After Tengai Shinsei and Limbo: Border Jail were countered, Madara Uchiha lost the composure of a mastermind operating from behind the scenes.
Although regaining his flesh-and-blood body raised the upper limit of his combat power, he also lost the advantage of nearly limitless Chakra. Coupled with the fact that his true body could not move, he had already fallen completely into a disadvantageous position.
Under Naruto's steadily mounting pressure, Madara Uchiha gritted his teeth and activated Susanoo.
In an instant, the dark-blue Susanoo completely enveloped the Ten-Tails. Then, a Ten-Tails Tailed Beast Bomb began forming before it, aimed at the ground below.
A few breaths later, the Tailed Beast Bomb, over a dozen meters wide, had finished forming and was about to fire.
But just then, Naruto waved toward Hinata in the distance. Blinding golden light bloomed from Hinata's hand, instantly transforming into a dazzling sword of light over a thousand meters long that slashed straight toward the Ten-Tails.
"Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"
After the golden sword came down, the Susanoo covering the Ten-Tails began collapsing layer by layer. It not only stopped the Ten-Tails from firing its Tailed Beast Bomb, but also left a wound dozens of meters deep across its body.
The intense pain drove the Ten-Tails nearly mad. After letting out a roar, it lay limply where it was.
"What kind of ninjutsu was that?" Madara Uchiha asked dazedly.
He had thought his opponent was Naruto, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Yet even the seemingly gentle girl beside Naruto possessed the power to damage the Ten-Tails. It made him question whether his decades of lying in wait had meant anything at all.
"That was Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, Hamura's power."
"Hamura's power?" Madara Uchiha paused, then sighed softly. "So it came from the Sage of Six Paths' younger brother.