Naruto: A parody of the entire ninja world, the opening scene infuriates the Kage.

Chapter 357 A Slight Move, Ren Xiong's Despondency
With seven gates opened, Kai's body was under immense strain.

However, even the power gained at a great cost did not pose a significant threat to Madara.

Of course, Madara was already struggling to cope with Might Guy at this point using only his physical skills.

It's undeniable that Madara is very skilled in physical combat, but compared to Guy, who specializes in physical combat, there's still a gap.

Guy's chakra is far inferior to Madara's.

However, after opening the seventh gate, Guy's chakra increased dramatically, and it might not be less than Madara's.

At this moment, Guy's aura seemed even stronger than Madara's.

If Madara hadn't seen the light screen, he might have acknowledged Guy's physical prowess.

However, Madara does not acknowledge Guy's physical abilities.

After all, he had seen the power of Eight Gates Guy revealed on the light screen. That attack, known as Night Guy, was something that even a Six Paths level expert couldn't withstand. But although Night Guy was powerful, it couldn't kill a Six Paths level expert.

The life essence of a Six Paths level being is different; it is very difficult to kill a Six Paths level being using physical techniques.

"boom!"

A massive skeleton appeared, blocking Guy's attack; this was Madara's Susanoo, first stage.

Madara's Susanoo, powered by his Rinnegan, is far stronger than those of Fugaku and Itachi.

The Susanoo in its first phase easily blocked Might Guy's attack.

Kai was also shocked.

Susanoo was shown frequently on the screen, so Guy was quite familiar with it.

It takes a pair of Mangekyou Sharingan to activate Susanoo.

If you only have one Mangekyou Sharingan, you cannot activate Susanoo.

Nowadays, Madara's eyes are not as powerful as the Kaleidoscope, but rather the Rinnegan.

Madara's Rinnegan is an evolution of the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

However, the Rinnegan is not a type of Sharingan.

It is undeniable that the Rinnegan is much stronger than the Mangekyou Sharingan.

It is extremely difficult for the Mangekyou Sharingan to evolve into the Rinnegan. Madara was able to succeed because he had Indra's chakra, and he obtained Hashirama's cells, which gave him Ashura's chakra, thus enabling him to successfully evolve the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan into the Rinnegan.

Although the Mangekyou Sharingan has been transformed into the Rinnegan, it does not affect Madara's ability to open Susanoo.

Furthermore, because of the powerful ocular power of the Rinnegan, the activated Susanoo is also stronger.

Just like now, although Madara has only activated the first stage of Susanoo, it is no weaker than the second stage of Susanoo he activated when he had Mangekyou Sharingan.

For Ban, this was only a slight move.

With the first stage of Susanoo, Madara was already in an invincible position.

Kai's attack was completely blocked.

"Damn it." Kai looked resentful.

Kai cannot accept this outcome.

But opening all eight gates would mean certain death.

The eighth gate is also known as the gate of death.

Therefore, Kai still had some hesitation in his heart, wondering if he would affect the opening of all eight gates.

Kai is not yet at the level of the Kai Emperor who appeared on the screen.

Therefore, even though Madara is not yet at the Six Paths level, but only at the Kage level, even if Guy opens all eight gates and uses Night Guy, he may not necessarily be able to defeat Madara.

After only a slight hesitation, the hot-blooded Kai was about to open the Gate of Death.

But at that moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi intervened and stopped Gai.

"Kai, leave the rest to me," Hiruzen Sarutobi said in a deep voice.

Then, Hiruzen Sarutobi's gaze was fixed on Madara, who was activating Susanoo.

Hiruzen Sarutobi still possessed the Will of Fire within him.

Hiruzen Sarutobi is willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the village.

"I'm here for the Nine-Tails. Enough talk, hand over the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki to me and take him away," Madara said.

In fact, Hiruzen Sarutobi had guessed that Madara was probably after the Nine-Tails.

as predicted.

Now, Madara is asking for the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

So, if Konoha were to hand over Naruto, perhaps the crisis would be over.

If Madara doesn't hand over Naruto, he might destroy Konoha.

Of course, it's also possible that Madara would still destroy Konoha even after handing Naruto over.

Upon hearing Madara's words, Hiruzen Sarutobi refused without hesitation.

Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't bring himself to give up on Naruto.

Even knowing he couldn't defeat Madara, Hiruzen Sarutobi decided to fight to the death.

Even at the cost of his life, Hiruzen Sarutobi would not hesitate.

Many people's eyes were drawn to what was behind Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Jiraiya was also looking at Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned the Monkey King.

Faced with Madara activating Susanoo, and especially seeing Madara's Rinnegan, the Monkey King fell silent.

Even though Madara is only in the first stage of Susanoo now, he is still terrifying enough.

Surprisingly, Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't back down, much to the surprise of the Monkey King.

At this moment, no weakness could be seen in Hiruzen Sarutobi.

The old Ren Xiong is back.

Among the crowd, Kakashi also looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi with a complicated expression.

