The Shimada Family's Ninja Journey

The cool evening breeze blew on Uchiha Madara's face. Looking around, the surrounding environment had long since changed from a dense forest to a boundless desert.

As a desert area, the temperature difference between day and night in the Kingdom of Wind is much greater than that in the Kingdom of Fire. Suddenly appearing here, Uchiha Madara shivered subconsciously.

But before he could take a closer look at his surroundings, a hoarse voice came into his ears: "Madara-sama, you are finally here."

Uchiha Madara turned around and saw Black Zetsu standing behind him with a smile.

"It's you, Black Zetsu." Uchiha Madara couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Even within his own camp, the only person Uchiha Madara could fully trust was Black Zetsu, the "incarnation of his own will."

Hearing this, Black Zetsu seemed to have guessed the concerns in Uchiha Madara's heart. He only heard him whisper: "Madara-sama should let down his guard against White Zetsu and the others for the time being. We still need their power for the time being... No matter what their purpose or purpose is,

It’s planning.”

"You do not understand."

Uchiha Madara was unmoved by Black Zetsu's "kind words". From the era of ninja melee to today, Uchiha Madara has experienced too much. He will never and cannot easily let go of Black Zetsu.

of caution.

Especially at this critical moment, as long as the opponent behaves a little abnormally, Uchiha Madara may even directly kill Bai Zetsu - it's already this time anyway, if he fails to win the Seven-Tails and Nine-Tails this time

, basically doomed him to failure, and Madara would naturally no longer have those worries.

"..."

Hei Jue hesitated for a moment after hearing this, and then gave up his plan to continue persuading.

Similar to Uchiha Madara's thoughts, now that the time has come, Black Zetsu doesn't want to cause trouble and be suspected by Uchiha Madara.

"Anyway, as long as Bai Jue doesn't act rashly, there shouldn't be any problems..." Hei Jue comforted himself in his heart.

However, Black Zetsu was obviously over-concerned. Uchiha Madara only thought that his "newly born" incarnation of will was too simple and did not understand the sinister nature of the human heart. He did not doubt that this incarnation of will itself was a bastard.

Uchiha Madara waved his hand and said, "Okay, I have my own plans for these things. By the way, where are Bai Zetsu and the others? Take me there."

"Yes, Madara-sama." Black Zetsu nodded and led Uchiha Madara towards their temporary assembly point.

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"Madara-sama/original body."

When Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu arrived at the assembly point together, other people participating in the plan were already waiting for them here.

There were not many people participating in the operation this time, but all of them were top combatants on Uchiha Madara's side, including the trio of Black Zetsu, White Zetsu and A Fei, as well as several wooden clones of Uchiha Madara.

Theoretically speaking, Uchiha Madara can now create a few more wooden clones, but the chakra consumption of using wooden clones is not small. Just like Uchiha Madara in the original time and space, he can create twenty-five wooden clones at once.

That was entirely based on the infinite chakra advantage of the dirt body, and Madara was not that generous at the moment.

"Madara-sama, please allow me to explain the current situation first." Seeing Madara Uchiha and Black Zetsu walking in, White Zetsu and Black Zetsu glanced at each other without any trace, and then started the performance according to the originally agreed upon script.

Madara, who knew nothing about it, nodded calmly and motioned for Bai Zetsu to continue speaking.

Seeing this, Bai Jue continued: "That's it. According to the information we received from the coalition headquarters before, we have already explored that location. In order to prevent the five major ninja villages from being alert, I only sent a small number of clones to pretend to be passing by to investigate.

I’ve done some research, but haven’t found anything yet.”

"Nothing gained? What do you mean?" A Fei asked confused.

He really didn't know much about this, and both Black Zetsu and White Zetsu also deliberately hid it from A Fei, in order to use A Fei's doubts to lower Uchiha Madara's vigilance.

After all, A Fei was the person recommended to Madara by Shiro Zetsu, and Madara's trust in A Fei was very limited, and A Fei and Shiro Zetsu would definitely be grouped together by Uchiha Madara.

Now that A Fei and Bai Jue look like they haven't passed the Qi, maybe Uchiha Madara will come up with some strange things. Even if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter. It's just a casual move, and there can be a trace of it.

The effect is profitable for Hei Jue.

As expected, after hearing A Fei's question, Uchiha Madara's eyes flashed with a hint of thoughtfulness, but that was all.

And Bai Jue didn't care about Hei Jue's calculations, and just said to himself: "There is no gain... It means that we didn't find anything there, as if the location indicated in the intelligence was just an ordinary desert, don't

When it comes to Jinchuuriki, there is not even a single living person."

"Did we look in the wrong place? Or is the information simply false?" A Fei continued to ask.

"The information cannot be false." The person who spoke this time was a wooden clone of Uchiha Madara, and it was he who extracted the soul of the wise man in Kirigakure Village.

The wooden clone who had read the opponent's soul was very sure that the information about the Jinchuuriki must be true.

"Did they move ahead of time? Or... it was protected by barrier magic." This time it was another wooden clone who spoke out. He had not forgotten the exquisite barrier that protected the coalition headquarters.

boundary.

Even in terms of importance, the barrier protecting the jinchūriki should be stronger than the barrier at the coalition headquarters.

After hearing his guess, Bai Jue shook his head and said: "Both scenarios are possible, but we can't be sure at the moment..."

"Can't we investigate more carefully?" Uchiha Madara suddenly asked.

Bai Jue shook his head when he heard this and said: "The time is too short, and we can't send out too many clones. It's okay if they have already escaped. If they are still there, they may alert the snake."

After hearing Bai Zetsu's explanation, Uchiha Madara nodded slightly. Although he didn't trust Bai Zetsu, what Bai Zetsu said was indeed reasonable in this matter.

"Having said so much, what should we do? Are we just wasting time here?" The wooden clone who spoke first said impatiently.

"Madara-sama, please make your decision." Shiro turned a deaf ear to Uchiha Madara's words. He just turned to look at Uchiha Madara's body and said, "Do you want to do it now or wait a little longer? If you give it to me again,

In a day and a half, maybe the clones can find something more, but it's also possible..." It's possible that nothing is found, or even the five great ninja villages detect something, resulting in a failure.

Bai Jue didn't finish what he said, but everyone present undoubtedly understood this.

For a moment, everyone's eyes were focused on Uchiha Madara, waiting for him to make the final decision.

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