"As far as I know, Lord Orochimaru used anyone with even the slightest special trait..."
Madara's face darkened at those words. He tossed the researcher's soul back, letting him head to the Pure Land to await resurrection.
The dust cleared. The Gate of the Great God that Hashirama had summoned stood shriveled in the ground, and the black body pinned beneath it was gone.
"Even sealing jutsu doesn't work?"
Madara's Rinnegan trembled slightly as he noticed stains like black paint inside the originally red torii.
"No, it works, but only to a very limited extent."
Madara muttered to himself, and Hashirama deflated beside him.
"Sage Technique: Gate of the Great God is already the highest-level sealing jutsu I know."
"For it to break free so easily..."
As they spoke, the black monster Orochimaru had become suddenly began to "boil" in Madara's Rinnegan vision!
"What's going on?!"
Madara shouted in surprise.
In their perception, the natural energy in the area began converging on Orochimaru like mad!
Layer upon layer of white cursed seals began covering his black body!
The white cursed seals resembled cloud patterns, spreading constantly across Orochimaru's enormous body as an aura even colder and more sinister than the Mangekyo radiated from him.
"We... seem to be in trouble!" Madara said to Hashirama, his expression grave.
Instead, Hashirama began showing his trademark smile, laughing as he answered, "When have the two of us ever not been in trouble?"
"True... here it comes!"
Madara's Rinnegan trembled violently, and an enormous pale-blue barrier spread out before the giant Buddha!
[Sealing Technique: Absorption Seal!]
Boom!
An immensely thick ray, like a Chakra Cannon beam and flecked with orange-red light, surged toward the giant Buddha behind the barrier!
Humm~
The pale-blue Sealing Technique: Absorption Seal met the thick beam head-on!
Dense ripples spread