"Master!" Uchiha Madara heard Qiying Fofeng's voice coming from directly above his head.
"Where are you?" Qiying Fofeng shouted back.
When Uchiha Madara turned around, he discovered that Qiying Fofeng, who had been behind him, had suddenly vanished—and he had not noticed it at all.
"This is strange." Uchiha Madara felt that something was off. How could someone appear without him noticing, then suddenly disappear?
What kind of person could evade even his senses?
"Master!" Qiying Fofeng's voice was now very close. When Uchiha Madara looked up, he found that the endless staircase ahead had somehow brought them to the second floor.
"How did you end up behind me?" Qiying Fofeng asked Uchiha Madara in confusion.
"How did you end up in front of me?" Uchiha Madara was equally baffled. Qiying Fofeng had been following behind him from the start, yet somehow he had moved ahead of him.
Uchiha Madara was beginning to suspect that things were nothing like he had imagined.
It was as if he had entered a realm he knew absolutely nothing about.
"So what you said earlier was actually true?" Qiying Fofeng asked Uchiha Madara.
"Which part was true?" Qiying Fofeng looked at Uchiha Madara and asked. "Every word I've said since we met has been true."
"So you really aren't some swindler going around tricking people." Uchiha Madara sounded somewhat surprised.
Uchiha Madara was beginning to wonder whether everything happening here truly was caused by the evil spirit Qiying Fofeng had mentioned.
"How could I possibly be a swindler?" Qiying Fofeng said helplessly. "So you've thought I was some fraud all along?"
"I did think that from the beginning until now," Uchiha Madara said with a smile. "But now, I think you might not be."
"It seems I've run into a very troublesome situation," Uchiha