Clang!
Xuandou answered Isshiki's attack with the Coiling Dragon Staff.
Surging energy poured from his palm, and the golden patterns on the black iron staff lit up, their dazzling lines becoming even brighter than sunlight.
Roaring, Xuandou opened the sixth gate of the Eight Gates Released Formation.
White steam blazed around his body as his strength soared, every movement generating friction against the air.
Flames shone in the air like a peacock spreading its tail, extraordinarily brilliant.
Xuandou leaped up and struck with all his might.
In an instant, he unleashed over a hundred staff afterimages, all of them showering sparks as they hurtled toward Isshiki.
They collided with the repulsive force pouring from Isshiki's palm.
Boom!
Space abruptly ruptured where the two attacks met, and a black hole appeared, devouring their clashing attacks.
Violent chakra energy gathered into a storm, then exploded with a thunderous blast.
Rather than retreating, Isshiki and Xuandou advanced, riding the impact of the white shock wave as each pressed the other in a furious, unrelenting fight.
Even a gust casually unleashed by either of them could churn up sand and soil three feet deep.
As for the greenery that had been there when Xuandou first arrived...
When Isshiki launched his first attack, those trees and rocks had already vanished under the repulsive force, reduced to dust.
"Monsters! Two absolute monsters!"
Having retreated far away, Obito stared in shock at the world-destroying scene. Putting himself in either combatant's place, he would have been defeated in an instant.
He most likely could not withstand even a single blow from either of them.
Although all this had a great deal to do with Xuandou taking his Mangekyō away.
His strength nevertheless remained at Kage level. In other words, anyone below Kage level, without the durability of a