Konoha: Prepare to defect, the system is coming.

“Hashi Lama!”

Madara Uchiha narrowed his eyes slightly, examining this strange space as he spoke, "Could this have been the work of your treacherous white-haired brother?"

"Don't pin all the blame on Tobirama. Do you think he would mess with his older brother?" Hashirama retorted as he observed his surroundings.

“That’s true!” Madara Uchiha nodded subconsciously.

Then, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and the three tomoe slowly rotated as he carefully examined this strange space.

Beneath his feet lay a seemingly calm surface of water, but it was not an ordinary liquid. There were no ripples, no waves, and not even a reflection. What was even more strange was that even without activating his chakra, his body remained firmly standing on the water.

All around them was endless darkness; only where they stood was there a sliver of light.

After observing for a moment, Hashirama frowned and said, "Where exactly is this place? What are we?"

Before he could finish speaking, a hazy ripple suddenly appeared in front of them.

Space distorted slightly, and a phantom figure slowly emerged. As time passed, the blurry outline gradually solidified, and finally, an old man with a weathered face sat steadily in front of them.

He was dressed in an ancient-style robe, had two horns on his head, six black magatama-shaped patterns on his chest, and a red swirling emblem on his back.
Upon seeing this, Ban's pupils suddenly contracted, his muscles tensed slightly, and he questioned him.

"who are you?"

Hashirama also stared at the other man warily, but rather than feeling hostility, he felt as if he had seen the old man somewhere before, but he couldn't quite place where.

The old man did not answer immediately, but simply watched them quietly, a faint smile appearing on his lips.

Seeing this, Madara Uchiha instantly lost his patience and swung his leg at him, saying, "Playing tricks."

boom!
Just as his thigh was about to touch the old man, it seemed to hit some invisible barrier, and no matter how hard Madara Uchiha tried, he could not move forward an inch.

"Motor, stop!"

Hashirama Senju waved his hand, then looked at the old man in front of him with a solemn expression and said, "This should be the legendary ancestor of ninjas, the Sage of Six Paths who founded the Ninja Sect."

I saw your portrait at the Slug Sage's place.

Seeing that his identity had been recognized, the Sage of Six Paths smiled slightly, then continued to stare at the two middle-aged men resurrected through Edo Tensei in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Ugh!"

"Ugh!"

"Ugh!"

The aged sighs of the Sage of Six Paths echoed in the space, each sound like a heavy bell tolling, chilling the heart between the pillars.

At first, he was somewhat pleased by the appearance of the Sage of Six Paths, after all, there was finally a way to seal the Ten-Tails. But now, it seems that the Sage of Six Paths is more worried than he is.
at this time.

Madara Uchiha slowly withdrew his foot.

Although he had never seen a portrait of the Sage of Six Paths, his family records did contain a description of him, and besides, Hashirama wouldn't joke about such things.
Madara was almost certain that the old man in front of him was the Sage of Six Paths, the one who "proposed" the Eye of the Moon plan.

just
He looked at the Sage of Six Paths with a worried expression. Madara rubbed his chin with one hand, about to say something, when he heard Hashirama's somewhat idiotic voice.

"Damn it, I think I understand why the Sage of Six Paths sighed."

Madara crossed his arms and glanced at Hashirama with some surprise, signaling him to continue.

"The sage is worried about the fate of the ninja world," Hashirama said confidently, looking at the old man before him.

The Sage of Six Paths:.
He looked up again at the two middle-aged men resurrected through Edo Tensei in front of him. After a long silence, he said in a low voice, "There is a little bit of that, but more importantly, I've discovered that the three of us can't even muster one person."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire space fell into a deathly silence.

Hashirama Senju:
Uchiha Madara:.
They exchanged a glance, looking at the cracks on each other's bodies, and then turned to look at the soul in front of them, falling into silence.

After a while.

The Sage of Six Paths looked at the two people in front of him, sighed again, and slowly said, "I am the Sage of Six Paths, also known as the progenitor of ninjas. Next, I will tell you the truth about the ninja world."

As he spoke, he turned to look at Hashirama Senju, “After your ancestors, Indra and Ashura, died, their chakra did not disappear, but instead possessed the bodies of outstanding ninjas in their descendants.”

“Your younger brother, Asura, was reincarnated as you.”

"Hashirama, my eyes can see that Ashura's chakra once appeared on you."

Hearing this, Hashirama frowned slightly and subconsciously looked at Madara Uchiha. Hashirama had learned about Indra and Ashura, and their feud, from ancient texts and the words of the Slug Sage, and he was also aware of the "energy" within his body.

