“That’s right! The Six Paths Sage is called the Six Paths Sage precisely because he reached the pinnacle of Sage Art research, even being able to apply Sage Art in his mother’s battles!” Black Zetsu couldn’t help but exclaim, as fragments of memories his mother, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, had left him, involuntarily surfaced in his mind.
In those blurry memories, Black Zetsu clearly saw the terrifying enhancement effects brought by these Sage Modes and Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo’s own Sage Art abilities.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, the Six Paths Sage, who was already at that level, had his power increased several times over with the blessings of these Sage Arts!
Six Paths Sage Art was undoubtedly designed to complement the Six Paths Level Sage Mode; it was a powerful technique specifically targeting enemies at the Six Paths Level.
Thinking of this, an irrepressible urge surged in Black Zetsu’s heart. He wanted to secretly guide and give the various Sage Arts he had collected over the years in the Ninja World to Uchiha Madara, allowing his strength to be further enhanced.
In fact, over the past millennia, Black Zetsu had always adopted the same strategy for the descendants of Indra.
For example, Uchiha Madara, his personal talent might not have been the most outstanding, but his survival ability and luck were unparalleled.
He not only happened to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan, but also had a younger brother who also happened to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan and was conveniently killed; more importantly, he happened to face immense pressure from powerful enemies. All these factors happened to provide excellent conditions for his growth.
Not only that, Uchiha Madara also happened to receive resource enhancements provided by Black Zetsu, and under Black Zetsu’s careful guidance, he was able to obtain more secret techniques and Forbidden Techniques.
It was precisely by relying on these unique abilities, coupled with Black Zetsu’s silent guidance from behind, that Uchiha Madara was able to successfully awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and even further, later awaken the Rinnegan.
However, in stark contrast, during this long millennium, other descendants of Indra invested in by Black Zetsu, despite some possessing even greater talent, always lacked that little bit of luck.
“But, if I do this, won’t it strengthen him too much?” A hint of hesitation was revealed in Black Zetsu’s voice, and his pitch-black face was filled with indecision.
After all, the upper and lower limits of Sage Art and Sage Mode are simply too vast.
Ordinary Sage Mode and Sage Arts developed by ordinary people might only provide a certain boost to Kage-level powerhouses.
However, if subjected to a series of deep developments, stronger Sage Arts and Sage Modes like those of the Six Paths Sage could indeed terrifyingly enhance beings like his mother.
In that case, what if a mistake occurred in the process, leading to the inability to revive his mother, who was already not immune to Sage Chakra, what then?
To be honest, deep down, Black Zetsu had always been wary of this Sage Art legacy in the Ninja World.
Thinking back, it was precisely because Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, the Six Paths Sage, learned the Sage Art of the Ninja World and diligently studied it on that basis that he ultimately succeeded in breaking his mother’s undefeated myth, instead sealing her on the moon.
It needs to be clearly understood that Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, as the progenitor of Chakra in the Ninja World, possessed extremely astonishing power. Even without eating the fruit of this planet, her strength was already close to Six Paths Level before.
However, when she faced that Chakra fruit, even if this power was too immense, exceeding what she could absorb, she would never intentionally separate out power she couldn’t control.
After all, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya had extremely high confidence and precision in controlling her own power.
Therefore, when she ate the Chakra fruit and realized that this power had exceeded her limit, she decisively took action.
After careful consideration, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya decided to split this powerful force into two, transforming it into two children.
This way, no matter which portion of power, in terms of the Chakra fruit’s proportion, it would not exceed her own strength.
Therefore, even if her two sons, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo and Ōtsutsuki Hamura, were combined, their proportion of the Chakra fruit’s power would absolutely not be comparable to hers.
And in reality, as the third son specifically separated by Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, Black Zetsu was well aware of all this.
Because he himself was an extension of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya’s will, he naturally knew the situation at the time like the back of his hand.
At that time, his mother, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, after eating the Chakra fruit, only absorbed sixty percent of its power.
The remaining forty percent of the power, being too immense, she could no longer continue to absorb, so she resolutely split this remaining power into two, transforming it into the two children, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo and Ōtsutsuki Hamura.
Even if these two combined, it was only forty percent of the power. The result was that such a division of power, after learning Sage Art, actually fought his mother head-on for a time, which was simply unbelievable.
Therefore, in the field of Sage Art, Black Zetsu always maintained a conservative attitude; he did not wish for too many people to spread and research this mysterious and powerful force. Because he deeply knew that once this power was widely developed, it might trigger a series of unpredictable changes and consequences.
However, reality left Black Zetsu feeling confused and anxious. Now, Madara’s body seemed to have fallen into a stalemate, completely contrary to his original expectations.
According to Black Zetsu’s plan, Madara should have successfully achieved Yin-Yang Release, thereby naturally drawing out the Six Paths Chakra.
But things went against his wishes; although everything seemed ready, Madara’s body showed no reaction, as if this crucial step was stuck at some point.
This result caught Black Zetsu off guard, and he couldn’t help but begin to doubt whether his schemes were about to come to an abrupt halt. Would all his efforts be in vain?
A strong sense of unease surged in Black Zetsu’s heart; he didn’t know how to deal with this situation next.
“No, wait, just wait a little longer!” Black Zetsu’s heart was constantly struggling; he seemed to still be hoping for some kind of miracle to happen.
“Perhaps, the Sage Body is not Madara’s own; I still need to wait a while, and everything will be fine.” Black Zetsu muttered to himself, as if this was his last shred of hope.
Over the next few days, Black Zetsu, who had been watching Uchiha Madara, discovered that although Uchiha Madara’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan had already merged Yin and Yang with Senju Hashirama’s cell tissue, thus restoring his vision, he still hadn’t awakened the Rinnegan.
Looking at all this, his mind was full of questions, and eventually, his figure gradually blurred, finally disappearing silently from where he stood.
Despite this, Black Zetsu had already made a decision in his heart.
He decided to give Uchiha Madara three more years.
If no changes occurred within these three years, then he would have no choice but to resort to the final means—continuing to guide Uchiha Madara and giving him one of the Six Paths Sage’s additional composition templates, a more powerful Sage Mode.
After all, Uchiha Madara’s own Sage Chakra from the Sage Body was merely automatically synthesized by that piece of Sage Body flesh and blood, not Sage Chakra developed by Madara himself to match his own body.
Therefore, this Sage Chakra had a very limited boost to Madara and did not significantly increase Uchiha Madara’s strength.
However, if Madara could have more Sage Modes to comprehend, and thus develop more Sage Arts, then the situation might be different!
If it were in the past, he wouldn’t have done this.
Once Uchiha Madara’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan regained its light and achieved Yin-Yang Release.
It proved that the method for awakening the Rinnegan written on the stone tablet left by the Six Paths Sage was indeed useful!
If he didn’t rely on the Rinnegan to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, collect all the Tailed Beasts, and restart the Ten-Tails Divine Tree.
Then, to revive his mother.
Could it be that he had to go and blow up the moon instead?