Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

"Lord Kirito, what are your orders?"

As soon as the slug sage appeared, she slowly wriggled onto Kirito's shoulder and asked in a soft, sweet voice.

"Slug, can you tell them the story of Kaguya Otsutsuki?"

Kirito said with a smile.

"Of course, no problem."

The Slug Sage readily accepted Kirito's request.

For someone who has lived such a long life, telling others about interesting things she has seen is a good way for her to relieve boredom.

The story of Kaguya Otsutsuki happened to be one of the most interesting things she knew, ranking at least in the top three in terms of interest.

"Everyone, you should be familiar with the Slug Sage, right? This sage has lived for a longer period of time than the history of ninjas. She is a veritable living history sage in the ninja world. You should know how credible her words are."

After the Slug Sage agreed, Kirito turned to the others present and spoke.

His gaze finally landed on Tsunade, and he gave her a half-smile.

Upon seeing this, Tsunade felt a sudden toothache. She understood Kirito's meaning behind that expression; he was clearly mocking her for being blind to the true value of the Slug Sage.

But now that I think about it, she really underestimated the Slug Sage.

Since this immortal has lived for thousands of years, her most valuable asset is clearly not her immortal techniques or her summoned beasts that assist her in battle, but rather the history of the ninja world over the past thousands of years.

Although history may seem useless in ordinary times and is often ignored by many, it can always provide important insights and intelligence at crucial moments.

For example, what the Slug Sage is about to say will obviously have a profound impact on the future situation of the ninja world and help them figure out how to deal with Madara Uchiha.

"I can attest that some of what Kirito just said is true. The Slug Sage has indeed lived for thousands of years because my clan has a very ancient summoning scroll, which is a summoning contract belonging to Shikkotsu Forest. On it is the name of a very ancient patriarch of my Senju clan. According to the clan genealogy, he was a person from two thousand years ago."

Tsunade took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to beat up Kirito's sullen face right now, and then took the initiative to endorse Kirito.

With Tsunade's endorsement, the authenticity of the Slug Sage living for thousands of years becomes plausible.

Afterwards, everyone was deeply amazed at how long this extraordinary immortal had lived, and couldn't help but feel a strong sense of envy.

Human lifespan is at most a hundred years or so, which is far too short compared to this immortal.

Then, a question suddenly arose in their minds.

The question is, since Kirito is also a sage, and a human sage of Muramasa, how long will his lifespan be?

This was a question no one could answer, and the Slug Sage's words diverted everyone's attention from this doubt. They listened intently to the Slug Sage's story about Kaguya Otsutsuki.

The Slug Sage, who has countless clones and lived for countless years, is a good storyteller. Through her descriptions, the story of Kaguya Otsutsuki and her two sons can be described as leaping off the page and clearly appearing before everyone's eyes.

Through the Slug Sage's description, Tsunade and the others also learned that the Gedo Mazo is called the Ten-Tails, that Kaguya Otsutsuki is the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki, and about the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

After about an hour, the Slug Sage finally finished telling the story of Princess Kaguya, still somewhat reluctant to leave. Apart from Kirito, everyone else wore expressions of utter shock, deeply impressed by this fantastical period of ancient history.

"I never imagined that Kaguya Otsutsuki was an alien. If that's the case, then the Uchiha, Senju, and Hyuga clans all have alien blood."

Chizuru muttered to herself.

Although her voice was soft, everyone present was a ninja with amazing hearing, so they naturally heard every word Chizuru said. Strange expressions appeared on their faces, especially Akimichi Torifu, who finally showed an expression of sudden realization.

"Ahem, according to the Slug Sage, we can now be fairly certain that Madara Uchiha's purpose in collecting the Tailed Beasts was to revive the Ten-Tails, become its jinchūriki, and gain invincible power."

We must stop him, otherwise, once he collects all the tailed beasts and becomes the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, the entire ninja world will likely fall into his hands. After all, we don't have the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo Otsutsuki or Hagoromo Otsutsuki.

Tsunade coughed lightly to draw everyone's attention to her, and then spoke seriously.

"That's right. We absolutely cannot let Madara Uchiha revive the Ten-Tails. Just think about how terrifying the Ten-Tails' power is when it gathers the power of all nine tailed beasts. Once it is successfully revived, it will be unstoppable."

