Cold.
The world had turned frosty white, gripped by unimaginably low temperatures.
Almost instantly, every bird, beast, insect, and fish within a radius of nearly ten kilometers had frozen to death.
The warm sea breeze blowing in from far beyond
turned into howling, frigid winds at incredible speed
as it swept over the frozen, surging waves.
They howled past Kuzan and Hashirama Senju.
At some point,
the two had stopped speaking.
"Wood Release: Adamantine Wood Summoning!"
Hashirama Senju clasped his hands tightly before his chest.
The next moment,
as purple Chakra surged,
four thick, long trunks wrapped in rough bark and tipped with sharp points painfully burst through the hardened frozen ground.
But just as they emerged into the air and lunged at Kuzan,
a layer of white frost visibly formed over their bark.
In the end, they turned into four ice pillars and stopped in midair roughly twenty meters from Kuzan.
Hashirama Senju frowned deeply, then glanced down to find frost also appearing over his feet, though it was forming more slowly.
"Has the temperature dropped this low already? And it seems to still be falling."
Hashirama Senju knew he had to end this quickly. The longer this dragged on, the worse it would be for him.
He somewhat understood why the World Government had sent Admiral Aokiji.
[Swish! Swish! Swish!]
Just then, twelve ice spears glinting with cold light tore through the air toward him.
Hashirama Senju immediately shattered the frost around his feet and nimbly dodged the first three in succession.
But the following ice spears became increasingly difficult to evade.
By the tenth, he was shocked to discover that there was nowhere left to dodge.
The final three ice spears had completely sealed off every route of escape.
"Hah!"
Since that was the case, Hashirama Senju