What? My great World Government has fallen?

Apart from the dazzling light, there were no raging winds or tsunamis, no shock waves, and certainly no islands sinking before their eyes.

Compared to the grand spectacles that routinely leveled mountains and overturned seas, the commotion caused by this beam was actually rather small. Its effects were confined to a whirlpool less than a hundred meters across.

But anyone with a discerning eye knew this was the result of highly concentrated energy. The ninjas with keen sensory abilities, in particular, broke into cold sweats when they sensed the bottomless abyss beneath that whirlpool.

The beam had actually pierced through the strata beneath the deep sea!

Amid their shock, they could not help turning hopeful eyes toward the sky. With power this terrifying, surely even Uchiha Madara was dead?

The light began to fade, and a lump of charred, mangled flesh fell from the sky. As it fell, new flesh kept sprouting from it.

Disgusting as it looked, everyone knew what it meant: Uchiha Madara was still alive!

At the sight, not only did the ninjas' eyes dim, but even the powerful fighters who had come to support them instinctively gaped. Surviving even that? This white-haired freak was something else!

His defenses certainly could not compare to Lord Longinus's, but even Lord Longinus probably could not match that vitality. He was practically a giant earthworm!

In the blink of an eye, Uchiha Madara had regenerated most of his body. Then, looking thoroughly bedraggled, he plucked out his right eye and popped a Mangekyo Sharingan into its place.

"It was Izanagi!" Uchiha Itachi murmured, his eyes full of shock. "He used Izanagi and still suffered injuries that severe!"

But Itachi soon understood.

Uchiha Madara probably had not intended to use Izanagi at first, only to find that his Truth-Seeking Orb had