Your Eye of the Moon Plan? What a Huge Joke!

"Stop sleeping, Lord Madara. Get up and have some fun!"

"You're being played like a monkey, yet you're still sitting here dreaming your grand dream of saving the world!"

Uchiha Xuan's words, mocking him to the extreme, were like the sharpest blade, stabbing viciously into Madara Uchiha's proud heart!

"Insolence!"

The withered skin on Madara Uchiha's face suddenly flushed a dark purplish red from sheer rage.

His Rinnegan instantly erupted with terrifying ocular power capable of destroying heaven and earth, transforming into tangible pressure that crashed down upon Uchiha Xuan like a mountain!

It was true divine pressure!

The air inside the cavern let out a pained wail at that moment, and countless chunks of rock fell from above.

And yet.

Uchiha Xuan remained quietly where he stood, his body utterly motionless.

The Sage Body chakra within him automatically circulated like the sturdiest of barriers, effortlessly neutralizing the terrifying pressure that would have struck fear into even ordinary Kage-level experts.

He did not even blink. The mocking smile on his face only grew broader.

"What?"

Xuan met Madara's murderous Rinnegan, a hint of provocation in his voice.

"Did I hit the mark, and now you're lashing out in embarrassment?"

"Or does your so-called 'Eye of the Moon Plan' not even have the courage to endure a few comments?"

With every word he spoke, Madara's expression darkened further.

"What do you know?!"

Madara roared, his withered body trembling violently with fury.

"You're just a snot-nosed brat! You don't understand this world's suffering! You don't understand the despair brought by war!"

"Much less do you understand how much I paid, how much I sacrificed, to achieve true peace!"

"The Eye of the Moon Plan pursued by me, Madara Uchiha, is meant to lead this cursed world into eternal happiness!"

"To shroud the entire world in a massive genjutsu, letting everyone live in a dream without pain or conflict."

As Xuan listened to Madara's near-hysterical defense, the smile on his face grew colder still.

"Eternal happiness? An eternal dream?"

He shook his head, his tone full of disdain.

"Lord Madara, you call that peace?"

"This is nothing more than a loser's attempt to escape reality after being defeated by Hashirama!"

Those words once again struck precisely at Madara Uchiha's sore spot!

Defeated by Hashirama!

Like a demon's whisper, it was the shame of his life!

"Shut up! You don't understand anything!"

Madara's Rinnegan erupted with unprecedented light. He wanted nothing more than to rush over and tear this reckless brat to pieces!

"Of course I don't understand!"

But Xuan gave him no chance to vent his rage, pressing forward step by step.

"I only know that your so-called Eye of the Moon Plan is a complete and utter lie!"

"A huge joke that even you have been kept in the dark about, a joke where you've been used by someone else!"

"What do you know?!" Madara roared again, a trace of panicked bluster in his voice. "This is the only way to end war and bring eternal happiness! It is the final path recorded on the Uchiha Stone Tablet, the path that guides our clan!"

Upon hearing the words "Uchiha Stone Tablet," the mockery on Uchiha Xuan's face reached its peak.

Looking at this "legend," who had been deceived for decades and still blindly believed in a stone tablet someone had altered, he could not help throwing back his head and bursting into laughter.

"Hahahahahaha!"

Xuan laughed without restraint, laughing so hard he bent over, tears nearly spraying from his eyes.

His laughter was filled with contempt, scorn, and even a hint of pity for a fool.

"The stone tablet?"

He bent over, pointed at Madara, and laughed so hard he could barely straighten up.

"HAHAHAHA! You mean that piece of toilet paper someone tampered with?"

"Toilet paper?" Madara's expression changed abruptly, and a flash of unbelievable terror crossed his Rinnegan.

"Y-You... what nonsense are you talking about?!"