Madara Uchiha's Hiding Place

Victory should be a cause for celebration, especially a great one, but none of those present showed even a hint of joy; only endless sorrow.

"Long Ye, he won't die!"

Lin still couldn't accept reality, and kept talking to herself, repeating the same sentence.

Obito was already in tears, his body trembling from sobbing.

Kakashi's only remaining eye is dull and lacks luster.

Shisui recalled the past year and a half, the days when the two of them went through life and death together, and seemed to have suffered a great mental shock, Sharingan to activate unconsciously.

The Three Tomoe in his eyes trembled.

Minato Namikaze arrived last and was the only one who didn't know the specifics, but after looking at everyone except Long Ye, and then at the collapsed cave, he seemed to have guessed what was going on.

"Minato-sensei! Quickly use your Ninjutsu to rescue Long Ye! He's buried in the cave and is waiting for us to save him."

When Lin saw Minato Namikaze, it was as if she had grasped at the last straw, her eyes filled with longing.

Neither Kakashi nor Obito spoke; they knew it was no longer possible.

Because those of them standing outside had no way of knowing which direction the winding passageway in the cave led, or where Long Ye was buried.

Moreover, the ravine that Long Ye fell into was at least ten meters high.

What kind of Ninjutsu could turn the earth upside down?

Although Minato Namikaze knew the chances of finding her were slim, he remained silent in the face of Rin's pleas and used Earth Release to search for Long Ye's whereabouts.

The time lasted for one hour.

Within a radius of a hundred meters, they turned the ground upside down, but still couldn't find any trace of the Long Ye.

"Long Ye has sacrificed herself!!"

Minato Namikaze was ultimately forced to make a decision, even though he was unwilling to accept it.

"Dead... dead?"

Upon hearing that Long Ye would never emerge from underground, Shisui Uchiha felt a chill run down his spine, the chill shooting straight to his head and then into his eyes.

It was as if a barrier had been broken, and his Three-Tomoe Sharingan underwent a dramatic change in an instant.

In that instant, his Three-Tomoe Sharingan transformed into the Mangekyō Sharingan, and the eerie pupils completely changed his demeanor.

Minato Namikaze was the first to notice his unusual behavior.

"This, this is..."

Minato Namikaze's expression changed, and his eyes revealed a look of horror.

Then, his gaze fell on Obito's face.

Obito's eyes showed no abnormalities.

Or rather, Obito's current Sharingan with Two-Tomoe Sharingan is far from being qualified for ultimate evolution.

"War is cruel, and separation by death is the fate of ninjas. Long Ye and Shisui's unauthorized actions this time were a lucky accident. The outcome of the battle to destroy the Kannabi Bridge is now a foregone conclusion..."

"The elite forces of Konoha, led by the Sannin, have already crippled the enemy's main force. They are just waiting for us to destroy the Kannabi Bridge and cut off their supplies. Then, this war between Konoha and Iwagakure will be over. We should go..."

Minato Namikaze turned and walked away.

Kakashi, Obito, and the other three stayed for a long time.

Minato didn't call out to them again.

Long Ye did not die.

At that moment, he felt as if he were being crushed under a huge mountain, unable to move at all.

Faced with such a situation, an ordinary person would have been crushed into a pulp long ago, but he was able to remain unharmed only because of a pair of black Chakra Wings that sprouted from his back.

Since the Chakra beast he created transformed into the Tengu, his Chakra Wings also mutated, evolving into the Tengu Wings on the back of the Tengu.

When the cave collapsed, he used his Tengu Wings to cover his entire body just before being buried by the rocks, thus avoiding being crushed into a pulp.

Even so, his situation is still very bad, and given enough time, he will not escape death.

He released a high-intensity electric current throughout his body, as if he had transformed into a bolt of lightning.

The boulder pressing down on him was gradually reduced to dust by the lightning.

He gradually gained some room to move, and before the rocks above collapsed, he used his freed right hand to unleash Explosion Release and throw a punch.

A loud bang!

A muffled explosion echoed from deep underground.

The rocks crumbled extensively, creating a wide space deep underground.

Seeing the remarkable effect, Long Ye unleashed his fists like cannons, bombarding everything in his path and carving out an underground tunnel.

But being underground, he had no sense of direction and could only focus on going upwards, spiraling upwards continuously.

I don't know how much time has passed.

He suddenly felt that the rocks above him had become unusually hard, and his Explosion Release, which had been unstoppable at first, now slowed down considerably.

"Where have I come to? What kind of rocks are these that even my Explosion Release can't break?"

Several punches landed, the power capable of shattering steel had no effect whatsoever, which surprised Long Ye and made her wonder what kind of place it was.

Just then!

Suddenly, as if a massive earthquake had struck the ground beneath him, mud and rocks churned wildly, Long Ye was controlled by this force, involuntarily beginning to rise.

"Oh no! This power is..."

"Someone is using Ninjutsu!"

Long Ye immediately understood the source of this power.

It must be because someone above heard the continuous bombardment coming from underground, so they used Ninjutsu to investigate.

Given his current strength, he wouldn't fear ordinary people, but he worries about walking into a trap and intruding into the Iwa Ninja stronghold. Even if he had eight legs, he wouldn't be able to escape death then.

However, he had no choice in the current situation. The person who used the Ninjutsu had an astonishing amount of Chakra, and when they controlled Long Ye, they instantly made him lose control of his body.

The interior of a hollowed-out mountain.

Inside the spacious yet magnificent stone hall.

A figure with pale hair sat on a high platform at the very top.

The man's body was covered with pipes, which led to a gigantic, ten-zhang-tall demonic statue behind him.

The white-haired man Hand Seals with one hand. Ten meters away, the ground of the main hall shattered, and with a loud bang, an earthen dragon emerged from the ground, carrying a person with it.

Long Ye and landed in a defensive stance, observing the place she had arrived in.

"Um?"

Long Ye was taken aback at first.

The scene before him was empty, not the situation he had imagined, with hundreds of people standing guard.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

This at least indicates that the place he arrived at was not the Iwa Ninja stronghold.

"But who just used Ninjutsu?"

He looked around, then suddenly froze, his expression changing drastically.

Directly in front of him, on a stone platform more than six meters high, he saw the seated figure and the enormous creature behind it.

Compared to this behemoth, he was as insignificant as an ant.

"This seems to be... Demonic Statue of the Outer Path!!"

Long Ye recognized the origin of the giant statue and naturally guessed the white-haired man's identity: Madara Uchiha.