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

"puff!"

Black Zetsu hadn't expected that Cigen's thrust would be so precise, hitting his very core with the club.

And the black rod, which, like him, was a creation of Yin-Yang Release, happened to be one of the few things in this world capable of harming him.

"Damn it, I'll definitely check the almanac before going out next time."

Black Zetsu cursed under his breath as the black rod pierced his heart. If he didn't remove it quickly, he might really be done for.

"So fragile?"

Cixian, the instigator, was completely bewildered. He deliberately avoided all the vital points of the human body with his blow, just to capture the opponent alive. Why did the opponent still look like he was about to die?

"asshole!"

Witnessing the tragic state of Sasuke, Madara Uchiha's eyes turned bloodshot. This monk had actually harmed his little brother right under his nose; he was courting death.

Ignoring the large black box falling from above, Madara Uchiha lunged forward and unleashed a punch filled with rage.
"boom!"

Unfortunately, the punch was deflected by the opponent, but it forced Jigen to drop the bleeding Sasuke, allowing Madara to seize the opportunity to scoop him up and quickly retreat to a safe distance.

"Erzhuzi!"

Shaking the fading Black Zetsu in his arms, Madara Uchiha displayed an unusual panic.

"Me, me."

Black Zetsu, impaled by the black rod, desperately tried to control his clone's arm, pointing it towards his chest, as if to signal Madara Uchiha to remove the rod.

"Don't say anything, Izuna and the others will be here soon, you'll be fine!"

But it was clear that Madara Uchiha hadn't understood Black Zetsu's meaning. Amidst the Black Zetsu's despairing gaze, he gently placed him on the ground, then silently stood up and opened the card box at his waist.

Are you ready to dance?

Black Zetsu: "Ugh...ugh..."

I think I can still be saved!
Jigen narrowed his eyes, his gaze sweeping over the thick stack of Tailed Beast cards in the card box, his expression subtly changing.
When did this human collect so much tailed beast chakra?
The power of the tailed beasts contained in these cards is worlds apart from the mass-produced clone knights he created. If he could extract all of it, the Ten-Tails he had secretly hidden might be able to evolve once again.

"Hmph! What right does a mere mortal have to dance with Kami?"

The stack of Tailed Beast cards did indeed give him quite a shock. As for Madara Uchiha's battle declaration, Jigen scoffed at it, saying that inferior races are always inferior races and can never compare to their divine race.

Jigen's contempt did not anger Madara Uchiha; instead, it made him exceptionally calm. He now only wanted to deal with this damned monk as soon as possible and take Sasuke home for treatment.

Black Zetsu: Actually, I don't need to go home. Could you please lend me a hand and pull out the stick for me?

"Then let's start with that."

Without even looking up, Madara Uchiha pulled a chubby tanuki card from the card box and coldly stuffed it into the card slot at his waist.

"KamenRide! Shukaku!"

"Whoo~~~"

"This is?"

As the emotionless electronic voice rang out, a sudden gust of golden sand swept through the arena. Looking at Uchiha Madara enveloped in the sandstorm, Jigen frowned.
"Clang!"

The next second, a sharp blade of energy tore through the yellow sand, revealing a black figure wielding a samurai sword and wearing a cloak.

“BLACK GENERAL!”

“BUJIN SWORD!”

"Ready to fight."

Madara Uchiha, transformed into a black martial god, stood on the yellow sand, flipped his katana, and instantly appeared in front of Jigen as a black streak of light.

"Kami? I've always wanted to try and kill him."

"Shh!"

The black blade slashed down, and Jigen instinctively tried to use the ability of the young Higuna to dodge, but to his surprise, a phantom of a red moon appeared behind Madara Uchiha, and his own chakra was momentarily disturbed by a strange magnetic field.
When masters clash, the battle often ends in a single instant.

"Pfft!"

Dark red blood spurted out, and Cixian covered the deep, bone-revealing wound on his chest in disbelief. His body rapidly shrank, leaving only a large pool of black blood on the ground.

"Shh!"

Following the stench of blood, Madara Uchiha swung his sword into the empty space to the side. The black sword energy suddenly shattered midway, and Jigen, with his hand raised, appeared in that direction.
"How dare you offend a god!"

With a gloomy expression, Jigen lowered his large hand that had been absorbing chakra, and the wound on his chest was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Crack!"

On the other side, Madara Uchiha, who was about to swing his sword again, paused, and the driver at his waist automatically ejected the Shukaku card.

"Is it still only possible to use the ultimate move once?"

