The desert shattered, and empty space distorted.
The Six Paths floated in midair, clad in white robes and holding a Six Paths staff. Six pitch-black Truth-Seeking Orbs hovered behind him like stars, radiating an oppressive aura.
His calm yet bone-chilling voice echoed across the battlefield.
"Obito, the ripple of wisdom runs through the universe. There are still... hidden people."
Faced with an enemy of unprecedented power, Obito did not relax in the slightest.
Under Minato's signal, the elite shinobi took the lead in launching a probing attack.
The azure Susanoo of the Fourth Raikage and Killer B fused together, transforming into a massive blue-and-purple thunder beast. With a deafening roar, its eight tails lashed out, carrying berserk force capable of shattering mountains as they struck the Six Paths staff.
Yet the staff did not move in the slightest. A Truth-Seeking Orb instantly transformed into a black shield, easily blocking the combined blow powerful enough to destroy a mountain peak.
Bang!
The tails of the thunder beast crashed against the shield formed from the pitch-black Truth-Seeking Orb, erupting with an ear-splitting boom.
Yet the imagined earth-shaking energy collision never occurred. What replaced it was an unnerving silence.
The Fourth Raikage's pupils suddenly contracted.
The Susanoo armor covering him and the tailed beast chakra covering Killer B produced a faint sizzling sound where they had touched that black object.
Those dense sounds did not come from burning. Instead, it was as though the chakra forming the armor itself was being directly erased by some higher-level power.
A huge force rebounded toward them, far beyond their expectations.
"Argh!"
"Ugh!"
Their pained cries rang out almost simultaneously.
The Fourth Raikage and Killer B were like two people struck by an invisible giant hammer, their bodies uncontrollably blasted backward through the air in miserable arcs.