Pant, pant!!
Hiruzen Sarutobi breathed heavily, his face etched with extreme fatigue.
A circular hole gaped in the chest of his black battle robe, surrounded by intricate black seal markings.
Deep inside, his mind was utterly shattered.
He had gone into the forbidden art—one that demanded his life and soul—with a resolute, do-or-die determination, yet not only had he failed to seal his formidable enemy Wang Ming, but he had ended up sealing one of his own allies instead.
"The Uzumaki Clan's sealing jutsu!" Tobirama Senju said with a frown.
Witnessing Hashirama Senju get sealed with his own eyes had indeed given Tobirama a profound shock.
"So that's the weakness of my Impure World Reincarnation!" Tobirama remarked.
Madara Uchiha cast a wary glance at Hiruzen Sarutobi, thinking to himself, This is the Uzumaki Clan's sealing jutsu, a forbidden art capable of dragging a person's soul right out of their body and feeding it to the Death God.
Looks like I need to be careful.
Madara was no ordinary man like the Senju brothers.
His death hadn't been as straightforward as theirs; before dying, he had already set in motion a whole series of resurrection plans, and right now he was simply waiting for Obito to bring him back.
If the Death God were to swallow his soul into its belly, how on earth could he ever resurrect?
"It's all the fault of this cowardly Tobirama," Madara cursed inwardly.
Strictly speaking, this entire mess really was Tobirama's doing.
Tobirama had chosen Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura as his students, personally appointed Hiruzen as the Third Hokage, and on top of that, he was the one who had summoned Madara via the very forbidden art of Impure World Reincarnation that Tobirama himself had invented.
"Forbidden Art: Dead Demon Consuming Seal!"
"The Fourth