I'm in Konoha, and I started with Ashura Chakra.

Chapter 181: The Characters Have Changed; The Final Battle Is Imminent

"Roar...—.."

Amidst roars, five enormous white pillars rose from the sky, spreading outwards like fireworks.

Of course, this is a view from Yagyu's perspective, and from a high vantage point.

In fact, five white mud pillars flew out from the body of the demonic statue that had been smashed into a pulp.

At the top of each of these white pillars is the face of an animal, resembling a monkey, a bull's head, an insect, and so on.

After the five white pillars with animal patterns flew out, they landed around the bottom of the super-large crater.

After the white pillar landed, no more pillars extended from the Gedo Mazo, and the connection with the Gedo Mazo was severed.

However, the pillar continued to move, but the energy converged at the tip, merging to form a huge white sphere.

Next, the white spheres, like Deidara's clay, were sculpted into the shapes of several animals.

Immediately, the animals' identities were automatically colored, and they quickly transformed into several living creatures.

These animals are none other than the famous Eight-Tailed Ox-Demon, Seven-Tailed Chongming, Five-Tailed King Mu, Four-Tailed Sun Wukong, and Two-Tailed Nekomata.

"I almost thought we wouldn't make it out. I never expected that besides the old man, there would actually be someone who could beat this thing."

"Where is that guy with eyes like the old man? I'm going to kill him!"

"What are you waiting for? Run! This guy might arrest you."

As soon as the five tailed beasts appeared, they began to communicate. Among them, the two-tailed cat demon, which seemed like a monster, was immediately afraid that it would be sealed again and wanted to find Nagato to kill it.

Even if he dies, his bones should be ground to dust.

But the Seven-Tails spoke up to warn them and led the way in fleeing.

There was no way around it; the scene before me was just too terrifying.

Even though they are at the bottom of the super-large crater, they only occupy a small part of the space inside.

But outside the enormous crater stands a Thousand-Hand Guanyin statue, even taller than the world's highest peak.

Although they are all inside the Gedo Mazo, they share the same origin as the Gedo Mazo. To be precise, they are all part of the Ten-Tails, only they possess independent consciousness.

They can see everything that the demonic statues of the heretics can see.

Therefore, when the demonic statues of the heretics were destroyed, they seemed to see themselves being destroyed as well.

Even without feeling any pain, the power to destroy the earth and rewrite the map was something they simply couldn't handle.

Even if they joined forces, it would only be a matter of a few slaps from this Thousand-Hand Guanyin.

Therefore, the only one capable of flight, the Seven-Tailed Man, flapped its wings without hesitation and fled to the left of the Thousand-Armed Kannon.

Seeing that the Seven-Tailed Fox had run away, the Five-Tailed Fox Mu Wang and the Two-Tailed Fox Cat also ran away on all fours without hesitation. The Four-Tailed Fox Sun Wukong was a step slower, but he quickly slipped away.

Only the Eight-Tailed Gyūki remained in place, sensing Killer Bee's location.

Only after he could no longer sense Killer Bee's chakra and could not find his body did the Eight-Tails choose to leave.

Yagyu didn't care about the tailed beasts leaving, nor did he try to stop them.

After all, his goal and dream was not to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

Even if the tailed beasts escaped, or even if Nagato was killed and his Rinnegan was accidentally destroyed, Yagyu wouldn't care at all.

Of course, it would be a good thing if the Rinnegan hadn't been destroyed.

After all, Uchiha Hikaru gave Yagyu an idea: eye techniques can be transplanted!

After Ino revealed the Yamanaka clan's secret technique, Yagyu also found the scene of the Uchiha clan transplanting the eye technique into Hikaru's eyes through Hikaru's memories, and obtained the method of transplantation.

Yagyu's ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu have now reached the pinnacle, making him a being at the very top of mortals.

He can easily unleash various ninjutsu and compound ninjutsu, and can even do things that Hashirama Senju could not.

That is to have both the wooden dragon and the wooden Arhat use the Five Elements Escape Technique.

After activating Sage Mode, Yagyu, with his Sage Body fully perfected, can easily overwhelm Might Guy, who has opened the Seventh Gate. Any injury can be quickly and self-healed without any seals.

In terms of illusion techniques, unless it's a bloodline limit level illusion, no one's illusion techniques will be effective against Yagyu.

Yagyu's illusions, however, are effective against anyone below the Six Paths level, including Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju when he had mastered the Sage Mode.

This is because Yagyu not only possessed Kurama Yakumo's bloodline limit, but also successfully transplanted Uchiha Shisui's two eyes, Kotoamatsukami.

