When Hiruzen Sarutobi recited the contents of the secret scroll, the other ninjas could not help exchanging looks, desperately holding back their laughter.
However, Uchiha Yato could not remain silent like the others. He could not help reaching up to pick at his ear, wondering if he had misheard.
"Shouldn't it be Wood Release?" Uchiha Yato muttered, disbelief written all over his face.
He had originally expected to see Hiruzen Sarutobi unleash a powerful Wood Release ninjutsu, but what he heard instead were words related to Konoha.
"Why the hell are the words 'Konoha' involved too?" Uchiha Yato's remark seemed to voice everyone's thoughts.
Everyone found the situation deeply bewildering. By all logic, this secret scroll should have been closely tied to Wood Release ninjutsu.
This was also Hiruzen Sarutobi's first time using the secret scroll, and he did not know much about its exact contents.
He had merely recited the words on the scroll according to standard procedure, never expecting such a result.
Faced with everyone's confusion, he too seemed somewhat lost.
However, just as everyone began talking among themselves, something unexpected happened.
The moment Hiruzen Sarutobi finished reciting the final word on the secret scroll, an immense force suddenly erupted.
In the blink of an eye, an incomparably enormous Buddha statue materialized before them.
The great Buddha unreasonably expanded to fill the entire space, its colossal body even bursting apart Uchiha Yato's spatial dimension.
Having lost its support, Uchiha Yato, along with his dimension, plummeted straight down from above Konoha.
The scene outside Konoha was even more staggering.
A massive rift suddenly appeared above Konoha, as though the sky itself had been torn open.
Then, the colossal Buddha slowly descended from the rift and finally landed firmly within Konoha.
This gift that Hashirama Senju had left Konoha in