Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha is not motivated.

"Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!"

Madara Uchiha's ears were filled with strange chewing sounds that sent chills down his spine. The source of the sounds was Red-bellied Mouth, who had just swallowed two gummy candies.
Its owner is currently immersed in a jelly-like substance of two completely different colors, exuding a savage and violent aura.

"Ban, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and do it!"

Having lost his opponent, Black Zetsu jumped to Madara Uchiha's side. Looking at the unmoved Madara, he urged him with a hint of exasperation.
He didn't even bother to capitalize on that great recovery animation; even Black Zetsu, whose hands were itching with anticipation, was getting impatient for him.
"Are you teaching me what to do?"

Glaring at the talkative Black Zetsu, Madara Uchiha folded his card-shaped sword into gun mode and flicked his wrist, firing several glowing bullets at Jigen, whose figure was already somewhat blurred.

“Puff~Puff~”

With a few muffled thuds, the light projectiles fell into the soft rubber and turned into duds. Madara Uchiha frowned upon seeing this.
"Crack~"

Just as he was preparing to unleash an even more powerful attack, a piercing scream suddenly rang out from inside the soft rubber encasing Cixian.
"Ahhhhh!!!"

The colloid then began to shrink rapidly, eventually transforming into a bizarre suit of armor that draped over Jigen's body. The armor was thick and stained purple and blue, with eight writhing tentacles on his strong left hand and a long spear tipped with a chainsaw in his right.
Madara Uchiha swore he had never seen this armor before, but he could vaguely make out the shapes of the Eight-Tails Knight and the Three-Tails Knight.
"Who are you?"

Madara Uchiha's guard instantly went up when he saw the strange knight he had never seen before.
Through his Sharingan, he could see the tailed beast chakra coiling around the other's back. The two completely different chakras were perfectly blended together. Madara Uchiha guessed that this armor was a product of combining the power of the Eight-Tails and the Three-Tails.

"You don't need to know who I am, you just need to know that you are about to become my collection."

Upon first transforming into a hybrid rider, Jigen briefly sensed the surging power within him and immediately nodded in satisfaction.

The fact that the Tree Spirits, who possess their own consciousness, could be strengthened to this extent shows that the research on the abdomen was indeed worthwhile.
It's a pity that the Four-Tails was used as a summoning sacrifice, but there is still a lot of Four-Tails chakra in the research institute. With a little nurturing, a brand new, undamaged Four-Tails can be created.

"Hmph! A guy who talks to himself."

Madara Uchiha was enraged by Jigen's arrogant behavior and immediately charged forward, swinging his longsword and unleashing several sharp sword energies aimed directly at Jigen's face.
"Foolishness."

Cixian made no attempt to dodge. He gave a disdainful smirk, then shoved the chainsaw into the ground, stretched his massive chest muscles, and struck a bodybuilding pose with his hands on his hips.

"Bang! Bang! Crash!"

"How can it be?!"

The sword energy struck its target precisely, and as the smoke dissipated, Madara Uchiha's expression suddenly changed.
"Weak".

Having withstood several sword strikes, Cixian coldly uttered two words, raised his hand to brush off non-existent dust from his body, and slowly pulled the chainsaw spear stuck in the ground.

Seeing his opponent pick up a weapon, Madara Uchiha leaped into the air, raising his longsword and slashing down.

"Bah!"

The sharp blade could cut through iron like mud, yet it struck Jigen's spear without causing the slightest ripple. Madara Uchiha's expression tightened, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"Humph!"

Jigen sneered, and eight tentacles from his other hand flew out simultaneously, wrapping around Uchiha Madara's arms with lightning speed. Then, with a forceful flick,
"call!"

Madara Uchiha felt a sudden dizziness; the strange force of the tentacles gripping him prevented him from breaking free. Suppressing his nausea, just before being slammed to the ground, he kicked Jigen in the ribs.

Taking advantage of the moment his opponent paused, he mustered all his strength and pulled out both arms, but the force of the blow sent him flying backward, landing awkwardly on the ground.

In their first encounter, Jigen was only testing his new equipment and didn't use his full strength, but even so, he still gave Madara Uchiha a considerable setback.
“You know nothing about the power of God.”

Lifting the buzzing chainsaw gun with one hand, Cixian decided to give this hybrid a taste of technological awe.

"Buzz!"

A piercing buzzing sound erupted, and Madara Uchiha's battle instincts told him that danger was imminent, so he immediately retreated several meters.

The next moment, Cixian suddenly plunged the rapidly spinning chainsaw into the hard ground.
"Infinite sawing!"

With a deafening roar, countless enormous chainsaws rose from the ground, completely surrounding Madara Uchiha.

The agile Madara Uchiha dodged one chainsaw after another that burst from the ground, narrowly missing the rapidly spinning blades.

Even with his agile movements, he still struggled against the endless chainsaws.
"Pfft~"

Soon, large and small scratches appeared on his armor. Although they didn't damage his flesh, he couldn't escape the pain.

