Far beyond the ruins.
The ordinary Sunagakure ninja who had been scared out of their wits could only stare wide-eyed, their eyes bloodshot.
They could not see the two people fighting in midair at all.
All they could see were one visible shockwave after another exploding in the sky, along with deafening sonic booms.
Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya had to push Sage Mode to its limits.
Only then could they barely catch the two wildly intertwining afterimages.
Minato gripped his kunai tightly, his azure eyes filled with undisguised shock and disbelief.
Seisen could not only use that strange blue-white energy for long-range sniping, but could even casually obliterate meteors.
And now, in pure close-quarters taijutsu—
He was going head-to-head with Madara Uchiha at his prime, a man with the peak physical body of a living person and implanted Hashirama Cells?!
What kind of monster was this?!
At the very moment Minato's mind reeled.
The sound of the clash high in the sky abruptly rose to an incredibly shrill pitch.
A ring of blazing white air, ten times larger than before, erupted with a thunderous blast!
The two had exchanged an all-out, limit-breaking brawl in midair.
Immediately after.
Crimson and blue-white streams of light both shot backward.
Madara landed steadily atop a sand dune, his chest heaving violently and a trace of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.
He raised the back of his hand and casually wiped away the blood. His pale purple Rinnegan fixed on Hyuga Seisen across from him, and the fervor in his eyes seemed ready to burst into flame.
"This feeling of excitement..."
He stared fixedly at Hyuga Seisen, who stood suspended in the distance. His pale purple Rinnegan emitted a ghostly gleam amidst the raging sandstorm that made souls tremble.
Madara's chest rose