At this moment, a sound of footsteps came from deep within the forest and was constantly approaching Torifu. The footsteps were very steady and gave off a strange sense of pressure.
"Kid, this guy is very useful to me. How about you hand him over to me first?"
"Who!" Torifu looked at the depths of the forest with caution. The system's alarm in his mind became louder and louder, and two dots appeared on the map. It seemed that the person who was supposed to meet him had arrived. He just didn't know if it was the person Torifu had guessed. His attention was all on the mysterious person who was getting closer, but White Zetsu took this opportunity to touch the ground and sank into it.
"White Zetsu said you're the Third Hokage of Konoha? So young, but the chakra inside you is so immense that even I'm a little surprised." The mysterious person walked out of the darkness. A sliver of moonlight passed through the treetops and shone precisely on his face. A pair of scarlet eyes were staring intently at Torifu.
"Uchiha Madara. As expected, it's you." Madara sneered when he heard this. "You're just a little kid, yet you know about me?" The current Madara no longer had the same sharpness as when he was young. He was more calm and composed. White Zetsu emerged from the ground behind Madara.
"My lord, I've succeeded." Madara smiled when he heard this.
"Although the process wasn't perfect, the final result is the same. You go back. I'll cover the retreat." When White Zetsu heard this, he looked at Torifu with a grin, then sank underground and disappeared. The Cloud Palace's map also showed that White Zetsu had disappeared. There was only Uchiha Madara left here.
"The only reason you were able to survive that battle back then was because of the Uchiha Clan's Izanagi, right? It seems the price was quite high, too."
"I didn't expect your Uchiha girlfriend to even tell you about something like this. But so what? I know your strength. Although I'm old now, I might not necessarily lose to you." Torifu didn't say anything more. He gripped the Crane's Cry Sword tightly and charged toward Uchiha Madara. But before he could reach him, a skeletal claw reached out and grabbed the Crane's Cry Sword. Then, it threw Torifu away with a powerful swing.
"I can tell you're not good with a sword. Stop probing. Go all out!"
As soon as Uchiha Madara finished speaking, a huge amount of chakra gushed out from his body! The Susanoo quickly grew wildly, and in the next second, a perfect Susanoo, like a giant tree, appeared in front of Torifu!
"He's using his ultimate move right from the start. He wants to finish this quickly." Torifu naturally couldn't fall behind. "It's just a Susanoo. Who doesn't have one!" The Uchiha Puppet instantly appeared in front of Torifu. The white skeleton wrapped Torifu and him! Countless veins and flesh spread along the skeleton, and it eventually turned into a white samurai! But that wasn't all! Torifu's Crystal Release chakra began to spread on the Susanoo. In a little while, the samurai was covered with a thick layer of crystal armor!
"A Susanoo. Did you take control of an Uchiha clansman? No, this isn't a normal Mangekyō Sharingan." Uchiha Madara had never seen a golden Sharingan. Where did this kid come from?
Torifu smiled. "I'm sorry, but I can't say anything about that to an enemy!" The Uchiha Puppet controlled the Susanoo and fought Uchiha Madara head-on, while Torifu rushed out of the Susanoo! The clouds in the sky suddenly surged, pouring down like a waterfall and forming a huge tornado around Torifu! Accompanied by two cries of a crane, the tornado exploded! Sage Mode was activated again!
"Sage Art: Feather Blade Storm." Torifu flapped his wings hard. The clouds in the air condensed into feathers and attacked Uchiha Madara.
"Cloud! You're that person's descendant!" When Uchiha Madara saw Torifu's ability to control clouds, he immediately remembered what happened that night. That was the most humiliating defeat he had ever experienced in his life. He was killed by just one strike! If it weren't for Izanagi, he would have been a pile of yellow earth by now! But he never expected that the descendant of that person had already grown to this height, a height that he couldn't easily kill! If he was given a few more years, there would really be nothing he could do to him!
Thinking of this, Madara was both angry and surprised. He quickly made hand signs. "Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!" A huge fan-shaped flame was spat out from Uchiha Madara's mouth! Even though Torifu's Cloud Release was infused with Sage Art chakra, it couldn't change the fact that it was made of water vapor. Under such intense flames, all the feathers were evaporated.
"I didn't expect that even though you're so old, your strength is still about the same as it was back then." Uchiha Madara looked at Torifu in the sky. "You arrogant little brat. You're only in your twenties. You were just a little kid back then, yet you dare to comment on me? How presumptuous."
"Clone Jutsu." After a puff of white smoke dissipated, another Susanoo appeared out of thin air and took over the fight against the Uchiha Puppet.
"This is fairer. How many puppets do you have? I have plenty of clones anyway. I haven't been able to stretch my limbs in so many years. Today, I'll have a blast."
Torifu looked down at Uchiha Madara from the sky. With just one simple clash, Torifu already knew how strong Uchiha Madara was. He was about the same as Rain. If Torifu went all out, he could defeat him, but that was pointless.
Seeing that Torifu had no reaction, Uchiha Madara made the first move! He pulled out the katana from his waist and slashed at Torifu! If Torifu was hit by this slash, he probably wouldn't even have any ashes left. Seeing the sword aura getting closer, it was impossible to block it. Torifu could only rely on flying to dodge this attack. The sword aura shimmered with a dazzling blue light, like a bolt of lightning, and shot straight into the sky.
But at this moment, Uchiha Madara found that Torifu had disappeared. He thought Torifu had taken the opportunity to escape, but there was movement under his feet. Countless crystal vines came out from underground, wrapped around the Susanoo, and continuously drilled into the cracks in the armor. Uchiha Madara found these things very annoying and wanted to pull them all off, but at this time, the Susanoo couldn't move. These vines contained a large amount of Torifu's chakra and couldn't be broken free by pure strength alone. Moreover, the tops of the vines had teeth and were constantly gnawing at the Susanoo.
"Besides Cloud, you also have this kind of kekkei genkai. Is it a variant of Earth Release?" Inside the Susanoo, Uchiha Madara quickly made hand signs, and then a bolt of lightning quickly spread from his hand to the entire Susanoo, as if he had covered the Susanoo with a layer of lightning armor. But he didn't get the desired effect. Torifu's Crystal Release didn't have the same weakness as Earth Release. Lightning Release had no effect on it.