Meteor Overhead, Legends Are Not Meant to Be Worshipped!

The sky darkened.

Without any build-up, without the gathering of dark clouds, the morning sun seemed to have been kicked out like a light bulb, plunging the entire Southern Battlefield into suffocating darkness.

The gale tore at the Allied Shinobi Forces battle flags, making a piercing tearing sound.

Madara Uchiha stood atop the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, his hands still in Hand Seals position. His dark Rinnegan gazed down at the scene below as if watching a nest of ants struggling in vain.

"Kid, you've got some skill to withstand one of my sword strikes." Madara's lips curled into a fanatical sneer. "And what about this one?"

The clouds suddenly burst open!

A colossal meteorite, hundreds of meters in diameter and accompanied by dark red Kakkō and billowing smoke, pierced through the atmosphere and crashed straight down on the main positions of the Allied Shinobi Forces!

The air was compressed violently at that moment, and the terrifying wind pressure pressed dozens of ninjas on the ground, who had no time to react, firmly against the rocks, their bones emitting a teeth-grinding grinding sound.

"This is Ninjutsu?!" Terumi Mei suddenly cursed, her usual composure completely gone.

Ōnoki bit his tongue, using the excruciating pain to forcefully dispel his fear of Madara. His perpetually aching back straightened instantly, and his short body shot up like a cannonball, soaring into the sky.

"Don't just stand there! Hold on if you don't want to die!" Ōnoki roared, thrusting a transparent barrier cube forward with both hands in front of his chest. "Dust Release: Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu!"

A blinding white light shot into the sky and swept directly onto the bottom of the meteorite.

"Laugh--"

Thousands of tons of rock were instantly broken down into molecules, but for that sky-covering celestial body, it was like being bitten by a mosquito; its falling speed did not decrease at all!

Ōnoki's eye ruptured, blood streaming down his old face. "Too big! It's impossible to peel it all off!"

"I'll do it!"

The earth below trembled violently. Gaara suddenly flipped his hands upwards, and the sand and soil of the entire canyon seemed to come alive. Two enormous sand hands burst forth from the earth, firmly supporting the meteorite's red-hot base.

"Sizzle--"

The moment the sand touched the meteorite, it was instantly vitrified by the terrifying heat. Gaara groaned, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, his knees buckling as he nearly collapsed.

"Earth Release Team! Charge!" the Iwagakure commander shouted hoarsely.

Thousands of Iwagakure Ninja simultaneously Hand Seals, and thick Earth Flow Rampart rose up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, forcefully blocking the Sand Hand and barely forming a buffer zone.

The meteorite's descent was finally slowed down slightly.

"Well done!" The Allied Shinobi Forces erupted in cheers of relief.

Just then, Ban's laughter came from high above, carrying a chilling despair.

"Innocent."

His fingers moved rapidly, then he clasped them together again.

"Boom!"

From deeper within the clouds, a deafening roar erupted.

The second meteorite.

It was twice the size of the first one! With even more terrifying kinetic energy, it slammed into the back of the first meteorite like a black hammer of death!

In that instant, the Allied Shinobi Forces positions fell into a deathly silence. The air seemed to freeze, breathing became a luxury; what filled their lungs was not wind, but despair. Everyone looked up at the two celestial bodies, large enough to flatten an entire continent, and all they could hear was the mournful sound of crumbling rock. There was no escape. Time stretched endlessly, and the fear of blood ceasing to flow under extreme pressure gripped everyone's hearts tightly.

"Bang!"

Gaara's Sand Hand shattered instantly, and thousands of Iwagakure engineers coughed up blood as the Earth Flow Rampart collapsed like fragile biscuits.

"We're all going to die here..." A Hidden Cloud Jonin down the Kunai in his hand, his face deathly pale.

Shut your beak!

A dazzling golden light suddenly exploded from the ruins, Naruto Uzumaki kicked the ninja who was waiting to die to the ground.

"Big Fox, wake up! That old bastard's causing trouble!" Naruto slapped his chest hard with both hands.

Inside the sealed space, Kurama bared his fangs and roared to the sky, "Don't order me around, you brat!"

A surge of violent golden-red Chakra erupted from Naruto's body, condensing in mid-air into two incredibly thick Nine-Tails Chakra giant hands, firmly holding back the base of the first meteorite.

The terrifying weight pressed down, blasting two massive craters, each over ten meters deep, into the rock beneath Naruto's feet. The Yang Release aura emanating from his body was violently suppressed, and his bones creaked and groaned.

"Kid, you can't take on two by yourself!" Ōnoki shouted in mid-air.

"Who said I'm alone?" Naruto grinned, revealing his bloodstained teeth.

"Whoosh!"

Two figures appeared directly beside Naruto using the Flying Thunder God Kunai they had left behind.

"Naruto, the Coordinates are accurate!" Tenten carried a huge, specially made scroll on her shoulder, her eyes sharper than those of the girl who only knew how to throw Shuriken.

While inspecting the White Zetsu in the northern warehouse, she saw through the disguise thanks to her extreme sensitivity to the weight of the supplies. Now, those eyes, with their abnormal intuition for "mass and stress points," are fixed on the cracks at the bottom of the meteorite.

"White!" Tenten shouted.

