A titanic wooden statue was created… The Size of this Titanic Statue was such that it easily dwarfed Madara's Complete Body Susanoo. In fact, Madara had to look up to see the full height of the Statue.
Thousands of hands emerged from the back of this statue in countless centric rows. Its main hands were clasped, as if in prayer. Araki stood on top of the Wood Golem which was on top of the head of the Statue.
Araki stared looked down at Madara who was within his Perfect Susanoo, "Madara… Since you have forced me to use this. Don't expect any mercy! Regret that you aren't an Edo Tensei at this moment!"
The Wings behind the Susanoo made it start flying. Madara rushed towards the Wooden Statue. He was personally well aware of how strong this technique was. If not for this technique, would he have lost against Hashirama when Susanoo and Kyuubi had been combined? No!
From the start of the battle, this was the first time Madara was showing a slightly anxious appearance.
The Susanoo raised its hand and formed a hand seal.
"Tengai Shinsei!" (Heaven Concealed!)
Araki sensed it… A huge meteor was coming down right at his location. And not just that, Madara also charged at Araki at the same time.
"Since that's how it's going to be then fuck it!" Araki seemed annoyed that Madara was throwing so many Jutsus, which demanded a colossal amount of Chakra, at him as if it was nothing.
"Sage Art Wood Style: Wood Clone Jutsu!" A wood clone appeared next to Araki with a lot of Chakra. He gave the nod to Araki before a blue ball started shining on top of his hand.
He mumbled with a soft voice, "Sage Art Wind Style: Titanic Rasengan!"
The Blue Sphere was growing in size… In just 10 or so seconds, it was infused with all of Araki's remaining chakra and even with some of his Life Force. This Blue Sphere was large enough that it was nearly one-third of the Meteor's size. There was also a trace of a ring around this Blue Sphere which couldn't be seen unless one stared at it with special eyes.
The Wood Clone just had enough chakra to throw this Blue Sphere at the incoming Meteor and dispersed. The Blue Sphere reached the Meteor soon enough, and the ring around it was becoming visible as it started to cut apart the meteor.
When Araki felt that the moment was right, he clenched his fist and mumbled, "Now… Explode!"
Immediately, the Titantic Rasengan which was tearing apart the Meteor shone with a bright light, and it exploded! The explosion was large enough to cover the entire meteor and more…
Even Hashirama and Tobirama and the Suna Shinobi returning to their hometown felt the shockwave of that explosion. The people inside the Konoha were utterly shaken up as they felt this tremor…
They got out of their house and saw a humungous Wooden Statue with Thousands of Hands in a distance. The size of the Wooden Statue was so huge that they couldn't even see the Susanoo on the other side.
The clouds in the sky seemed to have cleared after this explosion. Only a blue sky without a single cloud could be seen above the Land of Fire at this moment.
Madara frowned upon seeing that his Meteor was destroyed. He had used a single hand seal using the Perfect Susanoo…Perhaps he should have summoned more...
He was also quite surprised to see that Araki was actually using such demanding Jutsus in succession. He didn't have Hashirama's chakra reserves, so this should already be his limit.
Araki's eyes showed a trace of tiredness… This really was his limit. The Sage Chakra was dispersing now since he didn't have chakra remaining his body to keep the Sage Chakra balanced.
Madara's Susanoo soon clashed with the Titantic Wooden Statue. Yasaka Magatama was released from his hand as it hit the Wooden Statue, but it didn't damage it too much. Just took out a couple of hands…
The Susanoo pulled out its sword from its sheath once again. Thousands of hands behind the Wooden Statue struck the Susanoo... Even Madara, couldn't do anything but cut apart three or so hands but five more Wooden hands would strike the Susanoo before exploding.
Just like that, a series of explosions started to occur as thousands of hands struck Susanoo.
It wouldn't be wrong to say that Madara's Susanoo had become a punching bag. It had broken off from quite a few places because of the power of these punches and explosions.
These series of explosions were so strong that even Keshiro who was somewhat far away from their location felt the shockwaves. The same was the state of the people of Konoha.
The shockwaves shook the earth, and these vibrations could be felt near Ame and Sakumo's camp. They had no idea what was going on, but it was like an earthquake had occurred.
Hashirama and Tobirama had used a lot of their chakra to contain the shockwaves of these explosions using the Earth Release so that it wouldn't damage the Konoha. Currently, just these Shockwaves were strong enough to turn the entire Konoha into rubble.
Hashirama's face held a frown even though he was somewhat happy to see his grandson performing this technique. It was because he could clearly sense his grandson's chakra level.
It had entirely exhausted. Hashirama was sure that Araki couldn't even enter into Sage Mode for some time.
However, he let out a sigh of relief when he felt Madara's presence getting weaker as well. Unlike the previous time this mode had been used against Madara, Madara's Susanoo was strengthened with Kyuubi. So, even though Hashirama had won against Madara, Madara still somehow managed to escape without much injures.
However, this wasn't the same now. This time, Madara was inflicted with fierce injuries. Even with Rinnegan… He shouldn't be able to heal them quickly.
"Tobirama," He called out for Tobirama, who immediately understood what his elder brother wanted to say without any further instruction.
The two teleported and appeared at the location where Araki had used the Wooden Statue.
Madara laid there, quite a lot weakened. His armour and everything had vanished, his right hand had been destroyed, and a lot of his bones were broken. He was bleeding heavily… If it continued, he would die soon enough.
At that time, though, Hashirama saw it. His own face on Madara's bare chest… His eyes widened slightly before his gaze turned towards Araki.
Hashirama sent his own chakra within Araki's body and tried to wake him up.
But at this moment, Araki was in a dark space. This was the same location when his consciousness had entered the Gedo Statue for the first time.
Unlike the first time though, this time Araki heard a gentle voice, "I will be retaking the chakra and your body now… Hagoromo… No, Asura's descendant."
Araki heard that voice and looked up where he saw a faint visage of a long white-haired woman with Byakugan and a Rinne-Sharingan with 9 Tomoe on her forehead.
Araki was a little surprised because he never expected the Ten-Tails to be a woman. She was quite beautiful…
"So, you are the Ten-Tails, huh? Well, sorry to inform you, you aren't taking anything from me. But… I can't say the same about you." Araki said before raising his hand and saying, "Kai!"
A huge amount of life force and chakra was injected into Araki's body. This was the life-force and chakra which had been extracted from those 300 or so trees where he killed Danzo and his men.
Right now, this life force and chakra rejuvenated him back to half of his full strength.
The woman with the Byakugan's eyes widened as she understood this was a trap! Araki had been waiting for the consciousness in the ten tails to reveal herself.
Upon seeing that she was trying to escape, Araki let out a cold hmph, "You think you can escape now when I was the one who planned for this moment? How naïve!"
Simply by the pressure of his pure chakra, he prevented the woman from leaving.
"To think this pitiful amount of chakra is binding me…" She seemed to be cursing her weakness at this moment since she didn't have a lot of Chakra.
A wood branch extended from Araki's hand and pierced this visage… He started to absorb this consciousness!