Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

Orochimaru, who was standing to the side, was also stunned. Of course, he guessed what kind of ability Chizuru had just used.

For a moment, he stared intently at the Mangekyou Sharingan in Chizuru's eye sockets.

The Impure World Reincarnation technique on Uchiha Homura was lifted, and her soul was thus able to ascend to heaven.

Uchiha Homura's white soul was released from the rapidly collapsing Edo Tensei body. He looked at Chizuru gently and said, "Chizuru, my beloved granddaughter, be wary of Uchiha Madara. He is now targeting you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Uchiha Homura's soul could no longer linger in the ninja world. Summoned by the Pure Land, his soul quickly ascended to heaven.

"Uchiha Madara, it really is that guy. He actually mastered the Impure World Reincarnation technique. So, the Root organization is now in his hands."

Kirito frowned as he listened to Madara Uchiha's last words.

"Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Madara, I will kill you with my own hands."

After Chizuru learns that the mastermind behind her grandfather's manipulation is Uchiha Madara, she sees her grandfather's soul ascend to heaven and then screams in anger.

On the other side, on the sand dunes outside the oasis, Uchiha Homura murmured, "What an interesting Mangekyou Sharingan technique. With it, my Eye of the Moon plan can proceed more smoothly. I really look forward to its evolution into the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan."

Through Uchiha Homura's Edo Tensei body, he also discerned the secret of Chizuru's Mangekyou Sharingan eye technique, and a strong desire to possess it immediately arose in his heart.

Unfortunately, Chizuru now possesses this unique eye technique and has a powerful ninja like Kirito by her side. If the two work together, they can easily destroy the reanimated puppets that she sent out.

With this thought in mind, Madara Uchiha decisively ordered Tenjin Hyuga and the Second Tsuchikage Mu, who had already been rescued, to retreat immediately.

Those left behind at the Second Tsuchikage's place were Kirito's subordinates, including Suzaku Nara. Of course, they couldn't stop Hyuga Tennin, even when they all entered their cursed seal forms. They could only barely escape with their lives from Hyuga Tennin's hands.

The two received orders from Madara Uchiha and split up to retreat.

"Don't even think about escaping so easily."

In the sky, Hinata Karen saw the two about to run away and said through gritted teeth.

The next moment, she decisively took action to stop Hyuga Tennin from leaving.

In this sudden battle, her performance was rather poor, while the red-eyed woman's strength had clearly increased greatly due to her eyes evolving again, and she performed exceptionally well in this battle.

Therefore, she must stop this mysterious ninja who also possesses the Byakugan and prove that she is no less than Uchiha Chizuru.

Chapter 269: Plotting to Obtain the Reincarnation Eye

Karen manipulated her chakra wings to quickly approach Hyuga Tennin in the air. When the distance was reduced to less than 20 meters, she decisively used a powerful wind-style ninjutsu.

Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!

A massive white blade of energy was instantly released from Hua Lian's bulging mouth.

The white energy blade attacked at an extremely fast speed. In the blink of an eye, it had already reached Hyuga Tenjin. If Hyuga Tenjin did not have sufficient reaction ability, he would definitely be cut in half by this white energy blade.

But who is Hyuga Tennin? He was the former head of the Hyuga clan in Konoha. Back in the Warring States period, he was one of the Kage-level shinobi whose strength was second only to Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha. He was a top-tier user of the Byakugan. How could he not have the reaction ability to deal with Hua Lian's attack?

With a slight dodge and turn of his head, Hyuga Tenjin successfully avoided Hana Rei's ninjutsu attack.

"Damn it, his Byakugan has strong perception and his taijutsu is also very powerful. It's too difficult to hit him with ordinary ninjutsu."

Seeing this, Hua Lian bit her lip and thought to herself, feeling anxious.

The enemy is moving very fast and is less than a kilometer away from escaping the Konoha camp. If nothing unexpected happens, the enemy will escape the encirclement of the Konoha ninja in the camp in a dozen seconds.

Soon, Hua Lian came up with a way to deal with Hyuga Tenjin. Since she couldn't hit him, she would try her best to create obstacles for him and delay his escape.

She had already seen Kirito coming to his aid with her Byakugan. If she could buy the enemy a little more time to escape, Kirito would definitely be able to catch up. At that time, with Kirito's strength, it would be no problem to keep the enemy here.

Once she understood, Hua Lian immediately and quickly performed hand seals, and shouted loudly, "Everyone, use Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall and Earth Release: Earth Core Movement to stop him from escaping."

