Uchiha Madara never expected that Obito's ocular abilities would actually be obtained by Yagyu.
Moreover, judging from the appearance of the black hole and the scene of the black longsword distorting space and devouring the shadows of the Tomb, it was clear that Yagyu had not only obtained the abilities of Obito's right eye but also the left eye that had been transplanted into someone else.
Madara didn't know whether Yagyu had specifically sought out the person with the left eye and transplanted its abilities or if his Rinnegan's unique ocular abilities had hidden powers that allowed him to gain the abilities of both eyes simply by devouring one eye—or perhaps even something he himself was unaware of, directly acquiring the ocular abilities of both the left and right eyes.
If it was the latter, then Yagyu's Rinnegan's unique ocular abilities were likely far more powerful than imagined.
Thinking of this, Madara's mood grew even heavier.
After becoming the perfect Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, Madara had believed he had become the second Sage of Six Paths, utterly invincible.
Even Yagyu was nothing more than a trivial matter.
But he never expected that Yagyu had been hiding such depths.
With a Six Paths Sage Mode and Truth-Seeking Balls similar to the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki's physique, a Rinnegan with unique ocular abilities capable of devouring and replicating everything, and a space-time ability that combined offense and defense.
Add to that the bizarre ability to easily sever even the Six Paths Staff, which shares the same nature as the Truth-Seeking Balls...
At this moment, Madara seemed to understand why Yagyu hadn't rushed to seize control of the Ten-Tails after killing Obito, and why he remained so confident even when facing him now.
Although Yagyu's chakra reserves were like a flickering firefly compared to his own, his methods made Madara feel extremely troubled, even helpless.
Because Madara had no means to counter space-time abilities.
Perhaps the Ten-Tails possessed such means, but having just become its Jinchūriki, aside from the innate abilities, he couldn't yet tap into deeper powers.
Thus, facing Yagyu, who wielded space-time abilities, Madara found himself momentarily at a disadvantage.
Of course, Yagyu had no idea what Madara was thinking.
Having missed Madara with a space-time distorting attack, Yagyu emerged from the Kamui dimension. Looking at the sea of trees formed by the Divine Deep Forest Emergence that covered the entire Land of Rain, he couldn't help but sigh, "Is this the power of the Divine Tree? It's simply incomparable to ordinary Wood Release."
"The Divine Tree?"
Hearing these words, Madara's eyebrows raised slightly in confusion. "You know about the Infinite Tsukuyomi?"
For a moment, Madara felt a stirring in his heart and wasn't in a hurry to eliminate Yagyu, his greatest obstacle.
He was somewhat curious about whether Yagyu knew of the Infinite Tsukuyomi and what his thoughts on it were.
If their views aligned, perhaps the two could become like-minded comrades, much like how he and Hashirama had been in the past.
Madara's ambition had never been to unify the ninja world. He simply believed that Hashirama's approach to peace was flawed and wanted to eradicate war at its root.
By severing the chains of causality and allowing everyone to live in happiness, there would be no more war.
Unaware that the Infinite Tsukuyomi was a means to create White Zetsu, Madara believed that only the Infinite Tsukuyomi could achieve such a thing.
If Yagyu agreed with his methods, Madara was willing to make peace with him.
However, if Yagyu's ambition was to rule the ninja world, then Madara would spare no effort to eliminate him.
Not because Yagyu was ambitious, but because such peace would not last. As long as causality remained, the future would inevitably repeat itself.
Hearing this, Yagyu smiled meaningfully and said, "I know more than you do, but I won't tell you."
After speaking, Yagyu condensed another black longsword and charged toward Madara.
"It seems you've read Obito's memories."
Madara didn't believe Yagyu's words, thinking that the only reason Yagyu knew these things was through the Rinnegan's unique ocular abilities.
The Outer Path was an upgraded, perfect version of the Preta Path, capable of replication, so it wasn't surprising that it also possessed the abilities of the Human Path.
Seeing that there was no chance of reaching an agreement with Yagyu, Madara stopped wasting words and decided to go all out, sparing no effort to eliminate Yagyu.
