"Tengai Shinsei!"
"Birth of the Tree World!"
Hashirama Senju poured everything he had into his Wood Release, holding up the meteor plummeting from the sky.
Massive trees intertwined in layer upon layer, forming a thick, sky-piercing pillar that supported the meteor.
Under Hashirama Senju's control, thick vines kept winding up around the meteor's edges, trying to take root inside it and tear it apart.
Watching the scene before him, Hiruzen Sarutobi remembered how Minato had teleported the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb away during the Nine-Tails' Attack. He immediately spoke up.
"Minato, can you teleport a meteor this big?"
"Huh, teleport this meteor? That would be difficult. If... if only it were a little smaller."
Hearing Minato's answer, Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded.
"I understand. Then we'll find a way to break it apart!
Ōnoki!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi shouted Ōnoki's name and created several clones, which charged toward the meteor held up by Wood Release. He planned to shatter it first, then leave the pieces to Minato to teleport away.
Ōnoki, who was helping the Allied Shinobi Forces eliminate the reanimated ninja and White Zetsu, also heard Hiruzen Sarutobi's shout. He looked up, saw what Hiruzen Sarutobi was doing, and immediately understood his intent.
He flew straight into the air and began preparing his ninjutsu once he reached a suitable height.
"Dust Release!"
Nearby, Madara Uchiha shook his head as he watched Hashirama struggle to hold on, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato search for a way out, and Ōnoki attempt to split the meteor with Dust Release.
"Hashirama, you've all fallen behind the times. If the future of the shinobi world were left in your hands, it probably wouldn't be much different from the present.
A future like that would be far too dull."
Rather than a future whose end was already in plain sight,