"That Chakra… it's ocular power!"
"Is this Susanoo?!"
"No… impossible!!!"
"You're not Feng Xu, who exactly are you!!!"
Chapter 174: Armored Susanoo, Calamity of Divine Fall
"Am I not?"
"Why don't you take another look?"
Catching sight of Deidara and Sasori already far away, Feng Xu removed the mask from his face.
He revealed a face that Hashirama knew all too well.
The only difference was that his azure eyes had turned crimson, adorned with intricate patterns.
However, very quickly, the crimson and patterns, along with the Susanoo arm manifested by the ocular power around Feng Xu, suddenly vanished.
In their place was the golden-red Nine-Tailed Chakra, rising like flames.
And eight dangerous yet beautiful giant fox tails extending from Feng Xu's back.
"Mangekyo Sharingan… Nine-Tailed Chakra…"
"I finally understand, I understand why you can control the Nine-Tailed Chakra so effortlessly."
"So it turns out everything is because you possess a pair of Sharingan that can completely hypnotize Tailed Beasts!"
Since Feng Xu had a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan that could be freely activated and deactivated.
That meant Feng Xu possessed the bloodline of the Uchiha Clan!
If that was the case, didn't it mean that the true identity of the Fourth Hokage was never some genius civilian Ninja?
But rather a disguised Uchiha Clan Ninja!
His goal was to become Hokage and then change the Uchiha Clan's situation in Konoha!
In the archived records, the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, did indeed become very close with the Uchiha Clan Head and his wife after taking office!
Thinking of this, Hashirama felt his brain's CPU was struggling to keep up!
He hadn't expected that the Fourth Hokage, who died a hero, would have such an unknown secret!
"No, I must go back and tell Tobirama about this, he should be able to figure out more!"
Hashirama no longer had the will to fight.
The information that came with Feng Xu revealing his Mangekyo Sharingan was too alarming.
He had to immediately go back and inform Tobirama and the others, and guard against Feng Xu's main body in the Village!
"Hehehe… go back?"
Hearing Hashirama's muttered words, Feng Xu couldn't help but chuckle.
"Senju Hashirama, are you truly foolish or just pretending to be?"
"Do you really think I would let you return to Konoha Village after letting you know so much?"
The moment the word 'ma' landed, a circle of patterns appeared around Feng Xu's eyebrows.
A terrifying hurricane swirled around his body, rustling loudly.
The golden-red Chakra covering his entire body surged higher and higher.
In an instant, it transformed into a fifty-meter-tall golden-red giant, crowned with fox ears, clad in a black-patterned robe, and bearing a fox-tailed longsword on its back!
Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!
Because the Shadow Clone only had eight tails, it possessed less than half of the main body's Chakra.
So the height of this manifestation was also only about half of the original.
But even at half its size, it made Hashirama's Wood Golem seem as small and frail as a child in front of an adult.
"Senju Hashirama, your strength is too great. To prevent you from causing trouble, I intend to seal you."
As Feng Xu spoke, the golden-red giant brought its left hand down towards the diminutive Wood Golem in front of it.
Listening to these very familiar words, yet unable to recall them immediately.
Hashirama clasped his hands together again, controlling the Wood Golem beneath him to regrow its palms.
Then, with hands raised high and forward, he blocked the descending giant left hand.
Boom!
After a deafening roar.
Ripples appeared on the golden-red giant's palm.
Then they were quickly calmed by rapidly gathering black patterns.
As for the Wood Golem, it was like a child knocked over, falling backward with all four limbs splayed.
Smashing the ground, sending dust flying and gravel splattering.
This collision, not of the same size, was like a thousand-meter Buddha brutally beating a two-hundred-meter Armored Susanoo!
"He actually used Sage Art Chakra to forcibly cut off the Wood Release's absorption!"
Hashirama hadn't expected Feng Xu to even know Sage Art!
Moreover, this Sage Art Chakra was very similar to the one he knew!
Otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to prevent his Wood Release from absorbing the Tailed Beast Chakra.
But even if it could prevent it, it was only preventing his Wood Release at its current level!
He still had a trump card that could restore even more of his strength!
Thinking of this, Sage Art patterns quickly appeared around Hashirama's eyes, and after forming hand signs, he clapped his hands together in front of his chest.
"Sage Art: Myojinmon!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
High in the sky, three giant red torii gates crashed down, stacking onto the golden-red giant's back.
The powerful suppressive force on the Tailed Beast Chakra instantly forced the golden-red giant to its knees.
