"Rooooar...!" As the Ten-Tails roared, the garlic-shaped ball of flesh on his back began growing wildly from within. Yet an immensely powerful restraint held it in place, forcing the proliferating flesh into his torso and limbs like toothpaste squeezed from a tube!
The Ten-Tails swelled rapidly across the ground. The Six Paths Jiazi Lock: Gate of the Great God lived up to its name, clamping tightly around his body without showing the slightest damage from his explosive growth. It was merely buried beneath the bulging flesh around it, and would soon disappear from sight!
At that critical moment, Hashirama shouted anxiously, "Everyone!! Get off the Gate of the Great God, now!!"
At the last possible moment, figures leaped off the Gate of the Great God one after another, landing beside the Ten-Tails.
The limbs and tails sprawled across the ground were also growing wildly, forcing everyone to leap back into the distance!
The severed tail that Obito had previously outwitted him into cutting off and absorbing had regenerated as well. It expanded rapidly, the enormous hand at its tip snapping like a rubber band... then swept straight down over the ground ahead!
Adamantine Power Pole!!
Hiruzen Sarutobi tucked the staff Enma had transformed into beneath his arm and thrust it diagonally upward! With a thunderous bang, he knocked the tail's hand back... but the impact sent him flying as well. He barely managed to stop at the edge of the Eight Pillar Fierce Formation.
Gazing at the absolute behemoth towering before him, he said gravely, "So this is the Ten-Tails' true power? What a monster!"
Hashirama's expression grew utterly grim. "No, the main event is still to come!"
Boom! The enormous Ten-Tails stared down at the Resonance Source shrouded in Purple Light on the ground below with the crimson Rinne