Chapter 176: Six Paths Madara, The True Truth of the World
After Uchiha Madara flew from Konoha, he landed on a cliff of a large mountain.
Soon, the space beside him rippled like a mirror lake hit by a falling stone, then warped to form a fist-sized black hole.
Uchiha Madara's Wood Clone and Obito Uchiha flew out from the black hole.
Obito Uchiha, while removing his mask, took out a vial containing a three-tomoe Sharingan from his person. He then directly dug out his already blind left eye, and immediately replaced it with the three-tomoe Sharingan from the vial.
Due to his left half being formed by Hashirama's cells, Obito Uchiha instantly regained his sight.
Looking at Uchiha Madara, who was retrieving his Wood Clone, Obito Uchiha asked, puzzled, "Why was the Miko's chakra the thing you wanted? Her strength is so weak; how could her chakra help you?"
"I don't know either."
Uchiha Madara shook his head and smiled. "However, some things, even if they lack intensity, are crucial."
"This Miko's power is a fragment of the key to opening the dimensional gate."
Clapping his hands, Uchiha Madara shouted, "Sage Mode... Activate!"
A blue aura spontaneously appeared, seeping into Uchiha Madara's body from outside to inside.
Red eye shadow did not appear at the corners of Uchiha Madara's eyes.
But if one were to take off his upper garment, one would find that the Hashirama face on his left chest, derived from the implanted Hashirama cells, had red eye shadow.
After instantly activating Sage Mode, Uchiha Madara did not lower his clasped hands. Instead, he solemnly performed Onmyoton Jutsu, fusing the Sage Art chakra within his body with the Miko's power.
In an instant, Uchiha Madara's Rinnegan began to glow with dazzling purple light.
The terrifying dōjutsu power made Obito Uchiha feel a chill just by making eye contact, and he instinctively retreated a few steps.
"W-what just happened?" Obito Uchiha thought to himself, cold sweat dripping, "Why did I feel like my soul was being pulled out just by making eye contact?"
"Hiss..."
Uchiha Madara felt a burning sensation in his palm and couldn't help but gasp.
By rights, even suffering a hundred arrows, or being pierced by a blade, or even having an arm severed, Uchiha Madara could endure without a sound.
As long as it wasn't instant death, any injury was considered minor in ninja training.
But now, Uchiha Madara was so burned that he gasped.
This showed that the burning sensation was not merely physical; it was... directed at the soul.
Uchiha Madara raised his hand and saw that, at some unknown point, a white sun had appeared in his palm.
Immediately, Uchiha Madara felt a flood of information in his mind, as if he had just awakened the Rinnegan.
At the same time, a completely new energy replaced the Sage Art chakra and Miko's power within his body. It was... Six Paths Sage Art chakra.
"So it's transmitted through the Rinnegan..."
Izayoi, whose gaze had never left Uchiha Madara, suddenly understood.
As Uchiha Madara maintained his hands clasped together, Izayoi felt as if he were hallucinating, seeing the shadow of the Sage of Six Paths appearing on Uchiha Madara's other side.
Clearly, the Sage of Six Paths' method of bestowing power differed from the original story, where he pulled the dying Naruto and Sasuke into a mental space. Instead, he directly transmitted Yang Release power to Uchiha Madara through the Rinnegan, or a deeper method, completing his last weakness and directly awakening full Six Paths power.
Observing Uchiha Madara with focused attention, over a dozen bubbles appeared around him.
Uchiha Madara, who was originally one rainbow and one red, now had four more red-tier traits.
[Sage Body (Red)] [All-Elemental Affinity (Red)] [Chakra Control (Red)] [Kekkei Genkai: Wood Release (Red)]
Seeing this, Izayoi was not surprised but rather delighted, thinking, "Just as I thought."
Indeed, after Izayoi no longer needed the Miko's power to activate Six Paths Sage Mode, three more traits in his trait bar had sublimated: All-Elemental Affinity, Chakra Control, and Wood Release.
Izayoi was now a two-rainbow, six-red existence.
Just as he had thought, after mastering the Truth-Seeking Orbs, the strongest ninjutsu, his All-Elemental Affinity and Chakra Control were affected, directly sublimating to the red tier.
After all, the Truth-Seeking Orbs, the strongest ninjutsu, were products of the fusion of seven ultimate nature transformations.
Nature transformation had to reach its peak, chakra control also had to reach its peak, and with the aid of Onmyoton, only then could they be fused to derive the power to destroy all creation.
Uchiha Madara not only unlocked the Sage Body (Red) trait, but his All-Elemental Affinity and Chakra Control traits also became the same color and rank as Izayoi's.
This meant that the power the Sage of Six Paths bestowed upon him was on the same level as what Naruto received.
Only the method of bestowal was different.
"Bestowing power this way, is he guarding against me, or Uchiha Madara, or both?" Izayoi couldn't help but analyze in his mind, feeling that the latter was highly probable.
