Chapter 205

"Boom!"

Amidst the earth-shaking roar, Madara Uchiha's figure descended from the heavens, the Six Paths Staff driving heavily into the ground, spiderweb-like cracks spreading instantly in all directions.

"What?!" Naruto jerked his head up, pupils shrinking sharply, "Madara, did you just escape successfully?"

Sasuke cut him off: "Wrong. Look over there."

He pointed at another of Madara's remains on the ground, "That Madara's corpse is still there. This Madara is clearly another existence. And"

Sasuke narrowed his eyes, "The aura on this Madara is even stronger than the one we saw before."

"Hehe." Black Zetsu's figure slowly emerged from Kaguya's sleeve, golden eyes fixed dead on the suddenly appearing Madara, voice carrying a hint of doubt, "Mother Adult, although I don't know why, this is indeed the real Uchiha Madara."

"Despicable thing." Madara slowly looked at the Black Zetsu in Kaguya's sleeve, killing intent in his Rinnegan almost condensing into substance: "Daring to use me."

At this moment high in the sky, Kaguya stood in the void, her ever-frigid eyes showing a ripple for the first time.

She looked at the Madara below, voice still ethereal: "Interesting. Unlike the power Hagoromo gave those two children, your power is more complete."

She tilted her head slightly: "Moreover, the power inside your body. resembles mine."

"Wait!" Naruto suddenly seemed to realize something, clapping his hands, "Could it be. his gaze shifting between Madara and the remains on the ground, "Are you from another place? Like that world Sakura and I went to before?"

"Parallel world?" A sharp light flashed in Sasuke's eyes.

The vertical pupil on Kaguya's forehead slowly opened, a strand of white hair moving in the windless air: "However, none of that matters. Since you choose to stand before me"

Terrifying pressure instantly enveloped heaven and earth, the air itself stagnating, "Then let's erase you all together. All chakra can only belong to me alone!"

"Mother Adult." Black Zetsu's voice suddenly rang out, he emerged from Kaguya's sleeve, lowering his voice: "Although you have recovered your power, simultaneously facing three Six Paths Level opponents is still too risky. Better to take these two brats away first."

Kaguya glanced at Naruto and Sasuke below, nodded slightly, her slender finger tapping lightly in the air, space instantly rippling like a water surface, instantly enveloping Sasuke and Naruto,

"Trying to run?!"

Boom! The ground beneath Uchiha Madara's feet instantly shattered, his whole person soaring skyward in an instant, the Six Paths Staff tracing an arc through the air, striking straight for Kaguya's throat.

Clang! The staff swept through the void, but only struck lingering spatial ripples. An air wave swept out, sending surrounding debris flying. Kaguya's figure, along with Naruto and Sasuke, had already vanished into thin air.

"Space-Time Ninjutsu, huh." Madara landed on the ground, brows furrowed tight, this was precisely his weak point.

"Naruto! Sasuke!" Sakura rushed forward a few steps, looking at where the two had vanished.

"Calm down." Kakashi grabbed her, "This fluctuation. resembles Obito's Dojutsu, but far more powerful. They should have been shifted to some special space."

At this moment Uchiha Madara's eyes moved, instantly looking toward the two.

"Madara, what are you doing?!" Sakura instantly assumed a battle stance, right hand gathering chakra.

Uchiha Madara ignored Sakura, right hand suddenly raising toward Obito's body in the distance, five fingers spreading: "Shinra Tensei!"

An invisible gravitational force instantly erupted, Obito's body seized as if by an unseen giant hand, flying straight toward Madara.

Sakura tried to intervene, but was grabbed by Kakashi.

"Don't act rashly." Kakashi said lowly, "With our current strength, we're simply no match for him."

Madara's right hand reached out like an eagle's claw, precisely clamping onto Obito's neck, while his left index and middle fingers lightly tapped Obito's eyes — Pfft! The bloodshot Sharingan were gouged out by Madara, fresh blood flowing down Obito's cheeks.

In Kakashi and Sakura's shocked gazes, Madara's face began a bizarre transformation, the area above his eyes suddenly splitting, new eye sockets gradually forming.

"These eyes, I'll take them." Madara stuffed the Sharingan into the newly formed eye sockets.

"Click"

With a light sound, the Sharingan perfectly embedded into the eye sockets. Madara closed his eyes, sensing the new power circulating in his body.

When Madara opened his eyes again, four eyes lit up simultaneously. The two lower Rinnegan's purple light flowed, the two upper Mangekyo emitting an eerie red glow.

"This feeling." Madara moved his neck slightly, adapting to the visual changes brought by four eyes, "Better than expected."

Madara took a deep breath, activating Observation Haki.

