Chapter 112: Black Dragon vs. Infinite Armor – Final Clash, Sarutobi Hiruzen's Titan Kong Transformation, Sealing & Aftermath
Tsunade watched Sarutobi Hiruzen's armor turn ink-green with green plants growing on it, and an ominous feeling surged in her heart.
But everyone had no time to observe Sarutobi Hiruzen's change—their attention turned to the black dragon charging straight toward them.
Just as the black dragon was about to reach the crowd, it suddenly stopped.
With Sarutobi Hiruzen forming hand seals—
"Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees!"
Massive trees rapidly grew from the ground, uprooting themselves in an instant to create a forest. The trees inside the forest relentlessly wrapped around the black dragon's body.
Sarutobi Hiruzen felt this Wood Release might not be enough to deal with the monster before him, so he continued forming hand seals.
"Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen channeled chakra into the tree seeds—a gigantic wooden dragon suddenly appeared. It directly coiled around the black dragon and clamped its jaws tightly around the black dragon's neck!
Mitokado Homura thought to himself: How did Hiruzen suddenly master Wood Release? He never knew!
"That's the First Hokage's Wood Release! We're safe! We're safe! This black dragon is done for!"
Tsunade clenched her fists tightly. She knew—Sarutobi Hiruzen was pure Sarutobi clan blood. Even genetic mutation couldn't awaken Wood Release. The Wood Release now must have come from researching something!
Naraku saw Tsunade's clenched fist and quietly took two steps back.
Another furious person was Shimura Danzō—he thought of how he could only use low-end Wood Release techniques with Inspiring Armor, yet Sarutobi Hiruzen could even perform Wood Dragon Technique!
This must have come from Hashirama's own cells!
This was the same Third Hokage who usually advised him not to be too radical!
At this moment the black dragon was constantly struggling against the wood binding it. It had never seen such troublesome wood. One broken root below would be replaced by two more.
The Wood Dragon on its body kept tightening, as if trying to strangle it to death.
Moreover, the Wood Dragon was slowly absorbing its power. But none of that mattered!
As the black dragon once again unleashed a shockwave from its body, something that left Konoha's people dumbfounded occurred.
The black dragon directly shattered the wood binding it, and the Wood Dragon was forced open a little. The black dragon stomped its forepaw onto the Wood Dragon and bit its neck, tearing the Wood Dragon apart with brute force.
Naraku watched this scene and a slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: it seemed Wood Release, Sharingan genjutsu, and similar techniques were likely cheat tools left by the Ōtsutsuki clan—effective against tailed beasts.
But against this black dragon without chakra, the effect wasn't as obvious. Of course, it could also be that Sarutobi Hiruzen's Wood Release couldn't compare to the First's.
Sarutobi Hiruzen closed his eyes again. He was starting to regret this.
He regretted not taking Naraku's warnings about the super dangerous species seriously enough. The black dragon before him might have slightly less raw power than the Nine-Tails, but many anti-tailed-beast techniques had little effect on it!
Sarutobi Hiruzen suspected that with today's preparations, even the Nine-Tails wouldn't gain any advantage—yet this black dragon could.
Sarutobi Hiruzen understood: to defeat the black dragon before him, raw power was necessary.
He also felt the terror of the armor Naraku had forged. Sarutobi Hiruzen had been holding back from going all-out because he sensed the armor eroding his will.
He truly wasn't sure if using the final transformation would cause the armor to completely devour him.
But he had no choice—if he didn't go all out, Konoha would be finished.
"Final Transformation!" As Sarutobi Hiruzen shouted inwardly, crimson tailed beast chakra surged out again.
At this moment Sarutobi Hiruzen simultaneously activated Hashirama cells, Tyrande flesh, and Nine-Tails chakra power.
Sarutobi Hiruzen's armor even showed massive fleshy proliferation—finally transforming into a… no! A gigantic 60-meter-tall Titan Kong!
Except this Kong's body surface was covered in green fuzz—more like wooden strands than fuzz. Additionally, the Titan Kong's body had various patches of red, green, and black skin.
Naraku could barely look at it—he felt this transformation sometimes carried a mental attack. Looking at it too much would drop SAN value.
The black dragon turned its head and was instantly stunned—where did this green-furred monkey come from?
Originally, as a dragon, it could distinguish beauty and ugliness among many races.
And the green-furred monkey before it was simply the ugliest creature it had seen in its life! Without question!
So ugly it almost didn't want to bite!
The Titan Kong-transformed figure leaped onto the black dragon's back in one jump, then opened its massive jaws and bit down on the black dragon's neck.
The green fuzz on the Titan Kong's body extended nonstop—slipping through the gaps in the black dragon's scales and burrowing into its body, directly devouring the black dragon's flesh!
The Titan Kong's canine teeth also sank deeply into the black dragon's neck, drinking its fresh blood.
The black dragon struggled desperately in pain, its wails echoing through the sky.
Another half hour later, neither the Titan Kong nor the black dragon was struggling anymore.
By now the onlookers were completely numb from the battle before them—they had never known ninjas equipped with Naraku's weapons could erupt with this level of power.
Naraku watched Sarutobi Hiruzen still on the black dragon's back and felt anxious—he worried if Sarutobi Hiruzen kept eating, he didn't know if it would evolve to S-grade.
But this biological material might end up ruined.
"If you want to save Lord Third, hurry and perform the sealing technique—get him out of transformation!" Naraku said urgently.
Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura exchanged glances. After getting Naraku's confirmation again, the two ordered the Sealing Team forward.
This left Shimura Danzō—who had been preparing to give the Third Hokage a grand burial—looking stunned.
It didn't take long—the Titan Kong continuously shrank under the Sealing Team's technique until it finally reverted to Sarutobi Hiruzen.
At this moment Sarutobi Hiruzen's skin was ragged in some places and overgrown in layers in others.
Tsunade ultimately suppressed her anger and went forward to treat Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Everyone gathered around Tsunade, deeply worried about Sarutobi Hiruzen's injuries.
After treating him for a while, Tsunade said: "The old man is fine—just minor injuries. He should recover after a few days of rest."
Hearing Tsunade's words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the ninja world was unstable right now—if the Hokage fell, changing Hokage would easily cause problems.
Naraku naturally didn't care about that. Upon discovering the system space couldn't hold the black dragon, Naraku was furious. So this thing could be taken out but not stored back.
Without caring about exposing the Dimensional Array anymore, Naraku directly used it to first store the black dragon in "World's End."
With the black dragon corpse, he wouldn't be able to stay in Konoha much longer!
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