Zombie Sage in Naruto

Chapter 128 Kaede Tsukasa, what exactly do you want to do!
The closer one gets to madness, the greater the chance of obtaining the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Kaede Tsukasa felt that he should add fuel to the fire of the Box of Elysium.

"Too weak, your darkness is far too weak."

Kaede Tsukasa formed hand seals and began to unleash his chakra, turning all living things around him into corpses.

The terrifying blue aura spread rapidly, and wherever it reached, ninjas, civilians, and even animals began to convulse violently.

When it got up again, its eyes had turned completely white, and it was howling unconsciously. It sniffed the air, listened to the sounds around it, and started running without hesitation, attacking the living creatures further away.

People were constantly being arrested and driven away. It was as if Kaede Tsukasa was playing a terrible hunting game, manipulating hunting dogs to drive the flock of sheep into the sheepfold.

Screams, wails, curses, numbness...

The entire Land of Grass is in complete chaos.

The people of this country found themselves with nowhere to escape, as terrifying zombies followed them relentlessly, surrounding and devouring those who tried to flee.

As a steady stream of people poured into the Chest of Bliss, the power of this artifact clearly increased.

"How boring. They put in 100,000 people and this is the only intensity they've achieved?"

Kaedeji carefully sensed it and confirmed that he could indeed make a wish, but it wasn't enough to satisfy him.

The Box of Bliss conveys a sinister message, seeking to absorb more negative energy.

This thing is essentially a negative energy absorber, a divine artifact specifically designed to target the Yin-style.

Kaede glanced at the people who were crying and wailing, forced to enter the Box of Bliss.

This is far from enough; we need more.

"At present, using living people as sacrifices will improve the Chest of Bliss more, so let's start with the destruction of the Grass Country."

In any case, if this country continues to develop normally, it will be destroyed by the Box of Bliss, and Kaede Tsukasa doesn't mind giving it a push.

"The Mangekyou Sharingan... As long as I can obtain this and awaken the eye technique I desire, everything I'm sacrificing now will be worthwhile."

Facing these people with faces full of pleading and hatred, Kaede Tsukasa remained expressionless. He didn't even care whether these guys' souls could enter the Pure Land normally after being swallowed by the Box of Elysium, nor did he bother to investigate such a question.

Since arriving in this world, Kaede Tsukasa has struggled for over a decade and has long since realized his own path:
He could never be like Minato Namikaze, a central air conditioner that warms everyone; he was destined to use the people of this world as fuel to pave his own path to survival.

The difference lies in which specific group of people will be used as consumables. If nothing unexpected happens, people from other countries will mainly be used to fill Kaedeji's needs.

This is the zombie escape. Talking about love and peace is just empty talk. They're already manipulating zombies and turning living people into puppets. How can they possibly have any interest in such luxurious words?

Kaede Tsukasa stood atop the Box of Ecstasy, looking down at the civilians lining up to die before him. His eyes showed no emotion, only a sincere longing for those eyes.

"Commoners have no chakra and are of low value. Let's just use them up and make use of them."

Kaede Tsukasa had no interest in turning these civilians into zombies; it was a complete waste of time.

Only ninjas are qualified to become his zombies and play a certain value as extraordinary beings.

Ordinary civilians, even though they have three times the number of cells as humans on Earth, do not have the ability to create chakra, so it doesn't matter how many die.

As for the idea that one could select people from the common people who could generate chakra and train ninjas from scratch...

In the future, Kaedejima might do this: once he has enough population and enough power, he will try to train a large number of ninjas.

At the very least, the exaggerated ratio of hundreds to thousands of civilians to ninjas should be reduced as much as possible.

The more ninjas there are, the more chakra they have, and the more value they can generate for Kaede Tsukasa in the future.

Once Kaedeji obtains the Kaleidoscope Eye Technique he envisions and develops it according to the Eye of the Moon Plan, there will be countless possibilities for its future implementation.

"I still have to make a wish to get the Mangekyou Sharingan I want."

Kaede looked up at the sky with a sigh, thinking that if everything went smoothly, the future of this planet would definitely be very interesting.

Thus, under Kaede Tsukasa's manipulation, the population of the Grass Country decreased drastically, and large areas of uninhabited land appeared.

The vitality of the past can still be preserved through buildings and goods, but very little remains.

The ninjas of Sunagakure vaguely realized what had happened, and a chill ran through them.

"Has the intelligence-gathering team sent to Kusagakure disappeared again? They can't even send back the most basic information? How can someone have such methods..."

Ye Cang's hands and feet were ice-cold. She wasn't afraid of death, but she felt that if the current situation continued, the outcome might be even more terrible than death.

She witnessed firsthand how a respectable country gradually fell silent, a sight that was suffocating.

"...Stop advancing! Everyone retreat immediately! We must leave this country!"

