After speaking, Hashirama clapped his hands together and shouted, "Wood Release: Wood Human Technique!" Chakra surged wildly from within him, causing several large trees to split apart and form a wooden giant over a hundred meters tall in mid-air. The wooden giant's eyes glowed with white light, almost as if it were alive.
Witnessing this scene from afar, Orochimaru remarked, "The First Hokage is indeed formidable." The Third Hokage frowned, "The First Lord's Wood Release is so powerful. Yoruha, can you really withstand it?"
Minato, standing nearby, reassured, "Third Lord, since Yoruha stayed behind, he must be confident. He doesn't seem like an arrogant person."
The Third Hokage nodded, "That's all we can hope for." He was tense, while Orochimaru and Kabuto marveled at the First Hokage's strength. Facing Hashirama directly, Yoruha remained calm, showing no sign of surprise.
"Wood Release is indeed something the First Hokage has mastered, but that's all there is to it," Yoruha said as he slowly began forming hand seals. His movements were unhurried, his expression serene, as if the towering wooden giant didn't exist.
Hashirama controlled the wooden giant to walk towards Yoruha. The giant's massive footsteps caused small tremors in the ground. Tobirama Senju, standing beside Hashirama, watched Yoruha's slow hand seals with some confusion. "Why isn't this kid doing something to counter it? What's he standing there for?"
Although Hashirama didn't know what Yoruha intended, his instincts as a strong warrior told him, "I think Yoruha has a countermeasure in mind. He's so calm, he must feel that this technique doesn't pose much threat to him."
Tobirama frowned, "I hope that's the case. I'm just worried he might be out of options. After all, this is Big Brother's Wood Human Technique, capable of suppressing Uchiha Madara's Susanoo."
The enormous wooden giant reached Yoruha, its massive form blocking out the sunlight, casting an overwhelming shadow over him.
Just as the giant's fist came crashing down towards Yoruha, he completed his hand seals, "Lightning Release: Thunder Giant." The wooden fist was only a few meters away, the violent wind from it already causing Yoruha's hair to flutter wildly, when a pair of golden hands materialized in front of him.
"Boom!" The colossal golden hands caught the wooden giant's fist. The collision unleashed a terrifying wave of energy. "Rumble!" The ground shook from the force, instantly cracking open, creating spiderweb-like fissures that spread for kilometers.
Even Orochimaru and the others, hundreds of meters away, were affected by the intense destruction, nearly swallowed by the force. Fortunately, they used the Body Flicker Technique to retreat several hundred meters, avoiding the collision's epicenter and escaping serious injury.
The power that shattered the earth left them all in shock. Especially Orochimaru, who had thought Yoruha would be crushed by the wooden giant's punch, now looked at Yoruha in the distance, his face full of astonishment. "What kind of jutsu did this guy use? He actually managed to block the First Hokage's Wood Release."
Feathers were coming. If Yoruha had been angry at that time, he might have been doomed, right? Although Minato appeared calm on the surface, a storm was raging within him.
"Are Naruto's companions really such powerful figures? Can he truly keep up with them?" Even though Minato had sealed the Nine-Tails within Naruto, and as long as Naruto could master the Nine-Tails' chakra, his power would be formidable.
However, he didn't believe Naruto could reach the level of Hashirama. And in the end, it was pretty much as Minato had thought; if Naruto hadn't received the Sage of Six Paths' power, he probably wouldn't have been as strong as Hashirama. Yet, Yoruha was currently holding his own against Hashirama's Wood Release techniques without losing ground.
A massive golden lightning hand appeared, grasping the wooden giant's fist, blocking its attack. Then, chakra surged wildly from within Yoruha. The giant hand began to extend, forming a massive golden arm, followed by a torso, and then the entire body appeared before the wooden giant.
A towering golden giant over a hundred meters tall emerged, clad in golden armor, with a blood-red longsword at its waist and a black-gold bow on its back. The armor covered its entire body, revealing only a pair of eyes glowing with white light. "Crack!" The giant appeared, and terrifying chakra swept across the land.
The sky changed color, and within tens of kilometers, the sky was shrouded in thick clouds, with golden lightning striking down densely. "Crack, boom!" Thunder and lightning filled the area, transforming everything within tens of kilometers into a terrifying sea of lightning. Some of the lightning from the thunderclouds directly entered the golden giant's body.
As soon as it appeared, the surrounding space trembled violently, as if unable to bear the presence of the golden giant. And Yoruha was enveloped within the giant's body.
Like a Susanoo, he stood in the golden light atop the giant's head. This terrifying scene left even Hashirama dumbfounded. "What, what is this?" Tobirama Senju frowned and said, "Could this be a Susanoo? But even Susanoo isn't this terrifying."
"And that golden giant seems to be made of lightning, but does such a technique really exist?" The Thunder Giant technique was something Yoruha had created based on Susanoo, but because Yoruha's chakra was too unique, the Thunder Giant he conjured had full consciousness and didn't require Yoruha's control.
In other words, this Thunder Giant was akin to a summoned creature by Yoruha. However, its power far surpassed that of a summoned creature, and even the Nine-Tails, the strongest of the nine tailed beasts, would likely be suppressed by its aura without even engaging in battle. Because at this moment, the wooden giant was already half-kneeling, merely from the pressure.
The wooden giant couldn't stand up due to the pressure. But at this moment, no one cared about that. Everyone was too shocked by the Thunder Giant.
That soul-touching pressure made them constantly ponder one question: Does such a ninjutsu really exist in this world? Yoruha stood in the golden lightning, looking at the dumbfounded Hashirama and Tobirama Senju, thinking, "It seems like I might have gone a bit overboard." Yoruha knew the Thunder Giant's power was terrifying, but he wanted to try using it in battle.
The result was as expected. There was probably no need to continue fighting. Without even making a move, the wooden giant was already kneeling, unable to move.
After a while, Hashirama snapped back to reality, his face full of fighting spirit. "Yoruha, you've truly taken Lightning Release to the extreme. As a senior, I can't afford to lose face."
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