Two interwoven beams of golden light-one blazing like the midday sun, the other chaotic like the birth of the world.
Before everyone's eyes, they struck Six Paths Madara dead on.
The next second, a terrifying sonic boom erupted like ten thousand volcanoes at once, shaking loose debris from the Spirit Tamer Great Wall.
The instant the golden light exploded, the entire wasteland lit up as though a miniature sun had been hurled into it.
The people atop the Spirit Tamer Great Wall could not even open their eyes, and many instinctively raised their hands to shield them.
The shock wave spread in a ring, and the wasteland beneath Six Paths Madara's feet suffered first.
The already loose sand and gravel were instantly pulverized, followed by a hundred-meter-deep layer of rock being forcibly ripped up.
The heat vaporized the rocks into a red mist, mingled with chakra's sulfurous stench, that stung people's eyes until they watered.
Haotian had been crouching on a dune, watching with his arms folded, but now the shock wave swept over him too.
He grimaced. "If you hadn't told me this was a fight between clones, I'd have thought the bosses were going at each other!"
Mo Shiyu stood at the very front of the battlements. She raised a hand against the dazzling light, the blinding sphere at the heart of the explosion reflected between her fingers.
Although she had great confidence in Xia Yuan, even she could not help tensing up.
Zhao Wenguo stared at the center of the explosion, his throat dry. "That... should have blasted that Six Paths Madara clone into dust, right?"
Everyone else on the wall also stared fixedly at the center of the battlefield, hoping the combined attack would finish the enemy.
The explosion's aftershocks lasted a full ten breaths.
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