Zombie Sage in Naruto

Chapter 151 Hamura's Fate, Giant Tenseigan
The Third Raikage realized that something was very wrong.

If a few Cloud Village ninjas occasionally appeared here, it could be understood as a very few prisoners captured by Kaedeji Tsukasa. But when these people appeared one after another, it meant...

"It seems that Kumogakure suffered a defeat, probably a crushing one. Kaedeji's specialty is leaving no room for the enemy. Could it be that all the people you placed outside have been wiped out?"

Old Purple dodged the Third Raikage's punch by sidestepping. Compared to the tall and burly Third Raikage, Old Purple, who was only 1.5 meters tall, looked incredibly petite.

"Huh, where is this? Why is it an endless desert?"

"Could it be the Land of Wind? It appeared here in an instant... Kaede Tsukasa used space-time ninjutsu to throw us into the desert without our knowledge, intending to leave us to fend for ourselves?"

"Damn it, what a vicious thought! Are they trying to make us die of thirst and starvation?! Wait, could that be Lord Raikage? Lord Raikage is here too!"

"Run! Run!! The evil Konoha Ghoul Lord must wipe us out!"

"Calm down, it seems the Third Hokage has broken free of control!"

Seeing the Third Raikage's body crackling with yellow lightning and his solemn expression, countless Cloud Village ninjas were moved to tears.

Although they were defeated, and defeated badly, as long as they can see that Lord Raikage has broken free from Kaedeji's genjutsu control and regained his freedom, then the current difficulties are no problem at all. Lord Raikage will lead them to continue forward!
The Third Raikage quickly learned what had happened from these people.

"The direct confrontation failed because of Kaede Tsukasa's timely arrival. Not only did it fail to inflict much damage on Konoha, it also emboldened their side."

The Third Raikage clenched his fists in anger.

He hated himself. If he could have fought with Kaedeji for a little longer, he might have been able to drag the battle out until the Cloud Village forces defeated the Leaf Village forces, which were at a significant disadvantage in terms of numbers!

It should be noted that the military power of the Hidden Cloud Village was already extremely strong. In the original timeline, after the end of the Third Shinobi World War, they were so arrogant that they captured Hinata Hyuga, forced Hizashi to commit suicide, and made the Hidden Leaf Village apologize and bow down.

With Aya Yotsuki and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki in command, and Tsuchida in charge, leading 15,000 men to encircle and annihilate the 10,000 men led by the clan leaders of the Senju, Uchiha, and other large and small ninja clans, the odds of victory were extremely high; they were practically guaranteed to win.

But who would have thought that after Kaede Tsukasa defeated him, he rushed back at the most critical moment and used his body to hold off Yotsuki Ai and Killer Bee? This was too fatal. The two Kage-level fighters of Kumogakure were essentially held back by the Kage of Kumogakure and almost lost their lives. Who could bear that?

The final battle casualties, in particular, caused the Third Raikage's blood pressure to spike. Konoha ninjas fought and died, only to be resurrected and continue their vigorous charge, sparing no effort to overwhelm the Cloud Village ninjas who possessed the tailed beast cloaks.

The offerings needed for resurrection were all the Cloud Village ninjas they had killed in their previous lives. This drove the Konoha ninjas even crazier. The tactic of trading blows for blows had become the norm, all in order to kill as many Cloud Village ninjas as possible before they died, to gain some decent battle merits, and then wait for Kaede Tsukasa's resurrection.

The Third Raikage felt as if his heart was being torn apart, and his eyes turned bloodshot.

"It's all my fault! If I were stronger... no, if I could have devised better tactics when fighting Kaedeji, and bought everyone more time, things wouldn't have turned out this way!"

Admittedly, even if all of Konoha's tens of thousands of ninjas were to die, Kaedeji could slowly revive them afterward. But don't forget, revival comes at a price. The stronger the ninja, the higher the price for each person revived. This is a number that even Kaedeji finds unbearable.

Even if Kaedeji really went to great lengths to search for corpses all over the ninja world, it would at least slow him down and buy some time for Kumogakure and other villages.

More importantly, the original plan of the Hidden Cloud Village was to burn all the corpses on the spot after defeating the Leaf Village forces, leaving only a pile of ashes for Kaede Tsukasa, so that Kaede Tsukasa could not even use the resurrection jutsu. In this way, a part of the Leaf Village's living force could be permanently eliminated, and at least the situation of living people and corpses jumping back and forth would not occur.

Once other ninja villages take action and continuously reduce the number of ninjas in Konoha using this method, even Hokage Kaede Tsukasa won't be able to withstand the casualties. At the very least, in the end, the village under his rule will become lifeless.

