Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha is not motivated.

"It's you again! You wretched native."

Jigen's cold gaze shifted from Uchiha Madara, whom he had crippled with a single punch, to Uchiha Gin, the man who had inflicted unforgettable pain upon him. A rare flash of anger appeared on his usually impassive face.

"Yo~ Sasipuri."

As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Facing the furious Jigen, Uchiha Gin greeted him with the familiarity of a long-lost friend.
"Hmph! You damned native, you're not as lucky as last time."

Even now, Cixian still attributes his previous setback to the poor quality of the device. The current body of Number Four is far superior to that of ordinary clones, capable of bearing almost 50% of his power.
Let alone a mere native, even if Kaguya stood in front of him, she might not necessarily gain the upper hand.

"That might disappoint you, my luck stat has always been EX."

Sensing Jigen's undisguised killing intent, Uchiha Gin gently shook his head, then kicked Izuna's butt, pulling the dazed younger brother back to reality.

"Ugh! Do you think you're being polite?"

Caught off guard, Izuna clutched his backside, glaring resentfully at the unfamiliar knight who had struck him. Yet, for some reason, he felt a strange familiarity with the angle and force of the kick.

"The battle that follows is not for you to interfere with. Take him and that brat and get out of here."

Pointing to the still-recovering Madara Uchiha and the worried Tsunade in the audience, Gin Uchiha and the others ordered them to leave.
"I do not go!"

Clutching his lower abdomen, Madara Uchiha struggled to sit up, his crimson eyes filled with fighting spirit.

"Me too!"

Seeing this, Izuna quickly raised his hand to show his support, indicating that he would stand with his elder brother through thick and thin.

Uchiha Gin frowned upon hearing this. His two cousins ​​were only capable of bullying ordinary clones; they were still a bit lacking against veteran Otsutsuki.
Leaving aside Izuna, if the younger cousin wants to have a go at Jigen, he would at least need to awaken the Rinnegan.

"None of you will be able to leave."

Ci Xian heard every word of their conversation. He shook his head expressionlessly, a chilling aura emanating from his eyes, instantly locking onto the three of them.

"Huh? Aren't you afraid of making a fool of yourself?"

Uchiha Gin curled his lip in disdain, a faint blue light emanating from his eyes beneath his mask. Under the influence of Jigen's eye power, his Mangekyou Sharingan automatically switched to a mutated Byakugan, successfully negating the suppression from the cross-shaped eye.

He's alright, but that doesn't mean his two younger brothers are alright.

"Well!"

The terrifying pressure emanating from the eye power was almost tangible. Even with the Mangekyou Sharingan activated, Izuna, the weakest among them, was forced to retreat repeatedly by this aura, his old face deathly pale.
"call"

The eldest cousin of the Eternal Eye fared slightly better; the patterns in his scarlet eyes spun rapidly as if powered by a motor. He barely withstood Jigen's eye attack thanks to the eye power he had accumulated over the years. However, judging from his disordered aura, he was not actually having an easy time either.
Noticing his two younger brothers' unusual behavior, Uchiha Gin stepped forward, willingly acting as a shield for Madara and his brother, single-handedly withstanding the terrifying eye power unleashed by Jigen.
"you"

Seeing this, Madara Uchiha felt a mix of emotions. He had thought that, having obtained the power of Kamen Rider Decade, he was now qualified to face Jigen directly.
However, reality slapped him in the face. Not only was he knocked down by Jigen's punch, but he also almost closed his eyes and opened his mouth under the pressure of the opponent's eye power.

I'm still too weak.

Madara Uchiha clenched his fists, seething with resentment. He regretted his own weakness, feeling he wasn't even qualified to stand before the enemy who had stolen his best friend.

"Have you finally realized your own weakness?"

Deep within Madara Uchiha's consciousness, Indra, sensing his despair, slowly raised his head, a rare, almost imperceptible smile appearing on his usually cold face.

He was once as arrogant as Madara Uchiha, believing that everything in the world was insignificant and that no one could rival him, not even his father.

It was under these extreme emotional states that he was so devastated by the sudden failure.
"Only by recognizing one's own weakness can one become stronger."

A true master always retains the heart of a student; this is a truth that Indra realized many years after his death.
If he had been able to face his failures back then, perhaps his father would have accepted him in the same way he accepted Ashura.

"Wow~"

After expressing his feelings, Indra raised his hand and gently stroked the tender branches of the tree in front of him, a hint of anticipation flashing in his calm, dark eyes.
It's just missing something, but what exactly is that missing part?

in reality,
Seeing that Uchiha Gin and the others hadn't been forced to open their mouths or close their eyes by his eye power, Jigen's cold face showed a faint hint of displeasure.

