Madara Uchiha Attacks

Uchiha Yan opened her eyes once more inside a tree hollow in the Forest of Death.

She leapt onto the treetop and looked toward Naka Shrine again.

A year had passed, and she had gotten the power of the Mangekyō Sharingan as she wished. But she still had to endure patiently until she stabilized the Mangekyō Sharingan, then go duel Uchiha Chiri.

This was not cowardice, but a rational judgment based on reality.

"Anyway, first I'll become a demigod!" Uchiha Yan flashed away, disappearing into the Forest of Death beneath the cover of night.

A light rain fell beneath the skies of the Land of Lightning.

Dark clouds covered the sky, and thunder rumbled.

A man clad in crimson armor, carrying the Flame Gunbai on his back, entered the Underground Gold Exchange with a ninja corpse in one hand. When he emerged, he carried a heavy bag of money in one hand and an intelligence scroll in the other.

This man was none other than Madara Uchiha.

He returned to the cave where he was staying, leaned half his body against the edge of the wall, and slowly spread the scroll across the ground.

The scroll recorded recent developments and secret reports from across the Shinobi World.

Information in the Shinobi World was heavily guarded and slow to travel, making it time-consuming and laborious to gather. Even someone as powerful as Madara Uchiha could only buy intelligence from the Underground Gold Exchange when he was alone. If he wanted detailed information about a particular country, he had to pay extra.

Madara Uchiha had specifically paid more for expanded intelligence on Konoha and the Tailed Beasts.

After seeing the contents of the scroll clearly, he threw back his head and laughed, nearly to the point of tears.

"Ha ha ha...