Taking advantage of this brief suppression, Hashirama quickly reached for the necklace around his neck.
"Whirlpool Fengxu, your existence now seriously threatens the Village."
"So even if you truly are the Child of Prophecy, I will no longer show you mercy or hold back!"
Crack!
With a determined expression, Hashirama abruptly crushed the necklace in his palm.
A massive surge of Chakra, like a green pillar of light, instantly appeared, enveloping Hashirama.
Hashirama controlled this Chakra, belonging to his peak period, and injected all of it into the Wood Golem that was getting back up below.
The next second.
Rumble!!!
The Wood Golem, infused with Chakra, rapidly expanded at a visible rate!
In just a single breath, it suddenly grew thirty meters taller, reaching a height of fifty meters!
Enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with the golden-red giant manifested by Feng Xu!
A terrifying aura swept out, bringing with it rolling waves of air!
Just in the one or two seconds while Hashirama was upgrading his Wood Golem.
Feng Xu also controlled the golden-red giant, drawing the longsword from its back.
With a swing of his hand, the three torii gates stacked on its back shattered with a roar.
"Tsunade's Death Necklace?"
"It seems this trinket, housing your Chakra, is your last trump card."
Feng Xu naturally remembered this necklace, which in the original story had always suppressed the Nine-Tailed's rampage.
"But have you perhaps forgotten what technique Uchiha Madara used when he fought you?"
Hashirama's expression darkened upon hearing Feng Xu's words, and then he immediately controlled the Wood Golem to lunge at the golden-red giant in front of him.
If he truly allowed Feng Xu to don the Susanoo over this humanoid Tailed Beast transformation, nullifying his Wood Release's suppressive force on the Tailed Beast Chakra.
Unable to use his True Several Thousand Hands, he would truly have no chance of winning.
Seeing Hashirama's silent and swift attack.
Feng Xu, in the golden-red giant's brow, chuckled softly.
His eyes once again transformed into the crimson Mangekyo Sharingan.
At the same time, he controlled the golden-red giant to cleave down with its sword at the Wood Golem that was embracing it.
During this cleaving motion, Feng Xu's ocular power, as black as ink, rapidly spread out.
Layers of black armor, like scales, covered the golden-red robe in an orderly fashion.
A pitch-black faceplate, with fangs and long horns, like a demon god descended, also obscured the golden-red giant's jade crown and face.
Finally, that darkness, so profound it seemed to absorb all light, transformed into intertwining patterns that wrapped around the blade of the descending longsword.
It contrasted with the brilliant golden-red on the sword's back, like two extremes of creation and destruction, good and evil!
"This is my Armored Susanoo. I call it, Calamity of Divine Fall."
Chapter 175: The Might of a Single Strike, Shaking Heaven and Earth
"Calamity of Divine Fall!"
Gazing at the golden-red and black blade, imbued with powerful energy, cleaving down towards him.
Hashirama, in his shock, quickly controlled the Wood Golem beneath him to change its posture, using its hands to block the terrifying descending strike.
"Just like Madara back then, it's a technique where Susanoo is transformed into armor to cover a Tailed Beast!"
Hashirama remembered clearly that Madara called that technique 'Calamity of the Wild Beast'.
The Nine-Tailed's formidable physique and Chakra, combined with Susanoo's terrifying defense and destructive power.
The two combined were incredibly powerful.
Even his full-power summoned Thousand-Handed Buddha barely won after breaking ninety-nine percent of its arms.
He hadn't expected to see it again today!
But now, his strength was nowhere near its peak.
And he simply couldn't use his strongest technique, True Several Thousand Hands, with this fragile Impure World Reincarnation body.
Along with Hashirama's heavy heart.
The Wood Golem's clasped hands met the pitch-black blade.
This scene once again made Hashirama's mind wander.
He couldn't help but recall the bare-handed blade catch from sixty or seventy years ago, when he fought Madara.
It was just a pity that he was not at his peak now, and the opponent facing him was not Madara, even if the technique was the same.
The moment the Wood Golem's palms clamped onto the blade.
A dazzling golden-red radiance, interspersed with black patterns, burst forth from between the blades!
Buzz—!
The bright sky was instantly overshadowed by darkness.
A terrifying power descended with ferocity, as if to destroy everything!
The Wood Golem's palms, clamping the blade, were instantly scorched golden-red, their wooden skin turning into charred black charcoal!
"This is!!!"