"A bunch of lowly mud-bloods."

Sensing the pupil power emanating from the three people, he subtly curled his lip.
That foolish woman, Kaguya, actually spread the noble power of the Otsutsuki clan to these natives! This is a disgrace to their Otsutsuki bloodline!

"Ah sneeze~!"

"Sister Wang, are you alright?"

Hearing a sneeze suddenly echo in his consciousness space, Uchiha Gin took a moment to check on the dark-skinned older sister who was the pillar of his transformation power.

"Hey, beat him up."

Sensing the familiar malice, Kaguya rubbed her reddened nose and looked at Jigen with a hint of resentment in her pure white eyes.
You dare mess with me, Sushi Bar!
"Okay~"

Uchiha Gin cheerfully accepted the order. As a creation of Jigen's eye power, Muron was likely also influenced by Jigen's eye power, which explained her intense hostility towards him.

"You two will cover for me and do not make any rash moves."

Turning his head to give a brief instruction to his two younger brothers behind him, Uchiha Gin stretched his somewhat rusty joints and strode towards Jigen.

"Hmph! You're courting death."

Seeing this, Jigen snorted coldly and manipulated Number Four's body to directly confront Uchiha Gin.
After transforming, number four's armor was covered in a golden-red liquid, and with each heavy step, a scorching footprint was left on the ground.

The two equally imposing figures finally met. The scorching golden-red aura behind Jigen clashed fiercely with the pure black nebula surrounding Uchiha Yin, causing ripples to spread through the space. It was as if time and space between the two had been severed.
"Gudong~"

Upon witnessing this strange phenomenon, Uchiha Izuna swallowed hard, his old face beneath the mask staring in utter disbelief.

Can space be distorted simply by exerting pressure?
My prized kaleidoscope seemed utterly insignificant in the face of power at this level.
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Madara Uchiha's expression was similar, but besides astonishment, it was more of a sense of resentment, a frustrated helplessness, and a self-questioning tone.
"Can I do it?"

With a bitter expression, he lowered his head, a sense of powerlessness he had never felt before washing over him.
"Big brother! You can do it too!"

Just as he was lost in confusion, Izuna excitedly answered his murmured words.
"I can?"

Slowly raising his head, Madara Uchiha looked at his younger brother, his bitterness only deepening.

"Of course! Didn't my older cousin say you'd definitely become the number one ninja in the world?"

The strongest man in the ninja world? Izuna's words pulled Madara Uchiha's memories back to his childhood.
On a pleasant afternoon, my older cousin led them in a fish-catching contest in Nanhe River.

After his successful victory, the narrowly defeated Uchiha Gin made this prediction with great confidence.

At first, he thought it was just an older brother teasing his younger brother, but as time went on, the prophecy seemed to come true; he did indeed grow into a powerful man capable of sweeping across the ninja world.
Aside from the occasional setback he suffered at the hands of Hasi's hot mom, he was practically invincible in the ninja world until he encountered Jigen, at which point Uchiha Madara experienced an unprecedented and crushing defeat.

After that, he never dared to face that defeat. Instead, he used the Decade mask to completely cover up his defeated face and tried to forget it.
This reunion completely ripped away the fig leaf that Madara Uchiha had hidden beneath the aura of the "Decade Knight" character. The repeated failures shattered his fragile self-esteem once again.

Do we have to keep sinking into this state?

A burning light gradually shone in Madara Uchiha's defeated eyes. Recalling that tenacious figure who fought on despite repeated defeats, he suddenly realized that he had been being overly sentimental.

I must not let my older cousin down, who expects me to become the strongest man in the ninja world!
"So what if it fails once or twice?"

My older cousin has never won a contest, but he's never seemed particularly desperate. How can I let myself be discouraged by one or two setbacks?
"I'm determined to be the number one ninja in the world!"

With his mind focused, Madara Uchiha's dejected aura vanished, and Izuna, seeing his older brother regain his spirits, finally felt relieved.
The eldest brother has finally regained his fighting spirit, otherwise he and his cousin would have had to go to the night to persuade him not to give up martial arts and turn to dance.

Wow, you figured it out so quickly.

Uchiha Gin, who was currently battling Jigen in a contest of pressure, glanced at his older cousin, who had regained his composure, and a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.
When he had just shielded them from Jigen's eye power, he sensed that Madara Uchiha's mental state was in trouble.

The last time this happened was after his younger cousin was thoroughly defeated by Hashirama Senju's Wood Release. It took him and Izuna a lot of effort to reason with this stubborn mule.

