Chapter 191: Your End Is Merely My
Land of Wind, Hidden Sand Village.
The desert night was cold, with chilly winds howling.
Aside from the patrolling ninjas, every household had extinguished their lights and gone to sleep. The streets, except for a few taverns still lit and serving some drunks, had become deserted.
Such a peaceful night even made the patrolling ninjas unable to resist slacking off.
Just then, a fist-sized black hole appeared in the central street of Sunagakure.
Then, three figures flew out from within: Nagato's Wood Clone, along with Deidara and Sasori of the Red Sand, the art duo.
"The One-Tails' jinchūriki is entrusted to you two. I'll send an Impure World Reincarnation squad to assist you," Nagato said to Sasori and Deidara.
"Leave it to us, leader, with confidence," Deidara grinned. "I heard the Fifth Kazekage is just a little brat who just took office. There's no need for any assistance. This great me can handle him alone."
"Don't be so arrogant. The Fifth Kazekage is the same age as the Sixth Hokage. Among the three Kage candidates, he's the one who took office the fastest," Sasori said gravely. "If you underestimate him, you'll pay for it."
"Sasori is right, don't underestimate anyone," Nagato nodded, instructing, "Act together and make sure to capture the One-Tails' jinchūriki as quickly as possible. Otherwise, Ōtsutsuki Toneri and Izayoi could intervene at any moment, and the situation would become disastrous."
Hearing this, Deidara and Sasori both became serious.
Over the years, the four overpowered individuals had crushed the arrogance of the Akatsuki's rogue ninjas.
They had also gained a profound understanding of the power to reshape maps.
If that level of combat power intervened, they might not even have a chance to escape.
Thus, Deidara nodded earnestly, "I understand, leader."
"Let's go!"
Sasori took out a large scroll and urged.
With a boom, an explosion and a flash of flame shattered the peaceful night.
Alarm bells woke up the villagers and Sand Shinobi who were chatting at home or had gone to bed early.
"Ninja Art: Four Violet Flames Formation!"
Four figures covered in cracks positioned themselves at the four cardinal directions—southeast, northwest—of the Kazekage Office, then quickly formed hand seals, creating a transparent purple barrier that surrounded the building.
"It's the Four Violet Flames Formation! Enemy attack!"
"This tactic, could it be Ōtsutsuki Toneri's puppet army again?"
"Escort the villagers to the shelter first, then everyone come support the Kazekage-sama!"
"..."
Seeing the rising Four Violet Flames Formation, the Sand Shinobi subconsciously thought Ōtsutsuki Toneri had attacked again.
After all, the memory of the Puppet Army's attack on the Five Great Ninja Villages was still as clear as yesterday.
When the jōnin, wearing their vests, commanded their subordinates to escort the villagers and then went towards the barrier themselves, their expressions quickly changed in shock.
"No, this isn't the Puppet Army, it's Impure World Reincarnation!"
"It's the Akatsuki leader! Their target is the Kazekage-sama!"
"Quick, notify the elders!"
"..."
As they acted, the Kazekage Office had already been bombed into ruins.
However, a figure, riding on a Sand Cloud, flew out and crashed towards the barrier.
"Sand Coffin!"
Gaara raised his hand towards an Impure World Reincarnation undead below, controlling the sand beneath its feet to envelop it, then crushing it.
The barrier that had just risen immediately vanished again.
"It seems we can't end this quickly."
Deidara, who had blown up the Kazekage Office with Explosive Clay, instantly forgot Nagato's earlier warning and laughed excitedly, "Only a large stage like this is worthy of my art performance."
With that, Deidara rode his large white bird and chased after Gaara.
"This idiot, I hope nothing goes wrong," Sasori couldn't help but shake his head, yet he tacitly cooperated with Deidara, controlling his puppet army to hold back the Sand Shinobi attempting to use long-range ninjutsu attacks on him, allowing Deidara to fight freely.
The Impure World Reincarnation squad also came to assist Sasori.
A battle similar to the original story immediately unfolded.
While Sunagakure was under attack, other major ninja villages were also attacked.
Not only the major ninja villages, but even Takigakure didn't escape this calamity, also suffering an invasion by the Akatsuki.
Due to the butterfly effect caused by Izayoi, during the final battle, Nagato specifically captured the Five-Tails' jinchūriki and Seven-Tails' jinchūriki to use as power banks.
Afterward, Nagato, upon waking from his dream, also voluntarily released the Five-Tails' jinchūriki and Seven-Tails' jinchūriki.
Uchiha Madara, wanting to avoid prematurely alerting the Five Great Ninja Villages, did not intervene at the time.
Therefore, fearing that their strategic weapons would be captured again, the major ninja villages and Takigakure, during this period of strange peace, no longer allowed jinchūriki to go on missions.