With Six Paths Sage Mode stacked with Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Izayoi's perception had reached a level second only to the instant global coverage of Infinite Tsukuyomi.
Unless Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used Sukuna Hikona to shrink his body and chakra, or hid in another dimension, otherwise, even that superior to Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, Izayoi could quickly locate him.
Izayoi could also see the Reaper of the Dead Demon Consuming Seal.
As long as the Sage of Six Paths' soul appeared, Izayoi could definitely detect it.
The Sage of Six Paths never appeared, clearly guarding against Izayoi's Six Paths Sage Mode stacked with Tenseigan Chakra Mode, not wanting Izayoi to know of his existence.
As for not meeting Uchiha Madara, he probably didn't want Uchiha Madara to know that his soul could interfere with the world of the living.
After all, unlike the simple Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, Uchiha Madara was not only the most outstanding Indra reincarnation in history but also an existence who surpassed Indra.
If he were to meet Uchiha Madara and bestow power upon him, Uchiha Madara would probably be more alarmed than pleased.
He, who had already put the Ōtsutsuki clan on his kill list, would very likely also regard the Sage of Six Paths as an enemy.
For a rational individual like Uchiha Madara, covert guidance would undoubtedly yield better results than direct guidance.
Thinking this, a hint of doubt flashed in Izayoi's eyes again.
Izayoi originally thought that the Sage of Six Paths not rashly appearing to meet Uchiha Madara was to use the Miko's power as a piece of the puzzle, then communicate with Uchiha Madara in the chakra dimension, tell him the truth of the world and the secret that Izayoi was Ōtsutsuki Toneri, and guide him towards a goal.
As the closest being to having eaten the Chakra Fruit, Izayoi didn't believe that the Sage of Six Paths wouldn't recognize his Tenseigan.
Moreover, Izayoi's horns were different from those of Kinkaku and Ginkaku, being a characteristic only possessed by pure-blooded Ōtsutsuki.
Except for those two brothers, descendants could never revert to such a degree of atavism.
Therefore, Izayoi subconsciously believed that the reason the Sage of Six Paths was against him was because he was increasingly resembling the foreign enemy described by Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
Now, it seems that might not be the case.
Otherwise, the Sage of Six Paths wouldn't need to drag his feet; he could simply guide Uchiha Madara to eliminate Izayoi, the 'alien.'
Since it wasn't for this reason, why would the Sage of Six Paths target him?
"Damn it, riddlers are so annoying," Izayoi couldn't help but curse inwardly.
"Is this the power of Six Paths Sage Mode?"
Feeling the Six Paths Sage Art chakra within him, Uchiha Madara's eyes trembled slightly. "No wonder that brat, without ultimate dōjutsu, gave me a more dangerous feeling than Ōtsutsuki Toneri. Both are Sage Modes, but Nagato's and Hashirama's Sage Modes are completely on a different dimension from Six Paths Sage Mode!"
Just like Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha giving up on the idea of catching up, the gap between these two types of Sage Mode was simply vast.
Just by standing there, Uchiha Madara could sense all life fluctuations in the ninja world, not just ninja, but even ordinary people and wild animals.
Uchiha Madara even had a feeling that if he just walked up to those life fluctuations, reached out and touched them, and integrated his chakra into them, connecting with them.
At that moment, something incredible would happen.
And this was merely an enhancement of perception.
Regarding power enhancement, Uchiha Madara felt that his current self could shatter Hashirama's Wood Golem and his own Perfect Susano'o with a single punch.
In terms of Wood Release, he could easily replicate Hashirama's Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands: Summit Enlightenment.
In fact, the strength of his thousand-armed Buddha statue was even greater than Hashirama's!
Besides perception and power, other aspects also received a dimensional-level enhancement.
Especially chakra...
"With this much chakra, I no longer fear that guy's chakra absorption," Uchiha Madara thought to himself, looking down at his chakra-wrapped hand, then up at the blue sky.
Only after truly taking a big step in the realm of other dimensions did Uchiha Madara realize how weak he truly was before.
Awakening ultimate dōjutsu was merely barely crossing the threshold of this dimension.
Repulsion and attraction, as well as the abilities of the Preta Path, still had some effect on opponents of the same rank.
But against opponents who were ahead of him, they were child's play, completely ineffective.
"Round two... begins!" Uchiha Madara suddenly grinned, then his figure shot into the sky.
After entering Six Paths Sage Mode, he also gained the ability to fly.
Moreover, the chakra consumption for this flight was minuscule, less than one percent of Perfect Susano'o's.
Therefore, Uchiha Madara decided to get up from where he fell.
He wouldn't use space-time ninjutsu; he would fly to the moon himself.
During his flight, Uchiha Madara rapidly consumed the information flooding his mind. Several black substances flew out from his body, forming nine desk-sized black orbs around him, each containing the power to destroy all creation.
