The Temple's Ten Thousand Lightning Formation Made Madara Abandon His Contempt

The smile on Madara's face faded.

"The Sage of Six Paths' secret?"

"The source of the Uchiha and Senju bloodlines."

Black Zetsu spoke slowly. "Ren publicly stated that the Uchiha Clan descended from Indra, the Sage of Six Paths' eldest son, while the Senju clan descended from his second son, Asura."

"Indra inherited the Sage Eye, which eventually became the Uchiha's Sharingan."

"Asura inherited the Sage Body, and his descendants eventually became the Senju clan."

Madara fell silent for a moment, and his expression quickly turned strange.

"The Uchiha and Senju are both descendants of the Sage of Six Paths?"

"That's right."

Madara suddenly let out a derisive laugh.

"So Hashirama and I are relatives from the same clan?"

His brow immediately furrowed, his disgust completely undisguised.

"What kind of joke is this?"

"The Uchiha and Senju slaughtered each other for over a thousand years, with countless clan members dying at each other's hands. And now you're telling me the two clans were originally one family?"

White Zetsu could not help but say, "From the source of their bloodlines, that is indeed the case."

Madara shot him a cold glance.

"Shut up."

"I have no desire to claim any kinship with that bastard Hashirama."

Thinking of Hashirama's face, then of the possibility that they shared the same ancestor, Madara found it utterly absurd.

Back then, the two clans had slaughtered each other throughout the Warring States Era.

The names Uchiha and Senju had practically been synonyms for hatred and bloodshed.

Yet tracing things back more than a thousand years, they turned out to be merely two bloodlines left behind by Indra and Asura?

"What did Ren use to prove such a claim?"

Madara asked coldly, "A few legends passed down for a thousand years?"

Black Zetsu had long prepared an