At that moment, Hiruzen and his two clones still had their hands pressed together. Behind them appeared a gaunt ghostly figure in white robes that no one else could see. It had a blue face, fangs, and extremely long hair, with a short blade clenched in its mouth. Pale blue souls floated around it, poised to strike.
"This technique... targets the soul..." Zi Xu instinctively sensed that something was wrong. His body was undeniably powerful, but he did not dare underestimate an attack on the soul. He slowly circulated the Chakra within him and secretly entered Sage Mode.
Orochimaru's distraction gave Hiruzen Sarutobi an opening. One of the clones placed both hands on the two Hokage, and an unknown force linked them together. The two Hokage summoned through Impure World Reincarnation stood blankly in place before their bodies crumbled away like dust, leaving behind only the corpses wrapped in impure earth.
"This is... a Sealing Technique?" Having lost control over the two Hokage, Orochimaru quickly guessed what technique the old man had used. Hiruzen, however, showed no fear. He was already a dead man, so he simply let loose.
Though he had barely any Chakra left, even with just a trace remaining, Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Professor of Ninjutsu, could still make it work in countless ways.
With Enma dead, he had no choice but to gather his remaining Chakra into the tree trunk the First Hokage had previously created with Wood Release and wield it like a staff.
"Old man, are you trying to get yourself killed..." Orochimaru was momentarily unable to adjust to Hiruzen's sudden change in style. The old man's attacks had been fierce before, but he had always reserved a bit of Chakra. Now, however, he had concentrated all of it into that wooden staff, as though