In the forest, Xia Yan swept his gaze over everything around him.
Only after confirming that his seals were still sound did Xia Yan walk inside with a smile.
He knew such inspections could sometimes seem redundant. After all, his strength had now reached an unimaginable level.
But there was never anything wrong with caution, especially when the source of his strength was of the utmost importance. He would not be careless in the slightest.
Xia Yan's gains from this war with Kumogakure were truly unimaginable. Apart from giving him a chance to demonstrate his personal strength,
the seeds he had obtained from Kumogakure were another reason for him to be delighted.
Lightning Release was a seed Xia Yan had never managed to obtain, yet this time, he had collected all of it in one go!
"And I really never expected my Wood Release to work in tandem with my system."
Xia Yan had not actually collected the seeds one by one this time, because after he woke from his slumber, his system kept chiming.
It had genuinely left Xia Yan rather bewildered, but after spending a little time on it, he understood: his Wood Release had absorbed those powers.
The Wood Release Xia Yan used manifested as trees.
Whether it was Advent of a World of Flowering Trees or Advent of a World of Trees, both manifested as giant trees descending, and the two techniques shared another trait.
"Absorbing chakra!"
Not every Wood Release technique could absorb chakra. Many simply relied on the hardness of Wood Release to crush the enemy.
There were even quite a few support ninjutsu similar to sealing jutsu. Wood Release could be said to cover an extremely broad range.
It was not limited to large-scale, wide-ranging techniques. Hashirama Senju had simply left such a