The best-case scenario is that this will inspire many Konoha ninjas to launch a rebellion and overthrow Kaedeji's rule. But what if someone suddenly uses a sealing technique or something similar and manages to kill Kaedeji in one fell swoop?
At that moment, a voice came from behind the Third Raikage: "Don't be sad. This is not your fault. Even if you didn't do this, you couldn't have changed the situation. You might as well stay in this world."

"Hmph, you have no attachment to Iwagakure—you're not Roshi, so who are you?!"

The Third Raikage instantly turned around, his body crackling with lightning once more, and glared furiously at Old Purple, whose tone had changed.

At this point, the whites of Old Purple's eyes had already turned black and red. The Third Raikage was very familiar with this; every dark personality that reflected the real waterfall and materialized had this basic characteristic.

"Me? You can also call me Kaedeji Tsukasa. Although I hate to admit it, I am indeed the one who lost the battle and had no choice but to enter this world to manage you guys who are also losers."

"You can control everyone who enters here and attach yourself to them? Including me?" The Third Raikage thought of the Spirit Transformation Technique and the Mind Transfer Technique. The disgusting nature of these techniques was outrageous and impossible to defend against.

"Hmph, you could say that, but the main reason is that I'm too lazy to waste my energy on you, so I'm just communicating with you this way." The dark personality sneered.

He could indeed go in person, but there was no need. Every time he appeared in this illusion, he would have to bear a great mental burden, and the consumption of chakra would increase dramatically—this illusory world was ultimately created by the two Kaede Tsukasa together.

More than a dozen Cloud Village ninjas had gathered around the Third Raikage in fear and unease, watching Old Purple warily across from them.

They realized something was wrong, but they couldn't pinpoint the exact situation.

The little four-tailed fox remained perched on Old Purple's shoulder, tilting its head to examine the dark personality controlling Old Purple's mind: "What an evil technique! It can create such a bizarre illusionary world, pulling in and trapping the consciousness of many people, and even taking over the 'identity' of those who enter..."

The Four-Tails prides itself on its vast knowledge, but this is the first time it has encountered such a terrifying technique.

"Lord Raikage, what's going on? That's the Four-Tails, isn't it? If it's not mistaken, have we fallen into a genjutsu?"

"An illusion that allows so many of us to enter the same illusion and even talk to each other within it?"

"Hey, it's real me, you're not fake, are you? This isn't the companion I know at all, it's just something I imagined?"

"You bastard, do you want to fight? Have you forgotten how I beat you up when you were four years old on the street in front of the Raikage Building? You're the one who's more like a fake!"

These Cloud Village ninjas looked around at the people with suspicion. After exchanging a few words, they figured the others must be genuine as well, and immediately fell into an eerie silence, their fear growing stronger.

The Third Raikage questioned, "I don't care which Kaede Tsukasa you are, the one in reality or the dark personality, what exactly do you want to do by trapping us here?"

"Didn't I tell you? This is an interesting experiment, and you should feel honored to be among the first test subjects. In order to get good feedback from you, the real me will take good care of your bodies and won't let you die easily."

The dark personality shrugged: "Happy? You can probably live forever too, albeit in the form of the living dead."

"what?!"

"This is absurd and vicious! What's the point of the immortality of the living dead? This is the most terrifying torture in the world!"

"Is that so? So that's what you think? But although you've lost your physical freedom, you've gained spiritual freedom. You can stay far away from the despair of the ninja world. Isn't that something to celebrate? Don't be too greedy, you bastards. Just accept the favor I'm giving you obediently."

The voice of the darker personality also turned cold, filled with irritability and impatience.

At this moment, the Third Raikage confirmed that the Kaede Tsukasa standing before him was indeed the dark personality reflected through the True Waterfall.

Although he still didn't know how Kaede Tsukasa had managed to cut out his dark side and throw it into this illusionary world to act as... a supervisor or something.
What do you want from us?

"We want everything! Your bodies will become the foundation for sustaining this world, and can be used in battle when necessary; your spirits will become the natives of this world, for those who enter here through normal means to use," the dark personality sneered.

"use?"

“Use, for example, by fighting against you to train in ninjutsu, and use contribution points to extract combat experience, precious techniques, etc. from your heads that can be learned and taught.”

The dark personality controlling Old Purple spread his arms wide, his short stature making it hard to breathe: "In short, you will become NPCs in this world, striving to maintain its operation and satisfying the 'players' who enter here. That is the meaning of your existence."

