This would be a crushing battle of attribute countering!
Whether it was the aged Uchiha Madara or Uchiha Madara controlling Senju Tobirama's body, he didn't put Hanzo the Salamander in his eyes.
And Uchiha Madara indeed had the capital to look down on Hanzo the Salamander.
Hanzo the Salamander's Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu were not even fit to carry his shoes.
The reason he was called the Demigod of the Ninja World was because of the Salamander, known as the number one poisonous creature in the Ninja World, and his fairly impressive Body Flicker Technique. Combined, they could give ninjas of this generation a huge headache.
But the Salamander's poison had no effect on either Susanoo or the Impure World Reincarnation.
Even if standing in front of Hanzo the Salamander right now was just Uchiha Madara's withered body, the former could only run away.
And now, Uchiha Madara, with just a small trick, sealed off the escape hope of this Demigod of the Ninja World, turning him into a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
"Yahiko, I'll stall for time. Summon the Salamander immediately and have it cooperate with you to use the Reverse Summoning Technique."
Washed to the top of the barrier by the water flow, Hanzo the Salamander, wearing a special mask, didn't know death was approaching him.
In his "home field," he calmly instructed again.
Yahiko, who also took out a special mask from his ninja tool pouch and put it on, hurriedly said, "Hanzo-sensei, I won't leave. I want to stay and help you!"
"Useless. Staying here won't help but will distract me. The enemy has an immortal body and will revive no matter how many times killed. Only special Sealing Jutsu can solve it. The mastermind controlling him might still be in Konoha." Hanzo the Salamander said in a deep voice, "Only if you leave and cast the Reverse Summoning Technique elsewhere can we escape at the same time."
"I understand."
Yahiko finally realized. He was about to use a technique to create a vacuum area, then bite his finger to cast the Summoning Technique.
Unfortunately, his speed was too slow.
The water filling the entire cubic barrier hadn't calmed down for a few seconds before suddenly becoming turbulent below.
"Roar..."
Then a super water dragon, countless times larger than the ordinary Water Dragon Bullet Technique, suddenly let out a deafening roar, rushing towards Hanzo the Salamander and Yahiko from bottom to top.
Looking at the super water dragon that was impossible to dodge, Hanzo the Salamander seemed to finally remember something, his face suddenly becoming extremely ugly: "Rumor has it in the Ninja World that the Impure World Reincarnation invented by the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, can summon the souls of the dead back to the Ninja World. Although it gives the dead memories and abilities from their lifetime and an immortal body, their abilities can only exert ten or twenty percent of their power."
"With only ten or twenty percent power, that Second Hokage can cast such a level of Water Release? Or... has this technique been perfected? Who is the mastermind behind the scenes? Could it be that Black Flash too?"
While analyzing quickly, Hanzo the Salamander moved fast, taking out several kunai with explosive tags attached to the ends, covering them with Water Release Chakra, and throwing them at the super water dragon below.
The kunai flew extremely fast, entering the super water dragon's mouth in an instant, just like a few grains of rice falling into an adult's mouth due to the size difference.
Hanzo the Salamander formed a Ram seal with one hand and shouted softly: "Fire Release: Explosive Tag Barrier!"
The explosive tags at the end of the kunai, like Paper Release Ninjutsu or the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, suddenly split into countless explosive tags, then simultaneously blossomed into a huge flame.
Boom boom boom...
A series of explosions erupted underwater.
The terrifying explosion impact and thick smoke successfully engulfed the huge water dragon.
Looking at the astonishingly large smoke layer below, Hanzo the Salamander maintained the seal posture, ready to change hand seals at any time, daring not to relax at all.
"Roar..."
Several overlapping roars exploded.
Then five equally huge water dragons rushed out of the smoke, attacking Hanzo the Salamander from different directions.
Hanzo the Salamander clapped his hands without changing expression.
The water in all directions instantly became turbulent, forming five huge water tornadoes shooting towards the incoming water dragons.
The collision caused the cubic barrier, turned into a huge water tank, to shake violently.
Water constantly hit the transparent purple walls, turning into white steam and dissipating before it could spread.
Looking closely, one would find the water level in the tank had dropped.
Hanzo the Salamander glanced at Yahiko, who was stunned by the Water Release visual feast, and shouted loudly: "Yahiko, move faster!"
"Oh... oh oh..."
Yahiko recovered his senses and was about to use Water Body Flicker to rush to the top.
Again, before he could act, Hanzo the Salamander suddenly grabbed his collar, taking him sideways like a water arrow.
Yahiko, dragged backward rapidly in the water, happened to see a tiny ultra-high-pressure water jet streak past his eyes.
With a rip sound of tearing fabric, the barrier, which couldn't be destroyed by the collision of Water Release from the two strongest Water Release ninjas in the Ninja World, was instantly pierced by the tiny water jet that seemed graspable by one hand.
Immediately, this ultra-high-pressure water jet approached Hanzo the Salamander and Yahiko rapidly, tearing a long, thin opening in the barrier.
However, the barrier opening was repaired by Chakra the moment it appeared.
Yahiko turned pale with fright at this scene.
