Collision

The Tachi was raised high above the head, its tip pointed towards Imu.

Below, Shanks looked up, his gaze fixed on the sky.

He saw Madara's long white hair, the ten jet-black Truth-Seeking Orb, and the greyish-white Sage's robes fluttering in the Six Paths Chakra flow.

He saw those crimson Six-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan, and saw how much faster the Six Tomoe in the pupils were spinning than before.

He gripped Gryphon's knife hilt tightly, his thumb unconsciously rubbing against the guard.

He has met many strong people.

Roger, Whitebeard, Kaido, Big Mom, Blackbeard.

But the freckles before him, the white-haired freckles at this moment, were beyond anything he had ever seen before.

Killing Hall tilted his head back, and the Broken Cage pattern in his Mangekyō Sharingan slowly rotated.

His lips were pressed tightly together, and he did not speak.

He saw Madara's Six Paths Sage Mode.

That was the first time he had ever seen this model in person.

Previously on Origin Island, Natsu Yin explained to them the ultimate form of the Uchiha Clan's bloodline evolution.

From the single Tomoe to the Three Tomoe, from the Mangekyo Sharingan to the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and then to the Rinne Sharingan.

The Six Paths Sage Mode is the ultimate state that can only be unlocked by those who possess the Rinne Sharingan.

He saw it at that moment.

Madara's long white hair, ten Truth-Seeking Orb, and greyish-white Sage Robe—this is the pinnacle of the Uchiha Clan's bloodline evolution.

He gripped the hilt of the knife tightly.

In his Mangekyō Sharingan, the image of the Broken Cage spun even faster than before.

Fugaku stood between the eyebrows of the Complete Susanoo, its massive, sky-blue Chakra body rising above the sea.

He looked up at Madara's Six Paths Sage Mode.

His Mangekyō Sharingan slowly rotated in its sockets, his face expressionless.

But his fingers tightened slightly on the control core of the sky-blue Susanoo.

As the vice-head of the Uchiha Clan, he understood better than most people present what Madara activating this mode meant.

The spots are desperate.

Ban believed Imu was worth risking his life for.

This judgment itself explains everything.

Garp stood atop the highest point of the ruins, his arms enveloped in jet-black Armament Haki, while a surge of Conqueror's Haki's Haki rippled around him.

He looked up at the figure with long white hair.

His lips moved, but he didn't say anything.

He fought wars his whole life.

He fought Roger, he fought Rocks, and he fought Whitebeard.

But he had never seen anything like it before.

Truth-Seeking Orb.

He didn't even know what that was.

But he could see the power surging within those eyes.

He could see the oppressive aura emanating from the ten black spheres.

He knew that Ban was serious.

The fact that Madara is going all out means that the next level of power is beyond his control.

Shanks withdrew his gaze.

He glanced down at Shamrock beside him, then at Fugaku in the distance, and finally at the white figure gathering its strength in the sky.

His fingers tightened around the hilt of the Gryphon knife, his long red hair fluttering in the sea breeze.

He didn't speak, but his eyes held a complex, almost tangible, expression, as if he had finally made a decision.

Above the sky, Madara's Tachi was fully charged.

The ten Truth-Seeking Orb spun rapidly around him, their dark golden light illuminating the entire dim sky.

His Six-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan quietly gazed at Imu, the Six Tomoe in his pupils slowly rotating.

Imu floated in the void, his long red hair flowing in the Demonic Energy, his crimson almond eyes slightly narrowed.

She noticed the changes in Ban.

She saw the ten Truth-Seeking Orb, the greyish-white immortal robe, and the speed at which the Six Tomoe in those scarlet pupils spun.

The faint curve of her lips had faded slightly.

The third chain behind her was still vibrating. Cracks began to appear on the fourth chain.

Madara's Tachi fell.

As Madara Uchiha's Tachi fell, an even more terrifying aura erupted from where Imu was.

The third chain snapped.

The two broken chain fragments were still dissipating in the air when the third chain exploded in the middle with a dull thud.

The dark gold patterns flickered wildly at the break for a few moments before fading completely.

The chain fragments turned into dark red debris, like a light rain falling against the current, drifting upwards, dissolving, and returning to nothingness.

At the very moment the third chain snapped, the concentration of Demonic Energy around Imu surged dramatically, and the pair of giant crimson eyes on her back widened abruptly, their pupils surging with an extremely ancient light, as if they had finally broken free from some of their restraints.

In contrast, countless Demonic Energy instantly condensed in front of her.

The Chaos Sword and the Void Sword flew out simultaneously from the eleven weapons, intersecting, overlapping, and merging in mid-air.

The blades of the two divine weapons interlocked, their patterns intertwined, and a silent shockwave exploded at the point where the chaotic gray and the void of darkness merged.

The next second, a circular shield made of nothingness and chaos unfolded around Imu.

The shield is grayish-black, covered with flowing patterns. Deep within these patterns surges a void of darkness and chaotic gray, like a nebula compressed to its extreme.

Void-Chaos Shield.

A divine artifact formed by combining the Chaos Sword and the Void Sword.

This shield is not just for blocking; anything that touches its surface will experience a strong recoil.

The force of the counterattack did not come from the shield itself, but from the intertwining and tearing of the two Origin laws of nothingness and chaos, enough to reflect the power of any attacker back.

Madara's Tachi fell.

The Susanoo's Tachi, imbued with a dark golden light interwoven with Six Paths Chakra and Yin–Yang Release, slashed down at the Void-Chaos Shield.

The moment the blade collided with the shield, the entire sky was illuminated for a brief instant by the explosive light.

The sky-blue Chakra and the gray-black chaotic void power clashed, tore, and neutralized each other at their point of contact.

After a brief stalemate, the Tachi, empowered by the Six Paths Chakra, unleashed its ultimate brilliance, cleaving the shield constructed of nothingness and chaos in two.

However, the next second...

A tremendous shockwave surged back from the Void-Chaos Shield.

Ban's pupils suddenly contracted.

The force of the recoil was much greater than he had anticipated, and its trajectory was extremely unpredictable.

Instead of traveling along the blade of the Tachi, it bypassed the edge and struck back into Susanoo's arm from the side of the blade.

Ban sensed it.

The Susanoo's arm trembled violently for a moment, and the Chakra patterns on the armor, from the wrist to the shoulder blade, simultaneously lit up with a dark red, alarm-like light.

Then he heard that crisp sound.

Click.