Hei Zetsu moved quickly through the cracks in the rocks, following the winding crevices and avoiding the dense spider-web-like forks in the road with familiarity.

Soon he came to a spacious underground hall.

Uchiha Madara was sitting on a high-backed stone chair in the middle of the hall. He had his eyes slightly closed, his right hand on the armrest, supporting his head, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

When I saw Uchiha Madara who was as calm as water, I couldn't help but feel my heart skip a beat.

He was very familiar with this man and could tell at a glance that this guy was angry and so angry that he couldn't speak.

Black Zetsu couldn't help but take a breath. Could something else have happened?

At this time, Uchiha Madara had already seen the figure of Black Zetsu. He raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked over with his scarlet Sharingan, staring at him intently.

It was not until Black Zetsu stood uncomfortably under the murderous gaze that Uchiha Madara asked in a low voice, "Where is Uchiha Obito?"

Black Zetsu felt as if he had been pardoned when he heard this. He quickly lowered his head and answered carefully: "Lord Madara, I am really sorry. Uchiha Obito was killed and I was unable to save him."

Hearing this, Uchiha Madara's eyes twitched, and he was obviously very angry and dissatisfied.

But for some reason, he controlled his anger and continued to ask calmly: "I remember your plan was to replace the Sand Ninjas who surrounded and killed Obito one by one, and you would not really let Obito die."

"Who killed Uchiha Obito?"

Black Zetsu lowered his head even more, and he answered timidly: "It's the new head of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Yuu."

"He suddenly went deep into the battlefield without any warning and arrived at the scene of the accident at the critical moment."

Black Zetsu's voice got a little louder: "For some reason, he didn't even try to rescue Uchiha Obito. He just said a few simple words and suddenly thrust his kunai into Obito's heart."

"His actions had no warning at all. I… before I could react, Obito was dead."

Uchiha Madara remained silent. The situation that Black Zetsu described was indeed very strange.

Given Black Zetsu's concealment and forgery skills, it was incredible that the head of the Uchiha clan would get the information and come to rescue Obito in person.

What's even more strange is why he killed Obito when he saw that he was seriously injured?

Uchiha Madara couldn't understand Uchiha You's motives. He looked at Black Zetsu's empty hands, frowned and asked: "You didn't even recover Obito's body?"

Black Zetsu glanced at Uchiha Madara secretly and answered carefully: "No, after Uchiha You killed Obito, he quickly used the Scorch Release Ninjutsu to burn Obito's body into ashes, and then gave it to Obito's teammates to take away."

"I checked carefully, and it was indeed burned to ashes, not a disguise of illusion."

This made Uchiha Madara even more puzzled. Uchiha You suddenly killed Obito and couldn't wait to burn his body into ashes. It was simply inexplicable.

Seeing Uchiha Madara's distressed thoughts, Black Zetsu couldn't help but persuade him: "Madara-sama, Obito is dead, and there are so many ninjas in the Uchiha clan, we can just pick another one."

"Before, they were hiding in Konoha Village, and White Zetsu and I couldn't get close to them. But now they are all in River Country, so it won't be difficult to get one of them."

"It's impossible that this new Uchiha clan leader can stop my actions every time, right?"

Uchiha Madara sneered: "Although you are separated from my soul, there are some things you don't know. Obito is a unique Uchiha that I carefully selected."

Black Zetsu muttered in his heart: [Uchiha Madara is really crazy, what secrets of the Uchiha clan do I not know? ]

"Is Obito a unique Uchiha?" A White Zetsu who had been monitoring Obito emerged from under the floor and said, "Madara-sama, what's so special about Obito? Is he uniquely stupid?"

Black Zetsu recalled and found that what White Zetsu said was right. Uchiha Obito was indeed a rare idiot with poor strength and even worse brains.

Uchiha Madara said disdainfully: "What do you know?"

"Uchiha Obito's talent is not in ninjutsu, but in his heart."

"He is the kindest person in the Uchiha world, full of love for his family, teammates, friends, and classmates!"

