Naruto: Talent entry, starting with Otsutsuki bloodline

Chapter 147 Wood Golem VS Wood Golem, How Cheap is Wood Release without Hand Seals?

The final battle in Amegakure was fierce from the very beginning.

Izayoi and Nagato were equally formidable.

Like a white light engulfing everything, the repulsive storm not only destroyed the trees inside the barrier, but also shattered the Four Purple Flame Array that could trap five-shadow level experts.

The remaining repulsive storm continued to spread, causing towering trees, as large as small mountains, to tilt and bend, some of which were covered in cracks and some of their trunks broke apart.

The area where Nagato is located is a wasteland.

Rumble…

Nagato's figure floated in the air, and before he could even catch his breath, the sound of an earthquake rang out again.

The land, which had been reduced to ruins and even blasted into a huge basin, sprouted a large number of trees again, which, like giant pythons, bound towards Nagato.

Nagato stopped using Shinra Tensei to defend himself and instead transformed his hands into cannons, flying higher into the sky to prevent Izayoi from setting up a barrier to trap him.

At first, the branches extended to pursue them.

However, as Nagato flew higher and higher, the tree branches finally stopped chasing and retreated back into the forest.

Realizing that this height was the limit that the branches could reach, Nagato stopped rising and instead used gravity to levitate. Then, he clapped his hands together, and a black sphere appeared between his palms.

"Earth Explosion Sky Star!"

The goalkeeper casually tossed the black ball forward.

The terrifying gravity instantly engulfed them like a tidal wave.

The earth was torn apart, and towering trees and pebbles of all sizes were lifted off the ground and flew upwards.

Izayoi was also within the range of gravity, rising into the air along with a towering tree.

Just as Izayoi was about to use the Dust Release technique to shatter the black sphere, as she had done before.

However, after glancing at Nagato, who was unaffected by gravity and floating not far from the black sphere, and sensing that the other's chakra aura had been greatly reduced, Izayoi immediately abandoned the idea.

After a battle, Izayoi confirmed that Nagato's Preta Path could not absorb chakra from trees, but could only absorb energy-based chakra.

If Nagato were to absorb this Sage-level Dust Release technique, it would definitely restore a significant amount of his chakra.

So, Izayoi crushed the chakra vortex that had already gathered in her palms, clapped her hands together, and softly shouted, "Sage Art... Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique!"

"Roar……"

A roar that shook all living beings resounded throughout the forest.

Then a wooden dragon, as large as a small mountain, tore through the earth and soared into the sky from the forest.

Under Nagato's wide-eyed gaze, the wooden dragon opened its blood-red maw and took the Chibaku Tensei, which had turned into a meteorite, into its mouth, like a dragon playing with a pearl. Then, with a flick of its tail, carrying the power of distorted air currents, it swept towards the stunned Nagato.

Seeing the dragon's tail sweeping towards him like a mountain, Nagato had no time to land and could not use the power of the Asura Path to fly away. He could only release repulsive force to resist it.

The next second, an unbelievable scene unfolded.

The distorted airflow acted as an invisible barrier, blocking the sweeping attack of the dragon's tail.

But unlike the trees that were suspended in mid-air, the dragon's tail was still approaching Nagato at a moderate pace.

The repulsive storm, capable of easily destroying a mountain and an ordinary forest, failed to shatter the wooden dragon and could only barely stop its tail from advancing.

Just how hard is it, how heavy is it, and how much chakra does it contain?
If it can't even disperse a normal, charged repulsive storm, then doesn't that mean that every time you resist this level of Wood Release, you have to waste a certain amount of time charging up?

"No, I can't fight this kind of drawn-out battle with him," Nagato thought to himself, and then, before the repulsive storm dissipated, he quickly descended into the forest.

During the descent, Nagato took a closer look at Izayoi and felt a little comforted.

Fortunately, he wasn't the only one who consumed a huge amount of chakra.

Izayoi consumed even more chakra than he did.

After landing, Nagato will form hand seals to create several wooden clones, and then use a barrier technique to trap them together, just like Izayoi did before, so as not to give Izayoi the opportunity to force him to expend a huge amount of chakra to use Shinra Tensei.

Just then, a spatial vortex appeared next to Nagato.

"Chief, I'm here to help you!"

A comical sound rang out, and A-Fei, with a pure white body, flew out from a fist-sized black hole.

"Ah Fei, you've finally arrived!"