He raised his Six Paths Staff to meet Yagyu's attack.
Unlike his previous arrogance and disdain, Madara's expression was now serious and focused.
Before even clashing, he was already envisioning the upcoming battle, thinking about how to counter Yagyu's special abilities and the space-time ocular abilities inherited from Obito.
As he watched Yagyu flying toward him, Madara's eyes suddenly flashed as if he had noticed something.
Yagyu's eyes were no longer the purple ripple pattern of the Rinnegan but the crimson Mangekyō Sharingan.
The unique pattern in his pupils was familiar to Madara—it was Obito's Kamui.
In other words, Yagyu's next attack would still rely on space-time abilities.
Thus, two shadows, invisible to both the naked eye and sensory perception, appeared around Madara and shot toward Yagyu.
During their earlier exchange, the cooldown for Limbo: Border Jail had ended.
Like Yagyu's Sword of Nunoboko, Limbo: Border Jail was a special Yin Release technique.
As long as chakra remained and the soul was intact, even if the eyes or other things were lost, Yin Release techniques could still be used, just as Madara could still summon Susanoo without eyes.
The Limbo shadows that had been devoured were not Madara's true shadows but merely creations of chakra.
If not for the limit of four shadows in Limbo: Border Jail, with his current chakra reserves, Madara could create as many Limbo shadows as he wanted.
Since Yagyu wasn't using the Rinnegan now, even if he could sense the presence of the Limbo shadows, aside from space-time abilities, he would have no way to deal with them.
And when Yagyu attacked, that would be Madara's chance to find an opening.
Four black shadows attacked Yagyu from within a different dimension.
With only the Mangekyō Sharingan active, Yagyu seemed unable to see or sense them, continuing to fly toward Madara.
Then, the four shadows passed right through Yagyu's body.
This showed that Yagyu's body was hidden within the Kamui dimension.
Though both were in different dimensions, the Limbo shadows and Yagyu's body existed in entirely separate spaces.
Seeing this, Madara's expression remained unchanged.
But the four shadows that had passed through Yagyu quickly returned to Madara's side, ready to attack Yagyu again the moment he revealed his true body during his clash with Madara.
Thus, just like before, high in the sky, Yagyu swung his sword at Madara.
Madara, wielding the Six Paths Staff, swung back at Yagyu.
When the two clashed, there was no sound, no struggle—they simply passed through each other.
Seeing this, neither Yagyu nor Madara showed any change in expression.
As the black longsword passed through the Six Paths Staff and slashed toward Madara's body, Madara didn't even dodge, merely adjusting the trajectory of his staff to aim for Yagyu's head instead of his shoulder.
If Yagyu revealed his true body, turning the black longsword from an intangible attack into a real one, Madara, with his immortal body, would gladly trade injuries.
He didn't believe that Yagyu's Six Paths Sage Mode could grant him the same immortality as the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki.
Without immortality, once Yagyu's body was breached by the Six Paths Staff and injured, unless he had some special means, the no-seal healing of Wood Release would be unable to repair the damage caused by the staff.
That was because it was an attack that annihilated everything—flesh, cells, even the soul—turning them into dust and nothingness.
With four Limbo shadows lurking nearby, Madara was confident he could severely injure Yagyu in a single move.
Thus, Madara wasn't worried about Yagyu turning the sword into a real attack or imbuing it with that special energy or space-time power. In fact, he was eagerly anticipating Yagyu revealing his true body.
But clearly, Yagyu seemed to sense the danger and wasn't so reckless. Instead, he held the black longsword and passed through Madara's body.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
In the next moment, Madara's expression changed drastically as he looked up at the dazzling white light that had suddenly appeared in the sky.
Without hesitation, he merged the nine Truth-Seeking Balls around him into one, liquefying them to form a massive black sphere that enveloped him.
At the same time, the four Limbo shadows quickly flew to the top, bottom, left, and right of the black sphere, forming an invisible barrier.
Boom————
The brilliant white light tore through the darkness, turning night into day.
