Uchiha Ying Yue's thoughts couldn't help but return to an earlier age, to the dark years of the Warring States period.
Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, once the closest of friends, were born in an era when even children were forced onto the battlefield.
In that cruel, chaotic age, all of Madara's younger brothers except Uchiha Izuna died before reaching adulthood.
Likewise, all of Senju Hashirama's younger brothers except Tobirama died on the battlefield.
In those brutal times, the entire Ninja World was like one enormous mental asylum, where violence and death were the only laws.
Madara and Hashirama, two geniuses who had grown up amid chaos, held ideals of peace that transcended their era.
They hoped to establish a village where children would no longer have to go to war, allowing the Ninja World to recover and return to peace.
As the years passed, Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara finally realized their childhood dream. Together, they founded Konoha and introduced the system of one village per country.
This system brought an end to the chaos and ushered in twenty years of peace.
However, peace was only temporary. Madara gradually realized that it was merely an illusion.
He foresaw that as time passed, war and hatred would inevitably flare up again.
Thus, after his efforts to persuade Senju Hashirama to unite the Ninja World failed, Uchiha Madara fell into despair. In his pursuit of eternal peace, he decided to carry out the "Eye of the Moon Plan."
Yet at its core, the plan would plunge the entire Ninja World into the dream of Infinite Tsukuyomi—a false peace.
To Madara, although the plan seemed extreme, it also made a certain kind of sense in a world as full of pain and hatred as the Ninja World.
After all, the brutal reality