The world I hear is completely different from yours.

Correction and Explanation

I just got home. I spent the whole day carrying bricks. I never imagined that tiles could be so heavy. My hands are numb and my fingers are shaking while typing.

I've corrected the previous incorrect chapter title. Thank you to all the kind readers who pointed it out. I'm so glad that some readers have been following this story. Before, there were no comments or bullet comments, so I always thought nobody was reading it.

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Chapter Thirty-Nine: Shisui of the Body Flicker? No! Zaku pilot Uchiha Shisui!

After the vanguard team leader issued the order to begin the airborne operation over the loudspeaker, the squad leader sitting in the seat closest to the door of the drop pod immediately unbuckled his seatbelt and pulled open the closed door on the outside of the drop pod.

Huhuhuhuhu!

Instantly, the frigid air from high above rushed in, and the howling wind immediately drowned out all other sounds inside the drop pod, filling the ears of everyone present and reminding each ninja that this was a high-altitude area that humans had never ventured into before.

At such a high altitude, even birds are rarely seen. It is truly a place where no one has seen the past or the future, and the higher you go, the colder it gets!

Of course, none of the people present were in the mood for reciting poetry; all they had in their hearts was a burning desire to fight!

"Ready, jump with me!!" The squad leader waved his arms and shouted in sign language, then jumped out of the drop pod without hesitation—of course, he didn't carry any parachute or other slowing devices. Since parachutes and similar slowing devices cannot help ninjas maneuver and dodge in the air, they are completely ineffective against ninjutsu attacks on the ground. After all, not everyone can withstand ninjutsu attacks with their bare hands.

Therefore, for ninjas, the combat method of slowly descending to the ground using deceleration devices such as parachutes is practically no different from suicide.

Therefore, under the leadership of the Third Hokage, Tensei, Konoha's puppet development department prepared a brand-new weapon for these parachuted ninjas to ensure their safe arrival on the ground.

Uchiha Shisui put on his goggles, leaped out of the drop pod, and floated in the open sky with his hundreds of vanguard assault team comrades. Then, after taking one last look at the massive aircraft carrier above, he resolutely plummeted towards the ground with unstoppable momentum, falling like a human bomb towards the Sand Ninja's position below.

Whoosh! The wind grew louder, and the lush green earth below seemed to be getting closer and closer.

Closer, closer! The ninjas' falling speed is increasing rapidly, and they will soon crash into the ground!

Finally, upon reaching a certain predetermined altitude, Uchiha Shisui clenched his fist tightly, letting his fingernails cut his skin, a trickle of blood staining his finger. Then, he swiftly began forming hand seals: 亥—戊—酉—申—未: "Summoning! Number 666 Zaku!!"

Bang! !

A puff of smoke flashed by, and then a humanoid puppet, its entire body glowing red, suddenly appeared below Uchiha Shisui. The hatch behind the puppet opened and closed, drawing Uchiha Shisui into its body. Then, under Uchiha Shisui's control, the humanoid puppet unfolded its pair of gliding wings and began to glide down from high altitude!

This humanoid puppet is about the height of six adults. Its exterior is covered in thick, red armor—this was specially requested by Uchiha Shisui to distinguish it from other ninja machines. He wanted to use this bright red color to symbolize the special characteristics of the Uchiha clan. The armor is engraved with many interconnected barrier techniques to ensure that the armor can effectively block attacks from chakra ninjutsu.

The overall appearance of this humanoid puppet is designed based on the Zaku robot in Tianqing's previous life. It has a single horn on its head for radio communication with other comrades, and a single eye on its face that can provide the ninja hiding inside the machine with a wider field of vision. The huge baffle on the right shoulder and the spikes on the left shoulder add a touch of gladiator fierceness to the machine. The muscle lines and armor all over its body are full of hot blood!

This is the Konoha's new generation of aerial puppet weapon, the mass-produced Zaku, developed by Konoha's puppet development department under the guidance of Ame-no-Kage!

Around Uchiha Shisui, the Konoha ninja of the vanguard assault team were also forming the same series of hand seals almost simultaneously, summoning the machines they had signed a summoning contract with: "Summoning! Zaku No. XX!"

BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!!

In an instant, hundreds of giant Zaku appeared in the sky, and then, relying on the gliders on their backs, began to glide down!

"Carrier-based aircraft takeoff complete! Everything is going smoothly, no casualties!" In the aircraft carrier's command room, the Hyuga ninja responsible for observing the surrounding situation used his Byakugan to confirm the actions of his own troops and loudly reported the current situation.

