[Hokage] I'm Madara Uchiha

Hot soup bath, luxuriant trees, calm and peaceful atmosphere.When coming here through the land of the wind, the land of soup can be regarded as a paradise on earth for the weary traveler.

Compared with the continuous forests of the Land of Fire, the steep mountains of the Land of Thunder, and the vast rivers of the Land of Water, the verdant scenery of the Land of Tang can only be regarded as Xiaojiabiyu, but because of its small size, it gives people a sense of peace and tranquility, like a baby curled up in the mother's lap arms.

"...a place for the elderly." Only suitable for ordinary people to live in.For ninjas, it is too easy to wear down their energy.

At this time, Madara and Hashirama changed into loose kimonos, and the ninja's clothes were temporarily stored in the eclipse.

"Not only that, there are no ninjas here. And my strength has been weakened." Hashirama put his hands on the ground, and a sapling pierced the floor and emerged.This simple ninjutsu cost him twice as much chakra as he would normally need.

"how?"

"The greater the destructive power, the more chakras will be consumed." Hashirama withdrew his hands, the saplings slowly drilled back into the ground, and the wooden floor was strangely closed and flat. "I think, in this place, there should be no way to use s-level ninjutsu."

"Ha, interesting!" Madara chuckled, narrowing her eyes, "A place that is almost isolated from the world, can weaken the power of outsiders by itself, just like..."

"Like protecting something."

"It must be here."

Madara threw the book in his hand to Hashirama beside him, and leaned back lazily on the soft couch.Hashirama put down the wooden cup in his hand, took the book and flipped through it, "The Legend of Saiki's Haunted House", "The Drowning Girl in Hot Spring", "Sadako's Well", "Weird Doll", "The Curse of the Snow Woman", "The Floating Palace", "Ghost Festival Strange Talk"...

They are all local legends of the country of soup.

Senju Zhuma watched with relish: In ninja education, ghosts and gods are never involved, only respecting the strong, balancing interests, and seeing death as home, etc.It was the first time he came into contact with ghost culture at such close range, and like most ninjas, he only felt it was fresh, without any fear or awe.

"It's interesting."

Ban Bing glanced coldly, "You think it's just made up?"

"Is it true?" Hashirama asked in surprise, "Why have I never heard of the power of ghosts and gods that can affect the world?" Ninjas pursue power. If the story is true, for the kind of combination of space, time, illusion, Even the power that directly acts on the soul, how could no one study it?

"Half-true, half-false! For example, this—" Changing to a side-lying position, Madara moved a little closer to him, and slid his finger across the title of the first page: "The place we are staying now is this haunted house Oh~"

The ending is upturned, half teasing and half serious.The moment the voice fell, a gloomy and cold air flowed across the neck, like a faint sigh drifting away in the night sky, and the thick black was entwined with gloomy ominousness, which made the scalp numb.Just now, the words he had casually skipped intertwined with the strange and bloody images suddenly flashed into his mind.Muscles tensed in an instant, pupils shrank——

[Accompanied by the tooth-piercing "clack-clack" sound, the broken woman slowly climbed down from the entrance like a leech, and dark red bloodstains spread out on the ground...]

[The boy is covered in □, his complexion is pale, his dark eyes are horribly large, the eye sockets are completely occupied by black pupils, and the whites of the eyes are almost invisible.I saw him opening his mouth, opening it wider and wider, and a shrill cat cry suddenly came out from the depths of his throat...]

"Meow!"

Feeling cold all over, Hashirama immediately woke up, lowered his head, and the cat jumped onto his lap at some point, wagging its two big tails.As for the books that I just flipped through, they were all scattered on the ground.

The teacup was overturned on the coffee table, and the tea that flowed out was still slightly steaming, it seemed that it hadn't been long.Looking sideways, the sky outside the window is clear, and the leaves near the window hang down quietly, motionless.

"Just now……"

Madara pointed behind him, and he looked back: two flat shurikens penetrated deeply into the wooden edge of the entrance, forming a small inverted cone-shaped groove with the piercing point as the center, which is unique to the Senju family. The method of spiral projection, in other words, the two shurikens were thrown by themselves.

...When did you throw it away?

Realizing that his perception of the outside world was broken—although it was not for a long time—his heart sank.

"Genius-like conditioned reflex!" Madara praised, "Even if you can't see those things, you can accurately judge the location and attack immediately. You are indeed a ninja at the top!"