As soon as she finished speaking, she successfully used Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall.

A thick earthen wall suddenly appeared in front of Hyuga Tennin.

Hyuga Tenjin's response was to directly counter with Gentle Fist. He struck out with his palm, unleashing a powerful chakra shockwave that punched a hole in the earthen wall in front of him, then passed through the wall at almost full speed.

However, the Konoha ninjas along the way all followed Hana's advice and took action to intercept them. A large number of Konoha ninjas who had mastered Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall and Earth Release: Earth Core used these two Earth Release ninjutsu to connect with Hyuga Tenjin.

For a moment, thick earthen walls blocked the path of Hyuga Tenjin's advance, and at the same time, many ground-sinking traps appeared between the earthen walls.

These interception methods are as transparent to Hyuga Tennin, who possesses the Byakugan. However, even if he knows there are interception traps ahead, it will still take him time to completely avoid them.

As a result, the 1-kilometer distance that should have taken only about ten seconds to cross ended up taking Hyuga Tennin nearly four seconds longer.

At that moment, a purple lightning bolt appeared in front of Hyuga Tennin.

“Well done, young tribesman.”

Hyuga Tenjin, caught off guard, watched the young ninja appear ahead and inwardly praised the method Hana Rei had just used.

With his Byakugan, he witnessed Kirito easily subduing Uchiha Homura and clearly understood that the young ninja in front of him was extremely powerful, beyond his current capabilities.

But he was now powerless to do so; his orders were to stall the young man in front of him as much as possible.

Having learned about Kirito's abilities from Madara Uchiha, he immediately closed his eyes to avoid direct contact with Kirito's eyes, then completed the hand seals and unleashed the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.

More than a dozen Hyuga Tenjin suddenly appeared in front of Kirito, and then they all used the Eight Trigrams Empty Palm on Kirito, and they attacked him continuously.

A large number of highly condensed chakra shockwaves shot towards Kirito from all directions.

Kirito made no move, but a large amount of sand surged up from the sand beneath his feet, forming a thick ring of sand that blocked all the incoming chakra shockwaves.

Furthermore, a large number of sand bombs were also released from the ring-shaped sand wall.

"Bang bang bang~"

All of Hyuga Tennin's shadow clones were instantly wiped out, while Hyuga Tennin himself blocked the sand bullet barrage with Gentle Fist: Heavenly Rotation.

But as soon as his attempt to save him ended, the sand beneath his feet quickly swallowed him whole.

Before long, a small sand pyramid covered with sealing techniques appeared in the original spot of Hyuga Tennin, leaving only Hyuga Tennin's head sticking out.

"Kirito-kun, I'm sorry, the enemy you just captured has escaped."

Hua Lian then descended from the sky, her face filled with shame, and said...

She had already used her Byakugan to discover that the Second Tsuchikage, Mu, had escaped the pursuit of Suzaku Nara and the others and had retreated from the air.

"No need to apologize. These enemies were all powerful figures with renowned reputations in their lifetimes. Even if they were resurrected using forbidden techniques, their strength is beyond your capabilities. To confront them head-on, you would need at least Kage-level strength. For example, the man in front of you, if I remember correctly, is Hyuga Tennin, the former head of your Hyuga clan."

Kirito gently shook his head at Hana, offering words of comfort, before casually removing the mask from Hyuga Tennin's face.

"Hyuuga Tennin-sama!"

Karen grew up in the Hyuga clan and naturally knew Hyuga Tennin, but she only knew his name and had never seen what he actually looked like. She looked at Hyuga Tennin, who was now revealing his true face, and her face showed a shocked expression.

In fact, Hyuga Tenjin was also very shocked at this moment, because Karen's current Byakugan state after entering the Cursed Seal form was very special.

The instinct of bloodline is never wrong; the yellow-eyed female ninja in front of him is indeed a member of the Hyuga clan. If he could speak now, he would definitely ask Hana-ren in person what was going on with her eyes.

What's the secret behind rolling your eyes?

Hyuga Tennin, the former head of the Hyuga clan, was certainly well aware of this, and even knew some secrets that the current Hyuga clan was unaware of, such as the fact that the Byakugan could continue to evolve.

Now, he believes that Hua Lian's Byakugan is showing signs of evolution.

"I'm sorry, Karen, I need to seal away your Hyuga clan's former head for the time being."

Kirito spoke up.

