Became the mastermind behind the Akatsuki organization

Chapter 395: The Battle between Bai Ye and Uchiha Madara
Faced with Uchiha Madara's conditions, Bai Ye fell into a brief silence, then nodded and said:

"I have long heard of Madara-sama's title of Shura of the Ninja World. This is a good opportunity to see how big the gap is between me and Madara-sama."

Before coming to meet Uchiha Madara, Bai Ye had anticipated that a battle would break out between him and Uchiha Madara. Whether it was a trap set in advance or a literal fight made no difference to him.

He understood Uchiha Madara's character and knew that in order to cooperate with him, he must have equal strength.

During the Warring States Period, only Hashirama Senju could do this, and he eventually defeated Uchiha Madara with his strength.

When they heard that Byakuya agreed to Uchiha Madara's conditions, Black Zetsu and Obito's faces were filled with shock. At the same time, they were also secretly looking forward to how far the next battle between Byakuya and Uchiha Madara would go.

Black Zetsu knew Uchiha Madara's strength and was worried about Byakuya.

Uchiha Madara, the reincarnation of Indra, had been at the top of the ninja world decades ago. Only Hashirama Senju, the reincarnation of Ashura, could barely surpass Uchiha Madara.

But at that time, Uchiha Madara only possessed the power of Indra, and did not have the power of Ashura.

Now that the Uchiha has obtained the power of Indra and Ashura, his strength is even greater than during the Valley of the End period, and he is extremely powerful in today's ninja world.

However, Bai Ye is not without a chance of winning.

Although the reincarnated Uchiha Madara possesses the power of Ashura and Indra, he does not have the Rinnegan. Bai Ye should still be able to resist for a few rounds.

Obito did not understand the strength of both sides, but that did not prevent him from expecting Uchiha Madara to teach Byakuya a lesson.

Bai Ye is hard to find an rival in today's ninja world, but Uchiha Madara is a legendary ninja and his strength is definitely stronger than Bai Ye.

Looking for an uninhabited area as a battlefield, Byakuya and Uchiha Madara formed the Seal of Opposition.

Seeing that Bai Ye paid so much attention to the ritual before the sparring, Uchiha Madara smiled and said, "Kid, don't you hate Konoha Village? Why do you still use Konoha's Opposition Seal?"

Bai Ye looked at Uchiha Madara and said calmly, "What I hate is the current Konoha. This is not the Konoha Ninja Village during the Senju, Uchiha and Uzumaki era. Besides, this is the seal of the Senju and Uzumaki."

Hearing this, Uchiha Madara narrowed his eyes slightly and felt quite emotional.

As one of the founders of Konoha Village, Uchiha Madara certainly would not hate this village that was named by him and created by him.

But when this ninja village, which wanted to protect its companions, attacked its companions for the sake of the village.

He had long lost hope in the Konoha Village, and now was left with only indifference. If Konoha blocked his path, he would not interfere too much with Konoha.

But if Konoha becomes a stumbling block to the Moon Eye plan, he wouldn't mind crushing it.

"You are good at talking, kid, but don't forget that the battle has already begun."

Before he finished speaking, Uchiha Madara turned into a phantom and disappeared on the spot. Then he quickly approached Bai Ye and performed Uchiha Fluid Technique.

Uchiha's flow technique is gorgeous and elegant, like a dancing butterfly on the battlefield.

Bai Ye was fully alert to respond, quickly drew the dagger at his waist, and fought fiercely with Uchiha Madara. He also used the Uchiha school's swordsmanship.

"Is this Uchiha-ryu's swordsmanship?"

Uchiha Madara was slightly startled, looked at Bai Ye and said: "Where did you learn these physical skills? It seems that you dance well."

"I have many Uchiha friends, so it's not difficult to learn these techniques."

After a pause, Bai Ye continued, "I will take the initiative to learn any ninjutsu that can improve my combat skills. I am not as pedantic as those old guys."

Interesting... After saying this in his heart, Uchiha Madara became more interested in Bai Ye, and his movement speed also increased a bit, and he instantly came behind Bai Ye.

Bai Ye drew his sword and swung it, cutting Uchiha Madara's arm with the sword. He himself was also pushed back more than ten meters because of Uchiha Madara's punch.

Feeling the burning pain in his abdomen, Bai Ye quickly distanced himself and stared at Uchiha Madara.

Madara was a ninja from the Warring States Period and had far more combat experience than Uchiha Madara. In addition, with the characteristics of the Impure World Reincarnation, it would be difficult for him to defeat Uchiha Madara in terms of physical skills.

