Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 440

September.

The desert within the Land of Wind remained as scorching as ever, with yellow sand swirling around it. Above the illusory ruins of Loulan, Little Leaf held four ink-sealed spheres in her hand, waiting anxiously.

"Didn't you say you'd be back soon?"

"Has a month already?"

"Uncle will be fine... No, no, Uncle is so strong, he'll definitely be fine."

"But...it's been a month!"

Thinking about what Li Yao's clone said when he came here a month ago, Xiao Yezi couldn't calm down. Bad images kept popping into her mind, making her restless.

Faced with Li Yao's departure across the world, she had no choice but to wait.

call out!

Three figures suddenly appeared beside Xiao Yezi. Xiao Yezi's first reaction was not to panic, but to rush over directly.

The moment Li Yao appeared, Xiao Yezi sensed the familiar chakra. This time, she would not let the uncle leave her side again.

"Uh...you are...?"

Xiao Yezi's outstretched hands suddenly froze, stopping in front of Li Yao. Looking at the two identical women beside Li Yao, and their figures close to the older man, tears welled up in Xiao Yezi's eyes. A feeling of grievance welled up in her heart, like a loving wife waiting for her husband to return, only to find that he had brought two women back with him.

"haven't seen you for a long time!"

"Little Leaf!"

Li Yao took the initiative to hug the bewildered Xiao Yezi. Smelling the fragrance on Xiao Yezi's body and feeling the warmth of the tears sliding down her cheeks, he suddenly felt like he was home, and his mood was complicated for a moment.

Unbeknownst to him, Xiao Yezi, who was devoted to him, had developed a different feeling in Li Yao's heart.

She is no longer a dispensable comic book NPC, but a real person with flesh and blood.

Unfortunately, he couldn't save his mother back then.

But now, at least Xiao Yezi can live as she pleases.

Li Yao's strength was enough to control anything in the ninja world at will.

"Uncle... Waaah!"

"I thought you didn't want me anymore!"

Feeling the warmth of Li Yao's chest again, Xiao Yezi couldn't hold back her tears and cried out. She hugged Li Yao's back tightly, as if afraid that he would disappear again.

"So... he had a lover too!"

The reanimated Tsunade watched Li Yao and Xiao Yezi's tender embrace, a cold glint flashing in her eyes. If she could, she would kill this woman named Xiao Yezi so that Li Yao could also experience the pain of losing a lover.

Unfortunately, her reanimated body had already been cursed by Li Yao, preventing her from attacking Li Yao or those around him.

"Forget it, why should I think about this now?"

"I am merely Li Yao's servant!"

Resurrected Tsunade suppressed her thoughts and continued to hypnotize herself.

"Uncle...I..."

After hugging for a while, Xiao Yezi suddenly blushed, her legs fidgeting restlessly as if she were scratching herself, and a moist scent filled the air.

After several years apart, Xiao Yezi's longing had accumulated and been suppressed for too long, and she desperately needed external help to open up a gap in her body and release it.

"Wait, I need to take care of something first!"

Li Yaosong loosened the small leaf, smiled slightly, and then reached out and beckoned downwards.

The desert below suddenly rose up like a volcanic eruption, spewing out countless grains of yellow sand.

"what!"

A scream came from the spewing yellow sand. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed to be a monster with half its body covered in white skin and the other half in black.

This monster is naturally a Black Zetsu possessing half of a White Zetsu's body.

With a thought, Li Yao used his Wind Escape technique to firmly bind Hei Jue and fly in front of him.

"This is the guy who attacked Konoha, Master!"

The moment Tsunade saw Black Zetsu, her will had been altered by Kotoamatsukami, she recognized him as one of the three Wood Release users who had attacked Konoha three days prior.

"What is he?" Little Leaf looked at Black Absolute's strange body with some curiosity.

"A dead consciousness and an old monster," Li Yao said.

Black Zetsu needs no introduction. White Zetsu are not created out of thin air. Each White Zetsu is created by someone who died in the past through the Divine Tree and has its own independent thought process. However, because of the Divine Tree, the thought processes of White Zetsu are unified.

However, this one possessed by a Black Zetsu clone doesn't count.

"Impossible...you couldn't have found me!"

Bound tightly by the wind belt, Black Zetsu struggled while staring at Li Yao in disbelief. He was hidden dozens of meters underground, becoming one with the earth. Even Mito Uzumaki, who possessed a sense of malice, couldn't sense his presence from dozens of meters underground.

Moreover, Li Yao was still hundreds of meters in the air.

Logically speaking, Li Yao shouldn't have been able to sense him.

However... facts speak louder than words, he was indeed precisely brought out from underground by Li Yao, and this cannot be faked.

The other party could sense him dozens of meters underground.

"Heh... I could sense you before, let alone now."

Li Yao smiled. When he developed the Water Release: Infiltration Technique, he could sense Black Zetsu's presence as his water-transformed body penetrated the earth. He then followed him and spied on Black Zetsu, White Zetsu, and Madara up close. None of the three noticed Li Yao's presence.

Now that Li Yao has reached the Six Paths level in terms of both chakra and physical body and soul, it is naturally easy for him to sense Black Zetsu, a product of Yin-Yang Release.

"You...you...the chakra within you..."

"How is that possible???"

"No...this can't be?"

"Without the Rinnegan, without the Ten-Tails' chakra, how could you possibly possess the Six Paths chakra?!"

Black Zetsu roared, suddenly sensing the chakra fluctuations emanating from Li Yao. He was very familiar with those Six Paths level chakra fluctuations.

But... how is that possible?

My mother barely gained the power of the Six Paths after eating the unripe chakra fruit of the Divine Tree. She then cultivated for many years before finally achieving the full strength of the Six Paths.

Even the Sage of Six Paths, who sealed his mother, only gained Six Paths Chakra and became a Six Paths-level powerhouse after becoming the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki.

Li Yao... a talent... well, Black Zetsu admits that Li Yao's ninjutsu talent is indeed ridiculously powerful.

But no matter how outrageous his ninjutsu talent is, without the Rinnegan, without the bloodlines of Indra and Ashura, and without the Ten-Tails' chakra, how exactly does Li Yao control the Six Paths chakra?

Black Zetsu was shocked; his eyes almost popped out.

You should know that this is based on the memories he inherited from his mother.

Even the direct descendants of the Otsutsuki clan, who mastered the Six Paths Chakra and became Six Paths-level powerhouses, relied on devouring the mature chakra fruits of the God Tree.

In her mother's memory, no Otsutsuki had ever become a Six Paths level powerhouse by relying on his own cultivation to control the Six Paths Chakra.

However... what even the Otsutsuki clan couldn't do, Li Yao, an ordinary person without any bloodline limit, accomplished.

I don't understand!

Black Zetsu was completely baffled!

Unfortunately, no one could understand his lack of understanding.

There was even less reason for Li Yao to explain anything to Black Zetsu.

"Don't wander around within 50 kilometers of me anymore, or you can forget about reviving Kaguya Otsutsuki," Li Yao said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)