In crucial moments, the Third Hokage proved to be reliable.

If it were Danzo, he might have taken his subordinates and gone into hiding.

Of course, this doesn't mean Danzo didn't have the Will of Fire.

In some respects, Danzo's Will of Fire even surpassed that of Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Without wasting any words, Hiruzen Sarutobi transformed the Monkey King into the Ruyi Jingu Bang (a magical staff).

The Ape Demon King possesses an indestructible body, and after transforming into the Ruyi Jingu Bang (a magical staff), it becomes a divine weapon.

Since Hiruzen Sarutobi has chosen to fight Madara, the Monkey King has no choice but to fully support him.

Thus, we see the Ape Demon King transform into the Ruyi Jingu Bang (a magical staff).

Wielding his Ruyi Jingu Bang, Hiruzen Sarutobi delivered a powerful blow to Madara's Susanoo.

The skeletal Susanoo swayed slightly.

Although Madara's Susanoo was not broken, it was shaken.

This surprised Madara as well.

Madara realized that he had underestimated Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Hiruzen Sarutobi is quite capable.

Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned as he failed to break through Madara's Susanoo with a single blow.

As Hiruzen Sarutobi swung his Ruyi Jingu Bang again, Madara's Susanoo struck at Hiruzen Sarutobi with one hand.

Although it's a large, skeletal hand, its downward strike is still incredibly powerful.

Standing before this skeletal giant, Hiruzen Sarutobi appeared quite small.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was unable to dodge the attack from the skeletal giant.

With gritted teeth, Hiruzen Sarutobi exerted all his strength, his Ruyi Jingu Bang meeting the skeletal hand.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, the skeletal hand shattered, and the Ruyi Jingu Bang flew out of his hand, leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi in a bad state.

Then look at the Ruyi Jingu Bang (a magical staff); after landing, it instantly transformed back into an old monkey with a 'bang'.

Despite his indestructible body, the ape demon still sustained some injuries.

That is to say, the ape demon possesses an indestructible body; otherwise, it wouldn't have just suffered minor injuries.

Compared to Enma, Hiruzen Sarutobi was more seriously injured, coughing up blood.

Madara also took Hiruzen Sarutobi seriously.

Being able to break through Madara's first-stage Susanoo with one hand is already quite impressive. Of course, that's relative to others; for Madara right now, it's nothing.

After all, Madara's Susanoo was only in its first stage.

The reason why Madara didn't start the second, third, or even higher stages was that he felt it was unnecessary.

Madara felt that the first stage of Susanoo was enough.

Hiruzen Sarutobi struggled to break through Madara's first-stage Susanoo by one hand.

This demonstrates the immense power of Madara's first-stage Susanoo.

Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't speak, and no ninja came to his aid.

Kai did not attack Madara again.

Unless Hiruzen Sarutobi speaks up, Guy shouldn't offer to help.

As for Hiruzen Sarutobi, he is under a lot of pressure right now and naturally hopes that someone can help him.

However, Hiruzen Sarutobi did not order the surrounding ninjas to attack Madara.

Madara wasn't serious at the moment, only making a slight move, which Hiruzen Sarutobi was aware of. However, if a group of ninjas surrounded Madara, it would only enrage him.

Once Ban gets angry, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Now, Hiruzen Sarutobi is considering whether he can take advantage of Madara's arrogance.

Hiruzen Sarutobi has hidden the Inner Four Symbols Seal on his body.

The Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique is an S-rank ninjutsu. The user must first carve the Reverse Four Symbols Seal on their body. This technique is activated when the user dies, and all the blood in the body will gush out, expanding into a sphere while drawing the seal, sealing the surrounding matter and taking it to the underworld.

This is also Hiruzen Sarutobi's trump card.

As for the Corpse Demon Seal, although it is also a one-hit kill and can seal a person's soul into the stomach of the Grim Reaper, the wind-up time is too long.

Furthermore, given Hiruzen Sarutobi's current physique, if he were to use the Reaper Death Seal, he would have difficulty even sealing Orochimaru, let alone sealing Madara in front of him.

Therefore, using the Reaper Death Seal to deal with Madara in front of them would definitely not work.

However, if it were the Inner Four Symbols Seal, it might succeed.

Of course, one also needs to be careless.

Only if Ban is careless, coupled with a good opportunity, could he possibly succeed.

As he exhaled, Hiruzen Sarutobi formed hand seals.

As Hiruzen Sarutobi formed hand seals, he unleashed five ninjutsu techniques.

Of the seven chakra natures, Yin and Yang did not appear.

Fire Release, Water Release, Wind Release, Lightning Release, and Earth Release—the five elemental ninjutsu—were combined and used by Hiruzen Sarutobi.

When the five elemental ninjutsu are combined, their power is considerable.

This is also one of Hiruzen Sarutobi's specialties.

Madara's expression turned serious as he faced Hiruzen Sarutobi's five-element combination ninjutsu.

Madara had to admit that Hiruzen Sarutobi was indeed quite capable.

