At least, in Uchiha Tenxiu's eyes, the latter's chances were clearly greater. After all, the friendship between Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama was incredibly deep. If Uchiha Madara truly regarded his clan members as family, then his act of ambushing Senju Hashirama would almost certainly succeed.
One must know, with Senju Hashirama's simple-mindedness, he would never expect Uchiha Madara to ambush him. Therefore, as long as Uchiha Madara truly did so, his plan would inevitably succeed.
Of course, unless the Six Paths Sage cheated and resurrected Senju Hashirama again.
Otherwise, Senju Hashirama would definitely die.
"And once Senju Hashirama dies, the entire Uchiha Clan would be able to wipe out the Senju Clan, and almost no force in the Ninja World would be able to contend with them. In this way, how could the Uchiha Clan be suppressed by Konoha, which was established primarily by the Senju? Not only were they robbed of two Hokage positions, but they could only humiliatingly accept this situation!" Recalling Utchiha Feiniao's exasperated expression when he privately told him these things, Uchiha Tenxiu seemed to understand some things.
Uchiha Madara, it seems, truly was unpopular!
"At least, from the perspective of Utchiha Feiniao, the newly promoted Second Elder, his description of the entire Uchiha Clan's view of Uchiha Madara was simply one of 'hating iron for not becoming steel.' There were countless opportunities to help the clan eliminate the Senju Clan, but Uchiha Madara seemed to treat the battle with the Senju as a game. Battle itself is about using any means necessary, but he treated the life and death of the clan as a child's play. He lost, brushed his hands clean, but the clan had to pay a heavy price for it, even potentially leading to the death of clan members."
"No wonder these people in the clan hate him so much, believing that everything is Uchiha Madara's fault!"
"And this is very incredible. Could it be that the Indra and Ashura Chakra influence is so great that these two reincarnates only want to defeat each other, and other people involved in the process are like strangers? Uchiha Madara's selfish actions almost harmed the Uchiha Clan as if they were enemies!!" Uchiha Tenxiu was also bewildered, thinking back to the original plot where his brother and father led people to ambush Senju Hashirama's side. He lied, saying he couldn't defeat the opponent, which led to his father's plan failing, completely forgetting that his other brothers, besides Uchiha Izuna, were killed by the Senju.
Such a person is hard to describe!
Uchiha Tenxiu wouldn't care how the other party's idiocy affected him, but as someone destined to become the ruler of the Ninja World, the other party was a significant obstacle on his path. However, when it came to Uchiha Madara alone, Uchiha Tenxiu believed that with his growth rate, it wouldn't take many years to easily defeat him.
But compared to Uchiha Madara's own strength, the various hidden schemes behind him were what Uchiha Tenxiu needed to be more wary of.
For example, Black Zetsu, an existence similar to Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's "Kama," was very troublesome. At least, Uchiha Tenxiu currently had no way to defend against his sneak attacks.
Unless the other party possessed him, then he could be suppressed by his Heavenly Dimension Space fragments. But that probability was too small.
Therefore, before he had a means to counter Black Zetsu, Uchiha Tenxiu did not intend to disrupt his plan.
Not to mention, further behind Black Zetsu, the even more insidious Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, the Six Paths Sage, was hidden.
From the original plot, it can be seen that there were many suspicious points regarding Uchiha Madara's own Rinnegan awakening.
Everything seemed too coincidental; all the conditions were met perfectly, but he only managed to awaken it just before his death. At this time, Senju Hashirama had long passed away, and Uchiha Madara himself, due to old age and infirmity, could no longer engage in more battles, only able to seek opportunities for resurrection by setting up contingencies.
This led to the fact that when Uchiha Madara's plan truly began, Indra and Ashura's Chakra had already successfully reincarnated and possessed a certain level of strength, capable of receiving the Six Paths Sage's Yin and Yang power to easily stop Six Paths Level opponents.
And the Six Paths Sage precisely relied on Indra and Ashura's Chakra for external power transmission, ending all plans controlled by Black Zetsu, and further sealing Kaguya again.