If Hanzo-sensei hadn't taken him away just now, he might have been pierced and cut by this water jet.
The ultra-high-pressure water jet was fast, but Hanzo the Salamander moved faster in the water. His change of direction was so quick that the water jet seemed incredibly sluggish.
While dodging the water jet, Hanzo the Salamander stared fixedly below.
The water below was murky, not with mud, but with the smoke layer caused by the Explosive Tag Barrier just now, which still hadn't dissipated, only cut into several clumps by the moving water jet.
Whether distracted by protecting Yahiko beside him, or his gaze locked on the water jet, instinctively thinking "Senju Tobirama" was still underwater, or not sensing Chakra and not suspecting the smoke created by his own "technique," Hanzo the Salamander suddenly made a careless move.
Suspecting the "ninja" maintaining the barrier was locking onto him with special sensing and sharing vision with "Senju Tobirama," allowing the opponent to lock onto him through the smoke layer, Hanzo the Salamander pulled Yahiko and rushed towards the nearest cloud of smoke, preparing to use the smoke cover to cast his best Water Release Shadow Clone, turning into himself and Yahiko to distract the enemy.
Then... there was no then. The battle ended!
Hanzo the Salamander and Yahiko, wearing special masks, could breathe underwater. Combined with the powerful Water Body Flicker Technique, they were like fish-men in the One Piece world underwater.
Others rushing into the smoke would choke, but they wouldn't.
However, as soon as he entered, Hanzo the Salamander saw countless tiny dust particles, like dust residue from an explosion.
It was these dust particles that changed Hanzo the Salamander's expression drastically.
Because he knew that the Fire Release: Explosive Tag Barrier just now didn't reach the ground at all, and there shouldn't be so much residue from kunai and explosive tags.
There's something wrong with this smoke!
Before he could take Yahiko and use Water Body Flicker to escape, these dust particles suddenly formed into explosive tags, flying towards him rapidly.
Then a dazzling flame became the last scene Hanzo the Salamander saw in his life.
But before being engulfed by the flame, he instinctively turned around to hug Yahiko, wanting to block the flame attack for his disciple, the hope of Amegakure.
Boom boom boom...
Continuous explosions created a growing flame inside the transparent purple water tank, eventually engulfing the entire cubic barrier.
The high-temperature shockwaves generated by billions of chain explosions evaporated all the water, blasting the entire barrier. The huge flame finally stopped growing and slowly shrank and disappeared.
When the dust and smoke were blown away, the barren flat ground had turned into an astonishingly large crater, retaining extremely terrifying high heat, evaporating the rainwater falling into the pit into white steam, emitting wisps of white smoke.
As for Hanzo the Salamander, Yahiko, and "Senju Tobirama" inside the barrier, they had long disappeared.
...
"...Hanzo-sensei!"
Unknown days later.
In a dimly lit underground space, a boy's shout suddenly rang out, followed by gasps and cries of pain.
"Hiss... it hurts, it hurts..."
Zooming in, the "disappeared" Yahiko was sitting on the cold ground. All over his body, only the right half of his face was exposed; everywhere else was covered with white substance.
If crawling on the ground, he would look exactly like a white worm.
Yahiko, whose consciousness awakened, because half of his mouth was also covered by the white substance, sounded different from usual. Seeming to pull on a wound, he cried in pain, his expression distorted.
Before he could recall the scene before fainting and look around to observe where he was, a weak, aged voice suddenly came to his ears.
"Survived? As expected of the lucky one who didn't die from implanting a poison sac. Living towards death twice, those Hashirama cells weren't wasted."
"Who is it?!"
The sudden voice scared Yahiko, and his expression changed.
Looking in the direction of the voice, Yahiko saw a wooden chair as big as a bed, on which sat an old man with gray hair wearing a black robe, with white tubes connected to his back.
The old man was also looking up at him with red eyes dotted with three black tomoe.
Seeing these eyes, Yahiko, who had followed Hanzo the Salamander for years learning more than just Ninjutsu, changed his expression again and exclaimed: "Sharingan, you... you are from the Uchiha Clan!"
His body instinctively moved backward but pulled on the wound, causing severe pain to surge through his body.
It was this severe pain that made Yahiko recall the scene before fainting.
Explosive tags appearing out of nowhere, the explosion flame instantly engulfing his vision, and the scene of Hanzo-sensei turning around to hug him to protect him...
Yahiko's expression suddenly became ferocious, but holding a glimmer of hope, he looked around and suddenly shouted at Uchiha Madara: "Where is Hanzo-sensei? What did you do to Hanzo-sensei?!"
"He is already dead."
Uchiha Madara ruthlessly extinguished Yahiko's hope, his cold words piercing his fantasy.
Yahiko's eyes dimmed instantly, then quickly filled with hatred. Staring at Uchiha Madara, he gritted his teeth: "You are a Konoha Uchiha. It was you! You killed Hanzo-sensei; you are the mastermind behind the technique!"
You got that right this time.
Uchiha Madara thought to himself but remained expressionless on the surface, saying coldly: "Being clouded by hatred is understandable, but not knowing gratitude would disappoint my rescue."
