Then, at a certain moment.
His eyes sharpened, and he roared.
"Advent of a World of Flowering Trees!!"
The Kannon's enormous arms struck in unison, hammering toward the meteorite overhead.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
Deafening blasts filled everyone's ears. Their eyes widened at the spectacle before them.
The falling meteorite stopped abruptly. It began to break apart from below, crumbling into rubble, then into powder.
Crack, crack, crack—
A dense chorus of cracks rang out. Fissures spread across the meteorite as it rapidly fractured.
Countless arms slapped and punched at it, whipping up fierce winds and smashing the colossal meteorite to pieces.
"He stopped it!!"
"As expected of the Ninja God, Hashirama Senju!"
"He's incredible! Only Hashirama could fight a monstrous young man like that, couldn't he?"
"Who would have thought someone so powerful would emerge in the generation after ours?"
"Unbelievable!"
The Kage had witnessed plenty of grand battles in life, yet even they were shaken.
"Oh? Not bad!"
"Then how about two more?"
Xia Le's voice drifted down from where he floated in the air.
He formed another seal with one hand.
Hum, hum!
Two dark shapes appeared high in the sky. An even greater pressure enveloped everyone present.
"Are those—?!"
"Two! He summoned two more!"
"He really is a monster!"
The Kage stared in shock.
Hashirama Senju's pupils contracted. He drew a deep breath, his power rising to its limit.
"Come on!!"
"Xia Le!!"
He shouted.
The Thousand-Armed Kannon behind him swung its arms forward once more.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
The meteorites shattered. Dust billowed across the sky, and fierce winds blew in every direction, uprooting the trees at the edge of the forest.
Xia Le smiled faintly.
"Then how about five more?"
"Ten?"
"Twenty?"
His indifferent voice rolled across the heavens like that