Zombie Sage in Naruto

Chapter 134 This village can barely provide me with a little bit of fun.
Kaedeji has not taken any concrete action, but he has been constantly observing the changes in the outside world.

His residence was besieged, but he didn't move. Hidan alone could summon a large number of zombies at any time. Even if he couldn't kill Jiraiya and the others, he could more than buy time.

"Your place is going to be smashed to pieces, aren't you sure you're okay? Those guys you recruited might get killed." Kushina looked curiously at the ever-calm Kaedeji.

"Hidan knows the Sky Realm Technique, so he can escape with the others at any time."

"Hidan... I've heard that guy has a very arrogant personality. If he gets carried away, he'll fight to the death without thinking..."

“Then let them die in battle. I will resurrect them later,” Kaedeji Tsukasa replied.

Even if the corpses are all torn to pieces, it doesn't matter. Once he successfully seizes control of the village and obtains the Book of Seals, he will be able to learn the Impure World Reincarnation technique. At that time, he can impure all these dead people and then truly revive them using the Reincarnation Technique.

For Kaede Tsukasa, the boundary between life and death has become unprecedentedly blurred; he can make people cross the line between life and death at will, whenever he wants.

Kushina was somewhat speechless, and simply kept pouring hot tea for Kaede Tsukasa. Anyway, she didn't have the brains to clearly judge the process of the confrontation between the two sides, so she might as well give up thinking about it.

A while later, Obito's figure emerged, startling Kushina. She immediately extended the Adamantine Lock chain, intending to bind Obito.

"No need, these are people on my side." Kaedeji waved his hand and glanced at the disheveled Obito.

The hole in Obito's, or rather Tobi's, shoulder had basically healed, but traces were still faintly visible. As for Obito inside, considering his size, he was probably seriously injured.

"Black Zetsu and White Zetsu will deal with Yahiko and Nagato, but they won't be able to hold them off for long." Obito stood next to Kaede Tsukasa, his tense mind relaxing instantly.

But then he tensed up again, overwhelmed by a profound sense of shame—damn it, he considered Kaedeji a rival, and now he was utterly defeated, forced to rely on Kaedeji for a sense of security? How utterly humiliating…

As Obito stared at Kaede Tsukasa's unwavering gaze, he still felt that the guy's demeanor was very trustworthy, which made him even angrier and more ashamed.

"You idiot, stop drinking your lousy tea! If you want some after the war, I'll get you as much as you want!" Obito was furious.

"Ah, I'm not interested in tea or anything like that, I'm just interested in your disheveled state... You actually managed to come back alive?"

"What do you mean? You saw everything? But White Zetsu told me that there were no zombies around you, and you don't have any sensory abilities other than those of zombies!" Obito stared intently into Kaedeji's eyes.

Kaede Tsukasa calmly said, "Actually, there are some. Among all the zombies I have, some know some rudimentary perception techniques. However, I didn't use these zombies to sense the battle situation on your side. Even though you had Tobi's help, it still turned out like this. It was Yahiko who did it, right?"

"Do you know what's going on with Yahiko?" Obito suddenly became agitated, his anger burning.

He remained concerned about Yahiko's condition, feeling that something was wrong.

“I guess I know. I’ve been guessing all along, but now it seems like he really has a problem… If I’m not mistaken, he only attacked for a very short time, right, and then immediately stopped? There are strange runes on his body?” Kaede Tsukasa examined the wounds on Tobi’s body.

Seeing Obito nod, Kaede Tsukasa sighed: "As expected, that's another kind of power. Well, you can think of it as a power that's no less than the Rinnegan. However, using this power comes at a price. Judging from Yahiko's situation, he won't be able to use it more than a few times before he dies."

The wedge is a perfect resurrection technique unique to the Otsutsuki clan.

Despite how Kaede Tsukasa has armed himself to the teeth and gradually obtained his powerful body through methods such as Impure World Reincarnation, Reincarnation of the Self, and the Box of Elysium, to put it bluntly, the strength of his current body is completely incomparable to that of the Otsutsuki.

At most, in terms of growth potential, because he possesses a portion of the Ten-Tails' power, he has a slightly greater potential than Kinshiki, who is currently the purest Otsutsuki, possessing only the Byakugan and not the power of the Ten-Tails' Divine Tree.

But to transform variable potential to surpass Kinshiki? It's extremely difficult. Kinshiki's seemingly ordinary Byakugan isn't even a Tenseigan, yet it possesses a dojutsu similar to an enhanced version of Kamui—at least you don't have to worry about your eyes bleeding or vision deteriorating due to overuse, and you can use various space-time transfers at will.

