"The Rinne Rebirth Technique..."
Madara flexed his joints, 'surveyed' his surroundings with his empty eye sockets, then spoke to Black Zetsu, who had reattached to his body.
"You've done well, Black Zetsu."
Then he noticed Obito lying on the ground, weakened from the massive drain of life force.
Perhaps due to the boost from Six Paths Power, Obito hadn't died as he might have expected after performing the Rinne Rebirth.
But he knew clearly that now that Madara was revived, his own role was mostly over.
Before Obito could say anything, Madara decisively walked over to him, who still couldn't move, and without hesitation retrieved his own Rinnegan.
"Urgh..."
Simultaneously, a White Zetsu emerged from the ground, holding out the other Rinnegan that Obito had kept hidden.
Obito, wary of Madara, had indeed made many preparations, but in the eyes of the ever-pervasive White Zetsu, they were all just a joke.
Madara thus unceremoniously swapped the Rinnegan back in front of Obito, becoming the true complete form.
"It seems you were beaten quite badly, and by just a single Ninja."
Feeling the familiar Ocular Power within his eye sockets, Madara finally had the mind to say a few more words to Obito, his tool.
Just moments before, he had also sensed the gaze from high above, but besides Naruto, Madara hadn't detected any other enemies in the vicinity.
This meant that Obito, who had gathered the Tailed Beasts' power and even become the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki, had failed to defeat that unknown Ninja.
'After my death, did another genius like Hashirama appear in the Ninja World? Or is this Obito simply too incompetent?'
Madara didn't dwell on this question for too long.
He was revived, so Obito's usefulness had ended.
On the other side, Obito, enduring the pain from his eye socket, looked at Madara with his remaining Sharingan.
"Uchiha Madara, don't forget what you promised me."
His answer was Madara's outstretched hand.
The hand pressed against his body, and then the Rinnegan activated, violently drawing out the Ten-Tails' Chakra.
"Of course, I, Uchiha Madara, do not go back on my promises. You will have a place in the new world."
Hearing Madara's response, even as immense pain wracked his body from the Chakra extraction, a smile still appeared on Obito's face.
"Ha... Haha... Uzumaki Naruto! See that! I won! Kakashi, I won!"
Perhaps due to excessive pain and physical weakness, Obito's consciousness was beginning to blur.
Neither Madara nor Black Zetsu commented on this.
After all, in their view, Obito had little use left.
On the other side, Naruto, flying high in the air, locked eyes from a distance with the real Madara, the one with two empty sockets, and confirmed his identity through Kurama, who had personal experience.
"So that guy is the real Uchiha Madara."
As he spoke, Naruto began creating shadow clones.
The clones stood at different positions high in the air, and Chakra Spheres, purple-black in color, began forming in their hands.
They were the Conqueror's Bombs, imitations of the fused Tailed Beast Bombs.
Just as Naruto said this, over a dozen Conqueror's Bombs, expanded to their limit, were simultaneously thrown downwards by him.
When you lack precision, use saturation bombing.
Since sword techniques alone couldn't break through the God Tree's defensive blockade, Naruto simply stopped pretending and showed his hand.
"Kurama, you can vent some anger too."
Naruto even opened a large portion of the seal, starting to frantically pour Kurama's Chakra into the Conqueror's Bombs.
"Hey! You brat! Don't just take my Chakra without asking!"
Kurama quickly snapped out of his shock at seeing Madara again and promptly protested Naruto's act of seizing his Chakra.
After roaring angrily within the seal space, Kurama tried to reclaim that portion of Chakra.
But it was like a tug-of-war, and Naruto's pull on this Chakra was simply too strong.
'Forget it, forget it. Consider it revenge.'
Seeing that he couldn't pull back as fast as Naruto was taking, Kurama simply gave up resisting, deceiving himself.
This amount of Chakra wasn't enough to seriously harm him.
Besides, he did have old grievances with Madara.
Back then, he was controlled by Madara, then pinned down by Hashirama. The painful memories were still vivid.
In comparison, Naruto's methods were relatively milder.
After the Conqueror's Bombs were thrown, the God Tree instinctively defended itself.
The Chakra Spheres emitting black-red lightning were entangled by the God Tree's branches. Just as the God Tree prepared to absorb the Chakra within, the Conqueror's Haki acted.
Bzzzt-
The moment the God Tree's branches touched the Conqueror's Bombs, the Conqueror's Haki, as if self-aware, proactively 'detonated' the fused Chakra in advance.
One Conqueror's Bombs detonated, and the resulting shockwave quickly triggered the surrounding Conqueror's Bombs.
Soon, a series of tremendously loud explosions occurred in mid-air.
The branches extended by the Divine Tree didn't even have time to regenerate before being caught up in a new wave of explosions.
"Hmm?"
Madara below, who had nearly finished extracting the Ten-Tails' Chakra, seemed to sense something and looked up at the sky.
