Chapter 290: The So-Called Legendary Ninja

Uchiha Obito appeared behind Tao Baibai in an instant, his right hand thrusting out as the Wood Cutting Technique erupted from his palm.

Uchiha Madara's combat experience was incredibly vast; his Three-Tomoe Sharingan flickered, and he stepped to the left while simultaneously swinging his left hand to slash at Obito's neck.

His movements did not pursue extreme speed; instead, they were almost perfectly matched to the speed at which the Wood Cutting Technique was thrusting toward his body.

Madara was fully aware of Obito's abilities, and likewise, he understood the weakness of Obito's Kamui Voidification.

Uchiha Obito seemed to have been blinded by rage, recklessly thrusting the wood spikes forward with violence.

Uchiha Madara's expression remained unchanged, his left hand's horizontal slash speed even undergoing subtle adjustments.

The wood spikes vanished quietly as they passed through Tao Baibai's body, while the opponent's hand-blade also passed through Obito's neck; the look of rage on his face dissipated slightly, for Obito had not completely lost his reason.

As Uchiha Madara's Sharingan rotated slightly, he took in all of Obito's movements; as long as Obito made any move to attack, he would counterattack simultaneously.

This current body was more powerful than the bodies of almost everyone in the Ninja World he knew; even the physique of that guy Hashirama could never be this hard.

With this kind of body, he only needed one attack that traded injuries to instantly kill Obito.

"Is your hatred only at this level?"

Uchiha Madara's movements froze for an instant; he turned his head back, his Sharingan still continuously assaulting Obito with Illusion Technique, but Obito, now under the powerful ocular power of the Rinnegan, would not be easily affected; the Wood Release in Obito's palm vanished, and he suddenly pulled with his right hand.

A powerful gravitational force appeared.

Uchiha Madara's center of gravity shifted as well, tilting backward; Uchiha Obito said nothing, attacking again from behind, his right hand pressing toward Tao Baibai's back.

Uchiha Madara exerted force from his waist while condensing Chakra under his feet, freezing his body in a position tilted back more than forty-five degrees, his left hand grabbing toward Obito's eyes.

The right arm destroyed by a single hit from the Truth-Seeking Ball had not yet been able to regenerate; the substance of the Truth-Seeking Ball possessed an extremely high level of restraint against Regeneration-type abilities.

Obito's expression was cold as he watched the hand reaching for his eyes approach at the exact same speed as his own hand reaching for the opponent's back.

Hum!

The moment before they touched, the space in front of Obito's right hand instantly twisted.

Kamui!

Even with the Rinnegan suppressing the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, Obito still could not gain the upper hand in taijutsu combat; in fact, Obito had no intention of using the Wood Cutting Technique to kill the opponent at all—he still intended to absorb this strange Tao Baibai into the Shenwei Kongjian.

Amidst the distortion of his figure, Obito's Rinnegan indeed discovered that the current Tao Baibai was no longer using that ability of clasping hands together followed by Instant Movement.

In other words, his guess was correct: there were multiple souls inside Tao Baibai, including Uchiha Madara, and when different souls occupied the dominant position, their combat abilities and habits were completely different.

The Tao Baibai that appeared initially leaned toward taijutsu, with movements that were wide, open, and violently abnormal; facing his attacks, the opponent usually would not dodge or evade at all, using that invincible defense to take the attacks head-on.

Subsequently, that consciousness with the flippant tone possessed some kind of peculiar space-time ability; by clasping hands together, the opponent could teleport, and the attacks were also linked to space abilities; facing attacks other than Kamui, the opponent would likewise not dodge, but instead use that near-invincible defensive ability to block them directly.

Now, Tao Baibai under the control of Uchiha Madara fought with more precision, utilizing the Tese of the Sharingan extremely well, and furthermore, every movement was baiting him to attack.

Madara knew his own weaknesses very well, and he was waiting for him to reveal a flaw...

"It's just a pity, without those eyes, you really are the weakest Tao Baibai!"

Uchiha Obito suddenly pulled his right hand backward, and at the same time, 【Universal Pull】 was activated again; the intense gravitational force instantly disrupted the distance Uchiha Madara had been intentionally maintaining.

Bai Cangshu's body tilted toward Uchiha Obito's right hand, and there, the space had already completely twisted; Kamui seemed to have been activated in advance.

In just an instant, Bai Cangshu's body began to twist; Obito felt a surge of joy in his heart, but the next moment.

Bang!

Smoke exploded, and the Tao Baibai distorted by space turned into a piece of rubble.

Uchiha Madara appeared from behind Obito; he looked as if he had never moved at all, merely looking indifferently at Obito, who had completely lost all reverence for him after obtaining the God's Eye.

He grabbed his right shoulder with his left hand and tore with force, completely ripping off the mangled, severed arm.

