Chapter 088: Arm

To protect Konoha, Hashirama Senju decided to go all out.

Taking advantage of Sakumo Hatake and Minato Namikaze recovering and engaging the enemy in a tangled battle, he entered Sage Mode in an instant. After entering Sage Mode, Hashirama Senju's strength increased further.

This time, he dared not be careless and directly unleashed his ultimate move as a show of respect.

Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!

This technique was his favorite when fighting Madara Uchiha; it was not only powerful but also very handy, once overwhelming Madara Uchiha and leaving him breathless.

So this time, facing a formidable enemy like Wang Bo, Hashirama Senju naturally did not hesitate to use his ultimate move.

Amidst a rumbling roar, the earth split open, and a giant statue of Kannon rose from the ground. This statue was dozens of times larger than the Nine-Tails, capable of crushing it with one hand.

But even more terrifying was that this giant statue had not just one hand, but a thousand hands.

Hence, this ninjutsu was called True Several Thousand Hands.

Of course, it could also be called Thousand-Armed Kannon.

Hashirama Senju controlled the Thousand-Armed Kannon, swinging a thousand giant arms, striking at Wang Bo from all directions.

A dark mass of fists filled the void, blocking every escape route.

Wang Bo looked up and could clearly see countless fists hurtling toward him, the space compressed tightly with no gaps.

These fists swung with great force, and when enraged, they could easily blow up a mountain. Facing such fearsome fists, Wang Bo took a deep breath and gripped his sword tightly.

Supersonic: Instant Thousand Strikes!!!

In an instant, Wang Bo's right hand seemed to vanish, and thousands of slashes flew out, densely filling the void, colliding with the oncoming fists.

In that instant, a tremendous roar echoed across the entire battlefield.

A terrifying blast wave swept through like a flood, tearing apart the battlefield, and countless ninjas were flung away by the torrent of air.

The earth split open again and again, spreading wildly in all directions.

After the great roar, most ninjas on the battlefield experienced temporary deafness, unable to hear any sound, but that did not diminish their terror.

Because the clash between Wang Bo and Hashirama Senju was simply too terrifying.

The battlefield, which had been filled with shouts and fighting moments ago, was now a mess and also dead silent. No one had expected that a battle between two ninjas could be so earth-shattering.

The air wailed, the earth trembled, and the clouds in the sky were sliced apart by the terrifying blast.

The current battlefield was a scene of apocalypse.

Tobirama Senju withdrew from the battlefield and shouted, "Everyone, retreat from the battlefield immediately, and don't get involved!"

He hadn't expected that even after his foolish brother used his signature technique, he still couldn't defeat the enemy. It seemed this enemy was extremely powerful.

Possibly on the level of Madara Uchiha.

As the Second Hokage, he knew all too well what kind of commotion these two monsters would create when they fought. Changing the landscape was a piece of cake; the Valley of the End was the best example.

Under such circumstances, ordinary ninjas had no business intervening in the battle between these two monsters.

Retreat was the only option.

While Tobirama Senju was calling for the Konoha ninjas to retreat, Bai also began to order his subordinates to retreat, to get as far away from the battlefield as possible and not get involved.

Soon, the two sides that had been fiercely fighting were forced to stop and frantically withdraw from the battlefield due to the battle between Hashirama Senju and Wang Bo, gaining a brief respite.

But the battle between Wang Bo and Hashirama Senju grew even more intense.

Wang Bo had thought his Instant Thousand Strikes would shred the Thousand-Armed Kannon to pieces, but he hadn't expected Hashirama Senju to withstand it.

No matter how many arms Wang Bo cut off, Hashirama Senju could replenish them.

Wang Bo soon realized a problem: Hashirama Senju was currently an Edo Tensei body with nearly infinite chakra, so he was fully capable of fighting a war of attrition.

As for himself, although his strength was great, if he got bogged down in a war of attrition, Hashirama Senju might seize the opportunity to strike.

So he decisively abandoned the war of attrition with Hashirama Senju, flew high into the sky, raised his sword, and swung it forcefully toward the ground.

This slash was calm and unremarkable, as if nothing had happened—it neither tore the air nor parted the blast.

It was like an ordinary person's ordinary swing.

But Hashirama Senju's face changed drastically, because he felt a tremendous pressure descending from the sky.

The next second, a giant arm appeared behind Wang Bo.

This arm was initially skeletal, but in an instant it rapidly developed, soon gaining meridians and flesh, then covered in armor, finally becoming a giant arm.

This arm tightly gripped a giant sword, as if repeating Wang Bo's earlier motion.

Aiming at the Thousand-Armed Kannon, it swung down with force!

Supersonic: Annihilation Slash!

When Tobirama Senju saw that arm, he couldn't help but groan, because that arm was all too familiar—he had seen it more than once.

"Susano'o!"

Only the Uchiha clan, having awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, could use such a powerful ninjutsu. Could it be that this enemy attacking Konoha was from the Uchiha clan?

Tobirama Senju instinctively looked at his disciple, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had disappointed him so much.

Hiruzen Sarutobi said, "That guy took one of Kakashi's eyes."

Tobirama Senju was baffled. What did Kakashi have to do with this? And by the way, who was Kakashi?

Hiruzen Sarutobi continued, "Kakashi has a Sharingan, an eye given to him by his close friend, a young man named Obito Uchiha."

Tobirama Senju understood immediately.

Meanwhile, Hashirama Senju frantically poured chakra into the Thousand-Armed Kannon. Arm after arm wildly extended, converging into a mass, forming a giant arm with its palm facing upward, as if to support the sky.

Wang Bo controlled one arm of Susano'o, and the Annihilation Slash descended from the sky.

Logically, to activate Susano'o, both eyes were required, but Wang Bo had deciphered the secrets of the Sharingan and found a fragmentary Susano'o from a single eye.

He also found a way to activate an incomplete version of Susano'o. However, because the incomplete Susano'o didn't look good, Wang Bo simply discarded the incomplete body and used only chakra to create one arm.

And this arm, under Wang Bo's enhancement, moved as if it were his own, swift as lightning, with earth-shattering power.

This strike shocked the world.