And at the source of the earthquake, Kirigakure...
By now, corpses covered the battlefield like mountains.
The ground lay barren, with faint flames still flickering here and there.
The terrain itself had been forcibly altered by that enormous meteorite.
Large fragments of shattered meteorite lay everywhere, and the cratered ground was countless times more devastated than before.
At the center of the meteorite's impact was a bottomless crater stretching for dozens of kilometers.
Yet at the very center of that crater stood an almost negligible figure, with an unyielding stone pillar beneath his feet.
It appeared that the few inches of ground beneath his feet were the only intact patch in the crater.
The stone pillar beneath him extended all the way down into the deepest part of the crater...
"Whew..."
Blood seeped from Hozuki Zangetsu's forehead. His left arm was long gone, and blood kept flowing from the wound.
He had just used the Hozuki family's Hydrification Technique, turning himself into liquid to evade the most violent phase of the meteorite's impact.
Unfortunately, the meteorite's impact had lasted far too long.
He had still suffered a small portion of its force.
In the end, a considerable amount of the Three-Tails' chakra had even appeared inside him.
Even so... this Ninjutsu had battered a Kage-level powerhouse like him half to death!
And the one responsible for this meteorite...
Ning Feng stood on the stone pillar at the very center of the crater, his expression not looking particularly good either.
He, too, had underestimated the power this meteorite would unleash.
If he had not entered Sage Mode at the very last instant and layered Nine-Tails Chakra Mode over it, raising Susanoo's defenses another level...
He himself might have been crushed to death by this enormous meteorite!
No wonder Madara Uchiha had