[Roar!!!!]
Uchiha Fugaku, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya were silently watching the battle from an extreme distance.
Along with several thousand surviving Konoha ninja, covered in wounds and exhausted.
They watched Aramaki and Hashirama Senju's bodies suddenly blur.
Before their afterimages had even fully faded.
The ground where the two had been standing erupted with towering waves of earth amid a massive sonic boom.
The next moment.
Other than those with the Sharingan or Byakugan, who could barely make out what was happening.
Most of the ninja only saw green and purple lightning suddenly flash before their eyes.
They almost instantly pierced through the countless trees in their path.
At the same time, they carved two long streaks of light through the air.
Before finally colliding violently at the center.
At that moment.
It was as though all of space and time had briefly stopped.
Only when the trees behind them that had been pierced through, along with vast stretches of ground beneath them, began to explode layer after layer amid the shockwaves.
Did the point where Aramaki and Hashirama Senju's fists met finally react.
As translucent ripples spread outward in ring after ring.
The air caught within them seemed unable to bear that extreme, terrifying pressure any longer.
In an instant, it boiled and churned like thoroughly heated muddy water.
"Uwaaaaaah!"
"Hyaaaaaah!"
Aramaki and Hashirama Senju both felt the violent force in each other's fists.
They almost simultaneously let out battle-hungry roars.
The overwhelming aura around them erupted even further.
Veins bulged.
Their already incredibly powerful muscles twisted together like steel cables.
As their strength rose once more.
The fists, each condensed with power from a different world, shone even more brilliantly.
One was a fusion of his own Physical Arts strength, Armament Haki, and photosynthetic energy.
The other