Boom!!!
An earth-shattering roar shook the entire desert battlefield!
The Ten-Tails' fist collided violently with the giant fist of the Perfect Susanoo!
A terrifying shockwave exploded in a ring, kicking up a massive sandstorm as the ground shattered layer by layer like fragile glass!
Wherever the shockwave passed, even the Allied Shinobi Forces and Akatsuki members confronting each other in the distance were forced to crouch low to avoid its brunt.
At this moment...
Madara's deep blue Perfect Susanoo descended like a god, its massive samurai armor covering muscles and bones made of chakra.
Its four arms held chakra light blades, radiating a suffocating sense of pressure.
"Hmph!"
Inside the Perfect Susanoo, Madara let out a cold snort, his crimson Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan staring at the tyrannical monster before him through the Susanoo's crystal.
The Ten-Tails' incredibly massive body was full of pressure, and the power contained within it far exceeded the Nine-Tails beast he had known in his lifetime.
It truly lived up to the Ten-Tails he had been looking forward to!
"Your strength is acceptable, beast!"
Madara's low voice vibrated through the chakra, carrying a hint of wild appreciation, but more so the excitement of a challenger.
"But you think you can shake the power of the Uchiha with brute force alone? Naive!"
He was answered by the Ten-Tails' deafening roar.
The giant fist suddenly added force, attempting to press the Susanoo deeper into the ground.
Simultaneously, another massive tail, like a pillar supporting the heavens, tore through the air with the momentum of wind and thunder, viciously whipping toward the Susanoo's flank!
If this blow landed solidly, it would be enough to snap a mountain in half.
The red light in Madara's Eternal Mangekyo surged!
The two arms of the Susanoo blocking the giant fist remained motionless, while the other two arms swung as fast as lightning.
A giant chakra sword sliced through the sky, accurately slashing toward the whipping tail!
Clang! Puchi!
The chakra light blade rubbed violently against the Ten-Tails' tough skin, sparks flying everywhere, before finally cutting in and bringing forth a spray of thick blood.
The Ten-Tails let out a howl mixed with pain and fury, its offensive coming to a halt.
But at the wound, granulation tissue wriggled frantically, healing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Its regenerative ability was terrifying.
"Troublesome recovery power..." Madara's brow furrowed slightly.
In that split second of an opening, the massive Rinnegan on the Ten-Tails' head suddenly lit up, and a powerful attractive force erupted instantly!
Bansho Tenin!
The target wasn't the Susanoo's massive body, but the countless giant boulders that had just been kicked up by the Ten-Tails' tail sweep below!
These mountain-like boulders were pulled by gravity, suddenly accelerating and whistling like a meteor shower from all directions toward the Susanoo, which was pinned by the giant fist!
"A mere trick!" Madara's eyes sharpened.
The Perfect Susanoo suddenly erupted with even stronger chakra; not only did the strength blocking the giant fist not decrease, but it also shoved upward abruptly.
Briefly pushing the Ten-Tails' fist open just enough!
Now!
The Susanoo's massive body displayed an astonishing agility that belied its size.
Like a top standing between heaven and earth, it began to spin at high speed on the spot!
The four giant chakra light blades turned into an airtight storm of strangulation!
Ding ding dang dang! Boom! Rumble!
Every giant rock sucked in by the Bansho Tenin was ground into dust the moment it touched the rotating storm of chakra light blades, falling like a rain of stones.
The violent sounds of collision were continuous, as if the entire battlefield were undergoing a baptism of rock rain.
After a round of offensive and defensive exchanges, neither side could do anything to the other.
The Ten-Tails withdrew its giant fist and let out a low roar, its wounds already healed.
The Susanoo stood tall in the deep pit, its light blades flowing, its momentum undiminished.
But Madara could feel that maintaining such an intense confrontation was no small burden on his chakra.
Even though this body was specially created by Black Zetsu and the others, and its chakra capacity was extremely high, plus the characteristic of Edo Tensei being able to constantly recover.
This allowed the amount of chakra he could use to be extremely vast and theoretically infinite.
However, the Perfect Susanoo he needed to support now also required a massive amount of chakra in a very short time, exceeding the recovery efficiency of Edo Tensei.
The violent energy storm temporarily subsided, leaving only the whistling wind and the Ten-Tails' heavy breathing on the battlefield.
Dust and smoke filled the space between the two, blurring the outlines of the giant figures.
On the Allied Shinobi Forces' side, witnessing this scene like gods and demons clashing, everyone was pale with horror.
Minato tightly gripped his Flying Thunder God kunai, Raikage Ay's body flickered with lightning but he didn't dare move rashly, and Ōnoki floated in the air, his old face extremely solemn.