Terumi Mei, who became the Fifth Mizukage two years earlier than in the original story, even pardoned Six-Tails' jinchūriki, Utakata, and recalled him to Kirigakure.
There was no other way; Kirigakure's overall strength was simply too weak.
When Ōtsutsuki Toneri's puppet army attacked Kirigakure, they also incidentally killed the Byakugan Killer, Ao, seizing his Byakugan, causing Kirigakure to lose another elite jōnin, adding insult to injury.
If Utakata didn't return, Kirigakure would only have Terumi Mei as a Kage-level expert, and wouldn't even be able to muster two ace combatants to serve as her bodyguards.
However, this action also led to Kirigakure being attacked again.
Nagato and Uchiha Obito's Wood Clones, along with Akatsuki members and the Impure World Reincarnation army, invaded these ninja villages that possessed jinchūriki.
With Nagato's restraint and guidance, the Akatsuki members and Impure World Reincarnation squads acted politely before resorting to force, merely setting up barriers to trap the jinchūriki.
As long as they defeated the jinchūriki, they would use Kamui to take them away, minimizing casualties.
But if the barrier was broken, then a battle would ensue.
Coincidentally, to counter Ōtsutsuki Toneri's puppet army, all major ninja villages, except Takigakure, had developed techniques to break the Four Violet Flames Formation.
Although the Impure World Reincarnation possessed infinite chakra, this "infinite" referred to its rapid, even instantaneous, recovery after use.
The amount of chakra a revived person possessed was only close to their living level.
Nagato did not have many Kage-level trump cards at his disposal and could not deploy the Four Red Yang Formation in every ninja village.
Seeing the Four Violet Flames Formation being breached, Nagato, who had been very restrained, instantly shed his gentle and benevolent facade. He directly summoned a large number of Impure World Reincarnation undead and engaged in battle with the major ninja villages.
The number of ninjas was very small, with only about 100,000 in the entire ninja world.
Compared to the number of civilians in the ninja world, it was negligible.
Sacrificing the few for the benefit of the many was something Nagato was capable of.
He had to make Uchiha Madara the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki.
Only then would Uchiha Madara have the power to confront Ōtsutsuki Toneri and protect the world.
On this night, the ninja world was engulfed in war.
The civilians of the Five Great Nations, and even those of smaller nations, were unaware that a war that would determine the future of the ninja world had already broken out.
On the moon, Izayoi, whose Rinne Tenseigan had taken in the war situation of the ninja world, sat on his throne, chin resting on his right hand, looking at Uchiha Madara in the center of the hall. He said with interest, "Your movements are quite fast, but I'm very curious, what do you plan to do about the Nine-Tails?"
"That's none of your concern," Uchiha Madara examined the 'Ōtsutsuki Toneri' on the throne, staring at his Rinne Tenseigan, his expression incredibly grim. "You've changed quite a bit in these two years. What's with those eyes? And where's your main body?"
Since Izayoi's Wood Clone was not in Six Paths Sage Mode, Uchiha Madara immediately sensed his chakra.
Although Izayoi's Wood Clone had absorbed the Yin Kurama's chakra, making its chakra reserves even more astonishing than a complete Eight-Tails, its strength could absolutely crush everyone else in the ninja world except Uchiha Madara, making it an absolute Six Paths-level powerhouse.
However, Uchiha Madara still recognized at a glance that this Izayoi was not his main body, but merely a clone.
At this moment, Uchiha Madara felt as if the situation had slipped out of his control.
He was absolutely certain that there was no Ōtsutsuki Toneri's chakra in the ninja world.
And there was only this clone's chakra on the moon.
In other words, Ōtsutsuki Toneri's main body was currently neither on Earth nor on the moon.
Clearly, the other party had either gone deep into the cosmos or was hiding in a dimension.
The former was irrelevant, but Uchiha Madara feared the latter.
If the opponent suddenly appeared at a crucial moment, then with Nagato's strength, they would definitely not be his match.
At that time, Ōtsutsuki Toneri would become the one who waited for the opportune moment.
Uchiha Madara suddenly regretted coming to the moon with his main body.
If he had known, he would have sent a Wood Clone up here and stayed below with his main body.
Fortunately, the Wood Clone sent to restrain Izayoi hadn't started fighting with Izayoi.
The situation was not completely out of control!
He just needed to quickly deal with this clone, then he could instantly return to the ninja world using the Gedō Mazō.
Just as Uchiha Madara was about to make his move, he suddenly heard Izayoi speak, "Do you remember the same words I said to you during our first and second meetings?"
"What?" Uchiha Madara was slightly stunned, successfully diverted by Izayoi.
Izayoi's face held a scornful smile. "You, a mixed-blood Ōtsutsuki, had to go through immense hardships, experience the pain of losing loved ones, or feel the existence of love, to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, which causes blindness. Then, you had to transplant the eyes of a cherished relative who also awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan to awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, which still has a low success rate."
