novelraw Chapter 33: The powerful one isn't Wood Release, it's Hashirama.
Chapter 33: The powerful one isn't Wood Release, it's Hashirama.
Thousand Hands Mansion
Fu Heiyao was very satisfied with the meal.
Mito must have known about his financial situation and preferences beforehand, and the dishes served were all delicacies from all over the ninja world.
Beef from the Hidden Cloud Village, camel milk from the Land of Wind, and large sea fish from the Land of Water, etc.
For a moment, Fu Heiyao felt that Mito was treating him like a grandson-in-law.
Midway through, Tsunade returned for some reason and saw a large table of delicacies, exclaiming in amazement.
She felt they were eating alone behind her back, so she insisted on staying to eat and even had the rope tree stool taken away from her.
The meal was a pleasant one for both the host and guests. After the meal, Nawaki took the initiative to see Fushiko Yotsuya off.
"Kushina, is there any result today?" Mito stroked Kushina's glossy, warm red hair, his eyes full of affection.
Kushina also knew that she was determined to defeat Fushiko.
Mito was naturally pleased with this outcome.
With Obsidian as a target, Kushina can not only improve her sealing techniques to facilitate the suppression of the Nine-Tails in the future, but also use it as medicine to heal her empty heart.
It's a win-win situation, so she has no reason to object.
"I know that. Kushina lost. That brat Fushiguro coaxed her to sleep." Tsunade immediately came over to tease Kushina.
Kushina glared fiercely at Tsunade.
"I lost," Kushina said, a hint of frustration in her voice, but her fighting spirit quickly ignited. "But I won't give up! One day I'll defeat him fair and square!"
"Even if all else fails, once I've mastered superhuman strength and cultivated the Vajra Seal of Illusion and Reality to eight levels, I'm sure I can win."
Kushina suddenly felt a little guilty, but still spoke with great enthusiasm.
"Silly girl, isn't that the same as admitting that you can't beat them anymore?"
Mito smiled and shook his head when he heard Kushina's words.
Leaving aside superhuman strength, the last person to cultivate the Vajra Seal to the sixteenth level of illusion and reality was a hundred years ago.
At that time, the strongest member of their clan used the Vajra Chains as a medium to seal away the Grim Reaper.
The Vajra Sealing Technique at its peak can create sixteen chains, one real and one illusory, easily sealing and binding both immortal demons and physical ninja beasts.
Even Mito herself did not achieve this, merely completing the training of the Void Chains and locking the Nine-Tails in place.
Mito would be content as long as Kushina could master the Hollow Chains in the future.
She believed that with Kushina's unique chakra combined with the fully developed Hollow Chains, she would definitely be able to extract the Nine-Tails' chakra for her own use.
At that time, even the Five Kage, who stand at the pinnacle of the ninja world, will not be a match for Kushina.
However, what surprised Mito even more was that Kushina actually lost.
With her superhuman strength and the Vajra Sealing Technique at the age of eight, even Hashirama and Madara Uchiha, who were the same age, shouldn't have been a match for Kushina.
"I know that. I heard that brat used Water Release and Lightning Release to simulate the Storm Release bloodline limit and directly bound Kushina."
Tsunade recalled Jiraiya's description and said.
"Truly a gifted individual," Mito exclaimed.
The ability to simulate a bloodline limit using a combination of ninjutsu is such a niche term.
Generally speaking, someone capable of this would have already fused the two chakra natures into a bloodline limit.
Considering Fu Heiyao's age, he may have taken a shortcut, but who cares?
Ninjutsu is something you can use once you can use it; that's your skill.
"No," Kushina shook her head, "Actually, I don't understand why we lost either."
"I clearly pierced Xiao...you's shoulder with the Vajra Chain, but he broke free in an instant." Kushina's tone carried a hint of uncertainty.
"In the instant I broke free, I seemed to sense a very cold chakra fluctuation."
