The Otsutsuki Road from Kirigakure

At the end of Kirigakure 27, after completing all the tasks he needed to do in the town, Seiji prepared to leave.

After putting all the necessary items that he had purchased in the town into storage scrolls, Qingsi embarked on a journey to the Hidden Mist Village.

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In the Frost Kingdom, in the mountain cemetery, deep underground, there was a huge cave where an old man was sitting.

His hair was standing up like a hedgehog. His originally flowing long hair had become dry and pale. His wrinkled face, bloodless cheeks, and cloudy eyes all indicated that the old man's life was about to come to an end.

The old man was none other than Uchiha Madara, the Shura of the Ninja World back then.

In the battle of the Valley of the End, Uchiha Madara was defeated by Senju Hashirama, but he had calculated Senju Tobirama's deep malice towards the Uchiha clan. As a scientific research expert, Tobirama would not destroy the body of the strongest Uchiha in order to study the secrets of the Uchiha clan. So before the war, he set the Uchiha's life-threatening forbidden technique Izanagi in his right eye through transcription seal. After the war, as expected, Tobirama secretly hid Uchiha Madara's body in the back mountain of Konoha, trying to study the secrets of the Sharingan.

In the end, at the cost of the Eternal Mangekyō in his right eye losing its light, Madara rewrote reality and was resurrected. He disguised his shadow clone as a corpse and left Konoha quietly.

After his resurrection, Uchiha Madara began to strive to realize his ideals.

In the previous battle with Hashirama Senju, Madara bit off a piece of flesh from Hashirama. After resurrection, he spat out the flesh and transplanted it to the wound, thus successfully obtaining Hashirama's cells. As the degree of cell fusion gradually deepened, the face of Hashirama Senju appeared on Madara's left chest. Uchiha Madara, who did not compete with Uzumaki Mito, was together with his good friend Hashirama Senju forever in another way.

"Two mutually repelling forces, when combined into one, give rise to the myriad things in the universe." When Hashirama Senju's Wood Release power and Uchiha Madara's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan power are combined, they can gain the power of the myriad things in the universe. This is Uchiha Madara's understanding of the records on the stone tablet left behind by the so-called Six Paths Sage.

However, after transplanting Hashirama's cells, although Madara could feel his strength gradually increasing, and even later mastered the Wood Release that no other Senju clan member could master, the expected power of the universe never came into being.

As time passed, Uchiha Madara, who was over 60 years old, gradually felt that he was no longer able to do what he wanted. The various hidden injuries accumulated from frequent battles in his youth gradually affected his body, and his strength began to decline. In desperation, in the last few years of his life, Madara returned to the base under the mountain cemetery, quietly waiting for the call of the Pure Land.

In his mind, Uchiha Madara's eventful life flashed by quickly like a movie, and all the details of his love-hate relationship with Senju Hashirama passed by one scene after another. Madara, who was 71 years old, knew that his time had come.

At this moment, the cells of Hashirama implanted in Madara's body finally merged with his own cells at the genetic level. Thousands of years later, the chakras of Indra and Ashura were perfectly intertwined, leading to a strand of chakra with the characteristics of the Six Paths. As soon as this chakra appeared, the total amount increased rapidly, and at the same time, it circulated rapidly in Madara's body involuntarily, and finally rushed to the meridians at his eyes.

Madara opened his eyes wide, his right eye was gray, but the Sharingan in his left eye appeared automatically, and three black magatama began to spin rapidly, then connected together and automatically turned into the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. The Sharingan spun faster and faster, the red gradually faded, a hint of purple emerged, and then quickly expanded, ripples appeared on the eyeball, and Madara's Samsara Eye appeared!

"Hahahahahahaha!" The old but hearty laughter echoed throughout the cave.

Uchiha Madara, who was nearing the end of his life, finally opened his Rinnegan in the last moments of his life.

"Summoning technique!" Madara put his hands together as if instinctively, then slapped his right hand hard towards the opposite side, and a huge amount of chakra burst out.

"Bang!" Huge white smoke filled the entire cave. After the smoke dissipated, a huge humanoid monster with nine eyes and the color and body of a dead tree appeared behind Madara, with ten column-like protrusions behind it.

"Outer Path Golem?" The name of the monster behind him naturally emerged in Madara's mind.

"Roar!" The golem that had just escaped from the seal on the moon roared, as if venting its dissatisfaction with being sealed, or perhaps venting its anger at being forcibly divided and losing the power of the nine tailed beasts.

Madara made the "Wei" seal with both hands and began to control the golem. Under his control, the golem gradually stopped moving, stretched out a few things that were probably tubes, and inserted them into Madara's back.

Madara, who received the life force from the golem, survived, while Black Zetsu, who had been lurking nearby for many years and was already in despair, stared at Uchiha Madara's Rinnegan with surprise.

"Mom, I finally see hope, the Rinnegan finally appears!" Black Zetsu, who had been working hard for this for a thousand years, was extremely excited and began to secretly plan the follow-up actions.

Madara, who awakened the Rinnegan, also rekindled hope. The resurrection technique contained in the Rinnegan, called "Geido Samsara No Jutsu", gave him the confidence to continue implementing what he believed in as a peace plan.

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At the same time that Uchiha Madara awakened the Rinnegan, over in the Land of Water, Seiji, who had just embarked on his journey, looked towards the northwest in confusion.

"A familiar smell." Qingsi murmured.

After thinking about it carefully, Qingsi showed a look of sudden realization.

"This aura seems to be the Rinnegan, a bit like that of Otsutsuki Hagoromo." Isshiki, who had watched up close the two battles in which the Otsutsuki brothers sealed Kaguya and Indra fought against Ashura, was no stranger to the aura of Otsutsuki Hagoromo and his two sons.

"It seems that it was done by that black guy named Black Zetsu, so the one who awakened the Rinnegan should be Uchiha Madara!" Qingsi instantly thought of the consciousness body that Kaguya differentiated before being completely sealed in the memory scene, and also thought of the scene in his previous life where Black Zetsu and Uchiha Madara were opening their hearts to each other.

"It's getting more and more interesting, the windmill of the ninja world has started to turn!" Qingsi smiled, then suppressed his thoughts, ignored it, and continued to move towards the direction of the Hidden Mist Village. After all, his top priority now is to digest Isshiki's gift and accelerate his own growth.

Three months later, in the spring of the 28th year of Kirigakure, Kiyoshi, who had been traveling all the way, arrived at Kirigakure Village.

The 9-year-old Qingsi is now 150cm tall. After several months of rest and recuperation, his body has received sufficient nutrition and he is no longer as thin as before.

Taking out the identity certificate that he had asked Kankinso's men to issue him when he passed through the capital of the Land of Water, Qingsi walked confidently towards the gate of the Hidden Mist Village.