"As expected, this is his choice?"
Seeing Uchiha Madara flying into the sky, Izayoi's lips curved slightly as he thought.
Immediately, he transmitted information to his Wood Clone responsible for guarding the Yin Kurama.
Soon, the Wood Clone, also in Six Paths Sage Mode, instantly appeared beside Izayoi.
Izayoi first placed his hand on the Wood Clone's shoulder, absorbing Ōtsutsuki Toneri's chakra from its body, then walked into the basement and stood on a jutsu array.
The next second, the scene before Izayoi's eyes rapidly rewound.
After it recovered, the basement had transformed into a luxurious room. The location had clearly changed from Earth to the moon.
Having obtained complete Onmyoton and Six Paths Sage Mode, Izayoi's improvements were not just in stamina.
His Levitation (Red) trait had also been step-by-step realized using complete Onmyoton and chakra beads.
While he couldn't yet create a space-time tunnel, creating a jutsu array similar to the Flying Thunder God Technique was an easy task.
After all, Ōtsutsuki Hamura had already provided a demonstration.
After teleporting to the moon, Izayoi deactivated Six Paths Sage Mode and used the Wood Transformation Jutsu to disguise himself as Ōtsutsuki Toneri.
He then entered the palace created with chakra beads, stored the Ōtsutsuki Toneri puppet that was also created with chakra beads, sat on the throne, closed his eyes to rest, awaiting Uchiha Madara's arrival.
Less than half an hour later, Izayoi slowly opened his eyes, looked at Uchiha Madara who appeared in the hall, and said indifferently, "Just got the Sage of Six Paths' power and already eager to come regain face?"
"You don't seem surprised?" Uchiha Madara asked, puzzled. "Could it be that your eyes can even detect me in this state?"
"Therefore, your eyes are nothing but the eyes of a loser," Izayoi instantly entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode, simultaneously raising his hand to condense a black orb containing the power to destroy all creation. His gaze was contemptuous. "The power you struggled to obtain, I can easily acquire. This is the difference between pure-blood and mixed-blood!"
"You've grown stronger again? Or have you been holding back all this time?"
Uchiha Madara's eyes narrowed, and he stared at Izayoi, asking in a deep voice, "You said last time that your Ōtsutsuki clan's duty is to observe and judge the ninja world. When the ninja world is beyond salvation, you will destroy it and create a new world and humanity. How do you determine when the ninja world is beyond salvation? Is it when I become the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki?"
At this, Izayoi couldn't help but scoff, "When did you get the delusion that a god would fear a monkey turning into a false god? The Ten-Tails' jinchuriki... I only need one strike, and you will forever be unable to restore the Gedō Mazō back into the Ten-Tails."
"Then what is your judgment criteria?"
Uchiha Madara's eyes sparkled sharply. "Is there a threat hidden in the ninja world more lethal than the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki?"
Izayoi's expression immediately showed surprise.
Catching his change in expression, Uchiha Madara snorted, "So it is."
"How did you guess?" Izayoi elegantly crossed his legs, looking at Uchiha Madara with interest.
"Because of a brat's words," Uchiha Madara smiled. "If it weren't for his words, I wouldn't have had this guess."
"Izayoi?"
"Indeed."
Uchiha Madara nodded, saying, "He said that your words contained obvious logical flaws. If the judgment of the ninja world being beyond salvation was because I became the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki, then you could start the destruction at any time. Because as long as the Rinnegan isn't destroyed, there will eventually be a second Ten-Tails' jinchuriki, but you didn't do that."
"If you wanted to stop me from becoming the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki, it would be even simpler: just kill a jinchuriki, or seal a Tailed Beast and throw it into some corner of the universe, and I would never be able to become the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki, but you still didn't do that."
"You are arrogant, but you have the confidence to be arrogant," Uchiha Madara looked at Izayoi, stating with certainty, "Your trump card for destroying the world is something even the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki cannot stop. This is why you look down on the Rinnegan."
After speaking, Uchiha Madara saw Izayoi's expression of appreciation, which further confirmed his idea.
At the same time, his heart sank, and he asked, "What exactly is this threat more lethal than the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki?"
"To be able to analyze to this extent, you are indeed one of the best among monkeys," Izayoi praised him without reservation, then transmitted real-time information to his Wood Clone in the ninja world, instructing the Six Paths Sage Mode-Tenseigan Chakra Mode Wood Clone to rapidly scan various parts of the moon and the artificial sun.
After confirming that no soul entities were secretly observing, Izayoi looked at Uchiha Madara with a playful smile, "I just compared the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki to a false god. What do you think exists above a false god?"
Hearing this, Uchiha Madara's expression drastically changed.
Before he could speak, Izayoi slowly said, "The truth of the world I showed you last time was missing a prologue."
"Now, let me show you the true truth of the world!"
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