If he weren't worried about frightening Black Zetsu and Obito Uchiha and affecting his plans, Yagyu would have only needed to activate Sage Mode and the Mangekyou Sharingan; he wouldn't even have needed to use his exclusive dojutsu, Yomi no Tsuki, or the Complete Susanoo.

He only needs to use ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu to deal with Nagato, who is even stronger than in the original story.

Ignoring the departure of the tailed beast, Yagyu casually tossed down a handful of kunai.

After the kunai fell from the sky to the bottom of the pit, Yagyu teleported to the bottom of the super-large crater, looking at the Gedo Mazo in front of him, whose body was writhing and whose injuries were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, his eyes flashing red.

Yagyu vaguely guessed the truth.

Nagato was either pulverized by Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands: Top Transformed Buddha, vanishing along with his Rinnegan, or he hid inside the Gedo Mazo.

If Yagyu remembers correctly, the 100,000 White Zetsu are hidden inside the Gedo Mazo. This secret is known only to Kaguya Otsutsuki, Black Zetsu, Madara Uchiha, and Obito Uchiha.

When the earth was bombarded just now, Yagyu was very certain that he did not sense any spacetime fluctuations.

In other words, Nagato could not have been rescued by Obito Uchiha.

But it is also true that his chakra and body have disappeared.

They're either dead or hiding.

Yagyu, who believed in fate and destiny, was even more convinced that Nagato was hiding.

After all, the defensive power of the Gedo Mazo is not to be underestimated. Even if the destructive power of Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands: Top Transformed Buddha is strong, it cannot destroy the Gedo Mazo with the first punch.

Using the Gedo Statue as a shield, Nagato had a considerable amount of breathing room.

Furthermore, given that his control over the Gedo Mazo surpasses that in the original story, it's possible that he also discovered the alternate dimension within the Gedo Mazo.

Unfortunately, Yagyu's red-eye level is too low.

With his clairvoyance, he could only see that the Gedo Mazo contained a vast amount of chakra, and he couldn't even see the human body's meridians. He couldn't see what was inside the Gedo Mazo, nor could he sense whether it contained any other chakra.

This is the difference between dimensions!

Even if Yagyu possesses the power to destroy the Gedo Mazo, he is not on the same level or dimension as the Gedo Mazo.

Just like the Super Saiyans in the Dragon Ball world, they possess terrifying fighting power, but their level is still not as high as that of gods.

"They've gotten this far, and they still haven't come out? Looks like there's a problem over there too."

Liu Sheng suddenly looked in a certain direction, and thought to himself.

Madara Uchiha was the most important part of Black Zetsu's Infinite Tsukuyomi plan, and also the most important pawn in reviving his mother.

Similarly, in Yagyu's plan, Madara Uchiha was also the most important pawn.

The Fourth Shinobi World War has been going on for over ten days now, and Yagyu thought that Madara Uchiha should have appeared long ago.

Unexpectedly, Orochimaru has yet to resurrect him using the Impure World Reincarnation technique.

Clearly, Orochimaru's cooperative relationship with Black Zetsu was far less deep than that of Kabuto Yakushi and Obito Uchiha in the original manga.

Similarly, the original Kabuto Yakushi's temperament was not as good as the current Orochimaru's.

As a spectator, Orochimaru's patience was beyond imagination.

It's unclear whether he genuinely didn't care or was worried about the danger he would face after resurrecting Madara Uchiha using the Edo Tensei technique.

However, Yagyu wasn't in a hurry.

Unlike Black Zetsu, who couldn't defeat Orochimaru, Yagyu could take care of Orochimaru in no time.

Therefore, Yagyu turned his attention back to the Gedo Mazo, which was now mostly repaired, and was about to reach out and touch it, using Wood Release and his special senses to find the entrance to the alternate dimension within the Gedo Mazo.

The next second, Yagyu's pupils contracted slightly.

A sound like a balloon bursting rang out.

The wound in front of Yagyu was writhing, constantly growing white mud to repair the body of the Gedo Mazo, which suddenly turned into an astonishingly large area of ​​white smoke.

When the gusts of wind and rain dispersed the smoke, the demonic statue had vanished.

"Um?"

Liu Sheng raised an eyebrow, genuinely surprised this time.

The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was summoned away?!

It's important to know that the Gedo Mazo, as the husk of the Ten-Tails, is different from the other nine tailed beasts.

Just like how, no matter how powerful Nagato was, he couldn't use the Rinnegan's exclusive eye technique.

In the original manga, when Madara Uchiha was first resurrected using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, he attempted to summon the Nine-Tails, but failed because the Nine-Tails was sealed inside Naruto's body.

