Lord Madara wasn't easily swayed either, quickly suppressing his suspicions.
He then chuckled mockingly,
"Hahaha!"
"What a terrifying little brat you are!"
"At such a young age, already so skilled at bewitching people's hearts..."
Despite his doubts,
Madara absolutely wouldn't show even the slightest weakness in front of this junior generation.
This was about his pride as an ancestor!
"As for whether I'm bewitching or not, that's up to your interpretation."
"I just don't want some ancestral lord being used by others in the future, becoming fertilizer for someone else's conspiracy."
"Then creating another powerful enemy for us..."
"And conveniently earning our Uchiha clan another reputation for stupidity! Just adding fuel to the mockery!"
Shimoku sneered with disdain.
The more aggressive he acted, the more it'd stoke Madara's doubts.
Pushing Madara to dig into the truth personally.
Of course, Shimoku's words were quite infuriating right now.
Repeatedly provoking Lord Madara's rage, causing him to almost strike out physically.
However, considering the boy's strength, he had to swallow back his anger again and again.
"Don't worry, this is none of your concern!"
"Besides brat, do you really think your ideals are so perfect?"
"Even if you unify the Ninja World?"
"How long can you live?"
"How long can you maintain control?"
"Even gods cannot eliminate hatred from people's hearts!"
"Soon enough, accumulated hatred born from desires and conflicts will destroy all systems, and war will erupt once again!"
Lord Madara snorted coldly.
Swallowing his anger while tearing into Shimoku's ideals.
He couldn't let this kid be the only one looking foolish?
He must also criticize this brat's ideals!
"Who gives a damn?!"
"Whether wars erupt after my death has nothing to do with me!"
"Thinking you can forge eternal peace by sheer will alone is pure nonsense!"
Shimoku sharply retorted again.
As a transmigrator, I'm already incredibly lucky to have been reborn at all.
Rather than obsessing over how long peace would last after my death,
That would indeed be foolish!
"Vulgar brat! You've never experienced the cruelty of war!"
"Your ideals are too barren!"
"They're fundamentally incapable of bringing lasting peace to this world!"
Lord Madara loudly criticized.
I gave up my village for eternal peace,
Parted ways with my best friend, abandoned my clan members...
He sacrificed absolutely everything he had.
Quietly bearing burdens, secretly planning, doing whatever it took...
All for realizing eternal peace!
Now, hearing this junior
Responding so vulgarly, opposing his ideals like this, naturally his fury arose from within.
Seething with resentment, he railed passionately against Shimoku.
"Eternal peace? It's a fantasy!"
"Just as you said, human hearts will never stop yearning and clashing — true peace can't last."
"But as long as we unify the Ninja World,"
"We can temporarily end all wars."
"So, I will set an example for the world, letting everyone realize that unification can succeed!"
"Even if wars break out again in the future."
"I believe there will always be new heroes rising up and uniting the ninja world!"
"In that case, the time of peace throughout the entire world will definitely outweigh the time of chaos!"
"We cannot achieve permanent peace, but we can attain relatively more peace!"
"This is the significance of pioneering! This is the meaning of unification!"
"This is a much more realistic and believable peaceful world than your illusionary one!"
Shimoku argued passionately, thoroughly and freely expressing his views.
It was rare for him to debate with Lord Madara.
He had also become interested and talked more than he usually did.
After all, based on Shimoku's past life experience,
Only unification could play a greater role in achieving world peace!
Otherwise, Qin Shi Huang wouldn't have been praised for a thousand years.
Without his great feat of unification,
Perhaps later generations wouldn't even dare to dream of uniting the Huaxia (the ancient Chinese heartland)...
How could there even be over two thousand years of peace in the future?
Hearing this, Lord Madara also fell into rare silence.
After all, in the ninja world,
Unifying the entire world was still a shocking ambition—no one had accomplished it yet.
But in Shimoku's past life, it had long since become routine.
Faced with such advanced knowledge from the past, even though Lord Madara was extraordinary, he couldn't really argue against what the future might bring.
After all, theoretically speaking,
Once the ninja world is unified, many benefits would certainly follow.
At the very least, temporary peace would definitely be achieved!
Of course.
Given Lord Madara's strong convictions, there was no way a few simple words could shatter them completely.
Even though Shimoku spoke so persuasively at this moment,
He still wouldn't abandon his ideals!
...
"Revered ancestor, do you have anything else to counterargue?"
Shimoku smirked slightly, teasingly and somewhat smugly.
Although borrowing the experiences from his previous life,
Just being able to verbally gain the upper hand against Lord Madara was already quite satisfying.
After all, looking across the ninja world,
The vast majority of people didn't even have the qualification to debate with Lord Madara,
Not to mention surpassing this 'Warring States Rose'!
Lord Madara: "Brat, don't get too cocky."
"You're still young, and don't fully understand this world yet..."
Shimoku: "What understanding? You just resurrected a few days ago—how can you claim to understand?"
"Ancestor, times have changed!"
Lord Madara: "..."
"Well done, kid! Your mouth has surpassed countless ninjutsu techniques!"
"Alright, last question—will you follow me?"
Shimoku: "Impossible, unless you give me the [Rinnegan] first."
"What bravery! I hope you're still this brave next time we meet..."
Lord Madara pinched his left hand—it was clearly healed now.
And now, since verbal persuasion couldn't subdue this little brat named Shimoku,
He had no choice but to retreat here for now and deal with it later.
If Hashirama chased over here,
And he got captured by Hashirama again, it would truly be humiliating!
Shimoku: "Haha, is Ancestor planning to run away?"
Lord Madara raised an eyebrow.
"You wish to stop me?"
"Of course not. But come on, I've called you Ancestor so many times already—shouldn't you give your junior a little welcome gift?"
Shimoku's eyes gleamed with greed as he reached out eagerly.
After all, today was his lucky break. Holding such an advantage, how could he just let Lord Madara walk away empty-handed?
If you don't grab the chance, you're not worthy of being young!
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