Tsunade stood on a cliff on Konoha's Back Mountain, her long, silvery-white hair drifting gently in the wind.
Her Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan gazed northwest. Across countless mountains and rivers, she could still clearly sense that location.
The Mountain Graveyard.
Madara's hiding place.
Without hesitation, Tsunade pushed off with both feet and soared into the air, shooting toward the sky like a streak of white light.
Her flight speed in Six Paths Mode far surpassed any Body Flicker Technique. Wind howled past her ears, and the earth raced backward beneath her feet.
An hour later, she landed on a stretch of grayish-white rock.
The smell of sulfur and saltpeter filled the air, surrounded by jagged rock formations and dry, cracked rock walls.
This was the Mountain Graveyard, where Madara Uchiha had hidden for years.
She extended her senses to their fullest, her Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan sweeping over every crevice and every shadow.
A moment later, she located her target.
Deep within the rock wall, in a narrow cave, an aged figure sat on a stone seat.
Madara Uchiha.
He was even older than Tsunade had expected.
He was thin as a rake, his skin ashen, like a desiccated corpse that had not yet completely weathered away.
His Rinnegan stared vacantly ahead, with only a faint glimmer shifting within his eye sockets.
His body had originally been connected to tubes from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but Tsunade had already summoned the statue away.
Madara sensed someone approaching and slowly raised his head.
When he saw the figure standing at the cave entrance, his expression grew complicated.
"You came after all..."
Tsunade simply raised her hand and punched Madara in the face.
Madara and the stone seat beneath him flew backward together, smashing into the rock wall behind him with a deep,