The thousand-meter white sphere of light exploded, revealing a giant over a thousand meters tall.
It exuded an aura of great power, constantly affecting and distorting the space around it.
Polar Day Titan!
This was a technique Hiromi had developed before obtaining Nuclear Release Chakra Mode. It was his trump card at the time, but no one had ever been worthy of it.
Hiromi's gaze was cold as he entered its body and disappeared from sight.
Madara looked at the place where Hiromi had disappeared with suspicion, unsure of what he intended to do.
The next moment, the Polar Day Titan took on a human-like vividness, but with even more coldness. Immediately after, a flash of red appeared, condensing on the Polar Day Titan, dyeing it with a volatile color and making its presence even more ferocious.
Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan!
At this moment, the two-thousand-meter meteorite in the sky crashed down with powerful impact and high heat, as if to crush everything.
Facing a meteorite twice its own size, the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan didn't even intend to dodge. Instead, it stood its ground and raised its hands.
"Could it be..." Madara's pupils constricted sharply as he immediately released Ten-Tails.
The next moment, a blue Susanoo enveloped the thousand-meter-tall Ten-Tails.
Majestic Attire: Ten-Tails!
Just as it was completed, the two-thousand-meter meteorite made contact with the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan.
BOOM!!!
The ground collapsed, as if everything had been shattered.
—
Ten kilometers away.
A purple Perfect Susanoo emerged around Sasuke, whose pupils were trembling uncontrollably, protecting everyone inside.
But the next second, they witnessed the astonishing behavior of the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan.
Having been driven halfway into the ground by the massive meteorite, it actually shouldered the two-thousand-meter meteorite, took a step forward, and slammed the meteorite toward the Majestic Attire: Ten-Tails.
Sensing something, Sasuke trembled in shock and hurriedly shouted, "Naruto!"
"Mm!" Naruto hurriedly responded.
Six Paths power instantly erupted from his body, condensing five Truth-Seeking Orbs that transformed into a black sphere, enveloping everyone present. Although it was a bit crowded, it was much safer than before.
But the next second, the sound of mountains crumbling and the earth splitting rang out crazily.
Naruto controlled the black sphere, floating in the air and moving steadily upward. Only after reaching several thousand meters in the air did they escape the terrifying shockwaves, and only then did Naruto dare to leave a small gap in the black sphere.
Everyone looked through the gap toward the area ten thousand meters away below, gulping hard.
They saw that the Majestic Attire: Ten-Tails had dodged the two-thousand-meter meteorite. But the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan had long been prepared. Its hands condensed a lava hammer, and it smashed it down toward it.
BOOM!!!
Majestic Attire: Ten-Tails raised its hands and barely caught it, but the ground shook violently, as if the earth were about to collapse.
Even Majestic Attire: Ten-Tails was driven halfway into the ground. However, Ten-Tails' tails were gathered in front of the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan's head, condensing a Tailed Beast Ball.
Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan wanted to lift the hammer and pull away. But the Majestic Attire: Ten-Tails refused, holding on tightly.
As the two wrestled, the ground shook incessantly, and cracks and cliffs were born.
The Tailed Beast Ball condensed rapidly.
Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...
Seeing the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan fall into a crisis, Hiromi smiled coldly.
In an instant, the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan actually softened. It turned into white lava and lunged forward, the hammer did the same.
Madara's expression changed drastically, and he even gave up on condensing the Tailed Beast Ball. But he was still enveloped by the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan, struggling frantically inside, yet unable to break free, as if he were trapped by a slime. Except, this slime was made of white lava.
The intense heat and terrifying corrosive properties caused the Susanoo covering on Ten-Tails to dissolve rapidly. It let out mournful screams and struggled violently, its intense desire for survival heart-wrenching to behold.
Seeing this, Madara gritted his teeth, intending to condense the Tailed Beast Ball once more to blow up the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan and trade injuries with Hiromi. With his Six Paths Senjutsu, he wasn't afraid of injuries at all.
But he didn't expect Hiromi to be faster than him. He saw that the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan was condensing something, and the lava began to change from white to black. The temperature of that black substance was terrifyingly high. Even he felt heart palpitations.
Madman!
Madara's eyes split with rage. For the first time, he truly acknowledged Hiromi.
On the Majestic Attire: Polar Day Titan, the white lava had disappeared, replaced by black, resembling solid steel. It was thin but sturdy, tightly trapping the Majestic Attire: Ten-Tails inside, completely ignoring its increasingly terrified and frantic struggles.
Hiromi looked down from above, watching coldly. "Detonate."
In an instant, all one could see was everything being destroyed. Mountains, grass, trees, and even the earth itself—everything was mercilessly destroyed.
Even Naruto and the others ten thousand meters away were affected.
