Konoha Village.
Senju clan compound.
“Too noisy.”
Just as everyone believed Chiba was guaranteed to die—
Chiba finally raised his eyelids.
His exceedingly impatient voice echoed with vivid clarity across the entire field.
Boom!
In the span of a single breath, with Chiba as the center—
A tangible, visible surge of raw blue chakra erupted straight into the sky like a volcanic eruption!
The violent air pressure instantly turned into a Category 12 hurricane.
The Root ninjas charging at the very front felt as though they had slammed headfirst into an invisible wall of solid steel.
Crack!
Dense, nauseating sounds of shattering bones resounded, setting teeth on edge.
Dozens of Root elites—at ten times the speed at which they had charged—were hurled backward violently!
Blood spurted wildly into the mid-air.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
Their bodies smashed directly through the dilapidated walls behind them like broken ragdolls.
The next instant—the storm expanded outward indiscriminately.
Hiruzen Sarutobi was forced to raise his arm to shield his face.
Danzo teetered unsteadily in the fierce wind, nearly pitching forward onto his face.
The clan heads standing on the outer treetops were pushed back, their forms swaying in the gale.
Fugaku Uchiha violently stabilized his footing, the three tomoe of his Sharingan spinning frantically.
This is impossible!
Simply through releasing raw chakra, he insta-killed dozens of Root elites?
What kind of monster-level chakra reserve is this?!
Hiashi covered his right eye, a drop of blood actually seeping out from between his fingers.
In that split second, within the vision of his Byakugan, the chakra inside Chiba’s body was like a miniature sun suddenly detonating!
Far too blinding!
It wracked his eye meridians with severe pain, making it completely impossible to look directly at him!
In the center of the ruins, Chiba still stood right where he was.
He didn’t bother to glance at those Root rats whose lives were now hanging by a thread.
He crossed his fingers and brought his hands together.
Clap!
An exceptionally crisp sound of clapping hands resonated, sounding extraordinarily bone-chilling at this moment.
“Since it’s all collapsed… then let’s build a new one.”
The chakra within Chiba’s body surged frantically into the earth like a bursting dam.
“Mokuton: Wood Human Technique!”
Rumble—
The earth began to tremble violently.
It was as if a Magnitude 10 earthquake had suddenly struck.
The ground of the entire village shuddered continuously.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, being closest, retreated several steps in succession before stabilizing himself.
“This chakra… This hand position of clapping both palms together!”
Seeing Chiba’s hand gesture, a memory that had been buried for decades violently exploded in Hiruzen Sarutobi’s mind.
Impossible!
This is absolutely impossible!
Crack!
Crack!
The ground of the former Senju compound instantly split open into countless massive chasms.
Trees of unimaginable thickness roared out from deep under the earth.
Like enraged giant dragons, they intertwined, wrapped, and fused with one another.
Growing higher and higher.
Growing larger and larger.
Ten meters.
Fifty meters.
One hundred meters.
Several hundred meters!
A wooden giant that eclipsed the sky and blotted out the sun rose straight up from the earth!
Encircled around the giant’s body was a vicious, terrifying wooden dragon.
A suffocating pressure pressed down on everyone’s heads like a solid mountain.
The oxygen in the surrounding air seemed to be completely drained in an instant.
Everyone involuntarily threw their heads back, their mouths gaping wide.
What on earth is that?
A giant as massive as a mountain!
Shikaku’s legs went weak, and he collapsed onto his rear on the ground.
Cold sweat rolled down his forehead like rain.
“M-Mokuton?”
Fugaku’s entire body trembled.
Before this wooden giant, his Susanoo was practically like a laughable toy!
This was true power!
This was the absolute violence capable of suppressing the entire ninja world!
Danzo’s sole eye bulged wildly, his eyeball nearly popping out of its socket.
The fingers gripping his cane turned pale from excessive force.
The power of the First Hokage!
This was the power that the First Hokage had used to pacify the chaotic world!
He didn’t just possess the bloodline of the Senju clan—he had actually awakened Mokuton of this caliber!
Greed!
An insanely frantic greed instantly swallowed Danzo’s sanity.
If he could obtain this body—he, Danzo, would become the new God of Shinobi!
