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

Chapter 372 You're the Sixth One
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Madara easily destroyed the chakra that Ichibi had painstakingly gathered.

After all, the One-Tailed Beast's chakra isn't considered particularly large among tailed beasts.

Moreover, because the Jinchuriki's body is weak, the One-Tailed Beast cannot unleash its full chakra, but can only unleash a small portion of it.

Even if it's the One-Tail in its full chakra state, it wouldn't be too difficult for Madara to suppress it, and dealing with a small portion of the One-Tail's chakra would be even less of a challenge.

Knowing that the gap between him and Madara was too great and that he had no chance of winning, he gathered his chakra to attack Madara and then turned and ran away.

But Madara easily overwhelmed the One-Tailed Beast's chakra and caught up with it.

The next moment, Madara's Rinnegan and the One-Tailed Beast locked eyes.

With just a glance, the powerful eye power of the Rinnegan released a genjutsu that controlled the One-Tailed Beast.

The One-Tailed Fox, controlled by illusion magic, walks towards the Gedo Mazo.

Not long after, One-Tailed Beast walked up to the Gedo Mazo and stood there dumbfounded.

This is waiting to be devoured by the demonic statue of the heretic.

It was at this moment that Gaara's consciousness awoke.

As soon as he regained consciousness, Gaara immediately realized his current predicament.

Gaara was immediately alarmed.

However, the One-Tailed Beast was controlled by genjutsu, and Gaara was unable to help it.

As for Gaara controlling the power of the One-Tailed Beast, that's also impossible.

Although it's only a small portion of the One-Tailed Beast's power, it's not something that can be easily controlled; at least Gaara can't control it right now.

Ban didn't want to waste time either.

Then, Madara split into several clones.

This time, Madara and several clones used the Illusionary Dragon Nine Seals together.

Although Madara could use it alone, having several clones to help him made it much easier.

As the Nine Seals of the Illusionary Dragon were unleashed, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path began to devour the chakra of the One-Tailed Beast.

As the Gedo Mazo began to devour the One-Tailed Beast's chakra, the One-Tailed Beast quickly awoke from the genjutsu as its chakra was lost.

Although it had broken free from the control of the genjutsu, its chakra had already been devoured by the Gedo Mazo, so the One-Tailed Beast's struggle was futile.

Looking at the Gedo Mazo, it is highly efficient at absorbing the chakra of the One-Tailed Beast.

Ban was quite satisfied with this level of efficiency.

It seems that it won't be long before it completely devours one of the tails.

But that's probably after the light screen disappears.

The screen was still playing many big secrets of the ninja world, or just pranks, anything to mess with people's mentality.

Ban's mindset is actually quite stable, but after watching too many screens, his emotions fluctuate considerably.

Sometimes, Ban also wanted to destroy the light curtain.

However, the inability to destroy the light barrier is one aspect.

On the other hand, the light screen revealed many important secrets, which made Ban more tolerant of it.

After all, the light screen helped Madara; without it, Madara wouldn't have known he was being tricked by Black Zetsu.

However, Madara underestimated Black Zetsu.

But Madara is now sneering.

In Madara's view, Black Zetsu had already been killed by him.

Even though Black Zetsu is the younger brother of the Sage of Six Paths, the third son of Kaguya Otsutsuki, the progenitor of chakra, and has lived for over a thousand years, aside from his decent Yin-Yang Release, he's basically a useless piece of trash!
If Madara were an immortal being who had cultivated for thousands of years, he would have been invincible in the ninja world long ago!

But it's not bad now.

Once the Ten-Tails is revived and he becomes its jinchūriki, he can become a Six Paths level being.

To become a Six Paths level expert, a Super Shadow requires more than just ordinary chakra accumulation.

However, the power of the Ten-Tails can help Madara break free from his constraints.

After reaching the Six Paths level, Madara could activate Infinite Tsukuyomi, but knowing what Infinite Tsukuyomi would lead to, he naturally wouldn't activate it again.

Madara is also pondering how to bring peace to the ninja world.

But increasing one's own strength is absolutely the right thing to do.

No path to peace is easy, but if you are strong enough, it becomes much easier.

With power, at least most things become easier.

For thousands of years, the ninja world has been ruled by strength.

Even the establishment of the ninja village era was inseparable from power.

It wasn't because he possessed the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, or because Hashirama's Wood Release was powerful, or because he and Hashirama joined forces, that it would have been difficult to quell the chaos and establish Konoha.

After all, if you don't have the ability, no one will listen to you.

Undeniably, the establishment of ninja villages not only raised the status of ninjas but also brought some peace to the ninja world.

But the war was also more brutal.

Before the era of ninja villages, wars were fought between clans, such as the Senju and Uchiha clans, which had been sworn enemies for thousands of years.

More and more of the One-Tailed Chakra was being devoured by the Gedo Mazo.

As the One-Tailed Chakra within Gaara diminishes, Gaara's life force also begins to wane.

