Facing the deadly attacks that simultaneously struck from two tricky angles, Senju Hashirama's battle instinct, befitting a pinnacle Ninja World warrior, was fully unleashed. He abandoned using large-scale Wood Release Ninjutsu that required charging, and his fighting style abruptly changed. He quickly formed hand seals in front of his chest, his movements fluid and seamless.
"Wood Release: Wood Clone Jutsu!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Several bursts of white smoke erupted, and three Wood Clones identical to Senju Hashirama instantly appeared around him, each carrying the unique aura of the First Hokage. Without any hesitation, they moved from different directions to confront Yulian. The wooden kunai and short swords in their hands worked in perfect synergy, targeting the various joint connections of Yulian's armor.
This was an exquisitely clever combination of attacks, aimed at quickly dismantling the enemy's defenses and finding weaknesses through numerical superiority and taijutsu coordination.
However, they were facing a killing machine born for war.
More often than not, Yulian faced dozens of times his number of aliens.
In his crimson optical sensors, countless data streams flashed by, having already locked onto the true target. Those Wood Clones were merely harmless distractions in his eyes. He completely ignored the clones attacking from the sides, his massive body, carrying an unstoppable momentum, continued to charge towards Hashirama's main body.
The power sword and the adamantine staff were swung with broad, sweeping motions.
There were no specific moves, no techniques, only the purest, most primal brute force, enough to crush steel.
"Pfft!"
One Wood Clone attempted to block the power sword with a short sword, but the moment it touched the blue energy field, its entire body, along with the weapon, was silently sliced open. The cut edge was directly vaporized by the high-temperature energy, leaving no sawdust behind.
Another Wood Clone leaped high, holding a kunai in both hands, attempting to attack Yulian's helmet from above. Yulian didn't even raise his head, swinging the adamantine staff in his left hand upwards in a backhand motion, accompanied by a whistling sound that tore through the air.
"Bang—!"
With a dull thud, the Wood Clone was struck squarely by the long staff. The terrifying force directly pulverized him into a cloud of scattered wood chips in mid-air.
Destruction, pure destruction!
In a corner of the barrier, Hiruzen Sarutobi watched with surging emotions. He no longer hesitated, quickly retreating to create enough combat space for Yulian, while rapidly forming hand seals.
"Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"
A massive fire dragon roared out of his mouth, not attacking the suppressed Senju Hashirama, but precisely circling the battlefield and heading straight for Senju Tobirama, who was attempting to provide support from the other side.
Senju Tobirama's body flickered, easily dodging the fire dragon's impact. But Hiruzen Sarutobi's attack did not stop there; various Ninjutsu were effortlessly unleashed. Although unable to cause substantial damage to the Second Hokage, they successfully tied up his movements, creating an undisturbed one-on-one environment for Yulian.
For a time, the battle inside the barrier fell into a bizarre cycle of violence.
Yulian transformed into a tireless war machine. Each swing of the power sword and adamantine staff in his hands left Senju Hashirama's body battered and broken, sending wood chips and dust flying.
And Senju Hashirama's Edo Tensei body, after being destroyed repeatedly, regenerated quickly each time due to its immortal nature, rejoining the battle.
Destruction, regeneration, re-destruction, re-regeneration.
This scene made Orochimaru's expression increasingly grim.
Cold sweat beaded on his forehead, and his snake-like eyes flickered with irritation and unease.
"Damn it..." he cursed under his breath.
To ensure absolute control over the Edo Tensei, he had added too many restrictive forces to the seals. This prevented the two Hokage from unleashing the world-destroying power they possessed in life, making many powerful forbidden jutsu unusable. But if he hadn't done so, given the willpower of these legendary Ninja, who knew if they would break free from his control.
This dilemma made him feel a sense of losing control once again.
Just then, through the perspective of Senju Tobirama, who was constantly being entangled by Hiruzen Sarutobi, he seemed to find the key to breaking the deadlock.
Senju Tobirama abruptly stopped his evasive movements and completed hand seals at an extremely fast speed.
This time, his target was not Yulian, nor Hiruzen Sarutobi, but the entire space within the Four Violet Flames Formation barrier.
"Genjutsu: Bringer-of-Darkness Technique!"
Buzz—
An invisible ripple spread out.
The next second, endless darkness swallowed everything.
There was not a trace of light; he couldn't see his hand in front of his face. Hiruzen Sarutobi felt his vision go black; all sound, light, and even his sense of direction were stripped away, plunging him into absolute silence and pitch blackness.
This was Senju Tobirama's signature Genjutsu, powerful enough to instantly affect even top-tier sensory Ninja!
A smug, cold smile curled on Orochimaru's lips. With vision taken away, that 'tin can's' movements would surely be hindered. This was the two Hokage's chance!
However, at the moment everyone thought the battle would halt because of this.
"Buzz—Clunk—"
The low hum of the power armor's operation showed no sign of stopping.
A pair of crimson optical sensors still glowed, like the eyes of a demon god staring from the depths of hell, emitting a cold light.
Yulian's movements showed no hesitation.
The power sword in his hand still accurately cleaved towards Senju Hashirama's position, and the sweeping strike of the adamantine staff was perfectly precise, continuing to beat back Hashirama, who had just finished regenerating.
He was completely unaffected!
In the darkness, Senju Tobirama's body froze for the first time—the situation before him exceeded his instinctive predictions.
This was a situation he had never encountered in his long combat career. His proud, top-tier Genjutsu, capable of stripping away senses, had no effect whatsoever on the enemy before him?
Even a Jinchuriki capable of dispelling Genjutsu wouldn't break free from this Genjutsu so quickly, as if he hadn't been affected at all.
As for the Uchiha, he wasn't foolish enough to compete with them in Genjutsu.
"How is this possible!" Orochimaru muttered under his breath.
The essence of Genjutsu is to interfere with the enemy's brain centers through mediums like sight and hearing, disrupting the flow of Chakra within their body, thereby creating illusions.
But this monster before him... "It's useless."
Naruto calmly stated the answer.
"The foundation of Ninjutsu is Chakra."
"And the Emperor's warrior has no such thing within him."
Naruto's words exploded in Orochimaru's mind like a thunderclap.
No Chakra?
Not a summoned beast?
A terrifying thought, one that overturned all his knowledge and scientific views, surged wildly in his mind.
Could it be that this monster, which Naruto called "the Emperor's warrior," was a type of... being from another dimension, completely different from the life systems of this world?
Orochimaru's confusion and hesitation caused the movements of Senju Tobirama, who he controlled, to also slow down. Yulian seized that momentary freeze in Senju Tobirama.
His massive body suddenly twisted, abandoning his pursuit of Senju Hashirama, and swung the adamantine staff in his left hand in a backhand sweep towards Tobirama's position!
The long staff, carrying the sound of thunder and wind, tore open an invisible path of death in the pitch-black barrier.
As Tobirama dodged, a dangerous premonition made him instinctively want to activate the Flying Thunder God Technique.
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