In the pitch-black underground dungeon, under the dim light of an oil lamp, one could just barely see a naked and skinny man sitting in the water, his hands even shackled.

Uchiha Madara looked at the scene in front of him and asked in disbelief: "Is this really the Three-Tails' Jinchuriki?"

Black Zetsu replied respectfully, "That's him, Madara-sama."

Uchiha Madara still couldn't believe it and asked again: "What are they thinking about treating the Jinchūriki like this in the Hidden Mist Village?"

Black Zetsu was also helpless, and answered with his head down: "I don't know about this either, Madara-sama. It was because he didn't expect the Jinchūriki to be imprisoned in a water prison that White Zetsu searched the entire Mist Village but couldn't find him."

Uchiha Madara felt the chakra emitted by the living dead in front of him. It was indeed the special chakra of the Three-Tails, the kind of wind jutsu, water jutsu, and cold ice jutsu chakra.

He shook his head helplessly, confirming the identity of the Jinchūriki, but he couldn't understand the purpose of such an important abandonment and such a simple imprisonment.

"These rubbish in Kirigakure are really trash that are not worthy of being on the stage. I should have wiped them out in the beginning. If it weren't for the fact that Byakuren is still in good shape, there would be no need for Kirigakure to exist."

Uchiha Madara suddenly sneered: "Haha, it's also luck. If the five major ninja villages were like the Hidden Rock Village and the Hidden Cloud Village, I really wouldn't be able to find a breakthrough to implement my plan today."

He took half a step forward, but was forced back by the stench emanating from the Jinchuriki. He frowned and said, "This guy's body is already emitting a corpse stench. It's really troublesome."

"This dying Jinchūriki is really troublesome. While I'm hypnotizing the Three-Tails Isobu, I also have to spend energy to maintain the Jinchūriki's life, lest he die with the Three-Tails when I subdue the Three-Tails."

As he spoke, his eyes changed from black to three-magatama Sharingan, and then the three-magatama rotated and combined to evolve into a complex three-pointed pattern.

The terrifying and fiery pupil power exploded and instantly filled the entire water prison.

With Uchiha Madara as the center, the filthy water in the water dungeon retreated in a circle, and was even forced to surge up the wall, revealing the muddy ground.

The lower body of the dying Jinchūriki was revealed, and Uchiha Madara noticed that there were even thicker shackles covered with red rust on the ground, which firmly fixed the Jinchūriki's feet.

He couldn't help laughing and said sarcastically, "Hehe, it's locked so securely, it seems you really made quite a noise, Xiaojifu."

The Jinchūriki suddenly spoke, but his voice was very strange, as if he was speaking through a thick wall: "Strange Mangekyō Sharingan, you, you are the Uchiha from Konoha Village?"

Uchiha Madara: "I changed my eyes, but my pupil power has not changed. Can't you remember who I am?"

After a long silence, Isobu's voice sounded again: "...You should be dead, Uchiha Madara."

Although it still felt like there was a thick wall between them, the fear and trembling in his words could not be concealed at all, which made Uchiha Madara deeply satisfied. The corners of his mouth curled up: "I am indeed dead, but I still crawled out of hell. In order to save this ninja world, I need to use your power."

Isofu stopped talking, and the tailed beast chakra emanating from the Jinchuriki suddenly retracted, just like a turtle retracting its head and limbs, leaving only the hard shell outside.

"After so many years, we still just shrink when we encounter the enemy. There has been no progress at all."

"Don't worry. I won't kill you this time, but I won't peel you out of your shell either!"

The Jinchūriki's body trembled noticeably, as if the sealed Isofi thought that Uchiha Madara's words reminded him of the horror that was engraved in his mind.

Uchiha Madara's eyes released more and more powerful pupil power. Under his powerful control, all the pupil power gathered together and pierced into the eyes of the Jinchūriki like a pair of long swords.

The Jinchuriki opened his mouth and seemed to be screaming silently, but he was too weak. Not to mention screaming, he couldn't even tremble.

