Void energy ran rampant as a terrifying beam of destruction plunged into the bottomless abyss that had been blasted open earlier.
At once, the core of the Hokage Main World was shaken. The entire planet let out a groan, as if it had reached the brink of destruction.
If anyone had been watching this planet from space at that moment, they would have seen a terrifying pillar of light strike one point on its surface. Immediately afterward, the entire planet was pierced through by that single blow, and visible cracks appeared across it as it gradually headed toward destruction.
At that moment, whether it was Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama, and Otsutsuki Hamura, who had been fighting, or Hyuga Tamamo and Uzumaki Naruto, all instinctively stopped their battles.
As they looked at the suddenly transformed heaven and earth, their expressions gradually darkened. As Six Paths Level experts, they naturally had keen senses for changes in this world.
Though the battle had been intense just moments ago, and the shockwaves of their clashes had spread throughout the world, that had only affected the surface. No matter how many natural disasters were triggered, they had remained within the limits the world could endure. Once the battle ended, the world's own restorative power would be able to repair the damage.
But that tremor just now had clearly been different. The world's wail seemed to ring beside their ears. In their senses, the world had begun to collapse. It was an extraordinarily strange feeling, one they had never experienced before.
This world... was crying for help. It was mourning...
"How could this happen? It shouldn't have happened this way!" Naruto looked around. Thunder rumbled amid the torrential rain, and the surroundings had long since descended into utter chaos. Apart from raging chakra and natural disasters,