Ye Cang made a decisive decision: "Medical team, closely monitor the physical condition of each team, and report any signs of fever immediately! Sealing team, you also prepare to use sealing techniques at any time..."

Before he could finish speaking, screams rang out one after another.

It was too late after all... No, that guy must have been watching us the whole time, but he realized we were leaving and it was time for him to make his move, Ye Cang thought.

She immediately imbued herself with a layer of chakra and numbly attacked the zombies in the group.

Scorching Escape: Over-Steam Kill!

Every zombie she touched instantly lost all the moisture in its body, turning into a dried-up corpse.

But everyone knows that this is just a temporary measure, and the best option is to escape immediately.

"If I had a tailed beast, I could instantly coat everyone with a tailed beast cloak..."

Yekura suddenly had this absurd idea.

This way, they can definitely become immune to Kaede Tsukasa's virus. Chakra is a real power that doesn't just disappear into thin air.

Only tailed beasts possess such a massive amount of chakra to protect the fighting ninjas.

Unfortunately, this is just wishful thinking and can never be realized. Tailed beasts are not good-natured and would never cooperate by giving away their chakra.

Furthermore, Sunagakure no longer has any tailed beasts available.

As more and more Sand Village ninjas turned into zombies, the team eventually began their familiar rout. Who could escape and who could survive depended entirely on luck.

"Damn it, what is this? Weren't we here to carry out his mission? Why are we being attacked?"

"Don't you understand yet? He doesn't take us seriously at all; he's just looking for an opportunity to kill us."

"Didn't the village have any contingency plans? Didn't they anticipate this situation?! In the end, all we could do was run away?"

"There's no such thing. Maybe we were abandoned from the very beginning. No wonder they regularly transported the looted supplies back; they probably anticipated this situation."

The Sand Village ninjas spared no effort to generate chakra to protect themselves, but they didn't know how long they could hold out. They only hoped to escape Kaede Tsukasa's sight before running out of chakra.

In the end, six hundred Sand Village ninjas entered the Paradise Box.

This time, Kaede Tsukasa received feedback from the Box of Elysium.

"...I can make a wish now, but what's the point of making a wish of this level?"

Kaede Tsukasa communicated with the Box of Elysium, and it was barely possible to help him awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan, but success was not guaranteed, let alone obtaining the eye technique he wanted.

"The quality of ordinary people is still too poor. They are numerous, but their impact is limited, mainly providing some negative emotions."

Kaede Tsukasa wasn't surprised; he wanted to get it done in one go.

boom!
Kaede Tsukasa picked up the Box of Elysium and found it to be unusually heavy, probably because it had swallowed too many people.

"We can't keep doing this. We can't stand against the entire ninja world just to get a pair of Mangekyou Sharingan. We can only let you slowly absorb the negative energy of humanity."

Kaede Tsukasa moved away with the Box of Bliss, leaving behind this desolate land of grass.

While the destruction of small countries is rare, it is not unheard of. In the original timeline, Sasori of the Red Sand said during his battle with Chiyo that he had already destroyed a country using the Hundred Puppet Maneuver.

During Naruto and Sasuke's era, the Akatsuki organization was also hired by Onoki to invade various small countries multiple times, instigating wars and benefiting Iwagakure.

Some people were silently observing Kaedeji's actions.

"Using the people of an entire nation as a sacrifice still can't satisfy his needs. What exactly does he want?"

Even the Sage of Six Paths was alarmed. He spread his chakra throughout the ninja world, meaning he was constantly monitoring every move in the ninja world.

For the past thousand years, the Sage of Six Paths has observed the historical progress of the ninja world, examining the traces of fate, remaining a competent bystander. He had the ability to intervene in the affairs of the ninja world, but ultimately did not, simply watching quietly as generation after generation of Indra and Ashura waged their endless struggle.

The Sage of Six Paths was now somewhat curious about Kaedeji's plans. Surely he didn't intend to obtain the power of the Otsutsuki all at once?
This is beyond the capabilities of the Box of Bliss; it is impossible to achieve.

Another spirit appeared.

"Brother, are you just going to stand by and watch that outsider carry out a massacre?"

"Calm down, Hamura. Even without him, killing is happening all the time in this world. The number of people he has killed is nothing compared to the number of people who have died in the past thousand years."

“That’s no excuse for him to kill indiscriminately for his own selfish gain! This world is already chaotic enough, and this outsider makes things even more complicated! Besides, who knows if he’s a spy sent by my mother’s clan?”

This is what Hamura is really worried about. If it's just about killing people, to put it bluntly, the natives of this wretched place called the ninja world can wipe out their own people, so it's not like Kaedeji has the chance to go on a killing spree.

This is also why his descendants, who remained on the moon, observed the ninja world for a long time and concluded that it was a failed creation of the Sage of Six Paths and that there was no need to save it.

