With a whoosh, a mighty pressure spread outwards. Uchiha Madara's white coat, emblazoned with black magatama patterns, rustled in the wind, his flowing white hair reaching his waist. His left hand, clad in black, clenched forward, and several of the nine Truth-Seeking Orbs behind him detached, transforming into a weapon in his hand as if liquefying.
Uchiha Madara opened his eyes, his Rinnegan with its six magatama appearing exceptionally demonic. He raised his hand and pointed at Otsutsuki Tora,
"The real battle begins now!"
...
Similarly, on the other side of the moon, not far away, the pillar of white light gradually dissipated. Senju Hashirama had merged with the Ten-Tails, becoming a pseudo-Ten-Tails Jinchuriki with the immense chakra transmitted through Grell crystals, empowered by Yin-Yang Release and Sage Mode.
Unlike Uchiha Madara's change of attire, Senju Hashirama still wore his Sengoku period armor. However, several bright golden magatama patterns were branded on the red armor on his chest and back, and nine black Truth-Seeking Orbs floated behind him.
"Oh? Merged with the Ten-Tails? No, this is just a method of taking a shortcut."
Otsutsuki Tsubasa stood in the air with an air of absolute superiority, his expression indifferent. Even seeing Senju Hashirama fuse with the Ten-Tails did not cause him the slightest ripple.
The Ten-Tails was merely a tool they raised for food, let alone that Ten-Tails was not even in its seedling state.
An ant plus an ant still equals an ant!
Tsubasa's eyes flashed with a hint of gold, and the six magatama in his Rinnegan spun slightly. He lightly raised his right index finger and pointed at Senju Hashirama on the ground.
"Die!"
As his words fell, hundreds of meteors, blazing with fire, appeared behind Tsubasa. If all of them were to strike the moon, the moon would surely be torn apart, and everyone would be engulfed.
Tsubasa stood proudly in the air, making no move to dodge. These hundreds of meteors were merely the result of him flicking his finger.
As for this moon, which held no energetic value, it was fine to destroy it.
Hum!
Tsubasa's golden six-magatama Rinnegan narrowed, and he seemed to enter another dimension, though his body remained in place. The meteors passed directly through him and struck Hashirama, causing him no harm.
Hundreds of meteors, wandering under the moon's gravity, were drawn by Tsubasa. Each one was like a shooting star trailing fire, and the smallest of them could instantly obliterate a village if it struck the Earth.
The dense red dots in the sky were reflected in Senju Hashirama's eyes. At this moment, even the Otsutsuki members fighting elsewhere stopped their battles with uncanny synchronization and flew into the air.
Although the moon was not large, being caught in the spatial vortex caused by the explosions would be quite troublesome.
"What is that?"
The Konoha ninja fighting in the distance looked up, their eyes meeting a fiery, apocalyptic scene. Hundreds of fiery meteors descended from the starry sky, their scorching heat washing over them.
Among them were fragments of meteors as large as one-tenth of the moon. A single such meteor was enough to destroy the moon.
"There's no time, we can't stop it. Quickly escape through the moon passage!"
Someone couldn't help but shout, but their bodies remained still, for everyone knew that time was running out.
Moreover, they believed in their comrades!
Senju Hashirama stomped his right foot forward, pressing his palms together, and roared. Immense chakra surged from him, the sage mode lines on his face growing increasingly brilliant. The ground began to shake, not just this area, but the entire moon was trembling.
Branches from the moon's internal space rushed towards the surface like madmen. Sprouts constantly emerged from the cracked earth. Hashirama's chakra, like shimmering green seeds, was scattered across every patch of soil within the moon.
"Sage Art: Wood Golem!"
Boom!
A colossal giant rose from the moon's surface, its feet connected to the entire internal plant life of the moon. Its body continued to grow. Its originally solemn and majestic Buddha-like face was now contorted in anger. Its enormous hand reached into space, grabbed a falling meteor, and crushed it into dust with a heavy squeeze.
Tsubasa, who seemed to have merged with space, chuckled upon seeing this. "Two hands? Can you handle it?"
Tsubasa casually gestured, and another wave of meteors was drawn, streaking towards the moon with fiery trails.
Hashirama stood at the center of the giant Buddha's forehead. The Truth-Seeking Orbs behind him merged into the giant's body, radiating light. Imprints of magatama appeared on the giant Buddha's surface.
Hashirama's body floated up and sat cross-legged. The giant Buddha also folded its legs, its enormous hands clasped together in front of its chest. A radiant glow surged behind the giant Buddha, and in the midst of the light, tens of thousands of giant hands seemed to emerge.
"Sage Art: Wood Golem: Path of the Heavenly Saints!"
Innumerable giant hands, branded with magatama, stretched out from behind the giant Buddha, reaching for the fiery meteors hurtling through the sky. Explosions continuously rocked the heavens and earth, the moon's surface vibrated incessantly, and countless broken branches and meteor fragments rained down.
If one were to look at the moon from the Shinobi world at this moment, they would surely witness a beautiful fireworks display.
...
However, even with Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara transformed into Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, they had only managed to reverse their own dire situations. The battles elsewhere still saw the Shinobi world at a severe disadvantage.
Bang!
Kakashi was pierced through the body by a punch and fell heavily into a crater, spitting out a mouthful of blood, his eyes gradually dimming.
Kakashi's gaze was vacant. Had all his efforts, for so long, been in vain? He couldn't help at all?!
"Kakashi!"
Not far away, Obito's pupils constricted sharply as he saw Kakashi's chest pierced. His body froze for 0.1 seconds, failing to phase out, and the Otsutsuki executive he was fighting thrust a black rod through his left shoulder, disrupting the chakra in half his body.
"You care so much about that ant's life? Then go and join him."
With a *thwack*, his body was pierced by the black rod again, and with the inertia, he was impaled into the ground.
Was the gap really that large?
Not far away, Shisui lay covered in black rods, his breathing faint. On this battlefield, only two figures clad in red were still fighting.
Itachi and Might Guy, but they wouldn't last long. With Obito's lapse in attention, another freed Otsutsuki executive would come to support.
"Sasuke!"
Boom!
The moon's surface was instantly smashed open. A large portion of Sasuke's chest caved in, and the power spreading from the white wedge gradually receded as his body collapsed onto the ground.
"Instead of worrying about others, perhaps you should focus on saving your own life."
"Damn it!" Naruto, though worried about Sasuke's safety, knew that if he didn't defeat the enemy before him, not only Sasuke, but everyone here would be in danger!
What should he do?!
...
At some point, a strange chakra lingered around the near-death Uchihas.
Drip...
The sound of dripping water.
A voice, originating from the Shinobi world and lingering for a thousand years, echoed in everyone's ears.
"I am the embodiment of order..."