It was not just the Five Kage who felt anxious about the situation; the Akatsuki members were equally worried.
If Oto Uchiha were to be defeated, the entire shinobi world would plunge into an unprecedented crisis, and it would be hard to say whether the shinobi world would even exist after that.
Unable to interfere in the battle, they had no choice but to cast their gazes toward Obito and Black Zetsu on the sidelines.
Yet even Obito, who was once the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, could not analyze the trajectory of the battle, and Black Zetsu was even more frantic with worry for his mother, Kaguya.
The shinobi could at most seal Kaguya, but Isshiki had mastered a method to kill Kaguya.
Left with no other options, the Akatsuki members could only wait in silence for the outcome to emerge.
Badly wounded by the Truth-Seeking Orbs, Madara lay beside the First Hokage, gazing at the full moon in the sky, and said with considerable emotion, "Hashirama, a shinobi even stronger than us has appeared, and I don't even know if they can achieve peace for the shinobi world."
Although his eyes had been gouged out, Madara, who had once awakened the Rinnegan, was still able to perceive the situation on the moon.
The dream he had originally pinned on the Infinite Tsukuyomi to bring peace to the shinobi world also vanished because of the current state of the moon.
The Infinite Tsukuyomi was not a panacea to resolve chaos and war, but rather a jutsu for the Ōtsutsuki to harvest the Chakra of the shinobi world, and he had almost launched the Infinite Tsukuyomi, plunging the shinobi world into an abyss of no return.
The First Hokage looked at Madara, his rival and friend, and said, "Madara, we must trust the