While Guang was fighting White Zetsu Tobi...
Many people in Konoha witnessed the terrifying scene.
Konoha's alarms had long since torn through the night sky. On Kage Rock, the Anbu members clutched their binoculars so tightly that their knuckles turned white. Their trembling fingertips betrayed the turmoil inside them—utterly helpless... Anbu.
"Wh-what is that?!"
When the Five-Headed Great Buddha rose from the earth, towering hundreds of meters high, it was as though the entire village had stopped breathing—
Even the elders who had lived through the flames of the Warring States era had never seen such a bizarre Wood Release colossus. The chakra halos flowing over its five Buddha heads resembled five stars of calamity hanging overhead, crushing even Kage Rock's shadow into a distorted shape.
"Wood Release? Is that Lord First's Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands? But this aura... why does it feel so strangely sinister?!" a ninja on the watchtower cried out involuntarily.
"Then... what's that?!"
Before his words faded, a torrent of burgundy chakra erupted from the ground. The instant the Crow Tengu-shaped Susanoo spread its skeletal wings, even the cool moonlight turned a bloody blend of black and red, as though a hideous wound had split the sky.
"The Uchiha's Susanoo! That chakra intensity... it's practically a miracle..."
"Impossible... how can it be that enormous... how can a person become that powerful..."
"Look! It cleaved through the giant wooden arm!"
"Hiss—is this what the confrontation between the First and the Uchiha looked like back then? We aren't even on the same plane of existence as them..."
"This is a war between gods... is Konoha finished?!"
Cries and gasps rose one after another from the crowd. Even the air trembled under those world-shattering collisions.
"Susanoo?! Impossible! Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands?!