However, Madara doesn't think that Hiruzen Sarutobi is stronger than Tobirama Senju.

Although Madara disliked Tobirama Senju, he had to admit Tobirama's strength.

As for Hiruzen Sarutobi, he is not worthy of being compared to Hashirama.

Of course, Hashirama who has lost his powers doesn't count.

Madara stole Hashirama's power, and now Hashirama is powerless and on his way back to Konoha.

However, because he lost his power, it will take Hashirama quite some time to return to Konoha.

By the time Hashirama returns to Konoha, Madara will probably have already achieved his goal and left.

Even when Hashirama returned to Konoha and encountered Madara, he was unable to stop him.

Madara's goal is clear: to collect the Tailed Beasts.

They came to Konoha because of the Nine-Tails.

Even if it's just half of the Nine-Tailed Fox, I'll get it first.

Madara will also take the other eight tailed beasts one by one.

As for using the Gedo Mazo to devour the nine tailed beasts, it's best to do it in order, starting with the One-Tailed Beast, then the Two-Tailed Beast and the Three-Tailed Beast, and then the Four-Tailed Beast.
However, even if it's not in order, it's just a little troublesome, but it's nothing for Ban.

Madara crossed his arms in front of him, his skeletal giant blocking Hiruzen Sarutobi's five-element combination ninjutsu.

Despite Madara's current immense chakra and astonishing Rinnegan power, and the fact that even his first-stage Susanoo is incredibly strong, it's still too much of a stretch for him to block Hiruzen Sarutobi's five-element combination ninjutsu with only the first-stage Susanoo.

The combined ninjutsu of the Five Elements unleashed by Hiruzen Sarutobi was incredibly powerful, seemingly capable of destroying everything.

The skeletal giants had a very difficult time defending themselves.

In just a short time, the skeletal giant was about to collapse.

At this point, Madara was forced to activate the second stage of Susanoo.

When Madara activates the second stage of Susanoo, both the attack and defense of Susanoo are greatly enhanced.

It was evident that Hiruzen Sarutobi's five-element combination ninjutsu could not break through Madara's second-stage Susanoo.

If it were still the first stage of Susanoo, it would definitely have been broken.

"To have such mastery of the Five Elements ninjutsu is no small feat," Madara said.

Madara thought of Hiruzen Sarutobi's father, Sarutobi Sasuke.

Sarutobi Sasuke is also proficient in the Five Elements Ninjutsu.

In Madara's opinion, Hiruzen Sarutobi's mastery of the Five Elements ninjutsu surpassed that of Sasuke Sarutobi.

Compared to Danzo, Homura Mitokado, and Koharu Utatane, Hiruzen Sarutobi was indeed much stronger.

There was a reason why Tobirama Senju chose Hiruzen Sarutobi as the Third Hokage.

It's not just the Will of Fire that Hiruzen Sarutobi displayed back then.

It also includes Hiruzen Sarutobi's abilities and the support Konoha has for him.

After all, the Hokage's position is crucial to the stability of the village, especially since Tobirama Senju died during the First Shinobi World War, which was still ongoing at the time. Under such circumstances, the stability of Konoha was of paramount importance.

However, as Madara's Susanoo entered its second stage, its offense and defense increased significantly, making it unmatched by Hiruzen Sarutobi.

During the battle, both sides were depleting their chakra.

Madara was not only consuming chakra, but also his eye power.

However, Madara did not consume much chakra.

Given Madara's current chakra reserves, the chakra he consumed in this battle was only a small fraction.

As for the consumption of eye power, that's not a problem at all.

The power of the Rinnegan recovers very quickly.

In terms of pupil power recovery, it is faster than when using the Eternal Kaleidoscope.

Unless Madara uses up a large amount of his eye power at once.

In contrast, Hiruzen Sarutobi had consumed a great deal of chakra.

Although Hiruzen Sarutobi had a lot of chakra, it was rapidly depleting, leaving him with very little.

"Is this all there is to it?" Madara wondered.

During this battle, Madara clearly sensed Hiruzen Sarutobi's immense talent.

Hiruzen Sarutobi is getting old; he's not at his peak anymore.

However, Hiruzen Sarutobi wasn't much stronger at his peak than he is now.

By fighting Madara alone, Hiruzen Sarutobi's fate was sealed.

Madara's Susanoo conjured a katana in his hand.

The next moment, Madara Susanoo slashed down at Hiruzen Sarutobi with his sword.

This slash was of earth-shattering power.

The Monkey King helped Hiruzen Sarutobi defend himself.

As Madara Susanoo's sword fell, the Monkey King's indestructible body was broken, and he was seriously injured.

As for Hiruzen Sarutobi, he was on the verge of death.

Renxiong's life is already on a countdown.

Although Konoha has many medical ninjas nowadays, it's estimated that no one can save Hiruzen Sarutobi.

If Tsunade were in Konoha, her medical ninjutsu might have been able to save Hiruzen Sarutobi. However, Tsunade is not in Konoha now, so Hiruzen Sarutobi is beyond saving.

(End of this chapter)