"Hmph, fighting me with your eyes closed, Takenaka Kaguya, aren't you being far too presumptuous?"
Graveyard Mountains.
As Madara Uchiha's furious voice rang out, Takenaka Kaguya across from him remained calm.
If anyone else had said that, Takenaka Kaguya would have thought they were just showing off. But this was Madara, known as the Uchiha Dance King. It could be said that throughout the entire Naruto story, no one possessed greater Haki than him.
"Buzz!"
Takenaka Kaguya once again coated the famed blade Shusui in Armament Haki, then immediately slashed forward.
He was now a Great Swordsman-level master of swordsmanship—where One Piece made no distinction between blades and swords—so this strike instantly unleashed a Flying Slash.
"Whoosh!"
Wherever the sword energy passed, it carved a trench three to four meters deep into the earth as it sped toward Madara Uchiha.
Seeing this, Madara Uchiha snorted. Although the slash was powerful, he did not take it seriously.
"Whoosh!"
Such powerful swordsmanship.
Madara Uchiha inwardly assessed it with some surprise, but he was not afraid.
He gripped the Uchiha Gunbai with both hands and shouted sharply, "Uchiha Return!"
"Clang!"
However, to Madara Uchiha's surprise, the Uchiha Gunbai, which had originally been capable of deflecting even Tailed Beast Bombs, not only failed to send Takenaka Kaguya's Flying Slash back, but if the Uchiha Gunbai had not been a divine artifact, he might have been split in two by it.
Even so, the Flying Slash still drove Madara Uchiha more than ten meters across the ground before its power finally dissipated.
"As expected of a divine artifact."
Although his eyes were closed, Takenaka Kaguya could still see, through his top-tier Observation Haki, that the Uchiha Gunbai had endured his Flying Slash head-on without even receiving a scratch.
Takenaka Kaguya knew that this Uchiha Gunbai