"A cold chakra capable of breaking free from the Vajra Seal," Mito said in a deep voice. "Perhaps he has already awakened the Sharingan."
"That's unlikely," Tsunade retorted.
"Did you notice the child's eyes?" Mito's expression gradually became serious.
"Quite intelligent." Tsunade rested her chin on her hand.
"His eyes are brighter than some adult Uchiha," Mito said. "The eyes are the windows to the soul, the medium of Yin Release. His Yin Release is even stronger than those with three tomoe."
Tsunade knew about her grandmother Kagura's special perception ability and believed her grandmother's guess without a doubt, but this was too unbelievable.
How old is Fu Heiyao? How could he possibly possess such a level of eye power?
"So that's why she lost, she awakened the Sharingan." Hearing her grandmother's guess, Kushina relaxed instead.
Losing because of bloodline limit can still comfort one's conscience, since the power of the Sharingan is undeniable.
Although she also has the vortex constitution, it's still better to say she lost because of the Sharingan.
Kushina was even a little resentful, "That damned little sun, he didn't even tell me he was opening his Sharingan!"
"I sensed extremely deep negative emotions within that child, which is highly unusual unless one has opened their eyes."
A hint of worry appeared on Mito's face.
He didn't discriminate against the Uchiha clan, but the fact that chakra, as a manifestation of human will, inherently carries negative emotions suggests that a person's personality might become more extreme.
Although it may not be apparent on the surface, who can be sure that a person's future will not change?
"I do know a little about the negative emotions inside him," Tsunade said, recounting the time when the two of them came to the hospital.
She also emphasized that the Sharingan did not activate after stimulating the eyes with chakra.
"Either the child is lying, or he is born with a genetic predisposition."
After listening carefully to Tsunade's words, Mito dismissed her previous worries.
According to Tsunade, this child had accumulated negative emotions in his body when he was six years old.
Two years have passed, yet she has never noticed any extreme personality traits in the child.
He was just a six-year-old child at the time, and Mito didn't believe that someone could fake their personality at six years old and keep doing so for two years.
With this in mind, a bold idea suddenly popped into Mito's mind.
"I don't know anything about mental power and Yin Release; that's the domain of the Uchiha."
However, regarding Yang Release techniques applied to the physical body, I do know of a similar example.
"Who is it!?" Kushina asked.
"Hashirama." A memory seemed to surface in Mito's eyes.
"Grandpa!"
Tsunade exclaimed in surprise.
Every Konoha resident knows the legend of the First Hokage, and Tsunade, as a member of the Senju clan and Hashirama's granddaughter, knows even more.
When Tsunade saw her grandmother use her great-grandfather as an example, she was incredulous for a moment.
"Tobirama once told me that Hashirama's physique was extraordinary from a young age, and his chakra possessed an inexhaustible vitality."
The ninjutsu he unleashed seemed to come alive, far surpassing him in both agility and power.
As time passed, Hashirama's uniqueness did not fade into obscurity; instead, it grew even stronger.
"This inexhaustible Yang Release chakra is a unique ability of Hashirama. Even after Hashirama died, his cells remained active and his body did not decay."
Mito recalled the time when she married into the Senju family.
At that time, she was the strongest female ninja among the new generation of the Uzumaki clan, and her Vajra Chains, which combined offense and defense, were a perfect match.
But in front of Hashirama, he was as fragile as paper, directly defeating the proud Mito.
Touched by this, Mito sincerely said, "The strongest element has never been Wood Release; from beginning to end, only Hashirama has been truly powerful."
Both the Senju and Konoha leadership excessively pursued and mythologized Wood Release.
In Mito's eyes, Wood Release was nothing more than an ordinary bloodline limit; the truly powerful one was Hashirama's extremely special Yang Release chakra.
Upon hearing this, both Kushina and Tsunade were so shocked that they were speechless.
They had only heard that the First Hokage's Wood Release was powerful, but they never expected to hear such profound information from their grandmother.