"Hmph, it's not as simple as you think!" Madara shouted, charging straight at Senya Uchiha.
But just as the war fan in his hand was about to strike Senya, it was blocked by a massive sword.
"Madara, you're already dead. You'd best not interfere with matters of the living," Hashirama said sternly.
"Hah? Aren't you a remnant of the old era too?"
Hashirama smiled and shook his head.
"No, I've already been revived. This is a new body that kid Orochimaru cultivated using my cells. Strictly speaking, I'm a living person now!"
The battle was on the verge of erupting.
Senya and Tobirama—one wielding Susanoo, the other armed with forbidden jutsu—continued clashing with the previous generation of tailed beast Jinchuriki.
Time slowly passed, and the battle grew increasingly fierce.
Meanwhile, within a circular cavern on Mount Sumeru, the rock ceiling above had already been cleared away by Black Zetsu.
"Only three minutes left, Mother. In three more minutes, I can revive you!"
On the battlefield, the previous generation of tailed beast Jinchuriki, who had been fiercely fighting Senya and the others, suddenly had their eyes turn vacant. As though they had received an order, they immediately turned and sprinted toward the crater behind them.
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"Great-Grandmother, what are they...?"
A huge question mark popped into Naruto's little head. He could not understand what they were trying to do.
Seeing this, Obito and Madara exchanged a glance and nodded.
They stood in the path behind the Impure World Reincarnation Jinchuriki, blocking Senya, Hashirama, Tobirama, Naruto, and the rest of the Jinchuriki.
"The warm-up ends here. Next, you'd better stay put!"
Madara's Rinnegan glowed purple as incorporeal phantoms, invisible to the naked eye, split off from his body and attacked the crowd.
However, Qian Duo could see all of it clearly. After