Madara Uchiha frowned as he looked at the dull-looking Shukaku card.
His Tailed Beast Cards were ultimately not genuine; the power contained within them was only enough to unleash the corresponding Rider's ultimate attack once, after which they required a month-long recharging process.

"hehe."

Seeing this, Cixian revealed a mocking smile. It turned out it was just a one-time use of power.

"Now you..."

Before he could finish speaking, Madara Uchiha pulled out another Tailed Beast card from his card box.

"Crack!"

"KamenRide! Nekomatata!"

"Roar!"

Cixian stared, his face ashen, at the silver knight emerging from the chilling blue flames, and at the tiger-like monster that looked like it knew how to ambush. He then looked down at his own legs, frozen by the cold, and couldn't help but grit his teeth and mutter a curse.

"You fucking opened fire, didn't you?"

"Final Vent!"

"I****************"

"Hurry, Big Brother's aura is in that direction."

In a dense forest ten kilometers from the battlefield, Uchiha Izuna, transformed into the Blue Final Knight, successfully pinpointed the exact location of the battlefield using his keen sense of the Tailed Beast Cards.

Behind him stood three solemn-looking clones lined up in a row, from left to right: Pillar One, Pillar Four, and Pillar Nine.

To signify a break with their past selves, the three abandoned their former cold, numerical designations and adopted new names in the same series as Black Zetsu and Sasuke. "Did you sense it?"

The closer he got to the battlefield, the more deeply the Pillar General, the sole strategist of the Pillar Army, furrowed his brow. He was all too familiar with the aura of that battle against Madara Uchiha.
"Is it him?"

After his reminder, Sasuke also recognized Jigen's chakra aura, and his already solemn gaze became even more profound.

"So what if it is? It's a good opportunity to settle things with him!"

Unlike the other two, the simple-minded Jiuzhuzi showed a strong fighting spirit. In his mind, even his former master was just a mountain he was about to climb.

"arrive!"

"This"

The four moved with incredible speed, reaching the edge of the battlefield within minutes. Looking at the chaotic scene before them, a hint of worry flashed in Izuna's eyes.
"My older brother is forcing himself again."

In this area that should have been a swamp, there were unexpected objects such as yellow sand, solid ice, lava, poisonous gas, scale powder, and ink.
The culprit behind all of this was the white fox in the center of the battlefield, who kept slashing at Jigen's head with a white longsword.
"The prison boss actually used nine cards in one go."

One Pillar nodded in amazement, while Four Pillars wore the same worried expression as Izuna.

"Is he really alright?"

In their memory, the most Madara Uchiha ever used was three Tailed Beast Cards in a row, and he had to stay in bed for a whole day to recover afterwards.

"Hey! Look, isn't that Erzhuzi wriggling on the ground?"

Just as everyone else was worried about Madara Uchiha, Sasuke spotted a familiar figure crawling forward on the battlefield and immediately shouted,
His shout also pulled Madara Uchiha, who was completely immersed in the battle, back to reality. Seeing that the reinforcements he had been waiting for had finally arrived, he slashed away the disheveled and tattered Jigen with his sword, then turned to his younger brother and gave him some instructions.
"Izuna, quickly take Erzhuzi back for treatment!"

"Then, brother, what about you?"

"boom!"

The longsword in his hand clashed with Jigen's black staff. Uchiha Madara, preoccupied with his own survival, didn't even have time to turn around.
"Don't worry about me, save Erzhuzi first!"

Upon hearing this, Izuna and the others immediately sprang into action, forming a team and carrying Sasuke, who had lost too much blood and was now unable to transform, out of the center of the battlefield.
"I'll see how long you can hold out."

Jigen glanced at the Pillar Legion in the distance, his face, deformed by the Six-Tails' poison gas, filled with intense resentment. This was only the second time since experiencing the Tsukuyomi space that he had been so humiliated by lowly humans.
"Once I've dealt with you, none of those guys will escape God's punishment."

"Aren't you afraid of biting off more than you can chew when you talk big?"

With reinforcements arriving, Sasuke's life should be saved. Madara Uchiha's tense nerves finally relaxed a bit, and his tone became much more relaxed.

However, despite his words, he could clearly feel that his body was on the verge of collapse. Although the battle was short, its intensity was almost greater than all the battles he had fought in the first half of his life combined.
Every time Madara Uchiha transforms into another tailed beast rider, his body undergoes a painful ordeal. If it weren't for the blood of Hasi Lama flowing through his veins, which gave him a powerful self-healing ability, he might have already been lying on the ground, at the mercy of others.

