In Konoha: Three Choices at the Start

Even the visible rings of shockwaves alone were enough to make them take the fight seriously.

"Was that Wood Release? How could Madara Uchiha use Wood Release? Wasn't that Hashirama Senju's signature technique?"

Ōnoki murmured in a daze. He had thought that, after becoming Tsuchikage and training for so long, he could not be far behind Madara Uchiha.

Only now, watching the two fight like ancient gods with the power to destroy heaven and earth, did he understand why the God of Shinobi had been called a god.

They had risen so far beyond ordinary humans that they could no longer be called human!

"Old monsters like them have plenty of secret techniques. What's so surprising about that? They've lived this long and still look so young!"

Hanzō folded his arms. His voice trembled slightly, though he did not notice it himself.

"Who do you think will win?" Ōnoki asked after a moment of silence.

"I don't know." Hanzō shook his head. Seeing a battle at this level was already a stroke of luck. How could he predict its outcome?

He wanted to say Uchiha Liuyun would win, but Madara Uchiha's unfathomable methods made him hold back.

"At least they're enemies..."

Ōnoki nodded in agreement. If those two really got along as well as their ancestors had...

With a devoted grandson and a doting ancestor, the entire Shinobi World would probably belong to the Uchiha.

An apocalyptic storm swirled around them. Space collapsed, and visible waves of force swept across heaven and earth.

The ground groaned as countless ridges and trenches rose across it.

Space twisted at the center, where explosions rang out like thunderclaps without end.

Everything around the two had become a forbidden zone that annihilated all within it.

Standing tall atop a black-and-blue expanse of surging