Mirai offered no further explanation. He clapped his hands, and Wood Release chakra surged forth. A small sapling burst from the ground, then grew into a towering tree.
The entire process took only a few dozen seconds.
He changed his stance and clapped again. A wall made entirely of wood suddenly rose up.
"Do you want to keep going?" Mirai asked calmly.
Tsunade stroked the wooden wall, staring blankly. "It really is... Wood Release!"
"I never thought that in my lifetime, I'd see my granduncle's Wood Release Ninjutsu return to the world!"
"Come with me!" Tsunade quickly came back to her senses and led Mirai back to the old residence at the Senju Clan Compound.
It was an older and larger house than the courtyard where Mirai and the others lived. Tsunade rarely came here, but she always carried the key with her.
She pushed open the heavy wooden doors, led Mirai through several corridors, and arrived at the innermost archive room.
The door was covered in Sealing Jutsu, all carved by Mito Uzumaki before her death. Without the key, virtually no one could enter.
Even Mirai himself would need a month of study to get in without forcing his way through.
"Grandfather's Wood Release notes are here." Tsunade opened the door and led Mirai inside. She pointed to an old bookshelf against the wall, where a yellowed scroll rested.
"He left this behind before he died. It records the principles of Wood Release, hand seal methods, and chakra circulation routes.
But honestly, no one besides Grandfather himself has ever managed to use it.
Later members of our Senju Clan couldn't even find the way in."
Mirai walked over, took down the scroll, and opened it.
The inside was packed with writing and hand seal diagrams, even more detailed than