"Brat, go be the moon in the sky!"
Seeing Hao Shuai standing there without moving, Uchiha Madara was delighted. He controlled the Chibaku Tensei, preparing to seal Hao Shuai away.
Feeling the increasingly powerful gravitational pull on him, Hao Shuai curled his lip and grinned. "You want to seal me? Keep dreaming!"
With that, Hao Shuai brought his hands together in a flower-bud shape and held them at his waist, forming a ball of light between his palms.
"Kame!"
"Hame!"
"Ha!"
"Me!"
Hao Shuai thrust his cupped hands forward. A massive blue energy blast erupted from his palms, surging toward the Chibaku Tensei in the sky with an overwhelming force that could flatten mountains and destroy everything in its path.
BOOM!
A blinding flash and a thunderous explosion shook the earth. Countless rocks rained down from the sky.
When the dust settled, Hao Shuai's single attack had shattered Uchiha Madara's Chibaku Tensei. Even Madara himself had been caught by the Kamehameha, vaporizing half his body.
Only his Six Paths-level body and the regenerative power of Hashirama Senju's cells kept Uchiha Madara from dying on the spot. He barely survived.
THUD!
Too badly injured to keep flying, Uchiha Madara crashed onto the battlefield.
"Is it all over?!"
Madara's face showed a hint of despair and unwillingness.
For the first time, he felt so utterly powerless. Even in his final battle with Hashirama Senju at the Valley of the End, he hadn't felt this helpless.
Uchiha Madara wasn't a sore loser. He just regretted that his Infinite Tsukuyomi plan—and his dream—would come to nothing.
"Lord Madara, I'll help you!"
Just as Uchiha Madara was losing heart, the scheming Black Zetsu seized his chance and rushed to his side. While Madara was distracted, Black Zetsu made the decisive choice to backstab him,