Madara Uchiha awakened his Rinnegan only after transplanting Hashirama Cells and spending decades waiting. At that time, Madara Uchiha was nowhere near the peak of his own strength.
Setting aside his fusion with the Ten-Tails to reach the Six Paths Realm, his true peak should have been after his resurrection, when he possessed both the body of his youthful prime and the Rinnegan.
But was Hashirama Senju truly at his peak during the Battle of the Valley of the End? Hashirama Senju should have only been around thirty at the time.
For other ninja, that might indeed have been the peak of their ninja careers. But for Hashirama Senju, who possessed a Sage Body, Su Yunqing would not have been surprised even if he had lived to be two hundred.
With such immense vitality that even his cells could erode another person's body and turn the transplant recipient into wood, you were saying thirty was his prime?
Richest Man in the Lighthouse: "That isn't impossible, if the Naruto World truly allows ninja below the Six Paths level to naturally live for over a century."
Richest Man in the Lighthouse: "Given Hashirama Senju's vitality, I'm willing to believe that he hadn't reached his peak before he died."
Richest Man in the Lighthouse: "But honestly, I really can't figure out what Madara Uchiha did to him during the Battle of the Valley of the End that even Hashirama Senju's Sage Body couldn't repair it, causing him to die within just a few years."
Richest Man in the Lighthouse: "Don't tell me he truly missed Madara Uchiha so deeply that he went to the underworld to find him?"
Excluding ninja below the Six Paths level like Orochimaru and Kakuzu, who achieved longevity through abnormal Ninjutsu, Tony had yet to encounter anyone who had