Absolute Power

Araki was on top of his Wood Dragon, and he suddenly felt a strong suction power trying to pull out the Juubi's Husk from his body.

However, he stomped on the head of the Wood Dragon rather strongly and condensed all his chakra on top of the Gedo Statue.

He was going against the summoning of the Gedo Statue from the Rinnegan user. Moreover, that Rinnegan user was Uchiha Madara.

Hashirama noticed that his grandson was in pain and was about to jump on Araki's wood dragon and help him out. Still, soon enough, Araki's expression turned to normal.

Madara frowned upon seeing this scene. To think that he failed to summon the Gedo Statue. Moreover, Araki's facial changes… He had a faint idea of what had happened.

"You really are quite daring. You sealed the Gedo Statue in your body to make sure I couldn't get my hands on it, huh?" Madara asked with a rather amused tone.

Araki retorted in return, "It can't be helped. I knew you would return someday, but I didn't know the method you would use. I even thought I had destroyed any chances of your revival, but clearly, I was getting ahead of myself."

"Well, this is quite surprising… It looks as if I will have to extract the Gedo Statue from your body!" Madara said while staring at the Wood Dragons.

"Huh? What's this?" Araki wondered as he felt a presence coming near his Wood Dragon.

A Wood Clone was created out of the Wood Dragon and immediately moved forward to throw out palm in empty air.

Yet even though the Wood Clone had attacked in empty air, it appeared as if the Wood Clone hit something. It was quite strange…

Madara had a neutral look on his face, but internally, he was thinking 'Hoh… He can even sense my Limbo? From Hashirama's expression, it appears that even he can faintly sense it. Still, Tobirama cannot sense it despite being a sensor. It appears the Sage Mode is more useful than I expected.'

Tobirama created a huge Water Dragon Jutsu and attacked Madara directly, Madara raised his arm and looked at Tobirama, "Rinnegan can absorb all Jutsu." The Water Dragon Jutsu was directly absorbed by Madara.

Hashirama continued to stare at Madara… He was well aware that the three of them couldn't win against Madara at this moment.

Madara was near the peak or perhaps even beyond the peak of his power. Hashirama and Tobirama were in Edo Tensei State, if they had been revived like Madara, at that time, Hashirama could indeed defeat him. But at this moment, Hashirama and Tobirama were not even at their one-twentieth or one-tenth level respectively.

He then stared at Araki… Although Araki appeared to be calm, Hashirama could feel that he was really anxious at this moment.

Araki was stronger than Hashirama and Tobirama's current state, but even this wasn't enough to defeat Madara.

"This time, I won't be out of steps, Senju Araki… Let's fight to our heart's content and get that score settled," Madara said as the Blue Aura started to release from his body. The Humanoid Susanoo was soon formed… but this wasn't the end.

Just after the Humanoid Susanoo was formed, the blue aura continued to release out of his body. The body was quite huge and easily dwarfed anything Araki had seen. This was Madara's Armoured Susanoo which had appeared with a tiger seal.

Madara clenched his fist as he said, "Not enough… Settle down!"

This colossal amount of Chakra started to settle down, and soon enough, it formed a long tengu-like-nose, wing appeared behind the back of this Perfect Susanoo, and a sword in its scabbard.

The Susanoo slowly pulled out the sword from his Scabbard, and Madara said, "Now then, let's get started, shall we?"

Araki wasn't frightened by this Susanoo. He clapped his hands together and said, "Sage Art Wood Style: Wood Golem Jutsu!"

A Wood Golem appeared underneath Araki's feet.

Hashirama wanted to do the same and help him out, but Araki said, "Grandpa… Stay out of the way. Since Madara has revived because of my error, I don't want any interruptions from anyone. I will deal with him by myself."

"I hope you can back your words, brat." The Susanoo moved forward and struck Araki's Wood Golem. It shook up the Wood Golem and forced it to back away a few steps.

A Wood Dragon was created and coiled around the neck of the Wood Golem. Araki raised his hand and attacked the Perfect Susanoo.

But even as it struck the Perfect Susanoo, there was simply no damage to the Susanoo.

Although it was to be expected, it still made Araki frown.

"Your step was too weak. Try again, brat." Madara was exuding an aura of confidence while staring at Araki.

Araki frowned but didn't care much. The Wood Golem attacked the Susanoo and struck it, but it was like trying to push a wall. The Perfect Susanoo wouldn't budge.

Instead, the Perfect Susanoo dispersed the sword in its hand and grabbed hold of the Wood Golem's sides and started to rotate it around.

After 10 seconds, Madara threw the Wood Golem to Hashirama and Tobirama's direction.

Hashirama controlled the Wood Dragons underneath his own and Tobirama's feat to dodge the Wood Golem coming at their direction.

Although the Wood Golem had been thrown with quite some momentum, Araki made it stand up once again. This fight was far from over!

At this moment, Hashirama shouted at Araki, "Araki, you can't beat him using Wood Golem Jutsu. His Perfect Susanoo is even stronger than the time when he first fought me with it. To defeat him, you need to give him a blow of absolute power. You get what I meant, right?"

Araki frowned for some moments before saying, "Grandfather, go to the Konoha's direction, make sure to protect it from the shockwave."

Hashirama and Tobirama nodded at those words before Tobirama stepped next to Hashirama and touched his body. He used the Flying Raijin Jutsu to disappear. Tobirama had already sent his Shadow Clone with the marking of the Flying Raijin Jutsu. He was somewhat prepared for this situation.

After seeing his grandfather and granduncle disappear, Araki stared at Madara who was approaching him rather slowly.

'I didn't want to use this Jutsu since it uses a lot of my Chakra in one go. The Gedo Statue could use that chance to take over my body. But… There is no choice. I need to defeat Madara right now!'

He joined his hand as if in prayer and shouted, "Senpō Mokuton: Shin Sūsenju!" (Sage Art: Wood Style: True Several Thousand Hands).