Chapter 311: Isshiki Arrives, the Final Battle
"Damn it!" Hiruzen hastily swung his Adamantine Staff to block, looking quite battered.
"Now! Sasuke! Neji!" Naruto roared, his mind in sync with Sasuke's.
"Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Ball Rasenshuriken!" Naruto instantly condensed a giant Tailed Beast Ball Rasenshuriken, fused with natural energy, in his hand and fiercely threw it!
"Takemikazuchi!" Sasuke's Mangekyo ability activated. A layer of pitch-black lightning appeared on the surface of the Super Tailed Beast Ball Rasenshuriken, and it whistled towards Uchiha Madara!
"Oh? A little interesting," Uchiha Madara grinned, raising his hand to meet the approaching Rasenshuriken. Subsequently, a terrifying fluctuation instantly erupted.
RUMBLE—!!!
A giant sphere of energy swallowed Uchiha Madara's figure. The shockwave from the explosion made the entire battlefield tremble again.
"Did it work?" Naruto watched nervously.
The smoke and dust slowly dissipated, revealing the scene within.
A blue, complete Susanoo stood majestically! It was clad in armor, with wings on its back, and held two giant chakra blades. The blow that was powerful enough to destroy a mountain range had only left a few cracks on its armor, and they were rapidly repairing themselves!
"A good combination. You almost hurt me," from within the complete Susanoo, Uchiha Madara's indifferent and arrogant voice came through. "But it's still not enough!"
The complete Susanoo's twin blades slashed down fiercely! The giant blade glints tore the earth apart, slashing towards Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji respectively!
"Kurama!" Naruto roared. His golden Nine-Tails chakra body instantly expanded, transforming into a giant fox form, and forcefully caught one of the blade glints with its sharp claws!
Sasuke's purple complete Susanoo also rose from the ground in an instant. He shot a purple arrow with his bow, accurately intercepting the other blade glint, causing a violent explosion in the air!
And facing the one slashing towards Neji, a Truth-Seeking Orb from behind him instantly flew out, expanding in front of him into a giant blue light shield!
CLANG—!
The blade glint slashed on the light shield, emitting a deafening sound of metal clashing. The light shield trembled violently, but in the end, it steadily blocked this mountain-splitting blow! The power of the Tenseigan had, for the first time, frontally contended with the complete Susanoo enhanced by the Rinnegan!
"Oh? Those eyes are indeed a bit interesting," Madara's gaze once again focused on Neji. "To be able to block my slash?"
"Madara! Your opponent is us!" The True Several Thousand Hands controlled by Senju Hashirama attacked again. Countless giant fists smashed towards the complete Susanoo like a torrential rain. Although the Limbo shadows were powerful, they began to seem a bit overwhelmed in the face of such a large-scale saturation attack.
Minato Namikaze and Senju Tobirama, relying on the Flying Thunder God Technique, were like two golden and blue flashes of lightning, constantly flickering around Madara's Susanoo, looking for gaps in its defense and launching swift surprise attacks. Although it was difficult to inflict fatal wounds, it greatly distracted Madara's attention.
Kakashi, seeing the opportunity, his Mangekyo Sharingan focused, "Kamui!"
The space on one side of the complete Susanoo's head began to twist violently, trying to wring it and Madara within it into pieces!
"A spatial dōjutsu? The Sharingan really has many tricks," Madara snorted coldly. His Rinnegan's dōjutsu erupted, forcefully stabilizing that twisted space. "But in front of these eyes, it's useless!"
The battlefield completely fell into a chaotic and violent fierce battle!
Golden and blue flashes of light intertwined and flickered!
Black Truth-Seeking Orbs and purple Rinnegan power clashed fiercely!
Wood Release, Lightning Release, Fire Release, Water Release, Tenseigan chakra, various powerful ninjutsu rose and fell one after another. The light of explosions and the sound of roars were endless. The entire earth was as if plowed over and over again, the terrain completely changed.
Uchiha Madara fought against the crowd alone. Facing the combined forces of the successive Hokage and the strongest combat power of the new era, he surprisingly did not fall into a disadvantage! He laughed wildly, brandishing the twin blades of his Susanoo, sometimes using Limbo for a sneak attack, sometimes using various Rinnegan abilities and powerful ninjutsu, bringing the art of battle to its extreme, as if he was truly enjoying this long-awaited "warm-up exercise" that could make him a little serious.
"Come on! Entertain me some more! Hashirama! And you seedlings of the new era!" Uchiha Madara's voice was filled with endless arrogance and fighting spirit. "Let me see just how much weight your so-called strength really has!"
The battle entered a white-hot stage! Every second was filled with extreme danger and the clash of majestic power!
At this very moment, in a corner of the battlefield, Uchiha Douhuan watched this fierce battlefield, his eyes flickering slightly. At this time, Tobi also appeared by his side.
"It seems this place we've cleared out is still a bit too small for them to play," Uchiha Douhuan said with a light laugh.
"Lord Douhuan, are you not going to make a move?" Tobi asked after saluting.
