"Heavenly Dragon" was Lightning Release at its core. Lightning Release traveled at one-thousandth the speed of sound. In a word, it was fast!
So when the Susanoo slash of "Conquering Sea" fell, Heavenly Dragon's mighty, dazzling golden head crashed straight into the blade!!!
Conquering Sea was essentially an upgraded version of "Frog Sniper Fist." An impact of natural energy delivered by a flesh-and-blood fist had been upgraded to one unleashed by a full-power slash from the great sword Sohibachi, wielded by a Complete Body Susanoo empowered by two Rinnegan and Ohototono. In short, Conquering Sea was a two-stage attack consisting of a "slash" and an "impact"!
With the principles and properties of both attacks established, what happened after their collision was easy to explain!
Crack...!!!!
The blade and the dragon's head collided with an earth-shattering crash... For "Conquering Sea," the first-stage "slash" had been successfully delivered, taken head-on by "Heavenly Dragon"!!
The second-stage "impact" of Conquering Sea began to take effect, in the form of "ripples" generated by natural energy. Why had they been called "tides" earlier? Because... once the Flow of those ripples reached a certain magnitude, they became tides!
Whoooosh...!!
The ripples penetrated Heavenly Dragon's head and spread through its body. Needless to say, this process met with unprecedented resistance...!!
The energy Flow was mutual!
As Conquering Sea's impact met resistance, Heavenly Dragon's Lightning Release body also endured terrifying destructive stress from within. Yet it still maintained its original form and surged upward with tremendous force. It was simply inconceivable...!
Rumble!! Rumble...!!!
All of that... happened within the first 0.01 seconds of the collision!
After those 0.01 seconds!
Heavenly Dragon's head at the heart of the collision, the great sword Sohibachi wielded by Madara's Susanoo, and even the arm swinging Sohibachi all exploded into oblivion!!
A brief vacuum