The Third Tsuchikage had never wanted to tell anyone about this, because it was a dark chapter of his past.
Not many people in the Ninja World still remembered Madara Uchiha.
So he had always been unwilling to speak of how he had been suppressed by Madara Uchiha back then, even ignored by him.
He just had not expected that, in this era, an age like that would appear again—and that Konoha in this era would be even stronger than it had been back then.
Second Pillar and Neji Hyuga alone were already comparable to Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha of that time.
Most terrifying of all, above those two unmatched beings stood an even more mysterious powerhouse.
No one knew the extent of his true strength.
And because such a mysterious powerhouse kept them in check, the Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha of this era had not parted ways as they had back then.
They had even remained obediently in Konoha, serving the village.
Back then, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha had clashed because their ideals differed, while neither of them was overwhelmingly stronger than the other.
Though Hashirama Senju had won back then, he had not actually been much stronger than Madara Uchiha.
By the battle at the Valley of the End, Hashirama Senju had already been utterly exhausted.
And in the end, Madara Uchiha had even bitten off a piece of his flesh and awakened the Rinnegan.
Neither of them had possessed the strength to completely crush the other.
But in this era, there was someone suppressing those two.
Both Second Pillar and Neji Hyuga undoubtedly possessed strength on the level of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha.
And when Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju fought back then, neither of them had awakened the Rinnegan.
Of course, only