As Chenshu Senju's chakra surged wildly, the massive golden skeleton stood as steady as a mountain within the raging gravitational storm.
But he had no intention of stopping there.
He took a deep breath and slammed his hands together before his chest.
"Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!"
A deafening rumble rose from deep underground. Beneath the Wood Dragon, which had already been on the verge of collapse, countless thicker and larger trees burst from the earth.
The giant trees wrapped directly around the golden skeleton, intertwining and growing.
Wooden textures fused perfectly with golden chakra, reshaping the giant body at an incredibly savage speed.
In the blink of an eye, a hundred-meter-tall Thousand-Hand Buddha fully took shape behind Chenshu Senju.
The Buddha wore a compassionate expression, while dozens of enormous wooden arms spread out behind it, directly covering more than half the sky above the Hidden Leaf Village.
Though its fusion rate was only thirty percent, this True Several Thousand Hands possessed only its upper body, and its arms had not truly reached a thousand.
But that did nothing to diminish the oppressive force it gave off.
The instant the great Buddha appeared, everyone on the battlefield stopped moving. Even their breathing slowed.
Deva Path Pain stood in midair, and for the first time, a faint tremor appeared in his ever-unruffled Rinnegan.
Nagato abruptly clenched his fists within the tower of Amegakure.
What kind of monster was that?
Standing atop the Thousand-Hand Buddha's head, Chenshu Senju looked down at the Planetary Devastation still drawing rocks toward itself above.
This damn rock was getting bigger and bigger. If it absorbed enough mass, the Hidden Leaf Village would become one giant crater today.
Might as well smash it apart with one punch.
"Break."
He maintained the hand-seal posture, and