The entire battlefield was engulfed by the suddenly exploding sun!
An enormous transparent ring of air blasted outward at supersonic speed. Wherever the shock wave passed, the overlapping sea of trees was uprooted, burned, and pulverized, with smoke and dust hurled hundreds of meters into the sky.
Countless ninja were caught in it as well, but because the Flame Emperor Shihōin Naraku had unleashed targeted the sea of trees, they were merely sent flying by the shock wave, shouting and yelling.
Although they suffered some injuries because they were caught off guard, they were otherwise unharmed.
Immediately afterward, however, scorching heat surged out from the sea of fire.
The flames heated the air until it visibly distorted, and the heat waves formed tangible walls that spread in every direction.
Even the ninja at the edge of the battlefield suddenly felt their faces burn, their eyebrows and eyelashes curling in an instant.
Almost instantly, the surrounding sea of trees ignited all at once, burning fiercely like matches.
In the blink of an eye, it turned into drifting butterflies of fire that danced through the air.
At the center of the sun's eruption, the temperature reached an unbelievable height.
The battlefield was directly vaporized into a hemispherical crater nearly a kilometer in diameter, a spectacular sight.
"This is bad!"
The instant Obito Uchiha saw Shihōin Naraku appear, he knew things were going badly.
Sure enough, the sun that descended upon the earth a moment later confirmed his suspicions.
Seeing the endless sea of trees catch fire, about to burn to ash, he hurriedly began controlling the God Tree to defend it.
To prevent the flames from scorching the God Tree itself, Obito even severed the tree vines spreading across the battlefield.
After all, the God Tree was connected to the Infinite