Then, nine overlapping explosions, sounding as one, shook the entire Land of Rain. Even the Allied Shinobi Forces, hiding in neighboring countries and constantly fleeing to put distance between themselves and the battle, could hear it as if the explosion had occurred right beside them.
Although they had already heard such earth-shattering explosions multiple times tonight, the sudden blast still sent a shiver through the hearts of the Allied Shinobi Forces, including the Five Kage.
It wasn't that their mental fortitude was weak—on the contrary, it was precisely because their strength had reached the limits of ordinary humans that they instinctively felt fear.
After all, for them, figures like Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju were already beings from another dimension.
Just as in the original story, when faced with Madara's Tengai Shinsei, countless shinobi chose to give up, lamenting that they were not on the same level.
The Six Paths level was similarly in a different dimension from the Kage level. To the Allied Shinobi Forces and the Five Kage, it was like facing a god.
And the Truth-Seeking Balls were akin to a god's innate weapons.
Now, with these weapons self-destructing at full power, the resulting devastation was no different from the end of the world.
The sound of thunder, volcanic eruptions, even earthquakes—none could compare to this deafening explosion.
Even from a country away, they felt as if the sky had collapsed, with a world-ending tsunami threatening to engulf them at any moment.
If they were this far away and still felt such danger, they couldn't imagine what it would be like to be in the Land of Rain. Even a fraction of the shockwave would likely reduce them to dust.
Why does such power exist in this world?
We all use chakra, so why is there such a gap?
Are they even still shinobi? Are they really using ninjutsu?!
The remaining Five Kage and elite jonin, while leading their troops in retreat, couldn't help but think this, filled with despair and helplessness.
Of course, the shinobi from Konoha also felt worry and excitement.
They were worried because Yagyu, who had used a Wood Release technique covering an entire country, still hadn't defeated his enemy.
Was this earth-shattering explosion caused by Yagyu, or by his enemy?
Just how strong was Yagyu's enemy? Would Yagyu win?
Their excitement stemmed from the fact that if Yagyu won, the ninja world would be under Konoha's rule.
For as long as Yagyu lived, their generation, and even the next, would never have to set foot on a battlefield again.
Like the Allied Shinobi Forces, the civilians in neighboring countries also prayed for Yagyu's victory.
Those who hadn't fled the Land of Rain had either already been killed by the explosions or were hanging from the Divine Deep Forest Emergence that covered the country, protected by Madara.
The repeated explosions tonight had made the civilians in neighboring countries realize that an unimaginable war was raging in the Land of Rain.
They all prayed for the Five Great Nations to emerge victorious.
Though peace had little to do with civilians like them, compared to the uncertainty of the ninja world's future, they preferred to maintain the current "peace."
The white light that tore through the darkness and turned night into day lasted for a long time before finally fading.
The shockwaves from the explosion not only enveloped the entire Land of Rain but also spread to several neighboring countries, traveling who knows how many miles before dissipating.
When everything finally calmed down, the Land of Rain, submerged in a sea of trees, had undergone significant changes.
To be precise, the sea of trees had turned into a massive wooden bowl.
The explosion of a single Truth-Seeking Ball was enough to annihilate all creation.
The explosion of nine Truth-Seeking Balls, enhanced by the power of the Underworld Slash, had even killed Obito, the gatekeeper of the Six Paths.
Now, with another nine Truth-Seeking Balls exploding, and unlike the concentrated explosion of the sword, this was a widespread blast.
The sheer power was such that even the Divine Deep Forest Emergence, a god-level ninjutsu, was reduced to dust.
Had the explosion occurred on the ground, it would have created another massive crater.
Within the wooden bowl that was now the Land of Rain, a figure as small as an ant, even smaller than the ants in the bowl, floated.
This figure was Yagyu.
At this moment, Yagyu was looking down at the ground, releasing his sensory abilities to search for Madara's presence.
Rewinding to just before the explosion, a figure emerged from a black hole and glared at the black sphere protecting Madara.
The space-time power distorted space, tearing open the black sphere.
Then, the power to annihilate all creation engulfed Madara, as well as Yagyu's Wood Clone hidden in another dimension.
The real body as bait, the clone as the spear—this was Yagyu's tactic!