Next, she recounted the entire battle between Mu and Uchiha Madara during the day exactly as it happened.
From Mu standing in front of Onoki and challenging him, to the two of them fighting to a standstill, and finally to Hashirama and Tobirama arriving.
After listening, Arisu lightly furrowed his brows.
He was silent for a few seconds.
If he remembered correctly... the original work wasn't like this.
Mu couldn't possibly have fought Madara to a fifty-fifty draw.
After a moment, Arisu said flatly, "I understand."
As soon as he finished speaking, the communication was directly cut off.
On the other end of the light screen, Yumeko was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help complaining a few times, "This guy... really doesn't give anyone any face. If you're going to hang up, then hang up, but you don't even say 'goodbye'..."
———
In the void, Arisu raised his hand again and used his Telescope Technique.
He brought up the complete replay of the battle just now and watched it carefully, frame by frame.
The collision between Dust Release and Susanoo, Mu using his clones and timing several times to nearly injure Madara, the final binding technique resembling Planetary Devastation, and Madara activating Perfect Susanoo to forcibly break through it...
As Arisu watched, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
'This Mu... how strong has he become?'
Although he wasn't as outrageous as the Mu from his previous life who had learned the Yata Immortal Technique, being able to fight the peak Uchiha Madara to a fifty-fifty draw at this point was already a little ridiculous.
Arisu rubbed his brows and muttered, "This seems to... be another transmigrator."
Arisu stood in the void, his brows slightly furrowed, and was silent for a few seconds.
Mu's importance in the plot... actually wasn't that great.
It wasn't that he was weak. It was just that compared with people like Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, Mu's presence was much lighter.
Once a transmigrator was allowed to stay in Iwagakure for too long, there was no guarantee that one day he would suddenly get the urge to "reform" it. By then, a pile of unknown butterfly effects would emerge, which would only be more troublesome.
He quickly recalled Mu's ending in the original work...
He died together with the Second Mizukage, Gengetsu Hozuki.
Calculating the timeline, the Five Kage Summit was still a long way off.
"Since that's the case... let's deal with it early."
Arisu raised his hand, and an extremely concealed message silently traveled through a special channel and fell into Konoha.
———
[Konoha, The Uchiha Residential District]
Uchiha Katsu was helping transport lumber as an ordinary clan member.
Suddenly, his footsteps paused almost imperceptibly, and a trace of coldness flashed through his eyes.
The message had arrived.
Katsu did not hesitate at all. That very night, he found an excuse to leave Konoha. His figure melted into the night like a ghost and headed straight toward Iwagakure.
———
Deep inside the Tsuchikage's residence in Iwagakure, Mu sat in a simple yet spacious research room. Several ninja technique scrolls were spread out in front of him, with notes he had written himself lying beside them.
The further development of Dust Release, improving the stability of his clones, as well as how he would stabilize Iwagakure and maneuver among the Five Great Nations after formally becoming Tsuchikage... these were all things he had been thinking about recently.
"Since I've transmigrated, I have to live a little longer than the original work, and do a little better too.", Mu muttered to himself.
Suddenly, his senses tightened sharply.
Mu's movements stopped instantly.
Something was wrong with the air.
An extremely faint yet real sense of abnormality, like a fine needle lightly pricking his skin.
Someone had come in.
Mu's pupils contracted slightly, and he instantly expanded his perception in all directions. Chakra spread like a tide, carefully sweeping over every corner of the residence and every inch of air.
However...
Just as his perception was about to cover everything, a figure had already appeared silently at the door of the research room.
Uchiha Katsu was wearing ordinary black travel clothes. There was no unnecessary expression on his face as he simply looked at him calmly.
Those eyes flickered slightly under the dim light, calm to the point of being almost cold.
Mu's breathing paused slightly.
Mu slowly stood up. Chakra was already quietly circulating within his body, and his voice was low and wary. "...Who are you?"
Uchiha Katsu did not answer immediately. He simply stood there quietly, his gaze falling on Mu as if he were examining an object that was about to be dealt with.
The air suddenly became heavy.
Mu's residence was located in the most remote corner of Iwagakure.
It was far from the main urban area, and all around were rugged rocks and sparse vegetation.
As a master who devoted almost all his effort to researching ninja techniques, Mu had chosen this place very early on, he was worried that if one of his experiments got out of control, it would affect the village.
Moreover, he had no relatives and had always lived alone, so the place was quiet.
Precisely because of this, there was no third person in the research room at this moment.
The air remained frozen for less than half a breath.
Mu struck first.
"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!"
A translucent cube instantly took shape in front of Uchiha Katsu, carrying a destructive aura capable of turning everything into particles.
However, Katsu's figure merely swayed slightly.
Mount Myoboku's natural energy was completely drawn upon at this moment, and with senjutsu enhancing him, his speed and perception far surpassed common sense.
He almost skimmed along the edge of the Dust Release cube, lightning suddenly gathering in his hand.
"Raikiri."
The piercing thunder tore through the air.
Mu's pupils contracted sharply.
"Senjutsu... and a Lightning Release ninja blade?"
Mu did not give himself much time to be surprised. His figure instantly split apart.
The clones appeared simultaneously, releasing small-scale Dust Release and Mu's Dustless Bewildering Cover from different angles, attempting to interfere with the opponent's vision and perception.
Uchiha Katsu merely glanced at them.
His Mangekyo Sharingan slowly turned.
The next second, his figure suddenly appeared behind Mu's true body.
"Who exactly are you!?"
The alarm bells rang in Mu's heart.
"The dead don't need to know too much..."
He whispered in horror.
A Rasengan condensed in Katsu's left hand, carrying pure chakra and senjutsu energy, and slammed into Mu's back.
Mu used all his strength to withstand it with Dust Release. The impact of the explosion sent his entire body flying backward, crashing into and cracking the rock wall behind him.
Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.
He forced himself to stand and was about to form another hand seal when he discovered that the circulation of his chakra had suddenly become briefly sluggish.
Suppression by senjutsu.
Mount Myoboku's natural energy was like an invisible net, silently wrapping itself around him and interfering with his perception and the construction of his techniques.
Uchiha Katsu walked closer step by step, his voice calm. "It's over."
Mu made one final outburst.
A huge Dust Release cube contracted from all directions, attempting to envelop both of them and die together.
However, at the moment the cube was about to close...
Uchiha Katsu's Mangekyo suddenly spun.
Izanagi activated.
The result of "dying together" was directly erased.
In the next instant, Mu only felt the back of his neck go numb, and a cold hand had already gripped the crown of his head.
Powerful ocular power surged into his spiritual sea like a tide.
Mu's consciousness struggled violently for a moment, but in the end, faced with the absolute difference in strength and information, it slowly fell silent.
The research room returned to silence.
Uchiha Katsu stood where he was, looking at Mu, whom he had completely brought under his control. His expression remained indifferent.
"Resolved."