"Water Style: Wrath of Mazu!"
With just a single, static hand sign from Naruto—a terrifying force, deep as a stellar core and violent as a black hole, suddenly compressed and took form! The "water" of creation—underground rivers, dew on leaves, mist in the forest... even the moisture within living flesh and blood... responded wildly, yearning to obey Naruto's control!
Pfft—
A stream of blue chakra, highly condensed to a crystalline state, burst forth from his mouth. The moment it left his body, it expanded exponentially! Before hitting the ground, it transformed into a world-overturning, cataclysmic flood!
Crack-a-cackle-cackle—
Directly below, ancient trees, hundreds and thousands of years old, mighty and towering, instantly met the azure hammer connecting heaven and earth. It was like dusty, withered bones encountering a hydraulic press! Their structures shattered layer by layer, fibers exploded inch by inch, finally turning into dust, silently annihilated in the surging waves! The millennia-old landscape of the Forest of Death, under the impact of the landing deluge, was utterly shredded, kneaded, and flattened like a poor-quality sand table! In the blink of an eye, the Forest of Death became the Dead Sea Basin!
Under the sudden impact, the churning earth was dyed a murky brown! As far as the eye could see, only a turbulent, raging inland sea, churning with rotten wood and muddy stench, remained!
And at this moment, Kakashi, Guy, and numerous Leaf ninjas had just approached the outer perimeter of the battlefield.
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In front of their eyes, a terrifying giant wave, dozens of meters high, mixed with the roar of collapsing mountains, rolled towards them with devastating force! Wherever it passed, trees, forests, and earth crumbled and disintegrated. The flood swept everything aside! Even the wind pressure from the surging current alone had scraped the ground along its path down by several meters!
"Earth Style: Earth Wall!"
"Earth Style: Multiple Earth Walls!"
"Reinforce! Pour all chakra into it!"
Startled cries, terrified to the core, erupted one after another! Hundreds of ninjas, without even needing command, instinctively squeezed out every last drop of chakra, frantically slamming their hands onto the ground!
Boom, boom, boom, boom—
One thick, colossal earthen wall after another rose madly—one layer, two layers, ten layers! Like desperate ants frantically building sandcastles before being trampled by a towering beast!
Boom! Splash!—
The first Earth Wall was instantly pierced through like a hot knife through butter! It collapsed!
Boom! Splash!—
The second layer held for two seconds... cracks spread like a spiderweb... then shattered again!
Crack! Splish-splash-splash—
The water wall, carrying a terrifying torrent composed of forest debris, tore through the defenses layer by layer. The ninjas behind them were pale as paper, yet still frantically poured chakra into reinforcing the final barrier.
Finally, on the thirteenth, and thickest, earthen wall, that terrifying water current seemed to slightly halt! The peak of the giant wave finally circumvented the earthen wall, flowing around its sides.
Plop... Plop...
The ninjas, survivors of the disaster, knelt in water several meters deep, panting heavily like bellows. They stared blankly ahead... In their vision, where was any forest? As far as their eyes could see, there was only a vast, boundless murky inland sea!
The giant timbers floating on the sea surface—those weren't boats, but tens of thousands of broken tree roots and trunks, like colossal withered bones! Like a giant timber graveyard after a prehistoric flood!
In the dead, oppressive silence, a collective gasp, mixed with trepidation and awe, suddenly erupted. This place was five kilometers from the battlefield, yet just the aftereffects were already so terrifying? Was this scale of Water Style even possible with human power? Everyone's worldview of ninja arts was completely reshaped at this moment!
"Is this still... Water Style?"
Someone's voice was broken and hoarse: "This is clearly... the Sea God's wrath!"
"Is this the Second Hokage's power?"
Another's eyes were wide, his finger trembling as he pointed at the murky sea: "A single thought... rewrites the earth? This is the true 'Water God,' isn't it?"
"N-not necessarily!"
Kakashi's voice was dry, his masked lips tightly pressed. He looked up, gazing intently ahead. It could also be Naruto.
The Center Stage
Standing on the rippling water surface, Naruto's gaze seemed to transcend distance, staring directly at a certain spot beneath the water. There, the First and Second Hokage, their Edo Tensei bodies already fully regenerated, were getting closer and closer to the surface!
Plop!