The massive form of the Wood Human didn’t just intimidate everyone present.
At the same time, even across a vast distance, the civilians and ordinary ninjas of Konoha Village all witnessed this terrifying monster!
Screams.
Cries.
Piercing alarms.
The entire village instantly fell into unprecedented panic.
“Enemy attack!”
“Run! The village is going to be destroyed!”
“What kind of monster is that?!”
Chaos spread through the streets like a plague.
At the Senju compound, Chiba stood atop the Wood Human’s head.
His gaze was frigid to the extreme, looking down at the crowd below as if they were ants.
“Go.”
With a single thought from Chiba, the several-hundred-meter-tall Wood Human moved.
It raised its massive foot and stomped down fiercely on a section of ruined buildings below.
Boom!
The mountains shook and the earth trembled.
Under this single step, vast stretches of ruins were crushed directly into powder.
Immediately after, the Wood Human leaned down.
Sweeping its palm—as large as a hill—it smashed across the ground.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Whatever collapsed walls remained, whatever weeds or trees grew—before absolute violence, nothing could offer even a shred of resistance.
Entire areas of debris were uprooted, and massive boulders flew straight into the air.
A terrifying shockwave turned into a tangible gale, wildly sweeping outward in all directions.
“Retreat! Everyone retreat!” Hiruzen Sarutobi bellowed with all his strength.
He desperately channeled his chakra, sticking his feet firmly to the ground.
Yet even so, he was still pushed back over ten meters by the gale, sliding backward.
The Anbu and Root ninjas fared even worse.
Many were blown off their feet by the air pressure, slamming heavily against distant tree trunks.
No one dared to step forward!
Who would dare stop it?
Even if they were barely grazed by the edge, they would be instantly turned into a pile of minced meat!
Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, the two senior advisors, completely lost their usual dignity.
They clung tightly to each other, shivering in fear.
This wasn’t a power ninjas could stand against!
This was a miracle—a divine feat!
In a few short minutes, the vast former Senju compound was left as nothing more than a sprawling expanse of pitted, yellow earth.
This place had been completely leveled to the ground.
Chiba released the technique.
The massive Wood Human dissolved into countless green specks of light and dissipated.
But it wasn’t over yet.
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Chiba extended his right hand and formed a single-handed seal.
“Doton: Moving Earth Core.”
Accompanied by a massive injection of chakra, the land across several square kilometers was kneaded effortlessly like soft dough.
The uneven deep pits were rapidly filled in.
The protruding mounds instantly flattened.
In the blink of an eye, the entire ground of the Senju compound became as smooth and level as a mirror.
Fugaku Uchiha stared numbly at all this.
A single-handed seal?
An Doton technique covering several square kilometers?
How massive and precise of a chakra control did this require?
Is this truly something a human can accomplish?
Immediately after, Chiba clapped his hands together once more.
“Mokuton: Continuous House Technique!”
Rumble!
This time, no terrifying monster broke through the earth.
In its place came row upon row of exquisitely crafted wooden structures.
A grand and majestic main estate.
A quiet, elegant courtyard.
Towering, sturdy perimeter walls.
A vast, flat training ground.
In a mere dozen seconds, a brand-new, sprawling estate with an imposing presence appeared right before everyone’s eyes!
Dead silence blanketed the entire area.
Even the wind seemed to have frozen.
Not a single person spoke.
The eyes of the clan heads looking at Chiba had completely transformed.
Shock.
Awe.
And deep, overwhelming fear.
Tsunade’s disciple?
To hell with “disciple”!
This is clearly the most orthodox heir of the Senju clan!
Only a direct bloodline of the Senju could unleash mythic Mokuton like this!
That old fox Hiruzen Sarutobi—he knew everything from the very start!
He simply wanted to use the major clans as cannon fodder to test this monster’s depth!
In the hearts of all the clan heads, a surge of rage at being manipulated flared up alongside a deep-seated dread of Chiba.
Chiba dusted off the wood shavings on his hands, as if he had merely completed a trivial chore.
He turned around and cast his gaze toward the disheveled Konoha high command.
“I just came home. And renovated my family’s estate while I was at it.”
“Why?”
“Does Hokage-sama have an objection?”