The Nine-Tails chakra cloak on Naruto's body fluctuated violently; he could clearly feel how terrifying those two forces in the distance were.
A stalemate!
Madara stood proudly at the core of the Susanoo, his gaze piercing through the dust to lock onto the Ten-Tails;
The Ten-Tails' massive body crouched slightly, its single eye flashing with a dangerous light, staring intently at the deep blue giant.
Both sides were assessing each other's strength, searching for the next fatal breakthrough.
The air was filled with a suffocatingly heavy pressure, as if the next collision would completely detonate the entire battlefield.
The brief silence heralded the arrival of a more violent storm.
During the brief clash of Susanoo, Madara clearly perceived the upper limit of his reanimated body's power.
Although this immortal body could fight endlessly, the power it erupted with was ultimately unable to completely suppress the nearly immortal Ten-Tails beast before him.
The Ten-Tails' despair-inducing recovery power and surging energy fluctuations made him judge instantly.
Conventional means would be difficult to work in his current Edo Tensei state.
"Hmph... Is it an incomplete body that limits my power after all..."
A cold arc curled at the corner of Madara's mouth, his crimson Mangekyo Sharingan revealing decisiveness.
Under the horrified gazes of countless Allied Shinobi Forces, his hands formed profound seals at a speed difficult for the naked eye to discern.
The next moment, a terrifying Ocular Power far exceeding the Mangekyo erupted!
In front of everyone, the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in Madara's eye sockets spun and transformed, turning into the legendary Rinnegan that controls life and death, possessing the power of creation and destruction!
"The... Rinnegan?!"
"Uchiha Madara actually possesses the Rinnegan as well?!"
Exclamations swept through the Allied Shinobi Forces camp like a plague, and the massive shock even caused a brief moment of suffocation on the battlefield.
But this was just the silence before the storm.
"It's not over yet!" Madara's low shout was like thunder.
He didn't pause for a moment because of revealing the Rinnegan; his hand seals became a few points faster.
Simultaneously, his towering blue Perfect Susanoo synchronized perfectly with his movements.
Its giant chakra arms also formed the same seals with refinement and precision!
Tengai Shinsei!
Along with the low shout from both Madara and the Susanoo, the sky above the battlefield suddenly changed color!
A suffocating pressure enveloped the entire desert battlefield from above.
Sunlight was completely blocked, and the sky seemed to be torn open with a massive hole, as a Meteorite so vast it was beyond words to describe.
Carrying doomsday-like prestige and the roaring sound of flames rubbing against the air, it appeared out of thin air!
Its size was so terrifying that it covered the entire combat area, its shadow instantly swallowing the Ten-Tails below, the Perfect Susanoo, and all the Allied Shinobi Forces present!
The only target of this star of destruction was the roaring Ten-Tails!
Carrying a destructive will to crush everything, it crashed down toward the Ten-Tails' massive body with an unstoppable force!
When the giant Meteorite obscuring the sky, carrying the pressure of destruction, fell toward the Ten-Tails, the Five Kage Alliance instantly realized the terrifying threat of the aftershocks.
Minato was the first to shout through the mental network:
"Combined defense! Target: The impact aftershocks!"
Just as the Allied Shinobi Forces began to take action, using various Ninjutsu to form defenses.
The Ten-Tails reached out its hands, its body erupting with earth-shattering power, as it physically held up the first sky-obscuring Meteorite.
The ground cracked and sank in a violent roar, and the Ten-Tails' massive body also sank several meters into the ground, but it ultimately managed to stop it in mid-air.
Seeing this scene, Madara, suspended within the Susanoo, felt a flash of genuine surprise in his crimson Rinnegan, which then turned into even more frenzied excitement.
"Heh... You can actually catch 'Tengai Shinsei'? As expected of the Ten-Tails! But if one isn't enough, then here's another!"
Amidst wild laughter, his cold Rinnegan spun again, and a massive amount of chakra soared into the sky.
A second Tengai Shinsei!
The sky tore open, and a second Meteorite, nearly twice as large as the first, carrying the prestige to destroy everything, tore through the air and crashed down!
"Rumble!!!"
The second Meteorite slammed ruthlessly and accurately onto the first!
The superimposed weight and impact instantly exceeded the limit of the Ten-Tails' strength.
The arms that had held up the first Meteorite bent and snapped amidst the sound of shattering!
With no more obstacles, the two Meteorites crashed down upon the Ten-Tails' massive body with an unstoppable, heavy force!
"Roar!!!"
The Ten-Tails let out an earth-shattering scream as its entire body was completely smashed deep into the ground.
