Anbu Office.
Those controlled Root members and Sand Shinobi were all integrated into Anbu, led by Sasuke.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. Hurry up, stop dawdling."
Standing in the simple, unadorned Anbu office, Yang Tao urged Sasuke, who was staring with his three-tomoe Sharingan.
"Don't worry, I won't have any problems."
Yang Tao had already tried the Totem of Undying, but it couldn't make Sasuke awaken his Mangekyo Sharingan.
Sasuke remained motionless; Yang Tao's request was simply too outrageous.
The current him and the him in the original story, who would do anything for power, were completely different people.
"Don't waste time..."
Yang Tao, in a hurry, saw Sasuke still motionless, so he reached out and drew the Kusanagi Sword from Sasuke's waist, then forced it into his hand, held his hand, and brought it down towards himself.
Having taken off his quantum suit, he currently had no defense, but his 1300 HP was enough for Sasuke to strike many times.
"Lord, as you said, wouldn't the effect be the same if we had someone else write the name?"
"That's true, but for others, at the very least, they could be kept as expendable material for Edo Tensei."
Yang Tao was a person who knew how to manage resources, so he naturally wouldn't be so wasteful. Dying once would only cost him a few seconds, but if others died, they would be truly dead.
Sasuke was speechless upon hearing this. A flash of electricity appeared on the Kusanagi Sword. The digitized Yang Tao felt nothing, but his HP dropped rapidly.
Soon, his HP was depleted, and his body fell straight to the ground, turning into a puff of white smoke and disappearing.
At the same time, Sasuke, seeing Yang Tao disappear, suddenly let out a scream, dropped the Kusanagi Sword from his hand, and then squatted on the ground, clutching his head.
A wooden door appeared out of thin air. Yang Tao, who had just been electrocuted to death, walked out of the wooden door and looked at Sasuke, who was 'squatting with his head in his hands,' walked over and asked concernedly, "What's going on?"
Hearing his voice, Sasuke slowly lowered his hands and looked up, staring with wide eyes and saying, "The legendary Mangekyo's ocular power is too strong; I wasn't prepared for a moment..."
At this moment, the tomoe in Sasuke's Sharingan had changed into the shape of a flower, exactly like the Sharingan Sasuke awakened in the original story.
It had a strange, eerie beauty.
"Uh... did you awaken the eye with Amaterasu? Never mind, it's all just raw material anyway. By the way, how many three-tomoe Sharingan do you have now?"
Clearing the Battle Tower would yield Sharingan or Byakugan from the chests. Sasuke already had two three-tomoe Sharingan before.
"Not counting this current pair, I have three more."
The Sharingan drop rate is decent.
Yang Tao nodded gently and said to Sasuke, "While we have time, farm more of them."
With that, Yang Tao took out at least a dozen more three-tomoe Sharingan from his backpack. These were gifts from clearing the Battle Tower and from his old friend Danzo.
Sasuke looked at the Sharingan spinning in Yang Tao's hand, then looked at the kind and approachable Yang Tao. He was somewhat dazed now, thinking that the Uchiha Clan massacre back then wasn't done by Itachi at all, but by the man in front of him.
Half an hour later.
Yang Tao sat leisurely on a chair, holding a medical scroll from the 'Naruto' mod.
He inserted identical Mangekyo into the medical scroll's synthesis slot.
Through the medical scroll, two Mangekyo Sharingan could be synthesized into an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, without restriction on eye type, whether it was a genjutsu eye or an attack eye.
The digitized Eternal Mangekyo came with Amaterasu, Susanoo, Kamui, and Intangibility skills, making it an anomaly among anomalies.
He handed the freshly synthesized Mangekyo Sharingan to Sasuke, who was resting nearby, drinking Almond water.
At first, he was still unaccustomed to the ocular power brought by the Mangekyo Sharingan, but after continuously awakening four or five pairs, he could now stab Yang Tao with a straight face while drinking Almond water.
However, his own Sharingan had also evolved from two tomoe to 2.5 tomoe, which was quite miraculous.
"Here, try on this new pair of eyes."
After taking them, Sasuke looked at the eyes in his hand, which represented the Uchiha Clan's strongest power. He didn't know why, but he felt as if he no longer craved power as urgently as he did before he met Yang Tao.
'Is it because I've seen too much?'
Without the influence of Indra's Chakra, Sasuke became increasingly Zen-like. Now, besides seeking revenge on Itachi, there didn't seem to be anything else he particularly wanted to do.
Equipping the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Sasuke immediately felt the unparalleled ocular power, as well as the power hidden within the eyes.
This was a power stronger than the Mangekyo Sharingan. Sasuke felt an illusion of being invincible, an illusion brought about by the sudden surge in power.
However, seeing Yang Tao continuing to 'deep process' the Mangekyo Sharingan nearby, that inexplicable feeling of Expansion vanished without a trace.
He continued to shrink obediently in the chair, drinking Almond water, waiting for Yang Tao's instructions.
"Finally finished synthesizing! Eight pairs of Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. Next up is the Rinnegan."
"Sasuke, come eat something together!"
With that, Yang Tao took out many white 'spicy strips' from his backpack. These looked exactly like the rotten flesh texture from the original version, except they were pure white.
"White Zetsu meat. Eating it has a 20% chance of awakening the Rinnegan. Let's see who awakens it first."
When possessing the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, eating White Zetsu meat has a 20% chance of awakening the Rinnegan, and upon acquiring the Rinnegan, one automatically gains Limbo: Border Jail and Amenotejikara.
Sasuke had no choice.
He obediently reached out, picked up the White Zetsu meat from the table, and put it in his mouth, his face immediately twisting slightly.
The texture of White Zetsu meat was extremely unpleasant, like chewing on wood brushed with white paint.
Looking at such a fierce Sasuke, Yang Tao slightly opened his mouth and said, looking at the Rinnegan appearing in Sasuke's eye sockets, "Actually... uh, good. You should first get a good feel for the power of the Rinnegan. Later, we'll go test how well the Rinne Rebirth Jutsu works."
He wanted to say that he just needed to hold the White Zetsu meat and think about consuming it; there was no need to raw-chew it...
"I'll go out for a walk first to see if I can find some White Zetsu for materials."
The best material for Edo Tensei was White Zetsu. The White Zetsu he caught before was... well, let's just say that White Zetsu meat drops a lot when plundered.
...
It turned out that there were quite a few White Zetsu in Konoha. These most common White Zetsu were numerous, and their biggest uses were for gathering intelligence and as expendable material for Edo Tensei.
Yang Tao carried a few White Zetsu in his hands, and Jiraiya, who was following behind him, also carried a few sealed White Zetsu, though his expression was very grave at the moment.
These strange humanoid creatures were brazenly hiding within Konoha, and they had never been discovered before.
"What exactly is this?"
Yang Tao carried the White Zetsu and flew towards the Anbu headquarters, hearing Jiraiya's question, he chuckled:
"White Zetsu. If I were to explain their origin in detail, it would be too troublesome. Just consider them a type of expendable material that naturally respawns."
"Expendable material?"
"That's right, expendable material for performing Edo Tensei."