However, their howls did nothing to slow Obito's movements.
Only when Obito had seized them before his eyes and inspected them did one of the Black Zetsu come to its senses.
It sneered, "Uchiha Obito, no matter how capable you think you are, you can't fuse with me. Do you think I'm like Hashirama's cells?"
Obito said, "Indeed you are different. Orochimaru's research reports made it clear: you are a kind of data-like existence, and data is ultimately stored in the soul. Your essence involves the soul."
The other Black Zetsu said, "Since you know that, then give up the idea of fusion. Our bodies can merge with anything, but that's meaningless, separate from the soul, you gain nothing."
Obito said, "You're still so confident. Too bad you still underestimate humans, and underestimate the ninjutsu humans develop. Ninjutus are sometimes resource-wasting acts, but sometimes they are the crystallization of human wisdom."
"I have a technique here I want you to taste. I've had it for a long time, but this is the first time I'll use it."
With that, Obito dragged the two Black Zetsu into his laboratory, then formed hand seals with both hands.
"Soul-Manifestation Technique!"
Instantly, Obito's soul drifted out from his body, appearing so towering; under the support of his firm will, the quality of his soul surpassed his body.
With his soul-state manifested, Obito clearly saw the miniature of Kaguya Otsutsuki's will represented behind the two Black Zetsu, and the vast informational, data-like soul-formations they carried.
Obito murmured, "No wonder in my previous life they could ambush Madara; though their bodies are powerless, their essence level is extremely high."
At this moment the two Black Zetsu thoroughly and completely felt fear and despair. They hadn't expected that Obito could not only see their souls but also leave his body, this had already met the conditions for fusion.
And feeling the terrifying aura radiating from Obito's soul, they trembled; even moving became a luxury.
Obito wasted no more words. He drove his soul closer to the two Black Zetsu, and then, from the soul level, bit by bit assimilated them.
So what if they were Otsutsuki-born beings, there are always geniuses among the ninja world who create strange ninjutsu. Apart from having a higher level of pure power, the Otsutsuki were not necessarily guaranteed victory.
Before an absolute gap in will, the two Black Zetsu were instantly refined.
Immediately, Obito felt an immense tearing pain transmitted through his soul, its intensity far exceeded that when he fused with the Ten-Tails in his previous life.
However, his will was not affected at all. After fusing with the Black Zetsu, Obito sensed a power within him, a deeply mysterious, indescribable force.
He suddenly understood: the essence of his supreme power could be summed up in four characters, "unyielding will."
From this moment on, "unyielding will" ceased to be a mere adjective and became a concrete, usable power.
No wonder Six-Path Obito could, by will alone, interfere with the material plane, matching the number-crunching Six-Path Naruto blow for blow, even directly shattering reality.
Now young Obito also possessed this power.
One application of this power was that any matter involving will-determination would be unable to pass the gate of "unyielding will."
So although the soul-level tearing pain was far greater than that of the Ten-Tails, once Obito sent out a will-judgement, the pain was conceptually erased.
The suffering disappeared without a trace, while the power was truly inherited.
Obito felt massive changes in his body; his bloodline was purified bit by bit, and when the purity reached a very high degree, suddenly, a force converged in his eyes. As he blinked, his eyes first turned blood-red, from one tomoe to two tomoe, then three tomoe.
Finally, they became a great windmill of six scythes, the stage of the Eternal Twin Kamui Mangekyo Sharingan.
Then this step directly transcended the past: rings appeared in his eyes, but the scythes did not disappear; instead they fixed upon the rings.
In the end, they transformed into the Eternal Dual Rinne-Kamui Eye.
Once this step completed, Obito's soul automatically returned to his body.
Then his soul and flesh seemed to intertwine and fuse indistinguishably. A powerful force burst from his body, even whipping up a spatial storm throughout the Kamui dimension.
When the storm subsided, Obito adapted to the power.
He felt his eyes had instantly received enormous enhancement. The previously difficult-to-use Fantasy Force and the repulsion force both became as easy to command as an arm, ready to be activated at any time.
His chakra reserves also improved substantially, already vaguely comparable to his Six-Path state from the previous life after fusing with the Ten-Tails.
Obito raised his hands, feeling the abundant power in his body, murmuring, "As expected, becoming an Otsutsuki like Kaguya and becoming a Ten-Tails jinchuriki are different, but I've now unquestionably entered the Six-Paths realm, and—"
Obito felt the abyss-like potency of his eyes, and very easily judged that, purely by these eyes alone, he could instantly kill the version of himself that was the second Six-Path Sage in his previous life.
A smile curved at his mouth. He shook his head and said, "I really am greedy. After obtaining such powerful ability, I even thought of acquiring the Ten-Tails, to become its jinchuriki and fuse with the God Tree, evolving to an even higher level."
"No, rather than saying this thought was born before, it's more like, after the body and bloodline elevated, an instinct to continuously evolve has risen."
Thinking this, Obito suppressed the thought. Fusing with the Ten-Tails would require extracting enough power from the One to Nine-Tails, and right now he didn't want to do that.
Unless another God Tree existed in the ninja world, he would not fuse; otherwise, his current power was already enough.
But by instinct, Obito's wish caused his imagination power to trigger on its own, the wish itself being to find another God Tree.
He snorted in disbelief, 'How could there possibly be another God Tree in the entire ninja world? If God Trees were that easy to come by, wouldn't they be like cabbage?'
However, in his perception, a vision suddenly appeared.
In a hidden place, a monk-like man sat cross-legged, and a black diamond-shaped seal was engraved on his lips.
From that mark emanated an aura originating from the same source as Black Zetsu, and moreover, even stronger, some of it already approximated Kaguya Otsutsuki's essence.
Obito was startled. There really was an unknown existence in the ninja world whose essence neared Kaguya's, and he had never noticed it before.
'This will not do, such an existence is a threat to the whole ninja world. Immediately… erase it!'
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