Tsunade was not Karin, after all. She had truly used the Eight Trigrams Seal to transform Haotu Power and forge a half-sage body, rather than merely serving as a host for an implanted brand.
With guidance and protection from Wu Yu's Magic Lantern Body Technique, she spent several days cultivating in earnest. She opened her body and mind to nature energy, letting it cleanse her flesh, and finally released the instinctive tension that kept nature energy and chakra in balance, mastering White Sage Transformation.
Once she had made that breakthrough from zero to one, Northern Sea Sage Art and Lesser Formless Sage Art followed naturally.
Just as Wu Yu had expected, after mastering the second state of White Sage Transformation, the first thing she simulated with Lesser Formless Sage Art was Wood Release's chakra nature.
As the First's granddaughter, Tsunade rarely spoke of it, but deep down, she had always longed for the Wood Release Technique—not because she coveted a kekkei genkai, but because of her childhood admiration for her grandfather.
Her Wood Release: Hundred-Form Guanyin swung its sacred vase and smashed Wu Yu's projected body to pieces.
But a body created by the Magic Lantern Body Technique was still an illusion, ethereal and intangible.
The scattered projection gathered again nearby, forming Wu Yu's hazy gray outline. At the same time, he finished his hand seals and spat a glob of Lava Release acid onto the "Wood Release Guanyin Gundam" protecting Tsunade. Thick, scalding white fumes immediately rose from its surface.
Tsunade kicked the wooden Guanyin apart and smiled as she used Lesser Formless Sage Art again. Her white brand sage power instantly shifted from Wood Release to the Lava Release coating the wooden statue, becoming a curtain of acid that swept toward Wu Yu's projection.
"You've got the hang