The next instant, Obito appeared like a phantom slightly below and behind Naruto, off to one side. The Gunbai swept toward Naruto's waist with a piercing shriek, tearing through the air with immense chakra.
Naruto tilted his head slightly, glancing out of the corner of his eye at the oncoming Gunbai and Obito's face, half grotesque and half resolute.
He wanted Hikari and me to take him on together?
How had a guy who relied on Kamui's intangibility to stay alive gotten so cocky?
Naruto found it rather laughable, even a little... boring.
He raised his left hand, forming a Flying Thunder God Mark out of gold dust nearby, while coating his right hand in golden chakra to block Obito's attack. When Obito turned intangible, Naruto took Hikari with him and used Flying Thunder God to teleport to the mark.
Countless grains of gold dust rapidly gathered nearby, forming one Flying Thunder God Mark after another.
Then Naruto calmly swept his gaze over the forest below, deep and still beneath the moonlight.
He lightly clapped his hands together before his chest.
There were no complicated hand seals or lengthy incantations. The motion was as simple as dusting off his hands.
Yet that seemingly casual clap triggered an earthshaking transformation in the forest below!
Wood Release: Wood Golem Technique.
In an instant, every large tree within hundreds of meters below seemed to gain a savage life and a single shared will. They all twisted violently, reshaped themselves, and shot upward!
Thick trunks entwined and fused like enormous pythons coming alive; countless branches grew wildly, interlacing into solid wooden structures; roots burst from the soil, supporting immense bodies like gigantic feet...
Within just a few breaths, the once-silent forest vanished.
In its place stood more than a dozen gigantic wood golems over