The explosive Two-Tails chakra formed a highly compressed sphere, spinning within the wooden hand.
Yōkō waved his hand. The wooden hand grew rapidly, extending over a hundred meters, pointing towards Dodai across the ravine.
The air was filled with the rustling sound of Wood Release growth. This was the Tailed Beast Ball version of the Rasengan.
Dodai quickly jumped to evade; the Tailed Beast Ball's primary target was him.
However, the wooden hand could easily change direction.
Panic rose in Dodai's heart. Not good, the Tailed Beast Ball is going to hit me!
He hastily used Lava Release: Rubber Ball.
A rubber sphere enveloped him.
The Lava Release secret technique was extremely powerful; even the Third Raikage's Four-Finger Nukite couldn't pierce the Rubber Ball.
The Tailed Beast Ball exploded in mid-air.
A rubber ball was sent flying by the blast.
Dodai's condition was unknown. On the ground, Ryūjin rapidly transformed.
Within the reddish-brown chakra, more blue chakra appeared – the true chakra of the Two-Tails.
A massive blue-flame Leopard Cat appeared on the hilltop.
The complete form of the Two-Tails!
The other Kumo-nin quickly withdrew to both sides, avoiding the Two-Tails' scorching chakra.
"Hippo, Kyoichi, lead the Konoha shinobi to retreat to the flank and rear," Yōkō said.
"The Jinchūriki is getting serious, so I'll show a bit of my strength as well."
Hippo and Nara Kyoichi quickly retreated, leaving the central battlefield to Fox-sama.
They set up defensive formations on Fox-sama's flanks.
The 400 Kumo-nin split into two wings, 200 Kumo-nin on each side.
Facing the Kumo-nin spread across the hills, facing an absolute disadvantage, the Konoha shinobi were very uneasy.
However, as Konoha shinobi, no matter how disparate the forces, they would not retreat. They would raise their kunai.
Even if they died, they would not retreat.
Just as the Konoha shinobi prepared to face death, an earth-shaking tremor came from beside them!
All the Kumo-nin freeze because...
the sun was blotted out!
"Wood Release: Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja!"
From beneath Yōkō's feet, the 50-meter-tall Three Worlds Wood Human erupted from the ground.
The Three Worlds Wood Human was seated cross-legged. Beneath it, the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja continued to burst forth.
Senju Hashirama's True Several Thousand Hands was nearly a kilometer tall.
Yōkō, having only experienced 50 cycles of reincarnation so far, had 450 hands; it was still growing. His Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja was still over 500 meters tall.
But for the Two-Tails, standing just over 30 meters tall at the shoulder, what difference was there between a 500-meter Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja and a 1000-meter True Several Thousand Hands?
The Kumo-nin looked up at the terrifying wooden giant blotting out the sun, one by one falling into panic.
It's over...
How can someone use chakra to create such a colossal giant?
The Konoha shinobi had never seen the legendary God of Shinobi's True Several Thousand Hands. The Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja they witnessed now was the strongest Wood Release they had ever seen!
The legend was right before their eyes!
Terror filled the Two-Tails' eyes. At this moment, it felt as if it had returned to the day it was captured by Senju Hashirama.
Back then, Senju Hashirama had overwhelmed it using the True Several Thousand Hands.
The forms were quite different – the True Several Thousand Hands had the compassionate countenance of a Bodhisattva, while the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja before it had a ferocious, wrathful visage.
Back then, Senju Hashirama had said it was a threat and captured and sealed it within a minute.
After being sealed, the Two-Tails was still bewildered. Why was there such a powerful shinobi?
If he could capture me in a minute, what threat was I, really?
Now, seeing the Thousand-Handed Giant Wooden Buddha again, the Two-Tails' claws scraped uneasily at the ground.
This time, Yōkō felt no need to test, nor did he care to know what abilities the Two-Tails possessed.
What he wanted was to test the offensive power of his Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja.
After all, the Two-Tails will revive in a few years anyway.
Wooden hands grew one after another. The hills echoed with the crackling and popping sound of wood growing.
The first wooden fist smashed into the Two-Tails' shoulder, bending its elbow and pinning it to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, fist after fist of wooden hands pummeled down.
The Two-Tails struggled to lift its head, coagulating a Tailed Beast Ball.
However, before the Tailed Beast Ball could be fired, it was smashed apart by the ensuing wooden fists.
The Two-Tails was instantly engulfed in thick smoke.
The Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja ignored the explosion, ignored the smoke, and cold-bloodedly continued punching into the smoke.
The wind stirred by the punches dispersed the smoke.