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"It seems the bombing of Konoha has ended?" In a defensive fortification in the Sand Village, Matsuo Kokuro tentatively poked his head out to survey the surroundings, like a groundhog emerging from its burrow after a thunderstorm to hunt for food.

Although the deafening explosion had completely deafened Kokuro, he could still sense the general situation outside by using his sense of touch to perceive the blasts and vibrations. That's why he dared to stick his head out to confirm what was happening.

What appeared before Kojiro was still the same battlefield full of bomb craters and the gray sky filled with acrid smoke.

Then Kokuro saw many small black dots falling from the aircraft carrier of Konoha.

At first, Kokuro instinctively thought it was another round of bombing by Konoha, and he was so frightened that he almost immediately retreated into cover. However, upon closer inspection, he realized that the falling black dots were actually living Konoha ninjas!

"What's going on? Did an internal conflict break out among those Konoha ninjas just now? So the losers of the conflict were all thrown down as human bombs?" As a haiku writer, Kokuro always had a pretty good imagination, and he instantly came up with a pretty good story.

Then Kojiro retreated back into his bunker, excitedly using sign language to share what he had just observed with his companions inside.

"come down"

Author Matsuo Kokuro

The Konoha ninjas fell down like dumplings.

The Sand Ninja excitedly opened its mouth.

Mogami River

After experiencing Kokuro's latest masterpiece, the Sand Ninja comrade, unable to bear it any longer, punched Kokuro in the face again: "Are you ever going to stop? Do you think we Sand Ninjas are all man-eating monsters?!" He even excitedly opened his mouth, saying, "Don't even mention if it's a person falling, even if it's dumplings falling from this height, it would still crack your skull!"

Then the Sand Ninja shoved Kokuro aside, intending to check the situation outside with his own eyes. Just as he crawled out of cover and was about to look up, *splat!* A red Zaku stomped on the Sand Ninja, pinning him to the ground.

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Chapter 40 Zaku's Fighting Power Against Ninjas

When Kokuro saw the Sand Ninja being crushed into a bloody pulp by the red Zaku, his mind suddenly went blank.

"Ze Liang-san!!!" Kokuro shouted the name of his closest friend, reaching out his hand in that direction as if trying to grab something but ultimately grasping nothing. He had called that name many times before, but this time, he knew that the other person would never answer him with an impatient expression again.

"Damn it!!" Tears streamed down Kokuro's face as memories of his days spent with Sora-san flashed through his mind. There were times when Sora-san punched him in the face while Kokuro was reciting haiku at the ninja academy, times when Kokuro was reciting haiku while Sora-san punched him in the face during genin training, and times when Sora-san punched him in the face while Kokuro was reciting haiku during missions together...

As various memories surfaced, Kojiro strangely found that the grief in his heart seemed to have lessened considerably, and at the same time, the spot on his face that Zeng Liangsang often punched began to ache faintly.

Of course, as a former comrade of Sora-san, Kokuro naturally couldn't possibly have any goodwill towards the enemy who had crushed his comrade. Therefore, after quickly suppressing his inner turmoil, he unhesitatingly formed hand seals and released his signature ninjutsu: "Damn Konoha bastards, accept the wrath of the God of Haiku! Ice Release: Snow Dance of Nine Heavens!!!"

Instantly, Kokuro's chakra transformed into countless ice flowers that appeared in mid-air. These ice flowers then rapidly gathered and grew, combining into a giant frost, which slammed fiercely towards the red Zaku!

"Take this!" Kojiro shouted, a sense of revenge welling up inside him. His ninjutsu was quite powerful, capable of breaking through even a city wall made of boulders, let alone a puppet like this. And the opponent's large size didn't seem like it could dodge it at all!

Sure enough, the red Zaku stood motionless, seemingly not having reacted at all, and showed no intention of dodging!

In Kokuro's smug gaze, Frost, filled with vengeful rage, crashed heavily into the red Zaku!

Clang!

In that instant, the anti-chakra barrier technique that was already engraved on the armor of the red Zaku appeared, blocking the ice release attack. Shattered ice flowers scattered everywhere, and the red Zaku itself did not even move!

Then, the red Zaku raised the dark muzzle of its cannon, which flashed with light!

Sand Shinobu Matsuo Kokuro fell to the ground.

