Deciding to become a Jonin instructor to repay Sarutobi Hiruzen's cultivation kindness, Gojo Yoru and Uzumaki Kushina cherished the remaining time of going on missions together very much.
Otherwise, until March next year, unless there was an emergency and the village needed to reactivate Team Orochimaru, Gojo Yoru and Uzumaki Kushina wouldn't be able to go on missions together for several years.
The two decided to rest for only one week and then continue taking missions.
This week, Gojo Yoru's life was as usual.
Besides accompanying Uzumaki Kushina and Tsunade openly, and Konan secretly, he occasionally visited Orochimaru to catch up and use his space-time ability to assist in the other's experiments.
Looking at Orochimaru wearing a white coat, not as a doctor but as a scientist, Gojo Yoru felt that the male character he influenced the most might not be Nagato who became Konan's subordinate, nor Yahiko who suddenly became famous two years ago and became Hanzo the Salamander's only disciple, nor even Namikaze Minato who might not sacrifice himself in the future and would master the Flying Thunder God Technique and Sage Mode, but the Orochimaru in front of him.
Without Gojo Yoru's influence, the current Orochimaru should have become Shimura Danzo's subordinate and ally, already in contact with Hashirama cells and starting to tinker with Wood Release experimental subjects.
His temperament change due to pursuing eternal life would also affect Sarutobi Hiruzen's evaluation of him, gradually losing hope of becoming the Fourth Hokage.
But now, with Sarutobi Hiruzen and Gojo Yoru backing him, Orochimaru looked down on Shimura Danzo, who could only use the privilege of the Hokage's Assistant to get himself a weakened version of Anbu, the [Root].
With his disciple being the Incarnation of Miracle, he had no interest in recreating Wood Release.
No matter how powerful Wood Release was, could it be more powerful than the Space-Time Kekkei Genkai?
In these five years, Orochimaru occasionally went to Ryuchi Cave to find an opportunity to cultivate Senjutsu. The rest of the time, he was either researching Ninjutsu or researching space-time, living a very comfortable life.
In terms of strength, he was already a weakened version of Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Once he learned Ryuchi Cave Sage Mode, he would be a Kage-level powerhouse.
Beep beep beep...
In a specially decorated room that seemed designed for testing something, Gojo Yoru casually threw an energy sphere inside, and a series of alarms rang out.
Inside the room, dazzling red lights flashed, and screens embedded in the walls displayed numbers Gojo Yoru couldn't understand at all.
Outside the room was a laboratory full of scientific instruments.
Some ninjas also wearing white coats were constantly busy in the laboratory.
Through the thick glass, Orochimaru watched the scene inside where the energy sphere turned into a small black hole, destroying everything in the room. Even the screens flashing numbers on the walls were snapped by invisible gravity, flying towards the small black hole and quickly turning into nothingness.
In front of him was a computer, also flashing incomprehensible data.
Gojo Yoru walked over, leaning on the table with one hand, and asked with interest: "Orochimaru-sensei, you've been tinkering for so long, any breakthroughs?"
Orochimaru kept his eyes fixed, but a smile appeared on his face: "If there were no breakthroughs, this experiment would have stopped long ago. Why would I call you over to help every once in a while? Besides, every experiment destroys such a data testing room. No matter how rich the village is, it can't let us squander like this."
Gojo Yoru didn't expect such an answer and looked surprised: "Space-time research really has a breakthrough? Which aspect? Technique, or external object?"
"You'll know when the time comes. Now it's just a conceptual breakthrough; it might take a few years to see results." Orochimaru didn't enlighten Gojo Yoru but suddenly changed the subject: "By the way, I went to teach at the Ninja Academy some time ago and spotted a good seedling in the first grade. In two years, I plan to take another disciple."
"Oh?"
Gojo Yoru's attention was successfully diverted. A figure appeared in his mind, and he asked with a smile: "Gaining your appreciation in the first grade, Orochimaru-sensei, it seems like another genius. Boy or girl?"
"A quite interesting girl."
Orochimaru finally glanced sideways, still smiling gently: "No choice, my most proud disciple actually refuses to learn my Orochimaru-style Ninjutsu, so I can only find another disciple suitable to inherit my mantle. The reform idea you provided to Tsunade is quite interesting. Elective courses not only allow commoner students to master a specialized skill but also quickly stimulate the potential of geniuses, letting those geniuses know what type they are suitable for."