If Ashura's chakra resides in his body, then Indra's chakra must reside in Madara Uchiha's body.

"You guessed right, Madara is your brother."

As if knowing what he was thinking, the Sage of Six Paths nodded and continued, "After your deaths, the chakra of Indra and Ashura were reincarnated again, and their current identities are..."

"Hahahaha~~"

Before the Sage of Six Paths could continue speaking, Madara Uchiha suddenly grinned and laughed loudly, "Hashilama, I am your half-brother."

The Sage of Six Paths:.
Hashirama Senju:
To be honest, even as the two people who know the Uchiha clan best, they find it difficult to understand the Uchiha's way of thinking.

It was a very serious topic, but the Uchiha's attention kept wandering to strange things.

"Ugh!"

The Sage of Six Paths sighed again, then turned to look at Hashirama Senju, whose face was full of black lines. "Madara obtained Ashura's power from you, and the two merged to awaken the Rinnegan."

I had long foreseen that such a person would appear one day.

He turned his head to look at Uchiha Madara, staring at the other's Rinnegan, and sighed, "So, I left a stone tablet and words to persuade him to change his mind, but judging from the current situation, the stone tablet doesn't seem to have worked."

"A stone tablet? There's another stone tablet?" Madara Uchiha frowned, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Sage of Six Paths, where is that stone tablet you mentioned?"

The Sage of Six Paths stared at Madara for a while, then said in a low voice, "I have been observing my sons' struggle. I remember that the stone tablet was moved by the Uchiha clan to the area below the Naka Shrine."

Madara Uchiha frowned, carefully recalling the situation at the Naka Shrine. Then, his face darkened, and he turned to look at Hashirama Senju, saying irritably, "Your treacherous white-haired brother stole things from the Uchiha clan."

Hashirama: ? ? ?
Although his brother is indeed somewhat cunning, his character is definitely not a problem.

Why would anyone steal a stone tablet, especially one that admonishes the Uchiha clan, when they have so many good things to steal?

The Sage of Six Paths:.
He now realized that it wasn't the stone tablet he left behind that had any effect, but rather that Madara Uchiha hadn't even seen the stone tablet.

"The Sage of Six Paths".

Madara Uchiha shook his head, flicking another stone tablet out of his mind, and asked, "Infinite Tsukuyomi is a world-saving technique that can bring peace. As its creator, why didn't you use it?"
Why wasn't all of humanity's chakra taken back to completely end the war? Instead, humanity was allowed to possess chakra, causing their hatred to deepen.

Hashirama: ? ? ?
He looked at Madara Uchiha with some shock and asked, "Where did you learn all this? What about taking back human chakra, and what about a world-saving technique?"

"A stone tablet from the Uchiha clan, left behind by the Sage of Six Paths," Madara Uchiha replied calmly.

The Sage of Six Paths paused, somewhat doubting whether his memory was faulty. "I left behind two stone tablets?? No, that's not right, there was only one stone tablet."

Thinking of this, he narrowed his eyes slightly, pondering what Madara Uchiha had just said, and said in a low voice.

"Although I am not clear about the specifics, Infinite Tsukuyomi is by no means a savior technique, nor is it a simple chakra-recovering technique, much less an illusion that allows humans to live a happy life."

"That was an illusion that used individual power to connect everyone to the divine tree and turn them into living slaves. It was an extremely tragic spell, and it was also a spell to release the mother."

"I recorded this technique on a stone tablet to warn those who come after me."

at the same time.

The Ninja World, the Battlefield.

After seeing Kakashi and Obito disappear, Uchiha Asuka took advantage of the chaos to get behind the Ten-Tails and found Nagato, who was already dead.

The red-haired youth who was once the vessel for the Rinnegan is now just a broken shell.

The moment Obito took his eyes, he was like a puppet whose value had been squeezed dry, carelessly discarded on the edge of the battlefield.

Asuka slowly crouched down, her fingertips gently brushing across Nagato's sunken eye sockets, where only two dark holes remained, with dried blood trickling down like two tear tracks.

"Nagato, we'll meet again."

As she spoke, Asuka took out a pale yellow scroll with a faint glow from her ninja tool pack.

The scroll was a reward he received from the system some time ago, which he had kept until now, waiting for this moment.

He slowly unfurled the scroll, the ancient paper rustling softly in the wind. Mysterious black runes appeared on the scroll's surface, the characters seeming to flow with life, eventually coalescing into a few clear lines of explanation:
Copy Scroll: Can copy any item within your field of vision (Duration: 3 minutes), [Reward for Chapter 680]. (End of Chapter)