Inside the Kara Base, the enormous God Tree had completely disappeared.
Madara had broken down and absorbed the entire tree, making it part of himself.
Standing below, Tetsuya watched Madara Uchiha in the air. He could clearly sense that Madara's overall life energy had increased considerably after absorbing this incomplete God Tree.
At the Six Paths level, an improvement like that was far from easy to achieve.
"No wonder. No wonder the Ōtsutsuki Clan searches the entire universe for planets with life to plant trees on. Now I get it.
Achieving this kind of improvement through normal training is just too difficult, while planting trees is much easier.
Growing a God Tree yields far better results than spending the same amount of time training naturally.
Besides, it's not as though you can't train while the tree is growing."
Hashirama watched Madara in the air and only spoke once he had confirmed that Madara had successfully absorbed the God Tree.
"Madara, are you all right? How do you feel?"
Hearing Hashirama's voice, Madara descended from the air.
As he landed, his appearance gradually returned to normal.
"I feel fantastic. My body is brimming with power. This feels even better than the first time I absorbed the God Tree."
Madara clenched his fists, a feverish gleam in his eyes.
"Really? Then congratulations, Madara! Your strength has reached another level."
Hashirama clapped happily for Madara.
Tetsuya studied Madara curiously and spoke.
"Now I'm curious. Was it simply the God Tree that strengthened you, or was it the fact that this Ten-Tails Cub was a counterpart of yours?
Madara, tell me how it felt. Which do you think it was?"
Madara gave it some careful thought.
"I think it was both. But this God Tree was a counterpart from a different spacetime of the