"...Monster!"
Looking at Hashirama Senju, who had blocked his Conqueror's Haki Infusion head-on, Kaido gave him the same evaluation he had given to Karl.
The sky did not turn dark, nor did the sky-cracking phenomenon appear.
It was precisely because of this that Hashirama Senju had made Kaido utter the word "monster."
Although a clash of Conqueror's Haki Infusion was a greeting between super-powerhouses.
But there was a saying that went well...
If one was not a super-powerhouse, then one would not even have a chance to see Conqueror's Haki Infusion, let alone take it.
Even Karl, before he had developed his superhuman mode, or... before he had perfected his superhuman mode, when facing Charlotte Linlin's Conqueror's Haki Infusion, also needed to meet it with Conqueror's Haki Infusion.
Hashirama Senju, this man was the first man Kaido had met who could block an otherworldly attack without using Conqueror's Haki Infusion.
The God of Shinobi truly lived up to his name!
At this moment, Kaido regarded Hashirama Senju as an opponent on the same level as himself.
And so...
Kaido took the initiative to end this contest of Conqueror's Haki Infusion and Sage Art chakra. Maintaining his dragon-human form, his seven-meter-one huge body directly leaped into the air. The Hassaikai in his hand was wreathed in the black lightning formed by his Conqueror's Haki, and like a falling thunderbolt, it smashed down towards Hashirama Senju.
"Three Worlds Ragnaraku!"
Kaido's move was extremely fast, so much so that it would have made the talent-wasting Charlotte Linlin burst into tears.
However, in Hashirama Senju's eyes, this move was extremely slow.
After all, in a ninja battle, the Body Flicker Technique was an essential means.
But the God of Shinobi's adaptation and understanding of the Body Flicker Technique, Hashirama Senju, who had entered Sage Mode, his perception was in no way inferior to his younger brother's.
Sensing the power of Kaido's move, although the reanimated Hashirama Senju had an immortal body that could not be killed except by sealing or a Truth-Seeking Ball, out of respect for his enemy, Hashirama Senju's face showed a fighting spirit as he slapped his hands together, "Sage Art Wood Release: Hōbi Technique!"
In an instant, two door-like wooden shields rose from the ground and then merged to form a demon-faced mask.
Boom—!
The spiked club, wreathed in black lightning, smashed down on the demon-faced mask, creating a deafening loud bang.
However...
A scene that made the Three Calamities and the Flying Six, who were watching the battle from not far away, braving the still-lingering fierce wind, and the Third Raikage, who was maintaining his Black Lightning Release Chakra Mode, dumbfounded, suddenly appeared on this battlefield.
Kaido's Three Worlds Ragnaraku, which was powerful enough to shatter a castle or a mountain, when it smashed on the demon-faced mask, produced an extremely terrifying shockwave and flickered with a dazzling black lightning.
But, this terrifyingly powerful blow had not been able to shatter the demon-faced mask created by Hashirama Senju.
Not only that, but there was not even the slightest crack on the demon-faced mask.
In other words, the hardness of this demon-faced mask was greater than that of a mountain!
In fact, the hardness of this demon-faced mask was countless times harder than a mountain.
In the battle at the Valley of the End in the original story, Hashirama Senju had only used the normal Wood Release: Hōbi Technique to block the slash of Madara Uchiha's Armored Susanoo, let alone the Sage Art Wood Release: Hōbi Technique, which had been integrated with Sage Art chakra and whose power had been increased by at least several times.
One must know that when Madara Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo first appeared, it had cut off several mountain tops with a single slash.
But the slash of the Armored Susanoo couldn't even leave a single crack on Hashirama Senju's normal Wood Release: Hōbi Technique.
Although Kaido's Three Worlds Ragnaraku, wreathed in Conqueror's Haki, was an otherworldly attack, its power had a considerable gap with Madara Uchiha's map-rewriting blow.
Therefore...
Never mind smashing a crack; if it weren't for the fact that a Conqueror's Haki Infusion otherworldly attack would not let the two collide.
If Kaido had used an ordinary Thunder Bagua, he would probably have been sent flying by the rebound of the Sage Art Wood Release: Hōbi Technique.
At the same time, it was also fortunate that the Hassaikai was not an ordinary spiked club, otherwise the rebound force would have been enough to shatter it.
What had suppressed an era was not the Rinnegan that only existed in legends, but the Wood Release, which was recognized as the strongest Kekkei Genkai in the ninja world.
Of course...
The reason why Wood Release was the strongest was because its user was Hashirama Senju, who possessed the Sage Body.
Otherwise, Yamato's Wood Release could be instantly defeated by Ōnoki's one Particle Style.
As the saying goes: It's not the Wood Release that's strong, but Hashirama Senju.
The strength of Wood Release was determined by the Yang Release chakra infused into it by the user.
A wood release ninja who infused little chakra, or whose Yang Release chakra was very weak, the Wood Release they used could be burned by a single Fire Release.
A wood release ninja with powerful Yang Release chakra and a large amount of chakra, the Wood Release ninjutsu they used was an all-round ninjutsu that combined offense, defense, support, and flying and遁地.
Its toughness and hardness were greater than a mountain's, and if Fire Release were to land on the trees, the burning speed might not be as fast as the trees' self-healing speed.
Once caught by the branches of the trees, one's chakra would quickly drain away, strengthening the branches and trees that were binding them.
Before Madara Uchiha had awakened the Rinnegan and had not found the complete Nine-Tails as a helper, he had been played to death by Hashirama Senju like this.
Hashirama Senju, who had the Sage Body and a chakra amount like the complete Nine-Tails, was the strongest existence in the thousand years after the Sage of Six Paths' era, bar none.
Besides the later Naruto Uzumaki, the previous reincarnations of Asura were not even qualified to carry Hashirama Senju's shoes.
If it weren't for the fact that Asura had received his father's love from Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki and had the Truth-Seeking Balls that could touch the threshold of the Six Paths level, this original Asura might not even be as good as Hashirama Senju, this chakra reincarnation.
[No one can compare to Hashirama Senju. Those who have witnessed his power all consider him a myth like the Sage of Six Paths!]
This sentence came from the mouth of Kabuto Yakushi in the original story and was also recorded in the textbooks of all the great ninja villages.
Even the arrogant Madara Uchiha would feel inferior to this man.
The invincible God of Shinobi—Hashirama Senju