Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

Therefore, Madara Uchiha had Orochimaru use the Reanimation Jutsu to possess Takikage, completely replacing Takikage's identity. After a series of 'reasonable' purges, he brought Takigakure under his complete control.

"The Seven-Tails' tail is well-cultivated. Are you planning to integrate it into your body, Takikage-sama?"

Suddenly, a voice with a hint of sarcasm appeared in the laboratory.

Upon hearing this voice, Orochimaru's expression instantly turned cold, and then a long white snake shot out from his mouth, striking a shadowy spot in the left corner with lightning speed.

The long snake successfully bit something, but in the blink of an eye, its entire body swelled up, and then a large number of wooden spikes pierced through its body, tearing it apart. Not only that, the wooden spikes also quickly extended along the long snake's body towards Orochimaru.

Orochimaru quickly severed his connection with the serpent to avoid being corrupted by the Wood Release chakra that had invaded the serpent's body.

"I'm your senior, after all. Is this how you welcome me?"

The mocking voices came again.

"Enough, Black Zetsu. Just say what you have to say, stop beating around the bush and playing tricks."

Orochimaru said coldly.

As soon as he finished speaking, a strange creature, half-grown in white and black with a carnivorous plant-like shell covering its body, emerged from the ground in front of Orochimaru and looked at him with a sinister smile.

The newcomer was none other than Black Zetsu.

"Orochimaru, Lord Madara sent me to ask you about the progress of the Impure World Reincarnation technique?"

Black Zetsu stopped wasting words and directly stated the reason for his appearance.

Since Hiruko took charge of expanding the Demon Organization, research on the Impure World Reincarnation technique was halted until Orochimaru, a new and outstanding ninjutsu researcher, appeared, and research on the Impure World Reincarnation technique resumed.

Although Kirito Tohsaka has found a way to counter the Impure World Reincarnation technique, this ninjutsu still has great value.

For example, it can greatly make up for the shortage of manpower.

However, Hiruko's research on the Impure World Reincarnation technique only focused on the sacrificial offerings, without making many changes to the core aspects. This left the forbidden technique with significant flaws, as the strength of the summoned impure bodies fluctuated greatly and was very unstable, and they could not reach their full potential.

Madara Uchiha still possesses the powerful reanimated form of Hashirama Senju. In order to deal with Kirito Tohsaka, he still hopes that Hashirama Senju's strength can be restored to its peak. In this way, he will be more confident in defeating Kirito Tohsaka and realizing the Eye of the Moon Plan.

In short, Madara Uchiha was happy to do anything that could effectively increase his own strength.

"Hmph, how can such a forbidden technique involving life and death be improved so easily? Besides, I've been busy controlling Takigakure lately, and it will take at least another six months to achieve effective results."

Orochimaru immediately offered a plausible explanation.

"Really? But I've heard you've been spending a lot of time on this lately, and even wasting a lot of Takigakure's funds. If you let Lord Madara do this, what do you think he'll think?"

Black Zetsu sneered, mercilessly exposing Orochimaru's lies.

As Madara Uchiha's strongest intelligence chief, it knew everything about the situation in Takigakure, and Orochimaru's actions were impossible to hide from it.

Even though his lie was exposed on the spot, Orochimaru remained calm and continued, "These are all reasonable expenses. I am currently researching methods for raising Tailed Beasts. That thing is my current research result. With this feasible method for raising Tailed Beasts, even if we cannot obtain a Tailed Beast, as long as we obtain a little bit of its chakra or body tissue, we can still raise one."

He had a certain understanding of the situation of the tailed beasts in the ninja world. Madara Uchiha wanted to capture all the tailed beasts, and the biggest one was undoubtedly the One-Tailed Beast inside Kirito Tohsaka.

He believed that once Madara Uchiha realized that he could not take the One-Tailed Beast from Kirito Tohsaka through conventional means, his method of raising tailed beasts would be the best alternative. In fact, given enough time, they could collect all nine tailed beasts without taking any risks.

Although the nine tailed beasts collected were severely scaled-down versions and lacked soul, they were still nine tailed beasts.

"You're quite the talker. If your method can really cultivate a tailed beast, that's fine. But tailed beasts aren't so easy to cultivate. The cicada wing of the Seven-Tails that you've cultivated is just a clump of tailed beast chakra, lacking the most essential element."

