The bright sun slowly sank westward, stretching long shadows across the battlefield in the Land of Iron. In the sky, the pale golden reiatsu barrier still enveloped the entire Earth. The white light of Infinite Tsukuyomi continued to batter it, yet could not break through in the slightest.
Near the moon, Madara watched his lifelong plan crumble completely. The madness and fury in his chest had reached their breaking point. He stared fixedly at Chiya back on Earth, killing intent gathering into something almost tangible in his scarlet Rinne Sharingan.
He could not lose.
He was Madara Uchiha, a legendary shinobi, the man who stood at the pinnacle of the Shinobi World. He absolutely could not lose to some unknown brat. He could not let his lifelong obsession meet such a laughable end.
Whatever the price, he had to win.
Madara slowly closed his left eye, and the light of his Rinne Sharingan instantly dimmed. He uttered the name of the Uchiha Clan's forbidden technique.
"Izanagi."
The instant the forbidden technique activated, the rules of reality were forcibly distorted.
Every wound on Madara's body, the cracks in his Six Paths Cloak, the strain inflicted by the Gate of Death, and the reality of Infinite Tsukuyomi's failed activation were erased in an instant. His body returned to peak condition in Six Paths Mode. Even the shock to his soul caused by Chiya's Hakuda: Sōkotsu was completely erased by this reality-rewriting forbidden technique.
The only price was his left eye. Its light went out completely, leaving it permanently blind.
But Madara did not care.
As long as he could win, he would gladly sacrifice as many eyes as it took.
The instant Izanagi rewrote reality, Madara vanished from near the moon. Pushing his extraordinary speed to its limit, he returned from outer