I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 773 I'm not here to destroy this family, I'm here to join it.

"So, you're not content with the Pure Land remaining unchanged either?"

Looking at Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha grinned broadly and said, "Seeing me resurrected, you came without delay, really..."

"Um... I was resurrected a few months ago."

Hashirama Senju scratched his head, still unwilling to deceive Madara Uchiha. Madara's smile froze on his face, followed by disbelief, and finally, the anger of betrayal. He said:

"You were resurrected before me?! Then why didn't you come looking for me?!"

Hearing Madara Uchiha's question, Hashirama Senju rubbed his hands somewhat embarrassedly and said, "Well, here I am. I thought you weren't a match for Tatsuma, but I didn't expect you to be so strong."

"Ha~ I will never be defeated by anyone again, including you."

Despite the praise, Madara Uchiha showed no intention of letting Hashirama Senju off the hook, saying, "Make your move! Let me see just how far you can go, given that you're also a reanimated body!"

"Um... I am not a reincarnated body."

Hashirama Senju felt a little embarrassed, inexplicably feeling that he had really betrayed something, and that Madara Uchiha was too shameless.

He had already asked his younger brother, and he knew that the Impure World Reincarnation technique had flaws, especially for truly powerful individuals, because the quality of the offering would limit the strength of the person being reincarnated; the stronger the person, the more they would be weakened.

How could someone like Madara Uchiha, after being resurrected using Edo Tensei, actually display even greater power than in his previous life? That's definitely cheating! Or maybe something was added to the Edo Tensei process.

I never expected that Madara Uchiha, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, would try to defeat me in such a lowly way. Fortunately, I'm not an Edo Tensei body, and...

Hashirama Senju looked up at Madara Uchiha and said, "Madara, why do you have my chakra on you?"

"You mean this?"

Madara Uchiha tore off his armor, revealing a face on his chest—it was none other than Hashirama Senju's face. Madara Uchiha laughed arrogantly and said:

"This is the method I found to defeat you, to defeat you using your own strength! Too bad."

As he spoke, a hint of melancholy appeared on Madara Uchiha's face. He said, "Back then, you had already abandoned the ninja world and gone to the Pure Land alone."

"I'm dead."

Hashirama Senju twitched his lips. He wasn't the Sage of Six Paths, how could he possibly control his own life and death? No... wasn't the Sage of Six Paths dead too?

"Enough with the nonsense! Witness just how powerful I really am now!"

Madara Uchiha clasped his hands together, and a portion of the chakra he had extracted from Tatsuma was separated, causing a faint Sage's mask to condense on his chest.

"I didn't originally intend to use other forces to taint it, but since you're here, it doesn't matter anymore."

"boom!"

As Madara Uchiha finished speaking, his chakra suddenly exploded, and another layer of power seemed to cover the giant Susanoo.

"I never imagined that even after so many years of death, I would still be forced to fight you again."

Hashirama Senju shook his head, no longer resisting. He clasped his hands together, and his chakra surged and poured out.

"Wood Release: The Advent of the Tree World!"

In a short while, a sea of ​​trees burst forth from the ground, lush and verdant, each leaf stretching out as if absorbing energy.

Chenma also keenly sensed that the natural energy contained in the air, soil, and underground water was being absorbed by that sea of ​​trees.

Madara Uchiha did not interrupt the process, but looked at Tatsuma with a fierce and wary gaze, as well as the Five Kage who had also arrived on the battlefield using space-time ninjutsu.

Despite being opponents, they showed protection for Hashirama Senju.

It didn't take long for Hashirama Senju, who had been refining, transforming, and fusing the chakra within his body with his eyes closed, to open them. In an instant, the Great Sun Mask appeared on his face.

"Fourth Boss, don't let the battle spread."

Hashirama Senju spoke up, saying that Tatsuma had been too busy fighting Madara Uchiha to attend to others, but now that Hashirama Senju was fighting Madara Uchiha, Tatsuma could still manage to control the impact of the battle if he wanted to.

"clear."

A giant wooden figure with three heads and six arms floated up, changed its posture, and sat cross-legged in the air. At the same time, its appearance underwent a dramatic transformation, changing from a wrathful deity to a true Buddha of the North.

"Heretical! Unwavering formation!"

The Buddha formed a mudra with one hand and held a makara (a sacred pestle) in the other. He threw it into the air, and the makara split into four, landing at the four corners. Instantly, a barrier was formed connecting the four nodes.

"Yin-Yang Escape?"

Madara Uchiha glanced at the four long rods formed from the Capricorn pestle on the ground and immediately recognized that they were substances that only someone who had mastered Yin-Yang Release could create.

He glanced at Tatsuma with slight surprise, not expecting that Tatsuma hadn't used all his trump cards during their battle.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. After all, he didn't put too much pressure on Sakamoto Tatsuma. He was absorbing the Sage Chakra and Tailed Beast Power from the wooden doll, and Tatsuma was also absorbing his chakra.

The wooden doll only looks somewhat mottled now that it has lost the power of the tailed beast; its strength is not significantly affected.

Tatsuma's Yin-Yang Escape technique was insufficient to change the battlefield situation, so using it would only expose information for no reason.

Holding back a trump card is actually the right choice. It's just unknown whether this guy is holding back a trump card or more, but in any case, he doesn't have the strength to completely defeat him, which Madara Uchiha is confident of.

The giant Buddha in the sky condensed and returned to Tatsuma's original form. He looked at Hashirama Senju, who had already controlled the Wood Release to create wooden figures, and frowned slightly.

Regardless of whether Hashirama Senju was not using his full strength or for other reasons, at this moment, Hashirama Senju's wooden puppet was weaker than Madara Uchiha's Susanoo.

In fact, both the current Hashirama Senju and the reanimated Hashirama Senju are limited by the same disadvantage: the upper limit of their techniques.

The Impure World Reincarnation technique values ​​the power of the offerings, while the upper limit of Tatsuma's body, created by combining Yin-Yang Release with his own cells, depends on Tatsuma himself.

"Fourth Generation! This is my battle."

Hashirama Senju suddenly spoke, looking at Tatsuma. After their eyes met, Tatsuma nodded. For now, they could only trust Hashirama Senju. If all else failed, they could join forces later.

"Hahaha~ It had to be you again! Hashirama! Fighting that kid just now was quite unpleasant."

Madara Uchiha was not afraid of the two of them joining forces, even though he knew he might be no match for them. He was never a coward who would refuse to fight if he had no chance of winning.

However, upon hearing Hashirama Senju's words, he was still quite pleased. Madara Uchiha also looked at Tatsuma and said, "Sakamoto Tatsuma, right? Keep your distance and don't disturb him."

This is a pleasure just for the two of us!

At this moment, Tatsuma really wanted to say, "I'm not here to destroy you, but to join you," but it was too embarrassing, so he chose to withdraw from the barrier.

Looking at the Five Kage and Sasuke, who was being carried like a bag by Tobirama Senju, he said, "Take the others and move the battlefield. Leave this place to the First Hokage."

They found Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu.

"Let's search for Black Zetsu with all our might."

Tobirama Senju spoke, pointing to his ear, and said, "Minato has discovered Obito Uchiha. End the battle immediately."

(End of this chapter)