"You're quite tenacious, Madara. Then how about this?" Though he had forced Uchiha Madara onto the defensive, Shin had yet to inflict any substantial damage. Abandoning the idea of ending the battle with Flying Thunder God, he smiled instead.
Suddenly, his torrential assault came to a halt. The shift from extreme motion to utter stillness carried not the slightest trace of stagnation. The Amenonuhoko in his hand radiated a terrifying aura. In an instant, he swung his sword down. With that slash, space darkened. Sword energy condensed from Yin-Yang Release erupted forth—plain and unadorned, without any leaking aftermath—yet it sent tremors rising from the depths of one's soul.
Uchiha Madara's left eye spun madly as the predictive power of his pupil technique was pushed to its limit. Yet no matter how he foresaw it, all he saw was himself dying beneath this strike three seconds later.
"Damn it, don't underestimate me!" With an angry roar, the invisible longsword in Uchiha Madara's hand vanished. Blue chakra erupted completely from within him, his jet-black hair shooting upward, and a layer of blue Skeleton Ribs appeared.
"Susanoo!"
In that instant, Madara unleashed his full strength. He had no intention of using some initial or mature form of Susanoo. A colossal giant that towered into the heavens appeared at once, wings on its back and arms beneath them. Its face resembled a Tengu's, and each pair of hands beneath its wings held a sword hilt. Endless destructive power filled heaven and earth.
The moment it appeared, the chakra-forged longsword had already been drawn. Gripped by the nearly hundred-meter-tall Susanoo, it came crashing down without hesitation.
All things in creation returned to the sword, and space trembled.
Boom!
Amid an earth-shaking roar, an even stronger shockwave than the one from their initial clash erupted. Rings