Chapter 587: Return

Just as everyone was captivated by the reappearance of the eighty-meter blue giant, a pale green figure appeared beside Mu Yue's body.

Celebi lightly tapped Mu Yue with its finger, activating the earth-nature chakra nature transformation, and brought Mu Yue underground.

The moment Celebi's finger touched Mu Yue, Mu Yue's body became illusory, like a phantom that did not exist.

The next moment, Mu Yue, now underground, opened his eyes.

Disciple Uchiha Obito's emotions were too intense; his Six Paths bloodline was stimulated, awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, greatly enhancing his strength. Reward obtained—Byakugan purity significantly increased.

Disciple Uchiha Obito's chakra, Master Retribution obtains chakra. Disciple Uchiha Shisui's emotions were too intense; his Six Paths bloodline was stimulated, awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, greatly enhancing his strength. Reward obtained—Byakugan purity significantly increased.

Disciple Uchiha Shisui's chakra, Master Retribution obtains chakra. Your Byakugan has reached the requirement for evolution and will evolve soon.

The moment Mu Yue opened his eyes, several system messages appeared before him.

"One hundred forty-eight thousand points of chakra, the Byakugan is about to evolve." Mu Yue showed a satisfied expression.

Everything that had happened so far was within his plan.

After using the Thoughtless Slash that cut Susanoo in half, Mu Yue had very little chakra left, but it wasn't enough to fail maintaining his Byakugan, and he still had the chakra from the Yin Seal unused.

In Mu Yue's plan, if needed, he had to "die" once in front of his disciples.

No other reason—to help his disciples awaken and improve their strength, and also to defeat Uchiha Madara more easily.

Uchiha Madara would never expect that Mu Yue still had a Sharingan hidden beneath his glasses.

That was one of the inheritances Mu Yue received from Root, a Sharingan that Shimura Danzō had used for experiments.

Mu Yue quickly removed his glasses and took out a Byakugan from the system space.

Items rewarded by the system could be stored in the system space, so Mu Yue could also directly place his Byakugan-eyed eye into the system space.

Without hesitation, Mu Yue gouged out his own right eye, which had lost its luster, then placed the extracted Byakugan in and activated medical ninjutsu.

"Izanagi—truly a useful jutsu," Mu Yue sighed.

Without Izanagi, it would have been quite difficult for Mu Yue to pretend to be dead in order to provoke Obito and the others into awakening their Sharingan.

After all, Obito and the others were spectating, and with abilities like the Sharingan and the Transparent World, they could easily spot problems.

Izanagi was different; in a certain sense, Mu Yue had indeed died once, but he had set Izanagi to activate automatically using a Transfer Seal in his Sharingan, altering the reality of his death.

"It's time to end this." Mu Yue observed the situation on the battlefield with his Byakugan and decided to strike and finish Uchiha Madara.

Uchiha Madara now only had one chance to use Izanagi left, and his condition was worse than at the start of the battle.

Meanwhile, Mu Yue had been fed a secret medicine, fully recovering his injuries, his Byakugan had been strengthened, and he had yet to use the Yin Seal chakra.

The victor of the battle was already decided.

"Yin Seal: Release!"

The flame on Mu Yue's forehead emitted a red light, and a large amount of chakra surged out from the seal, automatically entering the Flame Breathing Chakra Mode.

Celebi held a kunai in both hands, flew back to the ground, and threw the kunai at Uchiha Madara as Mu Yue had instructed.

Uchiha Madara, about to catch Rin Nohara, detected the whistling sound, gave it a brief glance, and ignored it.

Even if it were a wide-range ninjutsu, he wouldn't bother to move, let alone a single kunai. Unless it was a wide-range ninjutsu performed by Mu Yue.

But Hanyū Mu Yue was already dead; no one on the entire battlefield could threaten him.

Mu Yue used Flying Thunder God Technique to appear in the air behind Susanoo.

"Fire Release: Blue Flame · Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"

Mu Yue pushed his Flame Breathing Chakra Mode to its limit, greatly enhancing his fire-release and physical abilities.

Under the enhancement of Flame Breathing Chakra Mode, Mu Yue clasped his hands together, instantly completing the detailed manipulation of numerous fire-nature chakra nature transformations.

Whoosh whoosh!

A massive amount of dazzling blue flames was exhaled by Mu Yue.

The blue flames danced and tumbled in the air, emitting suffocating heat.

"Huh?!"

Sensing a ninjutsu that could threaten his life, Uchiha Madara immediately turned around and saw Muyue, who had just released the blue flame.