"This, this, this..."

"Unheard of! What kind of heinous technique is this, treating us like tools that can be repeatedly resurrected?!"

"This is clearly using resurrection magic on the mental level! What do they take us for?!" "Players? Who are the players? Who has the right to fight us in this world, or even obtain the knowledge within our minds?!"

"Is that even a question? It's definitely the evil ninjas of Konoha! This guy wants to turn other ninja villages into a breeding ground to nourish Konoha, using the elites trained in our village to train the younger generation of Konoha!"

The term "leveling up by defeating monsters" doesn't exist in the ninja world yet, but it will soon become widespread.

The dark personality couldn't be bothered with these incessant chatter. They were underestimating him and his original self, only considering the people of Konoha Village in this world? That's too narrow a vision; the entire ninja world is their target.

Kaede Tsukasa's interim goal is to create a final, unified whole for chakra on this planet.

He left Lao Zi's body, and Lao Zi, who had regained his self-awareness, looked blankly at the terrified and furious people in front of him.

"...It seems something special has happened. This time I'm truly under the control of illusion. Believe it or not, bring on the fight. I'm not going to die anyway. Kaede Tsukasa won't let me die like this until he's squeezed every last drop of value out of me." Old Purple looked coldly at these people, his gaze finally settling on the Third Raikage.

The Third Raikage was extremely irritable. He was never known for his good temper, but he was more than just angry; he was filled with deep helplessness.

"There is no perfect magic in this world. This seemingly flawless illusionary world must have flaws, but we just haven't found them yet. If we keep searching and trying, we will definitely find something."

The Third Raikage looked at everyone and said, "As long as we persevere, there is hope. When the time comes, we will take everything from Kaede Tsukasa and return to our own village."

People responded immediately, encouraging themselves, but it was hard to say how much they actually believed. Even the Third Raikage and Roshi were trapped here, let alone them.

"The Four-Tails is a chakra creature, so why is it trapped here?" The Third Raikage looked at Rōshi's shoulder.

The Four-Tails coldly said, "I became the cornerstone of this world much earlier than you. My body is constantly having its chakra drained away. Every time I recover some, it is drained away again."

A chill ran through everyone. The so-called foundation was that their bodies had to generate chakra and transmit it to this illusionary world.
A living dead who only knows how to create chakra...

in reality.

More and more Cloud Village ninjas couldn't help but turn and flee. A major rout had already occurred. Many Cloud Village ninjas were constantly being divided and surrounded. Those who gave up resistance could still retain some dignity. Those who tried to fight to the death, or even tried to find an opportunity to destroy their own bodies, successfully attracted the attention of Kaede Tsukasa and turned into zombies on the spot.

Anyway, Kaede doesn't need to turn everyone into human batteries or zombies, then revive the dead and use the revived people as batteries; that would be fine too.

"The way the Divine Tree assimilates everyone into White Zetsu is somewhat similar to how Kaguya also needs to cultivate the most powerful Divine Tree people from a large group of White Zetsu to help her fight against the Otsutsuki clan."

Kaguya was being relatively restrained; she planned to utilize the planet's natural energy to bolster her resistance and use the planet's native inhabitants to train her subordinates.

The first method involves directly extracting all the natural energy from the Divine Tree to produce a Chakra Fruit, leaving the planet to become a dead star in the vast universe.

Kaede felt that compared to Kaguya, Isshiki, and the like, he was far too kind and was willing to provide those who had contributed with a job that would never lead to unemployment.

As for being an NPC in the illusionary world, having their experience points repeatedly farmed by future logins... Just being alive is already a blessing. These guys shouldn't ask for too much. It's more meaningful than dying and returning to the Pure Land, right?
Kaede looked at the fleeing people, his gaze passing over Yotsuki Ai. This guy wasn't very valuable to him; the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki was more useful.

at the same time.

Hamura, who had been frequently observing the situation in the ninja world recently, finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"Brother, did you see that? Did you see that? What a crazy thing to do! He's creating a fake world, and I bet he intends to make this absurd world last forever!"

Hamura was astonished. He had never imagined that Kaedeji's ambition was so great. Was he going to manually replicate the ninja world and then firmly grasp all the humans in the ninja world, from birth to death, in his own hands?

“He wants to become the ‘final producer’ of this world, which will destroy all our hard work! Of course, we risked our lives to seal away the Mother and give this world freedom, not to wait for a new ‘Mother’ to appear!”

Hamura was deeply enraged. Those who did not participate in that battle had no idea how difficult it was for the two of them to win. For a son to lay a hand on his mother required immense courage!

