A Kick Shatters Susanoo-Are You Done Showing Off, Old Fossil?!

The light of dawn could not penetrate the crimson thunderclouds above the Eighth Gorge.

A fierce wind, carrying the pungent smell of earth, swept across the wasteland. The Ten-Tails' massive, mountain-like body stood in the center of the ruins, its nine enormous eyes, covered in black ripples, swirling wildly as it greedily devoured the Chakra flowing back from the Leyline.

Obito stood atop the Golem's head, his black robes fluttering wildly in the wind. He didn't look at the Allied Shinobi Forces below, who were standing ready for battle, but instead turned to look to his side.

The soil there was churning violently.

"Bang!"

A heavy wooden coffin covered with dark red runes burst from the ground, its lid slamming heavily against the rocks and shattering into pieces.

A foot clad in dark red Warring States-era layered armor stepped out of the coffin.

The air in the entire canyon seemed to have been sucked out in that instant. The once bustling and noisy battlefield, which had been boiling over due to the Golem's resurrection, suddenly fell into a deathly silence.

The newcomer had long, unruly black hair draped over his shoulders, his eyes tightly closed, his chest rising and falling slightly, as he took a deep breath of the cold air, which smelled of gunpowder.

"This earthy smell..." The man slowly opened his eyes, his dark red sclera covered with gray-white cracks from the Impure World Reincarnation, but the three black ripples in his pupils exuded a suffocating savagery. "It doesn't seem like the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique."

Madara Uchiha has arrived.

He tilted his head slightly, his gaze sweeping over the dark mass of the Allied Shinobi Forces in the distance, finally settling on the four figures at the very front of the formation.

"Oh? Wearing Forehead Protector from different villages, yet standing together." Madara's lips curled into an undisguised mockery. "Ōnoki, that's you, isn't it? You're so old you're practically falling apart. Looks like all Five Kage are here now?"

The Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki, who was floating in mid-air, was instantly drenched in cold sweat. His aching back, which had been aching for years, was now completely numb, and all that remained in his mind was the image of that demonic figure who had looked down on him decades ago.

"Uchiha... Madara." Ōnoki's voice was hoarse, and he almost squeezed out the four words through clenched teeth.

"That saves me the trouble of searching for them one by one." Madara completely ignored Ōnoki's fear. He didn't even glance at Obito beside him, and casually put his hands together in front of his chest.

There are only three extremely simple seals. Si-wei-shen.

But the moment he inhaled, the fire-attribute Natural Energy within hundreds of meters around him seemed to rush into his mouth like a madman, and his chest bulged high to a visible degree.

"Fire Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame"

The moment his calm words fell, a thin, almost invisible thread of fire shot out of his mouth and exploded in mid-air!

Without any build-up or preheating, a dark red sea of fire, hundreds of meters wide and tens of meters high, surged towards the Allied Shinobi Forces positions like an apocalyptic tsunami. Rocks melted instantly under the intense heat, and the air crackled and popped as it burned.

"Does this old monster even have any basic sense?! Such a large-scale operation!" Terumi Mei cursed, frantically Hand Seals. "Water Release team! Anyone who doesn't want to become roast meat, get on board!"

"Water Release: Water Formation Pillar!"

Hundreds of Water Release ninjas stepped forward simultaneously, unleashing a massive wall of water in unison with Terumi Mei.

The sea of fire and the wall of water collided violently.

"Sizzle--"

A deafening explosion of steam echoed through the canyon, and thick, hot steam instantly obscured everyone's vision. Although the Allied Shinobi Forces' Water Release barely managed to hold back the sea of fire, the terrifying impact still sent dozens of ninjas in the front ranks flying.

Before the moisture had dissipated, a violent blue bolt of lightning tore through the white mist.

"I don't care if you're a god or a ghost, you'd better lie down!"

The Fourth Raikage, A, opened his eyes wide in fury, pushing his Lightning Release Chakra Armor to its limit. Like a runaway rhinoceros, he instantly traversed hundreds of meters, appearing directly above Madara.

"Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop!"

The violent lightning-attribute hand strike, carrying the power to cleave mountains and shatter rocks, slashed straight at Madara's nape.

Ban didn't even turn his head.

He didn't even move a finger.

"Buzz!"

A skull rib radiating a ghostly blue light exploded from his body without warning. Raikage's hand blade, capable of slicing through steel, struck the rib, sending up a burst of blinding sparks.

"When!"

A deafening bang resounded. The ribs remained completely still; instead, an extremely powerful recoil force erupted.

Raikage grunted, his burly body flying backward at twice the speed he had come from, smashing through three stalagmites before finally coming to a stop, his right arm twitching involuntarily.

"Lord Raikage!" the Allied Shinobi Forces exclaimed.

