Just then, a sharp whistling sound suddenly tore through the air.
Whoosh!
A kunai shot from behind Madara's flank, aimed straight at his temple.
Without even turning his head, Madara merely shifted his body slightly.
The kunai grazed past his long hair.
The next instant, spatial ripples erupted!
A white-haired figure appeared out of thin air beside the kunai.
Uchiha Jian gripped the kunai in his right hand, twisted his wrist, and drove the blade toward Madara's throat.
To the onlookers, Uchiha Jian seemed to have skipped the distance between them and appeared directly before Madara.
The Temple disciples on guard could not even make out his movements.
Yet before the kunai reached his throat, Madara raised a hand and precisely locked his fingers around Uchiha Jian's wrist.
"Flying Thunder God?"
Uchiha Jian did not answer. His figure vanished again, and the wrist Madara held instantly became empty air.
The next moment, Uchiha Jian appeared behind Madara. His left-hand kunai slashed horizontally at Madara's neck while his right leg swept toward Madara's waist.
The two attacks sealed off both his upper and lower avenues of escape.
Madara stepped half a pace forward and spun, knocking aside the kunai with his elbow while his other hand reached directly for Uchiha Jian's shoulder.
Uchiha Jian's reaction was unimaginably fast. Rather than retreat, he pressed closer to Madara, evaded his palm, and drove his knee straight into Madara's abdomen.
Bang!
Madara raised his leg to block it.
Their fists and kicks collided repeatedly within an extremely short distance.
The watching Temple disciples could see only two blurred afterimages constantly weaving across each other.
A Kage Level clansman instinctively activated his Sharingan, but his expression swiftly turned horrified.
"I can't see them!"
"It's not that their movements are too fast."
"Every time they attack,