A tremendous pull, like an invisible hand reaching from the pitch-black rift, seized them both.
Sasuke hovered inside the diamond-shaped crystal at Susanoo's brow, his expression changing sharply. The six-pointed Rinnegan in his left eye trembled wildly, and fine threads of blood burst at the corner of his eye as he tried to force the warped space back into place with his ocular power. But Indra's Arrow had drawn too much of the Nine Tailed Beasts' essence. Its energy had slipped completely out of control, and the laws of this world could no longer contain it.
Crack!
The crisp sound rang through the silence. It wasn't a jutsu breaking. Space itself had split open.
Naruto stood at the very front, the Pure Yang Chakra in his right arm boiling until it was almost transparent. He gritted his teeth as the nine golden fox tails behind him braced against the force tearing back toward them, like nine colossal pillars reaching into the sky.
Boom—
After the crushing compression came an explosion unlike any before. Light and darkness blurred together. A devastating shock wave spread outward in a ring, shearing the peaks off both sides of the Valley of the End. Not a drop remained of the great waterfall; it vaporized in an instant into white mist, exposing the deep rock layers beneath it.
Below, the stone statue of Hashirama Senju cracked at the brow. Spiderweb fractures raced across its body before it collapsed with a roar. Opposite it, the statue of Madara Uchiha was sliced in half by the blast. Its massive head crashed into the dry lakebed and shattered.
The symbols of the old era had been caught in a clash that belonged to the new. Nothing was left of them.
High above, the hundred-meter-tall purple Perfect Susanoo flaked apart