Aomi chuckled softly, "Tobirama, did you hear that? I seem to be the Child of Prophecy from Ryuchi Cave..."
"Even I didn't know I had this kind of ability."
Senju Tobirama didn't immediately respond to Aomi but instead looked at the Nine-Tomoe Sharingan within Aomi with a gravely serious expression.
This godlike eye, in just an instant, released a terrifying pressure before falling silent, without a trace of aura leaking out, as if what just happened was an illusion.
But it was no illusion.
Even though the red glow of the Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan no longer emanated outward, it floated firmly in the high sky within Aomi.
"Aomi, you..."
Senju Tobirama, with a very heavy expression, said to Aomi, "Did you feel anything?"
"Ah... The White Snake Great Sage is truly a formidable existence. The Chakra of such a vast amount is far stronger than the Four-Tails and Five-Tails I've encountered before. Since the Tailed Beasts are regarded as natural disasters, it is logical for them to call themselves Immortals..."
Aomi didn't give Senju Tobirama the answer he wanted.
Senju Tobirama hesitated but then nodded silently.
"It seems Aomi doesn't know about this mysterious eye within him..."
Senju Tobirama scrutinized this symbol of Kaguya's power intently.
It appeared to be a Sharingan, yet it had wavy halos, and most crucially, it had nine Tomoe!
Even with Senju Tobirama's deep understanding of the Uchiha Clan, he had never seen such eyes in any records.
"The ripple-like Rinne shape, the Tomoe representing the Sharingan, and this iconic blood-red color..."
Senju Tobirama's mind was a whirl of chaos.
The Rinnegan, one of the legendary three great Dojutsu in the Ninja World, is the supreme eye technique possessed only by the Six Paths Sage!
Considering the Ancient Uchiha Chakra inside Aomi, it still wouldn't reach the level of the Rinnegan...
No matter how strong the Uchiha are, they're still just Uchiha.
"Is it because of the many types of Chakra within Aomi that interacted with each other?"
Senju Tobirama continually searched for answers for Aomi: "Or is it that another Chakra floating around the Ninja World has taken a liking to Aomi?"
This idea is absurd...
How could there be so much Chakra floating around in the Ninja World?
Yet, with Aomi, it seemed reasonable. After all, Senju Tobirama had witnessed when Aomi obtained the Sword of Totsuka, that so-called Ancient Uchiha, otherwise known as Indra Chakra, had appeared.
Aomi seemed to possess some inexplicable magic power, always able to draw powerful beings' Chakra to him...
Senju Tobirama himself, Uchiha Izuna, Ancient Uchiha...
And now, another heavyweight guest has arrived.
Senju Tobirama recalled the overwhelming pressure felt under the red light of the Nine-Tomoe Sharingan, his gaze growing increasingly tense.
"If Aomi doesn't know about this, it's best not to tell him for now..."
"He hasn't even resolved the Ancient Uchiha Chakra, and now such a powerful uninvited guest has arrived. His mind might collapse..."
After Kaguya's power entered Aomi's body,
Senju Tobirama pondered the "Child of Prophecy" from Mount Myoboku, and found himself increasingly understanding.
Indeed...
These toads truly had a bit of mystic insight, and using this mystical theory to explain Aomi's experiences which had reached the pinnacle, it indeed fit.
There's even a Rinne Tamoe Sharingan within him!
If that's not the Child of Prophecy, then who is?
Senju Tobirama took a deep breath, calming his fluctuating emotions, and began thinking about future strategies.
Although...
Even if his wisdom was among the best in the Ninja World, at this moment, he couldn't come up with a strategy for the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan...
But he had to try his best.
For Aomi...
Aomi's main body stepped into the palace of Ryuchi Cave to meet the White Snake Great Sage.
[Sensed intense emotions of surprise and doubt from the White Snake Great Sage towards the host, now bound as a target for confrontation!]
Meanwhile, at the location of another presence,
In an instant, Black Zetsu's eyes widened, unwilling to maintain even the last façade.
It firmly sensed the Aura of Otsutsuki Kaguya!
Impossible to fake...
"What relation do you have to Mother Kaguya?"
Black Zetsu made a great decision, no longer concealing this millennium-old secret: "Are you here to save her too?"