Hinata Kazuma, who had remained silent until now, was the first to stand up and express his support.

"That's true, but we don't have to worry too much now. Madara Uchiha is still far from collecting all the tailed beasts. The One-Tail and Nine-Tail are in our hands, the Five-Tail is in Hattori Masanari's hands in Amegakure, and the Eight-Tail died along with its Jinchuriki. It will take more than a year to revive it."

Senju Momoka points out an important piece of information to boost morale.

As expected, everyone except Kirito had a slight smile on their face.

Even setting aside the Nine-Tails, Five-Tails, and Eight-Tails, the One-Tails alone is extremely difficult for Madara Uchiha to capture, making it almost impossible.

Doesn't that mean the Ten-Tails can't be resurrected?

But the next moment, Kirito said something surprising, reminding everyone: "I don't mean to discourage you, but things are probably not as optimistic as we think. Tailed beasts can actually be cultivated by humans."

Chapter 355: Crushing Madara Uchiha's Plot Plan

what!

Can tailed beasts really be cultivated?

When Tsunade and the others heard Kirito suddenly throw cold water on their opinions, everyone except the well-informed Slug Sage was taken aback and looked at Kirito with suspicion.

The saying goes, "Seeing is believing, hearing is deceiving."

Kirito decided to convince the others with facts, saying, "If you don't believe me, come and see for yourselves. Grab me!"

Chizuru grabbed Kirito's right hand first, followed closely by Tsunade, who grabbed Kirito's other hand. The others also grabbed Kirito's body.

With both hands held, Kirito had no choice but to go through the trouble of using the Flying Thunder God Technique without a seal.

The next moment, Kirito led everyone into a room in the huge laboratory he had set up in the basement of the orphanage.

Here, there is only a huge cylindrical glass container filled with a large amount of blue solution, in which a huge red tail is immersed.

The entire cylindrical glass container emanated a powerful chakra wave, and its tail would occasionally emit a red chakra wave. It seemed to be alive, constantly devouring the blue solution in the container to grow stronger.

"The Nine-Tailed Fox's tail!"

Tsunade saw the red tail inside the cylindrical glass container and immediately burst out of her mouth.

She was extremely familiar with the aura of the Nine-Tails' chakra; she had sensed it countless times from her grandmother, Mito Uzumaki.

Therefore, she immediately realized that the red tail in the cylindrical glass container in front of her was the Nine-Tails' chakra.

"It is indeed Nine-Tails chakra. So, this tail is a materialized form of Nine-Tails chakra. I didn't expect Kirito to be telling the truth. Tailed beasts really can be artificially cultivated."

Senju Momoka quickly recognized the true nature of the red tail in the container and exclaimed in surprise.

With Tsunade and Momoka Senju personally endorsing it, Chizuru Uchiha, Kazuma Hyuga, and Torifu Akimichi naturally believed it.

In fact, they had already recognized the red tail.

After all, they had all witnessed the Nine-Tails firsthand, and their impression of the Nine-Tails' nine tails was extremely deep. Although the tails in the container in front of them were not as huge as the Nine-Tails' tails, they looked very similar.

No, it's practically the same as a smaller version.

"You guys believe this kid? Madara Uchiha doesn't actually need to collect all the tailed beasts. He can raise one tailed beast. He just needs to obtain a portion of the tailed beast's chakra and then raise it."

As far as I know, the condition for the Ten-Tails to be revived is to absorb the chakra of the nine tailed beasts, not necessarily the chakra of all the tailed beasts. That is to say, Madara Uchiha could have taken advantage of this loophole and used a trick to revive the Ten-Tails.

Of course, this method will definitely weaken the Ten-Tails' power, but even so, the Ten-Tails, with all four tailed beasts combined, is still incredibly powerful. If Madara Uchiha were to obtain this power, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Kirito glanced at the surprised expressions on everyone's faces, knowing that they had all accepted the fact that tailed beasts could be artificially cultivated, and said with a serious expression.

"Kirito, does Madara Uchiha know that tailed beasts can be artificially bred?"

Tsunade had regained her composure and raised a question that everyone was very concerned about.

