The earth is trembled!
The Anbu, over two kilometers away, watched the battle between Lord Fox and Uchiha Madara through telescopes.
Antelope attached chakra to his feet, firmly planting himself on a tree branch to avoid being shaken off by the quake.
He turned his head and saw the leaves and raindrops nearby vibrating and bouncing.
In the distance, a colossal wooden Buddha statue, hundreds of meters tall, pushed through the ground and emerged.
The hundred-meter-tall Three Worlds Wood Human had already made ordinary shinobi feel despair.
Now, this five-hundred-meter-tall wooden Buddha... who knew how much chakra was required to manifest it.
"So that is Lord Fox's Top Transformation: Buddha..."
Kika came to Antelope's side and said:
"Lord Fox accompanied Advisor Shinnosuke on diplomatic missions to the Land of Waves and the Land of Hot Water. Although he couldn't protect Advisor Shinnosuke, Lord Fox's power increased dramatically afterwards.
We suddenly couldn't keep up with the pace of Lord Fox's growth."
Antelope nodded and said, "After all, he's fighting the legendary Uchiha Madara. Lord Fox's strength has reached legendary levels as well."
Kika said, "So what if it's Uchiha Madara? Faced with a wooden Buddha like that, even he must die."
Antelope nodded.
"He must die."
The over-500-meter-tall wooden Buddha had already surpassed the limits of their imagination.
A wooden Buddha like that, even if it did nothing but fall over, could probably destroy a city.
At that moment, the surrounding rain abruptly lessened.
The raindrops seemed to vanish.
A feeling of dryness and oppressiveness, something that should never occur in the Land of Rain, enveloped every Anbu member.
A subordinate shouted, "Captain! The sky!"
All the Anbu looked up, each cursing the small eyeholes in their masks!
"Is that... three kilometers...?"
A meteorite several kilometers in diameter crushed all the dark clouds as it hurtled towards the ground.
Because the meteorite was so massive, it seemed to move slowly, but in reality, its speed was so great that escape was likely impossible.
"Run!"
The Anbu panicked.
They were far from the center of the battlefield and might escape the meteorite's impact zone.
But Lord Fox's great Buddha certainly couldn't get out.
White Ram glanced back, estimating the meteorite's scale. It seemed tailor-made for the Top Transformation: Buddha.
Yōkō looked up; the terrifying air pressure brought by the meteorite pressed him and the wooden Buddha against the ground.
He thought his Top Transformation: Buddha was map-breaking enough, but he never expected Uchiha Madara had an even more powerful map-breaker.
Uchiha Madara, this guy, lost to Senju Hashirama in the end, never accepted it, and kept pondering a way to defeat the Top Transformation: Buddha head-on.
For nearly thirty years, Uchiha Madara actually developed a ninjutsu to counter the Top Transformation: Buddha.
Heavenly Obstruction Quake Star, the natural counter to Top Transformation: Buddha.
One is big, the other is bigger.
Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara really did like things big...
The Perfect Susano'o was only a hundred meters tall, less than one-fifth the height of the Top Transformation: Buddha.
Uchiha Madara roared:
"The same technique! It can never defeat me twice!
You imposter! You trash!
Why is your Top Transformation: Buddha only over five hundred meters? Only half of Senju Hashirama's?
Unsatisfying! So unsatisfying!
Why can't you be as strong as Senju Hashirama?
Indeed, only Hashirama can excite me!"
The Perfect Susano'o's wings instantly spread, and it took flight!
Yōkō scanned up and down, thinking, Is Uchiha Madara trying to take me down with him?
Below, the Perfect Susano'o, holding its longsword, flew towards the head of the Top Transformation: Buddha.
In the sky, the Heavenly Obstruction Quake Star descended with a terrifying roar.
Yōkō thought, Am I just asking for trouble? Why did I come to provoke a dying old man?
Uchiha Madara clearly didn't care if he would be crushed by the Heavenly Obstruction Quake Star; he only wanted to kill Yōkō before his own death.
Thinking from Uchiha Madara's perspective: Uzumaki Nagato has passed the most dangerous growth period and can already use the Rinnegan proficiently.
Tobi, empowered by Uchiha Mahiru's Mangekyō, is very strong.
More Importantly, the dual-Kamui Obito can advance or retreat, able to instantly extract Nagato and others from battle, making them virtually unbeatable.
Uchiha Madara himself is too old, has few attachments left, and is just waiting for rebirth.
For Yōkō to show up now using Senju Hashirama's Top Transformation: Buddha was almost like coming to fulfill Uchiha Madara's final wish.
Yōkō clapped his hands together, driving the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja with all his might!
200 wooden hands dealt with the Susano'o below.
Nearly 300 wooden hands dealt with the Heavenly Obstruction Quake Star above.
"Wood Release: Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja!"
Wooden fists smashed forth explosively.
Wooden hands struck the Heavenly Obstruction Quake Star, sending shattered rock fragments flying everywhere.
Wooden hands struck the Susano'o, detonating the dōjutsu chakra and causing explosions.
In the distance, Antelope and the others escaped the coverage area of the Heavenly Obstruction Quake Star at the last moment.
