Chapter 137: If You Can't Get It Then Try To Destroy It, Suicide Attack!
After leaving Ryūchi Cave and returning to the original quiet place, Ryun collapsed onto the ground.
Today he had almost died at Ryūchi Cave. Thinking about it now still made him afraid, his legs trembling uncontrollably...
In that situation, if those giant snakes had fought, he would have been dead in seconds, with no one able to save him and no way to escape.
He truly hadn't expected to be summoned there without any warning, without even giving him a chance to react.
After signing the summoning contract, not only could he summon the giant snakes without warning, but the snake sages could also summon him without warning. The key point was that the giant snakes could return whenever they wanted, while he couldn't leave whenever he wanted...
This showed that the summoning contract Orochimaru had was very unfair.
Fortunately, despite the danger this time, the results were quite good. He had obtained a powerful summon and laid the foundation for learning senjutsu in the future.
After letting out a long sigh, Ryun walked cheerfully toward the Konoha camp.
In an underground room somewhere.
"Lily? Shadow clone? The target is clearly the Rinnegan???"
When he learned that someone was plotting against his Rinnegan, a certain old man with the surname Uchiha immediately became restless.
"Where did this rat come from... How dare they set their sights on me, they must have a death wish!!!" Uchiha Madara cursed darkly with a gloomy face.
"Leave Uchiha Ryun's matter aside for now, first investigate who this Lily is!"
"Understood, Madara-sama... Also, should we set up a plan to make Nagato and the others leave that town? After all, the location of the Rinnegan has already been exposed..." White Zetsu asked with a sinister smile.
"No need, I want to know who the enemy is. It would be best if we can lure them here." Uchiha Madara spoke coldly, his killing intent already stirred.
"Hehe... What if they only send shadow clones again?" White Zetsu sneered.
"Do you think someone who dares to plot against the Rinnegan would be a coward?" Uchiha Madara glanced at him and said.
"That's not necessarily true, after all, they already know someone is guarding the Rinnegan, so they might be even more cautious..."
Hearing this, Uchiha Madara fell silent, because he felt White Zetsu made a valid point.
"Wait before relocating... Let's see if they dare to come in person first." Uchiha Madara finally decided.
After all, it's impossible to guard against thieves forever. He needed to find and eliminate the hidden hand reaching for the Rinnegan.
Over the next few days, Konoha did not launch any major attacks against the Rain-nin. They were waiting for the mass-produced antidotes from the Land of Fire. Without the antidotes, fighting against Hanzō of the Salamander and the Rain-nin would result in too many casualties!
Ryun spent these days relatively leisurely. During the day, he mostly trained or studied in the camp, and at night he occasionally went out with Orochimaru to carry out missions.
Whenever he had questions about his training, he would immediately ask Orochimaru for guidance, so his strength improved rapidly.
"Shadow Clone Technique!"
Ryun created six shadow clones in one go.
One clone practiced water-nature chakra condensation, one studied Uzumaki sealing techniques, one went to the medical tent to assist Tsunade and learn the Mystical Palm Technique.
Another clone was learning various small techniques taught by Orochimaru, while the last two clones used the Transformation Technique to head toward the town where Nagato was to continue causing trouble...
His real body stayed in the safe camp to carry out daily physical training.
At the location of the trio Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko.
After a certain Lily met with misfortune, the trio had been sad for a while.
Unfortunately, they had no way to find out who had kidnapped Lily...
On this day, a certain Lily appeared again in the quiet town. However, before she could reveal herself to Nagato and the others, a group of White Zetsu surrounded her.
"Damn it... So it's impossible to make contact now..."
Lily cursed silently. Since the contact plan had failed, she had no choice but to abandon this body...
"Do you... believe in light?"
Lily smiled sweetly and asked a question that confused the White Zetsu.
"Bastard, who are you really?" one White Zetsu shouted angrily.
"Answer me first, do you believe in light?" Lily continued smiling brightly.
"Hmph, I believe in your head. You're about to die..." one White Zetsu mocked.
"Fine, since none of you believe in light, then let me show you the power of light!"
As Lily finished speaking, a series of strange "zizi" sounds came from her body.
"Not good, run!!!"
The group of White Zetsu were terrified when they saw Lily turn into light, and they scrambled away in panic.
BOOM!!!
A blinding flash of light enveloped the White Zetsu, and the violent explosion completely swallowed them in the next moment.
The entire town heard this loud noise. The residents thought the Konoha-nin had attacked, and they panicked, closing their doors in fear.
Not long after, an old man took advantage of a red-haired child being alone and suddenly threw away his cane, pouncing on the child from behind.
In the next moment, as white spores emerged from his body, a terrifying flash of light and a violent explosion engulfed everything.
"Ouch ouch ouch... What a vicious bastard, even more cunning than us..."
A spiral White Zetsu emerged from Nagato's body. It had fully protected Nagato during the explosion, wrapping around him and taking all the damage.
As a result, its back was completely charred, clearly suffering significant injuries.
Nagato was only knocked unconscious by the shockwave of the explosion and was otherwise unharmed, having been well-protected.
"That guy Madara, I told him the enemy wouldn't be stupid enough to come in person and take the risk, but he wouldn't listen... He even said there was no need to relocate Nagato..."
A aloe White Zetsu arrived at the scene and spoke discontentedly.
These two explosions were clearly aimed at destroying the Rinnegan if they couldn't obtain it, with the same clear objective.
In White Zetsu's view, this was extremely vicious and cunning...
Yet they still couldn't determine where the enemy came from, who the real body was, or even confirm their appearance or true gender...
"All of you, go out and investigate thoroughly!!!"
Upon receiving the news, Uchiha Madara was furious and ordered the White Zetsu to investigate with full effort. For a while, they didn't even have time to focus on gathering information about Ryun.
If the Rinnegan were gone, then all of Uchiha Madara's plans would be ruined, and Black Zetsu's plan to save his mother would also fail. Even if that Uchiha Ryun kid was perfectly suited to be the executor of the "Infinite Tsukuyomi," it would all be meaningless...