Izuna, who had been thinking at the side, shook his head and refuted Madara's words.
"Quite the opposite. Big Brother, have you forgotten? You once said that among the Sage's sons, the elder brother possessed the Sage's eyes, while the younger brother possessed the Sage Body. If your Mangekyō Sharingan counts as the Sage's eyes, then Senju Hashirama should be the legendary Sage Body. Maybe cultivating Sage Arts is exactly what their clan is best at!"
Ever since Mingye returned, he had handed the method for cultivating Sage Arts to Madara. Unfortunately, over the past two years, Madara had never been able to practice it. The moment he tried to draw natural energy into his body, all sorts of adverse reactions appeared, and one time he had even nearly lost control and fallen into madness. Mingye had not known why, and only after the White Snake Sage explained it did he learn that the bloodline within the Uchiha Clan's ninja was a kind of energy not inferior to Sage Arts at all, so using it would inevitably conflict with Sage Method. Without elevating oneself to a certain stage, they simply did not possess a body capable of bearing Sage Arts.
As soon as Izuna finished speaking, Mingye followed up and said, "There are three widely known and extremely powerful eye techniques in this world. Two of them are inherited eye techniques: our Uchiha Clan's Sharingan, and the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan. The Byakugan excels in taijutsu, with formidable close-combat power, while our clan's Sharingan is skilled in the way of ninjutsu, whether ninjutsu or genjutsu. Then there's the legendary Rinnegan. Unfortunately, descriptions of the Rinnegan are extremely scarce. All we know is that those eyes differ from our clan's Three Tomoe Sharingan, and are also unlike the vanished pupils that appear