"Understood." Haku's hands Hand Seals so fast they became blurry, and his entire body erupted with extremely cold Chakra. "Ice Release: Absolute Zero Domain!"

A thick column of ice shot into the sky, precisely following the deepest crack that Tenten had pointed out, and forcefully poured into the interior of the first meteorite.

The intense heat of several thousand degrees and the Absolute Zero cold collided violently deep within the rock strata, and the physical laws of thermal expansion and contraction instantly tore apart the core structure of the meteorite.

"The Sealing Squad's entire stockpile is here!"

Tenten suddenly pulled open the scroll and slammed his hands on the ground.

"Boom boom boom!"

Hundreds of black gold Kunai, each bound with a "Yang Release Explosive Tag," plunged into the deepest part of the meteorite like a black torrential rain flowing against the current, through the cracks opened by the white frost.

Naruto seized the opportunity. "Raikage, you can have that one up there!"

The Fourth Raikage let out a beast-like roar, his body crackling with lightning, and charged towards the edge of the second meteorite, stepping directly onto the sand springboard that Gaara had erected.

"Old man, cover me!" Raikage roared.

"I'm not so old that I can't move!" Despite his aching back that seemed about to fall apart, Ōnoki activated Dust Release again, the white light precisely cutting into the joint of the second meteorite, forcibly reducing its weight.

"Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop!"

The Raikage's Lightning Release hand blade, powerful enough to split mountains and shatter rocks, slammed into the gash cut by the Dust Release technique!

The center of gravity of the second meteorite shifted slightly under the combined impact of the two Kage Level powerhouses.

It's just this tiny bit.

"Smash it!!!"

Naruto's eyes flashed with golden light as his Pure Yang Chakra poured out without reservation. The Nine-Tails' giant hand suddenly lifted upwards, sending the first meteorite flying half a meter higher.

Tenten, he simultaneously Hand Seals with one hand. "Explode!"

"BOOM--!!!"

Hundreds of Explosive Tag, brimming with Yang Release Chakra, exploded simultaneously at the meteorite's core.

Two enormous celestial bodies collided with a deafening roar less than a hundred meters above the ground!

The deafening explosion, beyond description, reverberated through the sky. Blinding Kakkō instantly engulfed the entire Eighth Gorge, and the terrifying shockwave, like a giant scythe, scraped away a layer of earth from an area spanning over ten kilometers.

The meteorite wasn't completely blocked; instead, it was blasted into countless burning fragments, like an apocalyptic fire meteor shower, crashing wildly down on the Allied Shinobi Forces positions.

The defensive line was torn apart instantly, and countless screams echoed in the sea of fire.

"Earth Release! Water Release! Surround the wounded!" Shikamaru shouted hoarsely through the communicator from the rear camp.

Naruto's main body did not retreat; nine golden Chakra Chains transformed into a large net, tightly protecting Tenten, Haku, Gaara, and the others behind him, as scorching hot rocks smashed against the chains, exploding into a sky full of sparks.

Smoke and dust filled the sky.

It took a full five minutes for the apocalyptic tremors to gradually subside.

The southern canyon has been completely transformed, with burning craters everywhere.

Naruto removed the chains, breathing heavily, and shook his slightly numb wrists. That blow had almost drained his Chakra reserves.

"They... they stopped them..." Ōnoki slumped to the ground, staring at the ashes flying everywhere, his voice filled with disbelief.

Just then, a series of faint, unusual noises caught Naruto's attention.

A dozen meters away at his feet, in a crater, lay the core of a meteorite fragment emitting an eerie black aura. It didn't look like a stone; rather, it resembled a large, shriveled black crystal.

Even more bizarrely, something seemed to be throbbing inside the crystal.

Naruto frowned, about to use his Byakugan what was going on.

"Not bad, barely passable opening dance."

High in the sky, Madara Uchiha's cold voice rang out once more.

Naruto suddenly looked up.

Madara stood atop the shattered Golem's head, his left half completely blasted apart in the collision, even the Impure World Reincarnation dust inside was blown away.

Paper scraps flew around as the resurrection mechanism of his Impure World Reincarnation rapidly repaired his mangled body.

But what made Naruto's pupils shrink was that the strange face on Madara's chest, which had been transplanted with Hashirama Cells, did not recover along with the Impure World Body. Instead, it opened a pale mouth like a living thing, greedily devouring the remaining Yang Release Chakra in the surrounding air!

"What the hell is that thing...?" Tenten gripped her Kunai.

Hiding in the shadows, Kabuto Yakushi trembled with excitement as he looked at the data on the monitoring scroll before him. "Having absorbed the Chakra of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and with the addition of Hashirama Senju's cells, this body has begun to break through the limitations of the Impure World Reincarnation..."

Madara twisted his newly grown neck, and the dark red armor was once again draped over his body. He ignored the changes in his chest, focusing his Rinnegan intently on Naruto on the ground.

"Warm-up is over, kid."

Ban slowly raised his hands and formed an extremely ancient and intricate hand seal.

"Next, I want to see how many seconds you can last in this forest."

The White Zetsu roots on the ground, in conjunction with the patterned markings, suddenly emitted a shrill, mournful shriek.

"Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!"

Obito stood at the back, coldly watching this scene. "That's enough nourishment for the Ten-Tails."

The ancient behemoth that had been sleeping underground has now fully opened the remaining eyes.