Tobirama Senju's silver-haired head abruptly broke through the murky water, leaping out!
"Cough, cough." He coughed violently, spitting out a mixture of mud and water! "Cough, cough... Kid," his voice was slightly hoarse from choking on water, yet it held an indescribable admiration belonging to a Water Style master: "Your Water Style mastery has already surpassed my peak!"
Seeing the Second Hokage speak freely, Naruto's eyes slightly narrowed. How did this one regain the ability to speak? He sensed that the Edo Tensei control hadn't loosened. Both of them still regarded him as someone to be killed. Tsk, truly the rumored master of forbidden jutsu—the Second Hokage. If his control had been even a tiny bit weaker, these two would surely have escaped his grasp.
"Wahahahaha!!!" A boisterous laugh, powerful enough to ripple the water surface, exploded.
Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage, suddenly shot up, showering water everywhere. He landed next to Tobirama, slapping his soaking wet silver hair on his brother's back, almost knocking Tobirama back into the water. "Tobirama! You're too dishonest!" He winked, a mischievous glint in his eye: "When did your Water Style gain the ability to 'move oceans'? Haha!"
"Hmph!"
Tobirama nearly gasped for air from the slap, a vein throbbing on his forehead. He glared fiercely at his elder brother. When will this idiot brother ever be serious? But when he looked at Naruto, his cold, sharp voice took on an unprecedented solemnity: "Orochimaru's control is so strong that even I cannot break free. Being able to speak is already my limit. Next, boy, you must be extremely careful! My greatest skill in life is this water-manipulating killing technique!"
"Is that so?" Naruto nodded in understanding. From their conversation, this Second Hokage's style differed from the First and Third; he seemed a bit more austere.
Naruto's gaze swept over the two, and the corners of his mouth curved into a faint smile: "Then... how about this?" He gently pressed his palm onto the water.
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An absolute, profound chill, as if capable of freezing consciousness and sealing the soul itself, erupted from his fingertips!
"Ice Style: Ice Age!"
Crack! Crackle-crackle—
The piercing sound of freezing was like the mournful cry of a glacier! Starting from his palm, a bone-chilling, stark white cold wave swept outwards with devastating force!
In an instant, the entire churning "Sea of Death" at its edges, even the towering giant waves, solidified in an instant into a boundless plain of dark ice! The cold wave continued relentlessly, spreading mercilessly towards the horizon!
The terrifying part was: the freezing wasn't limited to the surface! From the turbulent water to the thick seabed a hundred meters below, all the water, mud, and even the swept-up giant tree remnants... in a fraction of a millisecond... were completely and eternally sealed into an unbreakable ice crystal amber by this absolute, life-annihilating deep chill!
Sea of Death?
No! This was an icy hell!
"This is still Ice Style!?" Even Tobirama Senju, as calm as he was, his pupils trembled violently at this moment! Ice Style? He had seen that before. But, in his memory, did Ice Style possess such terrifying power and range?
"Hiss—cold, so cold! My bones are frozen through!" Even with his Edo Tensei body, the First Hokage exaggeratedly rubbed his arms and jumped up and down.
"Kid, who taught you this Ice Style?" The Second Hokage wondered, does this kid also have the bloodline of the Hozuki clan?
Naruto answered casually: "Kakashi-sensei, Hatake Kakashi, he's a renowned teacher!"
"Not just Ice Style, he taught me many more bloodline limits."
"Hatake Kakashi, huh? The Hatake surname, it seems vaguely familiar... Hiss!"
Tobirama struggled for a moment, then sensed the command's requirements; he couldn't resist. "Big Brother, let's go!"
"Yes, what a domineering control, even I can't resist it." Looking at Naruto, the First Hokage's eyes were filled with admiration: "Naruto, remember! Your Flying Thunder God is a divine technique for 'running away'! If you can't win, you must escape, don't die!"
As his words fell, his expression turned serious, and he clapped his hands!
"Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence!"
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From deep within the earth, the roar of an ancient giant beast awakening suddenly echoed!
Click, click, crackle-crackle—
Beneath the dark ice of the Dead Sea, it was as if billions of furious emerald dragons were furiously crashing and twisting, and the mountain-like colossal ice groaned under the unbearable strain... Spiderweb cracks exploded!
