The Wood Locking Wall Contained the Entire Explosion Without Letting a Single Spark Escape

The wind in the canyon seemed to have gone mad, howling through the gaps between those dark green logs.

That so-called "Ultimate Art" hung right above our heads, like a giant fireball on the verge of falling.

Naruto crouched on the ground with both hands over his head, muttering under his breath:

"No way... Are we really going to get blown to ashes?"

"Big Brother Sen, is that wooden ball of yours actually reliable? I don't want to become braised fox!"

Kakashi Hatake stared fixedly at the swelling fireball, his brows deeply furrowed.

He pressed a hand against the sword hilt at his waist, great beads of sweat rolling down his forehead.

"Shut up, Naruto."

"I've never seen that move Sen just used."

"Let's hope he wasn't bluffing, or we're all going to die here today."

At that very instant, Deidara's C3 bomb, powerful enough to blow up half a village, finally touched the emerald-green wooden wall.

BOOM!

The sound was absurdly loud, as though the sky itself had collapsed.

A scorching blast of air carrying the smell of burned earth slammed into the inside of the wooden wall.

The firelight was blindingly bright, born of explosive chakra compressed to its absolute limit.

If that thing had been dropped straight into the forest, it would have burned down hundreds of towering trees at the very least.

But inside the Wood Locking Wall, those waves of flame seemed to crash into something soft.

The emerald leaves on the wall actually unfurled the instant the flames licked at them.

Faint, pale green motes danced along the veins of the leaves as the divine tree origin worked furiously.

Those layers of highly concentrated explosive chakra were actually "sucked" into the leaves as though they were drinking water.

The explosive shock wave that should