Perception spread out like a tide, covering dozens of li in radius. Every leaf's tremor, every wisp of wind's flow, clearly reflected in his perception.

Finally, coordinating with the resonance of the Magatama Rinnegan on his forehead, he caught a trace of anomaly — it was the spatial fluctuation left by Kaguya. Though extremely faint, it indeed existed.

He casually tossed Obito onto the ground, gaze looking toward a certain direction: "Since you want to play hide-and-seek, I'll play with you to the end."

"Kamui!"

The air suddenly twisted, a vortex-like black hole appearing out of nowhere. Madara stepped in, his whole person penetrating the spatial barrier, entering a desolate alternate space.

As far as the eye could see was a world of ice and snow. Blizzard howled, vast white snowflakes obscuring vision. But under Observation Haki's perception, the scene ahead was clearly visible.

Not far off, Kaguya was using two strands of white long hair to entangle Naruto and Sasuke in midair, while Black Zetsu's body covered the two like black slime.

"Black Zetsu!" Amidst Madara's roar, blue vast chakra erupted thunderously.

Boom! Complete Body Susanoo rose from the ground, the giant samurai phantom wielding twin blades, its whole body covered in a layer of faintly visible vibration ripples.

The Gura Gura no Mi's power flowed over the Susanoo's surface, the air warping and distorting from this terrifying power.

"Slash!"

Susanoo's twin blades merged, carrying heaven-destroying earth-annihilating power as they cleaved down. Space itself seemed torn beneath this blade, emitting a groan of unbearable strain.

"How is this possible?!" Black Zetsu's voice was full of disbelief, "Actually able to enter Tengai Shinsei?"

Suddenly he saw the four eyes on Madara's forehead, pupils instantly shrinking: "Damn it, it's Obito's Sharingan!"

Kaguya sensed danger, her arm shaking, immediately releasing her control over Naruto and Sasuke. She flashed back, hands rapidly crossing, blocking above her head.

"Bang!"

Blade and palm met. Amidst the deafening explosion, a visible shockwave spread outward. But just then, the vibration ripples coiling around the giant sword suddenly erupted.

"Crack"

Kaguya's defense instantly collapsed, her whole person plummeting to the ground like a meteor.

"Boom—!"

The earth exploded, ice and snow scattering. Kaguya's figure slammed heavily into the ground. The entire frozen space trembled. The ground instantly split open into a bottomless ravine. Countless ice blocks shattered.

"That just now was." Naruto steadied himself, face full of disbelief, "Uchiha Madara Madara saved us?"

Naruto looked at Sasuke beside him: "Could it be that the Uchiha Madara from that world has the opposite personality from the one here?"

Sasuke stared fixedly at Madara's Susanoo: "Impossible, that killing intent... it's even stronger than the Madara we just encountered. Saving us must have been a coincidence..."

Kaguya's figure slowly stood up from the ice dust on the ground, not a single wound on her body: "Interesting. You possess not only Six Paths Power."

At this moment Black Zetsu spoke from within Kaguya's sleeve: "Mother, do not conserve chakra anymore, or the Thousand Year Plan might fail."

Kaguya nodded lightly, then raised both hands. "Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!"

Kaguya gave a delicate shout. In an instant, a terrifying chakra fluctuation erupted from her body, and countless phantoms appeared in the air.

Madara's pupils shrank sharply. In his Observation Haki perception, every single phantom was enough to shatter Susanoo. These phantoms condensed into fists in midair, dense and countless, blotting out the sky.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Countless fist shadows screamed as they slammed into Madara's Susanoo. Every strike precisely hit a vital point, and the purple energy armor cracked inch by inch under this storm-like assault.

"This kind of attack." Madara's pupil shrank. All four eyes rotated simultaneously. Susanoo's two arms swung giant swords, frantically blocking.

But the number of fist shadows was simply too great. In a split second they broke through the defense. Susanoo's armor shattered with a piercing cracking sound, dissolving into specks of light that dissipated.

"Cough!"

Madara's expression changed. His body instinctively retreated. Nine Truth-Seeking Balls instantly arrayed themselves before him, forming a solid defensive barrier.

"Bang bang bang!"

Fist shadows slammed into the Truth-Seeking Balls in rapid succession. Each strike's force was more violent than the last. Madara's figure swayed continuously under this terrifying impact, and a trace of bloody sweetness welled up in his mouth.

"Crack!"

Suddenly, Kaguya's right hand joints emitted a teeth-aching sound. Her fair palm snapped open. Several stark-white bone spikes shot from her palm, so fast only afterimages remained.

The bone spikes, the instant they were about to hit Madara, suddenly plunged into a space rift and vanished. The next moment, the space behind Madara rippled, and the bone spikes burst forth from within.