However, after being resurrected, Madara Uchiha only retrieved one Rinnegan, and was immediately able to strip Obito Uchiha, the false owner of the Rinnegan, of his ownership of the Gedo Mazo.

Therefore, without a true Rinnegan, one cannot summon the Gedo Mazo.

But now, the demonic statue has been summoned away!

How could this not surprise Yagyu!

He was absolutely certain that this was not Madara Uchiha's doing.

Did Nagato do it? How did he escape the range of Sage Art: Wood Release - True Several Thousand Hands - Top Transformed Buddha?

It's important to understand that he is the true form of an outsider, not one of the Six Paths of Pain who can summon spirits at will.

There were no fluctuations from space-time ninjutsu before, indicating that it wasn't Obito Uchiha who rescued them.

Furthermore, Yagyu believed that Nagato had actually hidden in a different dimension inside the Gedo Mazo.

Now he was told that Nagato had already run away, and that he hadn't even discovered the way he escaped. How could Yagyu not be surprised?

"It seems I underestimated the strongest person of this era."

After his initial surprise, Yagyu couldn't help but smile slightly.

Clearly, he didn't care.

As the winner, he didn't need to care at all.

No matter how it escaped, it was just a rat.

We failed to kill the rat this time, but we can try again next time.

Then, Yagyu instantly disappeared into the bottom of the super-large crater.

Instead of seeking out Samui to win over the beautiful but aloof woman, he returned to the barrier of the Four Red Sun Formation.

At this time, Naruto and Sasuke were still fighting against Minato Namikaze and Tobirama Senju.

As for Hashirama Senju, he was trapped by Yagyu's wooden clone and the Four Red Yang Formation on the second level.

Otherwise, there would be no way to perform.

It's impossible for a mere wood clone to defeat Hashirama Senju.

If the wood clone is destroyed, Naruto and Sasuke Uchiha will be in danger.

Faced with the combined attack of the three Hokage, unless Naruto masters Kurama Mode and, together with Sasuke Uchiha, unleashes the Susanoo Armor, he will be utterly crushed by the three Hokage.

However, after having a good fight with Yagyu, he didn't plan to continue the act. He turned into a blur and rushed towards Tobirama Senju, preparing to help Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto defeat the previous Hokage one by one, paving the way for the upcoming final battle.

Meanwhile, inside a cave in a certain mountain.

"Obito—what are you doing?"

The white clone stared in disbelief at the two figures standing and lying in front of it.

The two people in front of me were both wearing black trench coats embroidered with red clouds, but the clothes were already tattered.

It was also covered in scars.

The person lying there was on the verge of death, about to breathe their last.

This person was none other than Nagato.

The other person was Uchiha Obito.

At this moment, Nagato's left eye was closed, and there was a bloodstain at the corner of his eye and on his face.

His body was covered in sharp thorns.

These spikes are of different colors, some black and some the color of dead wood, and are creations of Yin-Yang Release: Black Rod and Wood Release: Cutting Technique.

Looking at Obito Uchiha before him, whose aura was extremely weak and who could die at any moment, Nagato suddenly realized and said, "Obito... you... you really aren't Madara Uchiha."

"It doesn't matter whether it's Uchiha Madara or not, our goal is to create peace, just in different ways."

Having removed his mask, revealing his true face covered in scars, Obito Uchiha gouged out his left eye, whose pupil had turned white and completely lost its light, and then stuffed the Rinnegan he had dug out from Nagato's left eye directly into it.

With the help of Hashirama cells from half of his body, Obito Uchiha, like Madara Uchiha in the original manga, could use the cells immediately after digging them up.

I don't know if it was arrogance, carelessness, or simply stupidity—

After installing one Rinnegan, Obito Uchiha did not attack Nagato or his other right eye. Instead, he stepped out of the cave and took out a brand new mask with two empty parts that he had prepared for himself in the Kamui dimension and put it on.

"—Spiritual summoning!"

Before long, the shout reached the ears of the White Zetsu clone and Nagato from the outside in.

Seeing Nagato about to die, his chakra flow blocked by black rods, and his internal organs pierced by wooden spikes, a White Zetsu clone suddenly approached.

A soft, thud sounded, like a sharp object entering a body.

A few seconds later, the White Zetsu clone disappeared into the cave.

Nagato also stopped breathing completely, lying on the cold ground.

Even more miraculously, with his death, his body, which had been restored to its peak condition by the Heretical Statue Life-Sustaining Technique,

It withers at a visible speed, quickly returning to its original state, or even worse than before.