Wood Release: Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands! Thousands of giant wooden hands caught the meteors!

I forced down the mouthful of bloody spit lodged in my throat.

The metallic tang shot straight into my skull, choking me until I wanted to cough.

My palms were clamped tightly together, my knuckles cracking.

The beads of blood seeping from beneath my nails evaporated instantly in the heat.

The battered Wood Dragon beneath my feet had long since started creaking under the strain.

Its hard wooden skull was shattered by fresh wood thrusting up from below.

Tens of thousands of tons of yellow mud and broken stone slabs were hurled skyward by that brute force.

Mud rained down on me, splattering my entire back.

A gigantic Wooden Buddha, towering several heads above the mountains, forced its way out through the cracks in the ground.

The huge wooden monk thrust its bald head straight into the fiery clouds overhead.

Its back was packed with wooden arms, layer upon layer.

Just looking at them was enough to trigger a fear of clustered objects and make your scalp crawl.

The air was hot enough to roast a person alive.

Sparks falling from the meteor struck the Wooden Buddha, sending up acrid trails of smoke.

I stood on the Wooden Buddha's head, the hot wind plastering my coat against my skin.

The heat made me hiss through my teeth, sweat streaming down my body.

"Old man, take a good look! I've got a hell of a lot more hands than you've got lousy rocks!"

I bellowed, the veins on my forehead bulging like fat green caterpillars.

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

The thousands of huge wooden hands behind the Giant Buddha let out a piercing screech of grinding timber.

Like a rough wooden net so vast its edges were nowhere in sight.

They thrust straight up to meet the