Rumble...
Amid deafening roars and violent tremors shaking the ground, the two Susanoo of Shisui and Shinichi were simultaneously forced back.
Thanks to the divine artifact, the Yata Mirror, Madara Uchiha's slash at Shisui was reflected back with equal force. Yet the immense impact still carried a blast of air that sent Shisui's Susanoo reeling dozens of steps backward.
Shinichi, by comparison, was in a far sorrier state.
His Susanoo was clearly a cut below Madara Uchiha's. A single slash from Madara Uchiha's Susanoo shattered its shoulder armor and cut into its shoulder.
Fortunately, Shinichi activated the Mangekyo Sharingan technique in his left eye, Heaven Guard, in time, locking his own state in place and barely blocking Madara Uchiha's blow. Otherwise, his Susanoo might have been cleaved in two by a single strike from Madara Uchiha's Susanoo.
"Pant... pant..."
After breaking away, Shinichi began gasping for breath.
Shisui was no better off. He suppressed his turbulent ocular power while staring fixedly at Madara Uchiha, who was gradually being swallowed by Sasuke's black Amaterasu flames.
Under the influence of Sasuke's Kagutsuchi, in only a few moments, the black flames of Amaterasu had spread across Madara Uchiha's entire Susanoo.
From afar, Madara Uchiha's towering Susanoo, which reached straight into the clouds, resembled a massive torch connecting heaven and earth.
Bathed in Sasuke's black Amaterasu flames, Madara Uchiha still stood with his arms folded, as though he did not care in the slightest about the all-consuming flames covering him.
"Hmph!"
With Madara Uchiha's soft snort, the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan in his eyes briefly transformed into Rinnegan. Then, the black Amaterasu flames covering his Susanoo, empowered by Kagutsuchi, rapidly faded away and eventually turned into wisps of smoke.
"!?"
Seeing the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan in Madara Uchiha's eye sockets transform into Rinnegan, Shisui, Itachi,