The Impact of the Second God of Shinobi

"We were originally fighting the Iwagakure troops led by Kitsuchi when a mysterious man in a black robe with a Three-Tomoe Sharingan suddenly appeared..."

Mu Yue briefly described the key points of what they had encountered that day.

Mu Yue did not go into detail about the battle. He only said that the ninja suspected to be Uchiha Madara was highly skilled in Fire Release, then briefly described the size of the Susanoo.

"Uchiha Madara... could it really be him?" Even though Mu Yue was the one reporting it, Jiraiya's first reaction was still disbelief.

The news simply defied common sense.

The one who had brought news of Uchiha Madara's death had been none other than the God of Shinobi, the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju. Hashirama Senju had personally said that he had killed Uchiha Madara.

Would Hashirama Senju lie? As a Konoha ninja, Jiraiya felt there had been no need for Hashirama Senju to lie.

Hashirama Senju had no need to use lies to enhance his reputation or achievements. He had already stood at the very pinnacle.

Then had Hashirama Senju deliberately let Uchiha Madara go, claiming he had killed him so that Uchiha Madara would not be hunted by Konoha?

That seemed unlikely as well. Uchiha Madara had once declared that he would destroy Konoha. For Hashirama Senju, the Hokage, that was an unforgivable crime.

Take Jiraiya himself. Even if Tsunade declared that she would destroy Konoha and stood against it, if the mission were handed to him, he would still kill Tsunade through his grief.

It was not because Tsunade was unimportant to him, but because Konoha was more important to him than himself, more important than anything else.

Jiraiya did not believe that Hashirama Senju, the man who had founded Konoha, loved Konoha any less than