Zombie Sage in Naruto

Chapter 192 Bullshit, I'd avoid his sharp edge?!
“I see. I didn’t even realize I’d reached that number…” Obito said.

Kaede Tsukasa nodded: "Capturing prisoners is not easy. The villagers are getting smarter and smarter. They would rather commit suicide than accept my offer."

"Hmph, recruit? They'll live to become vessels from which you constantly extract chakra, and when they die, they'll become zombies to be thrown back onto the battlefield, or simply used as sacrifices. The people in those villages will never agree to such recruitment."

Obito had long wanted to visit Takigakure, one of Kaede Tsukasa's main bases and a crucial point of support for the Musou Tsukuyomi.

The small village of Takigakure was crammed with 20,000 ninjas who had no self-awareness... Even if Obito hadn't witnessed that scene firsthand, just imagining it in his mind was enough to tell him how horrific it would have been.

"The world's population is too small today, and the total number of ninjas that can be trained is too small. I am not satisfied."

The current global military strength, after the devastation of World War II and World War III, is far less than the level during World War IV on the original timeline, which was the result of more than a decade of peace.

Moreover, this number was accumulated based on an increasingly完善的 education system and increasingly advanced biotechnology.

Even now, even if Kaedeji is forcibly training new ninjas in various towns within the Land of Fire and constantly promoting chakra training methods among the large civilian population, it would still be useful if it resulted in a group of clumsy genin.

Now is the time to see its usefulness firsthand. Once the Musou Tsukuyomi is widely adopted, only those with chakra will be qualified to enter the Musou Tsukuyomi—even the worst genin, as long as they have the ability to generate chakra, will have a ticket to enter and will be qualified to contribute to Kaede Tsukasa.

Even if there are too many low-level ninja, their contributions accumulate, and at least they might get a glance from Kaedeji Tsukasa. These people will have next generations, who will continue to dedicate everything, whether willingly or unwillingly, to Kaedeji Tsukasa, their ultimate producer.

If a Chunin or Jonin who didn't appear in the original timeline were to appear, that would be an even bigger win.

Kaede Tsukasa said, "Are you really okay with just staying here with me like this? The Uchiha clan is having a secret meeting, and Shisui is there too. They might be plotting how to get rid of you."

“They don’t have the strength or the courage. This clan wouldn’t show their kunai to someone with the Mangekyou Sharingan… The only one who could fight me is Shisui, but he’s already crippled.”

Kotoamatsukami was ineffective against him, so could he use Susanoo? A Susanoo activated with only one eye is nothing to brag about—even though Obito can't use the power of both eyes at a high intensity right now, the Susanoo he creates might not even be as good as Shisui's one-eyed Susanoo. But that doesn't affect Obito's strong confidence.

Looking across Konoha Village, and even the entire ninja world, the only person he had to take seriously was Kaedeji Tsukasa.

Obito finally asked the question that had been puzzling him for a long time: "What do you need so much chakra for? With your abilities, chakra is the last thing you need."

This damned planet is full of conflict and killing, with people dying everywhere.

Kaede Tsukasa has passed the most difficult stage of his growth. With his current strength, he can easily become a living disaster in the ninja world. He has as many corpses as he wants, and if he doesn't have enough, he can turn living people into corpses at any time.

Why would anyone need to harvest chakra in this way? Obito also realized that Kaede Tsukasa wasn't using this method to fight against Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Kaede glanced at the guy: "Well, if you had asked before, I definitely wouldn't have told you, but it's fine now... My current body still has room for further improvement, which requires a huge amount of chakra."

"Going a step further? Could it be... the Otsutsuki?"

"That's right, your mind wasn't greatly affected, which once again proves the power of Kotoamatsukami."

Kaede Tsukasa didn't hold back his praise, even though it made Obito glare at him angrily, muttering things like "the Kotoamatsukami has been broken."

However, what Kaede Tsukasa said was true. He did not obtain chakra for the sake of obtaining chakra. His future opponents are Otsutsuki, or even more than one Otsutsuki from different timelines. Not to mention, some Otsutsuki themselves possess the ability to travel through time.

Chakra is something that the Otsutsuki clan would do anything to obtain, so Kaede Tsukasa would be even less likely to miss out. The more he seizes, the less the Otsutsuki clan will get, and the weaker they will become.

Furthermore, Kaede Tsukasa has successively obtained the chakra of various tailed beasts and also controls one of the fingers of the Gedo Mazo, which allows him to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki at any time.

