Hashirama: Hand seals? Isn't Wood Release just clenching your fists and shouting for it to come? (Happy Lantern Festival)
Deep Forest Emergence!
To the real world, this was no unfamiliar technique.
In fact, this move had already been shown in previous Light Screen footage.
Guardian Hashirama Senju had unleashed it directly. Once used, it immediately altered the terrain across a vast area, covering an area comparable to the footprint of an entire Konoha village and creating a world of trees centered around a colossal tree.
Deep Forest Emergence truly lived up to its name.
Even those who had watched footage of that technique many times before would still be deeply shaken when they watched it again.
And now, Shimura Danzo had actually used it as well.
Without question, this was immensely shocking. Especially with Hashirama Senju's example preceding it, people naturally superimposed the Deep Forest Emergence from their memories onto this one.
Now, everyone widened their eyes to witness the power of Danzo's version of Deep Forest Emergence.
Within the Light Screen footage, Deep Forest Emergence erupted. Countless branches and trunks thundered outward, and amid tense, intensely oppressive background music, the terrifying power of Wood Release created a terrain-altering field effect that swept toward every ninja other than the Root ninjas.
"Ahhh~~"
"Wh-What is this?!"
"Wood Release! It's the First Hokage's Wood Release!"
"D-Damn it, why can he use this technique?"
"M-My chakra, w-what's happening!?"
"Heh heh heh—ugh, ahhhhh~~~~"
Cries of alarm, curses, and screams rose one after another as terror spread in an instant.
Because this was the power of the legendary ninja, the First Hokage Hashirama Senju—the powerful ninjutsu that had pacified the chaotic age and ignited the flames of peace.
When that power, which had become legend alongside the death of the First Hokage Hashirama Senju and gradually transformed into myth, reappeared in the world, it brought an indescribably intense shock to Konoha's ninjas.
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