On the ground, large chunks of earth and rock were overturned by the God Tree branches growing from beneath the surface. Vines and root systems began to radiate across the entire planet, centered on the Land of Water.
The towering trees, connecting heaven and earth as if the age of gods had returned, grew from the earth, blooming flowers toward the distant moon.
At the same time, by squeezing the planet's Natural Energy, the last missing half of the Nine-Tails' Chakra within the God Tree was gradually filled, and it began to transform toward a planetary weapon.
"Hey, hey, by letting the God Tree drain the ley lines, are you trying to turn the entire planet into a desert where humans cannot live?" Sakura raised an eyebrow, lifting her finger and tracing it through the air. Chilling frost rapidly spread toward the God Tree before her.
The frost that spread after plundering all heat was swallowed up the moment it collided with the branches. Even the surrounding matter was absorbed by the God Tree's branches. The God Tree, draining the planet's energy, prompted its own transformation toward its mature form.
"Desertification doesn't matter. Once my ideal is realized, the external environment will naturally have nothing to do with the living of the Ninja World!" Madara formed hand seals, releasing the Summoning Technique on the ground, summoning Obito, who had been possessed by Black Zetsu thousands of miles away, to his side.
Then he raised his foot and walked toward Obito, raising his hand to gouge out his own Rinnegan.
Just as Madara raised his hand to put the Rinnegan back into his eye socket, a triggered mechanism trap shot a Flying Thunder God kunai from beneath Obito.
Swish!
The illusory light of space-time flashed. Minato, who had teleported back to the battlefield with Naruto and Sasuke, caught the kunai. The high-speed spinning Rasengan in his hand slammed hard into the Rinnegan that Madara was about to put back.
"Hmph, a mere trick!" Madara snorted.
The shadow, composed of Yin Release Chakra and existing in another world, detached from his body and appeared before Minato in the blink of an eye, swinging its fist at him.
Bang!
Even with the body strength of the Edo Tensei, it could not withstand this punch. Half of Minato's body was directly shattered.
"Dad!" Naruto, carrying the black rod, frowned and shouted loudly.
"Don't worry about me! Fulfill your mission!" Having already heard from Naruto about the mission arranged by the Sage of Six Paths, and understanding the order of importance, Minato told Naruto not to worry about him, a dead person.
His half-body, scattered into pieces of paper, fell downward. Then, within Sakura's ability field, it was deprived of all heat and frozen in the void.
"Oh, planning to seal Madara? Then count me in!" Sakura stepped between the two on the frost.
Six Paths-level beings cannot be killed through physical means, so the best way to deal with them is sealing.
Deeply aware of this, Sakura placed her hands on the two, applying heat interference to their bodies to prevent them from being affected by her space-time freezing ability.
"Quick, seal him while his eyes are still incomplete!" Sasuke, using the opportunity provided by Sakura to eliminate the ability's influence, activated his Dojutsu, Amenotejikara.
Using Space-Time Ninjutsu to close the distance a second time, Sasuke brought the entire Team 7 teleporting right before Madara's face. Sakura's fist swung from top to bottom. The extreme frost, which followed like a shadow, froze the two shadows Madara had released.
The Sage Art: Magnet Release: Rasengan in Naruto's hand and the Sage Art: Yin Release: Chidori in Sasuke's hand simultaneously stabbed into Madara's body, causing the Yin Release and Yang Release formulas carrying powerful sealing power to unfold on his pale haori.
"What?" The intense pain made Madara's expression change drastically. But without the shadows of Limbo Border Jail, he was now completely sealed by Naruto and Sasuke's Senjutsu.
Just as the two extended their arms imprinted with the moon and sun, Madara used the Chakra link to give an order to Black Zetsu. "Help me, Black Zetsu!"
"As you wish!" Amidst the frozen world where all things had faded, Black Zetsu opened Obito's crimson Sharingan.
His already meager remaining life was further squeezed. New Chakra surged from Obito's body and poured into his pupils.
—Kamui!
A spatial singularity appeared on Obito's body, about to make him intangible.
But Sakura and the others, as if anticipating this, used their respective ranged weapons to attack him.
Boom!
The kunai and shuriken wrapped in Haki smashed into Obito like meteors, causing violent tremors and stirring up thousand-layer raging waves.
Obito, his body riddled with wounds, with the boost of Black Zetsu's more advanced Yin-Yang Release, managed to use Kamui to enter full-body intangibility, get up from the ground, rush into the cage created by Magnet Release and Yin Release, grab Madara, and pull him out of the seal.
"Hahaha, well done!" Madara laughed wildly, stuffing the other Rinnegan into his eye socket.
With a flash of green Medical Ninjutsu brilliance, this plug-in was perfectly reconnected to his body.
"Stop! Uchiha Madara! Before you go that far." Sakura, shuttling through the nearly frozen space, appeared before Madara and raised her fist, wrapped in two colors of Haki.
—Sakura Blossom Impact: Crimson Lotus!
Dark thunder flickered. The powerful, pure monstrous strength turned into a tide of destruction.
It was raw power! The raw power boosted to its extreme crushed all the various Senjutsu and Ocular Powers released by Madara, forcibly distorting space and slamming into Madara's abdomen, sending him flying.
"Ugh!" A mouthful of blood was squeezed from Madara's throat, distorting his voice.
Half of his abdomen, struck by the iron fist mixed with Senjutsu and Haki, disintegrated, revealing the still writhing, regenerating internal organs beneath.
Madara, clutching his wound, floated in the air, panting slightly as he looked down at the girl rushing toward him, stepping on the air.
"Stop? My lifelong aspiration is right before my eyes. Even if it were a mountain of swords or a sea of flames, I would still go!" Madara spread his five fingers toward Sakura and clenched his fist.
—Chibaku Tensei!
Invisible gravity erupted from Sakura's body. Then, a massive amount of soil and rock rose from the boiling torrent, forming an iron wall, tightly wrapping Sakura inside.
The strongest Sealing Technique in the Ninja World, it even blocked Sakura's ability to constantly plunder heat for a moment, briefly bringing the world back to life.
However, knowing that this technique could not confine Sakura for long, Madara seized the time to fly toward the higher sky, letting the blood-red eye on his head bathe in the moonlight.
"Well, let everything in the world be connected together. Chakra thus fuses. From now on, there will be no more war in the world!"
Boom!
The Chibaku Tensei sealing Sakura was frozen by the extreme cold, then shattered.
Breaking free, she sensed something and looked up at the sky. There, upon the giant, clear blood moon, four arcs appeared. Nine tomoes stood in neat rows, like an eye overlooking the earth.
"Sigh, what a pity." Sakura brushed the dust off her clothes and sighed softly.
The man laughing wildly in the sky had, through his own stubbornness, reached this point. He was about to face the truth of being toyed with by Black Zetsu, his ideals, his life, and his dignity about to be trampled.
'Let him experience the joy of his plan's fulfillment a little longer.' This was Sakura's last bit of care for this lonely man.
As a strange white brilliance fell from the sky, Madara's voice followed.
"Illuminate the world, Infinite Tsukuyomi!!!"