When enemies remain hidden while you stand exposed, it's easy to fall into a passive position.
Uzumaki Heiyan fully understood this principle.
Before, as the "hero" of Konoha Village, he had always stood in the light. Meanwhile, his enemies—the Fire Daimyo, the Four Great Ninja Villages, and Madara Uchiha—remained hidden in darkness, plotting various schemes.
Although Heiyan had successfully countered every attack so far, no one could say for certain whether he'd continue protecting what he wanted to protect the next time... or the time after that.
The lurking evil only needed to succeed once, but Heiyan couldn't afford even a single failure.
But now the situation was different.
Through a carefully orchestrated fake death, Heiyan disappeared into the shadows, causing his enemies to let down their guard.
Furthermore, once he was "dead," many things became much simpler to resolve. For example, Heiyan could now wear a mask, raid the Fire Daimyo's Mansion, kill the Daimyo, and no one would suspect him afterward.
After all, Uzumaki Heiyan was already dead—could someone seriously accuse a corpse of murder?
"The action at Mount Myoboku should begin soon too."
Inside the basement, Heiyan stood up and stretched before thinking to himself.
Actually, not long after leaving Shikkotsu Forest, when the fifth tomoe inside Heiyan shattered, triggering another major evolution of Sage Transformation, he sensed an unfamiliar and faint aura upon himself.
This aura belonged to an extremely concealed chakra signature, remaining attached to him all these years like his own Flying Thunder God formula.
Without revealing anything, Heiyan had entered Eternal Space afterward to carefully recall and analyze it, consulting Katsuyu the Sage Slug to finally uncover the origin of that strange energy.
It turned out that during Heiyan's first visit to Mount Myoboku to meet Gamamaru, the old toad had secretly marked him with a chakra tag.
That mark allowed Gamamaru to use the Telescope Technique to track Heiyan's location anytime from thousands of miles away.
Realizing this truth gave Heiyan goosebumps; he felt deeply unsettled.
No matter who you were, being spied on for centuries by an ancient creature over a thousand years old would give anyone the creeps—even scar them for life.
During two full years of secret surveillance, how many secrets about him had that so-called Great Toad Sage from Mount Myoboku uncovered?
As Heiyan wondered silently to himself, his eyes gradually turned cold. His attitude toward Gamamaru went from simple dislike to full-blown hatred.
Fortunately, after some deep thinking, Heiyan figured out there were at least two places where Gamamaru wouldn't dare spy on him.
The first location was Shikkotsu Forest itself—one of the three sacred lands. This territory belonged to Katsuyu. If Gamamaru had attempted the Telescope Technique here, Katsuyu surely would've noticed immediately.
The second location was Eternal Space. While the pocket dimension containing Shikkotsu Forest might still be penetrated by Gamamaru's chakra, the Eternal Space inside Samehada's body was completely isolated—capable even of blocking Heiyan's own Flying Thunder God formulas.
From this perspective, even though Heiyan's movements over the past two years had been under Gamamaru's surveillance, the most essential secrets he carried remained beyond the other's reach.
After regaining his composure,
Heiyan didn't immediately erase the chakra mark left by Gamamaru because he didn't want to tip off his observer. Instead, he cleverly decided to use his upcoming fake death plan to deceive Gamamaru's vision.
Thus, after leaving Shikkotsu Forest and arriving at Penglai Ninja Village, he seized the moment Gamamaru was not watching and successfully transferred that chakra mark onto one of his real clones.
As he had anticipated,
Later, during Heiyan's participation in the Five Kage Summit, as he clashed with elite ninjas from the Four Great Ninja Villages and engaged Madara in mortal combat, he sure enough sensed the invisible surveillance emanating from Mount Myoboku.
Now, seeing that mushroom cloud and the absence of the chakra mark, Gamamaru would be convinced Heiyan was dead.
Soon after, Mount Myoboku would likely take action.
Upon realizing this, Heiyan sprang into action immediately.
He stepped out of the hidden basement, retrieved the living armor of Seven-Tails Chomei, and donned it. Then, using the old method, he departed Penglai through the Enshinsui technique.
One day passed.
In the underground hidden room beneath Mizukage building of Kirigakure village.
"So this is it... The Infinite Tsukuyomi is the only way to achieve world peace..."
The silver-haired Madara Uchiha murmured softly, his pair of Rinnegan eyes fixated intently on the Six Paths stone tablet before him.
Just moments ago, after deciphering the last portion of text inscribed on the tablet with his Rinnegan, Madara learned an astonishing secret:
The mother of the Sage of Six Paths, Kaguya Otsutsuki—the originator of the shinobi world—had once planned to destroy the world and kill all humanity. Fortunately, she was sealed away by the Sage of Six Paths and his younger brother working together.
To prevent the seal on Kaguya from weakening and her returning to threaten the world again, the Sage of Six Paths left behind an important revelation for his descendants:
Sometime in the future, among his lineage, someone extraordinary must bravely step forward.
This person must travel across the world, gathering all the Tailed Beasts. With their chakra, he would revive the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, then fuse with it to become the Jinchuriki of the Ten-Tails.
Only then could he obtain Kaguya's power and awaken the Rinne Sharingan.
Once that person channels the power of the Rinne Sharingan toward the moon, he must activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi, trapping the entire world in a genjutsu dream.
Within this dreamlike illusion of Infinite Tsukuyomi, every soul on Earth will experience true happiness, their every wish granted.
At that time, there will no longer be wars or death in the world—only love and peace shall remain forever.
After reading the words engraved on the stone tablet, Madara's heart stirred deeply. His expression shifted—from shock to pure ecstasy.
"I never imagined that the ultimate evolution of the Sharingan wouldn't be the Rinnegan, but rather the Rinne Sharingan—the Moon's Eye."
Madara whispered. Walking toward the skylight above the hidden chamber, he slowly lifted his head. Through the window, the bright full moon shone high in the night sky, casting its silvery glow gently upon him like flowing silk.
At that moment, Madara stared intensely, his Rinnegan eyes reflecting the glowing moon above.
[Infinite Tsukuyomi]
[Sharingan]
[Rinnegan]
[Rinne Sharingan]
The world was too foolish and short-sighted, endlessly caught in conflict and hatred, never learning from history.
And that was exactly why they needed saving.
The light of Infinite Tsukuyomi would penetrate every shelter and structure on earth, sending all humanity into an illusory world created by the caster.
What a thrilling thought.
Standing beneath the pale glow of the moon, Madara had made his decision—he would become the one foreseen by the Sage of Six Paths, the chosen savior meant to guide all of humanity toward peace and happiness.
A sacred and weighty sense of mission arose within him. He felt like the father of all humankind—responsible for every soul, ready to forgive them deeply and care for them with compassion.
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