Even Uchiha Madara, who had been through countless battles and witnessed many grand spectacles, showed a confused expression at that moment.

Muyue had lost his life under his Sharingan—this was a fact witnessed by Uchiha Madara's own Sharingan.

Muyue didn't have a Sharingan, and none of the ninja present had a Rinnegan to use Rinne Rebirth on him. How had Muyue come back to life?

Uchiha Madara was extremely puzzled.

However, Uchiha Madara was, after all, an experienced Uchiha Madara. He didn't dwell on Muyue's resurrection; he immediately gave up on Nohara Rin, who was almost in his grasp, and prepared to go all out against Muyue.

No matter how Muyue had managed it, the fact remained that Muyue was not dead.

"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!"

Uchiha Madara gathered a large amount of chakra, converted it into fire-natured chakra, and spat out a massive ball of orange-red flame, intending to use Fire Release to block Fire Release.

Having observed Obito, he knew a bit about the blue flame—the blue flame had far superior burning ability and power compared to ordinary Fire Release, but that required compression. Since Muyue had produced so much blue flame at once, its power would certainly be affected.

Boom!!

The blue and red flames collided in front of the Susanoo, and the terrifying hot wind that erupted even slightly affected Uchiha Madara inside the Susanoo.

Although he quickly reacted due to his previous experience, it was ultimately Muyue who struck first; Uchiha Madara had used his Fire Release only when the blue flame was about to burn the Susanoo.

Something unexpected happened to Uchiha Madara: the blue flame, which appeared smaller in range and weaker in intensity, engulfed Uchiha Madara's orange-red flame with overwhelming superiority.

If Muyue were an ordinary Fire Release ninja, Uchiha Madara's idea of using fire to block fire would have been fine; same-natured ninjutsu can be canceled based on the level of nature transformation and chakra.

Unfortunately, Muyue was not. He had a perfect-level Fire Nature Transformation, was enhanced by the Flame Breathing Chakra Mode, and had just used the S-rank Mastery-level Blue Flame with full power.

With such Fire Release, what could Uchiha Madara use to block it?

Strictly speaking, the true power of this Fire Release surpassed the Thoughtless Slash; it was just that the Thoughtless Slash was more concentrated and more straightforward.

Whoosh!

The dazzling blue flame quickly broke through Uchiha Madara's Fire Release and struck the Susanoo.

The powerful Susanoo that was hard to shake with Kakashi's Thoughtless Slash seemed to become flammable wax under Muyue's full-power Blue Flame; the blue flame rapidly spread across the upper half of the Susanoo.

Illuminated by the flame, everything around grew dim, and only the blue flame shone like a brilliant star, lighting up the entire battlefield.

"Teacher Muyue!" Obito, who had been about to rush to Nohara Rin's side, stopped in his tracks and looked ecstatically at the golden-haired figure.

Without a doubt, that was his master, the all-capable Muyue the Immortal.

"Muyue the Immortal truly is omnipotent; he brought me back to the real world."

Obito instantly felt that this world was extremely real, not fake at all.

Shisui's eyes widened, and his face showed an uncontrollable expression of joy.

The one who uses the Flying Thunder God Technique, this terrifying blue flame, and the familiar chakra—wasn't this exactly their Teacher Muyue, who had just been lying on the ground resting?

"As expected, Teacher Muyue was just tired and took a short nap."

Shisui's entire body relaxed, feeling comfortable all over; even his eyes, which had been aching faintly, seemed to have healed.

"Huff." Kakashi, gripping Enma, sat down on the ground and gasped heavily.

That slash just now had almost exhausted his chakra; he had only managed to stay standing through sheer willpower.

Seeing the familiar and reliable teacher appear again, Kakashi instantly relaxed.

He didn't know what methods Muyue had used, but that didn't matter—the best outcome was that Muyue was still alive.

"Lord Muyue!"

The injured Konoha ninja lying on the ground had already despaired when Uchiha Madara once again summoned a Susanoo over eighty meters tall, believing they would surely die.

But unexpectedly, Muyue, whom they had thought dead, appeared again and once more displayed an incredibly powerful ninjutsu.

"If there's ever a new election for Hokage, we must support Lord Muyue." That was the thought of all the Konoha ninja present.

Muyue possessed powerful Wood Release and had saved their lives on the battlefield—if not Muyue, then who else would they choose?

Under the assault of the terrifying blue flame, the Susanoo was burned into nothingness.

Unlike last time, neither Obito nor Shisui immediately deactivated their Mangekyo Sharingan; instead, they cautiously observed their surroundings.

