Opportunity

The Wood Realm unleashed personally by the First Hokage was naturally extraordinarily effective.

Fortunately, it was the First Hokage who had acted. Unlike the one who had provoked Madara and exploded outright, Hollow Rice Noodles was merely hung from a tree alongside many of his peers, restrained as the energy in his body was drained away.

Moreover, Zhang Zuolin, Cao Kun, Ulquiorra, and Koyata had all sensed trouble and successfully escaped the range of Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence.

But everyone else, including the Five Kage who had been exhausted and stripped of their fighting strength, had been swept away in one go.

Danzo, who had always criticized the First Hokage's policies as too weak, was now hanging from a tree like a little kitten, not daring to utter a word.

"You four are pretty good."

Hashirama Senju looked at the four who had escaped, still chattering away incessantly, much like when Naruto had fought the reanimated Itachi and Nagato in the original story.

His mouth said no, but his body was honest.

Yet Zhang Zuolin and Cao Kun, who had evaded the attack, were filled with shock. Although the big shots had greatly raised their tolerance levels, seeing the weakling they remembered turn into this was still completely beyond their expectations.

For a moment, Cao Kun recalled how Kakuzu had once used the First Hokage as an example while boasting. Back then, he had thought the guy had water in his brain. Only now did he realize...

Holy shit! That bastard had been bragging!

The thought had barely crossed his mind.

Sage Art: Gate of the Great God!

Torii gates identical to those the Sino-Japanese Alliance Reincarnators had encountered earlier came crashing down, suppressing all four people who had escaped control beneath them.

Kabuto, who had been guiding things