I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 498 and 499: Dan

The glowing flame fan was thrown from Uchiha Senmon's hand, turning into a streak of blue light that pierced Kaguya's brow.

The next instant, Kaguya's brow split open, and a bright red three-tomoe Rinnegan appeared!

"Rinnegan? But these tomoe, and their color, are even closer to the Sharingan."

Jeanne and Tsukimi Rinba looked at each other, their eyes filled with undisguised surprise.

What astonished them even more was the name of the god uttered from the gate of the immortals:

"Izanami!?"

Izanami, a creator goddess on par with Izanagi, thwarted Madara Uchiha's ambitions and ultimately sealed him on the moon.

The two women suppressed their excitement and anticipation, focusing intently on observing the situation.

The goddess slowly opened her closed white eyes. Although her pupils were still pure white, they no longer held the chilling indifference of before, but rather a warmth of humanity.

The ethereal and otherworldly beauty of Lingyue Fairy transformed into a spring breeze, bringing with it an unimaginable surge of vitality that swept towards the three members of the Uchiha Immortal Sect, as if they were immersed in nature.

The wood-based branches that had been wrapped around the goddess's limbs loosened on their own, as if they were alive, allowing her to land lightly on the ground.

As Izanami gracefully approached, Senmon Uchiha and the others couldn't help but hold their breath in tension.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!"

Without saying a word, Izanami immediately performed a dogeza (a prostration ceremony), burying her head in the ground and choking back tears:

"I'm truly sorry for the immense harm that Madara caused everyone!"

Tsukimi Inaba and the Saintess looked at each other, utterly bewildered by what they were seeing.

Izanami's humble demeanor upon first meeting left the two girls feeling dizzy.

The Uchiha Sage was equally dumbfounded, never expecting Izanami to perform such a grand gesture.

Startled back to reality, the Uchiha Senmon dared not rush forward to help Izanami, but instead stepped aside and said hastily:

"Lady Izanami, what are you doing? This is too much for us. Please stand up quickly."

"But Madara took away the bodies of your son and your lover..."

Izanami raised her face, her eyes brimming with tears, her face streaked with sobs, a sight that evoked pity in me.

"This was Madara's doing, it has nothing to do with you, Izanami."

The Uchiha Sage immediately offered some kind and gentle words of comfort:

"If it weren't for your intervention, we would have been trapped in the Tsukuyomi world forever. Don't you agree, Miss Inaba and Miss Jeanne?"

At the signal from Uchiha Senmon, Jeanne and Inaba echoed each other.

"Waaah, everyone's a good kid, waaah!"

Izanami, who was slumped on the ground, burst into tears.

Inaba and Jeanne couldn't help but look at Senmon Uchiha with suspicion.

Is this guy really Izanami-no-Mikoto, the savior who defeated Madara Uchiha and saved the ancestors from the Divine Tree?

He has no dignity whatsoever.

Uchiha Senmon himself also felt a twitch in his eyelids and a twitch at the corner of his mouth.

"Uncle Senmon, what's going on? Could you explain?" Tsukimi Inaba walked up to Uchiha Senmon and asked in a low voice.

"Ah, this..."

Uchiha Senmon gave a wry smile and was about to reply.

Let me explain.

Having wiped away her tears, Izanami recovered and stood up, saying to the girls:

"The Uchiha clan's Flame Fan was made from a part of my body. After sealing Madara, before I died, I sealed a fragment of my soul within the Flame Fan, which will only revive in the most critical moments."

"You mean, the Divine Tree has been resurrected?" A thoughtful look appeared on Inaba's pretty face.

"What an exceptionally bright child."

Izanami nodded approvingly:

"After sensing the aura of the Divine Tree blooming, the soul that had been sleeping within the Flame Fan was awakened. I saw your battle with Madara, which brought Senmon, who was under the influence of Tsukuyomi, out of the dream. Through my conversation with Senmon and Kaguya's memories, I now understand everything that has happened in the present world."

"Izanami, did you foresee Madara Uchiha's resurrection?" Senmon Uchiha asked.

"I knew this day would come sooner or later, so I left the Hyuga clan to guard the seal on the moon. But I never expected that Princess Kaguya would abandon her mission, rebel, and steal the elixir of immortality, leading to the near extinction of the Hyuga clan."

Izanami hung her head, dejected, and said:

"And there's the backup plan Madara left behind before he was sealed away, which I didn't notice, causing Madara to be resurrected thousands of years earlier than I expected... I'm such a failure..."

