"Don't stop us, or I'll make sure Lush Forest Temple has no tomorrow!"
"..."
The abbot let out a long sigh without saying a word. Madara swiftly raced across the roof tiles toward where Shukaku's roar had come from. Mingye also sensed the surroundings; after detecting no unusual chakra, he immediately chased after Madara.
"Abbot!"
A warrior monk approached the abbot, his eyes seemingly asking what they should do next. The abbot gently shook his head and sighed.
"We cannot stop those two! Rather than that, we might as well let the tailed beast choose for itself! Everyone, return. Let the matter of the tailed beast end here. We must not interfere with it!"
The abbot was helpless. If they could not kill Mingye and Madara, they would have to face their storm-like retaliation. Just as Mingye had said, ninjas excelled at assassination. Lush Forest Temple had only a little over a thousand novice monks, with merely two or three hundred martial practitioners among them, and only seventy or eighty true experts. Together, they could drive Madara and Mingye away, but they could not kill them. Then, after suffering casualties, it would take less than a week for the entire Lush Forest Temple to be slaughtered clean by them. Moreover, the abbot believed that Mingye's threat was certainly not mere talk. To prevent Lush Forest Temple from being destroyed by the Uchiha clan, the old man could only compromise. Besides, the tailed beast had suddenly escaped its seal on its own, which meant a second force was surely trying to steal it.
Madara was incredibly fast. In less than a minute, he arrived where Shukaku was. Five groups of five ninjas had formed a strange formation and were attacking Shukaku. Mingye arrived beside Madara the next moment and warned