Martial way
A grizzly middle aged man was running away in horrified fear, screaming for help. how could someone be that strong without using chakra? At that moment he paused, and he heard calm heavy footsteps resounding more often than him.
He needed to hide quick, he looked around and saw a large fallen tree, he could hide behind it. The small moments he used to think this plan happened quickly, but still. He lost feeling his body, and died before he could know who killed him, but it was obvious who.
The rising star of mercenaries in the underworld, Final Line. He had mysteriously appeared out of nowhere and had recruited others into a team, he had helped them in their training. His teachings were as good as a veteran jonin, but he was just a teenager.
Back in the beginning people only joined because of good pay, it was really good. In the beginning he was very meek, but he could easily kill people as if cutting grass. But he was afraid of death, after a few weeks he coped with this flaw.
At most times he didn't use chakra, but when he did, he never ran out. It was as if it was endless, it was less pronouced with his followers, but they still had more than before they entered.
The weirdest thing was, even when he showed his face all the time, no one knew about him before a year ago. No village announced him a missing-nin, another weird thing was every single one of the members of 'Cheaters' was extremely enthousiastic in killing people, especially ninjas and those blessed by chakra.
Most people liked safe missions, living longer was what instict told you to follow most of the time. But it was thought to be the weird ritual they did to fresh corpses and the living after a battle, taking a weird light distortion into their chest.
Many organizations wanted to know more and sent spies and people that could figure things out, those that joined to get the information betrayed their employers and joined, the ones that didn't enter were killed and probably used as a victim for the ritual.
So in the end konoha had sent a jonin or two to irradicate the suspected jashin cultists, one just died, and the other was a pretty famous one called Kakashi.
The second was currently tied up without his sharingan, he was watching the celebration of a successfull mission. He even saw the exchange of light distorting things that they seemed to store in their chest, whenever he made noise he was completely ignored.
Final Line appeared suddenly and showed off the corpse of a jonin, and everyone celebrated even louder. Final Line gave a few roots to some of the stronger members, but he then said "Everyone, I know every one of you tries their best! But we know that people aren't made equal! Even among those with the same talent, those who have different ways of doing things and different motivations give different effects!"
He took out an green tinted root "This is from a jonin! Come forward, Orochimurai! A true talent! I wonder how much of an effect this root has, this is out first jonin!"
A pale man strided above the masses confidently, it was Orochimaru, using a weird name Matsuo made up. Though he had used a transformation technique to change his face and made his skin not completely white, so no one recognized him.
He was interested in this source thing and had to sign another contract... He didn't like it, but the source was completely transferable between bodies so he wasn't complaining to much.
When The root entered his chest it shown in a black light, constantly growing. Orochimurai dropped on the ground in great pain, after a minute of silence and Final line feeding and pouring many medicines and poisons that numbed pain. Orochimurai's black light consumed the entire area, then snap, it turned into a faint colorless light on his chest, slowly dying out. There was celebration everywhere, as if a great barrier had been crossed.
"A great achievement has been made today," Final Line said joyiously "But that Kakashi can go to sleep now." He said coldly.
Right after Kakashi's head was slammed with an extremely heavy hammer, knocking him out right away.
Final Line walked forward and checked Kakashi out, after a few seconds he said "He out!
Everybody's aura changed and started to deal in illegal and dangerous stuff, and Orochimurai showed his newest invention. A 10x10x10cm cube that could float with a few extra pebbles ontop of it, the foundation of a floating castle.
Matsuo had talked about how a levitating cube that would float stably even without out or with extra weight would bring apon a new age of evil, this was an off hand remark added on with; 'that won't be possible anyways'
Orochimaru got indignant and chose to show what real talent is, Matsuo was estatic and chose to give him the green root for that.
Matsuo took the cube and started to see how he could move it with chakra, it only took a few hours to make a new jutsu, this is what happens when you get older and have better chakra control. All Matsuo really did was mess with the fuinjutsu in the cube with jutsu, it was already made with adjustable hight, all Matsuo needed to figure out was how to move it horizontally. All he did was... Push it with chakra.
After understanding Orochimaru's fuinjutsu, Matsuo had Old Master start doing it in his free time with shadow clones.
He looked at his root storage, it was enough for another perma-clone.
Matsuo thought of his current creation, the mercenary troupe 'Cheaters'. It was more like a merchant carrevan actually, there were a bunch of factions that did jobs on their own. Like the largest 'Cheaters; martial path' that he had made himself, he taught all of them martial arts right away to see what happened. one guy tried to break though to become a real martial artist right away and exploded in an instant, not having the body necessary to contain internal energy.
One was able to get it without dying, and he was the oldest in the group. He had a lot of talent, like a lot. He was going to die of natural causes, and now he has a decade to think of a new way to increase his lifespan.
With his talent he chose to walk the path of martial arts, and Matsuo respected that choice and let him become the vice leader of martial path. And a few medicines from the system to help internal energy generation, and access to his personal island paradise training facility.
Matsuo's plan was to make that guy the inheritor of the 'Final Line' legacy so he could go back to playing Abyss without problems, he had enough talent to become a martial monarch. This is why he was considered a martial monarch while not acting as Final Line, he was just associated with the name now.
The martial way can increase lifespan btw, and the highest martial rank in this world right now is martial initiate. After enough natural energy is refined into internal energy though many ways to manifest blood qi and having awakened it, letting you obtain the strength of a jonin without using chakra, that is a martial novice.
And internal energy and chakra are not oposing forces unable to be used together, so martial arts have no real down sides. But the others only remembered the guy that exploded in a puddle of blood, so nobody tried anymore.