"Especially that little girl Lin, Obito's love for her is beyond your imagination..."

"Uchiha Obito's physical talent is actually not bad. Add to that his heart full of love, and he will be a great seed for the Mangekyō Sharingan."

"As long as he sees the tragic death of his beloved little girl, his deep love will be transformed into the deepest malice, and become the decisive factor in the awakening of the Mangekyō Sharingan."

[Love is the key to awakening the Sharingan? Why don’t I know this? ]

The originally disdainful Black Zetsu was suddenly stunned. He remembered that before Obito was seriously injured, when he saw that Rin was in danger, he opened his eyes and actually gained double magatama Sharingan in one fell swoop.

This is an unprecedented miracle, enough to prove that Uchiha Obito's talent far exceeds that of other Uchiha.

Moreover, he angrily opened his double magatama Sharingan just because he saw Lin in danger. What if Lin died in front of him?

Mangekyō Sharingan... is very likely to awaken, Uchiha Obito is really talented, and what Uchiha Madara said is actually right!

It's incredible that this idiot Madara knows something that Black Zetsu doesn't know...

Black Zetsu lowered his head and said respectfully: "Master Madara's judgment is very accurate. When the little girl was in danger today, Uchiha Obito suddenly awakened the Sharingan, and it was a double magatama Sharingan."

Uchiha Madara was also stunned when he heard this, and murmured: "When he opened his eyes, he had two magatama. Is his talent so strong?"

"With such a great talent and such a stupid brain, Uchiha Obito was really the perfect tool. How could he be killed?"

“What a shame.”

Black Zetsu said: "Lord Madara, if the Uchiha with love in his heart is the most suitable, Uchiha Shisui seems to be more suitable for your needs than Obito, why don't we bring Shisui back?"

"Uchiha Shisui is the grandson of Uchiha Kagami, right?"

"I remember you talking about him. He is indeed a better candidate, but he is too young. We have to wait at least another five years."

"I may not have so many years left."

The strong Uchiha Madara finally couldn't help but sigh. He was 77 years old this year.

In his long life, he experienced countless battles, was injured more times than he fought, and there was no telling how many hidden injuries he had in his body.

Especially in the battle with Senju Hashirama in the Valley of the End, he was seriously injured and died. Although he escaped death with the help of Izanagi, his body was almost broken down.

After that, Uchiha Madara forcibly fused Hashirama's cells and spent more than 20 years to nurture the Rinnegan. His body was already exhausted and not even enough to support the Rinnegan's final development.

Therefore, he had to put the Rinnegan in Nagato's eyes, allowing him to complete the final nourishment on his behalf.

This is the Rinnegan. How could he give it to someone else if he wasn't completely helpless?

Even if he could steal Nagato's chakra and vitality through the Outer Path Statue, Uchiha Madara knew that his broken body could not hold on any longer.

Thinking of Uchiha Obito's talent and intelligence, Uchiha Madara couldn't help but regret that he should have put more effort into protecting Obito.

Now, it's too late to regret.

Suddenly, Uchiha Madara felt a shock all over his body.

His intuition told him that the current head of the Uchiha clan was strange and was likely targeting him.

Without any reason, Uchiha Madara just thought so based on his intuition.

From this perspective, he began to rethink the information Black Zetsu told him.

Soon Uchiha Madara discovered something was wrong. If he looked at it from the perspective that Uchiha You was targeting him, everything he did just happened to hinder his goal.

Especially the unreasonable burning of the corpse into ashes, which can be said to have shattered his last chance of getting Uchiha Obito.

Uchiha Madara couldn't help but be shocked. Could it be that this junior knew of his existence, or even knew of his purpose and goals?

This is impossible...

At any other time, Uchiha Madara would never be so thoughtful, worried and anxious.

But today was really unlucky for him. He had just received some bad news, and before he had time to digest it, he learned about Uchiha Obito's failure.

Such consecutive failures seemed like someone was targeting him, so Uchiha Madara had to think more and consider it more carefully.