These descendants killed each other, piecing together a giant Tenseigan. Their sole purpose was to massacre the ninja world, and in the future, send a capable descendant to kill everyone in the ninja world, leaving at most a woman from the Hyuga clan to reproduce the population again.

It's like tearing everything down and starting over, erasing all traces of the failed creation left by the Sage of Six Paths.

The Sage of Six Paths pondered and said, "I have observed him for nearly twenty years. He should have no relation to his mother's clan. He is purely from a planet in the universe similar to the Ninja World."

Yes, even the Sage of Six Paths wouldn't have imagined that Kaede Tsukasa came from another universe; he simply thought she was a native of another planet who had accidentally come to the ninja world.

The Sage of Six Paths didn't know exactly how it came about; it was impossible for him to have such detailed knowledge of every little thing happening in the ninja world.

"Moreover, the home planet that nurtured him should be quite weak overall, as evidenced by his poor physical condition. After arriving in the ninja world, he struggled to even adapt to the simplest environment."

Before he discovered Kaede Tsukasa, he never imagined that there would be such a human being in the world, who had come to a new planet and was already doing everything he could to survive.

Who would believe it if I told them? His mother, his brother Hamura, and even the Hamura descendants on the moon all possessed the ability to physically withstand cosmic radiation, and adapting to the environment on the planet's surface was as easy as eating and drinking.

Kaede Tsukasa truly opened the eyes of the Sage of Six Paths, but he did not intervene to save him. Perhaps Kaede Tsukasa's appearance was part of the self-reform of the ninja world.

"That's also a hidden danger. Corpse Release is obviously a product of the combination of external forces and the power of the ninja world."

"Mother, you, me, the Ten-Tails, and our chakra are all from outside," the Sage of Six Paths said calmly.

Both he and Hamura were directly conceived by Kaguya Otsutsuki; there is no absurd story about Kaguya mating with a human to give birth to these two half-bloods.

"Alright, you single-handedly created the ninja world we have today. I hope you're right. Anyway, there's nothing more I can do."

Hamura can only retain his self-awareness in the Pure Land now. When ordinary ninjas die, their souls enter the Pure Land to sleep forever. It goes without saying that a strong person of Hamura's level will not be completely wiped out as long as the Pure Land does not have any problems.

From the perspective of simply surviving in agony, this method is safer than the orthodox Otsutsuki using the Karma seal for reincarnation.

Because reincarnation carries a relatively high failure rate, modifying the container is time-consuming and laborious, and there's no guarantee of obtaining a suitable reincarnation container in the end. It's possible that after a long period of effort, all that's gained will be in vain.

The Sage of Six Paths said, "Let's continue watching. We have no right to interfere with the workings of this world. Let the ninja world correct itself. As long as Mother is not freed, we will do nothing."

……

Kaede returned to Konoha with the Box of Bliss. For the next period of time, they would wait for the Box of Bliss to devour enough negative human emotions. If necessary, they could also introduce living creatures to accelerate the process.

But Kaede Tsukasa was patient; he proved the importance of patience by using the Land of Grass as an example.

But people outside the area were in an uproar when they heard the news.

The news that an entire country had become a no-man's land, where everything was silent, was truly shocking.

Even if a country is destroyed due to civil war or foreign invasion, people can understand it. But the complete disappearance of the vast majority of people is completely incomprehensible.

For a time, opinions were divided and rumors flew everywhere.

"Shh, I've got some news. Apparently, Lord Kaedeji attacked the Land of Grass and turned everyone into corpses!"

"This is utterly absurd! Does he speak without thinking at all? Is he irresponsible? Why would someone like Lord Kaedeji attack such a small country? Wouldn't it be better to just attack Sunagakure?"

"Lord Kaedeji needs corpses that are capable of fighting, that is, the corpses of ninjas! What does he need the bodies of a million civilians for? To eat them?"

"I heard from the merchants that the Land of Grass was invaded by the Village Hidden in the Sunagakure, but the Village Hidden in the Sunagakure also lost some people and fled back."

"Ah, it's the officers from the security force! I have a report to make. Someone here is slandering Lord Kaedeji and spreading rumors. Shouldn't we arrest them right away?"

As a result, the Uchiha clan members suddenly became very busy, spending all day capturing people, regardless of whether the target was intentional or not, they would just arrest them and torture them first!
What, wronged? Just hearsay? Ridiculous. The political atmosphere in the village is so tense, and Kaedeji is showing signs of separating from the village. Saying things that are detrimental to unity at a time like this is the biggest problem.

The Uchiha clan's righteous fist struck so hard that the villagers cried out in pain.

Everyone in the village was secretly observing Kaedeji's movements, but they had not seen a direct response from him.

The village also remained silent about the incident, as if nothing had happened.

