The Limbo (Part One)

Everyone took another close look, and the entire ground had been frozen solid.

The fractured earth finally stopped shaking. Without soil and stones to fill the gaps, the stone eggs suspended in midair could no longer grow, and the members of the Shinobi Alliance finally escaped the crisis.

However, most of them had already been sealed inside those stone eggs, leaving only a scant few still standing on the ground.

It had to be known that everyone qualified to enter this battlefield was an elite of the Five Great Shinobi Villages. Not a single one was below the rank of jonin.

Madara Uchiha's attack had nearly wiped out the elites of the Five Great Villages, and the hearts of the five Kage were bleeding.

A jonin from Iwagakure was just about to use a ninjutsu to destroy the stone eggs and rescue the comrades sealed inside when Ōnoki shouted to stop him.

"Don't act recklessly! A brute-force method can indeed destroy those stone eggs, but it could just as easily injure the people sealed inside!"

If opening the stone eggs could save them, he would have cut them open with Dust Release long ago.

Why would he have waited until now?

Hearing this, the many people who had been preparing to break them open by force reluctantly stopped.

"You again?"

Seeing the frozen ground and the man radiating a chilling aura, Madara Uchiha frowned slightly. "Were you the one who trapped the Six-Tails with Ice Release earlier?"

He still had a vague impression of this shinobi who had used Ice Release to restrain the Six-Tails.

"It's truly not easy to be remembered by you!" Qi Shuang said with a smile.

Someone as arrogant as Madara Uchiha had never taken anyone seriously aside from Hashirama Senju.

Being remembered by him could