But to be honest, he's really not good at this.

Even if Uchiha Madara could be patient and sit there thinking about random things, he would already have a splitting headache.

Although his intuition was correct, Uchiha Madara still lacked confidence in his intuition at this time.

Finally he sighed and said to Black Zetsu: "Even if you succeed in bringing Uchiha Obito back, I will not be able to carry out the Mangekyō Awakening Plan."

He looked at Black Zetsu and spoke word by word: "The illusion I cast on the Fourth Mizukage of the Hidden Mist Village was broken, and Karatachi Yagura himself is also dead."

"Without these tools from the Hidden Mist Village, how can I catch that little girl named Lin?"

"Without capturing Rin, it will be impossible for Obito to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan!"

"My plan has completely failed!"

"Black Zetsu! Tell me, why is this happening?"

"Who is secretly plotting against me?"

Uchiha Madara became more and more excited as he spoke. His voice gradually became higher and higher, and in the end he even broke his voice with a roar.

Black Zetsu was really shocked at this time. The layout of the Hidden Mist Village actually failed!

On the same day, in two countries thousands of kilometers apart, his and Uchiha Madara's plans failed at the same time.

And they were all irreparable and complete failures.

Even Black Zetsu couldn't help but wonder if there really was someone secretly watching them and targeting them.

At this time, the White Zetsu could no longer bear it and popped their heads out, chattering and starting to discuss.

But White Zetsu's IQ was really limited. After a few sentences of discussion, he strayed into the eternal topic of "the feeling of eating and pooping", which gave Uchiha Madara even more headache.

Faced with this group of noisy guys, Uchiha Madara soon became impatient.

Just when he was about to kill a few White Zetsu to teach them a lesson, he suddenly felt the hall vibrate.

Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu turned their heads almost at the same time, but they looked at opposite angles, and then shouted at the same time: "Not good!"

boom--

The huge underground hall collapsed, and the broken rocks buried everything.

…

"Bang!"

Along with Uchiha You's soft voice, with him as the center, five kilometers away, streams of smoke rose into the sky, forming a circular explosion dust.

Then, a second circular explosion slightly closer sent smoke and dust rising into the sky, followed by the third and fourth.

Layer upon layer of explosions formed layers of dust and smoke, like a giant's high wall pushing inward layer by layer, causing fear and despair.

Two seconds after the first explosion, the earth began to shake.

Another 14 seconds later, the roar of the explosion was heard.

The explosions were so dull, yet so dense.

Moreover, the explosions progressed layer by layer from far to near, so the sounds of the explosions overlapped each other and the sound waves continued to overlap.

The deafening explosion gradually disappeared because the vibration frequency exceeded the range of hearing and formed extremely destructive ultrasonic waves.

The rocks and trees around Uchiha You cracked and disintegrated in the invisible vibrations, and finally turned into fragments no more than 2 cm in length.

When the explosion was only 100 meters away from Uchiha Yu, it finally stopped.

The world suddenly became extremely quiet.

The rubble and debris that were thrown high into the sky by the explosion fell back to the ground, with a sound as rapid as a torrential rain, but this could not change the feeling of peace.

Uchiha You shook his head, opened his Sharingan, and looked in a direction in the smoke.

"Tsk, the Shura of the Ninja World, Uchiha Madara, has actually gotten used to hiding himself?"

"Humph! You know my name, Uchiha Madara, and yet you still dare to speak so rudely."

Uchiha Madara walked out of the smoke, with a spiral mask on his face and a long black hose trailing behind him, like... like a scaled-down version of EVA.

Uchiha Madara was of course very unhappy about being forced out of his hiding place. What's more, as soon as he showed his head, he heard the other party's rude ridicule, which made him even angrier.

Uchiha Madara stared at Uchiha You fiercely with a pair of red Mangekyō Sharingan, and said with murderous intent: "Is the younger generation of the Uchiha clan so arrogant?"

