"Bang!"
With a violent, ear-splitting crash, an almost visible shock wave of energy rapidly spread in every direction!
Everywhere the shock wave passed, everything around it distorted.
Even the unimaginably tough Wood Release that Hashirama Senju and Xia Yan had unleashed had countless branches snapped by sheer force at that moment!
The ordinary trees farther out fared even worse, shredded by the shock wave with almost no resistance.
Quite a few trees were even ground straight into powder as the force swept over them, leaving no trace whatsoever.
Far away, Tobirama Senju had already taken the others well away from the battlefield. This was hardly an impact ordinary people could withstand.
He himself did not care. His strength was assured, after all, and he was not a living man.
Unfortunately, the others could not endure it. Aside from reviving that woman, his most important task was to protect them.
"Were they going to go all out?"
Tobirama Senju gazed into the distance. Naturally, he could sense the changes in their chakra.
Likewise, he could see just how outrageous the techniques they were currently using were.
Adamantine Barrier could be called Hashirama Senju's strongest defensive ninjutsu apart from Fivefold Rashomon. Back then, he had used it to withstand Madara Uchiha's Majestic Attire: Susanoo!
Xia Yan was no slouch either. What he had unleashed was the Wood Dragon Technique.
Although Tobirama Senju was somewhat disdainful of how Xia Yan used the Wood Dragon, he also knew its characteristics were restraining targets and absorbing chakra.
Still, being able to produce a Wood Dragon of such power was an accomplishment, and using it to push his elder brother this far was even more frightening!
Besides, he understood well enough that, for his elder brother and Xia Yan, perhaps...
Any ninjutsu had probably already become