On the other side, someone stood at the feet of the True Several Thousand Hands and stared up at it for a long while. In the end, he lost even the courage to continue investigating.
"Let's go back."
"Tell the clan head that from now on, we refuse any commission involving the Uchiha."
"Even if the nobles offer ten times the reward, don't take it."
No sooner had the spies from various factions left than shinobi from the other Five Great Shinobi Villages infiltrated the Land of Fire.
Sunagakure, Kirigakure, Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and all the other forces stationed overseas and along the borders received the same piece of news.
Orochimaru had summoned Hashirama through Impure World Reincarnation.
Uchiha Lumen had fought him head-on at the Valley of the End.
In the end, Hashirama had personally admitted defeat.
No shinobi village dared accept that result based on a single verbal report.
That was the God of Shinobi!
Thus, every village dispatched elites to inspect the Valley of the End in person.
Yet everything they saw was the same.
A canyon completely reduced to an abyss.
Wood Release debris scattered across dozens of miles.
The True Several Thousand Hands towering like a mountain.
Dense giant handprints at the bottom of the valley, enough to make one's heart tremble.
And terrifying scars that pierced through mountain peaks and twisted the rock layers.
A Kirigakure shinobi stood far from the Wood Buddha, his hand clutching an intelligence scroll trembling uncontrollably.
"The Second Mizukage was also summoned by Orochimaru through Impure World Reincarnation?"
His companion nodded.
"And the Third Kazekage, and Tobirama Senju."
"According to intelligence from within the Land of Fire, Orochimaru had several powerful figures from past generations surround Lumen."
"But Lumen voluntarily requested that the suppression on Hashirama's consciousness be removed, so