When the True Several Thousand Hands appeared, everyone present was stunned. Setting aside the powerful Sage Chakra aura created by the addition of natural energy, its sheer size alone was enough to strike terror into their hearts.
It was an unimaginably enormous thousand-handed Buddha. Its size had already reached the absolute limit of the Shinobi World; only the Ten-Tails at its peak could compare. The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, now stripped of its Chakra, was utterly insignificant before it!
The entire True Several Thousand Hands was roughly composed of three parts: the Buddha's main body, the fan-shaped thousand hands behind it, and the dragon-subduing arhat seated cross-legged atop the Buddha's head! Of these three parts, the dragon-subduing arhat was the least conspicuous, yet it was the true core. Nawaki's real body was currently inside the arhat's head, controlling the entire thousand-handed Buddha through a Chakra link. It was equivalent to the true brain, and also the origin of the name True Several Thousand Hands!
"True Several Thousand Hands: True Several Thousand Hands! I never expected this brat to have mastered Sage Mode too!" Even Madara, who was controlling Susanoo as it flew through the air, had to crane his neck upward to see the thousand-handed Buddha in its entirety.
He knew that True Several Thousand Hands was not merely huge. Both its defense and offensive power underwent a qualitative leap, surpassing the Wood Golem Technique and Susanoo! Although the Yasaka Magatama from earlier had landed, it had failed to inflict even the slightest damage on its target!
Having repeatedly lost to Hashirama, Madara knew that before this utterly unreasonable ninjutsu, even Complete Body Susanoo had no chance of winning. Unless he too could master Sage Mode and combine Sage Chakra with his ocular power to develop an even