Under the watchful eyes of Madara and Obito, Naruto's figure was rapidly pulled towards the high altitude.
He intended to use the Super Light-Weight Rock Technique and Super Heavy-Weight Rock Technique to alter his own mass, thereby breaking free from the gravitational field's restraint.
But unfortunately, Madara was no Nagato, and he released over a dozen Chibaku Tensei spheres operating simultaneously.
The gravity in the sky had long fallen into chaos.
So even if Naruto broke free from the pull of one gravity sphere, he would quickly be restrained by others.
"Useless, brat. This is the power of a god, the ultimate power of the Uchiha!"
Seeing Naruto still struggling, Madara simply controlled those gravity spheres to converge towards the same direction.
The attractive force acting on Naruto's body suddenly increased tenfold.
Seeing escape was hopeless, Naruto simply gave up struggling, allowing the gravity sphere to suck him into its center.
Immediately after, the upturned earth and rocks rapidly converged near the gravity sphere, forming an 'artificial moon' in the sky far larger than the one Nagato had released.
Witnessing this, Madara merely lowered his hand, showing no further emotion.
'In the end, he was just an ordinary mortal.'
'Although he had mastered some unknown skill, it was still nothing before the divine power I possessed.'
Thinking this, Madara also flew to a high altitude.
Beside him was the God Tree, which had already begun to gradually 'bloom', and above his head was the final vessel for the [Moon Eye], the moon created by the Sage of Six Paths.
Madara compared the moon's size to the Chibaku Tensei he had cast and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Although he had mastered the Sage of the Six Paths' power, there was still a certain gap compared to the legendary sage.
But it was enough.
In another ten minutes, when the God Tree was in full bloom, he would directly cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
By then, his long-cherished wish would be fulfilled, and there would be no more wars in the world.
'Hashirama, I will prove to you that I was right!'
Thinking this, Madara, like a poet, actually felt a bit of melancholy under the moonlight.
Crack...
"Hmm?"
Even though they were kilometers high, Madara could clearly hear the crisp cracking sound.
'An auditory hallucination?'
Crack crack crack...
'No, how could it be?'
Madara instantly turned around, looking towards the Chibaku Tensei prison in the other direction.
Black Zetsu, attached to him, was also surprised.
It knew clearly that Madara now possessed Six Paths Power. Although the Chibaku Tensei he performed couldn't compare to the true [Six Paths - Chibaku Tensei], it was no ordinary rock sphere either.
It also possessed some power to seal Chakra.
Crack!
This cracking sound was unmistakably clear, shattering all denial from Madara and Black Zetsu.
The super-large Chibaku Tensei, a full kilometer in diameter, was forcibly split open down the middle under their gaze.
Before Madara could take any action, the fissure rapidly spread, soon completely splitting the giant rock in two.
With his exceptional eyesight, Madara could see the person pinned between the two halves of the rock.
Who else could it be but that brat from before?
"This brat, just who is he?"
Madara looked at Naruto, who was now emitting a red aura, and asked blankly to Black Zetsu hanging on him.
He suspected this kid might be Hashirama's descendant.
"His name is Uzumaki Naruto, son of the Fourth Hokage of Konoha, and also the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails."
"The Uzumaki Clan?"
Madara was puzzled. He knew the Uzumaki Clan indeed had naturally powerful Chakra, but he had never heard of their physical bodies being so terrifyingly strong either.
Then another key point attracted him.
"You said the Nine-Tails?"
Madara felt the complete, intact Ten-Tails' Chakra within him, then looked questioningly at Black Zetsu.
Black Zetsu didn't know where to start explaining the matter of Space-Time travel to this guy.
Fortunately, Naruto was very considerate and didn't put Black Zetsu in a difficult position.
Naruto, his body emitting terrifying waves of energy, almost turned into a streak of light as he charged towards Madara's direction by stepping on air.
The clothes on his upper body had now completely torn, reduced to strips hanging around his waist.
His originally tied golden ponytail had also come loose at some point, its length significantly increased due to [Body Revival Technique].
Now, his golden hair fluttered constantly under the impact of the aura, like a cape.
Even more oppressive was his swollen three-to-four-meter-tall figure and the faintly glowing red cracks appearing all over his muscles.
Body Revival Technique, Eight Gates Released Formation, Life Return - Release... Almost every physical enhancement state had been applied by Naruto.
The moment he was trapped, Naruto felt that Chakra-draining and sealing power.
He tried using Whirl Release, but the moment it began to form, the Chakra constituting it was absorbed by the surrounding earth and rocks.
It seemed using Ninjutsu to escape wasn't realistic.
No wonder, since this technique was originally used to seal Chakra Entities like the Tailed Beasts and Kaguya.
Fortunately, Naruto wasn't just an ordinary Ninja.
He was also a user of the Baku Baku no Mi.
While trapped in the center of the rock, he directly opened his abyssal mouth and devoured the surrounding Chakra-infused rocks, successfully creating enough space for himself.
Then, before the rocks could converge again due to gravity, Naruto mobilized the Chakra within his body, infinitely enhancing his physical attributes.
If Ninjutsu gets devoured, what about pure strength?
Just as Madara was sighing about the passage of time and missing his rival, Naruto directly used the Konoha's Forbidden Taijutsu kindly provided by Shinno.
That delicate balance stabilized completely after Naruto added the Nine-Tails' Chakra to it, and he entered the same state Shinno had.