Nagato's expression immediately lit up with joy, and he said, "You've come at the perfect time. Help me take down this guy."

"Yes!"

Abi saluted, then spread out like a man-eating flower and attached himself to Nagato's body.

In an instant, Nagato felt an astonishing increase in both his Wood Release and Yang Release chakra.

Previously, Wood Release, which wasn't even qualified to carry the shoes of this forest, suddenly gained the ability to compete for control.

Not only that, but even his physique, which was enhanced by the Sage Mode, was further improved.

If Nagato were to engage in a taijutsu duel with Izayoi again, with his Sage Chakra and Asura Path, as well as the enhancement from Earth Release: Earth Spear, his punches would definitely be no less powerful than Izayoi's Earth Release: Earth Spear + Super Strength Fist.

"Chief, the village has been attacked by Otsutsuki Toneri's puppet army. Shouldn't we go back to provide support?"

Tobi's voice rang in his ears. Nagato, while releasing his senses to locate Izayoi, calmly said, "Otsutsuki Toneri's mission is to retrieve the Gedo Mazo. It's not hard to tell from our last conversation that the Gedo Mazo was originally on the moon, but I summoned it down from the moon. As long as he doesn't take my Rinnegan, no matter where he takes the Gedo Mazo, even if he hides it in another dimension, I will summon it back."

"His mission was not to retrieve the Gedo Mazo, but to retrieve the Rinnegan."

"Right now, he is probably watching us silently from somewhere we can't see him, and may even be hoping that the Konoha Wood Release ninjas will weaken my strength so that he can take the opportunity to make a move."

"I've already made arrangements. It doesn't matter if the village is destroyed. We can have as many resurrected spirits as we want, as long as everyone is safe."

"Compared to Toneri Otsutsuki, the Wood Release ninjas of Konoha pose a greater threat to us, both now and in the future."

After saying that, Nagato clapped his hands and said, "Let's go, Tobi!"

"Understood! Sage Art... Wood Release: Wood Human Technique!"

As soon as Afei's voice rang out, two overlapping voices uttered the name of a technique.

Rumble…

The earth trembled violently, and a hundred-armed Buddha statue, taller than the primeval forest created by the arrival of the Tree Realm and estimated to be about 150 meters tall, rose from the ground.

"So that's how it's made."

Izayoi never interrupted Nagato and Tobi, but instead hid in the shadows and secretly observed them.

Upon witnessing the birth of the Hundred-Armed Buddha, Izayoi instantly mastered the Art of Wooden Dummy.

So he clapped his hands together, channeling a vast amount of Sage Chakra into the earth, and shouted, "Sage Art... Wood Release: Wood Human Technique!"

The earth shook violently again, and even Hinata and Karin, who had rushed over from Konoha and were watching the battle from more than 20 kilometers away from the primeval forest using their Byakugan and Kagura Mind's Eye, could feel the two tremors.

However, what left the two speechless and shocked, compared to the astonishingly wide-ranging tremor, were the two enormous, mountain-like chakras.

"Such a large amount of chakra can actually be materialized? That's unbelievable!"

Karin, witnessing the Wooden Dummy Technique for the first time, spoke with a slight tremor in her voice.

Moreover, Kagura's Mind's Eye is different from the Byakugan's farsightedness and X-ray vision; it can only see blurry features, but it can perceive things that the Byakugan cannot see.

Karin sensed an astonishing life force and an aggressive power within those two massive, mountain-like chakra masses.

The former is Yang Release chakra, while the latter should be the natural energy mentioned by Izayoi.

Hinata gazed at the wooden Arhat who had risen from the ground and was now facing off against the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue, and thought to herself, "Izayoi-kun and the leader of Akatsuki have both become stronger."

At the beginning of the year, Hinata had seen the hundred-armed Buddha statue that Nagato and Tobi had displayed, but it was nowhere near as big as it is today.

This is not only an increase in Sage Mode chakra, but also an increase in the chakra of the Akatsuki leader over the past six months.

However, this improvement wasn't as astonishing as Izayoi's.

After the second fetal movement, Izayoi's chakra level had already increased dramatically, and after she stopped maintaining Sage Mode for a while, her chakra level doubled again.

His current chakra reserves are far greater than Naruto Uzumaki's.

Even the Akatsuki leader's chakra was far inferior to that of Izayoi.

However, Hinata, whose combat experience and combat intelligence far surpassed those of the original story, showed no joy at this moment. Instead, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she felt worried for Izayoi: "If this continues, Izayoi-kun's situation is very bad!"