Uchiha Madara's eyes began to shed tears of blood. These were not his original eyes. Not only were they not convenient to use, they could not even withstand his powerful eye power.

He couldn't help but complain: "It's really troublesome. Not only do I have to protect the life of the Jinchūriki, but I also have to protect these fragile eyes."

The lackey Black Zetsu exclaimed: "Madara-sama's power is too strong. Only your own Rinnegan can withstand your great power."

Uchiha Madara smiled and said, "Haha, okay, I got you, Isobu."

Isobu's voice sounded again: "What do you want to do by catching me? Kill me? Haha, then I really have to thank you."

"No, killing you is the same as setting you free. You are still useful to me, so I won't kill you. I will use illusion to control you."

"Humph, a Jinchūriki cannot be controlled by illusions!"

"Indeed, it is common sense in the ninja world that a Jinchūriki cannot be controlled by illusions, but how can the common sense of the ignorant world restrain a genius?"

"Isobu, can your Jinchuriki still help you get rid of the genjutsu now?"

"If you and the Jinchūriki were both controlled by genjutsu, could you help each other break free at the same time?"

"And after I control you, I will erase your memory. You won't even know you're being controlled. How can you save yourself?"

"Do you think that your Jinchūriki is dying, and that you can get rid of everything just by dying once?"

"Haha, do you think my target is you now? Wrong, it's not you."

"My goal is for you to be sealed and become a stable Jinchūriki next time. Before that, you will forget that I have ever come to see you."

Isobu finally couldn't bear it anymore and uttered a desperate cry: "No..."

Uchiha Madara suddenly laughed wildly: "Hahahaha, he finally showed his head, I caught him!!"

The patterns in his eyes suddenly sped up, almost becoming a virtual shadow, and his pupil power burst out violently, rushing towards the Jinchūriki like a tide.

A few seconds later, Uchiha Madara, with tears and blood on his face, closed his Mangekyō Sharingan and breathed a tired sigh of relief. The dirty water that had been forced away flowed back and submerged the lower body of the Three-Tails Jinchūriki again.

After standing there for three full minutes, Uchiha Madara's breathing finally subsided. He wiped the traces of blood and tears on his face with a handkerchief and said with emotion: "It's finally done."

"Aging is really scary. Forty years ago, I subdued the Three-Tails with just a glance. Today, I just hypnotized you, but you almost ruined your Mangekyō Sharingan."

Black Zetsu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up: "Master Madara!"

Uchiha Madara was still immersed in his own feelings. He closed his eyes and asked casually: "Well, what's wrong?"

Black Zetsu looked towards the gate of the water prison and said, "The Third Mizukage is here."

Uchiha Madara's eyes suddenly opened, and he said in disbelief: "How is it possible? How could he escape from my illusion control?"

"Master Madara, shall we leave?"

Uchiha Madara did not answer, he just glanced at Black Zetsu.

Black Zetsu understood what he meant instantly. After spending so much effort to deal with the Three-Tails, Uchiha Madara would not allow the Third Mizukage to check it at will. After all, this man from the Snow Clan broke through his illusion control.

Even if there is a possibility, he must eliminate the risk.

Knowing that a battle was about to take place, he quietly sank into the shadows and disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, the door of the water prison was violently knocked open by the water column, revealing the figures of the Mizukage and six Anbu ninjas from the Hidden Mist Village. They were in an attack formation, blocking the entrance of the water prison.

The Anbu ninja who performed water escape first saw Uchiha Madara and shouted, "Who are you?"

The other ANBU ninjas were extremely surprised, and one of them even blurted out: "How dare someone sneak into the forbidden area of ​​our Hidden Mist Village!"

Uchiha Madara did not answer the question of the Kirigakure Anbu. He looked directly at the pale-faced Third Mizukage and asked, "How did you get rid of my illusion?"

"You are the Uchiha from Konoha Village, right?" the Third Mizukage asked with a sneer.

He stretched out his hand and unfolded a water mirror in his palm, which magically reflected his and Uchiha Madara's figures, but not the other six Anbu.

