Chapter 216: Franklin vs. Six Paths Madara
Name: Uchiha Madara
Age: 30 / 80
Race: Human (Ōtsutsuki Clan)
Bloodline: Divine Tree Bloodline 91%
Physical Cultivation: Early Wandering Realm (capable of aerial movement)
Chakra Utilization Rate: 90%
Willpower Cultivation: Transcendent Realm
(Detached from the mundane, calculating everything, indifferent to life and death, devoted to a single purpose. Combat power increased by 100%)
Soul Realm: Second Realm
Techniques: [Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Water, Yin, Yang Attribute Shinobi Techniques], [Genjutsu], [Senjutsu], [Wood Release]
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Bloodline limit: Rinnegan
Bloodline Encompassing: Rinne Sharingan, Divine Tree: Advent of the World
Overall Combat Power: ~
(Combat Power: 50,000; Willpower Cultivation Bonus: +100%)
(If Reverse Technique is activated, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya can be revived, combat power 130,000)
[Combat power values are for reference only. Overall combat power is merely a visible, data-based value. Actual combat strength will fluctuate up or down depending on technique, talent, jutsu, and skills.
Due to the special nature of the bloodline, interference with space and time is possible. Cross-tier kills exceeding three to four combat power tiers are also achievable. Specific outcomes should be judged by the Talent Awakened One personally.]
Looking at this notification that differed from previous ones, Franklin's brows knitted slightly. But when he thought of the ability of Time Denial, he quickly understood.
Watching Uchiha Madara step through the air toward him, Franklin let out a breath and relaxed the suppression on himself a little more.
"Are you ready to submit?"
At this moment, Franklin also became arrogant. Madara, meeting his gaze, burst into loud laughter.
"If I still lose to you like this, then I'll accept it. Following you from now on—so what? I, Uchiha Madara, still have that kind of resolve!"
"Then come—let's fight!"
The instant the words fell, both figures vanished from where they stood.
When they reappeared, Franklin already held the Guardian Sword in his hand, colliding violently with the Six Paths staff in Madara's grasp. Visible spatial ripples spread outward.
Seeing that Franklin's sword showed no reaction at all when clashing with Six Paths power, Madara's pupils shrank abruptly.
That single moment of distraction was enough.
Franklin's foot slammed straight into Madara's face.
"Limbo: Border Jail."
The invisible shadow blocked it for only an instant—and that instant was enough to spare Madara from having his head blown apart. Even so, blood poured from his nose, his face caved in, and his body was sent flying.
At this moment, Madara's physical body was actually weaker than Franklin's modified Reanimation body. With no suppression on his power, Franklin's kick had nearly kicked Madara's head apart.
Watching Madara crash into the ground and carve out a long trench, Franklin smiled awkwardly. His figure flickered, appearing right in front of him.
"Senjutsu: Storm Release—Light Fang."
A laser shot toward him in an instant. Franklin's Guardian Barrier erupted from his body, forcibly tanking the beam as he swung his sword straight at Madara's head.
Seeing Franklin completely unaffected, Madara finally realized that his situation hadn't improved at all.
Becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki had actually resulted in lower physical durability than his Reanimation body. In close combat, Six Paths power had no effect on Franklin whatsoever. As for long-range attacks, they were nothing but decorations—easily blocked.
Limbo: Border Jail, his ultimate killing move, could even be directly seen by Franklin and was crippled by a single kick.
"Almighty Push."
Feeling the extreme repulsive force spreading outward from Madara's center, Franklin frowned slightly and, resisting it head-on, slashed Madara's head clean off with a single stroke.
"Can you feel the gap between us now?"
Being held face-to-face by someone gripping his severed head—this was a first in Uchiha Madara's life.
Since his rise to power, he had always stood at the pinnacle of the Shinobi world. Before death, he awakened the Rinnegan. Now, having fulfilled every condition, he had successfully stepped into the Six Paths level and stood atop the world once more.
Yet in front of this young man, everything he had achieved felt like a joke.
"How exactly do you plan to unify the Shinobi world? What is your true purpose?"
Seeing that Madara had finally calmed down, Franklin reattached his head and used Illusory World Genesis to restore his injuries.
"Convinced?"
The question hung in the air. For a hero of Madara's stature, it was difficult to answer.
Seeing his lingering unwillingness, Franklin grinned. He stopped suppressing his power entirely, and terrifying pressure exploded outward.
Without hesitation, Franklin let out a low roar. Super Saiyan transformation completed instantly.
The crushing pressure descended. Everyone on the ground was forced to their knees—no exceptions. Even Uchiha Madara was pressed low.
Seeing this, Franklin took a breath and began attempting the Super Saiyan Two transformation. He had long since met the conditions, but never had the right moment.
Now was the time.
His divine sense covered a radius of six thousand kilometers. Endless spiritual energy flooded into Franklin's body.
The S Cells continuously converted the colorless, transparent spiritual energy into higher-tier golden energy. When this energy filled his entire body and reached a critical mass—
Franklin roared.
His aura expanded explosively once more. What should have been a fiftyfold increase instantly became a hundredfold boost.
Terrifying power surged skyward. Shockwaves tore through the land. Just as Madara was about to be forced flat to the ground, Franklin reined in his aura instantly.
Everything returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.
"How does it feel? I think I gave you enough face."
Locking eyes with the smiling Franklin, Uchiha Madara released the Ten-Tails sealed within him.
At the same time, Franklin erased all other tailed beast chakra within the Ten-Tails, leaving only the minimum necessary to maintain the Outer Path statue's existence.
"That was a complete defeat. I'm convinced. Since I've been revived, I might as well do something worthwhile. How do you plan to unify the Shinobi world—through slaughter? That's something I'm quite good at."
As his words fell, golden light burst from Franklin's body. In the next instant, a golden page flew out from Madara's forehead and shot straight into Franklin's own.
[Subtask 4: Summon Uchiha Madara, persuade or conquer him, thereby obtain the Dimensional Soul Division Technique (Completed)]
[Designated Task 2: Absorb and obtain the Dimensional Soul Division Technique—Dimensional Heavenly Tome Fragment within Uchiha Madara (Completed)]
[Subtask 3: On the premise that the Naruto worldline does not collapse, massively alter the Naruto timeline
(The more thoroughly it is altered, the richer the rewards)]
[Task Time Limit: 5 years remaining (Incomplete)]
[Due to loss of the main world spacetime coordinates, return is temporarily impossible. Subtask 3 remains valid and may continue]
[Task "The Myriad Worlds Journey Home" triggered. Searching for worlds that meet all criteria: combat, daily life, multiple heroines, Dimensional Heavenly Tome fragments, etc.
Total worlds: ???
Targets are complex.
Because entering any world will trigger that world's corresponding main storyline, the Talent Awakened One is advised to learn the Dimensional Soul Division Technique as soon as possible.
Once mastered, it can be used to conduct large-scale searches for the Talent Awakened One's home world.
Currently, three relatively nearby worlds have been selected. Please learn the Dimensional Soul Division Technique as soon as possible.]
"So that's your goal? Dimensional Soul Division Technique… I don't really understand what it is, but it seems capable of allowing the soul to cross between worlds.
"For someone like me, who can't strengthen the soul itself, that kind of technique is rather useless. Traveling might be fine, but if you have an objective, you might just end up losing your soul over there."