Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 457 Uchiha Madara's Resurrection

Inside the sealed room, an ancient-looking coffin stood on the floor.

With a creak, the coffin popped open automatically, revealing a man standing inside. His well-proportioned body was clad in retro-style bright red armor, over which he wore a black bodysuit. He had long, black hair that reached his waist, and beneath his handsome appearance were strange cracks. Even though he was silent, he still exuded an imposing aura.

Staring at the man before him, the bespectacled man could not contain his excitement and burst into laughter, his shoulders trembling violently with emotion.

"Haha, it worked! It worked!"

With this, his ambition and his long-cherished wish will no longer be just a dream.

He could easily defeat the Mizukage, Kazekage, and Tsuchikage, and might even be able to take down Aokiji Uchiha in one fell swoop.

With excitement, the bespectacled man stepped forward, took out a shuriken from his pocket with a talisman attached to it, and stabbed it toward the target's brain. Strangely, at the moment of contact, the shuriken rippled as if it had been submerged in water, and soon the shuriken was completely embedded in the man's head.

"It's ready..."

The bespectacled man raised his sword fingers, formed the Tiger Seal, gathered chakra, and unleashed a ninjutsu.

The man in front of them echoed the image from head to toe, his body emitting wisps of white smoke.

After a while, the man in red armor slowly opened his eyes, looking at his raised hands with a hint of confusion in his eyes.

"This is……"

"How does it feel to be resurrected? Hehe..."

The man, clad in red armor, raised his face, his blood-red eyes revealing three swirling tomoe, his cold pupils sharp as arrows.

Well……

With eyes as sharp as arrows, the bespectacled man felt like a small fish staring at a bloodthirsty shark.

He adjusted his glasses, feigning composure, placed his right hand on his left shoulder, and gave a brief, elegant self-introduction. Then, in a flippant tone, he described the situation, masking his lack of confidence: "I resurrected you using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, Mr. Uchiha Madara..."

"Impure World Reincarnation?"

Madara Uchiha repeated the words with a hint of doubt. The next second, he narrowed his eyes, his sharp, piercing pupils like arrows, his scrutinizing gaze seemingly piercing through him.

What a terrifying aura...

The bespectacled man swallowed hard, but that was precisely why it was worth the effort he had put into reviving him.

Thinking of this, a smile crept onto his lips, and he extended an invitation: "Let's cooperate..."

"cooperate?"

The bespectacled man spread his arms wide and boasted, "That's right, with your strength and my intellect, we can definitely unify the entire world."

Upon hearing these words, Uchiha couldn't help but laugh, a laugh laced with blatant sarcasm.

This greatly displeased the bespectacled man: "What are you laughing at?"

Madara Uchiha scoffed, "Who do you think you are, to dare to cooperate with me?"

"you……"

The bespectacled man, feeling humiliated and enraged, raised his sword and tried to forcibly control Uchiha Madara, so that Madara would know the situation he was in.

"You're nothing but my puppet now, what are you so arrogant about!"

The caster has control over the ninjas resurrected through the Impure World Reincarnation technique.

This was confirmed by the bespectacled man himself through testing.

However, this time he found himself met with a tough challenge.

The manipulation is ineffective! ? ?

"What on earth is going on?"

Madara Uchiha read the other person's thoughts from their expression and said it directly with a smirk: "This is what you're thinking right now, isn't it?"

Why, why?

The bespectacled man had an incredulous expression, tinged with fear.

"You can't control me, not because the ninjutsu failed, but because of you, because you're not strong enough."

Madara Uchiha clenched his fist, and unparalleled chakra surged out like a burst dam. The bricks and tiles beneath his feet bore the brunt of the impact, cracking and sinking, sending shards of stone flying and raising clouds of smoke.

Facing this powerful chakra, the bespectacled man broke out in a cold sweat, feeling as if he were in the deep sea hundreds of meters below the surface, the immense pressure almost tearing him apart.

"Life is like a game of chess; every move should be made with utmost care and under your control. Has no one ever told you that forbidden techniques shouldn't be used carelessly?"

Madara Uchiha, speaking in the tone of an elder, solemnly admonished: "Especially things like the Impure World Reincarnation come with enormous risks."

The bespectacled man's pupils dilated, and he trembled violently: "Risk?"

"As long as you know the hand seals for the Impure World Reincarnation technique, you can automatically break the summoning contract of Impure World Reincarnation and take control."

