First, a Susanoo to Encase a Wood Golem

Outside Sunagakure!

"It's about time to end this!"

Standing atop the wooden giant, Naraku thought to himself. Through his clash with the First Hokage, he had roughly gauged the level of strength the man possessed in life.

Genin, Chunin, Special Jonin, Jonin, Elite Jonin, Kage level—these were the power classifications for shinobi in the Shinobi World.

But in truth, such classifications were not clear enough. Take the First Hokage before him—his strength had clearly surpassed Kage level by far.

It was not just the First Hokage. Naraku himself, Kakashi, and Orochimaru had all surpassed Kage level as well.

Though there was no official designation, Naraku had defined their current realm as Super-Kage level.

Within the Super-Kage realm, the First Hokage had already reached the peak. One step further, and he would be a Six Paths-level powerhouse.

Naraku felt that he himself was probably at the middle stage of Super-Kage level. Kakashi and Orochimaru were not far apart, both slightly weaker than him and at the early stage of Super-Kage level.

Of course, that was merely Naraku's own classification. There would still be some discrepancies in reality.

"You should return to the Pure Land!"

Looking at the black markings that had appeared on the First Hokage's face, Naraku's expression tightened. Then, a powerful surge of ocular power erupted from his eyes.

In an instant, a dazzling golden radiance appeared.

The next moment, as more ocular power poured forth, the golden glow grew increasingly intense before transforming into streams of dense golden energy.

As more and more golden energy emerged, it quickly spread over the wooden giant. Within moments, the entire wooden giant gleamed with golden light, as though it had donned a suit of golden armor.

Before putting Susanoo around the Buddha statue, Naraku first put Susanoo around the wooden giant.