ACSP: Chapter 34: Watch closely, this is how you use the Transformation Technique, Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!
"Great, it's the Fourth Hokage..."
"The Fourth Hokage has finally arrived."
Seeing Minato Namikaze arrive in the nick of time and use Gamabunta to temporarily suppress the Nine-Tailed, all the Ninja from Konoha Village were incredibly excited.
They had been fighting bitterly until now, just waiting for reinforcements.
Now, reinforcements had finally come.
However, the nearby secret realm squads all wore expressions of disbelief upon seeing that giant toad.
They all knew that Summoning Jutsu was a skill that could summon pets to assist in battle, similar to summoner skills in old games.
Many of their elders had even mastered this type of Ninjutsu.
It was just that the summoned beasts they had seen before were all useless little animals.
Their combat power wasn't strong.
Sometimes, they would even become a burden.
But after seeing the giant toad that Minato Namikaze had summoned at this moment,
they finally realized that summoned beasts could actually be this strong.
You have to realize,
that Nine-Tailed had just taken on a huge group of people all by itself!
And among them was even a Kage-level Ninja.
Who would have thought that it would now be suppressed by a single summoned beast.
"Damn the Fourth..."
The Nine-Tailed, pinned beneath Gamabunta, began to struggle violently.
"Now is the time."
Minato Namikaze knew that Gamabunta couldn't suppress the Nine-Tailed for long.
So, when it began to struggle, he immediately steered Gamabunta and jumped elsewhere.
"Are you afraid already?"
The Nine-Tailed snorted coldly and prepared to get up and chase after Minato Namikaze.
However, just at that moment,
a huge cloud of white smoke suddenly exploded from the nearby forest.
Immediately after,
the Nine-Tailed heard a voice that filled it with immense fear:
"Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!"
"Top Transformed Buddha!"
As the voice fell,
a towering silhouette slowly emerged from the white smoke.
It was a wooden Buddha a hundred times taller than the Nine-Tailed.
The wooden Buddha's eyes were slightly closed, its hands pressed together in prayer, and countless arms extended from behind it in all directions like a peacock spreading its tail, radiating a shocking aura.
And atop the head of that wooden Buddha stood a figure wearing red armor with long flowing hair, standing proudly, looking down upon the entire battlefield like a god.
"Senju Hashirama?"
"Shodai(1st)-sama...?"
"How is this possible..."
"Isn't Shodai(1st)-sama already dead?"
At this very moment,
not only the Nine-Tailed, but even Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other Konoha Village Ninja were stunned.
Because the guy standing on the wooden Buddha was none other than
their First Hokage.
The God of the Ninja World, Senju Hashirama!
And Li Yanran, along with the others from the secret realm squads, were so shocked that their jaws were nearly hitting the ground.
"Is this the method that guy talked about to deal with the Nine-Tailed? This is too reckless..."
Among everyone, only Minato Namikaze vaguely guessed something, and his expression couldn't help but shift.
At this time, Senju Hashirama's voice sounded again: "Nine-Tailed, your power is too great; I cannot let you run wild..."
Immediately after, the wooden Buddha moved.
It slowly extended a Buddha hand, bringing with it an overwhelming aura, and reached directly toward the Nine-Tailed.
This familiar scene made the Nine-Tailed's pupils dilate in terror; it was almost scared enough to turn around and run.
Perhaps it was because it already had a shadow cast over it by Senju Hashirama's terrifying power.
The Nine-Tailed didn't even have a single thought of resistance at this moment, and it was obediently caught by that Buddha hand just like that.
However, the moment it was pinched by that Buddha hand,
the Nine-Tailed suddenly felt a strange sensation.
"You are not Senju Hashirama..."
It easily pried open the Buddha hand, looked up at the 'Senju Hashirama' on top of the wooden Buddha, and roared while baring its fangs.
"Only realizing it now? Too late..."
Jiang Chen curled his lips slightly, formed hand seals, and without hesitation, dispelled the Transformation Technique.
But, the moment the Transformation Technique was dispelled and that huge wooden Buddha disappeared,
figures holding Chidori and Rasengan suddenly rushed out from the smoke like heavenly soldiers descending, roaring as they charged straight at the Nine-Tailed.
There were nearly two thousand of them.
Dense and numerous, blocking out the sky.
The next second,
"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."
earth-shaking roars exploded one after another, accompanied by powerful electrical currents.
Before the Nine-Tailed could even react, it was submerged in waves upon waves of explosive vortexes.
"Did I see that right? Was that Jiang Chen just now?"
Li Yanran rubbed her eyes hard, looking at the Nine-Tailed being swallowed by the flames, her face full of shock.
"It really seems to be..."
"What skill did he just use? Transformation Technique?"
"I don't know, but those ones behind should be Shadow Clones."
"How could there be so many Shadow Clones?"
"That's not Shadow Clone, that's the A-rank forbidden jutsu, Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"
Wang Shanshan and the others were looking at each other, their eyes filled with unprecedented shock.
They knew Jiang Chen was strong.
But they never expected that his methods would be so strong to this extent.
Daring to go head-to-head even against the Nine-Tailed.
This is just too monstrous.
...
"Damn brat, I will kill you..."
Although Jiang Chen successfully ambushed the Nine-Tailed by utilizing its fear of the First Hokage, with his current strength alone, it was not enough to severely injure the Nine-Tailed; at best, he was just stalling for some time.
Soon, the Nine-Tailed rushed out from the flames and began attacking his Shadow Clones like crazy, trying to find his true body among them.
However, Jiang Chen had also calculated the Nine-Tailed's tendency to hold grudges against others.
His true body was hidden among the numerous Shadow Clones, not giving it any chance to find him at all.
"I will help you."
At this time, Gamabunta also rejoined the battlefield, starting to deal with the Nine-Tailed together with Jiang Chen.
Although this toad from Mount Myōboku was no match for the Nine-Tailed,
it excelled in its agility.
For a time, it was able to trade blows back and forth with the Nine-Tailed.
The battlefield had completely turned into a situation where Jiang Chen and Gamabunta were fighting the Nine-Tailed together.
Hiruzen Sarutobi wanted to help, but he was already powerless to do so.
His exhaustion from just moments ago was too great.
And those Konoha Ninja he had brought were now heavily wounded or dead, with no strength left to fight.
...
"Look, isn't that Jiang Chen?"
"Holy crap, it really is him..."
"This guy is actually fighting the Nine-Tailed? Am I dreaming?"
"Are those all his Shadow Clone? The number is almost enough to rival an entire reinforced regiment..."
"Damn it, didn't he only contract two Genin? How is he this strong?"
"He's going to defy the heavens..."
At this moment, the other secret realm squads also recognized Jiang Chen, who was in the middle of a fierce battle with the Nine-Tailed.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
At first, they thought the person fighting the Nine-Tailed was another Kage-level Ninja from Konoha Village.
They didn't expect the opponent to be Jiang Chen, the one abandoned by the Chen family and now reduced to a piece of trash in Jinghai City.