"Blocked it? He blocked my punch. Then take this—my invincible flurry of punches!"
"Left hook! Right hook! Uppercut! Haymaker...!"
Seeing his punch get blocked, Senju Fujima hurriedly made the Wood Human unleash a combination of punches. It looked pretty bizarre.
"Thud, thud, thud, thud...!"
Although Senju Fujima was throwing himself into the attack, he still couldn't break through the Wood Release shield in front of him.
"Wood Release: Hotei Technique."
The clone of Hashirama Senju standing behind the shield quickly slapped both hands against the ground.
Countless wooden arms suddenly emerged beneath the Wood Human and forcibly grabbed hold of it.
"Damn it, I can't move...!"
Senju Fujima realized that his Wood Human couldn't move. No matter how hard he urged it on, it couldn't break free of the wooden hands' grip.
Senju Fujima kept pouring in chakra, trying to make the Wood Human escape the wooden hands' hold. Just then, a wooden hand quietly appeared behind him and reached out to grab him.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...!"
The wooden hand rapidly closed in, cutting through the air with a series of whooshes.
"Oh no, Substitution Technique!"
Senju Fujima immediately sensed something was wrong and hurriedly used the Substitution Technique, reappearing on the ground.
"Bang...!"
A log appeared where Senju Fujima had been and was instantly crushed to splinters by the wooden hand.
"Damn, Dad, what are you trying to do? Murder your own son?"
Senju Fujima realized that if he hadn't used the Substitution Technique, he would've been crushed to pieces. That was way too violent.
"Hmph, and you still have time to talk?"
The Hashirama Clone looked at Senju Fujima and snorted. Countless wooden hands appeared in front of Fujima again, reaching for him.
"Oh no."
"Water Release: Water Colliding Wave!"
Seeing the countless wooden hands, Senju Fujima dodged at once, then brought his hands together and summoned a waterspout that churned the surrounding wooden hands into pieces.
"Go!"
Senju Fujima then directed the waterspout straight at Hashirama's clone.
"Bang...!"
In an instant, the waterspout spread out like a waterfall, quickly forming a great river that turned everything within a few hundred meters into a vast expanse of water.
"This kid's learned all my techniques, hasn't he? Heh!"
Standing beside Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju chuckled.
"Heh, not bad. His reaction speed is pretty good. If I didn't already know Wood Release, an ordinary elite jōnin would've been dead by now."
A trace of approval flashed in Hashirama Senju's eyes as he looked at his son, his heart full of pride.
The Hashirama Clone leaped onto the treetops, furrowing his brow as he watched Senju Fujima standing on the water.
"Water Release: Heaven Weeping!"
Senju Fujima instantly spat countless water needles from his mouth, sending them straight at the Hashirama Clone.
"Wood Release: Wood Locking Wall!"
The Hashirama Clone immediately used the Wood Locking Wall to shield himself.
"Thud, thud, thud, thud...!"
The water needles struck the wooden wall and eventually became a pool of water that flowed down.
"Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique!"
The Hashirama Clone then used the Wood Dragon Technique and lightly leaped onto the dragon, flying straight toward Senju Fujima.
"Roar...!"
The Wood Dragon roared at Senju Fujima, opened its enormous jaws, and lunged to bite him.
"Hmph, Water Release uses up a lot more chakra. Using Wood Release would just waste chakra, since Dad can control it all. What a pain."
Senju Fujima snorted. Whenever he used any other Wood Release technique, Hashirama Senju could control it. Their abilities were on entirely different levels, and Fujima would lose control of his techniques in an instant. It was a real nuisance.
He needed to use up all his chakra, but he couldn't just let himself get beaten up, either.
His Second Uncle's Water Release techniques used up a lot of chakra and were powerful attacks, making them a good way to burn through his chakra quickly.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Biting Explosion!"
Senju Fujima brought his hands together and instantly used Tobirama Senju's ultimate technique. He drew a massive amount of water from the river beneath his feet, forming a huge watery vortex that surged high into the sky.
When the vortex rose higher than Hashirama Senju's Wood Dragon, it instantly transformed into a water dragon and dived down.
"Roar...!"
"Roar...!"
The two giant dragons collided. Hashirama Senju's clone used the Tree Barrier to wrap himself up and burst out of the water dragon's attack range, then continued toward Senju Fujima.
"As expected, Water Release alone can't break the Wood Dragon Technique."
"Water Clone Technique!"
"Sealing Jutsu: Adamantine Sealing Chains!"
In an instant, several chakra chains shot out from behind the Water Clone and wrapped around the entire Wood Dragon.
"Bang...!"
Senju Fujima's Adamantine Sealing Chains trapped the Wood Dragon, sending it crashing into the river and splashing water everywhere.
