As a cloud of roiling vapor rose, an excited smile spread across Madara Uchiha's face.
Once again, he felt his blood surge with exhilaration, a sensation the lifeless body of Impure World Reincarnation could never give him.
This was a feeling unique to the living!
"Finally... hahaha..." Madara Uchiha looked down at his body, now brimming with hot blood, and broke into a wild grin.
As he laughed with reckless abandon, the Rinnegan in Madara Uchiha's eyes gradually crumbled and fell away.
In the end, both his eye sockets turned pitch-black.
Still smiling, Madara Uchiha turned and walked toward Obito Uchiha. "Now, the Rinnegan should return to its original owner!"
Having cast Rinne Rebirth, Obito Uchiha instantly became extremely weak. His life was rapidly slipping away.
Rinne Rebirth was a forbidden technique that exchanged one life for another. The caster had to pay with his own life to activate this forbidden technique of the Rinnegan.
Feeling his life ebb away, Obito Uchiha inexplicably thought of Nagato.
The methods he had used against Nagato back then were precisely what he had learned from Madara Uchiha.
Compared to an old fox like Madara Uchiha, a young fox like him was still a step behind, still too inexperienced.
Rin... Silently murmuring Rin Nohara's name, Obito Uchiha's consciousness sank into endless darkness.
Everything that followed fell naturally into place.
After reclaiming his Rinnegan, Madara Uchiha transplanted Obito Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan into himself. Then, with White Zetsu's reconnaissance, he successfully located and retrieved his other Rinnegan.
Only then was Madara Uchiha truly complete.
"All that's left now is to wait for the Ten-Tails to recover!" Within the Kamui Dimension, Madara Uchiha patiently waited for the Ten-Tails' recovery.
Madara Uchiha had always been patient. For his dream of the Infinite Tsukuyomi, he could remain hidden in