The Kumo-nin watched in horror as each punch landing on the Two-Tails caused part of the flames covering its body to dissipate.
At one moment, blue flames erupted violently from the Two-Tails' entire body, but the erupting flames were smashed apart by the thousand hands.
After several dozen seconds, the Two-Tails had already collapsed on the ground.
More terrifyingly, the attacks continued.
The Two-Tails' body seemed to collapse, twisting, missing parts, like a piece of animal hide that had been torn at.
One moment, the Leopard Cat's head was seen with its mouth open; the next instant, two fists slammed down, smashing the Leopard Cat's mouth to pieces.
Immediately afterwards, the Two-Tails' head, shoulders, torso, and tail were all pulverized.
Was that still a Tailed Beast?... The Two-Tails was actually beaten to death alive?
By this point, the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja had only used a little over 300 hands.
Only when a terrifying chakra ripple appeared where the Two-Tails had been, and a chakra shockwave spread out like a water ring, did it stop.
In the distance, Dodai, who was being treated for fractures by a medic-nin, watched in terror as the chakra shockwave rushed towards him.
The earlier Tailed Beast Ball hadn't burst his Rubber Ball, but the shockwave had thrown him around inside it, causing fractures in many places.
Now, Dodai ignored his fractures, his heart filled only with horror and despair.
The shockwave hit, throwing the medic-nin several meters away.
The medic-nin scrambled back, treating Dodai while asking, "Dodai-sama, what was that shockwave?"
"It's... it's the chakra released upon the Two-Tails' death..."
"The Two-Tails died? Can the Two-Tails die? Can a Tailed Beast be killed too? Then what about Ryūjin-sama?"
Dodai closed his eyes in pain.
"Ryūjin has fallen. Killed by Konoha's Fox. Who could have imagined that Fox's Wood Release has reached a level comparable to the God of Shinobi, Senju Hashirama?"
Dodai quickly opened his eyes and said, "Immediately order all Kumo-nin to retreat!"
After Yōkō pummeled the Two-Tails to death, the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja still had over a hundred hands left.
The colossal 500-meter-tall form slowly turned to the left.
The 200-plus Kumo-nin on the left fled in terror.
However, how could they possibly outrun the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja?
Over a hundred fists shot out, smashing towards the ground.
One low hill after another was destroyed.
After one round of attacks, over 150 Kumo-nin lay dead, crushed by the fists.
A Kumo-nin Jōnin commander stayed behind to cover the retreat. He had thirty Kumo-nin perform a combined ninjutsu together.
The thirty Kumo-nin raised their hands, standing in a concave arc. Electricity crackled and jumped between their palms.
The power of the Combined Lightning Release grew stronger and stronger.
The Kumo-nin actually had a combined ninjutsu like this.
The Combined Lightning Release formed a ball of lightning, which suddenly transformed into a Lightning Spear.
The Three Worlds Wood Human leaped down from the head of the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja.
The Three Worlds Wood Human seemed petite in front of the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja, but upon landing, it was still a giant dozens of meters tall.
Its palm opened, and the Three Worlds Wood Human's hand intercepted the Kumo-nin's Combined Lightning Release ninjutsu.
The Kumo-nin Jōnin saw the Wood Human's palm blacken slightly and emit a wisp of smoke. His despair reached its peak.
If even a Tailed Beast Ball couldn't damage the Three Worlds Wood Human, how could this combined ninjutsu?
The Three Worlds Wood Human slammed both palms onto the ground.
"Wood Release: Advent of a World of Flowering Trees!"
The Kumo-nin were submerged by the forest of flowering trees, crushed to death by the massive trees.
With one Wood Release, the Kumo-nin before them were annihilated.
The Three Worlds Wood Human turned, leaped high into the air, and landed with a crash to the right of the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja, where another 200-plus fleeing Kumo-nin were.
Seeing this, Nara Kyoichi immediately ordered: "Pursue! Don't let a single Kumo-nin escape! Avenge our Konoha shinobi!"
Kyoichi rushed forward through the hills. After crossing two low hills, he suddenly realized the area had abruptly brightened.
He looked up and realized he had merely stepped out from the shadow of the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja.
Sunlight fell upon the Vidyārāja's Buddha-face, unable to dispel its ferocity.
When I return to the village, I must seriously advise the Clan Head.
Clan Head Rokaku told me to cooperate well with Deputy Chief Fox, but the Clan Head clearly doesn't appreciate Fox-sama's importance enough.
A Fox-sama capable of frontally beating a Tailed Beast to death... one cannot possibly overestimate his importance.
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