Matsuo was a martial initiate close to martial novice, he could become one at anytime right now. Though having more internal energy and having a more nourished body was good for the blood qi's quality, you're body can be nourished by sacrificing internal energy.
After the caravan was done for the week, Matsuo used a paper ticket to vanish in a great flash of star light. His figure appeared again with the unconcious kakashi infront of konoha, he had played around with the sharingan previously in the caravan and had taken the cells he needed to see if he could create another kamui sharingan. So Kakashi had his sharingan back, and Matsuo dissapeared in another flash of light.
Now on his island paradise, he saw an old looking man sitting crosslegged under a waterfall increasing his skin's defense with internal energy. Matsuo made a few shadow clones to train, and he walked to his new cave home deep in the earth, and pondered what to do.
Right now he had Madara as the origin of all his non-Xenomorph people, hmmmm.
[Madara summoning (Can turn into Madara revival at level 100) bought for 246 million ryo.
Summon Madara into this world as a spirit, you are able to suspend his soul in the open, or let him control your or someone else's body.]
It was extemely vague, but Matsuo didn't care. He just found Madara cool, and needed to get a story straight.
"Madara summoning!"
strands of different colored light condensed and started to slowly weave a human being with red armor, though it did seem pretty see through. It was Madara, but the eyes were hollow.
After all was finished the metaphysical body blinked and a soul was in its eyes, Matsuo smiled and clapped his hands "Ahhh. Madara summoning was successful, that's nice."
Matsuo gave Madara some time to get used to not having a real body, meanwhile he broke his arm. He poured all of his internal energy to that broken bone, quickening the healing process. Matsuo also put the two bone parts together correctly, very proficiently too. This is how you nourish something damage it slightly or a lot then use internal energy to fix it. It works the same for muscles, but using muscles a lot damages it and then it heals and it gets stronger on its own. Works the same with internal energy but with every single biological-physical thing.
I personally work with bone marrow the most since stem cells come from there, but Matsuo goes for the entire bone. And crudely, just break a bone and use the healing power of internal energy to fix it! it works better than medicinal baths and the like, but people don't like self-harm.
But his way of getting pain endurace was easy and unique, he made that shadow clones can feel pain and then made them torture themselves until they went numb, and could no longer be affected by the pain. Bad memories when I tried that when I saw it, bad memories.
Matsuo used chakra to stick the bone together, then let it do its thing. Matsuo made a shadow clone and let it talk with Madara for a while, he went into another room and started to mutilate himself efficiently.
Madara who was still getting used to a spirit body asked the clone "Is this impure world reincarnation?"
The clone, who had Matsuo's annoyance at impure world reincarnation being far beyond his current buget in the forseen future in him, said in an extremely resentful tone "Oh, I wish, I wish it was like that. But it isn't! I used my very, own, technique. Madara summoning, yep, I made it myself. And, you, Madara Uchiha. You are now the creator of martial arts, got it?"
Madara took some time to process this information, and he as if losing his footing asked "What is, 'Martial arts'?"
The clone relaxedly explained "Martial arts is making your body strong enough for internal energy so that you don't explode when getting it, then using internal energy to strengthen or 'nourish' your body, until you can slash chose to create blood qi from your normal blood.
Blood qi is like your life or extreme yang and can be burnt for extreme power lowering your life span and health and also makes your body strong enough to beat up a jonin without chakra or anything else passively.
internal energy is a mix of yang and a nature energy that went through a special refinement process to stop it from making you a frog statue, it also has healing properties so when you nourish your broken bones that you yourself had broken to increase the rate of nourishment it takes less time to heal, the more 'nourished' a thing is the faster it heals with the help or without internal energy, it also permanently strengthens your body when you nourish with it.
It can also be used to infuse your body or weapon to increase some aspect of it temporarily, it gets stonger on its own when blood qi is created and become stronger and better. The blood qi basically is like a catalyst to increase the rate of internal energy and chakra being created, and internal energy gets a bit of a boost from that process." If it was a real person they would be out of breath out of saying all that, but shadow clones don't need to breath anyways, so who cares?
The shadow clone also dropped a bombshell on him "I pinned the creation on you, because some random person creating the best thing this world has seen since six-paths saved the world from his mother wasn't that believeable. I'm also going to make you a genius that did everything in his power to catch up to the incredibly talented Harashima, even using the chakra regeneration organs of others to increase your own charkra regeneration, and a lot of other stuff I come up with. I've already decided to pin the path to immortality on you too, but it was an unfinished path and you weren't able to use it and your extremely talented disciple in that path was able to complete it, hoping to revive you. This would open a whole new world of Madara adventures! And after some time I'll be able to resurect you with your rennegan fully active, but I won't do that before your little moon eye thingy is done."
Madara was stunned at all of the information, but with experience he could still talk and could understand the information. There was one question left "What do you want from me?" His voice was littered with suspiscion, how did this kid even know about the eye of the moon plan.
"Easy," The clone said "Talk about all the techniques and jutsus that I pin on you while you brag, also. Use martial arts and all the other things I pin on you, quite easy if I say so myself." The clone said another thing "You don't really have a choice anyways."
The clone took out a ticket and teleported somewhere far underground, along with Madara's soul-spirit-thing. Infront of the two of them was a child in a vegtable state, the clone seemed happy and said "What do you think of your new vessle? Oh actually, you don't have a say in this."
Madara started to unravel and the strands of light entered the vegtable child, after the process was over the teen started to move about. All of the child's now madara's actions lacked any precision or control, as if it was inhibited.
The clone didn't seem to care and put a bag on the newly incarnated Madara and used a ticket to teleport him to lightning country, The clone dissapated and a new one appeared next to the bloody mess that was Matsuo, giving him all sorts of medicines to speed up the nourishing process.