Azure Reishi flames erupted around Hyuga Seisen, forming a pillar of fire that burned away everything as it swept outward in a frenzy.
Thick vines blotted out the sky.
Dark purple poisonous pollen drifted through the air.
Under that unreasonable azure heat, not even charcoal remained.
Everything was completely vaporized at a microscopic level, vanishing without a trace.
Flower Tree World Emergence, powerful enough to reshape the terrain and swallow tens of thousands of shinobi, was forcibly burned into a massive vacuum zone.
Seisen stepped across the cracked, scorched earth and slowly emerged from the sea of flames without a scratch.
Azure Reishi flames surged and danced violently around him, casting his cold face in the likeness of a god of slaughter.
Madara froze for half a second.
Then, the fervent battle intent in his eyes erupted like a volcano.
"Hahahaha!"
"Interesting! Far too interesting!"
Madara threw back his head and laughed, the vigorous life force within his living body roaring like raging rivers.
"Such scorching heat—I acknowledge you."
"Among everyone who has fought me in Fire Release, myself included, no one surpasses you. Not even that white-haired old man with Sage Techniques just now comes close."
"I, Madara, call you the strongest!!"
As he spoke, he suddenly raised his right hand, his fingers curled into a claw as his palm locked onto Seisen.
The light-purple Rinnegan he had just installed erupted with terrifying ocular power.
"Banshō Ten'in!"
Violent attraction burst from Madara's palm.
The surrounding sand, rocks, and shattered wood were swept up like debris caught in a hurricane, flying madly backward toward Madara.
The force was exceedingly overbearing, directly locking onto Seisen's body and attempting to drag him into certain death.
Seisen's expression remained cold, his eyes still as ancient wells.
He neither formed hand seals to defend