REVIEWS AND POWERSTONES PLSSS!!!!!REVIEWS AND POWERSTONES PLSSS!!!!!REVIEWS AND POWERSTONES PLSSS!!!!!Chapter 262: Won't Turn Back Even After Crashing Through the Wall
"What an evil plan!"
Madara couldn't help crying out in shock. He regarded Yasushi with complex, indecipherable eyes—as though meeting him for the first time.
As a legendary shinobi who'd experienced both chaotic and peaceful eras, Madara had witnessed too many brilliant individuals.
Among them were naive ones like Senju Hashirama, profound ones like Senju Tobirama, those with demonic cunning, those with iron will... every variety existed.
These individuals differed in personality, interests, and naturally couldn't act uniformly.
But they shared commonality—all heroes necessarily understood their own hearts, knew what they wanted, and walked firmly forward according to their own will.
Or more bluntly: they'd already found their shinobi way.
Such people, once determined on an idea, absolutely refused to change.
They wouldn't turn back until hitting a wall!
They wouldn't turn back even after crashing through the wall!
Whether this shinobi way was righteous or evil became secondary.
Such individuals were actually quite rare in any era.
Like Obito—easily manipulated in his palm, believing himself bearing heavy responsibility while actually just a chess piece. Madara never regarded him seriously regardless of strength.
Conversely, someone like Tobirama who lifelong hated the Uchiha, exhausting every method to suppress them, instead earned Madara's acknowledgment.
Yasushi's plan was insane and utterly inhumane, yet genuinely represented a viable path. A path belonging uniquely to Uchiha Yasushi.
This was Yasushi's shinobi way!
Realizing this, Madara finally abandoned treating Yasushi as a chess piece, genuinely regarding him as a contemporary hero.
Madara understood people with their own shinobi way couldn't have their thoughts swayed by anyone. So he stopped attempting to persuade Yasushi to accept his Moon's Eye Plan, instead considering whether conflicts existed between their plans—whether this "contemporary hero" needed elimination to remove variables.
Before he finished calculating, Zetsu came running over excitedly.
"Lord Yasushi, you should have told me about this plan earlier!"
"The Divine Tree can replenish people's life force!"
"Previously when Lord Madara aged, he relied on the Divine Tree continuously inputting life force to maintain existence!"
"Our two plans complement each other!"
"Once the Moon's Eye Plan succeeds, all shinobi world inhabitants will be genjutsu-controlled. Then we'll have however much life force we want."
"Lord Yasushi needn't worry about the Uchiha clan being affected by Infinite Tsukuyomi. Simply revive clansmen after the Moon's Eye Plan succeeds. Everything will be fine."
After hearing this, Madara's brow furrowed. He wasn't entirely satisfied with Zetsu's suggestion.
Peace naturally required sharing among all shinobi world inhabitants!
However, Madara wasn't someone ignorant of worldly affairs. He understood pragmatic compromise.
If paying the price of "the Uchiha clan remaining outside to suffer" could exchange for "eternal peace" for everyone else in the shinobi world, he could accept that.
But just because he could accept it didn't mean Yasushi would.
"What nonsense!"
"If only the Uchiha clan remains alive in the shinobi world, who'll farm the land? Who'll do menial labor?"
"You can't possibly expect the Uchiha clan to do all the work ourselves, right?"
"Uh..." Zetsu tilted his head confusedly. "Then should we leave you some servants?"
"Enough, Zetsu." Madara waved dismissively, signaling Zetsu to step aside. His expression flickered uncertainly as he regarded Yasushi, demanding:
"Are you certain you want to oppose me?"
"Heh..." Yasushi sneered disdainfully. "I have no interest in your doomed-to-fail plan."
"Don't just focus on me. With that effort, you'd be better off properly considering how to handle the Sage of Six Paths."
"Right, Lord Madara." Zetsu also feared renewed combat, hastily squeezing forward to persuade: "Our greatest enemy now is the Sage of Six Paths. Let's first devise methods to resolve him."
After gazing deeply at Yasushi, Madara also lost that sword-drawn tension, asking with furrowed brow:
"Are you certain the Sage of Six Paths still lives?"
"It's been over a thousand years."
"Heh. The Great Toad Sage also lived over a thousand years. What's so strange about the Sage of Six Paths living longer?"
"That's true." Madara nodded thoughtfully before asking: "Regarding the Sage of Six Paths, what are your thoughts?"
"None of my business!" Yasushi deflected Madara without hesitation. "My plan won't consume many people annually. The Sage of Six Paths won't bother with such trivial matters."
"You're the one planning to destroy the shinobi world, not me."
"I have no conflicting interests with the Sage of Six Paths."
After hearing this, Madara's brow furrowed deeply, yet he had no recourse against Yasushi.
Seeing Yasushi's complete lack of interest in the Sage of Six Paths, he called Zetsu aside to quietly discuss resolving the Sage issue.
At this moment, Senju Hashirama approached.
His gaze swept across Madara before addressing Yasushi with extreme seriousness:
"I've heard about the Uchiha clan matter."
"This village I personally established did such excessive things to your clan."
Hashirama's gaze was extremely sincere, his attitude genuinely earnest. The pain on his face wasn't feigned but true heartfelt empathy.
"I know a simple 'I'm sorry' can't erase your suffering or return your clansmen."
"But I must still say—for my negligence back then, for the village's mistakes over these years—to you, to all wrongly killed Uchiha clansmen, I formally apologize."
"My deepest apologies. I'm sorry."
Hashirama dropped to the ground in dogeza—his prostrate position absolutely standard.
Before Yasushi could respond, Madara exploded first.
"Hashirama!"
"You're doing this again!"
"This clearly wasn't your error!"
"Whoever committed wrongs should bear responsibility!"
"What does you coming here to apologize accomplish?"
Madara charged forward, kicking Hashirama flying, pointing at him while scolding with disappointment:
"After so many years, you're still that pathetically spineless!"
"Since you know what those village bastards did, punish them!"
"Where did your decisive ruthlessness from before establishing the village go?"
"You're the God of Shinobi—stop constantly kneeling to people!"
"Display your proper spirit!"
"If I'd known establishing Konoha Village would shackle you like this, I never should have agreed to such useless endeavors!"
"What bullshit One Nation One Village system, what Tailed Beast balance... Aren't all the villages still slaughtering however they please? What essential difference exists from our era?"
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