Chapter 87

"But you need not worry; even if he truly comes, he cannot harm me. Do not forget my speed!"

Mei Terumi nodded.

Yet her heart had already made a firm decision: the moment she returned to the Mist Village, she would immediately launch a reckoning against Yagura!

Trigger Yagura's crisis in advance to probe for information on the person behind it.

Ishihara did not detect Mei Terumi's thoughts, but he indeed felt no worry about Tobi's attack.

If given enough time, he would even plan to launch an attack on Tobi himself!

After all, although he had not mastered those secret arts, he had already grasped their principles.

And learning ninja techniques and secret arts is incredibly simple; it is nothing more than chakra control, shape transformation, and nature transformation.

His chakra control ability had long since reached its peak!

After learning medical ninja techniques, he could boldly say that absolutely no one in the ninja world is stronger than him in this regard!

As for the cultivation of the latter two, he already possesses a method for rapid mastery!

Once the cultivation of chakra is completed, any secret art will pose no difficulty whatsoever to him; he can master it instantly!

Mei Terumi did not leave immediately; instead, she intended for Haku and the others to cultivate within the base, guided by Orochimaru or Ishihara, and depart only after mastering the basics of the secret arts.

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Mist Village, Mizukage Tower.

Tobi paced restlessly in his office.

Zetsu's failure to bring Ishihara's intelligence for so long made him uneasy, filling him with a bad premonition!

Just then, Zetsu appeared!

"Did you obtain intelligence on Ishihara?" Tobi asked impatiently.

"I have obtained it!"

Zetsu's voice was somewhat heavy. "However, you must prepare yourself mentally; some of the intelligence is too incredible, so I took a little time to confirm it."

"But this also indirectly confirms the authenticity of this intelligence."

Tobi's heart sank. "Speak!"

Black Zetsu took a deep breath and said:

"The person you fear is named Ishihara, and his identity is Orochimaru's disciple!"

"And his age is... six years old!"

What?!

Tobi stared at Zetsu in shock and roared lowly: "What kind of joke is this?"

Although he had not yet seen Ishihara's true body, the chakra phantom presented that day was clearly a teenager.

How could he possibly be only six years old!

"I said it before; the intelligence regarding Ishihara is very incredible. After my multiple confirmations, he is indeed only six years old!"

"And the reason his appearance is not that of a child also has an explanation!"

Zetsu said in a deep voice.

Tobi asked hurriedly: "What reason?"

"Ishihara developed a secret art that can accelerate the body's growth!"

Tobi took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to curse, and asked:

"Are you sure it wasn't developed by Orochimaru? No, how could such a secret art possibly exist in the ninja world?!"

Black Zetsu also felt somewhat incredulous.

He had never heard of such a secret art in a thousand years.

"This is true; I have verified it!"

Hearing this, Tobi felt even more restless in his heart.

"Continue!"

"Ishihara's talent is incredibly high; since childhood, he has developed multiple secret arts!"

"The chakra phantom of Ishihara and the Lightning Release you saw that day were both secret arts he developed!"

"There are even more: secret arts that enhance explosive power, those that increase recovery ability, those that increase defense... and so on and so forth!"

Hearing this, Tobi's mouth twitched; he stared straight at Black Zetsu and asked through gritted teeth:

"A six-year-old child; rapid growth is one thing, but you tell me he developed so many secret arts? Did he start cultivating from inside the womb?!"

"Damn it, even if he started cultivating from inside the womb, he absolutely could not achieve this level!"

Black Zetsu remained silent for a moment before speaking softly:

"I am unwilling to believe this is true, but this is the fact!"

Even until now, he felt that this intelligence was all fake!

Such a person simply cannot exist in the ninja world!

No, he can no longer even be called human.

The feeling Ishihara gave him was even more terrifying than his mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki!

Even more mysterious!

Hearing this, Tobi instantly froze in place.

He stared at Black Zetsu, confirming he was not joking, his heart extremely heavy.

He found it somewhat hard to accept that such a terrifying person existed in the ninja world.

But if this is true!!!

Tobi took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and said sternly:

"If his talent is truly that terrifying, we absolutely cannot give him any more time to grow!"

Black Zetsu nodded in agreement and said with some apprehension:

"There is another piece of intelligence; don't get too excited when you hear it!"

Obito's heart trembled.

Wasn't the intelligence from above weighty enough?!

He swallowed hard. "Speak!"

Zetsu spoke in a low voice:

"Ishihara has developed a secret technique that can cultivate the Sharingan!"

Boom!!!

Obito felt his brain explode, his mind going completely blank.

A secret technique to cultivate the Sharingan?!

What kind of joke is this!!

This is impossible!

Obito ground his teeth until they creaked, his whole body trembling.

Because he knew clearly that since Black Zetsu dared to say it, the intelligence must have been verified.

But he still couldn't give up hope and asked, "Are you sure?!"

"Sure. Someone saw the tomoe of the Sharingan in Ishihara's eyes!"

As the words fell, Obito immediately spoke with finality: "Act now. Go kill Ishihara right now!!!"

His heart was trembling!

In fear!

If Ishihara can truly cultivate even the Sharingan, then what about the Wood Release?! What about the Rinnegan?!

If given enough time, I'm afraid that even if Madara were resurrected, he wouldn't be a match for him!

At only six years old he is already this terrifying; what terrifying heights will the sixteen-year-old Ishihara reach? Obito could no longer imagine it at all!

We absolutely cannot give him any more time to grow!

Although Black Zetsu also very much wanted to kill Ishihara.

After all, Ishihara had become the greatest obstacle to his plan to rescue his mother!

But he also understood the difficulty of wanting to kill Ishihara.

"Obito, with your current strength, killing Ishihara will probably be very difficult!"

Obito roared:

"What else can we do? Give him more time to grow?!"