Xingtie: Can’t you just let me focus on completing the commissions?

Don't you still trust me?

Yanqing, oh Yanqing,

You must not let the general down. The more chaotic the situation, the greater the opportunity to accomplish great things!

"The general's sworn brother? I've never heard of him before, but he must be a hero."

……

"Suiyang has escaped?"

Jingyuan's golden retriever ran into the inn to tell him about it. Emiya was momentarily confused, but after a moment's thought, he realized it was about the attack on the Six Ministries the previous day.

"Surely not? Huanlong actually thinks highly of these lowly soldiers?"

"Why do you say that, Uncle-Master?"

“Huanlong herself is Suiyang. Even if all the Suiyang in the furnace of the Gongzao Division were combined, they would not be as good as a single Suiyang from the time of Suihuang. Huanlong is not too far from Suihuang. The reason for deliberately releasing those Suiyang... feels like it's a cover-up. Her purpose... is definitely not just to create chaos.”

Emiya couldn't think of any more possibilities for the time being. Huanlong's goal was to overthrow the Immortal Ship, and it would definitely not work if his actions were limited to the revival of Jianmu.

"I can't figure it out for now, but as for how to deal with Suiyang... I remember those things are energy beings with self-awareness. They love to possess others and take over their bodies. The bodies of the Immortal Boatmen and the Abundant People have been used for a long time, and these guys like this kind of body the most."

“The Ten Kings Division should be quite adept at dealing with this kind of thing, so there’s no need for them to come looking for me and even send you here… Jing Yuan’s true intentions are not what they seem.”

Emiya looked at the blond-haired boy in front of him. Next door in the Three Kingdoms was Ma Yanqing, the sixth of Fu Hua's seven disciples, known as the Chasing Horse Sword. Ma was not Ma; when he appeared in the Divine Sword Record, he was already a purebred, rugged man. Emiya took a serious look at the blond-haired boy's current appearance and immediately laughed.

"Yanqing, you must not overtrain in the future, otherwise you will become a blond man with a full beard."

"What do you mean, Uncle-Master? Yanqing doesn't care about appearance. If it can help the General, a full beard is fine."

"Enough, enough. Jing Yuan sent you to find me so that you wouldn't recklessly pick on opponents at this time. Although you have the sword embryo and martial bones and outstanding talent, there are too many seniors on Luofu who can defeat you now."

"Senior? Uncle-Master, Yanqing has rarely met his match since joining the Cloud Cavalry. Even when fighting against the abundant monsters, he has never been afraid. Why do you look down on me, a valiant guard of the Cloud Cavalry?"

"Your master was also a Cloud Cavalry Guard back in the day, but he wouldn't challenge the few gathered in Luofu today..."

"...The general didn't dare to challenge you back then? Uncle, are you referring to some old masters who are hundreds of years old? Forgive my rashness, but the way of swordsmanship is constantly evolving and cannot be achieved by working behind closed doors. A sword from hundreds of years ago may not be able to defeat the sword in your hand."

mad!

That's fucking insane!

That's outrageous!

Emiya clapped his hands in satisfaction. As expected of the Madman King who had challenged the Star Core Hunter, the former Dragon Lord of Wisdom, and the former Sword Master of Luofu, he had never disappointed when it came to madness.

"Alright, I happen to be heading to a new area today to discuss important matters with an elder. Let's put aside the matters on Luofu for half a day. Yanqing, how about you come with me?"

"I'm sorry, Yanqing, you cannot leave your post without permission."

However, before he could finish speaking, Emiya reached out without hesitation and pushed him backward. Yanqing didn't have time to think and was pushed back several steps. When he regained his footing, he found that the surrounding environment had changed drastically.

It was no longer the Yichen Inn, but a strange and ancient street. He looked at the red-haired tribe coming and going, and frowned slightly.

"Don't look around, just follow me. Today I'm going to discuss some cooperation matters with an old senior from this world. That person should be a good match for you."

"...Uncle-Master, we cannot sense the destiny of 'Hunting' here."

"The 'Exploration' has just been established, and the 'Hunting' is only so-so. However, weight training is a common part of training matches. You're not brave enough to fight using only the current level of imaginary numbers?"

“Weight training? Very well, since it's my uncle's invitation, I will gladly accompany you. I only hope that after the training and competition, my uncle can let me return to Luofu. I have important matters to attend to and don't have time to accompany you here…”

"Alright, as long as you can get some feedback from that senior, I will let you leave."