Upon hearing Orochimaru's words, Black Zetsu immediately shifted his gaze to the cicada wings in the glass container and said disdainfully.

If the Gedo Mazo wants to revive, it must absorb all nine tailed beasts. Although it is not necessary to absorb all nine tailed beasts completely, the consequence of not absorbing them completely is that the Gedo Mazo will not develop properly, which will seriously affect the strength of the Ten-Tails and will also create a weakness in the Ten-Tails.

Most importantly, this increases the failure rate of mothers being resurrected.

This is not good.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, it would not want Madara Uchiha to let the Ten-Tails absorb the chakra of this materialized tailed beast that lacked the soul of a tailed beast.

Chapter 330: Yin Yang Escape

"It's better than nothing, isn't it? As long as my plan succeeds, we don't need to take too much risk to fight against the world. Lord Madara wants to collect the nine tailed beasts, which is destined to be a path of fighting against the entire world. I personally don't think we are capable of succeeding now."

Orochimaru, hearing Black Zetsu's disdainful mockery, retorted with a sarcastic retort.

After learning part of the Eye of the Moon plan from Madara Uchiha, he really wanted to run away on the spot and sever all ties with that madman Madara Uchiha.

To be at odds with the world—such a crazy idea was certainly not what he was after.

What he pursued was actually very simple: to thoroughly study the ninjutsu of the entire world and discover the true meaning of this world.

The art of immortality was merely a stepping stone for him to achieve his dream.

He never considered making an enemy of the Five Great Ninja Villages or the world.

In fact, as long as Konoha doesn't provoke him and truly treats him like a dead man, he will peacefully hide somewhere in the ninja world and conduct his research without any further contact with Konoha.

Why would he provoke Konoha, which now has Kirito Tohsaka in charge?

As long as that monster is in Konoha, he really can't think of any way he can destroy Konoha.

It has to be said that Madara Uchiha was a madman. Only someone with a screw loose would go against the world. He really didn't want to play along.

Unfortunately, he was a newborn at the time and very weak, so he was powerless to resist Madara Uchiha. Madara Uchiha planted a terrible curse mark on his body called the Samsara Curse Mark.

This curse seal contains the power of the five elements and yin and yang. It can be said to be the most terrifying and complex curse seal he has ever seen. With his current abilities, it is absolutely impossible for him to dispel this curse seal on his own.

In other words, from that moment on, his life belonged to Uchiha Madara.

He had considered using the forbidden technique of Reanimation Jutsu to get rid of the terrifying curse mark, but before he could even try, Madara Uchiha demanded that he possess the body of the current Takigakure's leader, and then he discovered that the curse mark was like a persistent thorn in his side, having been reincarnated with him.

He is now obsessed with studying that magical wooden fragment, actually hoping to improve his own escape techniques through it.

He discovered that the wooden fragment could simultaneously contain the seven different chakras of the Five Elements and Yin Yang, and it also gave birth to a trace of magical power similar to the fusion of the seven escaping chakras in the Samsara Seal.

If he can thoroughly study the special chakra within this wooden fragment, he might be able to break the Samsara Curse seal on his body.

"Lord Madara's power is beyond your imagination. If he collects all nine tailed beasts, or even just a part of them, the entire ninja world will be no match for him. You'd better not have any disloyal thoughts. Lord Madara has a bad temper. Even if you die, he has the ability to make you continue to serve him. He just spared your life because he was worried that you might not be so smart after you died."

Black Zetsu once again used Madara Uchiha's name to threaten Orochimaru.

It knew Orochimaru quite well. If Madara Uchiha hadn't already controlled him with the Cursed Seal, Orochimaru would likely have already escaped and might have even betrayed it at a crucial moment.

This is not a trustworthy person.

Of course, there was never a single person in Madara Uchiha's camp who he could truly trust. Everyone in the camp was merely brought together by Madara Uchiha through powerful force and great temptation.

The moment Madara Uchiha shows even the slightest sign of weakness, these people will immediately turn against him.

Therefore, when dealing with Orochimaru and his ilk, one must be firm enough; it is impossible to make them obedient by appeasement.

