Madara Uchiha's Complete Body Susanoo was immensely powerful, but that did not change the fact that this technique was fundamentally spiritual power manifested through the Sharingan.
The Shinigami Blade was the culmination of countless years of creation by the Uzumaki Clan, a weapon wielded by the Shinigami. Its physical destructive power was weak, but it was far more effective at restraining intangible, elusive souls and spiritual power. Its attributes were even more specialized than the power of the divine artifact Futsunomitama hidden within the secret techniques of Sasuke Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan.
Although the Shinigami Blade was virtually ineffective against matter, and its ability to cut through chakra could only be called mediocre, it had no trouble chopping souls, reanimated bodies, or Susanoo into pieces.
And now, Madara Uchiha experienced just how thoroughly Mizuki had prepared. From the very beginning, he had considered Madara Uchiha's fighting style and the measures to take under every possible circumstance.
Although Mizuki had intended to kill Madara Uchiha in one strike, he knew full well that the chances of that were infinitesimal.
Sure enough, although Madara Uchiha had lost the initiative and was somewhat surprised, he was nowhere near as panicked as expected. Even after falling victim to Mizuki's sneak attack, he remained intensely confident.
In the instant before impact, Madara Uchiha used the Summoning Technique. Through his connection to the Rinnegan, he communicated with the enormous Ten-Tails Jinchuriki husk, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which suddenly broke through the barriers of space-time and blocked the attack before him.
Even the lunar seal personally established by the Sage of Six Paths could not prevent Madara Uchiha from summoning the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Mizuki's immature little space was far inferior to the place in the heavens where Hamura Otsutsuki's descendants had