The nine mountain-sized Tailed Beasts charged side by side, unleashing a ninjutsu carnival upon the vast azure forest.
The surging sea of magma and the gale unleashed as long blades cleaved into the earth showed Konoha, Sunagakure, and Rōran what true slash-and-burn cultivation looked like.
The boundless expanse of blue-green woodland was effortlessly transformed into devastated farmland beneath the combined assault of multiple releases.
"As expected of Tailed Beasts. They easily accomplished what ordinary shinobi couldn't."
The Sunagakure shinobi, who had no idea what was going on, sincerely praised the smoke-shrouded woodland that now resembled ruins.
The Tailed Beasts' feast of releases destroyed the towering forest.
The burned-out trees were turned into organic fertilizer, buried beneath this ravaged land.
Rikusei could only sigh helplessly at the cheering shinobi and Tailed Beasts. The God Tree crop's essential nutrient was chakra.
Realizing something was wrong, Shamon hurriedly shouted at the shinobi imitating the Tailed Beasts' sinister cackles.
"Whoosh—"
A glaring white figure wriggled out from the charred ground. White Zetsu had returned.
Bracing himself against steaming rubble with one arm, White Zetsu sprang from the ground and smiled reassuringly at everyone. "Madara and Hashirama gave us two Truth-Seeking Orbs."
The two Truth-Seeking Orbs floated directly out of White Zetsu's body like black bubbles rising from the water. Shamon's eyes followed them as he involuntarily clenched his fists.
He had not expected it.
Madara and Hashirama took this matter so seriously.
Two Truth-Seeking Orbs.
When they had arrived in the Land of Wind, Hashirama had frankly explained that throughout the Shinobi World's thousand-year history, only the Sage of Six Paths and Otsutsuki Hamura had perfectly mastered the Yin-Yang Release needed to create Truth-Seeking Orbs.
Now, the Truth-Seeking Orbs born from their bodies would disappear permanently once used.
Facing the Hokage's wholehearted support for