He was using the Black rod, Preta Path, Meteor and Rinbo Hengekou. He was obviously using Pain's Ninjutsu, and the scale of them shows the true difference between Nagato and Madara using the Rinnegan.
are you saying that's how he made sasuke drop his sword??? that's what i wanna know... what exactly happened to make sasuke drop the sword so madara could stab him with it... i'm a lil confused by this.
Most likely a genjutsu. But I don't think he used one, so there's only one thing left to reason with how Sasuke got so easily impaled... That Killing Intent of Madara... Simply on a whole other level now.