"What the hell are you trying to do? Answer me, you bastard!"
The immense power brought by Forbidden Hatred Woods greatly lifted Aramaki's spirits, and he let out a furious roar at Jigen above him.
"I told you already. You are an excellent 'vessel.'"
As Jigen's cold words fell—
One massive cube after another stopped resisting gravity and descended toward the ground in succession.
[Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!]
The incomparably heavy cubes smashed most of the trees trying to intercept them into pieces. The rest were sent flying by Aramaki, who had transformed into a giant tree man and swung his fists.
Even so, the giant cubes once again affected Aramaki.
He could clearly feel his Observation Haki being severely disrupted.
And this time, Jigen would not give him the time to clear away the surrounding cubes.
[Boom!]
In an instant, Jigen erupted again, rings of Sound Explosions detonating through the air.
His entire body turned into a lightning-fast white afterimage as he kicked the giant tree man in the abdomen.
Aramaki had no time to defend himself at all.
The tree man, dozens of meters tall, was sent flying nearly three hundred meters.
Every tree and stretch of land in his path was ruthlessly destroyed.
This time, it was not a clone. Aramaki took the heavy blow head-on and vomited another mouthful of blood.
"Senjutsu Chakra?!"
Aramaki knelt halfway inside a huge crater, clutching his bark-shattered abdomen in pain.
Ordinary Chakra could not harm his elementalized body at all.
But Jigen's kick carried the aura of natural energy.
Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, and Hashirama Senju had displayed Sage Mode before, so he was fairly familiar with the aura of Senjutsu Chakra.
And that was indeed the case. Jigen had been among the earliest monks in the Shinobi World to