"Hand over the Nine-Tails' chakra. Don't make useless resistance."
At Senju Hashirama's residence, Uchiha Madara looked at Shimura Danzō and the others blocking the doorway and spoke in a deep voice.
"With us here, don't even think of targeting Lady Mito!" Shimura Danzō snorted coldly.
All of them understood very well that Madara appearing here meant Renya and Tobirama-sensei had already been defeated.
Now only they could protect Lady Mito's safety!
"Everyone, go together and stop Uchiha Madara!"
"In that case, I'll just have to deal with you first."
Uchiha Madara's eyes sharpened, and the purple light of the Rinnegan flashed and vanished.
Immediately after, the few who were about to charge forward were struck in vital spots by invisible shadows.
"Damn it, we can't let him succeed!"
Enduring the sharp pain in his abdomen, Shimura Danzō continued to launch an attack toward him.
"Noisy."
Uchiha Madara raised his hand, and a powerful repulsive force suddenly exploded.
The people at the door who had just struggled to their feet were instantly flung away by the immense impact and slammed heavily into the wall.
The main gate of Senju Hashirama's house was leveled to the ground under Shinra Tensei, revealing the scene inside the courtyard.
Senju Hashirama and Uzumaki Mito were fighting side by side, and their gazes simultaneously fell upon Uchiha Madara at the gate.
"Madara, long time no see."
Seeing his friend who had come to attack the house, Senju Hashirama forced out a faint smile.
After several decades, his friend was attacking Konoha again.
But he no longer had the strength to stop him.
"It really has been a long time." Uchiha Madara said to the two of them, "Can you hand over the Nine-Tails' chakra now?"
Although he had not seen his friend for a long time, he knew this was not the time to reminisce.
Collecting the Nine-Tails' chakra was the purpose of his visit this time.
"Madara, can we talk this through?"
Senju Hashirama tried to persuade his friend with words to give up the "Moon's Eye Plan."
Unfortunately, Uchiha Madara wasn't buying it.
"There's no need for us to talk. As long as you hand over part of the Nine-Tails' chakra, I will leave on my own…"
If it weren't for Hashirama and Mito being acquaintances, he would have directly summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and forcibly absorbed the Nine-Tails' chakra long ago.
Why waste more words here?
"I hope you voluntarily hand over the Nine-Tails' chakra, otherwise I'll have to take action myself."
Uchiha Madara said to the two of them, the danger in his tone completely undisguised.
Uzumaki Mito looked at Shimura Danzō and the others lying on the ground, then at the cold-faced Uchiha Madara.
After a moment of silence, she nodded.
"Madara, I'm willing to hand over the Nine-Tails' chakra. Please leave Konoha immediately after you obtain it."
Konoha was not Madara's match. Continuing to resist would be meaningless.
It was better to follow his suggestion and hand over the Nine-Tails' chakra inside her.
Sealing space.
Seeing Uchiha Madara's pair of Rinnegan, the Nine-Tails' nine tails stood straight up, and its fur bristled all over.
"Damn it, damn it! Why does Uchiha Madara have those eyes?!"
"Woman, you can't agree to him!"
It was almost crying from anxiety. It would rather stay imprisoned in the sealing space than return to the Ten-Tails' body.
In the sealing space it at least still had consciousness; if it was absorbed by the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, it would lose everything!
Uzumaki Mito ignored the Nine-Tails' roaring and instead took the initiative to undo several layers of seals within her body.
If it were under normal circumstances, once the Nine-Tails noticed the seal loosening, it would certainly try every possible way to break the seal and gain freedom.
But this time, it obediently lay in the sealing space, pretending not to see the iron gate opening.
What a joke—going out meant certain death.
"A good choice."
Seeing Uzumaki Mito give up resistance, Uchiha Madara nodded in satisfaction.
Then he formed hand seals and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
"I will only extract half of the Nine-Tails. I won't put your life in danger."
Since he had given his word to Uzumaki Mito, he naturally would not allow her to be endangered.
After all, she was Hashirama's wife.
Uzumaki Mito nodded and allowed the chains from the Demonic Statue's mouth to enter her abdomen.
At this moment, within the sealing space—
When the Nine-Tails saw the chains suddenly appear, terror immediately showed on its face.
It hurriedly got up to dodge, but the sealing space was too small, and with its huge body every evasion was extremely difficult.
Very soon, the Nine-Tails was looped around the neck by the chains like a dog being collared.
"No, no, I don't want to go out!"
But what happened differed from what it had imagined—it wasn't its entire body being dragged out.
Instead, under the pull of the chains, the Nine-Tails' body was split into two halves.
One half, the Yin Nine-Tails, was dragged out, while the remaining Yang Nine-Tails showed an expression of surviving a disaster.
"The other me, I'll leave it to you."
At this moment, the Yin Nine-Tails being dragged out: "…"
No matter how it struggled, it was useless. It directly turned into a mass of chakra and was swallowed into the Demonic Statue's mouth.
Only one unopened eye remained now.
Seeing this, Uchiha Madara's lips finally curved into a rare smile. Only the last Three-Tails was left—realizing the "Moon's Eye Plan" was just around the corner.
"Madara, can we talk now?"
Seeing his friend get the Nine-Tails' chakra as he wished, Senju Hashirama asked weakly.
"What do you want to talk about?"
Having successfully obtained the Nine-Tails' chakra, Uchiha Madara was in an excellent mood and was willing to spend some time listening to what his former friend had to say.
"Can you give up the 'Moon's Eye Plan'? I think the peace achieved that way is false."
Hearing this, the smile on Uchiha Madara's face instantly froze.
The good mood from obtaining the Nine-Tails' chakra vanished without a trace.
"If you're trying to persuade me to give up, save your breath." Uchiha Madara said coldly, "Only the 'Moon's Eye Plan' can bring true peace to the shinobi world!"
"Hashirama, I believe you'll soon see that day arrive."
In his view, Hashirama's plan of founding villages to achieve peace had completely failed. This peace built on force would not last.
Only the "Moon's Eye Plan" could create a world of eternal peace!
"Madara…"
Just as Senju Hashirama was about to continue persuading him, Uchiha Madara impatiently interrupted.
"Enough, Hashirama. Stop saying meaningless things."
Madara's will was firm—it was impossible for him to abandon his ideals because of a few words from a friend.
Even if his ideals were not recognized by the world, he would continue forward without hesitation.
Until the day the plan was completely successful!
After speaking, Uchiha Madara no longer spared his friend a glance and turned to leave the courtyard.
The mutually supporting Senju Tobirama and Renya, rushing over, happened to run into Uchiha Madara as he exited.
Madara's gaze briefly fell on Renya's blind right eye, then he withdrew his sight and continued walking forward as if nothing had happened.
Throughout the whole process, he didn't look at Senju Tobirama even once, as if he didn't place him in his eyes at all.
He left only a solitary, arrogant back to everyone.
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