"Wait... this Fire Release..."
Ning Feng suddenly sensed something was wrong!
This Fire Release... he was absorbing Madara Uchiha's Great Fire Annihilation extremely slowly!
The Rinnegan's ninjutsu absorption was not without limits.
When facing someone stronger than himself or equally powerful, the rate of ninjutsu absorption would slow considerably.
Especially when facing Fire Release Ninjutsu.
Earlier, he had been able to absorb Madara Uchiha's ninjutsu...
Yet now, absorbing it took so much effort.
Could it be... Madara Uchiha's strength had already reached his level?
Or even surpassed him?
What exactly had Madara Uchiha done?
Ning Feng grew increasingly puzzled, but he certainly could not forcibly absorb this Fire Release with the Preta Path now.
Madara Uchiha's Fire Release Ninjutsu was extremely powerful too. Without activating Susanoo, his only option was to absorb it with the Preta Path.
But now that even the Preta Path struggled to absorb it, he could only retreat for the time being.
"Just as I thought..."
Madara Uchiha saw Ning Feng leap up, and the coldness at the corners of his mouth deepened.
It seemed his strength had indeed improved considerably.
The Fire Release Ninjutsu that Ning Feng had always absorbed before could now pose something of a threat to him.
"And... the chakra expenditure is still acceptable."
Madara Uchiha felt the chakra inside him replenish almost instantly and was slightly surprised.
So these were Ning Feng's cells?
In just this brief instant, they had restored enough chakra for a Great Fire Annihilation?
No wonder Ning Feng could always win a protracted battle against him, even though their chakra reserves were not that different.
Even Hashirama back then could hardly have matched such a terrifying chakra recovery rate, could he?
*No wonder Ning Feng could sustain so many large-scale ninjutsu without showing any sign of chakra