Uchiha You blinked, opened his Mangekyō Sharingan as well, and glared back without any mercy.

He grinned and said, "It's not that I'm arrogant, it's that you're too weak, former clan leader."

There was a loud bang.

Uchiha You appeared in front of Uchiha Madara, and his fist aimed at Madara's head was blocked by the other party's bent elbow.

At the same time, they each held a short weapon in their other hands and fought fiercely. The attacks and blocks of the sophisticated weapons were so intensive that the sound of metal clashing was completely connected into a long sound.

Brilliant sparks appeared densely, and the two pairs of shaking Mangekyō Sharingan couldn't help but squint.

In addition, there was terrifying silver lightning between the two of them, which was the result of the collision of their pupil powers.

Finally, both sides' Mangekyō Sharingan stared at each other closely.

The patterns in the Sharingan spun rapidly, and both sides released countless illusions, attacking each other's minds from all angles.

In such a fierce battle, as long as the opponent shows a trance, the victory or defeat will be decided, and life or death will also be determined.

But both sides have extremely powerful dynamic vision and the most sophisticated copy eyes, so their fighting methods are surprisingly consistent.

After using all means of attack, they were actually evenly matched.

The sudden surprise attack did not work and turned into a close stalemate.

Such a close distance and such a fierce fight, although it did not last long, made both of them feel the hair stand on end.

The fear of death forced itself upon the two men at the same time, filling their hearts with terror and inspiring endless murderous intent.

Uchiha Yu and Uchiha Madara both understood that today's battle would be a fight to the death, and one of them must die.

The two men exerted force at the same time and kicked each other, finally ending the most dangerous close combat.

Uchiha You looked at the Dao Fa Zi Ran Kunai in his hand and threw the tattered kunai away.

He said with emotion: "I finally understand what it feels like for other ninjas to fight against us Uchiha..."

"It feels terrible to fight a Kaleidoscope of the same level."

Uchiha Madara chuckled and said, "I feel the same way."

"But I am really old. If I were twenty years younger, you would have died just now."

Uchiha You said disdainfully: "Do you think I used all my strength just now?"

"If your weapon wasn't too strong and I couldn't use it, you would be the one who died given your old arms and legs."

Uchiha Madara deliberately raised the black short spear in his hand, showing the intact weapon to Uchiha You.

He said in a provocative tone, "Weapons are also part of strength. Young man, you can't afford to lose, right?"

Uchiha You touched his chin. At the age of 19, the hair on his chin finally began to harden, and it was very itchy when he rubbed it.

He looked at Uchiha Madara with strange eyes and asked doubtfully: "My impression of the Shura in the ninja world is that they don't talk so much."

"I always thought you were the kind of person who didn't care about life or death and would fight back if you didn't agree. But it turns out you're just a chatterbox."

"I know you are using words in conjunction with the Sharingan illusion to try to undermine my determination to fight."

“But this is not the scene I expected.”

"Ban, I have been looking forward to such a scene for a long time. You stop me and say, 'Do you want to dance too?', and then I answer, 'Yes, let's see who is the dance king', let's have a battle to decide the winner, and also decide life and death."

"How romantic..."

"Unfortunately, the fantasy was shattered."

Uchiha Madara had a gloomy face, said nothing, and silently raised the black thorn in his hand.

This made Uchiha You even more arrogant. He looked at Uchiha Madara with his nose, pointed his finger at his nose, and laughed loudly.

"A coward! Uchiha Madara actually admitted his cowardice without being arrogant!"

"What a strange news in the world!"

"Madara, how did you end up like this?"

"Is it the decline of strength or the aging of mentality?"

He patted his muscular chest and said with a smile: "Fortunately, I am still young and will never experience this terrible aging."

Age and health are Uchiha Madara's weaknesses, and when Uchiha You provoked him from this angle, he could no longer bear it.

Uchiha Madara stepped forward and attacked, swinging the black thorn.

At the same time, he shouted, "You will never feel old? That's absolutely right. After I kill you, you will never feel old again!"