The earth was like glass struck by a heavy hammer; with the impact point as the center, spider-web-like giant cracks spread out instantly.
The resulting shockwave was like a doomsday tsunami, carrying sand, dust, debris, and destructive energy, violently sweeping in all directions!
"Defense!! Everyone into their highest defensive stance!!!"
Minato's sharp shout echoed through the minds of all shinobi via the Allied Shinobi Forces' mental network.
The top experts of the Allied Shinobi Forces, who were already prepared—Minato's body flickered with golden light, ready to teleport key attacks at any time.
Ōnoki's Dust Release light pillar was ready to fire, Raikage Ay's entire body roared with Lightning Armor, and Gaara's sand Barriers were layered one after another...
Along with the combined defensive Ninjutsu of the entire army, they jointly faced the destructive power of the shockwave!
Boom!!!
The deafening sound of impact drowned out everything.
The defensive Barriers constructed by the Allied Shinobi Forces twisted violently under the impact, like a lonely boat in a storm.
Countless shinobi were blown away, and those slightly weaker coughed up blood and fell unconscious on the spot.
Konan, who was hiding on the surface of the Ten-Tails transformed into paper, felt unprecedentedly violent tremors and pressure the moment the Meteorites struck; if not for the mystery of the Dance of the Shikigami, she might have been crushed to dust.
At this moment, she clearly sensed the heavy damage and pain the Ten-Tails suffered.
As well as Nagato, hidden in its core, who was disregarding his own injuries to continue frantically squeezing out life force and chakra to control the Ten-Tails' will.
"Cough... Nagato..."
Konan's voice trembled almost imperceptibly amidst the paper, full of heartache and determination.
On the stone throne, Takuno still leaned lazily, a playful arc seemingly curling at the corner of his mouth under the Fox Mask.
"Oh? 'Tengai Shinsei'... This is actually worth watching."
He evaluated the scene of destruction before him with interest, not caring at all about the Ten-Tails' miserable state or the Allied Shinobi Forces' pathetic condition, as if he were truly just enjoying a play.
Dust and debris slowly fell, revealing the terrifying scene at the center of the battlefield.
Two giant Meteorites were stacked like mountains, buried deep in the ground.
Only in the gaps could the Ten-Tails' heart-wrenching low roars be faintly heard.
Madara hovered within the Susanoo, looking down with disdain, his Rinnegan flashing with a cold and satisfied light.
"Hmph, a beast is a beast after all." His low voice carried absolute arrogance.
Of course, using two Meteorites in a row was also a huge drain on him, but for this Edo Tensei body, it was not a major problem.
He would only need a period of time to recover as before.
And on the side of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
The deafening roar seemed like it would tear the entire earth apart!
The second, even more massive Meteorite summoned by Madara crashed down with the prestige of destroying everything, aimed directly at the Ten-Tails.
Although the Ten-Tails let out an earth-shaking roar trying to resist, that irresistible force still smashed it along with a large portion of the surrounding crust into the abyss.
However, the disaster triggered by Tengai Shinsei was far from over.
The terrifying shockwave was like an invisible, massive tsunami, spreading and crushing in a ring from the Meteorite's impact point in all directions!
The last line of defense the Allied Shinobi Forces had put all their effort into constructing—layers of thick Earth Release walls, Water Release shields, and combined Barriers.
In the face of this disaster-level impact that exceeded the scope of conventional Ninjutsu, they were instantly torn apart like paper.
"Ugh!"
"Get down, quickly!"
"Defense! Hold on!"
Desperate cries were instantly drowned out in the all-destroying storm of the impact.
Countless Allied Shinobi Forces were violently swept away like leaves in a gale, then slammed heavily onto the ground or embedded into broken stone walls.
Dust, debris, broken weapons, and Shinobi tools flew everywhere, and as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but chaos and destruction.
"Cough... cough cough cough..." An Iwagakure Shinobi struggled to lift his head from a pile of rubble, the sharp pain from his ribs making him almost suffocate.
He subconsciously felt his chest; the expected fatal collapse hadn't occurred, only a dull pain deep in his bones.
"Still... still alive?" He couldn't believe it.
On the battlefield, similar situations were everywhere.
Shinobi lay fallen all over the ground, groans rising and falling.
Some had arms twisted at bizarre angles, clearly fractured;
Some had blood seeping from their mouths and noses, their internal organs suffering violent tremors;
Some were buried under rubble, struggling to escape...
The scene was tragic in the extreme.
However, miraculously, except for a few unlucky ones at the absolute center of the explosion or those completely buried by subsequent collapses, the Allied Shinobi Forces did not suffer the massive number of deaths that had been expected!
"It's... it's that!"