"That meteorite is about to hit! Use all defensive ninjutsu!"
Earth-Style Walls, Water Formation Walls, and others were erected in front of the Anbu shinobi.
The aftershock of the Heavenly Obstruction Quake Star created a terrifying shockwave.
Within the shockwave, trees and rocks shot out like cannonballs.
Who knows what the center of the Heavenly Obstruction Quake Star impact looked like.
When the shockwave passed, the Anbu shinobi climbed to their feet, covered in dust.
Rain!
They were finally being pelted by raindrops again.
The meteorite had landed, no longer blocking the dark clouds and the night sky.
The once-annoying rain was now a cause for relief.
The Anbu shinobi looked towards the battlefield. An area three to four kilometers in diameter had been utterly destroyed.
Back in the Ninja Academy, when teachers talked about Konoha's founding history and said the First Hokage's battles could alter the terrain, they all thought it was an exaggeration.
Now, witnessing the battle between Uchiha Madara and Lord Fox, they realized their school teachings were completely wrong.
It wasn't that the terrain couldn't be changed, but they hadn't clarified just how much terrain could be changed.
A three-to-four kilometer diameter of rainforest was obliterated.
A pit over ten meters deep appeared on the ground, filled inside with piled rocks like mountains.
One could foresee a massive crater lake forming here in a month.
A few large rocks were pushed aside.
Beneath them was a gaping Wood Dragon.
Yōkō, breathing heavily, crawled out from the Wood Dragon.
Who would believe it? Getting beaten up by an eighty-year-old man.
The soon-to-retire elderly are full of vitality, while the daily-working youth are listless.
Can't compare, really can't compare to the old man.
Searching carefully, Yōkō couldn't find Uchiha Madara.
Yōkō frowned. He remembered clearly that at the last moment, he had pummeled the Susano'o to pieces, and Uchiha Madara's figure was swallowed by the wooden fists.
He should have won.
Just then, a black scythe suddenly burst from the ground!
The scythe thrust towards Yōkō's throat!
Behind the scythe was Uchiha Madara, his white hair flying.
Uchiha Madara's left eye was dull and gray from using Izanagi, leaving only the three tomoe Sharingan in his right eye.
Damn it, why does the Uchiha clan have an overpowered dōjutsu like Izanagi?
This makes my resurrection seem less valuable.
Yōkō had no time to deploy Absolute Resistance: Crystal Mist, only using Absolute Defense: Copper Light to respond.
Simultaneously, Yōkō casually tossed a kunai.
He never expected the seemingly decrepit Uchiha Madara to strike with such force. Yōkō was sent flying like a cannonball!
Uchiha Madara watched the line of dust in the distance, feeling the lament of a hero past his prime.
"To deal with you, Hashirama's clumsy imitator, I actually had to use Izanagi. Truly..."
Thud!
A black blade suddenly pierced through Uchiha Madara's chest from behind!
Yōkō, holding the Assassination Black Blade, stared intently at the back of Uchiha Madara's head.
At his feet was the kunai he had casually tossed earlier.
On the kunai's handle was Yōkō's Flying Thunder God Mark: the characters for 'Fire's Shadow'.
Actually, Flying Thunder God Marks can be designed arbitrarily; the Second Hokage and Namikaze Minato's marks were different.
Uchiha Madara turned his head slightly, blood trickling from his mouth.
Without the Rinnegan, relying only on a pair of transplanted three-tomoe Sharingan, he could barely utilize a fraction of his true power.
"Heh... Stabbed in the back again. The last one to stab me was Senju Hashirama..." Uchiha Madara looked sideways at Fox and said:
"Fox, I admit you have some talent in imitating Senju Hashirama.
However, you are far from matching Senju Hashirama.
You actually use the despicable ninjutsu Flying Thunder God, invented by Senju Tobirama. The day I revive will be your death day!"
Uchiha Madara collapsed.
Yōkō watched Uchiha Madara warily. He still has one Sharingan left. Would he use Izanagi again?
But if he revives using Izanagi again, wouldn't he go blind?
Uchiha Madara still had many trump cards unused.
Where did the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path go? Where did all his subordinates go?
The next moment, fierce flames suddenly erupted from Uchiha Madara's body!
"Crap!"
Yōkō quickly used Water Release, but neither the heavy rain nor his water jutsu could extinguish the flames.
Blue flames, like those of his Susano'o, shot out from within Uchiha Madara's body.
When the flames subsided, only a pile of charred ashes remained.
Uchiha Madara understood the Impure World Reincarnation very well. It seemed he used his last Sharingan as a precaution against it, not wanting his body to be defiled by that technique.
In the original work, Obito was shocked to see the reincarnated Uchiha Madara, proving Obito believed Uchiha Madara's body had been disposed of and shouldn't be available for Impure World Reincarnation.
Who knows where Kabuto got Uchiha Madara's biological information.
Looking at the human-shaped outline of charred ashes, Yōkō inwardly breathed a sigh of relief.
This octogenarian is finally dead...
Slaying the Octogenarian!
If Uchiha Madara had been just one year younger, Yōkō might not have been able to kill him.
Yōkō looked towards the southeast of the Land of Rain.
Danzō, it's your turn...
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