Uchiha Madara looked at his recovering arm, and then looked at Bai Ye who was hit by him.

The attack he just made was enough to penetrate a huge rock, but it did not hurt Bai Ye at all. This reminded him of Hashirama Senju's defense.

If he wasn't a filthy-earth body, he would have most likely fallen over just now.

However, the defense of his physical body far exceeds that of the Impure World Body, and he can use the Susanoo technique, so Bai Ye cannot hurt him.

At this moment, Bai Ye in the distance suddenly put his hands together and patted the ground.

As the earth shook, vines rose from the ground and instantly turned into a forest. These vines rushed towards Uchiha Madara's position.

"You use Wood Release Ninjutsu pretty well..."

Uchiha Madara made his comment, then accelerated on the flat ground and rushed straight towards Lin Hai's position. Before being hit by the vines, he formed seals with his hands and shouted:
"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

The Great Fireball Technique is a C-level task. It is not difficult to learn. It is a large-scale killing ninjutsu that every Uchiha ninja must master.

But the Great Fireball Technique used by each Uchiha ninja is different.

The Great Fireball Jutsu performed by six-year-old Sasuke was only the size of a football, the Great Fireball Jutsu performed by the Jonin-level Uchiha was as big as a millstone, but the Great Fireball Jutsu performed by Uchiha Madara was like a dazzling sun.

When the fireball technique hit the forest, a violent explosion occurred instantly.

After destroying all the vines in the central area, the fire spread rapidly, threatening to burn down the entire forest.

However, the next moment, a rainstorm broke out in the forest.

The fire was quickly brought under control under the heavy rain, and the vine area began to expand rapidly until it completely surrounded Uchiha Madara.

After the vines gathered together, they transformed into a giant wooden dragon.

The wooden dragon opened its bloody mouth and attacked Uchiha Madara fiercely. If he was hit head-on by such a monster, even with his Impure World Body, Uchiha Madara would suffer serious damage.

After all, Wood Release has the ability to absorb chakra and seal. After seeing this scene, Black Zetsu and Obito were shocked. Black Zetsu knew that Byakuya had transplanted Hashirama's cells and had the ability to use Wood Release.

But I didn’t expect Bai Ye’s Wood Release ability to be so strong.

Obito compared himself to Byakuya. He was no match for Byakuya at all. In this respect and in every sense, he lost to Byakuya.

In the moment before being bitten by the wood dragon, Uchiha Madara curled up the corners of his mouth into a smile.

Uchiha Madara folded his hands in front of his chest, and suddenly a dark blue skeleton was projected on his body. The skeleton quickly grew flesh and skin. In his hands, two swords more than ten meters long condensed and slashed towards the wooden dragon.

The wood dragon bit the Susanoo double swords hard, and the two sides were in a stalemate for a while.

Bai Ye, standing on top of the wooden dragon, frowned and looked at Uchiha Madara standing in Susanoo in front of him, secretly admiring how powerful Uchiha Madara was.

Although they are both Susanoo, Uchiha Itachi's Susanoo and Uchiha Madara's Susanoo are not on the same level.

The former is a double sacred weapon that makes him feel fearful. Susanoo itself is not very powerful, but Uchiha Madara's Susanoo is simply powerful.

Recovering his gradually scattered thoughts, Bai Ye said to Uchiha Madara who was not far away: "Lord Madara, how does my Wood Release Ninjutsu compare to the First Hokage?"

"Your Wood Release is indeed very strong, but it is still far inferior to Hashirama's. Hashirama can also use the Wood Dragon Technique, but his Wood Dragon is always just a supplement."

As a fan of Hashirama, Uchiha Madara will not tolerate anyone challenging Hashirama's power.

After refuting Bai Ye's few words, Uchiha Madara moved the fingers on his arm, and two wooden clones flew out of his body. After landing on the ground, they respectively performed the Susanoo technique.

In an instant, two identical Susanoo appeared on both sides of the wooden dragon, raising their swords.

If the four Susanoo swords really hit the wooden dragon, the wooden dragon would probably collapse within a few seconds. Bai Ye would face the threat of three Susanoos and lose the battle.

At this moment, the ground beneath the feet of the wooden dragon and the three Susanoos cracked open, and dozens of huge vines rose from the ground, tightly wrapping around the Susanoos like hunting pythons.

After finishing all this, Bai Ye continued:
"Lord Madara, although I don't have the strength of the First Hokage, I can still control dozens of vines at the same time. If Lord Madara continues to take it lightly, he may lose this battle."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Ye tightened his vines, trying to crush Susanoo.