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In the command center of the aircraft carrier high in the sky, Hyuga clan ninjas were constantly reporting the situation on the battlefield: "...The vanguard has broken through the enemy's first line of defense! The enemy is in retreat!...The vanguard is engaged in combat with the enemy on the second line of defense! The vanguard has already suffered casualties!..."

Upon hearing the news of casualties among the vanguard, Tian Qing sighed silently: "As expected, although they are both named Zaku, the Zaku puppets cannot achieve the same level of defense as the original Zaku because it is impossible to obtain a more durable alloy in the Naruto world!"

According to the previous assessment by Konoha's strategic department, these Zaku were already quite powerful, capable of completely countering all the combat skills of ordinary ninjas.

Zaku's hard shell renders ordinary ninja's physical attacks and weapons meaningless. You can't expect an ordinary ninja with a kunai to pierce through Zaku's armor in one go, can you?

The optical anti-illusion material used in the giant single eye on Zaku's head renders ordinary ninja genjutsu useless, protecting the pilot inside Zaku from external genjutsu.

In addition, the anti-chakra seal engraved on the Zaku armor can withstand a considerable number of ninjutsu attacks, while ordinary ninjas can only unleash a few high-level ninjutsu.

Taijutsu, genjutsu, and ninjutsu—all three of a ninja's abilities are countered by these Zaku. Therefore, in Konoha's strategic plan, these Zaku should be able to completely overwhelm an army composed of dozens of times more ordinary ninjas and completely occupy the Sand Ninja territory below in a very short time.

However, it is not.

Konoha underestimated the Sand Ninja's fighting spirit and their weapons.

Although Konoha destroyed most of the Sand Ninja's automatic electromagnetic cannons during the previous long bombardment, some of them still survived and were used by the Sand Ninja to attack Zaku. Under the continuous bombardment of several electromagnetic cannons, the anti-chakra jutsu on Zaku's armor finally gave way.

The Sand Ninja's fighting spirit also surprised Konoha. When faced with these giant puppets that were difficult to destroy, the Sand Ninja did not retreat at all. Instead, they used many lives as a price to launch continuous ninjutsu attacks and managed to break through the defenses of several Zaku!

Of course, just as a force with only a small number of artillery pieces and explosives could never defeat a pure tank force, the Sand Ninja's tenacious will was easily broken by Konoha's overwhelming weaponry. Even though the Sand Ninja fought with all their might and used human wave tactics to break through some Zaku, it was to no avail. Soon, half an hour later, Konoha won the battle with overwhelming advantage and minimal casualties.

"We won!!" Uchiha Shisui gasped for breath as he stepped out of the cockpit, looking at his red Zaku with heartache. The red Zaku was now covered in wounds, and one part even had a crack—it was caused by a Sand Ninja's suicidal attack—the crack meant that the anti-chakra seal there had broken, losing its protective ninjutsu effect.

"It looks like I'll need a major overhaul before I can continue fighting. Until then, I'm afraid I'll have to rely on myself." After releasing the red Zaku from its summoning, Uchiha Shisui sighed and waited for the aircraft carrier in the sky to send a transport plane to pick up the advance troops on the ground and bring them back to the aircraft carrier. According to the pre-arranged plan, they would soon fly to the next battle location.

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Looking down at the busy Konoha troops, Orochimaru, who had been silently standing by the window of the aircraft carrier's command room, suddenly spoke up: "Tenqing, you seem to be in a hurry to achieve victory? With Konoha's current military strength, we could have easily taken a steady and methodical approach. There was no need to rush to the next battlefield so quickly, was there?"

Tian Qing smiled bitterly. Could I say that according to the original plot, the other four great powers would soon be launching a war against Konoha at the same time, and in order to avoid fighting on multiple fronts, I wanted to concentrate my forces to achieve victory against the Land of Wind first?

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The First Anti-Konoha Alliance

In the quiet darkness, the elderly Madara Uchiha opened his eyes and pricked up his ears to listen to the faint noise coming from afar.

This is a huge underground cavern, where a colossal statue stands. The statue has the form of a human, and its color and body are like withered wood. However, its huge face has nine eyes, and there are ten pillar-like protrusions on its back, as if they were remnants left after something broke off, just as if the statue originally had ten enormous tails on its back.

This is the enormous object that Madara Uchiha summoned after acquiring the Rinnegan: the Gedo Mazo. It also has another name: the empty shell of the Ten-Tails.