"Who am I..."
Aomi chuckled as he lifted Zetsu from the ground, shaking his head, and said, "Didn't I tell you from the beginning?"
"My foolish..."
"Brother!"
Only then did Zetsu realize that the term brother was not referring to their status within the Uchiha Clan but to a deeper bloodline connection!
Kaguya, the mother, had bestowed a blood relationship to both it and Aomi...
It turned out that Zetsu was not the third child of Otsutsuki Kaguya, but the fourth!
The true third child was Uchiha Aomi, with a body, bloodline, and combat abilities, far more noble than itself...
"How is it possible! How can you be the third child of Mother, my brother!"
Zetsu stared incredulously at Aomi. Although it had already believed it in its heart, there were still too many questions.
For a thousand years, Zetsu had been isolated in the Ninja World, stumbling everywhere...
What had this brother been doing all this time?!
If someone like Aomi were there to help, perhaps the Eye of the Moon Plan would have already succeeded!
Why, why appear only now?
After exposing its inner secrets and knowing Aomi's identity, Zetsu's tense nerves relaxed, but what followed was grievance and anger!
Aomi dared to criticize its hard work without achievements?
You talk about me, but what have you done!
"How dare you call yourself Mother's child, my brother..."
Uchiha Rin's sweet features twisted into a cold and mocking smile: "You say my attitude is correct, but my abilities are lacking?"
"Then for a thousand years, you just watched Mother suffer in the seal without taking any action, that's utterly ridiculous!"
Zetsu recalled Aomi's reprimands and hints, growing angrier.
Doing nothing but criticizing and even frightening it, isn't that counterproductive?
Zetsu had decided: today, it must confront Aomi fiercely and clarify why Aomi vanished without a trace for a millennium and yet came to reprimand it...
If that's the kind of brother he is, then who needs him!
"What have I done?"
Aomi muttered with a smile, looking at Zetsu with a gaze full of pity:
"I'd like to ask you, why are you in such a hurry to unravel the Six Paths Chibaku Tensei? If the Six Paths Sage and Otsutsuki Hamura could succeed once, they could do so a second time. Can you guarantee to defeat those two renegades?"
"In the millennium, while sealed, Kaguya lacked Chakra, Natural Energy replenishment, and even lost the Ten-tails..."
"Forgive me for being blunt, with Kaguya's fighting ability, being idle for so long will only make her worse."
Zetsu trembled with rage after hearing Aomi's words!
How dare he, damn you, Otsutsuki Aomi, how dare you!
To evaluate the great Mother Kaguya like this and even call her by name, who do you think you are?!
But the angrier Zetsu became, the deeper the integration of Aomi's bloodline became, and the Otsutsuki aura on him became more potent.
[Black Zetsu's Delusion]: When your actions cause fluctuations in Zetsu's emotions, the branch bloodline from Otsutsuki Kaguya will increase its integration.
In contrast to the powerless rage of Zetsu,
Aomi only needed to smile gently at it, as the difference between the two was evident.
One possessed the ancestral Kaguya bloodline and a noble body, whereas the other didn't even have a physical form, hiding within an artificial shell made by White Zetsu...
Zetsu couldn't help but recall the women's novels read by princesses in the Land of Fire Capital, telling stories of the life disparities between the lazy legitimate child and the hard-working concubine child.
"You have no right to evaluate Mother Kaguya like this, you are unworthy!" Zetsu yelled furiously, momentarily forgetting the power difference between itself and Aomi:
"Also, don't call her by name, use an honorific for Mother Kaguya!"
But this is also why it considered Aomi one of its own.
After all, could Aomi really kill it?
Swearing some words to vent emotions was a release of Zetsu's years of hard work without gain...
"Zetsu, don't shout, acting like a child won't achieve great things."
Aomi smirked and shook his head: "I knew it, both you and Kaguya still stick to the old ways, I've seen too much in the past millennia..."
"Even if released from the Six Paths Chibaku Tensei, so what?"
"Even if you pass the test of the Six Paths Sage and Otsutsuki Hamura, Kaguya's clan will come seeking, and then who will handle them..."
Aomi smiled at Zetsu, but his smile carried a chilling undertone:
"Answer me."