In any other time, this would have been a momentous event. A country had vanished into thin air. Konoha would have had to send people to investigate, as would other neighboring countries.

"The villagers are very resentful and extremely dissatisfied with the Uchiha clan."

Fugaku looked at Obito, who was expressionless in front of him: "I heard that you persuaded Yatsushiro and the others to punish him severely."

“This is only natural. The Uchiha clan bears a heavy responsibility. The safety of the entire village rests on the shoulders of our clan, and we absolutely cannot be careless,” Obito said.

His current status as a Chunin and the fact that he has awakened the Sharingan have caused a sensation.

If it weren't for the recent turmoil and everyone's attention being focused on Kaedeji and the village's higher-ups, the Uchiha clan would have already publicized this matter extensively. The key isn't just about reaching Chunin level, but about possessing such terrifying talent and potential, and awakening the Sharingan so early!
It's important to know that only a small number of Uchiha clan members can awaken the Sharingan. Once they awaken the Sharingan and advance all the way to the three-tomoe Sharingan, they are guaranteed to become Jonin. The enhancements to taijutsu and genjutsu are astonishing, giving them a natural advantage over ordinary ninjas!
Some people already consider Obito to be the next person after Madara Uchiha to awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan, and some even call Obito "sir".

Therefore, as long as Obito's demands weren't too outrageous, the people in the clan were willing to give him face and try their best to comply.

Clearly, in the eyes of these members of the guard, beating up villagers was not excessive at all; on the contrary, it was very impressive.

Fugaku stared at Obito for a long time: "I don't know what you're thinking, but you should still restrain yourself when dealing with your comrades."

"I understand. I'll be careful." Obito's attention wasn't on that at all.

He was more curious about what Kaedeji was planning to do. He had obtained relevant information from White Zetsu and knew that Kaedeji had obtained the Sage of Six Paths' treasure.

"The Box of Bliss, Madara did mention this in the information he left behind, but the description was very brief."

Whatever Kaede Tsukasa takes a liking to must be something good. Kaede Tsukasa went so far as to destroy a country and sacrifice the entire population of that country for the power he wanted, which made Obito very curious.

"Do we need to delve into the darkness deep within people's hearts...? This kind of divine artifact..."

Obito felt like he'd seen this thing before; it was something completely different...

Mangekyō Sharingan?

Obito suddenly frowned. Could it be that Kaede Tsukasa's goal was the Mangekyou Sharingan?!

That makes sense. If that's the case, then everything becomes clear. No wonder Kaedeji would do something like that!
Kaede Tsukasa began obtaining and using the Sharingan a few years ago, and also mastered Izanagi.

If Kaede Tsukasa had a Hashirama clone on him, paired with a pair of Mangekyou Sharingan...

Even Obito couldn't really assess how high Kaede Tsukasa would reach by then. He probably wouldn't have the same level of power as Madara Uchiha during the Valley of the End battle, right?

"No, that's impossible. That's a level that only the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan can reach. He doesn't know Sage Mode and can't use True Several Thousand Hands. Even if he obtained a copy of Hashirama and the Mangekyou Sharingan, he couldn't possibly possess that level of power."

Obito pondered deeply, his expression shifting between light and dark. Based on his understanding of Kaede Tsukasa, what this guy wanted to do shouldn't be so simply and directly laid out in the open.

Is it really just a simple increase in resistance to illusions? Is it just about obtaining the power of the Kaleidoscope from the Box of Elysium?

"If the Box of Bliss can really give him the Mangekyou Sharingan, then what kind of eye technique it is remains a mystery."

Will the Eye of the Mind be a manifestation of Kaede Tsukasa's deepest desires, or a manifestation of the Eye of Elysium itself?

Fugaku stared at Obito for a long time, watching Obito's expression constantly change.

“Obito, if you’re too tired, go back and rest. Don’t think too much. In any case, the Uchiha clan is a powerful ninja clan with enough strength to cope with the changes to come,” Fugaku said.

Obito nodded reluctantly, giving a perfunctory reply.

His mind was now filled with thoughts of how to deal with Kaedeji in the future. They were collaborators now, but what if a disagreement arose in the future? How would he deal with Kaedeji's threats?

Every participant claimed to be committed to advancing Project Eye of the Moon, but in the end, who knows what they were really up to?

Fugaku watched Obito's figure, rubbing his temples. From his perspective, Obito had already shifted towards Kaedeji's direction, and he couldn't correct him even if he wanted to, as it might anger Kaedeji. He didn't know whether this was a good or bad thing.

"When exactly will Kaede Tsukasa make his move? We can't let our clansmen get involved then."

If Kaede Tsukasa turns against the village and launches a major attack within its borders, as the clan head, he must do everything in his power to minimize the Uchiha clan's losses.

(End of this chapter)