As she spoke, Izanami became increasingly despondent, as if a mere gust of wind would turn her into ashes and scatter her spirits.

Uchiha Senmon looked strange.

Contrary to his expectations, Lady Izanami's personality seemed to be a bit too emotional...

"Lady Izanami, now is not the time to be discouraged!"

The saintess gave her a rather blunt and stern warning:

"Madara is preparing to unleash the Infinite Tsukuyomi and wipe out all of humanity! Moreover, Naruto's body has been possessed; we must rescue him."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

Izanami shrank back, becoming timid and submissive, making Jeanne start to reflect on whether her attitude had been too harsh.

"Your strength is far inferior to Madara's, but challenging him doesn't seem like reckless courage or suicidal behavior. Do you have a battle plan?"

Without much hesitation, the Uchiha Sage revealed his and the Five Kage's entire plan.

If Izanami had harbored ill intentions towards them, the entire group would have been wiped out under the sacred tree long ago.

"Is that so? There is indeed a sliver of hope."

After listening to the Uchiha Sage's strategy, Izanami pondered for a moment, then clenched her fist and swung it forcefully:

"The prerequisite is that you must keep beating Ban until he is weak and powerless before you can succeed."

The Uchiha Sage Sect was naturally well aware of this.

Putting an elephant in a refrigerator only takes three steps: open the door, put the elephant in, and then close the door.

Having witnessed only a fraction of the power of the Perfect Susanoo in its previous battle with Madara, their last hope was shattered. Their idea of ​​putting Madara, this elephant, into a refrigerator was utterly a pipe dream.

"Isn't there you here, Lady Izanami! If you were to intervene, you would surely be able to subdue Madara Uchiha!"

As if grasping at a last straw, everyone looked to Izanami with expectant and eager eyes for help.

When the sky falls, the tall ones hold it up. Uchiha Senmon and Taka were tall before, but in front of Lady Izanami, they were nothing more than toddlers learning to walk.

"Haha, I'm so sorry to have made you all so excited."

Izanami, clutching her hair with a troubled expression, sighed and said:

"But unfortunately, I can't do it."

As if doused with a bucket of ice water, the faces of Uchiha Senmon and the others turned pale, as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

"But, Lady Izanami, didn't you also revive? Does that mean you're no match for Madara either, or...?"

The second half of the sentence was left unsaid by Uchiha Senmon.

"It's not that I'm worried about my bond with Madara and can't bring myself to kill him."

Izanami gave Uchiha Senmon a deep look and said:

"Madara has gone astray due to his obsession with power, and as his closest relative, I cannot allow him to continue down the wrong path. However, I am not resurrected, and I am far from being a match for Madara now."

Everyone's expression changed drastically.

Before they could even ask, Izanami raised a slender, white hand, paused for a moment, and then began to speak:

"Thousands of years ago, after I sealed Madara away, I died from exhaustion. The me inside Princess Kaguya now is nothing but a remnant soul, a trace left behind in my previous life. It won't last long before it vanishes into nothingness."

The interior of the temple was a vast, pristine white expanse, much like the heart of the Uchiha Sage Sect.

Disoriented, he couldn't help but take a few steps back. Then, a fierce glint flashed in his right eye, and the three tomoe condensed into a cherry blossom-shaped kaleidoscope.

"Then I will revive Lady Izanami!"

Uchiha Senmon's expression was resolute as he spoke, enunciating each word clearly:

"I'll use the Mount Tai Lord's Sacrifice, and my Eight Thunder Gods Eye Technique!"

The three-tomoe Sharingan on her forehead spun, meeting the Mangekyou Sharingan in Uchiha Senmon's right eye. Izanami's expression turned serious:

"Your right eye is connected to another world, the power of the demon realm."

"Through Princess Kaguya's memories, you should also know about the forbidden technique of the Mount Tai Lord Festival."

Uchiha Senmon's right Mangekyou Sharingan blazed with a captivating, blood-red light as he spoke slowly and deliberately:

"With the Flame Fan as part of your body and Princess Kaguya as the sacrifice, you are powerful enough to meet all the conditions for being resurrected in the mortal world through Impure World Reincarnation."

That being said, to resurrect a great being like Izanami, who is above the Kage level, using the Impure World Reincarnation technique is as difficult as ascending to heaven.

He poured all the power of the Eight Thunder Gods' pupils into his right eye; whether he would succeed was another matter entirely.

"If Princess Kaguya isn't qualified, I, with my Wood Release, can serve as a living sacrifice for the Mount Tai Festival!"

"Uncle from the Immortal Sect!"

