In the dim laboratory of Konoha.
"Summoning Jutsu: Reanimation!"
With a soft shout.
A coffin rose from the ground, and then the coffin lid automatically fell off and disappeared.
Countless white debris flew out from the coffin and then condensed to form a domineering figure wearing red armor and covered in cracks.
It was Madara Uchiha, who had been ruthlessly blown up by Superwoman Shiroori.
"...Did you see it?"
Madara Uchiha, who had just been resurrected, had no anger or grievance on his face. He looked at Tobirama Senju before him with a calm expression and asked.
"Yeah..."
Tobirama Senju did not mock Madara Uchiha either. He nodded with a serious expression and said, "Incomparably powerful, even my older brother is inferior."
"That power is undoubtedly otherworldly."
Madara Uchiha evaluated, "A taijutsu of this level, even the legendary Eight Gates Released Formation might not be its opponent."
"More importantly, she is not Karl."
"The Blue-Eyes White Dragon, the number two figure in the Golden Nation, has the power to defeat me, and even my older brother is no match for her. That one known as the Dragon Knight, Knight King, Golden Lord, and King of the Seas, the World's Strongest Man of another world, what kind of powerful existence is he?" Tobirama Senju said with a grave expression.
"Karl is the same as her, a taijutsu powerhouse of that level, and he has the Logia-type Rumble-Rumble Fruit that ignores physical attacks..."
Madara Uchiha said lightly, "To use elemental counters to harm him is almost an impossible thing."
"To defeat Karl and the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, we only have two methods."
"The first is to use a rule-based ability like that world's, for example, the Spirit Transformation Technique which involves the soul, the Soul Sealing Jutsu, and the mysterious ninja tools and other Hiden and items left by the Sage of Six Paths..."
"The second is a sealing jutsu that can ignore the gap in strength."
"The powerhouses of that world are mostly taijutsu powerhouses. The Haki, which is similar to our world's chakra, is also a very monotonous ability. It can't evolve into Yin-Yang and the five elements like our chakra... As for Devil Fruits, although they are a relatively powerful ability, each person can only eat one Devil Fruit and possess a single ability."
"As long as we can break their physique and Haki, and even their Devil Fruit defense, then these otherworldly people are not much different from us ordinary people, they are all fragile existences."
"So..."
His tone paused slightly, and Madara Uchiha looked at Tobirama Senju and continued, "To defeat the strongest person of the other world, we only have two means: sealing or assassinating their soul."
"In my era, the most outstanding 'Master of Ninjutsu' in the ninja world was you. Mito and Hashirama were the most outstanding sealing masters. If I want to defeat those otherworldly people, I might need more help from the dead."
"You mean... you want me to resurrect my sister-in-law?"
Tobirama Senju frowned slightly and said with some hesitation, "I dare not make this decision on my own. I need to ask my older brother."
"Hashirama will understand. Because the enemy this time is an existence that the living cannot deal with."
Madara Uchiha said in a deep voice, "The current crisis is the greatest crisis in the world, one that even the dead and the living joining forces may not be able to resist."
"...You're right!"
Almost as soon as Madara Uchiha's words fell.
An old voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
To be precise, it sounded in his soul, and even his spiritual space.
Like him, there was also Hashirama Senju, who was helping Kumogakure to strengthen the seal on the Beasts Pirates and was on his way back to Konoha.
The souls of the dead reincarnations of Asura and Indra were pulled from the world of the living into a mysterious space by a mysterious and powerful force that even a super Kage-level powerhouse could not resist.
"Madara?"
"Hashirama?"
The sudden change of heaven and earth made both Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha stunned.
When they saw each other appear out of thin air in front of them, they were once again stunned.
"Asura, Indra... no, Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, I have brought you here."
Before Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha could have any thoughts, an old voice suddenly came from their ears.
Looking in the direction of the voice, they saw an old man with two horns on his head, brown hair, wearing a white coat, with six black tomoe-like patterns on his chest, a red spiral-like symbol on his back, and nine tomoe arranged in a nine-square grid below. He was sitting cross-legged, floating in the air, and was looking at them with a pair of Rinnegan. His voice was old but full of majesty and an invisible deterrent force, "I am the founder of Ninshū, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, also known in your cognition as... the Sage of Six Paths."
"The Sage of Six Paths?!"
Hearing these four words, whether it was Madara Uchiha who knew more, or Hashirama Senju who did not know as much as Madara Uchiha, their faces both changed slightly.
"So you are the legendary Sage of Six Paths. No wonder you have the Rinnegan."
Madara Uchiha was the first to calm down and said with a cold expression, "A figure who exists in myths, why have you sought us out?"
To have their souls pulled into this mysterious space by a force they could not refuse.
This power, which was stronger than Shiroori's, made Madara Uchiha subconsciously feel a deep sense of vigilance towards this mythical figure.
"Don't be nervous. I am not your enemy."
As if seeing through Madara Uchiha's thoughts, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki said slowly, "I will tell you everything, but before that... Madara, I hope you will tell Hashirama beside you about the battle just now."
"You saw it too?"
Hearing this, Madara Uchiha's face changed again, and he connected more things.
"Eh... a battle? Madara, who were you fighting just now?"
Hashirama Senju was slightly stunned and looked at Madara Uchiha beside him curiously.
"...Extend your fist!"
Madara Uchiha took a deep look at Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, then extended his fist to Hashirama Senju.
In response, Hashirama Senju quickly bumped fists with Madara Uchiha.
The next moment, he immediately understood everything.