Therefore, Kaede Tsukasa's resurrection path cannot be used to resurrect an Otsutsuki, because the size of a genuine Otsutsuki is simply too enormous. Their life force, spiritual power, and even memories spanning thousands of years are all at a level that the native ninjas of the ninja world cannot reach, not to mention their various other means.

If a being has eaten the Chakra Fruit, obtained the power of the Ten-Tails God Tree, and acquired the Rinnegan, its size would be even larger. If such a being dies, it is impossible for it to be accepted into the Pure Land unless it so chooses to.

However, the procedure that Kaede Tsukasa used to revive such a "massive" individual is completely useless. Even if it is successful, it is impossible for the revived Otsutsuki to have the power he had in life. Therefore, the Karma is necessary!

A wedge is like a compressed file. When an Otsutsuki is on the verge of death, he will carefully select a container and mark it with a rune. The mark contains all his "data," including his genes and memories.

Opening the Karma is like decompressing data from a compressed file. As the container uses chakra or ages, the thawing rate of the Karma gradually increases. This process is forced and irreversible; once the data completely overwrites the container, it means the Otsutsuki have been resurrected.

However, Kaedeji was not worried at all about Yahiko's strength.

"Don't dwell on it too much. Obito, Yahiko won't live for more than a few years. This is only because he deliberately didn't use that power. If he had used that power two or three times, he would have died on the spot."

Kaede Tsukasa said, "So, if you're tough enough to fight him head-on with all sorts of Wood Release techniques, even at the cost of getting injured again, he'll definitely die after he kills you, and then I'll revive you."

Not everyone is qualified to withstand something as dangerous as a "Karma". According to Kaede Tsukasa's speculation, Yahiko is probably a failed vessel and will die after using the power of the Otsutsuki a few times.

The owner of the Karma seal, Kaguya's superior, was a guy named Otsutsuki Isshiki, who parasitized a monk named "Jigen" and controlled Jigen's body to survive in the ninja world for a thousand years.

Now that he's finally taking action, he's chosen Yahiko as his vessel, but it's probably just something he did on a whim. As long as Isshiki isn't out of his mind, he definitely won't actually treat Yahiko as his vessel.

Not everyone can become a qualified vessel. A vessel must possess an extremely large and pure amount of chakra, strong vitality, and a special physique or bloodline in order to withstand the injection and assimilation process of the Karma. Otherwise, the vessel may collapse directly or die from mental derangement.

That's right, we're talking about the current Kaede Tsukasa, who possesses the eyes of both Hashirama Senju and Indra. His physical abilities even surpass those of Nagato, and even Naruto in the original timeline couldn't match him. He's absolutely the perfect vessel to hold the Karma seal, but Kaede Tsukasa would never be a backup for Isshiki Otsutsuki.

Kaede Tsukasa was hoping that Isshiki would jump out on his own initiative so that he could take advantage of Isshiki's lack of peak performance and find a way to kill him. Then he could use Isshiki's corpse to nurture his zombie virus and make it evolve and mutate.

At the very least, they need to evolve to the point where they can survive in the vacuum of space.

In the original timeline, while using Jigen's body, Isshiki cultivated and crushed countless containers with data. With the addition of human modification technology, he finally created a qualified finished product and drove his own wedge into the container.

If Kaedeji is not mistaken, Yahiko is definitely a substandard vessel, existing as a pawn of Isshiki, or even a vessel experiment.

In other words, if the container is not qualified enough or the data injection is incomplete, it becomes a "degraded version of Otsutsuki". Jigen is an inferior container that was hastily occupied by Otsutsuki Isshiki when he was about to die completely.

"However, Isshiki wouldn't do such a thing for no reason, nor would he be moved by Yahiko's spirit and ideals. Is he doing this for Nagato, or to prepare to ambush Kaguya?" Kaede Tsukasa pondered to himself.

Both purposes are possible. On the surface, Nagato, as a descendant of the Uzumaki clan, is already extraordinary to be able to bear two Rinnegan. You should know that Obito in the original timeline, whose body was half White Zetsu and who also possessed the Mangekyou Sharingan, could only bear one Rinnegan.

If Nagato wasn't qualified to be a vessel, then there are probably very few qualified people in the ninja world.

Kaedeji was already considering whether or not he should kill Yahiko.

Even if a container dies, the Ōtsutsuki (the main container) may not necessarily die; data can be transferred to other containers at any time.

The reason why Isshiki was killed in the original timeline was actually because he was too arrogant. He kept nagging at a shadow clone, wasting his already limited time. As a result, after the shadow clone was dispelled, the body he used, Jigen, also exhausted its last bit of life force. In other words, he killed himself.

In the end, he could only watch helplessly as his own consciousness perished, all the data in the wedge benefited the container, and all his thousands of years of accumulation were given away for nothing.

