"Oh?"
Feeling the two Wood Release clones quickly vanish, breaking into light particles in the air, Uchiha Madara raised an eyebrow from afar, his interest quickly growing.
A pitch-black beam shot rapidly from a distance, cutting a deep trench along the ground in its path.
Madara immediately stretched out both hands, but in an instant, his expression changed.
A huge chakra skeleton appeared around him, protecting both himself and Uchiha Setsuna inside.
The power of the beam continuously shattered the giant skeleton, but thanks to Madara's uninterrupted chakra supply, it quickly repaired itself.
In the end, the massive skeleton was pushed back a long distance by the beam while constantly breaking and repairing, until the black beam finally disappeared.
"What a great power! Not pure chakra!"
Madara touched the wounds on his Susanoo and finally looked serious.
He had tried to use the Rinnegan's chakra absorption ability to absorb the beam's power just now.
But at that moment, feeling a strong threat, he immediately switched to Susanoo mode, using it as a shield to withstand the black beam's attack.
From inside the beam, Madara sensed a power far beyond chakra.
It was like a kind of senjutsu—a power above chakra!
What surprised him more was that this power was especially strong against souls.
Especially against his Edo Tensei state!
Though Madara's Edo Tensei had been improved by Uchiha Setsuna and Black Zetsu, allowing him to revive without peak strength, his immortality and chakra's near-limitless nature, like a tailed beast, still remained.
Theoretically, even if Madara did no defense, ordinary ninjutsu couldn't truly cause him fatal harm—unless it was a special sealing technique or something similar.
But that black beam clearly ignored Edo Tensei's traits and directly attacked his soul!
Is it Hollowfication?
Uchiha Madara's curiosity about this power grew.
Although the immortality of the Edo Tensei was greatly weakened in front of the Hollowfication, Madara never really considered it as a trump card or a last resort.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless blue-black fireballs, extremely hot, flashed through the air like light, suddenly appearing before Uchiha Madara.
The blue-black fireballs collided with Susanoo but did not explode violently. Instead, they stuck to Susanoo like glue and fiercely burned using it as fuel.
At the same time, Madara felt the chakra consumption of Susanoo suddenly rise sharply.
Susanoo was rapidly weakening at a speed that could be sensed.
Susanoo originally consumed a huge amount of chakra, but as the flames expanded, maintaining its existence required even more chakra.
The consumption rose so high that even Madara frowned slightly.
Although the chakra of Edo Tensei was almost unlimited, it had an output limit.
The so-called "unlimited" chakra only meant it could recover and replenish extremely fast.
The larger the Susanoo's size and the greater the area covered by the flames, the more the chakra consumption skyrocketed.
Also, under the burning flames, Susanoo could not function at full strength as it should.
"Is it the same power, a counter to Hollowfication?"
After sensing the same power from the flames as the previous black light pillar, Madara finally truly understood the power of Hollowfication that Black Zetsu feared—how overwhelmingly strong it was!
Not only did it burn chakra, but it also seemed to burn his spiritual power and soul awareness, using them as fuel alongside the flames.
Puff!
Susanoo shattered.
Uchiha Madara no longer insisted on maintaining Susanoo.
At the moment his chakra was cut off, Madara grabbed Uchiha Setsuna and quickly flew backward.
After landing, he pushed Setsuna to the side.
"Since Susanoo is useless, how about this!"
Giving up on using Susanoo again, Madara switched to another method. His hands quickly formed seals, then slammed together fiercely.
Rumble! Rumble!
Like an earth dragon turning over, the ground rolled continuously. Branches shot up from the earth, turning into trees.
Their roots dug deep into the ground as their crowns stretched freely toward the sky.
Wood Release: Flower Tree World Descends!
A dense forest formed from countless trees, roaring and covering the area where the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails Jinchuriki had been.
Unlike the Wood World Descend technique, Flower Tree World had all its powers plus toxic pollen in its buds.
Anyone inside the forest, besides being attacked by the living trees, also had to be careful of the pollen floating in the air.
Once inhaled, it caused full-body paralysis, removing any ability to resist.
"Want to burn down the whole forest with fire? Too bad, you don't have the time!"
Feeling the sudden rise of blue-black flames inside the forest, Madara controlled the trees to attack the two Jinchuriki relentlessly.
The blue-black flames shared the same never-extinguishing property as Amaterasu and had effects that targeted souls and Yin Release techniques.
Madara couldn't destroy the flames quickly.
But he didn't need to. He only had to increase his chakra to defeat the two Jinchuriki before the blue-black flames burned the entire Flower Tree World.
Inside the Flower Tree World, the Two-Tails Jinchuriki kept dodging tree branches whipping, binding, and wrapping her.
After accidentally inhaling the barely visible pollen floating in the air, over time she felt her chakra becoming difficult to control.
Her body felt rusty and numb, as if it was about to lose control at any moment. Even worse, her thinking began to blur.
If she wasn't in Hollowfication Mode right now, the moment she inhaled the pollen, her whole body would have gone numb, and she would have fallen unconscious, becoming an easy captive.
But even now, her condition wasn't good.
The pollen made it harder for her to control Hollowfication Mode. In other words, the stability of Hollowfication was gradually breaking down.
The chaotic and violent power of Hollowfication was repeatedly crashing against the dam of her reason and calmness.
Hollowfication was losing control!
She once again felt the sign of losing control that hadn't appeared since she first mastered Hollowfication Mode.
Boom!
The burning black flames completely went out of control.
"Has it gone into a berserk rampage?"
Feeling the sudden rise in temperature and flames, along with the chaotic and violent Hollowfication power that was very different from before, Uchiha Madara realized what had happened.
The Tailed Beast Jinchuriki had lost control!