"Cough, cough... Kushina is calling me home for dinner. Orochimaru-sensei, come to my house for tea when you have time."
Gojo Yoru coughed lightly, then teleported and disappeared.
In the following days, Gojo Yoru also went to the Ninja Academy to teach students.
After the reform of the Ninja Academy, the gap between geniuses and ordinary people grew larger and larger.
Previously, everyone learned basic Ninjutsu and cultural knowledge. Now with elective courses, passing one course allowed choosing the next, making geniuses more dazzling and mediocre talents more mediocre.
To prevent ordinary students from losing confidence due to the blow, the school specially created an elite class, allowing geniuses to gather and compete, and also allowing geniuses to study for six years or graduate early in a certain academic year.
Elective courses were to cultivate specialized skills. Besides systematic basics, the Ninja Academy also frequently invited some ninjas skilled in specific types to return to school to teach.
As the super genius most skilled in the Body Flicker Technique in the Ninja World, who developed a series of Ninjutsu at the age of twelve, Gojo Yoru was naturally invited to teach students quite often.
Every time he came to the Ninja Academy, like a celebrity returning to school in his previous life, Gojo Yoru always caused a huge sensation.
Even for just one elective class, the classroom would be full of students, and outside would be crowded with students who didn't choose this course.
Returning to school this time, teaching was secondary for Gojo Yoru. His main purpose was to observe the new generation of Hatake Kakashi's batch and select candidates for the other two subordinates.
Geniuses in the elite class also formed small groups, even discussing early graduation together.
Through chatting and gathering intelligence, Gojo Yoru found that the number of students who had applied for early graduation in the academic year exam wasn't small, numbering more than a dozen.
However, thinking that there were few elite classes in higher grades, and the remaining elites dared not call themselves geniuses, Gojo Yoru understood.
Uchiha Obito was also in the elite class. The Uchiha Clan came with powerful Yin Release and Fire Release talents. As long as they chose the right elective courses, even the dead-last could become a genius.
He was also one of those applying for early graduation. With Hatake Kakashi and Nohara Rin applying, he certainly wouldn't show weakness.
After teaching for a few days, Gojo Yoru selected his subordinates, planning to tell Sarutobi Hiruzen after the graduation assessment next year.
However, he didn't know which would come first, the accident or tomorrow.
Nor did he know that a conspiracy was enveloping him.
...
"Madara-sama, my clone collected new intelligence. That Konoha space-time ninja has been teaching at the Ninja Academy frequently these days, paying close attention to Obito's elite class. According to the clone's investigation, the Third Hokage's son is in that elite class. Madara-sama, do you think that space-time ninja plans to transform into a Jonin instructor?"
In the familiar underground space, White Zetsu emerged from the ground. Looking at Uchiha Madara, who was even older and thinner than five years ago, spending most of his time sleeping and only waking up for important matters, he reported and voiced his worry: "If he really transforms into a Jonin instructor, and Obito happens to become his subordinate, will it affect our plan?"
Uchiha Madara opened his familiar three-tomoe Sharingan, staring at White Zetsu in front of him: "Did you go to monitor that brat Gojo Yoru without authorization again?"
"No, absolutely not."
White Zetsu shook his head repeatedly, explaining: "Three years ago, if the clone hadn't turned into a small tree in time, he would have been caught by his Sealing Jutsu and space-time Ninjutsu. Since then, I haven't let clones use Mayfly to infiltrate Konoha. They all use the Spore Technique to attach to outsiders, transfer to Konoha villagers after entering, and then use the Substitute Technique to replace them after familiarizing with their lifestyles."
"Worried that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki's Mind's Eye of the Kagura possesses Negative Emotion Sensing like Uzumaki Mito, those clones have been playing the role of the replaced villagers, trying to avoid meeting the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and the space-time ninja."
"But until now, I don't know if it was his sensing or the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki's Mind's Eye of the Kagura that discovered my clone."
"Try and we'll know which one."
Uchiha Madara didn't care much and asked, "How is the collection of items going?"
"Almost done."