Obito retorted angrily, "I absolutely cannot die, nor do I need you to revive me! At worst, I can escape using Izanagi!"

"You already have the three-tomoe Sharingan, and you will definitely have the Mangekyou Sharingan in the future. Isn't it a pity to use up Izanagi so early? It's like you've lost at least two ocular techniques."

A single-eye pupil technique, and Susanoo.

Well, although Shisui's feat of opening Susanoo with only one eye exists in the game timeline, in the manga timeline, one must at least have both eyes to truly obtain Susanoo before one can use Susanoo with only one Mangekyou Sharingan.

Kaede Tsukasa stared directly at the swirling face before him, noticing that Obito's eyes had transformed into three-tomoe Sharingan, and let out a sigh.

To go from one tomoe to three tomoe in one go, that's interesting. As expected of Obito, a born sage with the Sharingan. In the original timeline, he also accomplished the feat of going from two tomoe to the Mangekyou Sharingan in one go.

"A Sharingan with three tomoe at less than eight years old, Obito, you truly surprise me." Kaede Tsukasa rarely showed a smile, and he didn't hold back his praise.

The Erzhuzi in other timelines would probably have a good cry.

Kushina initially showed no reaction, but upon hearing the name, her eyes widened in disbelief as she stared at the tall, white figure before her. She exclaimed incredulously, "Obito? The renowned genius of Konoha, Uchiha Obito? But you look like this…" "Calm down, Kushina, you're just wearing a layer of clothing."

As soon as Kaede finished speaking, Tobi was finally able to speak: "Wow, I was so suffocated! I was deliberately hiding my existence, and you just exposed me so easily! But is it really okay for the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki to know about this?"

Obito was furious: "You exposed my identity so easily. What exactly do you want to do? You know how we'll deal with the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki in the future, don't you?"

"What does it matter? It's not an important matter. When it really comes to the point where we need to separate the Nine-Tails, there are plenty of ways. One way is to pull out the Nine-Tails, break it into several parts, and reseal one part back into Kushina's body. Another way is to directly revive Kushina." Kaede Tsukasa was completely unconcerned.

This effortless reversal of life and death infuriated Obito. How could such a freak exist in this world? There are no boundaries between life and death! This is too much!

Kushina listened without changing her expression. She had been Kaede Tsukasa's backup plan after his resurrection and understood many of his ideas best.

"Alright, you take a break. It's my turn to take care of these guys in one go."

Kaedeji tore off his clothes, and the face behind him swayed from side to side, protruding outwards, and opened its eyes.

Even under the light, the pair of three-tomoe jewels emitted an eerie red glow that drew attention. This was a deeper and more sinister color than that of ordinary three-tomoe jewels, and it seemed to be brewing an extreme sin that would make anyone who looked at it turn pale.

"What kind of eyes are these?!" Obito's eyes widened. Even though they were both three-tomoe eyes, he felt a stinging sensation in his own!

With just one glance, it was as if countless wailing ghosts were reaching out to him, their distorted faces filled with pain and despair, possessing a natural ability to erode the spirit.

Obito was shocked, completely unprepared for this situation. Could this be the Mangekyou Sharingan? But it was clearly just a regular three-tomoe Sharingan. How did Kaede Tsukasa manage to do that?!

"As you can see, this is the Sharingan. You will soon witness its power."

Kaedeji opened the door and went out.

Outside, several figures were already poised to attack. If Kaede Tsukasa didn't come out soon, they would launch a preemptive strike.

"Huh? That's terrifying! Being stared at by eyes like that, I feel like I don't even dare to move... Can the three-tomoe Sharingan be this powerful? It feels like I'm facing Madara-sama's eyes," Tobi muttered.

Obito's expression shifted between light and dark: "It's not just about the power of his eyes. What's with that intense malice? This goes beyond the scope of the Sharingan. Where did he get such a strange eye?"

If this thing were a regular three-tomoe Sharingan, Obito would have gouged out his own eyes and swallowed them!

Obito didn't do anything, but Kushina followed Kaedeji out.

Ah Fei asked, "What about us? Should we go?"

"Go to hell! I've already done my best to stop Yahiko and Nagato for him! With his strength, he shouldn't have been killed. He could have escaped, and besides..."

Moreover, in a head-on battle, Kaede Tsukasa might not necessarily lose. With a body formed by combining a copy of Hashirama and a strange Sharingan, plus the assistance of a large number of zombies, Obito was also very curious about what kind of power Kaede Tsukasa could unleash.

This is a question that even Kaede Tsukasa himself is very curious about.

"It's been a long time, almost a year since we last met, Hokage-sama. I'm truly flattered that you would bring such a grand display of power to me tonight," Kaedeji said.