The Sage of Six Paths' expression also turned somewhat serious. His perception far surpassed that of Hamura, allowing him to detect more details of the illusionary world.

Although we can't truly understand the whole picture yet, if we leave it unattended...

“Perhaps the next stage of the illusory world is locking up the soul, preventing people from returning to the Pure Land after death,” Hamura said. “The body will become his corpse and sacrifice, and the soul will be taken away to fill the world he created. He is no different from his mother in doing so. Do you still firmly believe that he is part of the ninja world’s self-reform?”

The Sage of Six Paths hesitated, becoming somewhat uncertain. He had genuinely believed that the changes Kaede Tsukasa brought to the ninja world would ultimately become part of destiny itself, adding color to the grand process of the ninja world's transformation.

But now... after all the changes, it seems the fate of the ninja world is heading in the same direction Kaguya did back then? All the variables and development potential are being held tightly by one individual?

"You can tolerate this, but I can't! The ninja world is the result of our hard work and dedication, how can he destroy it in this way?"

"Let's observe further, maybe..."

"Maybe he really will stifle all possibilities? The longer it goes on, the more people he can control, and the more difficult he will be to deal with."

Hamura made a decision: "I intend to take action myself and end his threat to this world! This world has not been destroyed by the Otsutsuki clan, nor can it be controlled by another alien."

"Have you figured out the Otsutsuki clan's reincarnation technique?"

"Although I don't fully understand it, it's theoretically possible to do it with the Giant Tenseigan," Hamura said coldly. "Although I can only use it once, and it will put a heavy burden on the Giant Tenseigan, it's worth it if I can succeed."

He didn't believe that Kaedeji could escape his pursuit. So what if he knew space-time ninjutsu? It's not like anyone can't!
Among ninjas, space-time ninjutsu is extremely precious and even nearly unsolvable. However, within the Otsutsuki clan, it is an extremely basic ability, and it is much easier and more spontaneous to use than the space-time ninjutsu of ordinary ninjas, almost instinctively!

An Otsutsuki who cannot perform space-time techniques simply does not exist.

Unless Kaedeji can use that Void Realm Technique to escape the ninja world in one go and run to another planet, there is no way he can escape his pursuit!

Hamura said, "After I kill him, I will die too. The rest is up to you, brother. This Ninja World War will return to its original course. Before I die, I will eliminate all the zombies and eradicate the Corpse Release from this world."

"Understood. Since you've made your decision, then go ahead and do it. I will oversee this world and pass on the power of Yin-Yang Release to someone I can entrust with it."

The Sage of Six Paths nodded emphatically, without showing any regret on his face. They had been dead for a long time and had little attachment to living.

Hamura could risk everything to personally intervene, but the Sage of Six Paths couldn't. He was the last line of defense for the native ninjas to defeat Kaguya. Unless Kaguya descended to earth, he would not immediately follow up with his own attack; otherwise, he would never squander the power at his disposal.

"Your descendants went through a lot of trouble to gather that Tenseigan, right? Wouldn't it be too much of a stretch to use it now?" the Sage of Six Paths asked.

Hamura said calmly, "Even if it's used to disintegrate into countless Byakugan, it doesn't matter. The things my descendants left on the moon have done have greatly disappointed me."

He didn't have any particular opinion about the Hyuga clan. They were inherently inferior to his pure-blooded descendants on the moon in terms of bloodline. The Hyuga clan used the Caged Bird Seal to restrict themselves, cutting off their own potential for development. But the fact that they have survived to this day is still worthwhile.

At least unlike those people on the moon, there are no caged birds, the main family and the branch family fought each other, not only were all the scorned people removed, but almost everyone was killed.

The Sage of Six Paths said, "The giant Tenseigan contains a lot of your chakra. If you forcefully use the power of this eye, I'm afraid you will completely exhaust its power, and your descendants will not be able to reassemble the disintegrated Byakugan into the giant Tenseigan."

Unless, of course, all the eyes of the Hyuga clan in the ninja world are gouged out, which would also require considering the problem of breaking the Caged Bird Seal.

Hamura didn't care. His illusory figure transformed into countless points of light, rapidly rising and flying towards the bright moon in the sky.

On the surface of the moon, there are many buildings, most of which have been reduced to ruins. Only a few eyeless living people have survived, clinging to their last bit of willpower. Without that willpower, they would be nothing more than walking corpses.

Hamura didn't even bother to greet these guys, and went straight to the giant Tenseigan, which was tens of meters in diameter, and merged into it.

(End of this chapter)