"Go back and tell Lord Madara that I will work hard to research the Impure World Reincarnation technique and strive to succeed as quickly as possible. However, I need a good assistant, as well as enough research funding and test subjects."

Orochimaru sighed.

For Xiaoming's sake and for his dream, he finally made a concession.

Madara Uchiha is indeed a madman. If Black Zetsu goes back and reports to him, he might really lose his life.

In an instant, he felt an even stronger hatred for this lackey of Uchiha Madara.

Although he lost his original physical body and most of the immortal techniques he had cultivated were wasted as a result, he still retained his ability to sense natural energy.

Therefore, he had already discovered that there were many creatures like White Zetsu secretly monitoring him.

Black Zetsu is the leader of these White Zetsu.

"Your request will be fulfilled soon. I hope you can keep your promise. Although Lord Ban is a bit strict, he is very generous to his outstanding subordinates. This is something he asked me to pass on to you."

Seeing Orochimaru back down, Black Zetsu immediately took out a candied date and gave it to Orochimaru.

A black scroll landed in Orochimaru's hand. He slowly unrolled the scroll, and a shocked and moved expression quickly appeared on his face.

The scroll contained information about Yin-Yang Escape.

He had previously learned about Yin-Yang Release, a special ninjutsu, from some ancient books in Konoha. Legend has it that this ninjutsu was only used by the Sage of Six Paths and was said to be able to create all things.

I never expected that Madara Uchiha would have something like this.

"It seems you like it very much. Lord Madara is someone who has mastered the Rinnegan. Yin-Yang Release is nothing to him. He mastered this ninjutsu through the Rinnegan a long time ago. I believe that with your ninjutsu ability, you can tell whether the Yin-Yang Release recorded in this scroll is real or fake."

Black Zetsu laughed, quite pleased with Orochimaru's current fanatical and obsessive reaction.

To make a donkey walk fast, you can't just use a stick; you also need to offer a tempting carrot.

It was very confident that the Yin-Yang Release technique could effectively motivate Orochimaru, that cunning donkey.

Orochimaru was of course aware of the authenticity of the scroll's contents, and even if the contents were incomplete, it did not prevent him from recognizing its value.

He tucked the scroll into his pocket and said with a delighted expression, "I will do my best."

From now on, he felt that working under Uchiha Madara was actually not bad. At least the ninjutsu that this madman possessed was extremely valuable. The Yin-Yang Release was such an amazing ninjutsu that it was highly likely that only this madman knew it in the entire ninja world.

If he had relied on his own research, who knows how many years it would have taken him to come into contact with this ninjutsu that creates all things.

What a pleasant surprise!

"Very good, I look forward to seeing your results soon."

Black Zetsu responded, then slowly began to burrow into the ground and disappeared.

"With Yin-Yang Escape, my Corpse Reincarnation will definitely be able to break through the current difficulty, and I no longer need to worry about unexpected loss of control."

After Black Zetsu left, Orochimaru took out the Yin-Yang Release scroll again, carefully read its contents, and quickly figured out how to use this ninjutsu to solve some of the problems he was currently facing.

His rebirth is not yet truly complete, and the side effects are enormous, the biggest of which is that it will cause his soul to be permanently lost.

In this way, his resurrection technique would not be a true method of immortality, but would have a limited number of uses.

However, with Yin-Yang Release, a ninjutsu that can create all things, this side effect is no longer a problem.

……

In the Land of Fields, at the headquarters of the Demon Organization, in the tightly closed leader's office, heart-wrenching screams of pain could be heard continuously.

Meanwhile, the person screaming in the office was none other than Hiruko from the Oni organization. His condition was dire; his entire body had swelled into a bizarre ball of flesh, with tears constantly appearing on its surface, and copious amounts of blood flowing from the wounds, turning the area beneath him crimson.

A strong, fishy stench filled the office.

The reason why Hiruko is in such pain and suffering is that the side effects of his Oni-Garra Technique have reappeared. The various bloodline limits he has plundered within his body have become unbalanced and are now in conflict with each other.

Hiruko was used to this situation, but today he had a vague feeling that he was about to die completely.

He had already taken medication to alleviate the side effects and stabilize his bloodline limit, but the conflict within his bloodline limit showed no signs of abating and instead grew stronger. If this continued, his body would eventually collapse completely.

At that time, he will be doomed.