"No rush. Let the ninjutsu fly for a while," Uchiha Douhuan said unhurriedly. "The other lead actor of this grand play has not yet made his entrance."
Soon, in the battlefield, Uchiha Madara gained an absolute advantage. A single Susanoo, like a god of war, completely suppressed the Konoha side. In the sky above the battlefield, Uchiha Madara's great laughter echoed.
The fierce melee was still ongoing, but Uchiha Madara's true goal had always been crystal clear.
After a violent collision, Uchiha Madara controlled his complete Susanoo to slide back abruptly, temporarily creating distance from Senju Hashirama's True Several Thousand Hands. His Rinnegan instantly locked onto a panicked chakra fluctuation that was trying to quietly move away from the battlefield in one direction.
"You beast who hides its head and shows its tail, I've found you!" Uchiha Madara sneered.
In the chaotic battle just now, he had always been diverting a part of his attention to sense the entire battlefield. After the people of Konoha were engaged in the melee, Shisui, even on the periphery, no longer had the spare energy to maintain his genjutsu, allowing the Eight-Tails to wake up. And the first thing it did after waking up was to flee.
"Almighty Pull!"
Uchiha Madara raised his hand, his palm facing that direction, and a powerful gravitational force instantly erupted!
The giant Eight-Tails Gyūki form struggled in the air, roaring and trying to resist the gravity.
"A dying struggle," Madara's eyes were cold and merciless. "Planetary Devastation: Seal!"
He raised his other hand, and a small black core instantly appeared above the Eight-Tails. The powerful gravity not only did not disappear, but multiplied! Countless huge rocks were torn from the ground, smashing towards the Eight-Tails Gyūki like a torrential rain, quickly enveloping and suppressing it! No matter how the Eight-Tails spewed Tailed Beast Balls or brandished its tentacles, it could not stop the envelopment of the rocks. Soon, a second huge rock sphere formed in the air, sealing the Eight-Tails tightly within!
"Stop him!" Senju Hashirama roared, and the True Several Thousand Hands once again launched a fierce attack, trying to stop Madara's next move.
But Madara's goal had been achieved. He ignored the attack of the True Several Thousand Hands, controlled his complete Susanoo to take a few punches, and his hands quickly formed seals.
"Summoning Jutsu: Gedo Mazō!"
BOOM!!!
The earth split open, and the massive, withered, and ferocious Gedo Mazō broke through the earth, letting out a deafening roar! It opened its huge mouth, craving for chakra.
A sharp light flashed in Uchiha Madara's Rinnegan. He controlled the stone sphere that sealed the Eight-Tails and smashed it hard into the open mouth of the Gedo Mazō!
"Become the nourishment for the Ten-Tails' revival!"
The stone sphere accurately fell into the Gedo Mazō's mouth. The Gedo Mazō's roar came to an abrupt halt. Its body began to tremble violently, and an indescribably violent chakra began to gush out from its body!
RUMBLE—!!!
The sky instantly darkened, and lightning flashed and thunder roared! The Gedo Mazō's form began to undergo a heaven-and-earth-shaking change! Its body rapidly expanded, becoming even larger, more twisted, and more terrifying! The ten protrusions on its back swelled crazily, and a huge, ribbon-like tail suddenly extended out, whipping wildly! On its head, a huge Rinne Sharingan suddenly opened, emitting an eerie light!
An extremely terrifying pressure instantly swept across the entire battlefield! More terrifying than the Nine-Tails, than the complete Susanoo, than the True Several Thousand Hands. It was the pressure of the God of Creation, and also the Demon of Destruction!
The Ten-Tails has descended!
"Hahahaha!!!" Uchiha Madara stood on the head of the Ten-Tails, his arms spread wide, laughing madly, feeling the majestic power of the monster beneath his feet that could destroy the world. "Do you feel it? Hashirama! This is the power of a god! This is the key to peace!"
The Ten-Tails merely let out a roar to the sky, and the terrifying sound wave mixed with a tangible chakra impact directly sent the charging Naruto in his Nine-Tails Mode and Sasuke's Susanoo flying! Senju Hashirama's True Several Thousand Hands was also forced back repeatedly!
A look of despair appeared on the faces of everyone in the allied forces. Facing this existence like a natural disaster, all resistance seemed to have lost its meaning.
However, just at this moment—
"Finally... I've waited for this moment."
A cold, indifferent voice, devoid of any emotion, abruptly sounded in the sky above the battlefield.
Space rippled like a water surface, and a figure silently emerged. He was wearing white Ōtsutsuki attire, with pale skin, a unique horn on his head, and his eyes were cold Byakugan. It was Ōtsutsuki Isshiki!
His gaze directly skipped over the ready-to-fight Konoha allied forces and locked deadly on Uchiha Madara on the head of the Ten-Tails, or more accurately, on the Ten-Tails itself.
"The inferior product cultivated by the descendant of the thief who stole the God Tree's fruit... although crude, this chakra is indeed enough for me to recover most of my strength," Isshiki slowly raised his hand and aimed it at the Ten-Tails. "Hand it over to me, you despicable lower creature. This is not a power you should covet."
