Zombie Sage in Naruto

Chapter 219 A Corner of the Truth of This World, and...Even Stronger Eyes
The throbbing pain in his soul made Ban frown deeply; this was an injury far more serious than any physical damage, and it was the first time he had ever experienced it.

Kaede Tsukasa's actions were like those of a precise executioner. Although this strike severely injured Madara, it was not beyond redemption, and Madara retained most of his strength.

After all, if only one hand is sealed, it still doesn't affect his ability to form hand seals with one hand. The only impact is on his physical skills, but he can still use Susanoo to exchange blows. He rarely has the opportunity to rely solely on this body to rush in and fight his opponent hand-to-hand.

The premise is that he doesn't do it intentionally.

If Kaedeji had been more ruthless, or had simply sealed Madara's soul completely in one go, Madara would have definitely used Izanagi to rewrite his own reality and break free from the shackles of the Reaper Death Seal.

"What a cunning fellow."

Madara released Susanoo, his eyes coldly fixed on the phantom of the Shinigami that had devoured the soul of his right hand. For a moment, he pondered how to defeat the Shinigami and release his own part of his soul.

Gulu!

Having swallowed one of Madara's hands, the Grim Reaper licked his lips, revealing a satisfied expression. Although the quantity was small, the quality was high; this was the soul of a man who had autonomously awakened the Rinnegan!
At any other time, Death would never have had the chance to touch a soul of this caliber.

"The Corpse Demon Sealing Technique you used through the Corpse Escape Technique couldn't possibly seal my complete soul, could it? Its strength couldn't possibly be that great, otherwise it would be no different from the complete Corpse Demon Sealing Technique... You would have no choice but to hand over your soul to the Grim Reaper."

Ban snorted coldly. This was the real reason why he said Kaedeji was cunning. He had clearly tried his best to seal only one of his hands, but he kept saying that he had deliberately let him go, as if he had made a huge concession.

However, Madara was ultimately defeated by Kaede Tsukasa, which made him somewhat unhappy, especially since he lost sensation in his right hand. The terrifying pain stimulated all the nerves in his body. Looking down and observing with his Rinnegan, he could see strange runes wriggling on his right hand.

"It doesn't matter. This attack will cripple one of your hands. If we continue, a few more attacks will be enough to completely dismember your soul. Madara, you've already lost."

Kaede Tsukasa looked at the guy opposite him: "It seems you're not planning to use Izanagi. That's right, now that you've used Izanagi and lost an eye, the only way to recover is to manually dispel the Impure World Reincarnation, allowing your soul to return to the Pure Land and await the next resurrection..."

If Madara were to do that, he would truly be insane. Who could possibly summon him again using the Impure World Reincarnation technique? And how could anyone not be wary of Madara reversing the hand seals to break the Impure World Reincarnation technique the next time they summon him?
Even better, activating a pre-arranged sealing technique the moment Madara is summoned back to the mortal world to completely seal him away would be a viable option.

Madara wouldn't do something so risky and pointless unless absolutely necessary. He's only lost an arm, which doesn't significantly affect his fighting ability.

Madara still prefers to become the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki.

"Then congratulations. That cautious young man from back then is now qualified to stand in a higher position than me."

"I'll take this as a compliment from you."

Kaedeji also dispelled all the spells and arranged for the wooden doll to find a place to lie down, so that it could be regarded as a super tree taking root in this area. Without Kaedeji's control, the wood-style creations would become part of nature.

The two who had just been fighting fiercely, seemingly about to overturn the ground, were now calmly conversing, as if their earth-shattering battle and the various natural disasters they had created were all illusions. Only the vast, ravaged land remained in ruins.

"From now on, I'll be in charge between us, okay? You should also realize that I still have a lot for you to do, and I won't kill you easily before I've squeezed all the value out of you," Kaede Tsukasa said.

"Humph……"

Madara remained noncommittal. It was true that Kaede Tsukasa won this battle, but that didn't mean that Kaede Tsukasa could completely suppress him. He was mainly limited by the strength of his body and couldn't truly unleash his strongest power.

