Susanoo-Clad Buddha! One Man Destroys Three Nations!

On the wasteland, a violent wind howled.

Thousands of puppets brandished their blades like a white tide of Death Gods, threatening to drown Tobirama.

"Die! Arrogant brat!"

Granny Chiyo's fingers danced, her eyes filled with delight.

Faced with the overwhelming assault, Tobirama merely swept his gaze over it.

He made no move to evade.

He slowly raised both hands and brought them together in the hand seal that had once made the entire Ninja World tremble.

"That is..."

Hatake Sakumo's pupils suddenly contracted in the distance.

Tobirama slammed his palms together.

A surge of vibrant green chakra erupted from within him, warm and domineering, utterly unlike the Uchiha Clan's cold chakra.

"Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!"

Rumble!

The earth roared!

The once-barren wasteland instantly split apart. Countless thick roots, as massive as dragons and carrying unstoppable force, erupted madly from underground!

Before those enormous roots, the puppets were as fragile as toys.

"Crack! Crack!"

Hundreds of puppets were instantly bound, crushed, and shattered by the roots!

"This... this is..."

Granny Chiyo's fingers froze in midair. Every wrinkle on her face trembled, and her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"Wood Release?"

"The First Hokage's Wood Release!"

"Impossible! How can someone from the Uchiha Clan use Wood Release?!"

This was the unique secret art of Hashirama Senju, the God of Shinobi!

Even no one in the Senju Clan had inherited it. What gave this Uchiha brat the right?

Orochimaru stood in the distance, his long tongue sliding across his lips as the frenzy in his eyes nearly overflowed.

"A perfect Uchiha... combined with the First Hokage's Wood Release..."

"Tobirama-kun, just what level have you evolved to?"

"Roar!"

Just as the Suna Ninja defense line was about to collapse.

A shrill, piercing roar rang out.

At the rear of the Suna Ninja camp, Bunpuku, the old monk who had been sitting cross-legged all this time, suddenly opened his eyes.

If they did not fight with everything they had, the Land of Wind's main force would be finished today!

"Shukaku! Come out!"

Boom!

A vast amount of sand shot into the sky, instantly condensing into a massive tanuki-like monster covered in violet Cursed Seals.

One-Tail Shukaku!

"Ha ha ha ha! I'm finally out!"

Shukaku laughed wildly, opening his mouth and firing a massive Air Bullet at the wildly growing forest.

"A Jinchuriki?"

Tobirama stood atop a gigantic tree trunk, looking down at the enormous tanuki.

There was not the slightest ripple in his eyes—only a hint of contempt.

"A beast is still a beast."

"Playing with a Tailed Beast in front of Wood Release and an Uchiha? Are you tired of living?"

Tobirama clapped one hand down.

"Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique!"

Roar!

A colossal Wood Dragon hundreds of meters long soared from the forest. Runes specially designed to suppress Tailed Beast chakra covered its body as it roared toward Shukaku.

"What the hell is that?"

Shukaku had barely tried to retaliate when the Wood Dragon tightly coiled around him.

That single bind was fatal.

"Slurp—"

The dragon head on the Wood Dragon viciously bit Shukaku's neck and began frantically draining his chakra.

"Ahhh! My chakra!"

Shukaku screamed in terror as his enormous body visibly shrank.

Bunpuku, the Jinchuriki, let out an even more miserable scream.

"Die."

Tobirama spat out the word coldly.

The Wood Dragon suddenly tightened.

"Crack!"

The Tailed Beast and its Jinchuriki were strangled to death together!

Bunpuku spat blood, his head lolling to one side as he breathed his last. Shukaku let out an unwilling wail before dissolving into sand and being forcibly sent back to his revival timer.

Instant kill!

Before Wood Release, the One-Tail Jinchuriki had no power to resist at all.

Watching that fallen corpse, the Suna Ninja's final line of defense collapsed.

"M-Monster..."

"Even the Tailed Beast lost..."

"How are we supposed to fight this?"

Granny Chiyo looked at the severely wounded and dead subordinates around her, then at that invincible-looking youth. Despair surged in her heart.

But she was an elder of the Land of Wind. She could not retreat!

"Don't be afraid!"

Chiyo shouted sharply and summoned her strongest puppets, the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets.

Ebizo, along with her son and daughter-in-law—Sasori's parents—also stepped forward.

"Men of the Land of Wind! Fight him to the death!"

"Even if we die, we'll bite off a piece of him!"

Tobirama watched the Suna Ninja preparing for a desperate final stand.

He shook his head.

"The ignorant know no fear."

"Since you want to witness true power so badly..."

"Then I'll show you what lies at the end of despair."

Tobirama brought his hands together, and markings instantly appeared on his face.

"Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!"

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

The entire earth sank.

A massive thousand-armed Buddha statue over a thousand meters tall burst from the ground, towering into the clouds.

Its terrifying size made the Suna Ninja below look like dust beneath its feet.

And that was not all!

