Chains Brand the Mark of Certain Death, Madara's Coffin Smashed Open!

Noon, Central Plaza of the Land of Iron.

The gust of wind swept away the last bit of snow dust. Obito's orange mask shattered in half, exposing his pale skin to the air. His right cheek was covered in hideous scars, and his crimson Sharingan was staring intently down below.

The entire hall fell silent.

Kakashi knelt on one knee amidst the rubble, the Three-Tomoe Sharingan in his left eye spinning wildly, a trickle of blood even seeping from the corner of his eye. His gaze pierced through dozens of meters of empty space, colliding fiercely with Obito's single eye.

The familiar frequency of eye power, the perfectly consistent Chakra fluctuations.

Even the direction of that scar perfectly matches the trajectory of the rock collapse in my memory.

Kakashi's breath caught in his throat for a second. A sudden flashback appeared in his mind: the boy under the Kannabi Bridge, half his body pinned down by a boulder, who had entrusted his left eye to him.

"Obito ..." Kakashi's throat tightened, and his voice was hoarse, as if he had swallowed a handful of sand.

These two words, though small, struck like a thunderbolt in the center of the battlefield.

In mid-air, Obito abruptly stopped covering his face. A flash of extremely violent panic crossed his remaining eye.

But he quickly smirked, his voice turning completely cold. "Kakashi, don't look at me with that disgusting gaze. That Obito Uchiha idiotic dreams, was crushed to death by a rock long ago."

Kakashi slowly stood up, without Hand Seals or Kunai. He tilted his head back, letting cold sweat slide down his mask, and asked only one question.

"Lin's death... what kind of monster did you turn into?"

"Shut up!"

Obito's face contorted instantly, like a wild beast whose tail had been stepped on. His Sharingan flashed with a terrifying, ferocious light.

"What right do you have to mention her name!"

With a roar, Obito suddenly clasped his hands together. The grayish-white Hashirama Cells on his right arm writhed violently as if alive, and the blood vessels bulged out.

Boom!

The solid frozen ground plaza of the Land of Iron exploded instantly.

This was no ordinary crack. The dark blue tree roots, as thick as dozens of people could hug, surged out like raging pythons emerging from the ground, shattering the stone slabs and overturning the watchtower, carrying a devastating sense of oppression.

Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!

"This is... the First Hokage's Wood Release?!" Terumi Mei exclaimed in shock, her figure retreating at lightning speed.

"That bastard has even mastered this kind of power!" The Fourth Raikage's Lightning Armor crackled as he smashed a thick tree root that was aimed at his face with a punch.

But there were too many tree roots. Hundreds and thousands of giant trees intertwined to form a colossal, deathly net that blotted out the sky, attempting to swallow the Five Kage Summit hall, the Allied Shinobi Forces delegation, and the civilians on the periphery whole.

"Kid! Think of something!" Ōnoki roared at Naruto while dodging in mid-air.

Naruto hovered in mid-air, gritting his back teeth.

The purple-gold lines around his eyes were fading rapidly.

[Warning: Six Paths Observation State remaining time, 30 seconds!]

The system's cold notification tone slammed into my mind. My vision began to blur, and the stabbing pain in my head felt like being violently stabbed with an awl.

If he kills Obito now, he'll lose control of his group. If he tries to save them, Obito will definitely take the opportunity to escape.

"You really think I can't handle this all by myself?" Naruto spat out a mouthful of blood and roared fiercely, "What are you all standing there for! Waiting to die?!"

That shout completely woke everyone up.

Nobody is made of clay.

"I'm not so old that I need a junior to take my blows!" Ōnoki roared, slamming his hands into the ground. "Earth Release: Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique!"

At the same time, Kurotsuchi leaped down, his hands Hand Seals as he followed. "Earth Release: Earthquake Core!"

The grandfather and grandson 'Chakra resonated.

Boom! The ground that had been overturned by the Wood Release was as if filled with a thousand tons of lead, and was forcibly pressed back into the earth. The newly sprouted tree buds were directly crushed into a puddle of green juice by the terrifying gravity.

On the other side, a dozen warriors from the Land of Iron were swirled into the air by the raging vines, and it looked like their bones were about to be snapped.

A vast expanse of yellow sand swept past.

Gaara raised his hands expressionlessly, and the sand waves precisely severed the vines, catching the samurai steadily. Then, the sand transformed into a giant shield, firmly blocking the wooden spears that followed.

"Well done, Kazekage!" Raikage laughed, transforming into a streak of blue lightning and smashing the three main roads rushing towards the civilian area to pieces.

But Obito's real target was Hinata and Sasuke, who were standing in the center of the venue!