"It's a deal."

Chapter 123: This is unscientific, but very much in line with Detective Conan's style. (5/5)

"Black Zetsu is indeed not something I can fully control..."

“Young man, if everything you say is true, then I have indeed been underestimated by that woman on the moon.”

Inside a cave in the Land of Earth, Emiya and Hiko met an old man who had aged to the point of being almost skin and bones.

This former ninja demon, who once dominated the battlefield and was unmatched except by Hashirama Senju, now looks rather eerie.

"Uncle-Master, are you perhaps sending Yanqing to fight this senior?"

Yanqing frowned and spoke with displeasure.

"This senior's life force is already so weak. If Yanqing were to bully this old senior, wouldn't that be an insult to the name of the Cloud Cavalry?"

"Kid, you'll get into trouble if you keep talking."

Madara Uchiha's gloomy gaze swept over the blond-haired boy. He was extremely proud, and it was already a great restraint of him not to directly punish the boy with a complete Susanoo after this nobody had dared to say that he was no good.

"I can give you the Rinnegan."

"How do you plan to cooperate with me to help revive Izuna and Hashirama, as you mentioned before?"

"This is easy, but don't you think it would be more fulfilling for you to accomplish all of this yourself, Mr. Ban?"

"If I had the time to do it, why would I need to linger here in this cave?"

"Mr. Madara, you may commission me to restore you to your youthful prime, in exchange for the Rinnegan."

"interesting."

Upon hearing this, Madara Uchiha burst into laughter, his sinister yet undeniably bold voice echoing deep within the cave.

"Since that's the case, then I entrust you with restoring me to my prime in my youth... No, I need more enemies. This small ninja world was too boring for my youth. On the condition that you take me to the place you described, a place teeming with powerful enemies."

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Upon seeing the request, Emiya smiled, his eyes narrowing, and then retrieved a reward he had drawn long ago from his inventory.

"APTX4869, the side-effect-free version, one pill can cause your body to regress for five years. At your age... fifteen years of regression should be your prime."

"...Regression in age? Interesting."

Taking the medicine bottle from Emiya, Madara first gouged out the Rinnegan from his own eye socket and handed it to Emiya. Then, he took three pills from the bottle and swallowed them.

This action seemed reckless, but having already decided to cooperate with Emiya, this ninja demon didn't intend to think too much about it. When the three drugs were swallowed, his degenerated bodily functions seemed to have been deceived, and he began to rush back to the bodily functions he had decades ago.

"Although it's not the first time I've seen this, I have to say it's really unscientific, but also very much in the style of Detective Conan..."

The first user of this drug was not the ninja world demon in front of us, but Aozaki Touko. At that time, Touko swallowed only one pill and turned into a little girl who was several years younger than her sister.

To put it simply, viewing Detective Conan's theories through a scientific lens will only make them seem completely unscientific.

"At my peak, although I'm missing the Rinnegan, it's not a problem. I just need to install a pair of Sharingan, and with my abilities, it's not difficult to create a new Tomokazu."

"No need for such trouble, Mr. Ban... I have a pair of kaleidoscopes here, you can use them for now."

Yan Qing recreated Uchiha Hikaru's Mangekyou Sharingan and handed it to Uchiha Madara. The latter didn't hesitate at all, took the eyeball, and, under Yan Qing's slightly twitching gaze, directly placed it into his own eye socket.

The life force of the Sage Body stolen from Hashirama Senju

In addition, Uchiha Hikaru's Mangekyou Sharingan,

In addition, the presence of Indra's chakra,

In just a few minutes, this chaotic mess was pieced back together in Madara Uchiha's hands. The moment he opened his eyes, his arrogance, which seemed to reign supreme over the entire ninja world, was no longer concealed.

"Yachi Thorn, an interesting ability. No wonder you said that little girl was a good fit for my plan."

"Indeed, if I were to gather all the chakra in the entire ninja world into my hands, reversing yin and yang would be a piece of cake."

"Mr. Ban, now that you've recovered, how about a warm-up match with my junior apprentice?"

Upon hearing this, Madara Uchiha's gaze fell upon Yan Qing, and he immediately laughed.

"Kid, do you still dare to spar with a frail old man like me?"

"Right on my mind."

Seeing the old senior rejuvenated, Yanqing became eager to try. He truly felt that the aura emanating from the senior after regaining his youth was extraordinary. Even the enemy generals he had faced on the battlefield had not possessed such astonishing power.

