Rumble...!
Having witnessed Kaguya's terrifying power and Madara's peril, Hashirama Senju stopped holding back. He instantly entered Sage Mode, black markings appearing on his face and a bull's-eye pattern forming on his forehead.
Then he pressed his palms together, channeling his own energy and natural energy into the ground. Countless tree trunks immediately surged up from beneath the earth, forming a colossal thousand-armed Buddha.
The Buddha was even larger than Sage Art: Susanoo, thousands of enormous arms surrounding its body with the imposing majesty of the Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara.
Standing atop the Buddha's head, Hashirama shouted, "Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!" Its thousands of massive hands clenched into fists at once and thundered toward the shock waves of the phantom fists with overwhelming force.
At that moment, the Great Toad Sage, the White Snake Sage, and the Katsuyu Sage also attacked together.
Yet even with the Five Immortal Shadows joining forces, Kaguya Otsutsuki's Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack still battered them into a miserable state.
The surrounding mountains had long since been flattened, and a crater thousands of meters across had appeared at the center of the battlefield.
Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, and the three Sages stood in it, battered and disheveled, each injured to some degree.
As they looked at Kaguya Otsutsuki, their bewilderment turned to horror.
Before this, they had only heard about Kaguya's strength from Yechen. After reaching the Immortal Shadow Level, Madara Uchiha had felt that he stood at the pinnacle of the world, capable of fighting even Ōtsutsuki.
But reality dealt him a crushing blow. Their opponent had merely struck casually, yet even the combined strength of the Five Immortal Shadows had left them at a disadvantage.
How could the ever-arrogant Madara Uchiha accept that? His fighting spirit blazed, as though he intended to