"Sister, it's best not to have any wishful thinking about things that concern the life and death of Konoha. Madara Uchiha must have been planning for a long time to revive the Ten-Tails. He might even know more about the Tailed Beasts than we do. You know, he was once the master of the Nine-Tails. Now he has obtained the body of the Ten-Tails, the Gedo Mazo. Do you dare to bet that he doesn't know that Tailed Beasts can be artificially cultivated?"

Kirito countered with a question.

Tsunade fell silent, and so did everyone else.

Yes, it concerns the life and death of Konoha, and even the future of the entire ninja world. They absolutely cannot afford to have any wishful thinking and must prepare for the worst.

Instead of hoping the enemy is unaware, it's better to prepare a foolproof plan early on and respond to any changes with constancy.

"Kirito, tell me what we should do next. We absolutely cannot allow Uchiha Madara to become the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki."

Senju Momoka suppressed her surprise and said with a heavy heart.

Everyone thought that with Kirito protecting the One-Tailed Beast, Madara Uchiha would never be able to revive the Ten-Tailed Beast in his lifetime. But then, the fact that a tailed beast could be artificially cultivated was revealed.

It's like going from heaven to hell in an instant.

"Lady Momoka is right. We in Konoha absolutely cannot let Madara Uchiha's plot succeed."

Tsunade then stepped forward to express her opinion.

The others nodded to Kirito, indicating that they all agreed.

"As things stand, Madara Uchiha has successfully captured the Two-Tails, Three-Tails, Four-Tails, and Six-Tails. The Three-Tails, Four-Tails, and Six-Tails were captured recently, so he is probably currently working on having the Ten-Tails absorb these three tailed beasts and is temporarily unable to act."

The three tailed beasts certainly wouldn't just stand by and watch themselves be absorbed by the Ten-Tails; they would definitely put up a fierce resistance. In order for the Ten-Tails to successfully absorb the three tailed beasts, Madara Uchiha would definitely sit by the Ten-Tails' side to keep watch.

Therefore, now is a good opportunity for us to eliminate Uchiha Madara, but the prerequisite is that we need to find him first.

Seeing that everyone was determined to deal with Uchiha Madara and was willing to take risks for it, Kirito slowly began to express his own opinion.

“That makes a lot of sense. Now is indeed a good time to eliminate Uchiha Madara. If we can successfully interrupt his process of letting the Ten-Tails absorb the three tailed beasts, we will definitely make him suffer a great loss, and he may even die from the backlash.”

Chizuru said coldly, a look of eager anticipation appearing on her face.

She finally decided to fight Uchiha Madara. Although it was inevitable, she knew that a large part of Konoha was cowardly and always wanted to resolve things through non-combat means, even fantasizing about negotiating with Uchiha Madara.

And among these cowards who fear death, there may well be some among those present.

Now, the pressure from Madara Uchiha has suddenly piled up, forcing these people to prepare for the worst and fight Madara Uchiha to the death with all their might.

"The idea is good, but the problem is where is Madara Uchiha hiding now? This guy faked his death for decades without being discovered by the world, which undoubtedly shows that his ability to hide is terrifying. It will probably not be easy for us to find him in a short time."

"I am calm and experienced," said Akimichi Torifu with a stern face.

"There is still a way. Not long ago, the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure sent an invitation to the Five Kage Summit to Konoha. Since Kirigakure has been destroyed, the remaining seats will be temporarily taken over by Amegakure. At that time, I will reveal Madara Uchiha's conspiracy at the summit."

By then, I believe the other ninja villages will cooperate with us to search for Uchiha Madara. By combining the strength of the five strongest ninja villages in the ninja world, even if Uchiha Madara is a rat in the gutter, he won't be able to hide for long.

Tsunade paused for a moment before offering her solution.

This solution was a revelation to everyone, and Momoka smiled with satisfaction, very pleased with Tsunade's growth as Hokage.

That's right, fighting against Madara Uchiha is not just Konoha's responsibility; other ninja villages should also join in.

Madara Uchiha resurrected the Ten-Tails and activated the Infinite Tsukuyomi to dominate the ninja world, which undoubtedly made him an enemy of the entire ninja world.

"Sister's suggestion is great, it's definitely worth a try. But I have another plan. If we're lucky, we might be able to find Uchiha Madara soon."

Kirito said with a smile.