#180 - Chapter 180: Hashirama's Corpse
#180 - Chapter 180: Hashirama's Corpse
When Danzo walked out of his residence and arrived at the Root base outside,
He saw the sky filled with gold dust, like a sea, surging towards the Root base. All the Root ninjas of the organization were swallowed by this gold dust.
As expected, this ability to control gold dust can only be done by the Fourth Kazekage of Sunagakure!
But, strange?
Didn't Orochimaru say that the Fourth Kazekage had already been killed by him?
And why is he invading Root!
Danzo couldn't understand at all.
Just then, a ninja wearing a black mask descended from the sky. He was one of Danzo's right-hand men, Torune Aburame from the Aburame clan.
"What's going on? Why is the Fourth Kazekage here?"
Danzo asked coldly, and Torune knelt on the ground, answering.
"Reporting to Lord Danzo, according to the information just received, Orochimaru used the Impure World Reincarnation technique to summon the First Hokage, the Second Hokage, and the Fourth Kazekage of Sunagakure, but the technique had an accident. The Fourth Kazekage broke free from Orochimaru's control and escaped from the barrier."
"!"
Danzo was also shocked, then narrowed his eyes, looking at the Root base that had been covered by gold dust, and said in a low voice.
"Impure World Reincarnation! Teacher's forbidden technique? That Orochimaru... But, the Fourth Kazekage was able to escape control, how did he do it? No... it doesn't matter, where's the Wind?"
As soon as he finished speaking, another figure with orange hair, wearing a Konoha forehead protector, and carrying a short knife on his back appeared.
He was Danzo's other right-hand man, Fu Yamanaka from the Yamanaka clan.
"Have you found the Kazekage's trail?"
The reason Danzo asked this was because Fu Yamanaka was one of the very few sensory ninjas in the entire Root.
Unfortunately, Fu Yamanaka shook his head and said while kneeling on the ground.
"I'm sorry, Lord Danzo, these gold dusts are filled with a large amount of chakra, interfering with my sensory abilities."
Danzo's expression became even more gloomy.
"Is that so? It seems that this Kazekage came prepared, but why didn't he go to Orochimaru for revenge, and instead came to our Root?"
This question also puzzled the surrounding Root members.
"Go... find this Kazekage for me... Also, bring members of the sealing squad. He is now an Impure World Reincarnation body, ordinary techniques cannot destroy him, only sealing techniques..."
"Yes!"
The Root ninjas immediately dispersed, searching for Rasa's踪跡 throughout the Root base.
Meanwhile, Rasa had already arrived at his destination.
The sky-filled gold dust pouring into the Root base allowed Rasa to fully understand the internal structure of the Root organization's base.
Then, with his current sensory abilities and the ability to travel through gold dust, he quickly found his target.
This was a huge cave hidden beneath the Root organization's base.
A huge stone blocked the way, covered with various sealing techniques.
Moreover, Rasa was very familiar with these sealing techniques, they were all from the Uzumaki clan.
It seemed that Mito Uzumaki, Hashirama's wife, had personally arranged them after his death. From these techniques, it could be seen that Mito Uzumaki's talent in sealing techniques was much better than Honoka's.
Unfortunately, Rasa had no intention of studying these sealing techniques. He was short on time, so he could only break them by force.
Thinking of this, he directly formed hand seals.
Although he hadn't used ninjutsu for more than a year, he was still very skilled at performing them now.
Four sand clones rose from Rasa's side.
"You guard the surroundings!"
After giving the order, Rasa walked to the huge stone and directly pressed his right palm on the seals. Instantly, the huge attraction of the [Karma] directly absorbed the seals on these sealing techniques.
Before long, the huge stone in front of him made a rumbling sound and slowly moved away.
When Rasa walked in, he could see a huge cave.
Sunlight shone down from the cave above, scattering on a huge tree below.
The tree's trunk was so thick, as if it had lived for thousands of years, with a circumference of a dozen people. The canopy was like a giant green umbrella, covering everything around it.
And at the very bottom of this tree, there was a small shrine.
The body of Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage, who had been dead for decades but was still lifelike, was placed there.
And upon closer inspection, it could be seen that his body was actually integrated with this giant tree.
Although he had been dead for many years, the chakra he emitted still made Rasa feel thrilled. Ordinary tailed beasts were far inferior. This familiar feeling also confirmed the idea in Rasa's mind.
"As expected, Hashirama Senju's power is not ordinary Wood Release, but the power of the God Tree, or rather the power of the Ten-Tails. It can be said that Hashirama Senju is a living Ten-Tails!"
However, now all of this would be cheaper for Rasa.
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Konoha.
The venue for the Chunin Exams.
Rasa's unexpected appearance, although causing Orochimaru to have many doubts and curiosities, would not affect his purpose this time. This time, his only goal was to kill his beloved teacher: the Third Hokage.
However, on other battlefields in Konoha Village, the sudden withdrawal of Sunagakure still had a great impact.
Although Konoha was now dilapidated, it was still not something Sunagakure and Otogakure could compare to.
Not to mention that Sunagakure was even more dilapidated.
Therefore, after the Sunagakure ninjas withdrew from the battlefield, the Otogakure ninjas were unable to support themselves and were no match for the Konoha ninjas.
In addition, Jiraiya, one of the Sannin, secretly took action.
After experiencing the initial panic, the Konoha ninjas quickly stabilized the situation within the village.
Inside the examination hall, Kakashi, as the teacher of Naruto and the others, naturally witnessed everything with the insight of the Sharingan. After seeing the Kazekage order the Sunagakure ninjas to withdraw, although he was a little puzzled, he was relieved.
Only Gai, who was single-minded, didn't know what was happening. After kicking away an Otogakure ninja, he came to Kakashi and asked anxiously.
"Kakashi, what's going on? Why did the Sunagakure ninjas suddenly withdraw?"
Kakashi's Sharingan was constantly watching the battle inside the barrier not far away, and said calmly.
"It was the Kazekage of Sunagakure who issued the order. They terminated their cooperation with Orochimaru and withdrew!"
"That's great!"
Gai breathed a sigh of relief, but quickly reacted and looked at the barrier not far away, saying.
"The Kazekage has withdrawn, so who is fighting the Third Hokage?"
Kakashi said with a gloomy face, uttering the name that made Gai's expression change drastically.
"Orochimaru!"
"What!!"
At this time, Naruto, Sakura, and Shikamaru, who had awakened from the genjutsu, also came to Kakashi and Gai.
"Kakashi-sensei!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"What exactly is going on?"
Faced with everyone's questioning gazes, Kakashi simply said.
"It's okay, the Sunagakure ninjas have already withdrawn, the Otogakure are not worth worrying about. Next, let's watch the Hokage's battle..."
But as soon as Kakashi finished speaking, looking at the group of children in front of him, he felt something was wrong. After carefully looking at them again, he immediately asked anxiously.
"Where's Sasuke!?"
As soon as these words came out, Naruto and Sakura in the room realized that Sasuke was indeed missing.
At this time, Hayate Gekko appeared next to everyone in a flash, with a somewhat unsightly expression, and said.
"I'm sorry, Kakashi-senpai, I just asked Sasuke to pursue Gaara and the others from Sunagakure..."
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