What appeared in his vision were continuously enlarging black spheres.
Boom-
A mushroom cloud instantly erupted on the ground. The area where Obito and Madara had been became a massive crater, as if struck by a meteor.
However, above that crater, a black sphere still floated.
This black sphere remained unmoved even after being struck by Naruto's Conqueror's Bombs.
Only after the last Conqueror's Bomb that broke through the God Tree's defense exploded did the large black sphere unfurl again.
The black substance rapidly deformed like a liquid, finally transforming back into a staff, held in a pale hand.
"So this is the power of the Six Paths?"
Madara, now clad in a robe with tomoe patterns, gently clenched his fist, feeling the power vastly different from his mortal state, and couldn't help but let out a hearty laugh.
"Hahahaha..."
Obito, lying weakly on the ground nearby, could no longer make a sound. He could only look at Madara with hopeful eyes, wishing he wouldn't forget his promise.
"So you are the real Uchiha Madara?"
At this moment, Naruto's voice sounded beside Madara.
Simultaneously, a fist wrapped in Conqueror's Haki mercilessly struck towards Madara's head.
"Hmm?"
Madara, empowered by Six Paths Power, actually caught Naruto's fist bare-handed, relying purely on his enhanced physical stats and reaction speed.
"Not just ordinary trash, then?"
Just as Madara was about to say more, he felt the force from the hand suddenly increase dramatically.
"What?"
'I, Madara Uchiha, would lose in a contest of strength to an ordinary Ninja?'
Before Madara could be further shocked, the Conqueror's Haki on Naruto's fist fully erupted.
Instantly, the hand gripping Naruto's fist showed signs of distortion.
King's Punch X Baku!
Boom-
Under Obito's stunned gaze, the Madara he had placed such high hopes on was actually sent flying by Naruto with a single punch.
The massive shockwave pushed Madara straight towards the God Tree, only stopping after creating a large crater.
But Naruto, who had thrown the punch, narrowed his eyes slightly.
'Still not enough?'
Sure enough, as the dust cleared, Madara's figure floated out from within the God Tree.
"Not bad, brat from a later era."
A mark from the punch still remained on his cheek, but Madara himself didn't seem to mind.
"As the first 'appetizer' after my rebirth, you qualify."
Thud!
A huge impact sound erupted around Naruto, but the invisible attack was dodged by him.
His figure quickly vanished from the spot, then used the Super Light-Weight Rock Technique to float into the sky, beginning to search for the source of the attack.
"Oh? You can actually see the [Limbo]?"
This time, Madara was finally somewhat surprised, but then he shook his head.
"No, you didn't see the Limbo Border Jail, you sensed it."
"An interesting brat. How about this then?"
As he spoke, he formed another hand seal.
"Sage Art: Storm Release Light Fang!"
A laser-like thin line shot from his mouth, directly cutting towards Naruto's head.
This attack was extremely fast, but unfortunately, it still wasn't enough against Observation Haki that could briefly foresee the future.
Naruto, stepping on air, quickly dodged and weaved in the sky, avoiding the laser spat from the other's mouth.
Due to his own speed limitations, even with future sight, Naruto's dodging was very last-minute.
Sizzle...
A piece of his loose robe was cleanly cut off by Madara.
"Quite troublesome..."
Naruto frowned slightly.
Without a doubt, both were Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki, but the combat prowess displayed by the real Madara was significantly greater than the fake one's.
"'Troublesome'? What an arrogant brat! Do you think dodging a few attacks gives you the right to be cocky?"
Naruto's words seemed to irritate Madara.
In his view, the combat power Naruto had shown so far could at best be called 'talented'. The only person in this world he considered a rival was the deceased Hashirama.
Madara's arrogance was practically an instinct carved into his bones.
"Watch closely, Obito. This is how you use Six Paths Power!"
He shouted angrily, then clasped his hands together. Dozens of small spheres, edged with white light, instantly appeared in the sky.
Simultaneously, the ground began to crack and shatter rapidly. Even the earth and rocks under Naruto's feet rapidly converged towards the sky.
[Chibaku Tensei]
Facing this familiar technique, besides inwardly marveling at the vast difference between Madara and Nagato, Naruto even had the leisure to glance at the previously lying Obito.
"Obito, is it? So that's your name, Uchiha Obito."
He took a deep look at Obito, who lay on the ground completely unafraid of him, as his body was pulled towards the sky by Chibaku Tensei's gravity.
"Wait, Obito. After I deal with him, you're next."
For Obito, who had lost his fighting ability, Naruto had no intention of killing him immediately.
After all, he had promised Sasuke to let him have his revenge too.
"Heh, save your big talk for when you survive."
Obito looked at Naruto floating in the air and sneered.
Although the process differed from what he had imagined, at least the result hadn't deviated from expectations.
Next, he only needed to wait for Madara to eliminate Naruto Uzumaki then perform the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
'Rin...'
'You will live well in that world...'