As Madara contemplated how to outrun Hashirama, he suddenly looked up toward Iwagakure, now within sight.
In his perception, the massive Hidden Rock village seemed to contain only about twenty to thirty thousand people—a scale completely mismatching Iwagakure's status as one of the Five Great Hidden Villages!
"Could it be that most of Iwagakure's people have already died during the war..." Madara darkly speculated, his expression suddenly shifting.
In his perception, those twenty to thirty thousand people were continuously dropping in numbers—by the dozens and hundreds!
"It seems like something unexpected happened in Iwagakure!" Madara murmured, transforming into a streak of light and accelerating forward.
"Something unexpected?" Everyone was surprised in their hearts, but aside from a few individuals who bore deep grudges against Iwagakure and followed suit, the rest continued rushing forward at their normal pace.
At this moment, inside Iwagakure:
"I'm not leaving! I will survive or perish with Iwagakure!"
"I've lived in Iwagakure my entire life. Who gives you the right to ask me to leave with just one word?"
Obito said nothing to those stubborn fools—he simply dragged them into Kamui Space.
Seeing this, the originally gathered protesters scattered in all directions.
"Run away! This Konoha bastard wants to kill us!"
"Hurry and stop him! Where are our Iwagakure ninjas?"
"Fools!" Obito silently cursed in his heart. Suddenly, he sensed a familiar gaze and instinctively looked toward the distance.
In the night sky, Madara, dressed in full armor, was staring at him with a shocked and doubtful expression!
"Obito Uchiha!" Madara's pupils suddenly constricted, nearly calling out Obito's name.
"How did he end up here? Could he have betrayed me?" Madara calmly analyzed. "No, his feelings for that girl called Rin don't seem fake. There's no reason for him to betray me. Could he be a mole now?"
"Hmm, maybe I should pretend I don't know him..."
"Madara Uchiha!" Obito whispered, then looking at the Third Raikage and others who had just arrived, he shouted, "Please inform Yahiko—it was Madara who transplanted Nagato's Rinnegan. He asked me to join Akatsuki so that in a critical moment, I could control Nagato into perfectly reviving him using the Rinnegan!"
The Third Raikage and others had just arrived when they heard such a big revelation, involuntarily widening their eyes at Madara.
So he'd already planned for his resurrection! That lowlife!
Madara nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.
He had concealed his Rinnegan when he was revived, appearing only with his Sharingan in order to complete his future plans alone.
Yet, unexpectedly, this bastard Obito betrayed him so decisively, directly exposing his secret!
"You dare to betray me! Obito, you know the price for betraying me, right!" Madara angrily declared, his crimson Sharingan eyes in their sockets transforming into the rippling form of the Rinnegan.
Then he summoned his massive-bladed Susanoo, and both his physical body and the giant warrior simultaneously performed hand seals.
[Heavenly Obstacle Quaking Star!]
The Iwagakure villagers, who had been fleeing in panic and escaping from Obito's grasp, couldn't help but stop in their tracks, directing their gazes toward Madara standing atop a distant hillside.
"This is Madara Uchiha? The visible chakra swirling around him is terrifying!"
"Wait, isn't that the Third Raikage next to him?"
"They're coming from behind too? You've gotta be kidding me! It's Lord Mu and the Second Mizukage, plus other Kage from different villages!"
"That Konoha guy wasn't lying to us. The enemy is really here!"
Regret and fear gnawed at their hearts like venomous snakes. If they'd known this would happen, they would have retreated no matter what!
The last straw that shattered their fear was a desperate cry.
"In the sky, what is that?"
Hearing the voice, everyone instinctively looked up.
Then they saw an incredibly massive meteorite breaking through the clouds, heading straight toward Iwagakure.
"You've gotta be kidding me! A meteorite! He's summoning a meteorite!"
"Hehe, this is a dream, definitely a dream. You can't fool me!"
It wasn't just them — even the Third Raikage and the Second Mizukage, who had arrived late, were left gaping in shock.
"Can ninja really do something like this?"
"Impossible! This must be the power of a god!"
Madara looked down contemptuously at the villagers panicking below. "Worthless trash!"
However, to his slight surprise, Obito remained composed, showing no signs of fear.
"Could he have grown this much..."
As Obito stood there calmly, he suddenly took a deep breath and shouted loudly, "Senpai, save me!"
Madara looked confused. "So this is your confidence?"
Before Madara could even sneer, sharp-eyed observers noticed a small figure suddenly appear beside the meteorite.
Under the moonlight, this figure flew like a moth toward the flame, then raised his right foot and delivered a powerful kick.
Then, right before everyone's eyes, the meteorite shifted course, speeding straight toward Madara and the others.
"A meteorite got kicked away? Everyone found this utterly ridiculous.
It was like an ant trying to move a mountain with one kick!
The meteorite was enormous, and there was absolutely no way to escape its falling range within such a short time.
The Second Mizukage and others didn't even try to run — after all, they had reincarnated bodies.
However, when the meteorite came crashing down toward them, they still felt tremendous shock in their hearts.
With a meteorite of this scale, they probably wouldn't be able to stop it even with all their strength combined, but the enemy just kicked it away with one kick!
Under such shocking thoughts, the meteorite finally crashed onto the land.
Boom!
It sounded as if thunder had exploded in their ears. Everyone momentarily lost their hearing, followed by terrifying tremors and roaring shockwaves. The mountainous terrain instantly transformed from convex to concave.
Cracks continuously spread across the ground like a spiderweb, and people in the village center, hundreds of meters away, were blown away for over a hundred meters!
This tremor lasted several minutes before gradually subsiding.
The Second Mizukage and others, flattened like paper beneath the meteorite, squeezed themselves out from the gaps and stared at the "mountain" below, now flattened into a basin, speechless.
Both Madara and the ninja who kicked the meteorite possessed power far beyond their reach.
It was like the difference between humans and gods!
Even Madara's eyebrows twitched violently. What the hell kind of ninja is this?
Since when do ninja kick meteorites away with their feet?
At this moment, the survivors of Iwagakure cried out frantically, "Lord Seiki! Lord Seiki!"
They yelled without hesitation.
After all, it wasn't the first time they'd been saved—they'd gotten used to it!
"He's the one Nagato mentioned—Seiki Shimaseki? The one whose strength surpasses even Hashirama's?" Madara narrowed his eyes and coldly remarked, "Not bad. I acknowledge you."
However, Seiki completely ignored him. Turning his head toward Obito, he said, "Don't bother with multiple trips. Squeeze them all in and get everyone out in one go!"
Obito hesitated. "Getting them all out at once will still take at least a minute and a half—and that's only if no one else interferes!"
Seiki turned his gaze back toward the enemies, his voice calm. "Don't worry. I won't let anyone interrupt you."
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