"Die!" Obito controlled a dark red wooden spear with one hand, sharp enough to pierce steel, straight towards Hinata's back.

"To the right front, the Chakra core is three meters above the ground!"

Hinata didn't even turn her head, her veins bulging around her eyes, her Byakugan instantly seeing through the wooden spear's true nature. She thrust out with both palms, delivering a pure, Empty Wall Palm strike to the side of the wooden spear, forcibly shifting it by half an inch.

"Chidori Sharp Spear!"

Sasuke had been waiting for this opening. The six-pointed star in his eyes spun rapidly, and his Lightning Release Chakra transformed into a blue lightsaber over ten meters long. It slashed in from the side at an extremely tricky angle, cleanly slicing the dark red wooden spear along with the three tree roots behind it into several pieces.

The severed area was charred, and the life force of Wood Release was completely suppressed by Lightning Release.

"Is this all you've got? You think you can become the ghost of the Uchiha?" Sasuke coldly raised his head, the tip of his sword pointing directly at Obito in mid-air.

Team 7, working in tandem with the Five Kage, dismantled Obito's catastrophic attack in just a few seconds without any extra words.

Obito narrowed his one eye.

The situation was completely out of control. The Wood Release technique failed to clear the area; instead, it forced the disunited village leaders into a united front.

He knew he couldn't kill Naruto today.

"What a boring farce." Obito sneered, and the space around him began to Uzumaki again. "Kakashi, keep an eye on this world for me. Soon, I will smash it all to pieces."

He planned to use Kamui to retreat.

Just as half of his body had already become ethereal.

"Did I say you could leave?!"

A furious roar exploded in Obito's ears.

Naruto had somehow found himself standing on a broken piece of wood above his head.

[Time Remaining: Five Seconds!]

Naruto's eyes shone with an intense purple-gold light. He stared intently at the only real anchor point in space where Obito had intangibly transformed.

Obito was terrified and immediately stopped using Wood Release, accelerating his Intangibility transformation at full speed.

But it was too late.

"Adamantine Sealing Chains!"

Naruto's right hand shot out suddenly, and a Chakra Chains mixed with the golden light of Yang Release pierced Obito's right wrist, which was not yet fully ethereal, with supersonic speed!

Laugh!

Chains were entangled, and the stench of burnt flesh filled the air instantly.

"Ugh!" Obito let out a shrill scream as his right arm, made of Hashirama Cells, was burned with a deep, bone-revealing black mark by the golden light.

He desperately unleashed his eye power, and Kamui forcibly severed Naruto's chains.

The Uzumaki contracted, Obito's figure completely disappeared into the air.

Naruto didn't chase after him. He landed on the ground, his body swayed suddenly, and he knelt down on one knee.

His purple-gold pupils instantly faded, returning to their original icy blue. Two streams of blood flowed uncontrollably from his nose, and it felt as if hundreds of steel needles were stabbing him wildly in his head.

"Naruto!" Hinata arrived Body Flicker Technique and quickly supported his shoulder, her pure Gentle Fist Chakra flowing through his meridians.

"I'm fine." Naruto exhaled a breath of stale air and wiped his face haphazardly.

Sasuke walked over, sword in hand, brow furrowed. "He got away. That guy's Space-Time Ninjutsu was disgusting."

"Run?"

Naruto grinned, revealing an extremely fierce sneer. He slowly opened his right hand, revealing a severed piece of the Adamantine Sealing Chains in his palm.

The tips of the chains were stained with Obito's blood.

He can't escape.

Naruto raised his head and looked into the void Obito had disappeared, his eyes brimming with killing intent.

The instant the chains wrapped around Obito's wrist, a Flying Thunder God Mark, compressed with both Yang Release Chakra and Six Paths Observation State, was firmly imprinted into Obito's very marrow.

"As long as he dares to breathe, no matter which alternate dimension he's hiding in..." Naruto clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking, "I can twist his head off anytime."

The crisis was temporarily averted. The Five Kage landed in the ruins of the plaza, their expressions extremely grave.

Everyone understands that today's battle is just an appetizer.

Just as the Raikage was about to ask Kakashi about Obito's background...

"Boom--"

From the distant border of the Land of Fire, a muffled, deafening roar suddenly resounded. The earth trembled violently, like waves crashing.

Karin, who was standing some distance away, suddenly clutched her chest, her face turned deathly pale, and she knelt down on the ground.

"Karin! What's wrong?!" Sakura rushed over.

"Chakra... such terrifying Chakra..." Karin trembled all over, suddenly raised her head, and pointed to the southern sky, "That coffin with the character 'Madara' engraved on it... it was forcibly smashed open!"