White Zetsu took out several super-large scrolls from somewhere and reported: "Except for powerhouses like the Second Kazekage Shamon who died unexpectedly and whose bodies aren't even in the cemetery, I have collected the body tissues of deceased powerhouses from ninja villages in various countries."
"Very good."
A smile finally appeared on Uchiha Madara's face: "In this world, no Kekkei Genkai or technique is perfect. Even the Space-Time Kekkei Genkai must have its weaknesses and flaws. Even if that brat Gojo Yoru really compensated for the weakness of sensing, he isn't truly unsolvable."
"Since his Space-Time Release is an instant death ability, just let unkillable guys deal with him."
Hearing this, White Zetsu couldn't help but question: "Madara-sama, since you master the Impure World Reincarnation, why didn't you assassinate him five years ago? When he sleeps, he definitely can't merge into space. That would be the best time for assassination."
"If you can think of it, wouldn't others think of it?" Uchiha Madara looked at White Zetsu like an idiot and asked back: "In these five years, has anyone successfully assassinated him?"
"No." White Zetsu shook his head.
"That's right. Even you, mastering Mayfly, can't get close to him, let alone others." Uchiha Madara said faintly, "That brat is a top assassin in the Ninja World. He is the same type as that guy Tobirama. Such ninjas might not be strong, but they have a lot of tricks up their sleeves."
"The flaw you see in him might be a trap he deliberately uses to fish."
"Who knows if the sleeping him is the main body or a Shadow Clone? Once it's a Shadow Clone, your assassination will not only fail but also expose your existence. His main body might even merge into space, hiding in the building, and take the opportunity to seal you or kill you."
Glancing at White Zetsu, Uchiha Madara struck a blow: "If not for your ability to abandon that clone, and the fact that White Zetsu clones cultivated with Hashirama cells have no brains, your existence and the intelligence in your brain would have been exposed long ago."
"That guy is indeed sinister."
White Zetsu didn't refute this time but nodded in agreement.
"To deal with such a guy, you can't act during his most sensitive period. Only when he is high-spirited and careless can you deliver a fatal blow." Uchiha Madara sneered, "Even if the fatal blow fails, we can exchange intelligence without affecting my subsequent plans."
"Five years is enough to make a person arrogant."
After speaking, Uchiha Madara began to issue instructions: "Get a White Zetsu clone out. I want to do an experiment to see if your clone can serve as a sacrifice for the Impure World Reincarnation."
"Yes."
White Zetsu nodded.
A moment later, a White Zetsu clone emerged from the ground.
Uchiha Madara pushed himself up on the stone chair, straightening his body slightly, and looked at White Zetsu: "Did you collect Tobirama's body tissue?"
"Yes."
"Give it to your clone."
"Yes."
Uchiha Madara raised his withered hand, using Yin-Yang Release to condense a special black rod covered with tadpole-like curse marks.
When the White Zetsu clone took the body tissue, Uchiha Madara casually threw the black rod in his hand.
With the sound of a sharp weapon entering a body, Uchiha Madara formed seals and chanted a technique name: "Ninja Art... Impure World Reincarnation!"
"Ahhh..."
The White Zetsu clone let out a miserable scream, face distorted, covered by white dust floating from the ground, quickly forming a mummy-like cocoon.
Then this white cocoon, as if casting the Substitute Technique, suddenly slimmed down into a human silhouette, and even the Chakra aura changed.
As colors were automatically added, the pure white White Zetsu clone had turned into a man covered in cracks, wearing blue combat armor, with silver long hair, black eyes with red irises, and a cold expression.
This man was the younger brother of the God of Shinobi, the Second Hokage Senju Tobirama, who invented countless Forbidden Jutsu during his lifetime, established the Ninja Academy and ninja rank and promotion system, and set up the Anbu, imitated by various countries.
"You are... Madara!"
As soon as Senju Tobirama's consciousness returned to reality, his gaze was immediately attracted to Uchiha Madara in front of him.
Although that face was extremely old, completely different from the domineering Asura of the Ninja World with extremely evil Chakra in his memory, Senju Tobirama recognized this guy he dreaded most during his lifetime at a glance.
Without any hesitation, Senju Tobirama moved his fingers slightly, bursting out a Chakra wave that scared White Zetsu, then instantly appeared in front of Uchiha Madara, about to deliver a fatal blow to this powerless old man.