"He really knows the art of making wooden figures!"

Looking at Izayoi standing atop the wooden Arhat, Nagato said in a deep voice, "That's good, the target is now much clearer."

"Chief, should I say hello to him?"

Upon hearing Afei's voice, Nagato couldn't help but laugh and say, "Sure, Afei, why don't you say hello to him?"

"Understood!" Afei immediately mobilized the chakra within the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue beneath his feet, transforming it into five chakra nature transformations to form a colorful pillar of flame that shot out from the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue's mouth and hurtled towards the Wooden Man Arhat and Izayoi.

Whether you encounter it directly or try to defend against it, this pillar of fire will unleash devastating power.

Even a wooden dummy that is hard enough to catch a Tailed Beast Ball by hand would be blown up and covered in wounds.

Because the power of this move has surpassed that of the Tailed Beast Ball.

It's not the Five Escapes, but... the Five Escapes of Immortal Techniques!
However, Izayoi has more than one way to defend against this Immortal Technique Five Escapes.

The simplest method is to use a wooden dummy or Arhat to create a Dust Escape technique of the same level, which can instantly break down the five elements of the Immortal Arts.

But Izayoi cannot do that.

As long as he releases a ninjutsu, especially one of the scale of the Wooden Man Arhat, Nagato will definitely fly out from the Hundred-Armed Buddha Statue and absorb it using the Preta Path.

At that time, the Sage Chakra that Izayoi consumed was only to provide Sage Chakra to Nagato.

Even with the Tenseigan's chakra absorption, this identity cannot be used to expose oneself.

Then, Izayoi's finger twitched slightly.

"Roar……"

The roar that shook all spirits rang out once more.

The wooden dragon, which had fallen to the ground due to losing control, rose into the air again, spat out the dragon pearl formed by the Earth Explosion Star in its mouth, opened its mouth to swallow the five-colored flame pillar that shot towards it, and its body rapidly expanded, flashing with colorful light, and was about to rush towards the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue.

Upon seeing this, the massive arms behind the Hundred-Armed Buddha immediately extended out and caught the flying wooden dragon.

boom----

Before it could be flung back, the inflated wooden dragon burst open like a balloon, bursting into a dazzling, multicolored flame.

The terrifying energy explosion instantly shattered the extending wooden arms and engulfed Izayoi and Nagato on the left and right.

Wooden Arhat raised his hand to help Izayoi withstand the heat wave from the explosion, while Nagato used the Preta Path to withstand the heat wave and also to recover the Sage Chakra contained within it.

The flames had barely faded when the earth-shaking sound resounded throughout the area.

The wooden Arhat trotted across the ground and ran towards the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue, smashing his fist into it.

The hundred-armed Buddha statue defiantly raised its fist to meet the attack.

The two fists collided, and a terrifying shockwave, like a hurricane passing through, caused the forest created by the Wood Release to shake violently.

The terrifying power also caused the wooden Arhat and the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue to each take a step back, and then they continued to clench their fists and strike.

The moment the two fists collided, Nagato immediately abandoned all martial ethics, raised his hand, and shouted at Izayoi, "Universal Pull!"

A strange gravitational force attempts to pull Izayoi away from the top of the wooden man's head.

Unfortunately, a wooden shield rose in time, helping Izayoi break free from the pull of gravity.

At that moment, one after another, black fist-shaped shadows fell towards Izayoi like meteorites.

The scene that Hinata sensed was ominous still happened.

From the moment Tobi arrived on the battlefield, Izayoi was no longer fighting one-on-one, but one against two.

Nagato used gravity interference, while Tobi controlled the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue.

"Great teamwork! You guys almost tricked me, but..."

Looking at the barrage of fists raining down on him, Izayoi simply grinned and muttered, "You simply cannot comprehend just how powerful Wood Release is, without the need for hand seals!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a square crack appeared on the wooden ground beneath Izayoi's feet, which then transformed into a platform that carried Izayoi into the head of the wooden Arhat.

In an instant, the wooden Arhat's eyes turned golden, as if the finishing touch had been added to a painting, and red eyeshadow appeared at the corners of his eyes.

It raised its other hand and slammed it against the fists coming from the torrential rain. The huge arm sprouted a lot of branches, forming huge fists that collided with the fists of the pouring rain.

The terrifying force caused the wooden Arhat and the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue to stagger back several steps, their arms shattering one after another.