At the very least, Limbo: Border Jail could only create a shadow, which was then sealed away by Tsukasa Kaede in one move, which already greatly displeased Madara.

If another shadow appears, it's equivalent to Madara creating two copies of himself. With the shadows cooperating with each other in battle, it will be very difficult for Kaede Tsukasa to succeed in using sealing techniques.

“Speak, tell me the information you know. I’m very interested in the secret events happening in this ninja world… I know who Indra is, and why is Indra’s chakra involved?” Madara asked.

"Because obtaining Indra's chakra is the final step to obtaining the eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, it is impossible to complete the fusion of eye power with just two pairs of Mangekyou Sharingan that are related by blood."

"?!"

Madara clutched his right hand, looking in surprise at Kaedejima walking towards him.

As he spoke, his right hand was disappearing continuously, with large amounts of debris falling from it—this part of his body, having lost its soul, would eventually vanish.

"You mean... I have Indra's chakra? When did that happen?" A dangerous glint appeared in Madara's eyes.

"It has been there from the beginning. As you grow, this chakra has continued to develop and grow, deeply integrated with you, and can never be separated from you again."

Kaede Tsukasa said, "Chakra is the product of the fusion of life energy and spiritual energy. When chakra can be reincarnated and attached to different hosts, the spiritual characteristics contained within it will also continuously erode and influence the host. Therefore, Madara, your current personality and even some of your cognition are products of the influence of Indra's chakra."

Each generation of Ashura gains recognition and support from everyone; chakra is like warm sunshine, making people want to get close to it.

Each generation of Indra has more faith in the power in his own hands, preferring to believe that he can get things done on his own rather than gathering a bunch of useless people.

As the reincarnation of Indra's chakra, how could Madara be completely unaffected? From the moment he was born, Madara's thinking and cognition were skewed, and he had already parted ways with the person he was supposed to become.

Madara was extremely shocked. This information had a profound impact on his understanding of the world. He was the reincarnation of Indra's chakra? Born with the chakra of the progenitor of the Uchiha clan? This was simply too absurd.

Techniques for resurrecting the dead or creating artificial humans are nothing to Madara, but when it comes to abstract concepts like "reincarnation"... "Is the information reliable? Where did you get this information from?" Madara asked directly.

“Absolutely credible. This kind of thing is probably no secret to those at the Six Paths level, although they may not care about it. Relying on such a clumsy method as reincarnation to prolong life is probably a joke to them.”

Kaede shook his head. He said the same thing again: long-lived species really can't understand the ways of many short-lived species. The rules of the game they follow and the resulting ways of thinking are completely different.

Reincarnation over thousands of years? Is it so difficult to live for thousands of years that reincarnation is necessary?

"Those eyes you got by making a wish..."

"It is Indra's eye, an eye used only for the sake of transition, so it has always had a three-tomoe pattern. My personal judgment is that Indra did not actually have the Mangekyou Sharingan. His three-tomoe form was able to control the ultimate eye power. It is because the bloodline of your descendants has degenerated that you have the two stages of Mangekyou and Eternal Mangekyou."

Kaede Tsukasa replied, "Although these eyes, which I obtained through a wish, are essentially a replica, they seem to possess a certain amount of Indra's chakra, enough for me to complete the fusion of my eye powers."

Even though Madara was rational and cold-blooded, he was somewhat vulnerable at this moment. He didn't think that Kaedeji would use such clumsy words to deceive him. Besides, Obito had indeed failed to complete the fusion of eye powers, while Kaedeji had succeeded in a very short time. He had witnessed the whole process with his own eyes.

Was I destined from the moment I was born not to be who I originally was? Was my thinking and cognition gradually influenced and altered by the chakra of my ancestors?
Ban, an extremely proud man who has always believed in his own talent, wisdom, and strength, is inwardly restless.

Even his defeat to Kaede Tsukasa and the sealing of a part of his soul did not shock and anger him so much!
"From another perspective, this is the curse of your race. You are born with an ancient bloodline, but the bloodline is incomplete. The power of constantly digging into and completing the bloodline, every success proves that you are losing yourselves."

