Facing Hashirama Senju's attack, Naruto hesitated not in the slightest and entered Sage Fox Mode.
The Armored Susanoo also expanded from a dozen meters to over a hundred meters tall. Wielding an orange-red Susanoo sword, it slashed straight at Hashirama Senju's giant wooden statue.
The giant wooden statue pressed its hands together, catching the incoming Susanoo sword between them, while the Wood Dragon coiled around its waist waited for an opening to strike.
But a Tailed Beast Bomb had already formed in the Nine-Tails' mouth. Aiming at Hashirama Senju standing atop the wooden statue, it fired directly at him.
With a thunderous boom, a dazzling mushroom cloud exploded over the giant wooden statue. The immense shockwave sent both the Armored Susanoo and the wooden statue back several hundred meters. They had each suffered varying degrees of damage, but both were recovering at astonishing speed.
The next moment, the two colossal beings, like demonic gods, grappled again. It looked like an ordinary street brawl—both their movements were incredibly slow, and their destructive power was shockingly low, unable to deal any effective damage at all.
But for Hinata, Sasuke, and the other reanimated Jinchuriki at the edge of the battlefield,
the shockwaves alone from the battle between those two demonic gods were enough to tear open the earth, strip the dense forest down to bare bedrock, and even alter the terrain of the nearby mountains and rivers.
"Is this what a battle between the strongest in the Ninja World looks like?"
The reanimated Four-Tails Jinchuriki, Roshi, sighed in awe. As a Jinchuriki, he could easily change the course of a war and unleash Tailed Beast Bombs to alter the terrain over a small area.
But all of that took time. It took several minutes, or even dozens of minutes, of preparation before