Mountain Graveyard, Madara Uchiha's Last Gasp!

Northern Land of Fire, Mountain Graveyard!

This place was filled with continuous mountain ranges and sheer cliffs. Desolate and barren, it was almost entirely devoid of human traces.

Yet no one knew.

That the Ghost of the Ninja World, who had once made the entire Ninja World tremble in fear, one of Konoha's founders, Madara Uchiha—

Beneath Mountain Graveyard lay an incomparably vast underground space.

This was Madara Uchiha's hiding place.

At this moment, Madara Uchiha, frail with age and on the verge of death, sat in a white chair with his eyes closed, resting.

Behind him stood the massive, grotesque husk of the Ten-Tails, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. White tubes pierced into Madara Uchiha's body one after another, supplying him with life force.

"Lord Madara, this is terrible!"

Just as Madara Uchiha rested with his eyes closed, a White Zetsu with a spiral-shaped head emerged from the ground and cried out in panic.

Awakened by the noise, Madara Uchiha's brow creased almost imperceptibly. His hunched body straightened slightly as he faced the direction of the voice with his eyes still closed.

"Speak!"

Madara Uchiha parted his lips weakly and spoke without strength.

"Lord Madara, we've finished investigating what you asked us to look into.

The reason the Third Shinobi World War ended was entirely because of a visitor from beyond the world!"

The spiral-headed White Zetsu gestured exaggeratedly as he spoke, his voice filled with shock and curiosity.

"Hm? A visitor from beyond the world?!"

Madara Uchiha's previous indifference turned into seriousness.

"That's right, Lord Madara! A few days ago, a spherical spaceship descended from the sky. A Saiyan brat stepped out of it..." The spiral-headed White Zetsu vividly recounted every piece of information he had gathered to Madara Uchiha.

Madara Uchiha slowly opened his eyes. His eye sockets were hollow, with no eyeballs within them.

Yet the spiral mask could still sense that Madara Uchiha was looking directly at him.

"Tobi, are you sure you haven't fallen under a genjutsu?"

Madara Uchiha lowered his head with difficulty and looked toward the spiral-masked Tobi, his expression carrying a trace of strangeness.

"Lord Madara, I can say with absolute certainty that I haven't fallen under a genjutsu. Also, three days ago, the Saiyan Ato held a Five Kage Summit and plans to hold a Martial Arts Tournament in one month.

The Saiyan Ato also asked us to notify you and invite Lord Madara to participate in the Martial Arts Tournament.

But judging by how half-dead you look now, Lord Madara, you probably won't live to see a month from now."

Tobi's incessant chatter made Madara Uchiha, whose mind had grown somewhat sluggish, increasingly irritated.

"Shut up, Tobi. If you say another word, I'll take your life."

Scolded by Madara Uchiha, Tobi immediately covered his mouth in terror.

Meanwhile, Madara Uchiha processed the information Tobi had just reported.

The Saiyan Ato.

Planet Vegeta.

The North Galaxy.

The Martial Arts Tournament.

Madara Uchiha's aged, lifeless heart suddenly began beating steadily and powerfully.

"Interesting, truly interesting! So the world is this vast?

I really was a frog at the bottom of a well!"

Madara Uchiha suddenly burst into wild laughter. Ato's appearance had made him feel excitement and exhilaration he had not experienced in a long time.

He had long felt that the Ninja World was far too small, so small that it was only enough for him alone to stir up.

But now, an even more vast world had been laid before Madara Uchiha, filling him with excitement.

"Tobi, what is Nagato Uzumaki doing now?"

After his brief excitement, Madara Uchiha wiped the sweat from his forehead.

His emotional agitation just now had accelerated the consumption of his life force.

He felt that he already had one foot in the grave.

He had little life force left.

"Nagato Uzumaki is still developing his Akatsuki Organization according to his ideals of peace. Lord Madara, it's not that I want to speak ill of Nagato, but I don't think an idealist like him is suited to carrying out the Eye of the Moon Plan you devised."

As Tobi reported on Nagato's situation, he muttered in a low voice, "Lord Madara, I think Nagato may very well give up his own life for the sake of his ideals."

"Shut up, Tobi!"

Under Madara Uchiha's icy rebuke, Tobi instantly fell silent.

"I've changed my mind. We won't carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan for the time being."

Madara Uchiha's words left Tobi frozen on the spot.

"Huh? Lord Madara, are you planning to participate in the Saiyan Ato's Martial Arts Tournament?"

Madara Uchiha ignored Tobi.

He truly did intend to participate in the Martial Arts Tournament.