Kaede Tsukasa showed no mercy: "Without Indra's chakra, the limit of your clan is just an ordinary Mangekyou Sharingan, stuck at the Kage level, and will never make any further progress, and will never be able to touch the realm of Super Kage."

The only exception was Obito, who, with the Rinnegan and the Ten-Tails, broke through the limits of the Kage and stood at a higher level.

Others, without Indra's chakra, could only awaken a pair of Mangekyou Sharingan no matter how much trouble they caused. After a few intense battles, they would go blind and fall from the Kage rank...

Most people don't even have the Mangekyou Sharingan. They can only be elite Jonin for the rest of their lives. None of them have reached the Kage level through their own efforts without the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Madara's face was ashen: "Enough, stop talking. What Indra chakra reincarnation? A mere bunch of immortal chakra, and you dare to decide my fate? This thing is like a tailed beast... Wait, Izanagi?"

"Who knows if the Sage of Six Paths did the same thing to his two sons when he created the nine tailed beasts with Izanagi? The immortal chakra is like a wandering ghost in the ninja world, almost like a curse that is reincarnated generation after generation."

Kaedeji casually remarked that he didn't really care whether the Sage of Six Paths was involved or not, because it didn't make much sense.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Naruto and Sasuke resealed Kaguya and saved the world in the original timeline. At first glance, it seems that the continuous reincarnation of these two chakras is beneficial to the world, at least in terms of inheriting the power of the Sage of Six Paths to protect it.

The problem is, weren't Madara and Hashirama the ones who enabled Kaguya to escape? Surely it's not that a thousand years have passed, the seal's effectiveness has weakened, and Naruto and Sasuke need to jump out and reseal it to strengthen it?
Kaede Tsukasa had no interest in the mess in between. In any case, if he wanted to control the planet beneath his feet and rule over all humans and summoned beasts, he would have to face the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya sooner or later; it was just a matter of the order in which they would meet.

Madara's face darkened: "Then Hashirama must be the reincarnation of Ashura's chakra, Wood Release... Ten-Tails..."

He clearly realized that he was one step closer to the truth of this world, and when he wanted to get more information from Kaedeji, Kaedeji just shrugged.

“Nagato has arrived. In any case, the Rinnegan you obtained by fusing the powers of Ashura and Indra is on Nagato. This is a real power.”

"..."

Madara turned to look at Nagato, who had rushed over, and stared at his own eyes reflected in Nagato's eye sockets, momentarily speechless.

His proudest achievement was simply fusing the power carried by two constantly reincarnated chakras? This is tantamount to still not breaking free from the shackles of the "curse".

"I want to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. You took away the eye I wanted. Are you going to force me to retrieve the eye that was transplanted into Nagato?"

"It's up to you, figure it out yourself. Anyway, it's your Rinnegan, not mine. But you might as well wait a few more years. The reincarnation of Indra's chakra has already appeared. Waiting a few more years might bring some surprises," Kaedeji said.

He won't let Naruto and Sasuke grow up to be in their thirties, or even twenty; he wants to completely integrate this planet before that.

Nagato, who was on his way, confirmed that the battle was over. He was somewhat silent at this moment. With his current power, it seemed that he had no way to confront Madara and Kaede Tsukasa head-on. According to Kaede Tsukasa's definition, was this the power of the Super Kage level?

What, then, is the power unleashed by the six realms above this when they exert their full strength...?

……

At the same time, Tobi was frantically running away with Obito, who had lost his eyesight.

Even though Afei was moving very fast, he could still feel the tremors coming from the ground. He knew that this was the sound of Kaede Tsukasa and the others fighting. If there were more Tailed Beast Balls flying all over the sky, it might be comparable to the battle at the Valley of the End from back then. Although Afei had only heard about that battle and had never actually seen it, because he had not been born at that time.

"Obito, why aren't you saying anything? Now is not the time to give up," Tobi said to the Obito inside him.

At this moment, Obito was clearly disheartened, having lost a great deal of energy and spirit, and no longer had the will to speak.

Afei continued, "Didn't I say before that it's not time to give up yet? Even if we lose a pair of Mangekyou Sharingan that haven't fully developed, we can still find a way to get stronger eyes."

(End of this chapter)