Trees Chapter 352 Madara; I... How Many Years Have I Been Dead?

"Resurrection Cross?"

After opening the Main God's store, Madara immediately searched for the resurrection item mentioned by these people earlier.

Coincidentally, the Captain's account had enough points to exchange for it four times.

Madara didn’t choose to resurrect himself first.

After all, if he were to revive now, without his eyes, he’d be better off remaining in his Edo Tensei form.

Next...

He planned to retrieve his Rinnegan.

Snap…

After staring at the wristwatch for a long time, Madara decisively strapped it onto his wrist.

Beep beep beep...

The Main God didn’t seem to detect this operation and even automatically registered the new wearer.

[New wearer detected... Successfully inherited the reincarnation points...]

[Injecting micro-bomb... Injection failed... Injection failed!]

The moment Madara put on the wristwatch, he sensed a foreign object appearing on the back of his neck.

He reached out and pulled it out.

After repeating this six times, the Main God’s wristwatch kept reporting errors… it seemed this was the first time it had encountered such a situation.

Ten minutes later...

A text input box popped up in front of Madara’s eyes.

[Please enter your nickname.]

Madara frowned, slightly annoyed.

[Asura.]

He had originally wanted to enter ‘Shinobi World’s Shura, but considering that the words ‘Shinobi World’ might expose his identity…

Just like how these Reincarnators seemed to know who he was.

After some thought, he decided to be cautious and simply named himself ‘Asura’.

The wristwatch displayed a ‘Registration Successful’ message, after which a flood of information about Reincarnators poured into Madara’s mind.

"Failure means eradication?"

"Ridiculous."

“Hahahahahaha!”

After absorbing the information, Madara threw his head back and laughed wildly.

‘It seemed my decision not to revive immediately was correct.’

‘This so-called Main God...’

‘Could do nothing to me!’

‘As for that Infinite Tsukuyomi mission, it just happened to align with my plans.’

‘Expecting me to complete other missions?’

‘Dream on!’

Madara’s plan was simple.

Next...

He would continue executing his own scheme while luring out and killing all these Reincarnators!

And after completing the Infinite Tsukuyomi, he’d deal with this Main God.

"Now..."

"It’s time to find that guy."

Madara slowly walked out of the cave and formed a hand seal.

This seal was his way of contacting Black Zetsu...

…

Meanwhile, Obito was kneeling on the ground, pounding the earth with his fists in a fit of helpless rage.

"Why!!"

“Why?!”

Obito’s fragile heart was once again shattered by cruel reality.

He had thought failing to capture Yugito was just bad luck. When he arrived at Iwagakure, he was absolutely confident about capturing the Yonbi and Gobi.

But...

Even after scouring the Land of Earth with Black Zetsu, he couldn’t find the two Jinchuriki’s hiding spots.

Even after infiltrating Iwagakure and using Genjutsu to control its Shinobi, he still couldn’t get any leads on the two Jinchuriki.

‘Damn it!!’

‘Why was everything going so wrong?!’

‘Why was nothing going as I expected?’

At this moment, Obito once again felt a strong sense of frustration.

The blood pressure rushed to his head again, and Obito's vision became a little blurry.

Realizing something was wrong, he quickly leaned against a rock, trembling as he pulled out a bottle of pills from his pocket.

With great difficulty, he swallowed five pills, and within moments, his condition stabilized.

Black Zetsu watched Obito’s pathetic state...

And couldn’t help but feel like laughing at him.

‘With me around, Uchiha Obito, you won’t capture a single Jinchuriki!’

‘I won’t allow anyone to break Mother’s seal now!’

Black Zetsu sighed inwardly, impressed by how cooperative these Jinchuriki had been.

‘Look!’

‘Now, these guys are hiding so well they won’t even reply to the messages I sent.’

‘Perfect!’

Black Zetsu felt a wave of relief at how thoroughly the Jinchuriki were concealed.

Even the yellow-haired guy, whom he used to hate the most, began to look a little more pleasing to him.

While this yellow-haired guy is like a plague god, always causing trouble from time to time...

But since he is the Kyubi’s Jinchuriki, he became an unexpected safeguard.

Even if Obito tried to carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan...

Given the bad blood between him and Naruto, Black Zetsu could easily leak intel to the latter and use him to stop Obito.

It’s not that Black Zetsu is bragging, but...

If he wanted, he had nine different ways to sabotage Obito’s plans!

‘Once that yellow-haired guy eventually died of old age, I could just step back in and find someone else to execute the Eye of the Moon Plan.’

‘Flawless.’

‘Everything was finally falling into place.’

Just as Black Zetsu was basking in this thought, he suddenly sensed a familiar Chakra.

‘This is!?’

‘Uchiha Madara?!’

“What the hell!!”

Black Zetsu couldn’t help but curse out loud right in front of Obito.

The outburst immediately drew Obito’s attention.

"Black Zetsu, what the hell are you doing?"

Obito’s expression darkened… he was convinced Black Zetsu was mocking him.

"N-Nothing..."

"I’m just pissed."

"Where the hell are Yonbi and Gobi’s Jinchuriki hiding?!"

Black Zetsu answered without hesitation, but internally, he was screaming.

Because he was certain that Madara had somehow returned.

‘Damn it!!’

‘What the hell happened?!’

‘Didn't the yellow-haired guy take away that guy's body?’

‘And with the whole red-haired monsters situation in the Pure Land...’

‘Impure World Reincarnation shouldn’t even be possible right now!!’

‘What... What the hell is going on?!’

Black Zetsu’s mind raced with unease.

After painstakingly getting everything back on track, Madara’s sudden reappearance could ruin everything.

Obito, misinterpreting his silence, actually tried to comfort him.

He could completely understand Black Zetsu's thoughts.

After all, they have experienced too many failures over the years.

"...It’s fine."

"We’ll start with Sanbi."

"That one... seems to be hiding near the Land of Water."

Black Zetsu nodded absentmindedly, too preoccupied to care.

Right."

"I’ll go scout ahead."

After Black Zetsu said this, he sank into the ground and vanished.

Now...

He needed to find Madara and figure out what the hell was happening.

…

Land of Water…

The streets were lined with seafood vendors loudly hawking their goods, and construction sites were everywhere.

Skyscrapers loomed in the distance.

Unlike the old wooden structures, the Shinobi World’s people had apparently learned their lesson, and new buildings were now made of steel and concrete.

Because apparently, that was the only way people felt safe anymore.

Even in a remote place like the Land of Water, high-rises were already going up.

Madara stood in the middle of the bustling street, lost in thought... and sheer disbelief.

‘I...’

‘Just how many years have I been dead?!’