Once the One-Tailed Beast is completely devoured, Gaara, as the Jinchuriki, will also die.

Before the light screen disappeared, and before the One-Tailed Beast inside Gaara was completely devoured.

The Gedo Mazo didn't change much after absorbing a portion of the One-Tailed Beast's chakra.

But we are much closer to the Ten-Tails' resurrection.

Suddenly, Madara, who was controlling the Gedo Mazo, changed his expression, realizing that someone was watching him.

Instantly, Madara's gaze turned like cold lightning as he turned to look behind him.

Not far behind Ban, a figure appeared.

"Orochimaru!" Madara squinted, recognizing the newcomer at a glance.

That's right, it's Orochimaru.

Orochimaru's appearance was unexpected by Madara.

Madara, however, admired Orochimaru.

Although Orochimaru was Hiruzen Sarutobi's disciple, and Hiruzen Sarutobi was Tobirama's disciple.

Madara really disliked Tobirama.

After all, Tobirama killed Madara's younger brother Izuna, and Tobirama also harbored deep animosity towards the Uchiha clan.

After Tobirama became Hokage, he suppressed the Uchiha clan quite a bit.

Although Tobirama didn't openly suppress the Uchiha clan, he secretly plotted against them.

However, the message on the screen that Orochimaru launched the Konoha Crush plan and even killed Sarutobi made Madara feel very pleased.

"Lord Madara, I want to follow you." Orochimaru didn't waste any words and directly stated his thoughts.

This surprised Ban as well. Follow him?
This is quite unusual for Ban.

"Follow me?" Madara scrutinized Orochimaru.

"Lord Madara wants to become the second Sage of Six Paths, which will change the landscape of the ninja world. By following you, I can see a wider world," Orochimaru said earnestly.

Black Zetsu, sealed inside Orochimaru, curled his lip. Orochimaru's nonsense could only fool Madara; Black Zetsu didn't believe a single punctuation mark.

As for Orochimaru coming to follow Madara, Black Zetsu was also analyzing the situation.

How to stop Madara from reviving the Ten-Tails?
Orochimaru is probably also very interested in the Ten-Tails.

However, the Ten-Tails is too powerful, and Orochimaru doesn't want to see that power fall into Madara's hands.

In addition, Orochimaru also had designs on Madara's Rinnegan.

The Rinnegan surpasses the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Orochimaru was previously very interested in the Mangekyou Sharingan of the Uchiha clan.

However, if Orochimaru could obtain the Rinnegan, then the Mangekyou Sharingan would no longer hold much appeal for him.

After hearing what Orochimaru said, Madara, although not entirely trusting Orochimaru yet, decided to give him a chance to follow him.

Black Zetsu muttered to himself, "Everyone says he's the sixth one, but I want to say to Orochimaru... you, Orochimaru, are the real sixth one."

Orochimaru approached Madara's true form with a broad smile.

Orochimaru watched as the Gedo Mazo devoured the One-Tailed Chakra, a broad smile on his face.

"Since you're following me, then capture two tailed beasts for me!" Madara said calmly.

What Ban needs are useful subordinates.

Madara intends to use the Gedo Mazo to devour the nine tailed beasts; this is only the One-Tailed Beast, and there are still the Two-Tailed Beast to the Nine-Tailed Beast.

Madara felt that having Orochimaru capture two tailed beasts was enough.

However, Orochimaru's answer surprised Madara.

"Two tailed beasts are too few. I can capture three tailed beasts for Lord Madara."

I never expected Orochimaru to say that, but if Orochimaru can really do it, Madara would certainly be happy to see it happen.

So Ban didn't say anything.

It all depends on Orochimaru's performance.

Time passes little by little.

The light barrier disappeared, and most of the One-Tailed Beast's chakra was devoured by the Gedo Mazo.

Before long, the One-Tailed Beast will be completely devoured by the Gedo Mazo.

Orochimaru has been standing next to Madara for a long time.

Orochimaru didn't help when the Gedo Mazo devoured the One-Tailed Beast; he just watched.

Madara doesn't need Orochimaru's help.

Madara also began to trust Orochimaru a little more.

But at that moment, Orochimaru suddenly launched a sneak attack.

Then Orochimaru's right hand transformed into a venomous snake, biting at Madara's eyes.

Orochimaru is trying to steal Madara's eyes.

A smile appeared on Orochimaru's lips.

Orochimaru accepted the Rinnegan.

Following Madara? That's just nonsense to fool him.

Although Ban is very powerful, a true man stands between heaven and earth; how can he remain subservient to others for long?

Orochimaru didn't want to be someone else's subordinate.

He pretended to follow Madara, just to make Madara lower his guard, so that he could launch a surprise attack on Madara in one fell swoop, and his real purpose was Madara's Rinnegan.

Madara had indeed underestimated Orochimaru, and Orochimaru's sneak attack was quite sudden.

However, Orochimaru still underestimated the gap between him and Madara.