"Run, you bastard!"

Jigen, wielding the Infinite Saw Technique, wore an arrogant expression. He was playing a cat-and-mouse game, determined to torment Madara Uchiha to the point of collapse.
"do not underestimate me!"

Seeing that his opponent was so contemptuous of him, Madara Uchiha, in a fit of rage, took advantage of a moment when he was dodging to open his card box and pull out an enhancement card with his own mask design drawn on it.
"Crack!"

Without a word, he inserted the card into the driver on his waist, and an electronic sound effect immediately rang out.

"Final AttackRide! De-De-De-Decade!"

Suddenly, several walls of light formed from cards appeared in front of Madara Uchiha, destroying all the chainsaws that had risen from the ground.
"Oh?"

Cixian raised an eyebrow in surprise, not expecting this half-blood to have the power to resist.
"Break it for me!"

Gripping his longsword tightly in both hands, Madara Uchiha swiftly passed through the wall of light, absorbing all the power from the cards into the card box sword in his hand.
"ping~"

The blade instantly grew to tens of meters in length. Uchiha Madara stood in the center of the chainsaws, crouching in a horse stance, and suddenly swung the blade in his hand, unleashing a draw slash that covered the entire chainsaw jungle.
"Rumble--"

Under this devastating attack, Cixian's Infinite Saw was completely wiped out. Countless chainsaw fragments fell, eventually turning into dark red light particles and disappearing.

"Huhu. Huh."

Madara Uchiha, slightly out of breath after unleashing his ultimate attack, watched as the extended blade of his longsword vanished. Looking at the cleaned-up battlefield, his expression remained grim. He knew now was not the time to pop the champagne.
"Clap clap clap!" As expected, Jigen was not angry or embarrassed at all because his attack was broken. Instead, he looked at Uchiha Madara in the Arrogant Stance with admiration.
"This is quite powerful. Now I'm more curious about who developed these things."

His gaze fell on the white driver at Madara Uchiha's waist, his eyes filled with a thirst and greed for novelty.

Jigen spent over a thousand years researching and trying to find a way to maximize the power of the Ten-Tails.

During this process, he researched many topics, but all ended in failure.
The most recent research topic involved fusing the Ten-Tails cells with Hashirama Senju's genes, which unexpectedly resulted in the creation of a clone called the Divine Tree Man.

In addition to possessing Hashirama Senju's abilities, the God Tree Man can also plunder the primordial chakra of tailed beasts and use it for his own purposes through the God Tree spores he condenses.
This news greatly surprised Jigen. The Ten-Tails he was with was still in its infancy. If it wanted to evolve into the Divine Tree, it would require the sacrifice of an Otsutsuki whose power was not weak.

Now, besides him, the only other person left on this planet is the sealed-away traitor Kaguya, so Jigen naturally set his sights on her.

However, rescuing Kaguya requires gathering the nine scattered tailed beasts, returning their primordial chakra to the remains of the God Tree, and reviving the Ten-Tails that devoured his lower body.
Having acquired a clone of the Divine Tree Man, Jigen thought he was in the game. He figured a mere Tailed Beast was no match for a clone, but the outcome was far beyond his expectations.

The tailed beasts of today are no longer free-range as before; they have been sealed into strange cards by someone, making them impossible to seize using conventional methods.
They can only rely on the absorption ability of the Divine Tree spores to slowly absorb the power within the bodies of the Tailed Beast Card's master, the so-called Tailed Beast Knight, until the spores are fully mature, at which point they can harvest the fruit.
This was undoubtedly a huge obstacle for Jigen on his path to collecting the Tailed Beasts, but unfortunately, he couldn't crack the code of the Rider System and could only use the cumbersome method of planting spores to collect them.

The results were minimal; none of the spores planted by the nine Tailed Beast Riders and the clones of the Divine Tree Man bore fruit. They were either dug up prematurely or destroyed by the Tailed Beast Riders through various self-destructive methods.
Fortunately, the Divine Tree Man possesses remarkable adaptability; despite only plundering a small amount of Tailed Beast chakra, he can still use it skillfully.

Furthermore, it can mimic the power of the Tailed Beast Riders, initially manifesting as Another Rider. Its abilities are nearly identical to the original Tailed Beast Riders, but because its fighting spirit is corrupted by savagery, it cannot unleash its full power.
Jigen then began researching clones of Another Riders. He soon discovered that the reason Another Riders were more savage than rational was due to the instability of Tailed Beast chakra.
Having found the root of the problem, Cixian began tirelessly searching for a solution. After a long period of refinement, he finally developed a vent that functioned similarly to a driver.
Making cards is impossible for him; he'll never rub cards in his entire life.

As the saying goes, everyone has their own expertise. Jigen directly used his superb alchemy skills to refine the tailed beast chakra within the clone's body into a pill that looked like a QQ candy.

