"Sage Art: Thousandfold Thunderclap!"
The radiance of lightning condensed into beams, and countless lasers burst from Susanoo, once again destroying the seemingly indestructible Great Buddha.
But before Madara could catch his breath, several enormous Wood Dragons surged from the seabed and dragged the Susanoo formed by his last remaining Limbo Clone straight underwater.
Within moments, he felt his connection to Limbo: Border Jail sever.
Rather than getting angry, Madara smiled in delight. "That's it, that's it! Only fighting you, Hashirama, can be this exhilarating!"
"You've even prepared a Rinnegan. Surely this isn't all you can do!"
"You've broken through my Limbo: Border Jail, but my real body hasn't taken a scratch! Can you still dance? Can you make my blood race even more?"
"Huff... huff..."
Yet Hashirama Senju, standing atop Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands opposite him, was nowhere near as composed as Madara. Sweat had soaked his inner armor. This was the hardest battle he had ever fought in his memory.
"Just as I thought. Even my original strength is no longer enough to defeat Madara."
Hashirama looked down at his arm, feeling the nearly inexhaustible chakra within his body—the body once hailed as a "Sage Body"—approach depletion.
Even his once-invincible Wood Release seemed to have reached its limit.
"Madara, you bastard. You've got the advantage, and you're still rubbing it in."
Hashirama propped himself up with a bitter smile.
The flesh he had been revived in was the very body he had possessed in life.
Because of its Wood Release Cells, Konoha had long kept his body sealed away and protected. Later, Danzo had secretly transferred it to Orochimaru for research into Hashirama Cells.
But Danzo, who had overseen the matter, had never fully trusted Orochimaru and had remained extremely secretive about the whereabouts of