The venomous snake that Orochimaru transformed into with his right hand failed to take Madara's eyes, but instead grazed Madara's cheek.

But a bloodstain appeared on Ban's face.

The potent snake venom also contaminated Ban's body.

However, Madara's current physique is not something Orochimaru's snake venom can handle.

"Orochimaru, you're asking for death!" Madara said angrily.

Just as he had begun to trust Orochimaru, Orochimaru betrayed him without hesitation.

This infuriated Madara.

Is there any trust left between people?

Orochimaru's expression also changed. He thought he could successfully seize the Rinnegan, but he failed.

Madara then used genjutsu on Orochimaru.

Orochimaru dared not meet Madara's gaze.

The Uchiha clan's genjutsu is very strong; when fighting against the Uchiha clan, one must be wary of their genjutsu.

Madara Uchiha's strength goes without saying, and with his Rinnegan surpassing even the Mangekyou Sharingan, his genjutsu would undoubtedly be extremely powerful once he unleashed it.

Although Orochimaru had developed some resistance to genjutsu, he still dared not meet Madara's gaze.

However, even without making eye contact with Madara, Orochimaru was still under the influence of genjutsu.

Ban gave a disdainful sneer.

Through the light screen, Madara knew that Orochimaru had very poor resistance to genjutsu.

Now it seems that it was indeed true.

Using illusions to deal with Orochimaru is simple and direct.

Madara was quite confident in his genjutsu.

Madara is a hexagonal ninja, and his mastery of genjutsu is also very high.

With the added power of the Rinnegan, Orochimaru was instantly trapped in a genjutsu.

Even if Orochimaru doesn't make eye contact with Madara, he will still be under the influence of genjutsu if he only sees Madara's finger move slightly.

Madara has no intention of showing mercy to traitors.

So, Madara manipulated the Gedo Mazo to continue devouring the One-Tailed Beast while preparing to kill Orochimaru.

Orochimaru, trapped in the illusion, was unable to resist.

It seemed that Orochimaru was about to be killed by Madara.

Orochimaru was a talented individual, and it's a pity he died like that. However, Orochimaru had a rebellious streak, and Madara didn't trust him to be used. Therefore, it was better to kill him.

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"Orochimaru, you've got some nerve," Black Zetsu laughed.

Orochimaru is indeed not very resistant to genjutsu, but don't forget that Orochimaru is now the Jinchūriki of Black Zetsu.

With Black Zetsu's help, Orochimaru was not caught in Madara's genjutsu at all.

Although Black Zetsu could choose not to help Orochimaru—after all, if Orochimaru were killed by Madara, Black Zetsu would be free—the fact that Black Zetsu is sealed inside Orochimaru would affect Orochimaru's chakra circulation, so it's not a question of whether Black Zetsu is willing to help or not.

As long as Black Zetsu is inside Orochimaru, genjutsu will have little effect on him.

Furthermore, if Orochimaru dies, Black Zetsu will not die, but he will be exposed to Madara.

Madara originally thought he had killed Black Zetsu, but Black Zetsu suddenly appeared. Madara would definitely kill Black Zetsu seriously, so Black Zetsu would not be able to escape this time.

Therefore, Black Zetsu and Orochimaru are now in a situation where both suffer losses.

There was no other way; Black Zetsu could only help Orochimaru.

With Black Zetsu's help, Orochimaru would be even less likely to fall into Madara's genjutsu.

However, Orochimaru deliberately pretended to be trapped in a genjutsu, of course, in order to surprise Madara again.

Now, Madara must be furious, and he must be confident that Orochimaru has fallen into a genjutsu.

Anger would cloud Madara's judgment, and overconfidence would lead him to make wrong decisions. As a result, if Orochimaru were to launch a surprise attack, the chances of him taking Madara's Rinnegan would be quite high.

Of course, the risks are also very high.

Even if Orochimaru successfully obtains the Rinnegan, he may not be able to escape.

However, Orochimaru was all prepared. Once he successfully obtained the Rinnegan, he would use Reverse Summoning to teleport to Ryuchi Cave.

Ban might also have a way to get to Ryuchi Cave, but it would definitely take some time.

If Orochimaru were to directly summon to Ryuchi Cave, he would have time to calmly avoid Madara.

However, there are other possibilities, such as Orochimaru failing again but managing to escape to Ryuchi Cave, or failing and failing to escape but being killed by Madara.

It's possible to successfully seize the Rinnegan, but then fail to escape, which would be the most frustrating thing.

Because if one suffers, all suffer; Black Zetsu will also provide Orochimaru with some assistance.

With the help provided by Black Zetsu, Orochimaru's chances of success will increase considerably.

Orochimaru was also feeling a bit nervous. He had failed before, and he couldn't afford to fail again this time.

"Foolish Orochimaru, since you want to die, then I'll grant your wish," Madara said coldly.

The next moment, Madara drew his katana.

With a flash of light, Madara's katana flew towards Orochimaru, about to pierce through his body.

(End of this chapter)