After quickly scanning the surroundings, Hashirama suddenly said: "...I believe it."

spot:"?"

Hashirama still scanned the entire room vigilantly, breathed lightly, and kept his defensive posture unchanged. "The existence of that kind of thing..." he said in a deep voice, "Is there any way to solve it?"

Before Madara could open his mouth, the cat jumped onto the coffee table and yelled, "There are cats and adults, so you don't have to be afraid of these things!"

Madara nodded in agreement, the existence of Maoyou could indeed save a lot of trouble. "If it's not necessary, don't destroy those things rashly. This area of ​​Tang Country is called the 'Entrance to the Underworld', and the dead have the same right to wander here as the living."

Hashirama's expression was tangled, "Are we going to share a room with that female ghost?"

"It's not like staying here for a long time, what's the problem?" Madara was calm, "It's okay, that thing has already left."

Hashirama has doubts about this - although he can't see anything, but the cold feeling and malicious sight are always lingering behind him.

"Really left." Madara said sincerely.

"..." This is the more sincere Madara's expression is, the more he can't believe it, but there is no reason to refute, so he just shut up and moved back to his original position to act calmly in Senju Hashirama.

Madara seemed to casually glance towards the entrance behind him, and the pale woman who stayed there stared at him coldly for a moment, then slowly exited the room.

Only now did Hashirama's expression truly relax.

The decision to bring him here is very wise, to be able to feel things at different levels of space... It's so sharp and terrifying!

After raising your spirits, you must start to do business.

On the way, Madara briefly told Zhujian about Yu Mingzheng and the imperial tomb. The purpose this time was to enter the imperial tomb and take out something.That thing is the final blow to victory in the war.

"The entrance to the imperial mausoleum is a place called Langya Underground Palace, and to open Langya Underground Palace requires opening four institutions at the same time. After more than ten generations of hard work, Yu Mingzheng found and opened three of them, which are located in the Kingdom of Thunder, the Kingdom of Fire, In the territory of the Snow Country, the last place is in this area. Because it has been more than 1000 years, the address has long been blurred, leaving only a few clues." Madara took out two pieces of paper, unfolded one of them, and there were only a few scattered pieces of paper on it. words:

Gong Yang died

no sincerity

birth palace

The eight words that seem to be unrelated, anyone who sees them at first glance will not understand why.

There was no hint about the location on the above, and Hashirama couldn't think of it for a while.He pointed to the word "Gong" and said, "This is the Langya Digong we are looking for? Why are there two?"

"There is only one place in the underground palace. Moreover, it is said that a word is missing here." He pointed to the blank space under the word Cheng. ...

After looking at it for a long time without any solution, Hashirama asked, "Are there any other hints besides this?"

"'Sincere to the public, bandits my blood relatives; there is no way to break the sun, and the only way to find the way.' This is the explanation passed down from word of mouth."

"..." This is the Thousand Hands Pillar Room where after seeing the words life, death, and yang, they began to silently calculate the Six Paths, Nine Palaces, Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.

"As you can imagine, the arrangement of the words also has a profound meaning." Madara drew a well on the paper with a pen to separate several words, "Nine Palaces."

Hashirama also thought of it.

"Nine palaces are the closest conjecture I have made. They represent the earth, which coincides with the existence of the underground palace. Cheng, Zhonggong; Yang, Ligong; Sheng, Gengong; Death, Kungong; Left Wu, Dui Palace; Right Wu, Zhengong Gong; the Gong character on the upper left is in Xun Gong; the lower right Gong character is in Qian Gong; the missing word is in Kan Gong.”

No need to explain, ninjas who have learned advanced ninjutsu and techniques are no strangers to this.If you explain the associated words of each palace name—"If the guess is a bit reliable, the real Langya Digong should be the one in Qiangong." Zhu Jian responded and said.

"Well. But the other one doesn't have to be fake."

"Oh?" Hashirama wondered, "Didn't it mean that there is only one underground palace?"

"It only said 'no way', it didn't say it didn't exist. And, I have this feeling..." Madara muttered, "Huh? What did you think of?"

"Wulu may not only refer to no road, but also refer to the road guided by the word 'no'"

"..." Madara stared at him silently for a while.

"Hey, did I say something wrong?"

"...No, a very reasonable guess." He was feeling sad for doubling the amount of thinking. "If you have any ideas, let's finish it at once."