Perhaps Uchiha Madara's gaze was too captivating, or maybe influenced by invisible Yin Release Chakra, Yahiko suddenly calmed down, recalling the scene before fainting again, combined with the current situation.
The explosion expanding in an instant was unavoidable even for Hanzo-sensei, who could only hug him to block the engulfing flame for him.
Even so, he instantly lost consciousness.
Now all over his body, only the right half of his face felt no pain; everything else was covered with white substance. Any movement would cause severe pain throughout his body.
Clearly, his body was highly burned.
Not dying meant highly likely being transferred out of the explosion range by unknown means before turning into charcoal, or being saved by some technique blocking the explosion.
And the person who saved him was likely the old man in front of him.
But the other party looked incapable of saving him.
Thus, Yahiko looked at Uchiha Madara with vigilant eyes and asked, "Who are you?"
"My name is Uchiha... Madara."
Hearing this name, Yahiko widened his eyes in disbelief: "Uchiha Madara? You are the Asura of the Ninja World mentioned by Hanzo-sensei, the only one who could contend with the God of Shinobi in the Warring States period? Impossible, didn't that legend of the Ninja World die decades ago? Even if not dead, how old are you now?!"
"Those are not important."
Uchiha Madara had no intention of explaining. He continued to look straight at Yahiko, his tone calm: "Whether I am Uchiha Madara or not, you can investigate yourself when you go out. Now assuming I am Uchiha Madara, since you know the story of Hashirama and me, you should know my grudge against Konoha. This is one of the reasons I saved you."
Yahiko remembered the stories and history Hanzo the Salamander taught him, and that without Uchiha Madara, he might have died with Hanzo-sensei.
His vigilance against Uchiha Madara dissipated a lot, but a little remained.
Yahiko wasn't the ignorant child back then. Looking at Uchiha Madara seriously, he asked again: "Why did you save me? What do you want me to do for you?"
"...White Zetsu."
Uchiha Madara didn't answer but suddenly called a name.
The next second, a white creature suddenly drilled out of Yahiko's body, startling him.
"Wh... what are you?"
Yahiko, essentially the same kind of person as Nawaki, Uchiha Obito, and Uzumaki Naruto, looked dumbfounded again, his voice trembling and stammering.
"Hello... I am White Zetsu."
The White Zetsu clone jumped up and down beside Yahiko, his tone and movements very comical.
Uchiha Madara explained faintly: "This is one of the White Zetsu clones, a mutated human I created using Hashirama cells. The technique he attached to you is called the Spore Technique, possessing the top stealth characteristics in the Ninja World. All clones can share information. They are my eyes and ears monitoring the entire Ninja World and the main reason I could save you at the critical moment."
"Now you also have Hashirama cells in your body. That is a test of living towards death similar to the poison sac implantation in your body."
"Since you survived, it means your body has awakened the Kekkei Genkai Wood Release used by the God of Shinobi to pacify chaotic times."
"Possessing Wood Release, you qualify to repay me and know certain truths of the world."
Uchiha Madara's three-tomoe Sharingan stared straight at Yahiko, asking coldly: "So, do you choose to do some things for me to repay my life-saving grace, gaining my investment to use powerful strength for revenge against Konoha or the mastermind of the Impure World Reincarnation, or choose not to accept my rescue and let me reclaim the Hashirama cells in your body?"
Meeting Uchiha Madara's cold gaze, Yahiko looked somewhat dazed, then shuddered involuntarily.
Following Hanzo the Salamander for so many years, although Yahiko hadn't seen blood yet, he had entered the Genjutsu world to kill and felt the killing intent of the Demigod of the Ninja World many times.
Uchiha Madara didn't release killing intent, but that gaze made Yahiko seem to see mountains of corpses and seas of blood, feeling a killing intent of another realm.
Recovering his senses, Yahiko looked at Uchiha Madara with fear, believing his identity a bit more.
His age of twelve and limited horizons made him believe Uchiha Madara's words that the other party saved him.
With a personality type like Uzumaki Naruto, Yahiko, who was willing to die for Hanzo the Salamander's promise in the original work, was also a grateful and simple-minded guy.
After believing Uchiha Madara was his savior, to avenge his mentor, he quickly made a decision, his eyes firm: "I am very grateful that you saved me. If I really awakened the legendary Wood Release, then I really need this powerful strength now to avenge Hanzo-sensei. As long as it's not detrimental to the Land of Rain and Amegakure, I am willing to do anything for you."
"Very good."
A faint smile finally appeared on Uchiha Madara's face: "I'm not interested in the Land of Rain and Amegakure. Saving you was also a spur-of-the-moment act. Over the years, I don't know how many 'Wood Release experimental subjects' like you have appeared, but very few successfully survived."
"You are the third ninja in this era to possess the Wood Release Kekkei Genkai."
"Third?"
Yahiko instantly understood Uchiha Madara's meaning, his eyes widening: "Besides me, there are two other people in this Ninja World who possess the legendary Wood Release?"
For the first time, Yahiko felt that legendary power could also feel cheap.
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