Uchiha Senmon glanced sideways, his eyes filled with a death-defying resolve and a powerful aura that intimidated Tsukimi Inaba and Jeanne, rendering them unable to continue speaking.

On the night of the full moon, Madara Uchiha will truly activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and at that time he will enter the dream again.

No matter how perfect or realistic Infinite Tsukuyomi is, Mikoto in it is just a mirage.

The Uchiha Sage could no longer tolerate it and left Mikoto all alone in another world.

After sacrificing myself to save the world and Akira, it wouldn't be bad to meet Mikoto in another world.

"A magnificent gaze. But even if your right eye possesses supernatural powers, it cannot revive me."

Izanami's eyes were full of tenderness as she softly said:

"The dead cannot be brought back to life; this is an irreversible law of the universe. Although Madara's Kojiki is largely fabricated, it does mention this point, doesn't it?"

Uchiha Senmon's mind raced, and hesitantly asked:

"Are you saying that after you entered the Land of the Dead, you ate food from the underworld, and therefore could not return to the world of the living?"

Miss Saint blinked and tried to say something:

"There is a similar story in Homer's epics. Persephone was forcibly taken to the underworld by Hades, the god of the underworld. She was tricked into eating a pomegranate from the underworld and was unable to return to the world of the living."

Izanami smiled slightly, neither confirming nor denying.

"But we've seen spirits return to life before, and the dead summoned back by the Taishan Fujun ritual..."

"Can they be considered resurrected? They're nothing more than wandering ghosts and walking corpses."

Izanami naturally retorted:

"The more powerful a being is, the more difficult it is to cross the boundary between life and death. Later Kage-level beings could barely squeeze through the gaps to return to life, but for beings of my size and Madara's, it's simply impossible."

"If that's impossible, then what about Uchiha Madara? He chose Naruto as a vessel, implanted the so-called Karma seal, and possessed Naruto's body. Isn't that considered a resurrection?" Tsukimi Inaba asked in a panic.

"Madara was sealed on the moon, and was already in a state between life and death. Moreover, using the Karma Reincarnation technique is the closest to complete resurrection, but it also has its flaws."

A rock suddenly appeared in Izanami's palm. She gently crushed it with her five fingers, then turned her hand over for the Uchiha Senmon and the others to examine closely. Inside were finely ground sand.

"No matter how powerful Madara is, and no matter how weak and vulnerable the original owner's soul is, even if Madara can easily crush the original owner's soul, he cannot completely annihilate it. The original owner's last bit of will can never be erased or eliminated."

This is probably the only good news I've heard today.

Uchiha Senmon's expression softened slightly.

In other words, Akane's soul will not be completely devoured by Madara Uchiha.

"However, this only applies before Madara activates the Infinite Tsukuyomi!"

In a sudden shift in tone, Izanami's words caused the Uchiha Senmon and the others to exchange bewildered glances.

"Infinite Tsukuyomi will cause the Divine Tree to bloom and bear fruit. By consuming the fruit of the Divine Tree, yin and yang will unite, and one can obtain all things in the universe!"

"At that time, Madara will obtain the power of creation, destruction, and reincarnation, achieving true resurrection, and the last bit of impurity in his soul will be eliminated by him."

Uchiha Senmon, Inaba, and Joana were utterly devastated in an instant.

If Izanami cannot be resurrected, who in this world can stand against Madara Uchiha?

"Why do you all have that expression? Your plan to rescue Ah Ming is quite feasible."

"You jest. We are no match for Madara at all. Even if we had a plan, it would just be a pipe dream..."

Uchiha Senmon was disheartened and even harbored a nameless rage, wanting to lash out at Izanami.

The glimmer of hope that had finally appeared was like a candle flickering in the wind, vanishing in an instant. For them, nothing could be more cruel than this.

A last shred of reason kept Uchiha Senmon conscious; it wasn't Izanami's fault, and he couldn't blame her.

"I will give you the power to fight Madara!"

Uchiha Senmon's heart pounded uncontrollably, and a glimmer of hope rekindled in his eyes. He stared intently at Izanami and said in a trembling voice:

"You mean...?"

"The elixir of immortality."

Izanami pursed her lips and smiled sweetly:

"The essence of the elixir of immortality is the fruit of a divine tree whose growth was interrupted before it had fully matured."

"Princess Kaguya hastily ingested the elixir of immortality, gaining only a small portion of power in addition to immortality. As long as Princess Kaguya is refined into a pill, hope will not be extinguished!"

(End of this chapter)