However, with his current aged body, he likely could not last until one month later.

So, he planned to go to the Uchiha Clan in Konoha, find a suitable agent, and focus on cultivating them.

Then, he would have them use the Sharingan to control Nagato and activate Rinne Rebirth, completely reviving him.

As for why he would not simply go find Nagato himself.

Naturally, it was because he could not defeat Nagato.

If Madara Uchiha had been in his prime, even ten Nagatos would not have been his match.

But Madara Uchiha was now over a hundred years old. His body had long decayed, and he could barely wield much of his strength.

At this stage, Nagato, who possessed the Rinnegan, had not yet reached his peak, but his strength still placed him above the entire Ninja World.

Having made up his mind, Madara Uchiha looked toward Tobi beside him.

"Tobi, bring me my eyes."

"Yes, Lord Madara!"

Tobi sprinted toward the nearby laboratory at a hundred-meter dash speed.

Inside the laboratory, dozens of scarlet Sharingan were arranged neatly. From one tomoe to three tomoe, every kind was available.

After picking through them, Tobi finally chose a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

"This is my eye. Lord Madara only needs a Two-Tomoe Sharingan."

Looking at the Three-Tomoe Sharingan in his hand, Tobi scratched his head. Then his spiral head opened up and directly swallowed the eye inside.

When the spiral closed again, a scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan had appeared within the hollow where Tobi's eye should have been.

"Handsome!"

Tobi smugly stroked the Three-Tomoe Sharingan in his eye. His bearing changed, and his tone became incomparably deep.

"My name is Madara Uchiha!

Do you want to dance too?

You insignificant dust, you cannot compare to me in the slightest!!"

Tobi's imitation of Madara Uchiha's mannerisms was almost perfect.

"Tobi!"

Madara Uchiha's voice instantly snapped Tobi out of it.

"Lord Madara, coming right up!"

Tobi casually grabbed two Two-Tomoe Sharingan and hurried over to Madara Uchiha.

Madara Uchiha directly picked up the Two-Tomoe Sharingan and roughly shoved them into his eye sockets.

The Two-Tomoe Sharingan rapidly spun within his eye sockets.

The Sharingan was plug-and-play, truly the strongest cheat add-on in the Ninja World.

Boom!

After transplanting the Sharingan into himself, Madara Uchiha's aged body immediately regained a trace of vitality.

Immense chakra surged madly from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path into Madara Uchiha's body.

Madara Uchiha closed his eyes. The instant he opened them again—

The original Two-Tomoe Sharingan immediately began evolving at high speed.

Three tomoe, Mangekyō Sharingan.

Then they transformed into Madara Uchiha's original straight-patterned Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!

Although Madara Uchiha's eyes had been transplanted into Nagato, that did not mean he could not use the power of his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. (See Edo Madara.)

Madara Uchiha and the Uchiha Clan were two entirely different things.

After evolving his Sharingan into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Madara Uchiha could still activate his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan even with ordinary Sharingan.

Boom!

A terrifying ocular power erupted from Madara Uchiha's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

The aura of someone on the verge of death gradually faded from Madara Uchiha's body as well.

From within his decaying body, Madara Uchiha felt strength he had not experienced in a long time.

However, this state could not last for long.

Ordinary Two-Tomoe Sharingan could not withstand the immense ocular power of Madara Uchiha's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

"Tobi!"

Madara Uchiha's aged face turned toward Tobi in front of him, and he slowly rose to his feet.

As he stood, the tubes behind him snapped one after another.

Tobi transformed into a White Zetsu coat, wrapping Madara Uchiha completely within it.

A white spiral mask covered Madara Uchiha's aged face.

"Tobi, take me to Konoha."

Hidden beneath the White Zetsu coat, Madara Uchiha deactivated his Sharingan and gave Tobi the order.

"As you command, Lord Madara!" Tobi replied, then prepared to activate White Zetsu's ability and sink underground.

However, before Tobi could activate his ability—

A massive explosion instantly engulfed Madara Uchiha's base.

Then a blinding flash appeared before Tobi's eyes.

Rumble!

Amid a tremendous explosion, the mountain and ground above Madara Uchiha's underground base were instantly erased.

The entire underground base began to shake violently.

As the tremors continued, the underground base, once buried hundreds of meters beneath the earth, was completely exposed to the outside world.

Tobi blankly looked up. The entire underground base had become an open-air structure.

Above Madara Uchiha's base stood a figure clad in golden battle armor.

"Lord Madara, this is terrible! The Saiyans... the Saiyans are here!"