After leaving Rōran, Xia Yan set off toward the Land of Rivers without the slightest hesitation.
This trip to Rōran had already brought him ample rewards.
In fact, those rewards had completely exceeded his expectations!
His original plan had been to obtain the Ryūmyaku's chakra and, along the way, see whether he could get anything worthwhile from Hashirama Senju's flesh chunk.
Finally, he needed to see whether the Chakra Fruit was ripe, so he would have more abundant chakra to deal with all sorts of trouble.
But now, Xia Yan had not only resolved his chakra problem-although he would certainly continue planting in the future, at least his chakra was currently at its peak!
Besides that, he had unexpectedly obtained what mattered most to the Senju Clan: Wood Release.
On the surface, Wood Release had already vanished from the shinobi world, but Xia Yan knew that behind the scenes, there were still people who could use it.
Sadly, however, not one of them belonged to the Senju Clan.
One could imagine just how much of a boost it would give the Senju Clan for Xia Yan, a Senju descendant through and through, to obtain Wood Release.
Yes, Xia Yan did intend to reveal this, but only to Shōma Senju.
Sometimes, the value of a secret lay not merely in keeping it, but in revealing it to certain people, turning it into something more beneficial.
Still, Wood Release really does have steep requirements. Besides advanced Earth Release chakra and advanced Wood Release chakra, it also needs Yang Release to work.
Xia Yan thought silently as he traveled. When he considered it carefully, it was actually quite normal.
The reason Wood Release was so powerful, able to contend with Susanoo, the ultimate product of Yin Release, probably lay largely in the ultimate