"Not bad."
"Genjutsu: Bringer-of-Darkness Technique!"
After Senju Fujima used the secret technique, the Hashirama Clone immediately jumped down from the Wood Dragon and charged at him, casting a genjutsu as he went.
"Hm? I can't see anything. This is the genjutsu Second Uncle just created. Damn it."
Senju Fujima suddenly found himself unable to see. Everything before him was pitch-black, and he couldn't sense where the Hashirama Clone was at all.
"Water Release: Water Bullet Barrage!"
Unable to see Hashirama Senju, Senju Fujima immediately channeled chakra into both hands and began spinning them rapidly, firing countless water bullets from his palms in every direction.
"Rat-tat-tat-tat...!"
Senju Fujima's water bullets sprayed in every direction as if they were free. It was practically "absolute defense."
"Heh."
"Wood Release: Wood Prison Technique!"
The Hashirama Clone dodged the water bullets while bringing his hands together. Several trees instantly grew beneath Senju Fujima, forming a huge wooden prison.
The trees seemed alive. They dodged the water bullets, transformed into vines, and tightly bound Senju Fujima, trapping him inside the wooden prison.
"Damn...!"
Senju Fujima felt the wooden branches pinning his arms and legs in place. The darkness before him vanished, and his vision cleared.
Hashirama Senju's clone slowly walked toward him. A sly smile flickered across Senju Fujima's lips.
"Water Release: Water Prison Technique!"
At some point, a Water Clone of Senju Fujima had emerged from beneath Hashirama Senju's feet and instantly cast the Water Prison Technique on the Hashirama Clone.
Just as Hashirama Senju was about to be trapped by the Water Prison Technique, he drew a katana and casually slashed once, cutting the Water Clone to pieces. It turned into a pool of water and disappeared.
"Damn, Dad's amazing. Did you see through my plan?"
"But I'm not done yet!"
"Big Ball Rasengan, rise!"
"Ha...!"
Senju Fujima had thought he'd won, but Hashirama Senju had casually cut his Water Clone apart with a single slash.
"Bang...!"
Senju Fujima shouted in anger. A blue chakra sphere appeared in his trapped right hand and rapidly expanded, bursting through the wooden prison.
"Dad, try out my newly developed jutsu!"
"Water Release: Body Flicker Technique."
Senju Fujima instantly vanished from where he stood. As long as the lake he had created was there, he could instantly reach wherever he wanted. It was a type of Space-Time Ninjutsu, though it could only be used through the water he had created.
In an instant, Senju Fujima appeared behind the Hashirama Clone, and the Big Ball Rasengan slammed toward him.
"Hm?"
The Hashirama Clone sensed danger behind him and immediately spun around, drawing his sword to counterattack.
"Bang...!"
"Clang...!"
The katana in the Hashirama Clone's hand instantly snapped. Using the force of the impact to propel him, he leaped backward.
"You developed a jutsu that requires no hand signs yourself? Very impressive. It looks like there's still a lot of room for you to grow!"
Hashirama Senju truly lived up to his title as the God of Shinobi. He immediately saw the immense potential of the Big Ball Rasengan in Senju Fujima's hand, since it hadn't yet incorporated chakra nature transformation.
"Hehe! Dad, the best part is still to come!"
"Wood Clone!"
"Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!"
A Wood Clone instantly appeared beside Senju Fujima and used Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, hurling it fiercely at Hashirama Senju's Shadow Clone.
Adding chakra nature transformation made it unstable and introduced a chance of failure. If it failed, it could also badly injure the user. It was still in its early stages and hadn't been fully developed.
An ordinary Shadow Clone couldn't withstand it, but a Wood Clone was different. It was a real, solid entity and wouldn't simply disappear from a bit of damage.
Even if the Wood Clone was dispelled, it would instantly turn into branches and entangle or attack the enemy, making it extremely powerful.
"Hm? What a powerful presence."
The Hashirama Clone furrowed his brow, sensing a hint of danger.
"Summoning Technique: Triple Rashomon!"
The Hashirama Clone instantly summoned the Triple Rashomon, then stood atop the rearmost gate, watching the Rasenshuriken Senju Fujima had thrown.
"Boom, boom, boom...!"
The first Rashomon was shredded by the high-speed whirlwind beside the Rasenshuriken before it could even make contact.
The second one didn't hold out for long, either. The Rasenshuriken instantly reached the third gate.
"So it incorporates chakra nature transformation? Its penetrating power has increased countless times. What an impressive jutsu. But it must be extremely harmful to the body, right?"
"Classify it as a forbidden technique. The other clan members aren't allowed to learn it."
Hashirama Senju narrowed his eyes as he watched the battle before him and felt the power of the Rasenshuriken. Frowning, he immediately ruled it out.
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