At this moment, the giant Gedo Mazo was covered with many white cocoons, which vaguely revealed human faces inside. At the same time, many long tentacles extended from the Gedo Mazo and finally penetrated Uchiha Madara's body, maintaining Uchiha Madara's life.

Back when Madara Uchiha was on his deathbed, he finally combined Hashirama Senju's cells with his own Sharingan, thus gaining the power of both the Senju and Uchiha clans. But really, that's nothing special; at most, it created a master with both Sage Body and Sage Eyes, and a master who was nearing the end of his life.

However, this also combined the Ashura power in Madara Uchiha's body with the Indra power in Hashirama Senju's body, successfully drawing out the power of the Six Paths and awakening a new power in Madara Uchiha: a pair of Rinnegan.

Under the power of the Rinnegan, Madara Uchiha unintentionally summoned the Gedo Mazo and further cultivated Hashirama Senju's cells on it. He relied on the Gedo Mazo's immense life force to sustain his own life, allowing Madara's already decaying body to continue to this day.

However, although Madara Uchiha achieved immortality, his broken body made it impossible for him to fight others, let alone carry out his long-planned schemes. So when Black Zetsu returned one day to report that he had found a child with quite good physical conditions, Madara Uchiha did not hesitate to take out his pair of Rinnegan and store them in the body of a descendant of the Uzumaki clan named "Nagato," waiting for him to grow up.

Of course, as the former head of the Uchiha clan, Madara Uchiha naturally carried a spare Sharingan for his own use. However, after losing the Rinnegan, Madara Uchiha's combat power, which had severely declined due to old age, plummeted to rock bottom, making him even weaker than an ordinary adult ninja.

It was precisely because of this that, over the years, Madara Uchiha had been hiding in this underground cave, like an animal hibernating in winter, quietly analyzing the various intelligence Zetsu brought back, thinking about future plans, and waiting for a suitable opportunity to arrive.

But today, the tranquility of the underground stronghold has been shattered.

Black Zetsu led the way, while a White Zetsu behind him kept shouting loudly and desperately twisting its body in an attempt to escape. However, it was firmly controlled by the other two White Zetsu and could only be dragged over step by step.

"Let me go! You have no idea how great Lord Yahiko is!" The white Zetsu struggled desperately. "You'll never know how precious Lord Yahiko's forgiveness is! Hurry up and come with me to see Lord Yahiko and beg for his forgiveness!!"

"What's wrong with it?" Madara Uchiha, his face full of wrinkles, pointed at the white Zetsu shouting and asked the black Zetsu.

"Didn't you previously arrange for a White Zetsu to stay near the Akatsuki organization to monitor Nagato's movements?" Black Zetsu said expressionlessly. "According to the original plan, I had Danzo contact Hanzo to accelerate Nagato's growth, but I didn't expect the original plan to change somewhat."

"Changes?" Madara Uchiha frowned. Since it concerned such an important item as the Rinnegan, he couldn't help but take it seriously.

"Just a while ago, the Akatsuki suddenly announced that Nagato was ill and that he would be unable to meet with anyone for a period of time. After that, we observed from a distance and found..." At this point, a slight ripple appeared on Black Zetsu's expressionless face: "We found that Nagato was hiding in the conference room reading a book. Although we couldn't see him clearly and could only catch a glimpse of him occasionally, we could tell from the faint glimpses of his clothing that Nagato was wearing a short skirt and women's clothing."

"Huh?" Madara Uchiha's wrinkles froze in shock. What was this? Had he gone too far as to turn evil and started cross-dressing?

"Afterwards, it seems that Akatsuki recruited a skilled assassin to kill Hanzo, which triggered a war between Amegakure and Akatsuki. Just when Amegakure was about to storm Akatsuki's stronghold, Yahiko made his move." Black Zetsu continued with a solemn expression, "I wasn't there at the time, so I don't know the specifics, but the White Zetsu that was monitoring the situation acted strangely. If I hadn't arrived in time, it probably would have run away to join Yahiko!"

"Yahiko?!" Madara Uchiha pondered the unfamiliar name in his mind. "Is he that brat who was with Nagato? Didn't we confirm before that he was just an ordinary ninja with nothing special about him?"

"But now he has suddenly gained unexpected power and unified the Land of Rain without bloodshed." Black Zetsu continued, recounting the intelligence he had gathered: "It is said that he possesses a rather powerful ability to manipulate people, making everyone in front of him obey him, including White Zetsu who is scouting nearby! Because of this, we no longer dare to send White Zetsu to the Land of Rain to scout and gather intelligence."