This Gentle Fist Has Strength
Within the Barrier, a great battle is about to erupt.
It's unclear who fired the first Lightning Beam, but the Tsuchigumo used it as a signal to start the battle. Its eight enormous limbs began to thrash wildly as it charged towards the Cloud Hidden Cloud Village, followed closely by a storm of flying sand and gravel.
Rumble!
Rumble!
With its Superheavy Mass body and a massive physique comparable to Tailed Beasts, when Tsuchigumo runs, it causes a scene of earth-shattering collapse, making the earth rumble and shake, and making people's bodies and minds tremble along with it.
No Ninjutsu or any other special techniques are needed; the Tsuchigumo simply charges forward, then swings its legs as it gets close, creating a shrill, piercing sound as it cuts through the air.
With each step, the hard rock and soil were trampled into spiderweb-like cracks, and dust mixed with gravel rose into the air, blurring people's vision.
Those Cloud Hidden Cloud Village Ninjutsu had hastily formed ranks and hadn't even had Hand Seals their ninjutsu were about to be struck by the massive body of the Tsuchigumo when the Third Raikage, charged towards the Cloud Hidden Cloud Village with lightning, preparing to face the Tsuchigumo's charge head-on.
However, Doichi clearly wouldn't give the Third Raikage that chance. He leaped down from the top of the Tsuchigumo and intercepted the Third Raikage halfway there.
"Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms Divine Echo!"
Before Doichi even made direct contact with the Third Raikage, he curled his fingers into a tiger-paw strike posture, each palm strike unleashing a burst of explosive force resembling a long dragon.
Seeing this, the Third Raikage also extended his right index finger and unhesitatingly used his strongest One-Finger Nukite strike.
Boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom!
The commotion caused by their collision was far more intense and ferocious than the sound of Tsuchigumo.
The Chakra surges, indistinguishable between friend and foe, resembled wild beasts running and roaring across the land, churning up layers of rock and soil.
Some of the Hidden Cloud Village dodged, while others Water Release and Earth Release to defend themselves.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tsuchigumo easily bypassed the core area where Doichi and the Third Raikage were fighting, and swung its two foremost legs at a group of Hidden Cloud Village who had no time to react.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"
More than a dozen Hidden Cloud Village were instantly sent flying by the Tsuchigumo, letting out shrill screams and cries in mid-air.
"Water Release · Water Release: Water Shockwave!"
Lightning Release: Lightning Release: Shockwave!
Faced with the Tsuchigumo's ferocious charge, the Hidden Cloud Village retreated instead of advancing, unleashing a flood mixed with dense lightning that swept towards the Tsuchigumo.
Upon witnessing this, the Tsuchigumo simply mobilized its vast Chakra and extracted the free-floating Natural Energy from the surrounding air.
In an instant, the gray fur that had covered its body changed color under the sunlight, beginning to reflect a deep and bright dark gold metallic luster.
Boom!
The Tsuchigumo withstood the floodwaters crackling with lightning, its charge unhindered. Its ruby-red eyes reflected the horrified expressions of the Hidden Cloud Village.
Earth Release: Earth Turning Dance!
The Tsuchigumo channeled Chakra into the earth through its eight legs, and in Setsuna, the earth began to surge like waves, constantly pushing the Hidden Cloud Village who were dodging and creating distance towards its location.
Instead of slashing its limbs to shred the Cloud Hidden Cloud Village, it continued to inject Chakra into the earth.
Click!
Click!
The earth split open, and a massive rock, capable of blotting out the sky, was dug out of the earth by the Tsuchigumo and lifted high into the sky using its two foremost legs.
Seeing this, the Cloud Hidden Cloud Village's eyes widened in horror; he knew exactly what Tsuchigumo was up to.
Stop it!
"We can't let that rock fall!"
The voices of the Hidden Cloud Village who were shouting were trembling.
This rock is so huge, it's comparable to a small mountain.
However, before they could even Hand Seals, the Tsuchigumo gave them no time to cast a spell to defend themselves. It lifted a rock and, without needing to gather its strength or wait, smashed the rock, which was as big as a small mountain, down in front of them.
Boom!
Boom!
The earth trembled violently, kicking up clouds of dust. The Cloud Village Hidden Cloud Village in the area were all swallowed up by the rock, their voices and figures completely obliterated.
On the other side, after Doichi repelled the Third Raikage Hokage A with a regular Gentle Fist, a large amount of Chakra began to spread and surge outward. In almost a breath or two, an airtight Chakra ball enveloped his body.
