Hyuga Seisen stepped on two extremely solid blue-white Reishi platforms, his entire body transforming into a bolt of lightning that tore through space. He ignored Uchiha Madara floating in midair and shot straight toward the God Tree's thickest trunk!
"Decisive as ever. Just as expected of you."
A contemptuous curve tugged at Madara's pale face, but his light-purple Rinnegan did not even turn.
He merely shifted his thoughts.
The space directly before Seisen's clone suddenly twisted.
Madara, clad in a pure white Six Paths robe, appeared out of nowhere between Seisen and the God Tree. He moved so fast that it completely defied the laws of acceleration, as though he had been standing there all along.
"A fake molded from mud thinks it can touch something belonging to a god?"
Madara gripped the pitch-black Yin–Yang Release Staff in one hand and casually swung his wrist forward.
No chakra leaked out. Relying purely on the terrifying physical strength of his Six Paths body, the staff carved a black afterimage through the air that tore space apart as it smashed toward Seisen's face.
Seisen's clone remained calm.
Faint blue mysterious patterns across his skin instantly expanded to their limit. Blut Arterie activated!
His waist twisted, the muscles in his right arm bulged, and immensely compressed High-Level Reishi frantically gathered in his palm, instantly stretching into a blue-white Reishi Light Sword that radiated destruction.
Facing the descending black staff, Seisen gripped his sword with both hands and swung upward with all his strength!
Clang—!!!
A metallic explosion that seemed capable of tearing eardrums apart rang out.
A blinding flash erupted from the point of impact. Then, a tangible white shockwave swept outward in a mad expanding ring.
The yellow sand below was ground directly into the finest powder, while the crust within several