Karen felt no connection to the main family members, and Hyuga Tenjin was a complete stranger to her, so she naturally didn't care at all. She immediately said, "Kirito-kun, do whatever you want. Karen has no objections and will only support you 100%."

"..."

Hearing this, Hyuga Tennin was speechless.

He was Hua Lian's ancestor, after all; how could you sell him out so easily?

Does it fit?

The experienced man noticed that Kirito's gaze was strange. It wasn't that he was being malicious, but rather that he had a strong thirst for knowledge. Clearly, Kirito wanted to get some secrets out of him.

Hyuga Tenjin's idea is correct; Kirito does indeed intend to obtain more secrets about the Byakugan from Hyuga Tenjin.

After the Uchiha clan retrieved the Rinnegan ahead of schedule, Kirito felt a strong sense of crisis. In order to obtain the power to fight against the Rinnegan, his first thought was the Tenseigan, which was on par with the Rinnegan.

His White Zetsu clone's Byakugan has clearly begun to evolve towards the Tenseigan, but how long it will take is unknown.

His original plan was to use the blood obtained from Madara Uchiha to clone Madara Uchiha, thereby obtaining Indra's chakra. He would then fuse Indra's chakra with Ashura's chakra to obtain the power of the myriad phenomena, and then try to use the power of the myriad phenomena to accelerate the evolution of the Byakugan into the Tenseigan.

But the appearance of Hyuga Tennin showed him another possibility, which was to evolve the Byakugan into the Tenseigan in the most orthodox way.

The most orthodox way for the Byakugan to evolve into the Tenseigan is undoubtedly by fusing a large number of Byakugan.

The descendants of Hamura on the moon fused together a large number of Byakugan, ultimately creating two giant Tenseigan with immense power.

Ōtōki Toneri's Tenseigan was able to evolve successfully thanks to the power of two giant Tenseigan on the moon.

That's right, Kirito hopes to obtain a way to go to the moon from Hyuga Tennin. The fact that Otsuki Toneri was able to come down from the moon back then indicates that there is some kind of connection between the moon and the ninja world.

This passage was likely built jointly by the two groups of descendants of Yu Village back then.

It is highly likely that Hyuga Tennin knew about this passage.

Kirito actually wanted to find a passage to the moon through the main branch of the Hyuga clan in Konoha, but when he thought about how heavily guarded the Hyuga clan was, and how difficult it would be to deal with the current Hyuga clan leader, Kazuma Hyuga, who was most likely to know this secret, he had no choice but to give up.

The Hyuga clan of Konoha is not to be trifled with. Although he is confident that he can suppress them with his strength and forcefully interrogate them, the consequences will be very serious, and it may even trigger a rebellion by the Hyuga clan.

After all, the Byakugan is the most important thing of the Hyuga clan. What kind of thing is it for someone who is not a member of the Hyuga clan to obtain the core power of the Hyuga clan?

It would be strange if the Hyuga clan didn't feel fear and apprehension.

Kirito certainly cannot do something that undermines the unity of Konoha, at least not by himself. It would be best to find a scapegoat who is unrelated to him.

He personally thinks that Uchiha Madara is a very suitable candidate.

On the other side, Madara Uchiha was also aware that the Hyuga Tenjin would not be able to return, and he was very unhappy.

His trip was truly a loss, with four Kage-level Edo Tensei puppets lost. Moreover, these four Kage-level Edo Tensei puppets still have room to increase their strength in the future. If used well, they might even be able to destroy a major ninja village.

"However, this trip was worthwhile because we were able to discover a special Mangekyou Sharingan and test Kirito Tohsaka's strength quite a bit. This kid's strength is not simple. He has already mastered the power of Sage Mode. If it were me facing him before, I would probably have had to go all out to defeat him."

Madara Uchiha suppressed his displeasure and said expressionlessly.

He hadn't been able to sense the power of Sage Mode from Kirito before because he hadn't mastered it. But things were different now. He had recently stolen the power of Sage Mode from Hashirama Senju and officially mastered it, so he was naturally able to detect Kirito's mastery of Sage Mode in the battle just now.

Moreover, it wasn't just Kirito; many other Konoha ninjas also possessed the power of Sage Mode, such as Uchiha Chizuru and Hyuga Karen. After using a certain cursed seal, they were also able to wield the power of Sage Mode, which greatly shocked him.

"Lord Madara, what should we do now? Should we continue our offensive, or wait for a better opportunity to strike?"

Black Zetsu couldn't help but ask after hearing Madara Uchiha's words.