As everyone was intensely discussing, the sky suddenly grew dark.
Looking up, they saw a mountain falling from the heavens.
Many sharp-eyed observers noticed five carved faces on one side of the mountain—it was unmistakably the Hokage Rock of Konoha!
"It must be that bastard Madara's doing!" Hashirama's expression turned grim. The warm memories from just moments ago instantly vanished.
The Allied Forces were panicking—none of them had ever faced a meteor strike before, so this insane attack was totally overwhelming.
"Come on, seriously? A mountain falling from the sky?"
"This is the power of Uchiha Madara?"
"Cursed! We feel utterly powerless!"
Hashirama clapped his hands, and in an instant, a colossal thousand-meter-tall Daibutsu statue appeared, arms outstretched like it was cradling a baby.
After the falling Hokage Rock destroyed over a dozen arms of the Daibutsu upon impact, it was safely embraced by the remaining nine hundred or so arms.
Just as everyone began to relax slightly, the figure of Madara of the Six Paths flew in from the sky, cackling maniacally. "Ha! Hashirama, how's that welcome present I prepared for you?"
Setting the Hokage Rock down gently, Hashirama snapped angrily, "The Hokage Rock carries the sorrow and memories of countless people—it's a sacred symbol of the Will of Fire! How could you just throw it down like trash?"
Madara kept laughing maniacally. "Starting today, Konoha will no longer exist anyway. These annoying remnants might as well be destroyed ahead of time!"
Seeing Hashirama about to speak again, Tobirama strode forward. "There's nothing more to say to such an arrogant madman. Prepare for battle!"
"Battle? With you lot?" Madara scoffed. "Just summon him already! Only he can even slightly slow me down!"
Tobirama recalled Seiki's words—only call upon him as a last resort. Now wasn't the time yet. "We'll talk about that after you defeat us! Standing here right now is the entire shinobi world!"
"Tch, since you're all looking for death, I won't stop you!" Madara swung the immortals' staff. Immediately, the Truth-Seeking Balls floating behind him shot forward.
"Activate Cursed Seal power!" Tobirama quickly issued the command.
Earlier, Seiki had used Jugo's bodily substances as a medium to implant the seeds of the Cursed Seal into everyone's bodies.
After three days of training, now they could freely tap into its power!
Upon receiving the order, everyone rapidly transformed.
[Cursed Seal – Grand Fireball Jutsu!]
[Cursed Seal – Vacuum Sphere!]
[...]
Previously, even the combined power of over ten thousand users of Sage Art had matched the strength of Obito's Truth-Seeking Balls. Although Madara's power after absorbing the Sacred Tree far surpassed Obito's, the gathered forces here were also much greater than the Fourth Division!
After a violent collision that shook the earth, the torrent of Sage Art actually broke through the Truth-Seeking Balls, continuing its unstoppable momentum toward Madara!
"Ha, a Sage Art torrent powered by nearly one hundred thousand warriors isn't something you see every day. Quite magnificent indeed!" Madara showed no panic, observing with interest. "But don't forget—unlike Obito, who only knew how to mindlessly throw his Truth-Seeking Balls, let me show you my real power. Behold—Planetary Devastation!"
Unlike Nagato's single Planetary Devastation, Madara created over a hundred black gravitational cores at once.
These gravitational cores hovered above, attracting not only rocks and earth layers but also pulling waves of Sage Art toward the meteorites.
In an instant, hundreds of small meteorites entwined with wind, fire, lightning, and thunder rained down from the sky!
Moreover, as these meteorites fell, they emitted powerful gravitational pulls, dragging everyone skyward.
[Wood Release: Nativity of a Sea of Trees]!
Hashirama reacted just in time, rooting his Wood Release deeper into the earth while using vines to catch the Allied Forces being pulled by gravity.
The others weren't idle either.
Naruto entered Sage Mode and hurled Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, slicing through dozens of meteorites!
Sasuke transformed into his Perfect Susanoo, swinging his massive sword to cut apart nearby meteorites!
Even Sakura didn't fall behind, jumping up and smashing one meteorite with a single punch...
For such a group of powerhouses, shattering one or two small meteorites wasn't difficult.
Stars rained from the sky!
However, Tobirama became alert, "Everyone, watch out! Madara has vanished!"
Minato recalled being ambushed earlier by Obito using a shrunk Black Rods, "Watch out for his ability to shrink himself!"
"Haha, it's already too late!" Madara's signature maniacal laughter echoed from behind Hashirama.
Hashirama had always been weaker than Madara to begin with. Under the circumstances of rescuing people with his Sea of Trees while distracted and being attacked from behind, he naturally stood no chance against Madara.
In just an instant, he was already crushed beneath Madara's foot!
"Finished!" Hashirama bitterly smiled inwardly, believing Madara would completely erase him using Truth-Seeking Balls. However, Madara didn't do that. Instead, he transformed into Juji K, siphoning the Sage Chakra out of Hashirama's body!
Minato and Tobirama quickly responded, using the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport to Hashirama's side for rescue.
Madara made no counterattack. After draining Hashirama completely, he tossed Hashirama, drained of all his chakra, toward them and flew into the air laughing maniacally, "Now, I can also use Sage Arts—and it's the Six Paths Sage Art, surpassing yours!"
"Six Paths Sage Art? What is that?" Tobirama instinctively looked toward his older brother, who had just been drained out of Sage Mode.
Hashirama weakly shook his head, "I don't know either."
"Acting like a god now, huh? Take this!" Sasuke, calm and composed, infused his Susanoo blade with Cursed Seal energy and Amaterasu black flames, then swung downward.
[Sage Art: Storm Release Light Fang]! Madara shot forth a beam of "laser", directly severing the Susanoo's large blade!
"What? Actually countering my attack..." Sasuke felt shocked inwardly, and then saw Madara open his mouth again, seemingly intending to slice the Susanoo in half at the waist!
However, naturally, the others wouldn't simply watch as Sasuke came under attack.
Naruto's Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, the Dust Release of Onoki and the Second, the physical combat techniques of the Third and Fourth Raikage, Itachi's Yata Mirror-wielding Susanoo...
If it were just a few hundred or thousand attackers, Madara could naturally ignore them all. But here, there were nearly one hundred thousand soldiers, and among them were numerous powerful ninja capable of defeating a thousand men alone!
In a short time, even Madara could only flee in a disheveled state.
After dodging several attacks, Madara glared darkly at the group below. "Hmph, a bunch of annoying ants who just *beg* to be crushed by me!"
[Sage Art: Forest Creation from a Seed!]
[Sage Art: Great Fire Annihilation!]
Normally, Hashirama's Wood Release was nearly fireproof, but this Fire Release fused with Six Paths Sage Art turned the Wood Release itself into the perfect kindling!
The Sea of Trees left behind by Hashirama's Wood Release, together with the Wood Release-summoned forest from Madara, burst into flames simultaneously. The raging inferno threatened to consume the entire battlefield!
Although there were many ninjas skilled in Water Release within the Allied Forces, ordinary Water Release techniques struggled to extinguish the flames. Even Water Release techniques enhanced with Cursed Seal chakra proved to be barely a drop in the bucket against this raging fire!
Seeing this, Hashirama urgently shouted, "Tobirama, quickly use your Tide Release!"
Tobirama twitched his lips. "I don't even have hands anymore—how am I supposed to perform the hand seals?"
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