Uchiha Madara's laughter came to an abrupt halt. He turned around, his Rinnegan coldly looking at Isshiki, his arrogant aura not diminishing in the slightest, "Ōtsutsuki Isshiki? Hmph, a fellow who hides his head and shows his tail, you've finally deigned to show yourself? You want the Ten-Tails? With just you?"
"Foolish," Isshiki no longer wasted his breath and raised his hand in a point.
"Sukunahikona!"
In an instant, countless huge black cubes appeared out of thin air, pressing down on Uchiha Madara and the Ten-Tails from all directions! These cubes contained a strange power that could instantly strip away all chakra and even life force within a range!
"Insignificant tricks!" Uchiha Madara stood on the head of the Ten-Tails, not even moving. "Ten-Tails, let them have a look!"
The Ten-Tails roared to the sky. The huge tail on its back whipped out at an extreme speed, like a huge divine whip, directly smashing all the pressing black cubes into pieces! At the same time, it opened its huge mouth, and a Tailed Beast Ball of the Ten-Tails, unimaginably huge, began to condense. Its scale and the energy it contained were far greater than the Tailed Beast Ball of any single Tailed Beast!
"Hmph," Isshiki snorted coldly, his figure instantly disappearing.
In the next moment, he appeared on the side of the Ten-Tails, a huge black energy rod condensed in his hand, and he fiercely stabbed it at the Ten-Tails' body!
"Limbo!" Uchiha Madara immediately mobilized his four Limbo shadows to intercept.
However, to Madara's slight pupil contraction, the black rod in Isshiki's hand seemed to be able to accurately capture the position of the Limbo shadows. It bizarrely bypassed the shadows' interception and stabbed hard into the Ten-Tails' body!
"ROAR!!" The Ten-Tails let out a painful roar, and the process of condensing the Tailed Beast Ball was interrupted.
"He can see through Limbo?!" Madara was shocked. The perception of his Rinnegan told him that the level of the other's Byakugan was extremely high, and might even have surpassed the category of the Byakugan!
"Daikokuten!" Isshiki activated his ability again. A huge interdimensional gate opened behind him, and countless pre-sealed giant rocks and weapons rained down on the Ten-Tails and Madara like a torrential storm!
"Almighty Push!" Madara immediately activated his repulsive force, sending the raining debris flying.
But Isshiki's figure was like a ghost, constantly using "Sukunahikona" to shrink himself or objects for ultra-high-speed movement and surprise attacks, while at the same time using various powerful dōjutsu and taijutsu to continuously attack the Ten-Tails and Madara. His attack methods were strange and unpredictable, and his power level was also frighteningly high. Every blow was enough to easily kill a Kage-level powerhouse!
Uchiha Madara finally put away all his contempt and fought with all his might! He stood on the head of the Ten-Tails, on one hand controlling the Ten-Tails to launch destructive attacks, and on the other hand using the various abilities of his Rinnegan and Limbo: Border Jail for offense and defense.
The destructive power of the Ten-Tails was beyond doubt. Every attack was heaven-and-earth-shaking. But Isshiki's speed, strange abilities, and timing were all perfect. He could always avoid the Ten-Tails' fierce attacks with the smallest price and find opportunities to counter-attack.
The two existences at the pinnacle of the ninja world, in order to fight for control of the Ten-Tails, began an earth-shattering fierce battle! The aftershocks of their battle were several times more terrifying than the battle between the allied forces and Madara before! The earth continuously collapsed, and the sky changed color!
The Konoha allied forces, on the other hand, had for a moment become spectators. They watched in shock at this battle that was far beyond their comprehension.
"So that's... Ōtsutsuki Isshiki..." Minato Namikaze's face was pale.
"Their power... has completely surpassed common sense..." Senju Tobirama said in a low voice.
"We must do something!" Naruto struggled to his feet, golden chakra surging again.
"Wait, Naruto!" Kakashi stopped him. "The current battle is not something we can easily interfere in! Observe first!"
Senju Hashirama looked at the two crazily colliding figures with an incomparably grave expression and slowly said, "Douhuan's plan... has succeeded. They have indeed clashed. But... the situation seems to be even worse than expected. That Ōtsutsuki Isshiki is even stronger than the one we met before! Madara, even with the Ten-Tails, doesn't seem to be gaining any advantage..."
At the center of the battlefield, the more Uchiha Madara fought, the more alarmed he became. The difficulty of dealing with Isshiki was beyond his imagination. And Isshiki also had a grim expression. He had not expected this lower creature to be able to exert such strong power after controlling the Ten-Tails.
"There's no time to waste with you!" Isshiki seemed to have lost his patience. His gaze became even colder. "Since you are unwilling to obediently hand over the Ten-Tails, then along with you... become my nourishment!"
He suddenly clapped his hands together, and an even more terrifying, even more heart-stopping chakra began to condense in his body!
Uchiha Madara also sensed the fatal threat. His Rinne Sharingan spun wildly, and the Ten-Tails at his feet also let out an uneasy roar. An even larger chakra began to condense.
The final duel was on the brink of eruption!
(End of chapter)