But his base physical attributes were worlds apart from Shinno's.
Before Madara could even see what happened, he only felt his face go numb instantly.
Then a strong sensation of weightlessness enveloped his body.
"Urgh..."
He only managed a subconscious cry of pain. Then, under Obito's shocked gaze below, Madara's figure was kicked around mid-air by Naruto like a ping-pong ball.
His flying speed couldn't even match Naruto's speed of shifting positions by stepping on air.
Even without using any clone technique, Naruto's figure seemed to appear simultaneously in different positions.
That was pure speed, pure power.
While being kicked around, Madara barely managed to gather his consciousness and controlled the Truth-Seeking Balls to extend and form a sphere around him.
Clang!
Naruto's fist, carrying terrifying force, struck the surface of the Truth-Seeking Ball. Although it still failed to penetrate the substance containing all Chakra Properties, it successfully caused a dent.
This sent chills down the spine of Black Zetsu hiding inside.
'How is this possible?'
'Could pure physical brute force really destroy a Truth-Seeking Ball?'
Black Zetsu didn't believe it.
Although he was very dissatisfied with the Sage of Six Paths, his elder brother, he still had great confidence in the power the Sage inherited from their mother.
'That should absolutely be something the ants of the Ninja World couldn't withstand!'
In contrast, Madara, after successfully buying a brief respite using the Truth-Seeking Ball barrier, finally regained his clarity.
Feeling the pain all over his body, his eyes held none of the panic that Black Zetsu felt.
'A strong enemy.'
'Without a doubt, the brat named Uzumaki Naruto outside the Truth-Seeking Ball was a strong enemy fully on par with Hashirama.'
"Hehehe... Hahaha! Good! Then let's fight-"
Before Madara's words even finished, Naruto's next attack arrived.
Seeing that ordinary punches seemed ineffective against the black Truth-Seeking Balls, Naruto finally remembered what else he hadn't used yet.
"Don't fail me now."
It was unclear who he was talking to.
But in the next moment, Naruto opened his mouth wide and began frantically inhaling.
Obito below didn't know what Naruto planned to do.
But at that moment, vast amounts of Natural Energy, invisible to the naked eye, were being sucked into Naruto's body.
Immediately after, the distinctive eye markings of Sage Mode appeared around Naruto's eyes. Combined with the Nine-Tails' Chakra, a sufficiently large golden haori automatically clothed Naruto.
At this moment, his already greatly enhanced physical attributes reached yet another level.
But Naruto didn't act rashly.
Instead, he floated mid-air and waited quietly for a moment.
Sure enough, in the next moment, an intense will appeared in his mind.
But before Naruto could resist it, that hazy yet intense will seemed to sense something and actually voluntarily gave up its instinct to invade this body.
At this time, Naruto also saw his palm, where the hexagonal mark was faintly glowing.
Clearly, this was the failsafe left by the Nature Will.
It seemed able to use this mark to transmit certain information to the not-yet-formed Nature Will at this point in time.
Evidently, this was also included in the terms of the deal.
"Thanks."
Naruto muttered.
In the next moment, he began gathering power mid-air.
As his body rotated and the muscles in his arm bulged, the air around him began to distort.
But upon closer look, it wasn't just the air that was distorting… all the space around him was being twisted by this tremendous force.
The Conqueror's Haki, symbolizing self-will, was also coated on his fist at this moment.
"Huu-"
A breath like steam exhaled from Naruto's mouth.
In the next instant, as if the frames skipped, Naruto's figure instantly appeared before the Truth-Seeking Ball barrier.
Can't break through? That just means the force isn't enough!
This punch, discarding all techniques, plain and simple, yet containing matchless immense force, struck the 'indestructible' Truth-Seeking Ball.
Immediately after, tiny cracks actually appeared on the flawless black surface of the Truth-Seeking Ball.
Under Black Zetsu's expression as if he'd seen a ghost, under Obito's utterly bewildered stare, and amidst Madara's maniacal laughter, Naruto's fist completely shattered through the Truth-Seeking Ball and struck Madara within.
Boom-
The loud noise reached Obito's ears a moment late, after Naruto had already sent Madara flying.
He watched as if witnessing a battle between legendary gods, as Naruto punched Madara, along with the Truth-Seeking Ball, sending him flying.
Half of Madara's body had already turned to dust the moment it contacted Naruto's fist, but the fist wind still carried him crashing towards the God Tree behind him.
Boom!
A loud sound erupted from the surface of the God Tree, followed by the grating sound of something breaking.
In this lonely battlefield without the spectating Allied Shinobi Forces, the God Tree split completely in half.
As if teleporting, Naruto's figure seemed to have discarded the 'movement' process entirely, appearing directly before Madara, who now had only half a body left, in the center of the trunk.
"Cough... cough... That was a punch beyond imagination."
As he spoke, Madara kept coughing up blood, but his injuries were visibly healing and regenerating.
In contrast, on Naruto's side, one of his arms hung limply at his side like a rag, blood continuously flowing from it.
But under the boost of Regeneration Technique and Sage Mode, his arm was also healing rapidly.
"I admit, in terms of pure Taijutsu, you are the strongest Ninja I, Uchiha Madara, have ever encountered."
Madara had already recovered enough to speak a coherent sentence.
But the response he received wasn't pride at being acknowledged, but another fist terrifying enough to distort space.
"I am not a Ninja."
Boom!!!