"Erzhuzi? Erzhuzi!"

On the other side, the group that had led Erzhuzi to a safe area frantically patted his dazed face, trying to rouse him from his daze.

However, the group forgot to hold back. The clone possessed the same monstrous strength as Hashirama Senju, and after several rounds of slaps, Sasuke's face was swollen into a pig's head and sausage lips.
"Mmm...mmm."

Black Zetsu, who was already on the verge of losing control of his body, could only drool and utter nonsensical "abba aba" sounds.
"Could it be that Erzhuzi's thing is broken here?"

Nine Pillars, who had been slapped the hardest, pointed to his own head.
"Not like."

After carefully examining the situation, the meticulous Yizhuzi shook his head, denying the possibility.

He could tell from Erzhuzi's rapidly blinking eyes that the other was pleading for help, but he didn't know how to proceed.

"Should we pull this thing out first?"

"No! No! No!"

Unexpectedly, the taciturn Four Pillars could hit the nail on the head. Black Zetsu praised him from head to toe in his mind, almost jumping up to give him a kiss.
Sizhuzi, from now on, for every bite of meat my brother eats, you'll get half a bowl of soup.

"I don't think this is appropriate. What if there are vital organs connected to it? Wouldn't that harm him?"

Seeing that Sasuke's large hand was getting closer and closer to the black rod, Uchiha Izuna suddenly spoke up to stop him. Black Zetsu, who had been full of excitement, instantly felt as if he had eaten shit.
You brat! If I had known this would happen, I should have possessed your shit-poop-producing father and splattered you against the wall.

"What can we do? We can't just stand by and watch, can we?"

Moving is not an option, and not moving is also not an option. Are they just supposed to watch Erzhuzi die?

"Don't panic, I have a secret medicine specially made by my cousin. It can even revive a dead person and make them walk a few steps."

Uchiha Izuna waved his hand and rummaged through his bag behind him for a while, pulling out, but not limited to, heavy gold bars, magazines with sexy covers, and a white-haired doll covered in thousands of books.

"found it!"

Seeing the increasingly strange looks from the surrounding pillars, Uchiha Izuna finally found his trump card: a potion.
"Can we pull it out now?"

Since Uchiha Izuna touted the drug's effects as miraculous, it must be more than capable of treating minor internal organ injuries.

"Okay, just remember to be quick."

"Good Le!"

Jiuzhuzi gripped the end of the black rod, the slightly tingling sensation causing him to frown. This minor disturbance would affect his movements to some extent.
"Erzhuzi, just bear with it. It'll only hurt a little bit and then we'll be done."

Having said that, he yanked hard, and Black Zetsu, pierced by the black rod, immediately felt a tearing sensation from the depths of his soul. He grimaced in pain and couldn't help but cry out.
"do not want!"

"what?"

Nine Pillars, which had just been pulled out halfway, was taken aback at first upon hearing this, and then, amidst the puzzled gazes of the crowd, pushed the black rod back in.

"Stop!!"

"Hey! Can you just finish what you're saying in one go? Pulling this is really hard."

Hearing Black Zetsu's pained, trembling voice, Nine Pillars curled his lip in annoyance, gripped the black rod again, and pulled with all his might.
"Pfft!"

"Ahhh!"

Black Zetsu felt as if his soul was being pulled out. This was the first time in thousands of years that he had experienced such pain. Fortunately, the black rod had been removed, and he only needed to rest for a while to regain his former glory.

"The medicine is here!"

Just as he caught his breath, Uchiha Izuna unscrewed the medicine bottle, spilling dark green medicine all over him.
"Ah~!"

The scalding hot medicine landed on his body, and the wound on Zhu Zi's chest, which was now a human armor, healed rapidly. However, Black Zetsu, who was licking his wound alone, changed his expression and let out a pig-like scream.

This wasn't a potion; it was clearly liquid Yang Release chakra. The Yin-Yang balance within Black Zetsu's body was instantly shattered, causing pain far exceeding that of Jigen's black rods.

"What kind of medicine is this? It seems very strong."

The pillars looked at the two pillars that were rolling around on the ground in confusion, tilted their heads and looked at each other, and finally turned their questioning gazes to Izuna, the instigator.

"The name is a bit long, let me see... Hmm... Glimmer Potion 3.0 - I Have a Friend Who Needs It Much, Applicable Symptoms, Cures All Male Intractable Diseases, No Problem, Right?" (End of Chapter)