He was not pushed to his limits, he was simply tired of the kages thinking that they could defeat Madara. So in an attempt to break their spirits, he showed them the difference in power. He was doing what Obito did to naruto, wanted them to fall into despair.
lol i dont care if madara lost a leg in the fight he still beat them all the kages of the world so that makes him LORD MADARA
Ok if they woud have fight against a normal madara rhan this woud have been his end ??
But they weren't. If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas.
All i want to say is that they did a good job and where not trolled so easy by madara
I know they where defeated ultimately but atleast they did something against him and i respect this
Non-Edo Madara would not have been careless with his body. He knew his body would regenerate so he did not have to be careful.
It is obviously that the last attack suprised him even an edo madara woud take care of gis body even if it regenerates
Madara protecting his body is not true. When he used the meteor attack he was not concerned about the damage he would deal to himself.
But the meteor attack destroyed the whole are he tought that every one dies with it and besides at that time he did not fight against the five kages all together
I give you another example when tsunade crushed his susanoo and sent him flying madara was cautios enough to make very quickly a wood clone of himselve and in the next moment tsunade destroyed this clone with brute force
So actually he cares about his body and protection
Madara used to wood clone to trick them. They used the sealing technique on the clone and not him.