"I'm not used to living in this cave, so let's start here."

After saying that, the Asura of the Ninja World suddenly erupted with an unusually surging wave of chakra, and its terrifying power directly stirred up a storm in this narrow cavern.

Yan Qing, undeterred, drew her sword and confronted them.

Six flying swords shot out from the scabbard and hovered around him, forming a sword stance.

"Yanqing, a member of the Cloud Cavalry, please give me your guidance, senior."

This sword-wielding warrior laughed excitedly. He had experienced more than ten battles, large and small, and had killed several Bu Liren's Nest Fathers. He had also shot down the Na Yun ship of the Winged Creator with a single blow. On Luofu, he was almost unmatched. He had asked the general several times how to obtain the title of Luofu Sword Master, but the general had always just smiled and not explained much, only saying that he was not yet skilled enough and did not yet have the ability to obtain the title of Sword Master.

He never questioned the general's words, and thus continued to hone his swordsmanship and improve his strength day after day for ten years. However, now that there was no war in Luofu and no one on Luofu could spar with him, seeing Uchiha Madara, a master who exuded a power surpassing even that of Bu Liren, his fighting spirit was no longer concealed in the slightest.

"A sword's form is like water; one cannot linger there!"

"Yanqing, I'm sorry to offend you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the flying swords behind him began to exude an extremely chilling aura. Under Yan Qing's control, several flying swords sped towards Uchiha Madara like streaks of light.

"Not bad, but... how can a weapon effectively cut through human skin and bones if it's not in your hand?!"

A ferocious look of excitement appeared on the face of the Ninja World Asura. His Mangekyou Sharingan rapidly tracked the sword's movements, and he pounced towards Yanqing's location like a bolt of lightning.

"Then let's start with swordsmanship, kid."

"Uchiha Style: Sword Leap Flame!"

Chapter 124: A man's primary driving force is definitely...

"Kid, are you convinced now?"

A colossus hundreds of meters tall stood before Yan Qing, whose sword-embryo martial bones were finding it increasingly difficult to utilize imaginary energy, and he was constantly panting.

His gaze was fixed on the arrogant ninja demon seated atop the giant god's throne.

His proud swordsmanship

The swordsmanship that once shot down a fleet of abundant monsters.

At this moment, I feel so powerless.

After exchanging dozens of blows with the man before him, he had a slight advantage in swordsmanship, but in every other aspect, he was utterly outmatched—his physical skills, combat experience, and other abilities that aided in the fight…

He was confident in his sword-wielding talent and hadn't paid much attention to practicing other skills in the past. Now, facing an opponent whose swordsmanship couldn't completely defeat him, his other weaknesses became glaringly obvious.

And his enemies,

Possessing comprehensive strength,

Clean and crisp physical skills, swordsmanship that is not bound by fixed moves, a strange technique that can control wind and thunder, and a mysterious technique that can decide the outcome with a single blow hidden in those pupils...

Their combat experience and combat skills are on completely different levels.

Despite having been on dozens of battlefields, he still felt as ridiculous as a rookie in front of this person.

"Your swordsmanship is good, but it seems that the enemies you faced before were mostly large in size. Although it is a refined technique, it is unconsciously a bit too exaggerated and not the way to kill people."

Dispersing his Susanoo, Madara Uchiha twisted his neck and landed from mid-air, looking with considerable satisfaction at the blond-haired swordsman who had held out against him for at least ten minutes.

"You seem to be unusually obsessed with swordsmanship, a single skill. A true master should not have any obvious weaknesses, kid... you have been too lax in your training in other areas."

“It seems you can’t use ninjutsu and you don’t have chakra, but the strange energy you used earlier… was too rudimentary.”

"However, in terms of swordsmanship alone, among all the people I, Uchiha Madara, have seen, you can rank in the top five. At your age, you have enough to be proud of."

"...Thank you for your guidance, teacher."

After catching his breath for a moment, Yanqing finally relaxed, sat down on the ground, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Yanqing was too rude earlier. He was too confident in his swordsmanship, but he didn't expect to be completely powerless in front of his teacher."

“Young man, don’t be so modest. Although I am not a warrior, a swordsman must have a sharp edge. Your arrogance was not bad, but if you sheath it now, your sword will become a dull sword.”

"Teacher, please don't tease me. Yanqing is not so sure that he would seal his sword heart because of one failure."