing the five escaped Tailed Beasts, Obito Uchiha didn't target Nagato but instead had Hundred Faces reanimate the Gold and Silver Brothers.
Clearly, having witnessed the Thousand-Armed Kannon, he had realized Yagyu's terror and strength and didn't dare to target Naruto.
Instead, like in the original story, he chose to have the Ten-Tails revive incompletely, becoming an incomplete Ten-Tails Jinchūriki.
"Thanks for your hard work."
Looking at the Gold and Silver Brothers before him, Obito Uchiha's eyes lit up with joy. After leaving these words for Hundred Faces, he eagerly took the brothers and used Kamui to leave the underground base.
"Roar…"
A few minutes later.
An ear-splitting roar, like a thunderclap on a clear day, echoed throughout the Land of Rain.
This roar, like the Thousand-Armed Kannon's Top Transformation destroying the earth, spread across the entire Land of Rain, and even people in neighboring countries near the border could faintly hear it.
The sudden roar also startled the ninjas of the six major forces who were preparing to rest. They rushed out of their tents and gathered in open areas, looking in the direction of the sound.
Then, countless people's pupils contracted, their faces filled with shock.
"What… what is that?"
"A… a monster? Is that also a Tailed Beast?"
"It looks similar to the monster the Akatsuki leader used to attack us, but it's completely different. Has it evolved?"
"Such… such terrifying chakra. It's even more massive than the chakra contained in Lord Yagyu's Thousand-Armed Buddha."
"There's no mistake. This is the container the Akatsuki used to seal the Tailed Beasts."
"..."
From the perspective of the six major forces, under the moonlight, in the night that wasn't pitch black, two massive figures, one large and one small, stood on the land of the Land of Rain.
One was the motionless Thousand-Armed Buddha.
This Thousand-Armed Buddha was like the highest peak in the world. No matter where you were, even in the forest, as long as you looked into the distance, you would definitely see it.
The other massive figure was much smaller than the Thousand-Armed Buddha but could still be seen from a distance. It was a monster with ten tails swaying violently, destroying the earth.
This monster was the Ten-Tails, which had reclaimed the chakra of the nine Tailed Beasts and had fully revived, evolving from the Gedo Statue back to its first form.
"Finally appeared, huh?"
The one who said this wasn't Yagyu.
It was Orochimaru, who had been watching the war but had been patient enough not to intervene.
Looking at the Ten-Tails, which had removed its white bandages and now had only one eye, with a shape and pattern just as he had imagined, Orochimaru stopped being a spectator. He raised his index and middle fingers, his voice hoarse as he laughed. "Let me see if the truth matches what I've investigated."
"Impure World Reincarnation—"
A chant suddenly rang out in a certain part of the Land of Rain.
Then a coffin rose from the ground.
Crack—Boom!
Unlike other coffins used in the Impure World Reincarnation, which would land and then have the deceased emerge from the shadows in a daze, this coffin had just risen when the lid made a crisp sound, showing numerous cracks. Then a shockwave shattered it, and a large amount of dust was kicked up as it roared forward.
In the dust, a black figure appeared.
A voice similar to Obito Uchiha's slowly rang out. "Has that brat Nagato finally grown up?"
The Shinobi World's Asura—Madara Uchiha—had officially appeared!