Chapter 125

If we were talking about the body alone,

even the sages of the Three Great Sacred Grounds could not compare to his current self,

and he had even brought out natural energy to use,

yet the Jigen before him had actually managed to withstand this strike of his!!

His gaze darkened,

Hashirama Senju pulled back his right arm,

and from below kicked viciously toward the left side of Jigen's body,

Jigen reacted in the very first instant!!!

He instinctively reached out with his left arm to grab Hashirama Senju's leg,

but in that split second,

a strange, eerie smile surfaced on Hashirama Senju's face.

That was a flaw he had deliberately revealed.

In the blink of an eye,

Hashirama Senju's body twisted away at an utterly impossible angle,

and he drove a vicious punch straight into Jigen's lower abdomen!!!

Jigen's grab swiped through empty air,

and his expression changed sharply!!!

Careless!!!

Although its strength could not compare to when he was at his peak,

on this planet he was still essentially an extremely powerful being!!

From the very start,

when he faced Hashirama Senju,

even though he had already tried to value Hashirama Senju as highly as possible,

deep down in his bones there was still a trace of contempt.

No matter how strong Hashirama Senju was,

he was still nothing more than a monkey from a backward planet,

he could not possibly pose any threat to him!!

And over these past several thousand years,

he himself had basically not engaged in any real battle that truly belonged to him.

So his combat awareness had long since grown rusty!!!

"Boom!!"

A punch slammed brutally into Jigen's body,

and he immediately became like a cannonball,

both feet leaving the ground,

his entire body sent flying backward!!

The remaining trees along the way were all smashed open with a huge hole by his body.

In the end,

after kicking up a skyful of dust,

Jigen's body only came to a stop after crashing into a massive boulder.

【Jiraiya: Tsk tsk… worthy of the First Hokage, who cultivated senjutsu just like this great lord!! Truly, just like my own dashing figure, no matter how powerful the enemy, they can only ever be our backdrop!!】

【Fourth Raikage: Terrifying!! Who would have thought the First Hokage's taijutsu was this powerful—every move is the pinnacle of perfection!! Stripped of all excess motion, leaving only the strongest attack!!】

【Ōnoki: This is the ninja god taken to an even greater extreme… he simply has no enemy who can match him. It seems that although this monk's strength is formidable, against the First Hokage it still falls a little short…】

【Orochimaru: Something's off…!! Look at the First Hokage's eyes?! The battle doesn't seem to be over yet!!】

Hashirama Senju withdrew his right fist and gently rubbed it.

What a hard, terrifying body…

He felt that what he had just struck was simply not like a human body at all!!

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He had never encountered such a hard substance!!

Even Hashirama Senju was now beginning to suspect—

this guy couldn't have transformed into some kind of monster using something, could he!!

From that punch just now,

he felt his own bones were about to split open!!

Even if a Tailed Beast had taken that punch from him,

it couldn't have been completely unscathed!!

Most importantly,

he knew,

the other side was definitely fine!!

That punch at most made him a little disheveled,

but to thoroughly defeat the opponent,

with that one punch alone it was absolutely impossible!!!

"Boom!!"

The mountain rocks exploded apart!!

Jigen's body burst out from the rubble!!

Where on earth was that dashing, elegant air he'd had just moments ago—

his face was caked in mud,

his clothes were torn to shreds,

even the small braid at the back of his head had been smashed apart into a tangled mess!!

He pressed a hand against his lower abdomen,

watching the blood drip down from his mouth,

and an expression of disbelief flickered across his face!!

He himself…

he himself had actually been injured?!!

He hadn't expected it at all—

Hashirama Senju could truly wound him!!

Although the injury wasn't serious,

for Jigen,

this was still something utterly inconceivable!!

And seeing this sight, Hashirama Senju's

expression grew ever more solemn.

He hadn't expected—

Jigen's injuries were actually lighter than he'd imagined!!

The force of that punch he'd just thrown,

he himself knew perfectly well,

although he hadn't gathered power for long,

he had absolutely not held back in the slightest!!

And the Jigen before him—

he merely looked a little wretched, that's all;

in truth, he hadn't taken any real damage at all!!