"Nani?!"

Seeing this, Afei could no longer maintain his comical demeanor and exclaimed incredulously, "A sorcerer can actually hide inside a wooden dummy? Didn't he need to form hand seals for that attack just now?"

“His Wood Release doesn’t require hand seals,” Nagato asked. “Tobi, can you do that?”

"Impossible, this is simply impossible." Abi said in disbelief, "Although I can mobilize the chakra inside the wooden doll and convert it into the five elemental chakra, and release it without hand seals using the wooden doll as a medium, my control over the wooden doll is nowhere near as easy and casual as his. Moreover, using the wooden doll to perform other Wood Release ninjutsu also requires hand seals, which takes time and a pre-cast animation. But his Wood Release has no time or pre-cast animation at all, which means he didn't form any hand seals at all. How did he do that?"

"Perhaps... this is the orthodox Wood Release." Nagato could only conclude that this was the reason.

"So this is the authentic Wood Release. It's amazing."

Tobi, who had also never seen Hashirama Senju, became excited and shouted, "Boss, we must capture him! If we transplant his cells, both you and I will become stronger with our Wood Release!"

"That's exactly what I was thinking!" Nagato laughed. "You can deal with the wooden man; I'll target his weaknesses."

"no problem!"

Afei immediately channeled chakra into the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue, causing the shattered arms to regrow. Then, the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue moved towards the Wooden Arhat.

"Roar……"

At the same time, a wooden dragon soared into the sky from the forest and coiled around the wooden Arhat.

Immediately, the wooden Arhat raised his newly grown fist, which was covered with a layer of blue chakra flames, and then ran towards the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue.

"Are you kidding me? Is that even possible?!"

Nagato and Afei were speechless again.

The hundred-armed Buddha statue immediately stopped moving, and its hundred giant arms extended out again, transforming into a raging storm that bombarded everything in its path.

In response, the wooden Arhat simply threw a punch.

boom----

A terrifying amount of Sage Chakra erupted immediately.

The wooden Arhat version of the monstrous fist unleashed a massive shockwave, shattering dozens of arms of the Hundred-Armed Buddha statue.

The wooden dragon also flew out, its tail sweeping across, carrying a force even greater than the giant arm of the Hundred-Armed Buddha, shattering the other arms.

Even after the chakra shockwave shattered his arm, it still contained a powerful residual force, engulfing Nagato.

Regaining his composure, Nagato swiftly formed a hand seal, creating a wooden clone in front of him, while his main body moved backward.

The wood clone spread its arms, creating a transparent white light shield to block the roaring chakra wave.

In an instant, the chakra energy surged forth as if drawn by a magnet, converging and flowing into the wood clone's body.

Upon seeing this, Nagato's face lit up with joy, and he exclaimed, "It really is chakra! I can absorb it!"

"That's great, then we don't have to be afraid anymore," Afei said happily.

"A miscalculation; we forgot about the size of the wooden Arhat."

Sixteen Nights, hidden inside the head of the wooden Arhat, thought to himself.

The Super Strength Fist is the chakra burst of the Senju clan.

Steel Fist is just one of its uses. Players like Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju can also incorporate it into their aura to shatter surrounding buildings.

However, it still doesn't change the fact that this is a taijutsu technique used to release chakra, rather than the Eight Gates technique which uses taijutsu to strike the air and create the effect of ninjutsu.

The Preta Path can absorb any kind of chakra.

The chakra released by Izayoi was not obvious enough, and there was not enough time to absorb it.

In contrast, the Wooden Arhat's Super Strength Fist releases a chakra wave with an astonishing area, making the 'special effects' too obvious.

Unless you find an opening, you can't use that kind of charged punch again.

So Izayoi changed her attack method, making Nagato and Tobi feel the difference in Wood Release once again.

The wooden Arhat reached out and grabbed the head of the wooden dragon.

In an instant, the wooden dragon coiling around him transformed into a wooden dragon-slaying sword.

"That's so unfair! That's such a cheat!"

Afei cursed, "This kind of flexibility and shape change, Wood Release without hand seals, is just too cheesy!"

Wood Release without hand seals is just that cheating.

Just like the Uchiha clan's complete Susanoo, which is composed of Yin Release chakra, it can be freely controlled and can also use Yin Release chakra to condense samurai swords, Yasaka Magatama, as well as shields, bows and arrows and other weapons.

(End of this chapter)