"Even so, your strength still hasn't reached the pinnacle of humanity."
"To cross into the realm of other dimensions, you need to achieve Yin-Yang Release Unification, and even then, only barely cross that threshold when you're on your deathbed."
"If your revival had not succeeded, then awakening the Rinnegan would have already been your limit."
"Even if you revived in your prime, if you hadn't obtained the Six Paths Sage's legacy, then your chances of mastering Six Paths Sage Mode would be slim. Unless you become the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki, crossing the dimensional threshold would still be the ultimate end that you, a lucky mixed-blood Ōtsutsuki, could reach."
Uchiha Madara had a premonition of ill omen, his brow furrowing slightly. "What are you trying to say?"
"I once told you that the ultimate dōjutsu you needed Yin-Yang Release Unification and to be on your deathbed to awaken, I, as a pure-blooded Ōtsutsuki, obtained it with ease years ago," Izayoi said with a playful smile. "But there's a cruel truth I haven't told you, though you should have noticed it in the genjutsu world, right?"
Uchiha Madara quickly reviewed the images he saw in the genjutsu world, and his expression suddenly changed.
Seeing his expression, Izayoi couldn't help but chuckle, "It seems you've already figured it out. This is the difference between mixed-blood and pure-blood. The endpoint you need talent and luck to reach is merely my starting point."
"However, my midpoint, and my end, are existences you cannot even imagine."
Uchiha Madara's mood instantly plummeted.
Looking at Izayoi's Rinne Tenseigan, he asked in a low voice, "What are those eyes called? What's their connection to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's eye?"
"Is it not obvious what my eyes are called?" Izayoi said with a light chuckle.
Whoosh—
Uchiha Madara stopped wasting words and directly manipulated a Truth-Seeking Orb, which shone with dazzling white light, towards Izayoi.
Its speed was like a fleeting meteor.
Izayoi seemed to have already seen this coming. Before the Truth-Seeking Orb flew in front of him, he rested one hand on his face and slightly raised the other, gently pointing a finger.
A black vertical crack appeared in space, then opened like a mouth, swallowing the Truth-Seeking Orb that had just flown in, unable to stop its speed, and quickly closed its mouth, not a single bit of explosive energy leaking out.
Seeing this, Uchiha Madara's expression grew even more solemn.
He knew that Ōtsutsuki Toneri had evolved again.
His spacetime abilities were no longer just for teleportation and object manipulation, but could now be used for defense, and even... attack.
He just didn't know if this ability was his exclusive dōjutsu, or merely a basic ability of his new eyes.
And... had he mastered Six Paths Sage Mode?
Did these eyes truly possess the power of both the Rinnegan and Tenseigan, as he suspected?
To find out, Uchiha Madara, holding his Sage Staff, flew towards Izayoi.
Around him, there were four unseen shadows.
He attacked with all his might.
At the same time, the war in the ninja world became even more intense.
Because a third party had joined the battle!
Black cracks appeared in the sky, then rapidly widened, forming a massive square black hole.
Then, human puppets floated down from the black hole, appearing with an astonishing sense of oppression, unlike their previous unannounced appearances two years ago.
In the past two years, to avoid causing a larger butterfly effect and consequently interrupting his own evolution, Izayoi had consistently held back from accumulating points.
Now that his evolution was finally complete and Uchiha Madara had sounded the horn for the final battle, Izayoi naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity.
Even a small mosquito is meat. He was only a hundred thousand points short of upgrading another red attribute to a rainbow attribute.
With the appearance of the puppet army, apart from Konoha and Amegakure, the other four major ninja villages were all engulfed in war, and the ruins rapidly expanded.
As for Takigakure, it escaped the catastrophe of being reduced to ruins because its Seven-Tails' jinchūriki had been captured.
Konoha, Izayoi's home.
Uchiha Madara's Wood Clone seemed to have received some information, as his face suddenly turned extremely ugly.
"It seems the situation on your main body's side isn't looking good," Izayoi, who had finished eating and drinking, said with a smile while sipping tea.
Uchiha Madara remained silent, hesitating whether to leave and personally capture the remaining Tailed Beasts.
But if he left, Izayoi would be unrestrained.
At that time, Uchiha Madara would have no idea what the fastest person in the ninja world would do.
Just as Uchiha Madara was in a dilemma, a blur appeared next to Izayoi out of nowhere.
Yūgao Uzuki knelt on one knee, her voice respectful yet slightly trembling. "Hokage-sama, something has happened."
"I know, you saw it too," Izayoi said with a smile. "I can't leave right now. Go bring the chakra television over."
"Yes."
Yūgao Uzuki glanced at Uchiha Madara, who was sitting across from Izayoi, and instantly vanished.
Soon, Konoha also descended into chaos.
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