Fugaku and Black Zetsu

If someone claimed Madara did not harbor some special feelings for the First Hokage, Chen would never believe it.

Otherwise, how could one explain that entire wall covered in "Hashirama"?

This was probably... love.

Chen could even imagine Madara in this pitch-black cave, reminiscing about the boy he had once chased while savoring the bitter taste of being dumped.

Tsk tsk...

After sighing with emotion for a while, Chen began examining the old man's corpse before him.

Though Madara looked frail and white-haired, traces of his former arrogant, domineering aura could still be seen.

As Chen drew closer, he suddenly noticed several Black Receivers embedded in Madara's corpse.

He sensed them and could feel Chakra being transmitted through the Black Receivers into Madara's body.

In other words, Black Zetsu had likely turned Madara's corpse into something similar to the Six Paths of Pain.

The Chakra powering it most likely came from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

This counted as a method of preserving a corpse.

However, Chen had no idea why Black Zetsu had chosen to preserve Madara's body.

Still, it was obvious that if Black Zetsu wanted Madara resurrected, it could not possibly provide him with a body like this. Otherwise, there would be no point in resurrecting him.

But regardless of what Black Zetsu planned, Chen had no intention of leaving the corpse behind. He intended to pack it up and take it back to Konoha.

After extracting Indra's Chakra, Chen would bury Madara near Hashirama and Mito's graves.

Even if they could not be together before death, they could at least be... cough cough, neighbors after death.

In the Hidden Rain Village, a towering structure rose amid the rain curtain.

This had once been Hanzō's favorite place to stay. After Hanzō died, it