A sandstorm swept in, and Gaara, controlling a giant sand hand, steadily supported the Raikage. At the same time, he erected a thick sand wall in front of the Allied Shinobi Forces, blocking the Chakra pressure emanating from Madara.

The new recruits hid behind the sand wall, their hands Kunai as they held their kunai.

"Sand?" Madara slowly turned around, his dark blue Chakra rapidly expanding. Meridians and flesh grew from his skull, eventually transforming into a half-armored Susanoo giant. "Ōnoki, is your generation only fit to hide behind sand dunes and play in the mud?"

Susanoo's four enormous arms extended simultaneously, forcefully drawing out two wave-shaped greatswords condensed from pure Chakra.

"Too weak. You don't even deserve to dance."

Madara coldly pronounced his verdict, Susanoo raised his greatsword, aiming it at the Allied Shinobi Forces' position, preparing to cleave the sand wall and the people behind it in two.

Obito stood behind, his single eye beneath the mask coldly observing. Kabuto, that bastard, had cleverly poured the overflowing Demonic Statue of the Outer Path Chakra this Impure World Body. Madara was now even more uncontrollable than planned.

Just as the Susanoo sword was about to fall.

"Take it!"

A very crisp metallic clang rang out.

A specially made trident Kunai flew in from nowhere and landed squarely on a stone slab three steps in front of Madara. The Flying Thunder God Formula was flashing with dazzling golden light on the Kunai's handle.

Madara's movements suddenly stopped, Rinnegan narrowed slightly.

"Whoosh!"

A dazzling golden beam of light tore through the dim canyon.

A blinding burst of pure Pure Yang Chakra energy erupted, instantly cooling and solidifying the surrounding molten magma under its extremely domineering aura.

Naruto Uzumaki stepped on the side of the Flying Thunder God Kunai.

He didn't Hand Seals, nor did he waste any words. The instant he appeared, Naruto pulled his right leg back, his waist suddenly straining, and his thigh muscles instantly tensed to their limit. Golden Chakra compressed into a dazzling point of light at his toes.

"Bang!"

Naruto delivered a powerful high kick, striking the spine of the greatsword that Susanoo was slashing down with!

Pure physical strength combined with violent Yang Release Chakra erupted in an instant.

"Click--"

A crisp cracking sound echoed throughout the venue.

Before the Five Kage's shocked eyes, the Susanoo Greatsword, which even the Raikage couldn't budge an inch, suddenly cracked open from the point of impact, and then with a "whoosh," it exploded into a sky full of blue light spots!

The violent recoil caused Madara's Susanoo to slide back half a meter, carving two deep furrows in the ground.

The wind stopped.

Naruto slowly retracted his right leg, his golden Hokage Haori fluttering in the aftershocks. He didn't even bother to glance at the shattered Susanoo Chakra beside him, simply raising his hand to casually brush the dust off his trouser leg.

Then, he raised his head, his azure eyes staring directly at the high and Madara Uchiha, his gaze so cold it seemed to drip with ice.

"Old man, are you done pretending?"

A blunt and disrespectful statement exploded across the deathly silent battlefield.

Terumi Mei, standing some distance away, paused for a moment, then couldn't help but burst out laughing, instantly tearing a gap in the previously oppressive atmosphere.

Madara looked down at the reckless blond boy. He wasn't angry. But the instant Naruto's Yang Release Chakra erupted, the piece of flesh in his chest transplanted with Hashirama Cells began to throb uncontrollably, emitting a hungry and fearful throbbing.

That power... was even more domineering and pure than Hashirama's Senjutsu back then.

"Interesting." Madara dismissed the tattered Susanoo Greatsword, a fanatical smile playing on his lips. "You're that Nine-Tails brat, aren't you? Looks like this boring era still has a toy left to amuse me."

"A toy?" Naruto sneered, five thick, golden Chakra Chains bursting from his back, coiling around him like five angry dragons. "Don't think too highly of yourself. There's no place for you in the world of the living. Since you crawled out of your coffin..."

Naruto slammed his hands together.

"Then I'll take responsibility and kick you back!"

Madara laughed loudly, a murderous glint flashing in his Rinnegan. He then clasped his hands together abruptly.

"Then let me see if you, little brat, can hold up this sky!"

In the sky, the thick, blood-red thunderclouds suddenly began to churn violently. Ōnoki looked up sharply, his pupils shrinking to the size of pinpoints.

Through a crack in the clouds, a massive meteorite, hundreds of meters in diameter, is hurtling straight down into the canyon, accompanied by terrifying Kakkō from friction with the air!

At the same time, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path behind Naruto let out a deafening roar, and its nine enormous Rinnegan locked onto Naruto's back.

The demons of the old era have completely shed their pretense of testing.