The Third Hokage donned military uniform, his expression complex.

"So you really are here. I was wondering why the barrier team couldn't pinpoint your location... Things have come to this. I really didn't want to see you at a time like this..."

"Why say such things? Since the village has already decided to take action against me, meaningless remarks are only disgusting."

Kaede Tsukasa, shirtless, faced the figures outside and met their complex gazes, and said calmly, "To be honest, I've been looking forward to this moment for a long time. I really hope you can live to see what this village looks like under my rule."

"Enough!" Danzo shouted from behind the Third Hokage. "Do you really think you've already won? This village was built and expanded by generations of people who poured their hearts and souls into it. It's not a place for someone like you to possess!"

"So, Shimura Danzo, you seem to subconsciously regard the achievements of several generations as your own achievements, and you even have the audacity to stand up and criticize me, a hero of Konoha."

Kaede Tsukasa chuckled lightly: "After dealing with all of you, this village should be a bit cleaner, right? Also, Tsunade-senpai, Dan-senpai, I didn't expect you two still haven't left?"

Kaede Tsukasa's gaze swept past Orochimaru, who was looking at him with amusement, and landed on Tsunade and Kato Dan.

The two of them also looked conflicted, and even now they were still trying to salvage the relationship between the village and Kaede Tsukasa.

"Tsukasa, leave! Leave the village now! The village won't consider you a rogue ninja!" Tsunade couldn't help but urge her. "In a few years, both sides will have calmed down. If you still want to come back, we'll allow you to come back for a visit!"

Kato Danya said helplessly, "You saved my life, so I shouldn't be on your side. But I can't do nothing in this situation... Let's leave. Go on a trip or do something else. It's the best option, and neither of us will get hurt."

If an ordinary ninja dares to leave the village, he will be labeled a traitor and hunted down to death in no time. But if a powerful ninja does this, there will be no problem.

If they were to pursue and kill them, the village would have to send out an even stronger force. Any losses would be a huge problem, and more importantly, they might not even be able to kill them. Instead, they would create a formidable enemy that the village would never forget.

In the original timeline, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Roshi, Han, and even Deidara and Sasuke who joined Orochimaru all had the experience of leaving their own villages and were not classified as rogue ninjas for a long time.

Kaede Tsukasa shook his head: "You know my personality; I don't compromise. If I were willing to back down, I would have remained silent and silently endured everyone's criticism and accusations when those rats were manipulating public opinion."

"So, Kushina, as the village's Jinchuriki and inheritor of Lord Mito's will, you're also going to betray the village?" A last glimmer of hope still flickered in the Third Hokage's eyes.

He didn't understand.

Not only him, but everyone present was also confused! They couldn't understand why Kushina would side with Kaede Tsukasa!
When did the relationship between these two become so close that they could betray the village together? The village had always had people closely monitoring Kushina's actions, and they did know that Kaedeji had entered and exited Kushina's house before, but they never expected it to end like this!

Kushina, who has been nurtured by the village for so many years, actually doesn't stand on the village's side at this crucial moment!
A hint of sadness appeared on Kushina's face, which was quickly replaced by indifference.

Kaede Tsukasa said, "Don't misunderstand, I never intended to use Kushina as part of my forces. I'm strong enough to take you all down on my own."

"Attack!" the Third Hokage shouted sternly.

Danzo and his two advisors immediately retreated.

Kaedeji felt his body suddenly stiffen. Looking down, he saw that he was already trapped by the Shadow Binding Technique, and the members of the Mountain Clan were trying to control his body with the Mind Transfer Technique.

The Third Hokage, Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Dan Kato seized the opportunity to move at high speed, occupying the four corners and surrounding Tsukasa Kaede and Kushina in the middle.

"Four Red Sun Formation!"

Four red light curtains, like solid barriers, blocked Kaede Tsukasa in the middle.

Kaede looked up at the sky: "So it's a barrier technique. It's really not easy to gather four Hokage-level ninjas. Only Konoha Village in the entire ninja world can come up with this kind of setup."

Jiraiya and Sakumo Hatake were still besieging Hidan and his group.

With Danzo and others, as well as the clan leaders of various ninja clans on the periphery, no matter how you look at it, Kaede Tsukasa's situation was extremely perilous.

This is not over yet.

Swish!
Minato Namikaze appeared within the Four Red Sun Formation, placed a hand on Kushina's shoulder, glanced at Tsukasa Kaede with a serious expression, and immediately used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Kushina away.

Everything happened so fast that Kaedeji Tsukasa didn't take any action until the Third Hokage showed a relieved smile.

"Interesting. Now I can go on a killing spree without any restraint. The Four Red Yang Formation binds not only me, but also you. Well then, let's try this first... Susanoo!"

(End of this chapter)