Asking the Sage of Six Paths

Hashirama Senju had just emerged from the coffin when he heard those words. He looked at Uchiha Yū in surprise.

"Even you can't solve it with your strength?"

He knew a fair bit about Uchiha Yū's power. As the strongest person in the Ninja World, if even he could not resolve the problem, then it truly was troublesome.

"The ninjas have entered the Underworld. We encountered soul beasts there, and they have an instinctive desire to hunt living creatures."

Uchiha Yū explained the plans from this period. What he had thought would be a huge problem turned out to be simple once Hashirama Senju understood what he needed. So he had summoned him merely to pass along a message.

"You young people really don't know how to respect your elders."

The First Hokage had climbed out of a coffin just to ask the Sage of Six Paths how to stop soul beasts from hunting living people.

As someone who lived in the Underworld, Hashirama Senju naturally knew of those terrifyingly massive soul beasts that roamed the wilderness of the unclaimed lands.

"What surprises me even more is that you've actually reached into the Underworld. I don't know whether the young ninjas of this generation are brimming with confidence or simply arrogantly overestimating themselves. The Underworld is more terrifying than you imagine."

Hashirama Senju's words carried a warning. The place they lived in had been opened up by the Sage of Six Paths, yet they were still affected by some creatures of the Underworld. Having fought those creatures himself, he knew full well how terrifying they were.

"There is no need for the First Hokage to trouble himself with that. We only need to know how to avoid the soul beasts."

Uchiha Yū was about to ignite a war of unprecedented