Madara vs. Gold-Devouring Momoshiki (Part 1)

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The mushroom cloud of the flame explosion swallowed the spot where Momoshiki and Madara stood, stacking thousands of layers in an instant!

"BOOMBOOMBOOM!"

The endlessly expanding blast wave of the explosion shattered even the Gate of the Great God suppressing Kinshiki into pieces! (Mutual Multiplication Explosive Tag can destroy the Gate of the Great God by nature, as evidenced by the image)

The blue box marks fragments of the Gate of the Great God.

"Lord Momoshiki!!!"

Kinshiki was sent flying by the explosive blast, letting out a mournful cry like losing his parents!

Suddenly! The ripples of the explosion ceased their expansion, and the layers rapidly decreased!

In the blink of an eye, it thinned to just a single layer.

That thin layer shrank again in an instant into flowing embers, which drilled into a white vortex spinning before a red eye.

"Snap!" Momoshiki clenched his right palm.

His posture carried an indescribable wretchedness and disarray!

His rabbit-ear-like horns had their bent tips broken off, his hair and robes were tattered and torn... half his face was burned away, exposing his gums and teeth!

The other half of his face was etched with shock, anger, and humiliation.

"Oh!" Kinshiki was overjoyed, "Lord Momoshiki, you took the initial brunt of the explosion with your body, and forcibly absorbed the subsequent blasts with Kōtakamusubi!"

The principle of explosive tags is that they are casting formulas made from Fire Release chakra, which can theoretically be absorbed.

It's just that the instantaneous nature of the explosion makes absorption difficult.

(Back then, Nagato had the Preta Path, yet was injured on the leg by Hanzo's Fire Release: Explosive Flame Array, because he couldn't absorb the damage at the moment of the explosion)

"Rustle!" Dust reconverged into Madara's figure.

The blood-red God Robe Hikari had custom-made for him had already turned to nothing.

He bared his torso, and the face of Hashirama on his chest opened a blood-red single eye, glaring alongside Madara at Momoshiki's current dishevelment.

"Look at yourself, Momoshiki. What a pitiful god you are."

"Don't get cocky, lowly creature!"

Momoshiki opened his right palm, where three red pills swirled at its center—pills he had just made by absorbing Madara's chakra.

He opened his mouth and swallowed them.

"Hiss!" The burns on his face healed seven or eight parts in an instant, accompanied by scorching smoke!

"Not enough... I absorbed too little!"

Strictly speaking, Momoshiki hadn't suffered much loss so far.

But his dignity as a god had been greatly provoked.

He turned his gaze to search the earth, fixing it on Kinshiki in the distance.

Kinshiki's injuries were now heavier than before. The explosion of the Mutual Multiplication Explosive Tag had not only destroyed the Gate of the Great God but also blasted Kinshiki into a bloody mess.

If the blast wave hadn't sent Kinshiki flying at the first moment, he would likely have turned into a pile of golden fragments.

Seeing Momoshiki's gaze, Kinshiki immediately understood, "Lord Momoshiki..."

"Kinshiki, let him witness the way our clan passes down power!"

"Haah." Kinshiki took a deep breath and knelt devoutly: "I am already prepared for this, Lord Momoshiki!"

As his words fell, a spatial vortex released from his right eye, and he appeared before Momoshiki!

Watching this scene, Madara recalled Naruto and Sasuke facing Momoshiki on the ground of the Different Dimension.

"Absorbing his own kind, then triggering a transformed state. In that transformed state, chakra, physical strength, and taijutsu all undergo a qualitative change. In Chen's words, retain the mechanisms, strengthen the stats..."

As Momoshiki's palm loomed over his head, "Aaaaaaah!" Kinshiki screamed as he was turned into a heart-sized 'pill fruit' and absorbed into Momoshiki's palm.

The moment Momoshiki swallowed the pill fruit, his burns healed completely with scorching smoke.

Then his horns extended fiercely, his body grew burly and tall, and black streaks ran from under his open white haori through his horns, forehead, cheeks, and all over his body.

His Byakugan and the Rinnegan in his palm turned gold, and a golden Rinnegan opened on his forehead!

"Oooh!" Wild chakra swept across the eight directions with his roar!

Madara faced the storm, his expression as calm as water, "So that's the transformed state that once pushed Naruto and Sasuke into a tough fight in the near future."

"Momoshiki, who devoured Kinshiki, I'll call him Gold-Devouring Momoshiki."

"Worrying about the safety of the artificial bodies on the Demonic Statue and holding back, the situation is indeed somewhat unfavorable for me!"

Madara flashed to the Demonic Statue's side, purple flames igniting on his five fingers as he pressed them to the ground!

--Uchiha Flame Formation!

"Shing!" Walls of flames like crimson lotuses rose on all four sides, interlocking to form a sealed barrier, completely enclosing the Demonic Statue within!

"This way, I should be able to cut loose a little."

"Hah!" Gold-Devouring Momoshiki exhaled a scorching breath.

The Wave God, Kinshiki's weapon inherited and now fused into his body, pulsed within him!

He casually materialized a Crimson Crescent Blade and charged forward with it, launching an assault!

A flash of crimson light arrived, and then the blade swept out like the wind!

From the edge of Momoshiki's greatsword, Madara sensed the aura of Yin-Yang Release!

So he withdrew to evade the edge, then had his Rinbo alternate in a pincer attack!

Momoshiki's Golden Byakugan flickered with sharp brilliance, and then the Crescent Blade spun around his body in wide, sweeping arcs. Under the combined assault of four Rinbo, he did not lose his composure.

Madara's mind turned rapidly: "His Otsutsuki Byakugan can see the Rinbo. After his transformation, his reborn physical ability and his overbearing Taijutsu let him hold his own against the Rinbo."

It seemed that in the illusory future Chen had shown me, Momoshiki was only successfully ambushed by Naruto's son Boruto with that so-called invisible Rasengan because he was in an extremely weakened state.

'Chakra projectile-type' techniques would be absorbed by the Rinnegan in his right hand, but Wood Release, which directly creates living entities driven by life force, falls outside the scope of that absorption ability!

Note: Trees are soulless life forms!

Madara clasped his hands together in the 'Snake' seal, invoking the descent of the 'Forest World'!

"Boom!" He unleashed his Sage power, and countless tree roots surged from deep within the earth, intertwining and coiling densely, like hundreds or thousands of tangled giant pythons, twisting toward Momoshiki to crush him!

"Ha!" Momoshiki bellowed, swinging the Crescent Blade in a horizontal arc around his waist. The devastating slashing edge cut through the approaching trees, severing them at their midsections!

But from behind the severed trees, even more and denser roots pressed forward!

"My Wild Martial Fusion slashing technique can cut even the Divine Tree and split the earth! I'll take whatever you throw at me, no matter how much!"

The Crimson Crescent Blade swept and slashed in Momoshiki's hands, its cutting waves mixed with shockwaves, and not a single tree managed to reach within fifty meters of him intact!

Taking cover behind the Forest World, Madara had already retreated over a hundred meters away from Momoshiki, standing before the Uchiha Flame Formation protecting the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

"It seems you're not just bluffing. Then let me add some spice!"

The azure Susanoo skeleton around Madara transformed into a twin-headed form, and together with his main body, they formed different hand seals!

—Tengai Shinsei!

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