Several Otsutsuki clan members immediately surrounded him, trying to intercept and kill him.
"Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm!"
Neji fired an air cannon with all his might, using the recoil to smash through the wall and escape.
To buy his nephew time, Hiashi stood in the pursuers' path, only to be instantly pinned to the ground by several black rods.
"My chakra... has been sealed..."
Hiashi watched in despair as the enemy who appeared to be the leader approached step by step, cold fingers digging mercilessly into his eye sockets.
"As expected of the clan head. These eyes are very pure. Our lord will certainly be pleased."
On the other side of the battlefield, Hashirama grew more alarmed the longer he fought.
The man before him not only possessed astonishing strength but also completely ignored the restraints of Wood Release, moving fast enough to keep up with Flying Thunder God.
He was simply a monster without any weaknesses!
Those eyes glowing pale blue, in particular, kept giving Hashirama the illusion that he had seen them before, yet he could not remember where.
Outside Konoha, Orochimaru's belatedly arriving trio stood on high ground, dumbstruck by the devastation before them.
The once-bustling Konoha had now become a stretch of ruins billowing black smoke.
Broken walls lay everywhere, corpses littered the ground, and the air was thick with the stench of blood and burning.
Madara narrowed his eyes, muttering in disbelief, "This destructive power... To cripple Konoha in so little time, could Kirigakure really have done this?"
Orochimaru shook his head, extending his long tongue to sense the residual chakra in the air. "No, there isn't the slightest trace of water release chakra here, much less that Mizukage's presence."
With Kirigakure ruled out, the truth became even more elusive.
At this point in time,