After these QQ candies are ingested, the refined tailed beast chakra can be transformed into extremely stable energy through the powerful digestive force of the stomach.
This allows clones to perfectly mimic the power of the Tailed Beast Riders. Provided their rationality remains unaffected, they can transform at any time into imposters virtually indistinguishable from the original Riders.
In this way, the difficulty of the clones hunting the Tailed Beast Riders is reduced by several percentage points. If it weren't for someone interfering, the Seven-Tails' original chakra would have been obtained long ago.

Unfortunately, compared to the stable Knight System, the side effects of the Devouring Gummy are significant. The QQ Candies that are consumed are all one-time consumables, and Jigen only uses it as a temporary measure.

All he wants now is to find the mysterious person who created the Knight System, take them in as a dog, and make them serve him.

Jigen's plan was simple: after obtaining the underlying code of the Rider System, he only needed to wait for the Ten-Tails to emerge, seal it directly into a card, and then use the Ten-Tails' full power through the Driver. He didn't need to worry about the side effects of consuming the Chakra Fruit.

By then, he won't just be a model tree planter of the year; he'll be able to walk around like a hog back in his hometown. Anyone who dares to have a problem with him can just pull out a stack of ten-tailed card cards and swipe them one by one.
hum~
He wanted to see how many Ten-Tailed Cards the strongmen from his hometown could withstand.

"Hey! Get serious when we're fighting, you're drooling!"

Just as Jigen was lost in his own beautiful dream, Uchiha Madara, who had regained some of his strength, frowned and angrily rebuked him.
Suck it~
"Still not giving up? It seems you really want to become one of my collectibles."

Subtly wiping the drool from the corner of his mouth, Jigen's expression turned serious. Behind him, two figures, a bull and a tortoise, rose up, their overwhelming aura of violence pressing down directly on Uchiha Madara.

"Stop talking nonsense, take this shot!"

Madara Uchiha sneered and swiped the skill enhancement card again. Accompanied by a noisy and demonic electronic sound, the card gun in his hand fired a dazzling light bullet, which passed through several card-shaped light walls and then increased in diameter to several meters.

"boom!"

The thick beam of light shattered the ethereal forms of the Three-Tails and Eight-Tails, engulfing Jigen's figure with unstoppable force.
"call"

This attack drained all of Madara Uchiha's chakra, but he was confident that Jigen, even if he didn't die, would be severely injured after taking this blow.
"cough cough"

As the smoke cleared, the outcome was exactly as Madara Uchiha had predicted: Jigen was still alive, but in very poor condition.

His heavy armor shattered under the impact of the light blast, revealing his underlying silver-gray body. A large tear was ripped open in his visor, and as fragments tumbled down, Cixian's cold eyes were exposed to the air.

"I underestimated you."

Looking down at his battered body, Jigen nodded thoughtfully. He had somewhat underestimated Madara Uchiha's destructive power.
"Hmph. Ha?"

Madara Uchiha's smug smile hadn't even fully formed when his expression froze on his face.
"Are you cheating?"

Jigen slowly raised his arms, and the red belly at his waist suddenly opened, releasing a dense surge of tailed beast chakra that enveloped him once more.
Just a few seconds later, the completely transformed Hybrid Knight reappeared before Madara Uchiha.

"Sorry, but with technology, you really can do whatever you want."

Stroking the red belly at his waist, Jigen could clearly sense the Tailed Beast chakra stored within. The amount was vast, enough to handle any unexpected situation.
"If you don't want to be turned into a gummy candy by me, you'd better surrender obediently."

"Don't even think about it!"

Madara Uchiha was never one to submit to defeat. Even when facing a formidable enemy like Jigen, whose true nature was unknown, he still fought with overwhelming fighting spirit.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. Jigen's power was far beyond what this half-baked Rider, who had only recently acquired the power of the Decade, could contend with.
Supermodel Decade's power is fine for bullying fake Riders, but it's still a bit insufficient to deal with Jigen, whose main consciousness has descended.

With the power of both the Three-Tails and the Eight-Tails, Jigen was a formidable force, excelling in both offense and defense. Madara Uchiha quickly found himself at a disadvantage.
And the moment his weakness was exposed, he received a resounding slap from Cixian.
"Snapped!"

"Even my cousin has never hit me!"

Madara Uchiha, who had been slapped away, scrambled to his feet, clutching his swollen cheek, his eyes filled with frustration at reality.

Huh? Really?

Shouldn't I be a genius?

Why? Why!
Confident in his absolute advantage, Jigen looked down at Madara Uchiha, his fan-like hand raised high.
"Then I'll teach you a lesson on behalf of your cousin this time."

He intended to use this almost humiliating method to completely destroy Madara Uchiha's will to live, with the ultimate goal of taking him in as a dog.

"Forehead?"

However, just as Cixian was about to unleash another slap, he suddenly found his arm unable to move, as if bound by some force. At the same time, a strange voice rang in his ears.

"Such a small matter is not worth your trouble." (End of Chapter)