The Third Mizukage sneered and said, "Ever since the Uchiha family's Ninja Shura attacked the Hidden Mist Village, starting with the First Medo-sama, all the Mizukages have practiced this Water Style: Heart Mirror, reflecting themselves three times a day to break all illusions."

"Especially the Sharingan's illusion."

"I always thought this was an old and unnecessary habit, but I didn't expect that the Sharingan illusion could actually control the Kage. I didn't expect that the Konoha Village would be so crazy as to attack a Kage."

He shouted angrily, "Does Konoha Village think that this is still the era of gods and demons?"

Uchiha Madara laughed wildly, his laughter was a little hoarse and weak, but the wanton madness and heroic demeanor it conveyed made the Third Mizukage's face change drastically.

Uchiha Madara opened his Mangekyō Sharingan again and said in a cold voice: "This time, I will make you completely forget about the Water Mirror Technique and become my puppet obediently."

The Third Mizukage began to regret not informing more ninjas. He had never seen such a terrifying person. Even the First Mizukage, Byakuren, did not have such a terrifying aura.

He couldn't help but think that maybe if he brought three to five hundred ninjas to surround them, he wouldn't be so panicked.

He no longer dared to hesitate, and waved his hand forward, commanding: "Capture him, regardless of life or death!!"

The Anbu ninjas picked up their weapons with trembling hands and rushed towards Uchiha Madara recklessly. They shouted at the top of their lungs: "Kill!"

Uchiha Madara just said coldly: "Ant."

…

Uchiha Madara was supported by Black Zetsu as he left the Hidden Mist Village. He was so weak that his panting and the sound coming from his trachea could be heard from a long distance away.

"I'm old, really old. Killing six ninjas and controlling a Mizukage would tire me to death."

"If it were thirty years ago, I would have blocked the gates of the five major ninja villages and asked their Kage for the tailed beasts. I would have killed anyone who dared to resist, and if no one obeyed, I would have flattened the entire village."

"Alas, if I wasn't too old, how could I be hiding in the dark like a sewer rat, doing all this mess."

The Black Lord said in a playful manner: "Lord Madara, I hope the Mizukage will not break free from your control this time."

"Hehe, I didn't control the Mizukage. I just gave him two hints and a false memory. He will only know that he repelled an assassination attempt by a mysterious ninja, but he won't remember any of my information."

"From now on, he will no longer check his mental state. He will also follow my hints and deal with the Jinchuriki, seal the Three-Tails intact, and not approve any new Jinchuriki candidate."

"Madara-sama, since the Mizukage has been on guard against the Sharingan's hypnosis, will anyone else check on his mental state?"

"No one would do that. I beat him so badly that a thorough mental examination would kill him."

Black Zetsu praised in a very servile manner: "The Mizukage of the Hidden Mist Village is finished, Lord Madara is wise!"

Uchiha Madara said calmly: "What's so wise about this? This is proof that I'm powerless. I even helped that monkey Sarutobi."

Black Zetsu suddenly interrupted Uchiha Madara and said, "Lord Madara, we have to speed up."

"Without the Mangekyō Sharingan, the flesh and blood of Senju Hashirama has eroded you terribly, and the speed of fibrosis is too fast."

"Hashirama..."

Uchiha Madara touched his heart, muttering the name, and after a long time he said: "Let's go, let's go back as soon as possible."

…

Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo were walking happily on the sea, dragging a fresh, struggling octopus tentacle behind them.

During this month, Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo went to find trouble with the octopus every few days, beat it up, dug out a few octopus pearls, and cut off a leg and took it away.

The tentacle that was just cut off from the giant octopus was its last old tentacle.

Miwa Masayo said with some regret: "What a pity! How come octopuses only have eight legs? I won't be able to eat one for a long, long time."

Uchiha You laughed: "Be content, be content and you will always be happy, Lihua-chan."

"Besides, the octopus' legs have already regenerated. As long as we wait for a while until they are ripe, we will have octopus legs to eat again. We should be content."

"After eating this leg, we have to go back to hand over the mission and return to the Kingdom of Soup."