The Eternal Mangekyo in Tobirama's eyes spun madly.

"Susanoo: Majestic Attire!"

Purple-red Chakra Armor instantly covered the enormous Buddha statue.

The once-kind-faced thousand-armed Buddha instantly donned the armor of a war god, transforming into a battle god capable of destroying heaven and earth!

Susanoo-Clad Buddha!

This was true Super Kage-level power!

"This... this..."

The puppet strings in Granny Chiyo's hands snapped.

She craned her head back until her neck nearly broke, yet she still could not see the top of the Buddha's head.

At that moment.

Poisons, puppet techniques, and human-wave tactics.

Before that divine statue, all of them seemed utterly laughable.

"This is a genjutsu, right..."

Ebizo muttered, completely giving up resistance.

"Chiyo."

Tobirama's voice came from the clouds, rolling like thunder.

"Since you refuse to see reason, I will bring down the whip of defeat upon you. Feel the power of the God of Shinobi!"

"Buddha on the Summit!"

Boom!

The thousands of enormous fists behind it, clad in Susanoo armor, crashed down like a meteor shower!

Every punch could shatter a mountain peak!

Thousands of punches falling together meant the end of the world!

"No!"

Chiyo let out one final despairing scream.

"All puppeteers! Defend!"

Unfortunately, it was useless.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!"

The earth shattered, and the tectonic plates shifted.

The wasteland within a ten-kilometer radius was directly blasted into a gigantic crater.

Dust surged into the sky, blotting out the sun.

A long time later.

The dust finally dispersed.

The Land of Wind's army was gone.

Only ruins and wreckage remained everywhere.

Half of Granny Chiyo's body had been smashed apart. She lay in a pool of blood, barely alive.

She looked at the youth descending from the sky as the Buddha slowly faded away.

There was no longer any hatred in her eyes.

Only deep fear and... reverence.

"This... is no longer the power of a ninja..."

"Konoha... has produced a god..."

Chiyo painfully exhaled her final breath.

"The Land of Wind... has lost..."

"I hope... I hope the village makes the right decision from now on..."

With that, her head tilted to one side, and she died completely.

The Land of Wind's elite forces had been annihilated!

"W-We won?"

Five kilometers to the rear.

Hatake Sakumo and the Konoha ninja stared wide-eyed at the terrain that had been transformed beyond recognition.

Then.

"Long live Lord Tobirama!"

"God of Shinobi!"

"This is the new God of Shinobi!"

Cheers shook the heavens.

Every Konoha ninja, whether Jonin or Genin, fell to their knees and offered their highest reverence to that youth.

If destroying the Land of Rain had still been within the bounds of human power.

Then today's battle, the Susanoo-Clad Buddha, had sent Tobirama straight to the altar of godhood!

From this day onward.

The title God of Shinobi no longer belonged to Hashirama Senju.

It belonged to Tobirama Uchiha!

Tobirama walked over to Orochimaru and casually tossed him a scroll.

"This is the antidote."

"I'll leave the remaining cleanup to you."

Orochimaru accepted the antidote, and for the first time, an emotion called submission appeared in his snake-like eyes.

"Tobirama... no, Lord Tobirama."

"Where are you going?"

Tobirama looked east, toward the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth.

"Of course, I'm going to..."

"Clean up the rest of the trash."

"Flying Thunder God Technique!"

A flash of golden light.

Tobirama vanished from where he stood.

Leaving behind only an invincible silhouette, seared into everyone's minds.

Meanwhile.

The eastern front of the Land of Fire.

The situation here had already reached the brink of collapse.

"Hold the line! Everyone, hold the line!"

Shikaku Nara was covered in blood as he roared out commands.

But it was useless.

The enemies were too strong.

Kumogakure's Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, Blue B, had fully entered Tailed Beast Mode, charging through the battlefield like a bulldozer.

Then there was the Two-Tails Jinchuriki, Gumei, transformed into a blue fire-cat and moving so fast she was impossible to catch.

With Kumogakure's strategists directing them as well.

Konoha's Hyuga Clan and Uchiha Clan were driven back again and again.

"Damn it! Hasn't the reinforcements arrived yet?"

Fushan Uchiha activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and barely dodged an Eight-Tails Tailed Beast Bomb, his expression turning incomparably grim.

"Didn't they say the village would send support?"

"If they don't get here soon... we'll all die here!"

Just as everyone was about to fall into despair.

Blue B opened his mouth, gathering an enormous Tailed Beast Bomb and aiming it at the center of Konoha's position.

Roshi and Han were watching from the side as well, ready to strike.

"It's over, Konoha scum!"

Dodai sneered as he gave the order to finish them off.

However.

At the very instant the Tailed Beast Bomb was about to fire.

"Swoosh!"

A kunai engraved with a formula appeared out of thin air above the Eight-Tails' head.

Immediately after.

A figure in a black robe patterned with red clouds descended with a flash of golden light.

"Quite lively here, isn't it?"

"Mind if..."

"I join in?"