The only thing that Kaedeji was worried about was the Sage of Six Paths. This old man really had a lot of Six Paths power in his hands. If Kaedeji really pushed him too far, he really had the ability to suppress Kaedeji.

"No matter which timeline the Sage of Six Paths is from, they are not easy to deal with... Isshiki Otsutsuki is also very troublesome. We cannot pin our hopes on taking the complete Tailed Beasts. We need to prepare multiple options."

Kaede Tsukasa's expression remained unchanged. Becoming the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki on a physical level was what he needed to do, while controlling all life forms on the global scale with the Musou Tsukuyomi on a mental level was another matter.

……

Before long, news of the official launch of Musou Tsukuyomi spread like wildfire.

This sparked curiosity and discussion among many people, who were eager to learn more about the Musou Tsukuyomi.

"The Formless Tsukuyomi? What kind of ninjutsu is this? Is it a new S-rank forbidden technique developed by Lord Kaedeji?"

"Well, judging from the published rating, it is indeed S-level, but you and I both know very well that sometimes it is only S-level because the upper limit of the rating is S..."

"Tsukuyomi? This seems to be a Mangekyou Sharingan technique from my clan, existing only in ancient records. It seems that the Hokage's Mangekyou Sharingan technique is Tsukuyomi. Musou Tsukuyomi is probably a type of Tsukuyomi?"

The middle and upper echelons of the Uchiha clan, who knew more and more secretive information, all wore complex expressions.

Everyone knows that the two Sharingan that Kaede Tsukasa obtained are problematic, but no one has publicly questioned this matter—even if Kaede Tsukasa resurrected an ancient powerhouse of the Uchiha clan, dug out his eyes, and transplanted them into his own body, there's nothing they can do.

But from another perspective, the fact that someone as powerful as Kaede Tsukasa needed to obtain the Mangekyou Sharingan further demonstrates the noble and powerful bloodline of the Uchiha clan.
These people could only resort to wishful thinking, their emotions a mixture of joy and sorrow. Occasionally, they would think that if Obito hadn't gone mad and Shisui hadn't lost his eyes, the two of them working together might have been able to take down the Fourth Hokage in one fell swoop...

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs," unless another Mangekyou Sharingan appears in the future with the ability to distort reality and forcibly correct all these real-life destinies.

"The Mangekyou Sharingan is so powerful, maybe the incident involving Obito and Shisui was orchestrated by the Hokage himself..."

"Shut up! If you say another word, I'll lock you up. If you want to die, don't drag your family down with you!"

"Even Lord Shisui himself hasn't said anything, don't you understand what you should do? Obey the intelligence and prepare to enter the Musou Tsukuyomi! Didn't you see that the Senju clan members are already creating chakra?"

Many people turned their attention to the Senju clan. To be fair, the Senju clan's so-called decline depends on who they are compared to. Even excluding Tsunade, who has disappeared from the mainstream, their remaining strength still far surpasses those secret technique clans.

Even if someone occasionally manages to obtain a Wood Release bloodline limit from Kaedeji, this Wood Release bloodline limit still requires the use of zombie viruses to maintain balance, which is equivalent to becoming a puppet indirectly controlled by Kaedeji, essentially a half-corpse—although Kaedeji no longer needs to secretly control these Senju clan members.

As a result, the Senju clan does not encourage its members to exchange Wood Release bloodline limit with Kaedeji, but instead focuses on slowly increasing the clan's numbers by reviving deceased members.

This did boost the Senju clan's strength, but compared to the Uchiha clan, it still felt lacking—they never cultivated a super genius who could dominate an entire generation!
The Uchiha clan had Obito, then Shisui, and even the younger Itachi had already begun to show his extraordinary talent. But what about the Senju clan? None.

However, the Senju clan's enormous chakra reserves are an advantage that other clans can never match. With the opening of the Musou Tsukuyomi, the Senju clan is destined to seize the initiative.

"The stronger one is, the more chakra one needs to create in order to qualify for the Musou Tsukuyomi... Hmph, no wonder the Senju clan acted first. Even so, they still have an advantage."

"Although the clan is unable to reproduce, what difference is there between the Senju clan and being unable to reproduce? They barely have any newborns born in a year!"

"Lady Tsunade must have a child by now, I haven't heard anything from her..."

"Hmph, don't let the Senju clan get ahead of us. Don't think you can overtake us with the Musou Tsukuyomi! Times have changed. The outstanding have the opportunity to live forever and can continuously help the weaker members of their clan achieve immortality! In other words, it's now a competition for existing resources!"