"You dare to slack off while fighting me?"

Jigen, who was on the other side, noticed that Uchiha Gin was a little absent-minded, and he was immediately furious. How dare he be distracted in front of him? This was clearly a sign of disrespect!

"There's no way around it, the pressure is too low."

Gin Uchiha shrugged, withdrawing his gaze from the corner of his eye. The dark nebula surrounding him rumbled loudly.

This nebula, imbued with the rules of devouring, was frantically consuming the golden-red aura emanating from Cixian. In this exchange of blows, the advantage lay with him.
"Humph!"

Cixian clenched his fists after failing to gain any advantage in the first direct confrontation, and abruptly withdrew his aura. He couldn't possibly let his enemy die from overexertion, could he?

"what!"

Enveloping his right fist in the scorching heat within his body, Jigen aimed for Uchiha Gin's vital points and unleashed a powerful punch.
"Shh!"

The terrifying, piercing sound of the golden-red fist cutting through the air was ear-piercing and sent chills down one's spine.

Faced with a punch that nearly tore through space, Uchiha Gin did not choose to dodge, but instead raised his fist to meet it head-on.

A dark nebula, materialized from the power of devouring rules, coiled around the fist, seemingly carrying endless suction. As it was unleashed, the space around the fist showed a faint tendency to collapse.
"Boom."

The moment the two fists collided, there was no terrifying sound as everyone had expected; only a dull thud, like hitting a sandbag.

"That is."

Uchiha Izuna's eyes widened. Although there was no loud noise, the space around Uchiha Gin and Jigen underwent inexplicable changes.

"Space... has been distorted?"

At the point where Uchiha Gin and Jigen's fists collided, a terrifying vortex-shaped black hole was created. The ground beneath their feet was visibly disintegrating, turning into imperceptible dust that was sucked into the black hole.

The sheer power of the two was so great that the destructive force they generated went beyond causing physical damage; it directly tore apart space itself.

"hiss"

Sensing the terrifying swallowing power of the black hole, Cixian's face beneath his mask became unprecedentedly solemn. The power displayed by this unknown native was even more terrifying than when they last met.
Even within the Ōtsutsuki clan, members possessing such formidable physical abilities are few and far between.

Uchiha Gin was equally surprised. He had never tried going all out before, and to show respect to the Otsutsuki before him, he had used almost all his strength in that punch.

In addition to sheer physical strength, he also possessed the power of devouring obtained from Su Shen Zhen Ji. Unexpectedly, his single punch shattered the space around him.
"Tsk!"

As the black hole's suction grew stronger, Cixian weighed his options and chose to withdraw his arm. If the two continued their struggle, the collapsing space would sweep them and everything around them away.
"Wow~"

Half of the impact force was lost, and the collapsed space, without its support, began to repair itself rapidly. Seeing this, Uchiha Gin followed suit and withdrew his numb fist.
The first round ended in a draw.

“I take back what I said earlier, native. You are entitled to know my name.”

Uchiha Gin's punch completely changed Jigen's opinion of him, and also made Jigen develop a rare appreciation for talent.

"My name is Yishiki, and I am a god who has descended upon this planet."

One type?
Upon hearing this unfamiliar name, Uchiha's brows furrowed involuntarily beneath his silver mask.
The name was similar to Momoshiki and Kinshiki in his memory, suggesting that Isshiki was also a key member of the Otsutsuki clan.

Noticing that Uchiha Gin had fallen into a silence, Jigen smiled slightly and extended an olive branch to him.

"Native, submit to me! This planet is too small for you. Your true home is to conquer the stars with me."

"No."

"Alright, alright, I'll appoint you as... uh?"

Uchiha Gin's immediate and unhesitating refusal clearly surprised Jigen; logically, no one should have been able to refuse his offer.
"I see."

After a few seconds of stunned silence, Cixian suddenly slammed his fist into his palm, instantly understanding.

It must be that this short-sighted native has never witnessed his own supreme power, which is why he rejected his offer so easily.

Hmph~ I'll show you the difference between humans and gods!

"Use your body to feel what it is."

Cixian took a deep breath, silently maximizing the synchronization between her consciousness and body number four. The aura emanating from her body instantly became even more solid.

"The power of God?"

However, before Jigen could finish his boasting, Uchiha Gin, who had already lost his temper, raised his hand and punched Jigen hard in the arrogant face.
"Click~ Click~"

A large tear appeared in the gold and red visor, and fragments fell, revealing Cixian's utterly bewildered eyes.
"You, you, you have no martial ethics."

"What are you babbling about? I just silenced you with a basic attack!" (End of Chapter)