Chapter 133: The Crushed Four-Ninja Force
Sage Art—Wood Release—True Several Thousand Hands!
Hiruzen slammed the scroll onto the ground and let out a thunderous roar.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A deafening rumble like thunder exploded beside everyone's ears, and the entire earth seemed to tremble as the once-flat ground before Hiruzen began to collapse continuously.
Gradually, a gigantic Bodhisattva statue with countless massive arms slowly rose from the ground. It was only "slow" when compared to the statue's enormous body.
In the eyes of the surrounding ninja, the colossal Bodhisattva was actually surging upward at a rate of dozens of meters at a time.
Immense.
So incomparably immense that, aside from that word, no one could find any other term to describe just how enormous the giant Buddha statue before them truly was.
The moment the True Several Thousand Hands appeared, it split the entire Hidden Leaf Village in two.
Hiruzen, half-crouched atop the head of the True Several Thousand Hands, wore an expression filled with shock and pain.
It was not only because half of the Hidden Leaf Village had been destroyed, but because such a technique was being used by him to deal with an attack from four ninja villages.
Using a cannon to swat a mosquito—how could that not hurt?
"So this is a jutsu the First Hokage casually left behind? Just how strong was the First Hokage, really?"
Hiruzen's mouth twitched repeatedly, his voice carrying a faint tremor.
Ninja who had never experienced the Warring States Era could never imagine just what level of strength the so-called "Three Great Figures" had reached back then.
Perhaps even gods were only this much…
A terrifying aura of chakra swept across the surroundings.
The True Several Thousand Hands merely stood there, yet that unmatched, overwhelming dread filled the hearts of everyone on the battlefield.
The entire battlefield fell silent for a moment, so quiet that even the sound of swallowing saliva could be heard.
Clatter. Clatter.
Whether they were ninja from the Hidden Leaf or from the four great ninja villages, weapons slipped from their hands and fell to the ground without them even noticing.
Fear.
In the eyes of ordinary ninja, such a technique had already surpassed imagination and comprehension, leaving only fear to fill their hearts.
"So this is the First Hokage's jutsu?"
Danzo's eyes seemed to burst with dazzling light as he stared at the colossal Buddha statue whose mere shadow enveloped the entire Hidden Leaf Village.
If even a jutsu casually left behind was this terrifying, then what level could the remaining two scrolls in the other dimension possibly reach?
They might possess the power to unify the entire ninja world.
A sharp glint flashed through Danzo's mind as he thought silently.
Boom!
The True Several Thousand Hands moved.
Such a massive body moved at a steady pace, yet the speed still exceeded everyone's expectations.
"Run!!"
Ao turned his head and looked at the many Mist ninja behind him whose bodies seemed frozen, roaring frantically.
Along with Ao's shout, the commanders of the other ninja villages also reacted, hurriedly issuing retreat orders.
Faced with a disparity like a heavenly cleave, everyone retreated like a surging tide.
Almost all the ninja present had been on battlefields before, and no one feared death, but in such a situation, no one wanted to throw their lives away for nothing.
The Mist ninja force, positioned at the rear, was the fastest to retreat the moment Ao's roar rang out.
Whoosh!
A fierce whistling sound came from above as the True Several Thousand Hands extended an arm and slammed it downward.
Despite the Buddha statue's immense size, its movement was far faster than anyone imagined, the massive arm descending as if it would crush the very air below.
Boom!
With a thunderous crash, the slowest-reacting portion of the Stone and Cloud ninja were slammed directly into the ground by the gigantic palm, clearly dead beyond doubt.
Kitsuchi, Akatsuchi, and Darui wore expressions of shock and fury, yet they did not dare turn back, instead accelerating their escape even more.
Against such a technique, their resistance would likely amount to nothing.
Perhaps the Tsuchikage's Dust Release, or the Raikage—known as possessing the strongest shield and strongest spear—could withstand it, but they clearly could not.
The gigantic palm lifted once more and then crashed down again.
Large numbers of ninja were effortlessly smashed to death without the slightest ability to resist.
At this moment, Hiruzen stood atop the True Several Thousand Hands, controlling two of the giant Buddha's arms as they continuously slapped downward like swatting flies.
Yet a trace of pallor flashed across Hiruzen's face.
Simply moving the True Several Thousand Hands and freely swinging two arms already gave him the feeling of continuously casting high-level ninjutsu in terms of chakra consumption.
And this was only two arms.
Hiruzen's peripheral vision swept toward the countless arms behind the True Several Thousand Hands, and his cheek twitched involuntarily.
If all those arms were used at once, it would likely drain all of his chakra in an instant.
"Still, two arms are enough. Though it feels like overkill, since you dared to attack the Hidden Leaf, then all of you will stay here!"
Hiruzen looked down at the ninja fleeing like ants below and spoke in a cold tone.
The whistling sound rang out once more.
This time, one arm slammed toward the Sand ninja force, its enormous shadow engulfing the many Sand ninja below.
Temari looked at the scene before her, her fleeing figure coming to a dead stop.
There was no escape.
"Why is the Hidden Leaf so strong? And where does the future of the Sand ninja lie?"
Temari's eyes shimmered with tears as she spoke unwillingly.
Yet no matter how unwilling she was, what could be done? Faced with such power, who could possibly withstand it?
Roar! Roar!
Two roars suddenly came from behind as two Tailed Beast Bombs transformed into crimson streaks, tearing through the sky and simultaneously slamming into the gigantic Buddha palm.
Boom!
A massive explosion erupted, fragments flying everywhere and jolting Temari and the many Sand ninja beneath the palm back to awareness.
Aside from blasting up a large amount of debris and briefly halting the Buddha palm, the two Tailed Beast Bombs caused surprisingly little damage.
But in that brief moment, Temari and the others below quickly fled out from beneath the palm.
At the same time, Temari's gaze followed the direction from which the Tailed Beast Bombs had come.
"It's… Gaara, and the Three-Tails of the Mist."
Seeing the two tailed beasts charging toward this direction, surprise flashed through Temari's eyes.
A look of frustration flickered across the eyes of the Three-Tails, Isobu, as it reluctantly charged toward the True Several Thousand Hands.
Recalling Yuto's words, Isobu could not help but shrink its neck slightly, because compared to the jutsu left behind by Hashirama back then, the living Yuto was clearly far more terrifying.
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