The Uchiha clan was already feeling resentful, but they couldn't expose the scandals within the clan—although they certainly couldn't hide them for long, they absolutely couldn't lose to other clans.

The Tsukuyomi of No Form is an illusory world, and the Uchiha clan must quickly establish an advantage within it.

"Once I've accumulated enough chakra, I need to go to the Hokage Building to receive the Hokage's technique..."

Soon, people did as instructed.

It's not that no one has doubts, but if you look at it from another angle, even matters of life and death are gradually being taken over by Kaedeji Tsukasa, so what's missing is an illusion?
People were successively marked with the Eight Thousand Spears. Immediately afterwards, they felt a powerful suction force erupt from the constantly flashing marks on their bodies, and the chakra they had painstakingly created was being lost at an alarming rate.

When most of his chakra was lost, his consciousness suddenly sank, and he officially entered the Musou Tsukuyomi.

When I opened my eyes again, I was even more shocked by this incredibly real world.

Birds sing and flowers bloom, mountains and rivers flow, wind, rain and thunder... just like the real world!

Even knowing that this is an illusionary world and that everything in sight is essentially false, the impact of examining all of this with a clear sense of self is undoubtedly enormous.

This was ultimately the result of years of hard work by Kaede Tsukasa, who painstakingly perfected the Musou Tsukuyomi using numerous consumables. At least the basic framework had been established, and the next step was simply to obtain more chakra and continue to refine it.

Similarly, because it is not perfect, or rather, because Kaedeji is too lazy to deliberately consume chakra, the safety factor within the Musou Tsukuyomi is... very low.

Those who were among the first to enter the Mukoro Tsukuyomi and were constantly looking for a way to escape would never miss an opportunity. With each change in the Mukoro Tsukuyomi, whether it was the addition of a new geographical environment or a change in day and night, they would desperately search for loopholes in the illusion, trying to bring their real selves back to reality.

As new people kept entering the venue, faced with this brand-new excitement, these guys became incredibly excited, their eyes bloodshot, and they moved around like ravenous woes.

"How did you wake up so quickly? Your complexion is also so bad. Did you expend so much chakra just to make you stop for such a short while?"

"Oh no! There's a bad guy in the Musou Tsukuyomi!"

"This is not normal. The document signed by the Hokage clearly states that the Musou Tsukuyomi can serve as a second world for living, training, and resting."

"I mean, there was a group inside that was lying in ambush on us newbies. I was killed the moment I went in, Captain Yashiro!"

"Such a thing is happening? Hmph, revealing his evil nature in the genjutsu world? This is deliberately going against our Uchiha clan, courting death! Watch me kill him!"

The Eighth Hokage of Uchiha was furious. He was already in a bad mood because of the clan's affairs, and now he was focused on opening up territory and establishing an advantage for the clan in the Musou Tsukuyomi, so he could not tolerate it.

"Who is the enemy? The Senju clan or someone else?"

"We were ambushed before we could even see clearly... Captain, we should avoid their main force and wait to see what happens next—"

"Bullshit! Me, avoid his sharp edge? The Uchiha clan must not fall behind!"

The Eighth Hokage worked even harder to generate chakra, and after paying it off, he successfully entered the Musou Tsukuyomi.

In the blink of an eye, he saw a shirtless, muscular man charging towards him from afar, his fist raised high, instantly piercing the long distance and landing in front of Yashiro.

"Holy crap, the Third Raikage?!" The Eighth Raikage exclaimed in shock.

boom!
The eighth generation's spiritual body was instantly destroyed.

The Third Raikage at full power possesses a speed that even the three-tomoe Sharingan cannot easily catch.

"Another one killed, and I got a tiny, insignificant replenishment... That bastard Kaede Tsukasa deliberately orchestrated all of this, intentionally not erasing my sanity, forcing me to keep killing those who enter this world!"

The Third Raikage was seething with hatred, but there was nothing he could do. In Kaede Tsukasa's world, he could only follow the rules of the game that Kaede Tsukasa had set. Even if he knew it was a trap, he had no choice but to jump in, so that at least he could see a glimmer of hope.

There are many other people doing similar things; they are mostly people from various ninja villages who were imprisoned by Kaedeji in previous years.

Thus, an unprecedented battle broke out, and it would continue for some time. Every battle and death would provide Kaede Tsukasa with a huge amount of chakra.

(End of this chapter)