From this point, it is not difficult to see that Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's desire to interfere with the Ninja World was not so simple; at least, he had to rely on Indra and Ashura's Chakra to manipulate things.
Without these two.
Perhaps he could still interfere.
But the interference would not be as strong.
Regarding this, Uchiha Tenxiu had no doubt that behind Uchiha Madara, besides Black Zetsu, the Six Paths Sage was also one of the hidden manipulators, with his own unique conspiracy.
It should be noted that while Sharingan and Rinnegan both belong to dojutsu abilities, they are not simply hierarchical evolutions. Instead, they are different branch lines of atavistic inheritance, passed down from Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, possessing different manifestations of power.
At least in the Ninja World, the first pair of Rinnegan belonged to the Six Paths Sage, and only the Six Paths Sage's Rinnegan could form a contract with the Ten-Tails' body after sealing Kaguya.
So, why could the Rinnegan awakened by Uchiha Madara summon the Gedo Mazo? It clearly defies logic.
After all, summoning the Gedo Mazo does not seem to be a universal Rinnegan ability. Otherwise, why wouldn't other Ōtsutsuki members from space use the Gedo Mazo after coming to the Ninja World? The scent of conspiracy in this is immediately apparent.
If it were a universal ability belonging only to the Ōtsutsuki Kaguya lineage's Rinnegan, that would also be impossible!
Because in the original plot, whether in the anime or manga, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo became the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki and separated it into nine Tailed Beasts within his body, then expelled the nine Tailed Beasts from his body, and Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo himself did not die, which proves that he still had the Ten-Tails' Chakra within him. Judging by the weak appearance of the nine Tailed Beasts when they were just born, they simply do not match the level of the Ten-Tails' Chakra.
And setting aside the Chakra of these nine Tailed Beasts, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo himself possessed more of the Ten-Tails' Chakra, but if he wanted to contain the powerful Ten-Tails' Chakra, he would have to give the Ten-Tails' Chakra a vessel, because pure Chakra cannot be a Jinchuriki, so naturally, there was another Gedo Mazo.
And, at least, it sealed all the Chakra origins possessed by the nine Tailed Beasts, and possibly even more.
At least, in Uchiha Tenxiu's opinion, if it were him, he would definitely dilute and spread out what he possessed, let it grow freely, and then harvest it.
Applying this logic.
The Six Paths Sage's intentions would then be very normal.
Both Gedo Mazo are based on the body left behind by the God Tree, shaped by the power of the Rinnegan, and contracted with the Six Paths Sage's Chakra. Therefore, to summon the Gedo Mazo, only the Six Paths Sage's own Chakra can be used, and using the Six Paths Sage's own Chakra proves that his every move is within the Six Paths Sage's sight.
In summary, with the awakening of the Rinnegan, for Uchiha Madara, it might mean that he had completely become a pawn of the Six Paths Sage.
"Especially, the clan's inherited stone tablet further proves this whole conspiracy!" Uchiha Tenxiu sneered, and after becoming an Elder, entering the clan to observe the inherited stone tablet with his Sharingan, with his ability, he could barely see things that only the Mangekyo level could see.
Aside from the lie of opening the Infinite Tsukuyomi to create peace, which was tampered with by Black Zetsu. Some things were indeed left by the Six Paths Sage.
This included the description of the Sharingan, which must be activated by losing love and having its vision restored only by the eyes of a blood relative, as well as the subtle hint to future generations that only the combination of Senju and Uchiha could grant the ability to perceive all things, essentially inducing those who awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in the Uchiha Clan to obtain the Rinnegan.
But the problem is, when the Six Paths Sage was alive, Indra had already become estranged from him, so how could he have obtained this inherited stone tablet left in his hands?
Not to mention, when the so-called Sharingan, Mangekyo, and Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan were awakened, the Six Paths Sage had long been dead for who knows how many years.
The earliest descendants of Indra must have known the source of these clan hatreds. Did they never suspect the stone tablet?
It was nothing more than intentionally leaving the stone tablet to deliberately mislead future generations into doing so. The so-called Yin and Yang unification to open the Rinnegan was just a deliberate bait to trick Black Zetsu!
