A massive dark-red palm bore down with the force to destroy the world, crushing the two-colored light shield. The senjutsu patterns on the shield cracked apart one by one, and the pale green and purple glow gradually dimmed beneath the palm's pressure. Gamamaru and the White Snake Sage turned deathly pale.
Gamamaru's aged body trembled violently. A trace of pale green Senjutsu Chakra spilled from the corner of his mouth. He could clearly feel that Genki's power was far more terrifying than he had imagined. Even joining forces with the White Snake Sage, he could only barely hold on. The Senjutsu Chakra within him was draining at a visible rate.
"White Snake! Give it everything you've got! We can't lose!" Gamamaru roared, pouring in Senjutsu Chakra once more and drawing on a thousand years of cultivation to reinforce the shield.
The White Snake Sage's body curled slightly, and her golden, slit-pupiled eyes were full of strain. The fluctuations of her pale purple Senjutsu Chakra grew weaker and weaker. Gritting her teeth, she roared in frustration, "Damn it! What is this monster's power?!"
She had never imagined that, after living for hundreds of years, she would be driven into such a desperate situation. She had joined forces with Gamamaru, whom she had once disdained, and still they could barely withstand a single human's attack.
But she had nowhere to retreat. She could only give everything she had, continuing to pour in chakra and holding the shield firm to keep the giant palm from descending another inch.
Although the two Sage Region sages' united resistance failed to shatter the giant palm, it managed to forcibly slow its descent, buying precious time for the Katsuyu Sage below to heal Hagoromo Otsutsuki.
In the swamps of Shikkotsu Forest, the Katsuyu Sage watched the stalemate