But the next moment, blood no longer flowed from the severed shoulder, and then, a large amount of granulation tissue pulsed as a new arm began to grow.

"I am the weakest Tao Baibai?"

Uchiha Madara felt he had never suffered such an insult, to the point that he couldn't even feel the sensation of rage at this moment; he only felt it was absurd.

When he had just taken over this body, there was no Chakra in it, and he had also lost the Sharingan, basically leaving only pure taijutsu to use.

Later, when he was condensing Chakra, that flippant guy tried to kill Obito instantly but had an arm shattered by a Six Paths Level existence hiding in the shadows who used a Truth-Seeking Ball, and that existence had saved Uchiha Obito and even forcibly made Obito awaken the Rinnegan.

In his heart, he had already guessed that the Six Paths Level guy was likely the legendary Sage of Six Paths.

By the time he took over this body again, it was already missing an arm, making it impossible to even perform some complex techniques that required hand seals.

It could be said that up until now, Uchiha Madara had not had a chance to display his strength at all, yet even so, this Uchiha junior he had personally cultivated had reached the conclusion that he was the weakest Tao Baibai at present.

"Ha~"

That flippant laughter could not be avoided; the opponent's soul was squeezed into the same shell as his own at this moment, and Gojo Satoru and Uchiha Madara seemed to maintain a minimal level of tacit understanding.

When he had acted wantonly just now, Uchiha Madara had not interfered, and now he had also completely handed over control of the body to Uchiha Madara.

Just hearing the opponent being mocked like this, Gojo Satoru still laughed out loud.

Not only him, but Bai Cangshu himself, who was pressing one hand on the Heart Throne while casually swatting away the spirits flying over one by one, also had a smile on his face at this moment.

There was nothing more amusing than someone as arrogant as Madara being evaluated in such a near-humiliating way.

As the right hand finally grew back, powerful Nine-Tails Chakra also spread across his body surface.

Uchiha Madara clasped his hands together in front of him, looking at Obito indifferently.

"I am the weakest Tao Baibai?"

"I don't recall... when you have ever seen my strength."

【Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation】!

A terrifying torrent of flame erupted on a scale that did not look at all like something a single ninja could release.

But Uchiha Obito just stood where he was, letting the flames pass through his body.

"What effect could this kind of technique have?"

Within the flames, a powerful stream of water suddenly erupted again; water and fire clashed, and a large amount of water vapor rose up, completely submerging everything in the surroundings.

Obito frowned slightly; he realized a shortcoming of the Rinnegan at this moment: this eye, like the Sharingan, did not possess X-ray vision or complete field of vision, and could still have its vision blocked by this kind of smoke.

A large number of figures ran at high speed through the water vapor.

Pfft, pfft, pfft~

From time to time, gravel or attacks passed through his body; Obito felt the massive number of Shadow Clones all around, and every single Shadow Clone seemed extremely proficient in taijutsu.

He frowned, realizing that Uchiha Madara was intentionally using these attacks to try and exhaust the time he could maintain his Kamui Voidification.

He could not keep himself in a state of Voidification indefinitely; even with his current Chakra combined with his evolved Rinnegan, he could not exceed ten minutes.

Obito sensed that Uchiha Madara was different from the previous two Tao Baibai; Uchiha Madara was a true ninja, a legendary ninja who had killed his way out of the most dangerous and cruel era of the Zhan Guo.

His fighting style was exceptionally cold and efficient, with everything revolving around Intelligence to make decisions.

Because he knew the weakness of his Kamui and knew the Tese of the Rinnegan being unable to see through things, he had formulated this tactic...

Suddenly, amidst the water vapor, hundreds of Uchiha Madara rushed over, surrounding him in the center; given this number of Shadow Clones, Uchiha Madara's current Chakra volume must also be truly astonishing.

As his pupils rotated, the Three-Tomoe Sharingan in the eyes of every single Shadow Clone seemed to be spinning as well.

Obito suddenly felt a touch of irritation.

"Facing the power of a god, what can these Shadow Clones do, no matter how many there are!"

A powerful repulsive force erupted from in front of him.

【Shinra Tensei】!

Boom!

A terrifying shockwave swept through the surroundings, and one Shadow Clone after another shattered in response, but amidst this intense impact, the ground beneath Uchiha Obito suddenly exploded, and a fire dragon engulfed Uchiha Obito's figure almost the instant the Shinra Tensei erupted.

This scene left even Otsutsuki Hagoromo, who was in the void in the distance, looking somewhat stunned; he had not expected that, with such an absolute advantage in ability, the person he had chosen would actually be countered by that Uchiha Madara—who was controlling the body of Tao Baibai—with such an ordinary technique?!

(End of this chapter)