Meanwhile, Mū stared at the colossal Buddha statue below with an expression akin to worshipping a god.
That terrifying statue...
It was practically as large as the entire Hidden Stone Village!
If such an attack were to land on Iwagakure...
Mū didn't even dare imagine the aftermath.
The scale of it surpassed every ninjutsu he had witnessed during his lifetime.
Was this the God of Shinobi?
Only someone capable of wielding such a technique deserved that title.
There had been virtually no preparation time.
The giant Buddha had appeared the moment Hashirama clasped his hands together!
As for Ning Feng, now targeted by countless giant arms—
fear rarely seen on his face finally surfaced.
If that attack landed...
Forget the fact that his physique might be stronger than Hashirama's.
Those blows would strike thousands of times over.
He would probably be smashed into nothingness, body and bones alike!
"No wonder he's called the God of Shinobi..."
Elsewhere, Kabuto, who was controlling Tobirama, stared at the massive Buddha in utter shock.
Even he had never witnessed such a grand spectacle.
This was the true God of Shinobi!
Once an attack of this magnitude came crashing down...
Even the Rain Shadow would have nowhere left to run.
He had already sealed Flying Thunder God.
The only space-time ninjutsu available to Ning Feng had been neutralized.
His Complete Body Susanoo had already been shattered by Tandem Paper Bombs.
There was nowhere to go.
No path to the sky.
No path to the earth.
"Peak!"
After forcing Obito back with another Rasengan, Minato—already in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode—looked toward the thousand-meter-tall Buddha in complete disbelief.
This was a nation-destroying technique!
The First Hokage was actually this terrifying?
Could Ning Feng possibly survive something like this?
Minato immediately lost all interest in fighting Obito.
He feinted an attack and tried to break away toward Ning Feng's position.
However...
he discovered that his Flying Thunder God had completely stopped working!
It was as though the Flying Thunder God mark he had placed near Ning Feng had been forcibly isolated.
He could sense the mark's existence.
But he couldn't connect to it.
"This...!"
Minato grew even more anxious.
Yet Obito immediately closed in again.
Trying to save Uchiha Peak?
Obito merely glanced in the direction Minato was looking.
Beneath his mask, he sneered.
Against this technique—
Ning Feng had no way to resist.
The strongest technique of the God of Shinobi!
All he had to do was keep Minato occupied.
That Kabuto fellow was actually impressive.
To be able to control Hashirama well enough to unleash the strongest technique of his lifetime...
...
Meanwhile, on the Rain battlefield—
Nagato had only just finished reassuring Yahiko when he saw the towering wooden Buddha in the distance.
"Yahiko... what is that?"
"My god!"
Yahiko glanced over once.
His face immediately turned pale.
That was a giant Buddha hundreds of meters tall!
Entirely composed of Wood Release!
"Could it be... Lord Peak's technique?"
Yahiko swallowed with difficulty and spoke bitterly.
Yet even he didn't believe his own words.
He had never heard Ning Feng mention a technique like this.
Such a jutsu...
was enough to suppress entire nations.
Even from this incredible distance, Yahiko could feel the terrifying chakra contained within it.
Could it be...
that Lord Peak was facing something this terrifying?
The two exchanged looks.
Then spoke simultaneously.
"Don't tell me... Lord Peak..."
Both immediately fell silent.
Without another word, they turned and sprinted toward the direction of Konoha!
...
While shinobi everywhere marveled at the sheer scale of True Several Thousand Hands—
the thousands of giant arms finally came crashing down!
"D-Damn it!"
The reflection of the giant arms grew larger and larger within Ning Feng's eyes.
Watching the descending True Several Thousand Hands, he felt genuine fear for the first time.
This time...
he truly had no solution left.
Kabuto watched with a smile as the giant Buddha's fists slammed into Ning Feng and smashed into the ground!
Then came hundreds—
thousands—
countless giant arms pounding endlessly into the earth!
Even after becoming an Edo Tensei, Hashirama could only use this technique once within a very long period of time.
The cost wasn't merely chakra.
It consumed Hashirama's very soul.
If he forcibly used True Several Thousand Hands too many times—
his soul would be completely destroyed.
That alone demonstrated how terrifying the technique truly was.
The consumption was monstrous.
"Uchiha Peak... shouldn't be able to escape this one."
Even Madara sighed quietly.
He had already begun feeling that he might not actually be Ning Feng's opponent.
Of course, part of that was because he was currently in an Edo Tensei state.
If he were at full strength—
Ning Feng would probably be only around his level.
But after enduring both Tandem Paper Bombs and True Several Thousand Hands in succession...
Even Madara doubted anyone could survive.
Tandem Paper Bombs was only classified as an A-rank forbidden technique because it was difficult to land.
If judged purely by destructive power—
its force was absolutely tremendous.
At the very least, destroying a Complete Body Susanoo wasn't a problem.
"Looks like I'll have to collect the Tailed Beasts myself now..."
As soon as Madara thought about the task he had entrusted Obito with—
capturing the Tailed Beasts—
he felt an inexplicable surge of irritation.
He had placed enormous expectations on Obito.
Sure, Uchiha Peak was an unexpected variable.
But Obito shouldn't have failed to capture even a single beast!
Now Madara himself would have to step in and gather them...
...
The power of True Several Thousand Hands was so immense that even Konan, standing atop the Rain Village tower, felt the ground trembling beneath her feet.
"Fū, stop for a moment."
She raised a hand, signaling the girl beside her to pause her training.
Fū obediently nodded and halted her practice.
She too had felt the faint tremors spreading from somewhere far away.
"What do you think happened?"
The two turned toward the direction of the Konoha battlefield.
Their faces were slightly pale.
Lord Peak...
Please be safe...
Far away in Iwagakure, Ōnoki had also felt the tremor.
Through White Zetsu intelligence, he already knew that the disturbance came from Hashirama Senju, resurrected by Madara's faction.
"The God of Shinobi is still as terrifying as ever..."
Looking out the window toward Konoha's direction, Ōnoki sighed after a long silence.
"Uchiha Peak... should be dead, right?"
Meanwhile, Tobirama—who was continuously being destroyed and regenerated within the shockwaves of True Several Thousand Hands—stared toward the spot where Ning Feng had been crushed.
His thoughts were unusually complicated.
Against this level of destructive power—
Ning Feng simply couldn't endure it head-on.
If Tandem Paper Bombs hadn't weakened him beforehand, perhaps he could have defended himself with Complete Body Susanoo.
But after Tobirama's explosive assault—
most of Ning Feng's life-saving trump cards had already been spent.
Furthermore, Tobirama's space-locking technique had completely sealed Flying Thunder God and all related space-time movement.
There was simply no escape.
Not even with wings.
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