Shattering the Barrier with Sky Steps, Meeting Madara While Carrying Black Zetsu

Qian Ye casually removed the forehead protector from his head, stuffed it into his pocket, and rolled his slightly stiff neck, his joints cracking sharply.

He raised a hand and gripped the hilt of the other intact steel blade at his waist.

The muscles in his legs tensed slightly, and the next second, the edge of the cliff beneath his feet collapsed with a boom.

Qian Ye turned into a straight streak of black light, using Geppo to dive straight down from a height of a thousand meters.

The gale howled miserably in his ears.

His target was not any of the Hidden Stone defensive zones around him, but the peak of the supposedly impregnable giant barrier directly below.

In the distance, Kakashi and the other two had just retreated to a high-ground stronghold as ordered when they witnessed the scene.

Obito violently tore off his goggles, his mouth hanging open as he pointed at the black figure plummeting from the sky. Even his voice cracked. "Kakashi, pinch me. I'm not blind, am I? Brother Qian Ye didn't even form hand seals, and he's walking through the sky? He's practically a superhero!"

Kakashi clenched his short blade, his palm drenched in cold sweat. Though he said nothing, his violently contracted pupils revealed the shock in his heart.

This was not how ninjas fought at all.

Amid a shrieking rush of wind, the thousands of Hidden Stone troops below finally noticed something strange overhead.

Countless Hidden Stone ninjas looked up in horror toward the sky.

Beneath the cold waning moon, a black-haired youth walked on empty air as though on level ground, crashing down with an overbearing, unrivaled presence.

One man, one sword.

Qian Ye's feet landed heavily on the very top of the giant barrier.

Boom!

The enormous stone dome