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump—
One, two, countless towering giant trees, requiring dozens of people to embrace, burst forth from the ground, like emerald demons that had slept at the earth's core, roaring through the shackles of the ice prison! Carrying the roar of the primeval forest... they broke through the ice and soared into the sky!
Under the First Hokage's control, the twisted and gnarled branches, precise as soul-reaping cages, all surged towards Naruto!
"Finally! The legendary Wood Style!" The flames of battle in Naruto's eyes burned white-hot! The fight, it had only just begun!
Just as he was about to move, a kunai flew cunningly into the open space beside him.
Flying Thunder God?
Whoosh!
The Second Hokage's figure appeared like a ghost! But what awaited him—was a sandbag-sized iron fist, already anticipated and waiting! In terms of perception, when it came to chakra, no one could hide it from him.
Boom—
The monstrous strength of the punch suddenly erupted, and Tobirama was like a puppet struck by a giant hammer! Bursting through sound barriers with successive explosions, he directly smashed through dozens of giant trees in his path!
Finally—Bang!!
His body slammed heavily into the depths of the remaining colossal ice! Spiderweb-like cracks exploded madly at his embedded point, shattering the already fragmented mirror-like ice crystals, and then embedding him deep within the ice layer like a specimen.
"Cough, cough, cough."
Deep within the ice crystals, what Tobirama coughed out was not blood foam, but scattered Edo Tensei dust. This brat, what kind of brutal brute force was this punch? He actually directly crushed Big Brother's Sage Body? His murky Edo Tensei eyes stared fixedly at the golden-haired figure in the distance... for the first time, his very soul trembled with something called "cognitive subversion": This kid is only twelve or thirteen years old.
Extremely mature monstrous strength, abyss-like bottomless chakra, Water Style far surpassing his own, Fire Style comparable to... even exceeding Madara Uchiha's Fire Style.And this incredibly powerful Ice Style, whose effects he'd never even heard of.
What kind of monster is this kid? What exactly has Konoha cultivated?
Whoosh—
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Within the battlefield.
Naruto held a screaming, leaping blade of lightning, his sword dancing wildly, transforming into a blue electric net that tore through space!
However!
The severed gaps didn't even have time to char before they were instantly covered by the subsequent surge of living giant trees! The entire forest had "come alive"! Every tree, every vine, even every single leaf. At this moment, they all became extensions of the First Hokage's will! Like billions of squirming, greedy giant pythons, they coiled, pierced, and wrapped! From the sky, from deep underground, and even from the remnants of felled giant trees, an endless tide of strangulation was launched!
As far as the eye could see, the crazily growing, twisted tree roots had already stitched the earth together, leaving no gaps! The entire forest: regenerating! Mutating! Infinitely proliferating! This prison, seemingly forged from the life force of an entire continent... was transforming into continuous waves of trees—one wave higher than the last! Vowing to completely engulf that tiny golden light in the center into the eternal, ink-green deep sea!
Just as those billions of wildly dancing wooden tendrils were about to close in—
"Ice Style: Ice World!"
The submerged yellow figure let out an angry roar!
Super sub-zero temperatures, approaching absolute zero, instantly erupted. At this moment, even the air was frozen into liquid.
Suddenly, starting from Naruto's tiny body, which was about to be entangled by the forest, the ultimate coldness, capable of erasing all "living" existence, swept wildly again with devastating force!
Crack-crack-crack—
The frantically dancing wooden tide instantly lost its vitality. Its surface still looked ferocious, but a mere touch... would cause it to crumble into dust! The cold wave spread, and the entire frenzied tree sea... like a furious giant beast with its pause button pressed... instantly froze to death within its icy coffin!
But, the next second!
Rumble, rumble—
Deep within the earth, the First Hokage's boundless vital force roared once more! Even thicker emerald giant pythons, disregarding this icy hell, burst forth from the ground again.
However, seizing this opportunity, Naruto finally had a moment to breathe. He suddenly leaped high into the sky! Gazing at the surging greenness erupting again below, he knew this was going to be tough.
Since that was the case.
"Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!"
A blazing Fire Style, covering the entire forest. But this surging, world-destroying fire, which was previously a natural enemy to the Forest of Death, now seemed like a "small flame" against this living forest.
Wood Style, truly powerful!
Fortunately, I have it too!