The high-density Chakra contained within the Chakra sphere caused the surrounding air to begin to bend, subtly revealing an aura of destruction.
Seeing this familiar scene, the Third Raikage did not hesitate to move his body and use the Piercing Hand to thrust forward.
The Cloud Hidden Cloud Village, who were proficient in Earth Release, also consciously erected earthen walls and hid behind them.
A giant hemispherical bowl of light was inverted on the earth, shining with a dazzling blue light.
Furthermore, this blue hemispherical bowl of light kept rotating on the earth, gradually crushing everything within its range.
When the intense blue light disappeared, Doichi's long hair, which had been flying wildly behind his head, slowly calmed down. He turned his head expressionlessly and looked around. A strange, Uzumaki hole was visible on the ground, and he was standing in the center of the Uzumaki hole.
Each track of the swirling crater was littered with the remains and fragments of Hidden Cloud Village, and the soil was ground into a dark red color with a strong smell of blood.
"Cough cough!"
Upon hearing the cough, Doichi looked toward the source of the sound.
The Third Raikage, with blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, crawled out of a ditch dozens of meters away, covered in mud and looking quite disheveled.
His body was covered in crackling lightning armor, but his aura had diminished considerably compared to the beginning.
"That's amazing!"
Doichi praised the physical strength of the Third Raikage.
The Third Raikage was the first ninja to be able to get up and fight again after being hit twice by him with Gentle Fist: Sky-Rending Divine Light Cannon within just two or three days.
"Is this all you've got? It's barely scratching the surface; it can't defeat me at all."
The Third Raikage took a deep breath, spitting out another mouthful of blood. His eyes glared fiercely at Doichi, a defiant glint in them, and he uttered harsh words, trying to bolster his own morale.
That kind of wide-range technique, although very powerful, doesn't concentrate its force, and judging from its scale, it's clear that it consumes a lot of Chakra.
He could Sensory that the Chakra within the Doichi Unity was rapidly dissipating.
I believe that the opponent wouldn't be able to use a move of this scale multiple times.
"..."
Doichi didn't speak, but continued to maintain his Gentle Fist stance.
Slowly, Chakra began to emanate from all the acupoints in his arms, and then blue Chakra flames began to ignite at the fingertips of Doichi's hands.
Buzz!
The moment the Chakra flames ignited, they rapidly engulfed Doichi's arms with an incredible speed, and then pierced through the air above from his shoulders, emitting a dull, oppressive rumble.
The ground beneath his feet began to crack inch by inch, and the surrounding air was scorched and distorted by the Chakra flames erupting from his arms.
His long, black hair was disheveled and flew wildly behind his head. Combined with his unusually tall stature, Third Raikage felt as if his heart had been gripped tightly in a hand and stopped beating instantly.
"This is Gentle Fist: Gentle Step Heavenly Roaring Cannon... It's Gentle Fist I specifically developed to counter Susanoo and Lightning Release Chakra Mode." (Appeared in Chapter 326)
Having briefly clashed with the Third Raikage in the past, Doichi was able to see through the Third Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Mode using his Byakugan.
Knowing full well that this was Lightning Release Nintaijutsu that combined offense and defense, and given the Third Raikage's incredibly powerful physique and Chakra, the power it could unleash was terrifying.
Doichi knew that relying on the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms Divine Echo and the Sky-Rending Divine Light Cannon would not work in order to break this kind of Nintaijutsu.
These two Gentle Fist focus on spreading attacks, which can injure the Third Raikage, but cannot deliver a decisive defense-breaking attack.
Therefore, Doichi, based on the Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist: Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists, infused it with Chakra attribute transformation, thus developing this attack-type Gentle Fist that concentrates and compresses power.
After saying this, without any announcement or prior action, Doichi's body swayed on the spot, leaving only a wisp of Chakra flames still burning in the air, before disappearing from the Third Raikage's sight.
"So fast!"
When the Third Raikage saw Doichi suddenly appear in front of him, his eyes reflected a hand burning with blue flames.
Boom!
The Third Raikage's body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, spitting out blood, a look of pain on his face, and his head buzzing.
(As an aside, in the original story, when the Third Raikage died, he was probably in his fifties or sixties, and his fighting strength should have begun to decline based on his age. Now, the Third Raikage is only in his forties, which is the peak of a ninja's strength. However, the Third Raikage has reached the end of his life, while Doichi still has room to grow.)