"All-Killing Ash Bones." Black Zetsu let out a sinister laugh. "Anyone struck by this technique will have their body gradually turn to ash and collapse."

"Hmph!"

The corner of Madara's mouth curled slightly. Observation Haki had already captured that bizarre fluctuation. His figure flashed, easily dodging the fatal blow.

"Limbo!" Madara Uchiha's eyes shifted.

Instantly a bizarre fluctuation rippled through the air. Four translucent phantoms silently appeared around Kaguya.

Blood vessels surfaced in Kaguya's Byakugan. She coldly swept her gaze over the surrounding phantoms. Her slender fingers rose again. Instantly, several bone spikes scattered out in a fan shape.

"Puff puff puff!"

The bone spikes precisely pierced the four phantoms. Limbo began to dissipate immediately.

"Those eyes." Madara frowned tightly, looking at Kaguya's Byakugan: "Can see my Limbo?"

As phantoms of a different dimension, Limbo cannot be perceived under normal circumstances. This was the first time Madara Uchiha had encountered Limbo being seen directly.

"Mother Adult, be careful!" Black Zetsu suddenly cried out in alarm, but it was already too late.

Although Limbo was pierced, at the very moment before dissipating, the four phantoms simultaneously formed Hand Seals. Violent lightning jumped back and forth between them, forming a giant electric cage that enveloped Kaguya.

"Lightning Prison Border Jail!"

Blinding lightning exploded in the frozen space. Purple electric arcs danced in the air, dyeing the entire world a dazzling purple. The violent energy vaporized all surrounding ice chunks, turning them into a white mist.

At this moment, Kaguya's figure suddenly blurred. Her body melted like ice and snow, slowly sinking into the ice layer beneath her feet.

"Crack!"

With a crisp sound, a crystalline ice pillar suddenly shot up from the ground, its tip aiming straight for Madara's back.

Madara tapped his toes. His figure retreated rapidly. But the next second, a second, a third, countless massive ice pillars surged out from all directions, entangling toward Madara like giant pythons.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In the blink of an eye, dozens of ice pillars had already surrounded Madara completely, compressing his movement space to the limit. The last few ice pillars suddenly tightened, binding Madara firmly.

"Want to trap me?" Madara laughed coldly. His right hand clenched into a fist. The power of the Gura Gura no Mi erupted instantly.

"Boom!"

A visible shockwave ripple spread outward. The ice pillars shattered inch by inch under this power, but still bound Madara for that instant.

Suddenly, amidst the ice fragments dancing through the sky, stark-white bone spikes shot out from within, stabbing at his vital points.

"Kamui!"

Madara's Mangekyou spun rapidly. Space instantly twisted, sucking all bone spikes into a different dimension. However, at this moment, Observation Haki suddenly let out a sharp alarm.

"Behind!"

Madara's heart shook. A space rift silently opened behind his head. Kaguya's hand reached out from within.

"Hmph!"

The Six Paths Staff in Madara's hand blazed with white light. The power of the Gura Gura no Mi instantly poured into it. He gripped the staff with both hands and violently swept it horizontally behind him, raising a visible shockwave ripple.

"Clang!"

Kaguya caught the staff with one hand. Her slender fingers clamped tightly around the shaft. Her other hand had already turned into a blade, aiming straight for Madara's throat.

"Boil Release: Unrivaled Strength!"

Suddenly, a violent shout came from the side. A power-laden fist wrapped in boiling chakra slammed heavily into Kaguya. The air was instantly compressed, letting out a sharp sonic boom.

"Boom!"

Kaguya's figure was sent flying like a shell, smashing a huge crater into the ice surface.

Madara turned his head to look. He saw Naruto enveloped in orange chakra, the Five-Tails' power surging within his body.

"Amaterasu!"

At this moment, Sasuke's Mangekyou spun rapidly in his eyes.

Pitch-black flames instantly ignited on Kaguya's sleeve, spreading rapidly like a gangrene attached to bone. Kaguya's figure manifested in the distance. She expressionlessly tore off the burning sleeve and threw it on the ground.

The black flames still burned, dyeing that stretch of ice surface pitch-black.

"Mother!"

Black Zetsu's voice suddenly became urgent: "Don't think about absorbing chakra anymore! Continuing like this will give them an opening!"

Naruto took a deep breath and looked at Madara: "Hey, although I don't know where you're from, we can still cooperate right now."

Madara didn't answer immediately, instead looking at Sasuke in the distance, his gaze landing on his Sharingan: "Your eyes... look very much like Izuna's."

"Hm?" Sasuke frowned slightly. This Madara Uchiha who had suddenly appeared, judging from his tone, seemed to not recognize him at all.

(Chapter End)