Naruto hurriedly sealed the gap in the sphere. Sasuke hurriedly added a layer of purple Susanoo outside the black sphere.
Everything was destroyed. Only the black sphere surrounded by the tattered purple Susanoo survived, only managing to stabilize after being swept thousands of meters away.
There was no movement for several minutes.
In fear and trembling, Naruto shakily created a gap. He saw that the area in front of him had turned into a massive crater.
The entire world had turned charred black. At the bottom of that crater, one could vaguely see the lava surging beneath the earth.
The world had turned into such a state, yet everyone breathed a sigh of relief. They had survived.
The next second, their expression changed as they scrambled out of the black sphere in a panic, as if fleeing from terror, rushing to be the first ones out.
Once outside, they felt a sense of relief, panting continuously as they breathed in air, slowly regaining their composure.
Shizune, however, widened her eyes. With a muffled "Ugh," she hurriedly covered her mouth, ran to the side, and began vomiting uncontrollably.
The others stared blankly at the terrifying crater before them, their hearts filled with unspeakable horror.
Sasuke and Naruto were deathly pale.
On the other side, another group of people had survived.
Tsunade was reduced to nothing but bones, clutching Rin tightly to protect her. Regeneration and destruction were constantly battling within her body. Fortunately, they were far enough away that the destruction did not overwhelm the regeneration.
Soon, Tsunade's body recovered, revealing the Yin seal that spread from her forehead across her entire body.
However, her consciousness seemed to have been stunned by the intense pain. She looked at Rin in her arms and, seeing that she was covered in blood yet still alive, revealed a blood-stained smile.
Immediately after, the Yin Seal on her body dimmed, and she became covered in wrinkles. She collapsed powerlessly, her life or death unknown, with only the smile remaining on her face, though it now looked somewhat regretful.
Rin was stunned, seemingly unable to understand what had happened. It wasn't until a few seconds later that she came to her senses. Seeing Tsunade's condition, her pupils contracted.
"Tsunade-sensei!"
Minato-sensei was already dead, was Tsunade-sensei going to die too? Did all my teachers have to die?
Rin got stuck in a loop of despair, trembling with terror and radiating hopelessness.
"No... no no... no no no..."
"Cough..."
The soft sound of coughing up blood immediately brought Rin back to reality. She hurriedly crawled over, her hands trembling uncontrollably, wanting to touch her but not daring to.
"Tsunade-sensei..."
She was afraid it was a hallucination. Fortunately, it wasn't.
Tsunade sensed Rin's overwhelming despair and struggled to say, "Cough... Rin... keep it down... I'll be fine once I recover some Chakra..."
It took Tsunade several minutes to say that sentence. And Rin said "Okay" dozens of times.
Ignoring her own injuries, she wept continuously while healing Tsunade's wounds. Eventually, Tsunade fell into a deep coma.
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High above the crater, Hiromi had been blown away by the explosion. His injuries were severe, the lower half of his body was gone but he was not dead. Even Hiromi himself felt surprised. He had already prepared to trigger Izanagi.
"It seems the attack power wasn't enough." Hiromi reflected on his shortcomings.
Immediately, with a thought, Shinkō Sanrei converted the high temperature in the air into cells, rapidly replenishing his body and constructing clothing for himself. By the time he landed, he was completely unscathed.
He looked around but did not find any trace of Madara. And the mission...
[Mission Name: You Dare to Push Your Luck?]
[Mission Content: Kill Uchiha Madara!]
[Mission Reward: Eight Inner Gates: Eighth Gate + Shikkotsu Forest Sage Mode]
It hadn't been completed, which proved that Madara was still alive. Moreover, the mission reward had changed. The original reward was Six Paths Sage Mode, but Hiromi preferred the current one.
Since Madara was gone and Black Zetsu was also missing, he would just destroy this planet. However, before that, he had to capture some people to resurrect the clan members and villagers.
Before taking action, he glanced at the missions regarding Black Zetsu and Kaguya.
[Mission Name: So You're the Mastermind?]
[Mission Content: Kill Black Zetsu!]
[Mission Reward: Amenominaka]
[Mission Name: You're That Afraid of Death?]
[Mission Content: Kill Ōtsutsuki Kaguya!]
[Mission Reward: Nuclear Release Chakra Mode: Yang Progenitor Form]
Hiromi turned around. As golden flames appeared beneath his feet, he sensed something and snapped his head around.
He saw a massive tree growing behind him, consisting only of a trunk and a flower bud. Its aura was eerie, as if it were a parasite of this world, absorbing all the energy of the planet—the God Tree, Ten-Tails!
Hiromi narrowed his eyes. "You are really confident in her."
He curled the corner of his lips. It seemed the plan could continue.