"I hate Yu-no-Kuni-nyan. There's a weird smell everywhere there that makes cats nervous."

"Strange, meow. I've never smelled this smell before, but it scares me."

Uchiha You said: "We still need to spend some time to study this problem, Lihua-chan, you are a cat fairy, and something that can make you scared and nervous must not be simple."

"No, meow. I don't want to study it. I think it's better to stay away from it."

"Don't avoid problems, otherwise they will continue to bother you and may even cause you psychological problems in the future."

"Don't meow, the cat fairy won't have psychological barriers."

Suddenly, Uchiha You stopped moving. He frowned and looked towards the southwest. Through the memory images transmitted by the disintegration of the shadow clone, he saw the ninja army of the Hidden Mist Village.

"New Year's Day is coming soon. Why are those bastards from the Hidden Mist Village making a big move at this time?"

"The Hidden Mist Village is mobilizing in large numbers, nyan?"

"There's no doubt about it. There are fifteen large ships and more than a hundred small boats, all of which are densely packed with ninjas. There are at least five or six thousand ninjas. It must be a large-scale deployment."

Miwa Masayo was stunned. She turned her head and looked behind her: "What about our octopus legs?"

“We grilled it as we went and ate it on the way.”

"Octopus legs don't have fat, so grilling them isn't as good as grilling them."

"Stop complaining and let's go."

In fact, the two sides were still far apart. Uchiha You's shadow clone saw the location of the Kirigakure Ninja army, which was within the territory of the Land of Water. It would take at least a whole day for a sailing ship to sail from there to the Land of Hot Spring.

He and Miwa Masayo had enough time to return to the uninhabited island, eat the grilled octopus in peace, and then return to the Land of Hot Springs to report the news.

But at this time, every minute gained by calling the police in Konoha Village may save the life of a Konoha ninja.

Although Uchiha You has no sense of belonging to Konoha Village, he doesn't know how many lives of Konoha ninjas were sacrificed in exchange for a peaceful meal for himself. He is not so cold-blooded.

A few hours later, Orochimaru received information about Uchiha Yuu, and all Konoha ninjas were mobilized and began to prepare for battle.

In the Konoha Ninja Army's camp, there were ninjas running at high speed everywhere, and the scene was in chaos.

Uchiha You didn't like this atmosphere. After handing over the mission and intelligence, he took Miwa Masayo and hid in the most remote corner of the camp.

The organizational form of the Ninja Corps is completely different from that of Blue Star. A commander like Orochimaru does not actually directly command the entire army. After he has conceived a tactic, he will break it down into different tasks.

Orochimaru will entrust the key tasks in the mission to his direct subordinates to ensure the realization of tactical intentions and the advancement of the battle.

Most of the less critical missions will be sent to the mission center, allowing ordinary ninja teams to take them up on their own initiative based on their own circumstances.

It’s not that Orochimaru doesn’t want to directly command everyone, but that the ninja army does not have a corresponding management system and there are no basic conditions for direct command at all.

Although Orochimaru is the supreme commander, the organizational unit he is in charge of is actually a ninja team of three to four people.

In the Land of Hot Springs, the Konohagakure Ninja Army has more than two thousand ninja teams of varying sizes, and their conditions change almost every hour. How do you expect Orochimaru to give direct command?

If we organize larger-scale squadrons of thirty people and battalions of one hundred people, or even larger-scale detachments of five or six hundred people like ordinary people's armies, we will need more than three hundred commanders at all levels to manage these ninjas.

Among the tens of thousands of ninjas in Konoha Village, there are a lot of team commanders, but there are only a few who can command thirty people, and there are even fewer commanders who can command a hundred or even thousands of people in battle.

To put it bluntly, Danzo Shimura couldn't even command a hundred men in battle. He simply had no such experience.

Without enough qualified commanders, if a multi-level organization is forcibly established, there will be problems such as bloated organization and ineffective command, which will not be conducive to the ninja's combat effectiveness.

On the contrary, it is the mission mode that ninjas are most familiar with, which is more conducive to ninjas to exert their combat effectiveness.