Uchiha Madara smiled. He hadn't met such an interesting opponent for a long time. After making seals with his hands, the Susanoo, which was originally holding two swords, grew two arms from its back and swung the swords to cut the surrounding vines.

Before long, the surrounding huge vines were chopped into pieces.

Bai Ye, who was on top of the wooden dragon, did not stop Susanoo's actions. He looked at Uchiha Madara and smiled friendly:
"Madara-sama, before I became a Wood Release Ninja, I was a Paper Release Ninja."

"Paper Escape?" Uchiha Madara did not feel the seriousness of the matter. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Bai Ye. He was confident in facing the ninjutsu, but at this moment he felt inexplicably uneasiness.

At this moment, Uchiha Madara suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with the vines he had cut off. Why were there pieces of paper as dense as snowflakes hidden inside? These pieces of paper were covered with dense spells and kept flashing.

The next moment, the detonating tags that kept falling in the air were detonated, and the sound of explosions continued.

The power of these detonating tags when detonated individually is very small, even less than the Great Fireball Technique, but when combined together they can unleash astonishing power.

Under the continuous bombardment, Susanoo's armor was gradually peeled off and his flesh and blood slowly fell off.

Eventually, spider-web-like cracks formed, directly threatening Uchiha Madara inside Susanoo, and Uchiha Madara was also engulfed in flames.

The detonating tag is not a sealing technique, so it naturally cannot threaten Uchiha Madara in the Impure World State.

But when he saw his body being submerged in the explosion, Uchiha Madara suddenly became a little angry. It had been many years since the Battle of the Valley of the End, and he had not been injured. Why did he suffer a defeat at the hands of this little brat, Byakuya, today?

After the flames dissipated, Uchiha Madara's body gradually returned to its original state.

He looked at the white night not far away and made a decision in his heart, since you have the ability to hurt me, you are qualified to be my opponent, let me go all out.

Thinking of this, a projection appeared on Uchiha Madara's body again, and Susanoo quickly condensed.

Unlike the previous times when he used the second and third stages of Susanoo, Uchiha Madara will use the ultimate form of Susanoo this time to let the little brat Byakuya see how adults fight.

Along with the massive influx of chakra, Susanoo's size also expanded rapidly.

Just as they were about to break through the fifty-meter mark and head toward the hundred-meter mark, Bai Ye suddenly released the Wood Dragon Technique, walked in front of Uchiha Madara, and said with a wry smile:

"Madara-sama's strength is truly unfathomable. I have used all my strength, but I still cannot defeat Madara-sama when he is in a relaxed state. Madara-sama, your current strength has surpassed that of the First Hokage, right?"

Hearing this, Uchiha Madara released Susanoo and fell to the ground.

He regarded the First Hokage as his rival, but he had never defeated him. When he heard Bai Ye say that his strength surpassed that of the First Hokage, he felt secretly happy.

On the one hand, it's because he already possesses Hashirama's power and is definitely more powerful than Hashirama.

On the other hand, it is also because of the strength demonstrated by Bai Ye. If an ordinary person said that he was stronger than Hashirama, he would just shrug it off.

But Bai Ye has already demonstrated enough strength. Although he is not as good as himself and Hashirama, he should have surpassed the so-called Five Kage and is now the strongest person in the ninja world.

After a cold snort, Uchiha Madara said:
"What do you know? Hashirama's strength is beyond your imagination. I know you defeated Hashirama's Impure World Form not long ago, but that is not Hashirama's true strength."

"If Hashirama had used all his strength, you would have been dead long ago."

"So that's how it is..." Bai Ye looked scared, and then he seemed to remember something and asked Uchiha Madara: "Master Madara, have I passed your test?"

Uchiha Madara crossed his arms and said calmly: "Even if I don't want to admit it, your strength has won my recognition. I am willing to follow your advice and play a good game of house with the trash from the five major ninja villages."

That’s right, in Uchiha Madara’s view, the so-called Five Kage Conference is just a game of house.

Using the crisis to unite the five major ninja villages to hold the Five Kage Conference is just a game of playing house. Even if the five Kage gather together, they will not be his opponent.

However, he admired Bai Ye's strength and was willing to play with Bai Ye. Perhaps a ninja that satisfied him would appear in one of the five major ninja villages, allowing him to satisfy his desire to fight.

The deeper reason was that he felt Bai Ye did not use his full strength.

(End of this chapter)