"W-What did you say?!"

As if in response, Madara Uchiha completed his hand seals in the blink of an eye, pressing down with one palm: "Impure World Reincarnation - Release".

"impossible--!"

The bespectacled man felt he had completely lost control of his eyes, and was terrified.

Madara Uchiha's power has completely surpassed my understanding. What kind of monster has he awakened?

You still have a long way to go.

Madara Uchiha slowly closed his eyes, gathering chakra in them. He opened them and glared, forcefully injecting his powerful ocular energy into the opponent's brain, turning him into a puppet.

Noticing something, Madara Uchiha narrowed his eyes and looked down at a corner not far away.

"Fufu..."

A green plant-like substance emerged from the ground, tearing apart like a pitcher plant. A black and white creature poked its head out, its voice low and deep: "As expected of Lord Madara, you discovered me so quickly."

"Black Zetsu, why did you wake me up like this?"

Madara Uchiha was not surprised that Black Zetsu would appear here.

The Impure World Reincarnation technique was originally given to Black Zetsu by Madara Uchiha. In case the plan went wrong or got out of control, he would use this method to revive himself and personally take charge.

The fact that this bespectacled man was able to obtain the Impure World Reincarnation technique and find Madara Uchiha's corpse to revive is the result of Black Zetsu's deliberate manipulation over the past two years.

Black Zetsu replied as Uchiha had expected: "Lord Madara, there's a slight uncertainty..."

Madara Uchiha frowned: "Obito or Nagato?"

"No, none of those." Black and White Zetsu denied it, emphasizing, "It's Aokiji, Uchiha Aokiji..."

"Aokiji?"

Upon hearing a familiar name, Madara Uchiha murmured, repeating, "That's truly a name that evokes nostalgia."

Black Zetsu continued, "He's resurrected..."

"What do you mean?"

A hint of surprise flashed across Madara Uchiha's bloodshot eyes.

Aokiji should be dead by now, otherwise he wouldn't have needed to replace Obito with the tool.

Black Zetsu recited the words he had already prepared with great familiarity.

Upon hearing that Aokiji had been resurrected, Madara Uchiha was taken aback. However, after learning that Aokiji had killed all the high-ranking officials of Konoha, and even the daimyo and nobles of the Land of Fire, a rare smile of appreciation appeared on his lips: "Well done..."

In a sense, Aokiji Uchiha was half his disciple, and Madara Uchiha saw his own shadow in Aokiji's domineering behavior.

However, this sense of relief was limited to that. Aokiji's style of doing things was, in theory, to start wars and dominate the world. But in the past two years, Aokiji had done nothing at all, behaved himself, and had completely lost his former ambition.

And all of this is because of that woman.

Madara Uchiha gave a cold snort.

He was very dissatisfied with Aokiji's obsession with women and his neglect of his duties.

If it weren't for that unexpected incident, he might have already accomplished the great feat of Infinite Tsukuyomi by now.

However, while he was annoyed by this, Madara Uchiha was also very interested in how Aokiji revived Tsunade.

In his understanding, only the art of reincarnation could resurrect a person.

Black Zetsu shook his head, carefully choosing his words: "I don't know the specifics, but after Aokiji appeared, he went to the Land of Grass and stole a ninjutsu."

"What kind of ninjutsu?"

"The Technique of Dragon's Fate Reversal"

Madara Uchiha narrowed his eyes, a sinister glint in them: "Interesting..."

Black Zetsu asked for the next instructions: "Lord Madara, what should we do next?"

"Let's wait and see..."

On one hand, Madara Uchiha, combined with information obtained from Black Zetsu, learned that Obito was deliberately slacking off, clearly harboring ulterior motives and having his own plans.

On the other hand, Aokiji has somehow acquired many secrets. For example, his deliberate attempt to capture White Zetsu is quite intriguing. It's best not to act rashly without absolute certainty.

Although the Impure World Reincarnation grants them unlimited resurrection and unlimited chakra, they are still limited by the fact that the Impure World Reincarnation cannot unleash their full power.

Furthermore, Aokiji's Mangekyou Sharingan can attack the soul, making his infinite resurrection meaningless.

To be on the safe side, we should lie low for a while longer and make arrangements in secret.

"First, let's revive that guy..."

A pleased smile appeared on Madara Uchiha's lips: "I don't even know when it was last time we fought side by side."

(End of this chapter)