A massive shadow once again plunged all of Konoha into darkness.
In the distance, the contemporary Ino-Shika-Cho trio of Konoha—Shikaku Nara, Choza Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka—were staring dumbfounded at the two colossal figures reaching the heavens.
"Hey, hey, you've got to be kidding…" Inoichi Yamanaka muttered to himself.
Shikaku Nara poked his chubby friend beside him with an elbow.
"Choza, can your Multi-Size Technique get that big?"
Choza Akimichi was silent for a moment, as if having made some decision: "If you treat me to barbecue for three days and three nights, perhaps… I can try."
Shikaku Nara turned and walked away without a second thought: "Farewell."
…The two towering giants stood facing each other across the shattered viewing platform.
"Attack him!"
Orochimaru's voice broke the silence. Hashirama Senju, atop the Wood Golem, sighed. His body, controlled by the caster's will, manipulated the Wood Golem to unleash an earth-shattering punch towards Hansen!
The massive wooden fist whistled through the air, like a meteor, smashing fiercely towards Hansen's head!
An attack powerful enough to level a mountain range was casually caught by Hansen's enlarged claws.
Boom—!!!
A violent shockwave erupted from the point where the two palms met, almost completely tearing off the already damaged roof below!
"Too fragile," Hansen commented, then twisted his wrist.
Crack—!
The giant fist, made of high-density Chakra wood, was actually crushed to pieces by him!
Wood chips flew everywhere!
Hashirama Senju's pupils constricted.
Before he could react, Hansen's other fist, carrying an unstoppable might, slammed into the Wood Golem's chest.
Bang!!!
A dull thud resonated like the roar of a god.
The Wood Golem's indestructible chest instantly caved in with a massive fist print, and countless cracks spread across its entire body like a spiderweb!
The colossal wooden body staggered backward, each step leaving a huge footprint on the ground.
One punch!
With just one punch, the First Hokage's proud Wood Golem Jutsu was on the verge of collapse!
"Water Release: Hard Whirlpool Water Blade!"
Just then, Tobirama Senju, whose half-body had regenerated, formed a hand seal and launched another attack.
The rapidly spinning water in his hand transformed into an indestructible blade, fiercely slashing at Hansen's ankle!
However, that Ninjutsu, capable of cutting through steel, only produced a crisp "ding" sound when it struck Hansen's liquid metal-like carapace, failing to leave even a single mark.
Hansen:?
He suddenly felt that while the First Hokage might have been controlled against his will, the Second Hokage seemed to be purely addicted!
Hansen stomped down. Tobirama Senju tried to activate Flying Thunder God to dodge, but the surrounding space seemed frozen and unresponsive.
He looked at the shadow descending from above, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
The gap was too vast, so he might as well force an early retirement.
Bang—!
Hansen stomped the annoying Second Hokage into a secondary dimension, and his massive body displayed an entirely unbefitting agility as he flashed before the Wood Golem.
Hashirama Senju was still manipulating the Wood Golem to repair its body when dozens of shadowy black fists, leaving afterimages, rained down.
Super-sized—
Consecutive Normal Punches!
Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora!!
On the other side, Orochimaru watched as the First Hokage and the Wood Golem were engulfed in countless fist shadows.
The situation was completely out of control; even if he wanted to pursue truth, he first needed to be alive.
—Run!
Just as Orochimaru was about to order his subordinates to dispel the Four Violet Flames Formation and escape, a hand, larger than his entire body, descended from the sky and scooped him up.
"Ugh…"
Feeling his internal organs being violently squeezed by immense power, Orochimaru spat out a mouthful of blood, and his body began to deform.
Ninjutsu—
"Eight Branches Technique!"
Boom!
A colossal, eight-headed, eight-tailed white scale giant snake appeared in Hansen's palm, rapidly inflating like a balloon.
The eight hideous snake heads let out earth-shattering roars, and a foul, pungent wind swept in all directions.
"Useless, useless, useless."
Hansen looked at the giant snake rampaging within the barrier, raised his hand and clenched it in the air, and the massive light sword burning with Geocentric Light Sword reappeared.
Geocentric Light Sword!
"Roar!"
One of the Eight-Headed Serpent's heads attacked first, opening its gaping maw and biting towards Hansen's face with lightning speed.
Hansen didn't even raise his head, casually swinging the light sword in his hand.
Pfft!
That giant snake head, along with its long neck, was instantly severed, and a towering column of blood (mucus) gushed out.
One sword, one head!
Before the other seven heads could react, Hansen's figure had transformed into a streak of light, rapidly weaving around the Eight-Headed Serpent.
Sword light flashed!
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
One, two, three… Under the stunned gaze of everyone in Konoha, all eight of the Eight-Headed Serpent's heads were cleanly cut off in a matter of seconds!
The colossal snake body crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
From the severed main body, countless palm-sized white small snakes frantically scurried out, desperately fleeing into the distance.
It was only then that the slow-reacting Sound Four realized something was wrong, dispelling the barrier and allowing countless small snakes to scatter and escape in all directions.
However, how could Hansen let the main culprit escape?
His massive body rapidly shrank, returning to the size of a normal person in a blink of an eye.
Then he clapped his hands together.
Ninjutsu: Shadow Clone… crossed out—
Megaton Split!
Innumerable Hansen clones emerged from his body, stomping on and killing all the white scale small snakes on the ground.
Hansen himself appeared in a flash before an inconspicuous small white snake, his finger darting out like lightning, pinching and shaking it.
"Come here, you!"
The frantically wriggling small white snake felt all its bones were shaken loose, and it immediately went limp and drooped.
The next second, it uncontrollably transformed back into the severely injured form of Orochimaru.
"Wait, wait a minute…"
Orochimaru felt a fear originating from the depths of his soul. He saw Hansen's hand pass through his chest without any obstruction.
The next moment, an indescribable sharp pain and sense of emptiness came from the depths of his soul!
Hansen's hand slowly withdrew.
At his fingertips, a struggling, twisting black energy shard was forcibly dug out!
"Ah ah ah ah—!"
Orochimaru let out an inhuman shriek, as if his soul had been ripped out. He collapsed to the ground, barely clinging to life.
The black shard quieted in Hansen's hand, then transformed into a streak of light and merged into the cube-shaped mark on the back of his hand.
Buzz—
Hansen felt his connection with the Imaginary Nation in that void instantly deepen several times over.
At the same time, a stream of information flooded into his mind.
It was a complex string of coordinate anchors representing the dimension of this world.
So that's how it is… Hansen understood.
With this anchor, even if he left this world, he could always expend power to tear open the dimensional wall and return at any time.
"Business is done."
Hansen clapped his hands in satisfaction, casually conjuring a few energy ropes with Imaginary Divine Power to tie up Orochimaru, who was barely breathing, like a zongzi (rice dumpling).
He walked to the side, picked up the scroll of seals that had fallen to the ground, then, like discarding trash, threw both the book and the person in front of the dumbfounded Hiruzen Sarutobi.
With Orochimaru's complete defeat, and without the Chakra maintenance of the caster, the Edo Tensei bodies of the First and Second Hokages turned into dust and slowly dissipated.
The Four Violet Flames Formation covering the roof also vanished.
Hansen walked up to Hiruzen Sarutobi and grinned.
"Here, I've returned both your disciple and the book."
"Oh, by the way, your disciple seems a bit… dead. You don't mind, do you?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi: "…"
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