Before Madara's words had even fully left his mouth, his figure had already leaped from behind the desk.
As he instantaneously moved toward Kei at high speed, his fingertips flicked, and chakra threads swiftly coiled around the scythe hanging from the cave's rocky wall. The pipes connected to the Gedo Statue extended rapidly, and with a flick of his arm, struck first, its blade slicing straight toward Kei's face.
Yet, Madara's steps did not falter in the slightest. Forming a seal with his hands, he opened his mouth and unleashed four blazing dragons!
"Fire Release: Dragon Fla Release Song Technique!"
Under the illumination of the roaring flas, he strode forward alongside the four fire dragons, exuding an overwhelming aura of bloodthirsty ferocity. He seed just like the war god he had been decades ago—the blood-red rose that once blood upon the battlefield.
Even though he was old, even though his life was nearing its end...
Once he chose to fight, he was still the man who made the entire shinobi world tremble in fear!
"Demonic Illusion: Mirror Heaven and Earth Change!"
With a clap of Kei's hands, the world in his eyes rapidly twisted and shattered. The onrushing Madara had already vanished.
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His eyes closed and reopened, as if he had returned to a ti decades ago—to that babbling creek. In his mories, a bowl-cut boy sat idly by the river, skipping stones across the water. This ti... Madara picked up a stone by his feet, bypassed the boy, and sent it skipping all the way to the opposite shore!
"Girls really do learn everything quickly..."
The bowl-cut boy slumped forward, tears welling up in his eyes as he crouched in the corner in defeat.
Even though he knew it was an illusion, Madara couldn't help but smile at the familiar scene. After all... when people grow old, they can't help but reminisce about the past.
Wait a second... girls?
He froze for just an instant, only to see that the Hashirama before him had grown up!
Tears filled his eyes as he tightly grasped Madara's hand, looking as if he was about to pass out from sheer emotion.
"Madara, marry ! I will! I will—sob—always treat you well!"
"???" Madara was stunned for a mont before imdiately kicking the young Hashirama away.
"Uwaah—Madara, don't treat like this! Sob sob I'm serious about pursuing you..."
The face, the personality—even the voice was exactly the sa.
A top-tier illusion technique capable of deceiving the senses entirely!
But wait... was he actually a girl?!
Madara's face twitched. Just as he was about to forcibly break free from this ridiculous illusion, he saw sothing even more outrageous.
His younger brother, Izuna... had also turned into a beautiful girl?! And that damn Tobirama, he looked like he had fallen for his brother—er, now sister?!
Unforgivable!
Wait! Hold on!
The story was moving way too fast!
The illusion shifted once again. Now, Madara had reached adulthood and had used his absolute strength to suppress all dissent within the clan.
He—she! Had finally, after Hashirama's relentless pursuit, stepped into the hall of marriage.
And his—her—brother... sister, had also ended up marrying that damn Tobirama at the sa ti?!
That bastard! How dare he?!
Just as Madara was about to question the twisted mind responsible for conjuring this absurd illusion, the scene changed yet again.
She and Hashirama, now married, had established Konoha together, attracting countless ninja clans who longed for peace to voluntarily join them.
And Konoha was finally built. Everything was moving in a positive direction. Although she and Hashirama occasionally quarreled as a married couple, they always made up afterward, whether in the bedroom or elsewhere. No obstacle was insurmountable.
And after experiencing nurous battles—cold wars, heated argunts, tatami wars, kitchen wars... Hashirama ultimately accepted her suggestion. With absolute power, they subjugated and absorbed the four newly ford ninja villages.
Although conflicts still occasionally arose in the shhinobi world, under the joint suppression of her and Hashirama, the overall situation quickly stabilized into a state of peace.
And after that… Was there really no other plot developnt besides all that lovey-dovey nonsense?
Having children? Damn it!
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Swish, swish, swish, swish!
Kei left behind two shadow clones within the cave, ready at any mont to intercept Madara's pursuit. anwhile, he himself used the Flying Thunder God Technique to vanish instantly into the Mountains' Graveyard.
His previous experiences with activating powerful traits had taught him one thing: Even if it was just a blue-tier trait, activating it would still have so degree of physical impact.
Under normal circumstances, that wouldn't be a big deal. But in front of Madara? Even in his peak condition, Kei wasn't willing to take that risk.
If he got montarily weakened by the side effects of an activation, did he really want to test just how sharp Madara's scythe was?
After a series of rapid Flying Thunder God teleports, he arrived at a thickly snow-covered glacier, dozens of kiloters away. He concealed himself within the natural crevices of the ice and quickly set up a simple sealing barrier using the sealing talismans in his ninja pouch—one that could completely suppress his chakra signature.
Without any hesitation, he issued a ntal command to the system, Activate [Sage Body]!
Buzz—
The mont the command was given, a tingling, almost itchy sensation spread throughout his entire body. Every cell in his body began to undergo a fundantal tamorphosis, elevating to a higher state of existence.
His internal organs brimd with terrifying vitality, and under the unimaginable power of Yang Release, his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys rapidly completed cellular regeneration.
Powerful, overwhelming, restless...
His transford organs felt like an old, worn-out car that had just been fitted with an F1 engine. The life-giving energy of Yang Release coursed through his bloodstream, flooding every cell in his body within monts!
Every bone, every tendon, every muscle, every inch of skin… His spiritual energy also began to stir, drawn toward the imnse surge of life force.
Under his fully optimized chakra modling thod, his chakra now roared like a raging tsunami, endlessly surging within his body!
In the past, no matter how much he searched within himself, he had always been limited by his physical condition, unable to generate any more chakra than what his body allowed.
But now?
A body that could finally match his spiritual energy had given him an unbelievable transformation!
"My physical strength… just straight-up doubled? This is absolutely insane!" Kei clenched his fist, and in the next mont, his body shifted into a Water Transformation Jutsu state.
As his cells rapidly renewed, the waste products of his body's tamorphosis were expelled instantly.
His total body weight and cell count hadn't changed significantly, yet his strength had doubled, and his life force had increased by dozens, if not hundreds, of tis! His chakra, which had once trickled like a slow-moving stream, had now beco a vast, endless ocean!
Even his control over the five basic chakra natures seed to have improved significantly in this state of overflowing vitality.
"… Since when the hell have I ever fought a battle this rich in resources?!"
Kei almost grinned ear to ear.
The days of carefully rationing his chakra usage like a stingy miser were finally over!
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