As the gale stirred up by the green energy died away, the color drained from the faces of everyone watching anxiously in the distance.
Shisui Uchiha had not turned to ash. Beside him, Madara Uchiha had completely shed the appearance of someone brought back by Impure World Reincarnation. He had truly come back to life.
Reviving Madara Uchiha had exhausted Shisui's life force, but he showed no fear or regret as death approached. He stared straight at Long Ye.
"You had a chance to stop him!"
The words came with difficulty.
Long Ye looked at the dying Shisui and drew a sorrowful breath. He did not answer.
Shisui was right. He had given Long Ye ample time. If Long Ye had not hesitated, he could have destroyed those eyes in an instant.
Without the eyes, Shisui could not have performed the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, and Madara Uchiha could not have been revived.
But Long Ye had hesitated. Destroying the eyes would have been easy, but it would also have reduced Shisui to dust.
That would have been true death. Every cell in Shisui's body, even his soul, would have been ground to dust by the Vacuum Force.
It would have erased him more thoroughly than the Tsuchikage's Detachment of the Primitive World Technique.
Shisui would never even have had a chance to return through Impure World Reincarnation. The technique required a person's soul and bodily tissue, and neither would have remained.
"Just as I expected, you couldn't bring yourself to kill me. You gave up a perfect opportunity, but at least my helping you back then wasn't for nothing!"
Long Ye did not immediately understand what Shisui meant by that last part.
By then, the revived Madara Uchiha was laughing loudly.
"A bluff! I thought you had something