With a smack, Senju Tobirama's fatal blow couldn't be unleashed. He knelt before Uchiha Madara in a prostrate manner.
Then a foot stepped on the back of his head.
Uchiha Madara's eyes were full of disdain and disgust: "You trash, not worthy of looking me in the eye. Seeing your face reminds me of unhappy things. Speak to me on your knees from now on."
Senju Tobirama didn't get angry but calmed down quickly.
Feeling his own state, he said in disbelief: "This... this is my Impure World Reincarnation, and a perfected version at that?!"
"Heh... mere Impure World Reincarnation, is it difficult?" Uchiha Madara feigned disdain, but inwardly he was also surprised.
What happened?
Didn't the Scroll of Seals say that the dead summoned by Impure World Reincarnation only had ten or twenty percent of their strength during their lifetime, and if the caster wasn't strong enough, they couldn't suppress the will of the dead?
Why was Tobirama's strength almost no different from when he was alive?
In just an instant, Uchiha Madara solved the doubt, his eyes complicated.
He hadn't improved the Impure World Reincarnation at all.
Since it wasn't a problem with the technique formula, it was a problem with the sacrifice.
White Zetsu clones were special creatures he cultivated using Hashirama cells.
His Rinnegan also awakened because of implanting Hashirama cells.
Just a little cell could make the Impure World Reincarnation, which Tobirama couldn't improve during his lifetime, become nearly perfect?
Hashirama, as expected of you!
Senju Tobirama, with his head stepped on, couldn't see Uchiha Madara's expression.
Listening to the other party's words, he calmed down again, recalling the scene he saw just now, combined with his discoveries and guesses during his lifetime, and said in a deep voice: "Madara, you really didn't die back then! The reason your fake death could deceive Elder Brother and me was that you used the Uchiha Clan's secret technique Izanagi and the Transcription Seal, right!"
Senju Tobirama's tone was full of certainty.
Uchiha Madara didn't praise him but continued to add disdainfully: "I also knew that you, a despicable and sinister guy, would definitely not destroy my corpse, nor return it to the Uchiha Clan, but hide it secretly for research."
Senju Tobirama didn't speak, continuing to think calmly, then probed with mockery: "You only have one breath left, yet you used Impure World Reincarnation to summon me back from the Pure Land. Are you afraid you won't see me after death, so you specially summoned me to humiliate me, or are you afraid of getting lost and specially looking for me to be your guide?"
"Heh... you will never know my plan."
Knowing Senju Tobirama's character well, Uchiha Madara didn't reveal his plan just because the other party was completely controlled by him. Instead, he sneered and changed the topic: "I have to say, the technique you left behind is quite useful."
"In this generation of Konoha, two Flying Thunder God users appeared. One guy is called the Incarnation of Miracle because he possesses an unprecedented, unseen Space-Time Kekkei Genkai."
Senju Tobirama's attention was successfully diverted by Uchiha Madara's words. His eyes widened: "Space-Time Kekkei Genkai? You mean someone in this era can convert Chakra into space-time nature transformation? Impossible! Space-time power, like Elder Brother's Sage Mode absorbing natural energy, is independent of Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements, even a higher-dimensional rule power than natural power."
"Chakra can at most mobilize space-time power. How can someone convert Chakra into space-time nature transformation? Doesn't that mean he is the first existence in the Ninja World to master offensive space-time Ninjutsu?!"
As a research maniac, Senju Tobirama's first thought was that Uchiha Madara was lying.
But he knew Uchiha Madara disdained lying.
So... this was true.
In the thousand years of the Warring States period, no such ninja appeared, yet one appeared in later generations. Is this era so exciting?
"Whether it's true or not, you'll know soon." Uchiha Madara smiled mockingly. "Thanks to your Impure World Reincarnation; otherwise, with my current body, I really wouldn't have the ability to act against him, nor the ability to turn this Ninja World upside down."
"So, starting today, you are my spokesperson."
"Don't worry, I will definitely make you the greatest villain in the Ninja World!"
At the end, Uchiha Madara's smile became very malicious, making White Zetsu tremble.
Senju Tobirama instantly understood Uchiha Madara's meaning and finally widened his eyes, shouting: "Madara, you bastard..."
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