Zhu Jian rested his chin and pondered for a moment, then uttered a word: "Bamen Dunjia."

"what?"

"Using the Eight Doors Dunjia to calculate?"

Eight doors: open, rest, life, injury, death, scene, shock, death.Seems to be somewhat connected?

I've heard about that physical spot, and it seems to be very harmful to the body.It was strange how he thought of ninjutsu, Madara shook his head and replied: "Don't use ninja knowledge to speculate on riddles that are not ninja era."

Hashirama explained: "The theoretical basis of this technique is a theory called Bamen Dunjia."

Madara Huishen: I am really confused when I am a ninja!Bamen Dunjia, also known as Qimen Dunjia, is a well-known theory in previous life metaphysics.

"...I still don't think this conjecture is more reliable than Jiugong."

"There is a simpler conjecture." Hashirama remembered the Nine Palaces game he played when he was a child, "Replace nine words with numbers."

Compared with the ethereal and mysterious metaphysics, the idea of ​​turning from metaphysics to mathematics cannot be simpler.It is because it is too simple and has been ignored by Madara time and time again.

He paused: "Well, it's worth considering. Then...'sincerity to everyone', the word 'cheng' used by the public should be five; the extreme sun is nine, so the space below should be one—is it missing? The character is Yin? Well, let’s ignore it for now. The two palaces are divided into two and eight, and life and death are □. He Qi, what do you mean?"

In the end, the conversation turned back to metaphysics, but he didn't think his judgment was wrong.Because the imperial mausoleums were built by magic sticks—Madara firmly recognized it.

Although there is no Tao Te Ching in the world of Naruto, but with Japanese culture as a template, its theoretical tone is unavoidably similar to Chinese culture, not to mention that many things in this world give Madara a sense of familiarity-from the residual memories of previous lives.

The legendary seven-star sword, plantain fan, red gourd, golden rope, and the amber bottle that mother used to arrange flowers... Journey to the West?

Realizing the truth, it was the first time in Madara's life... embarrassing.

This kind of awareness like "everyone is drunk but I am sober", "this world is precarious", "maybe the way of my reincarnation is not right", "what strange things have mixed in" is really terrible!

"...Many places are very vague and can only be regarded as guesses." Madara put down his pen without much disappointment after the calculations were fruitless: the puzzles that have plagued generations can be guessed with only the extremely simple Jiugong Diagram. Mingzheng's genes let him down too much.

"Many people have a mind-set to make things complicated, and maybe the answer is unexpectedly simple."

Yu Mingzheng's family has learned too much and is too complicated, and they are used to thinking about problems in complex places. Even if they are amazing, it is difficult to guess if they do not find the right way.

From the avenue to simplicity, it is not impossible. "It makes sense." Madara looked at him: "What else do you think?"

"Could it be the azimuth map? After all, 'Palace' is clearly marked on it."

"Think of it as plane coordinates... There have been similar guesses before. But how does 'Cheng' explain it?"

"It means—we have to look for it sincerely." Bashirama blinked.

Madara: "..." When did you start joking?Senju Hashirama, who looks stable, reliable and open-minded, is actually very shy!

"Don't frown, Madara." Hashirama smiled easily, "Seeing you look so depressed, I am also very troubled. I have been troubled for so long, and I am not in a hurry. And since you are confirmed in this area, why not go for a walk , might be inspired."

"It's that simple!" Madara smiled wryly, knowing that he was comforting himself.Uchiha and Yu Mingzheng's forces have turned this area upside down, but nothing has been achieved. There is not much hope for the two of them to succeed.

What Madara didn't say was that when he solved the puzzle, he converted the names of the nine palaces into yin and yang lines, made various collocations and explanations, and tried his best to recall the part that he learned in the previous life combined with the part he learned in the present life, and combined all kinds of strange associations to deduce There are countless guesses, but only a few gains.Now that I think of the hard work here, it is not worth mentioning.When I came this time, one has already determined the scope, and if it is not cracked in the end, it is necessary to use the "last resort"; the other, according to Chen Fengyuan, this year should be "the easiest year to find the underground palace". Come and see what you might gain.

……and many more?

"That's right." Madara stood up suddenly, and pulled him across the column, his face glowing with joy.Hashirama stared blankly at his smiling face approaching him and lost his words for a moment. "In this kind of weather, you really should go out for a walk!"

The author has something to say: My dears, I am back~~~