Logically, being hit by a Fire Style of this power should have made survival impossible.

But last time, the Black-robed Uchiha had taken a Musō Ichigeki head-on and still lived, which made Obito and the others worry that the Black-robed Uchiha might have similar tricks.

"Over there! Teacher Muyue, watch out!" Obito spotted Madara Uchiha appearing not far behind Muyue and shouted.

If Obito could spot him, how could the cautious Muyue not know? He raised his hand and unleashed a terrifyingly hot flame that engulfed Madara Uchiha, who had been trying to launch another sneak attack.

However, because Madara had just used Izanagi, Muyue's Fire Style had no effect on him.

Though uninjured, the rapidly worsening situation made Madara's expression turn somewhat grim.

"Zetsu's intelligence has so many omissions and errors! This Hanyū Muyue's strength is completely different from the reports!" Madara said, his face dark.

It would have been manageable if Muyue had abilities beyond the reports — after all, for a ninja of this level, having an unrevealed trump card is understandable — but the errors in known information were fatal.

For example, the Musō Ichigeki and Blue Flame — Madara knew about these two abilities of Muyue's, but the power Muyue displayed today was on a completely different level from the intelligence.

Madara was speechless. If he had known Muyue was this strong, he would have definitely waited until Iwagakure had drained Muyue's chakra and he himself had grown accustomed to his body before coming.

Madara, while launching a furious assault using the advantage of Izanagi, also thought of a way to salvage the situation.

The plan had certainly failed, but he couldn't just sit and wait for death; he had to do something.

Madara thought of targeting Nohara Rin, using her death to provoke Obito once more.

Of course, this idea couldn't be realized either, because with Muyue, who had mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, present, he couldn't kill Nohara Rin at all.

"Lord, I have brought you the eyes."

At that moment, a White Zetsu suddenly emerged from the ground, holding two Sharingan in its hand.

Madara immediately focused his mind, burst out his chakra, and instantly created a half-bodied Susanoo.

The Susanoo swung a blue light sword at Muyue, while Madara reached out to take the Sharingan.

If he could obtain another pair of Sharingan, Muyue would surely be no match for him.

'Psychic!'

Beside him, Celebi silently used Psychic to levitate the Sharingan into the sky, causing Madara to grab at nothing.

"Fire Style: Blue Flame - Great Dragon Fire!"

Seizing this opening, Muyue gathered a large amount of chakra and spat out a blue fire dragon, aiming directly at Madara inside the Susanoo.

"What a useless fool! I wonder where he got such arrogant confidence." In the shadows, Black Zetsu's face turned even darker.

He had watched step by step as Madara squandered a good hand.

Originally, Muyue was in the open and they were in the dark, holding the initiative.

But Madara thought Muyue was surely no match for him and went confidently straight to confront Muyue.

Seeing that Madara was about to be defeated, Black Zetsu left without hesitation, not looking back.

He was not as strong as the Six Paths siblings; he couldn't defeat Muyue in a direct fight.

"Uchiha Obito, Uchiha Shisui, when your ocular power grows stronger, go and see the stone tablet at the Nanga Shrine. There lies the secret that can bring peace to the world."

When Madara realized that he could not win, he did not show panic or alarm; instead, he left a message for Obito and Shisui.

Konoha did not have the technique to transplant Hashirama's cells, so Obito and Shisui surely couldn't solve the side effect problem of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Therefore, it was very likely that one of them would choose to sacrifice themselves for the other.

If that person could successfully awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, they would be able to decipher the message of the Six Paths Sage and perhaps become the next him.

Obito immediately became displeased. Did they think he was stupid? Could the words of an enemy be trusted?

Before Obito could retort to Madara, Muyue's fire dragon composed of Blue Flame melted the Susanoo's defense and struck Madara.

The fire dragon pierced through Madara's body, leaving a large hole in him.

The Susanoo dispersed, and Madara's body fell to the ground. The legendary ninja had fallen.

Muyue controlled the remaining blue flame to dissipate, to prevent Madara's body from being burned to ashes.

"Teacher Mu Yue." The disciples gathered around her.

When I opened my eyes again, I picked up my phone and saw it was five in the morning. My vision went dark and I nearly scared myself to death, so I quickly got up and kept writing.

I can only say it's a good thing it wasn't five in the afternoon.

So this counts as yesterday's update, just a little late (let's treat it as being in the underworld hours, shall we?).

If there are issues, feel free to leave a comment. Xiao Ju has to go back to catch up on sleep. I'll fix things when I wake up.: mhtxs

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