Chapter 130

But he also knew

that keeping Jigen here would not be easy.

Both sides possessed power over space-time,

and what he had done just now

was merely a spur-of-the-moment impulse in Hashirama Senju's own heart!!

If he could keep Jigen,

that would naturally be excellent.

If he could not keep Jigen,

Hashirama Senju would not care too much about it either!!

It was just that after today, he and Jigen

both understood

that each of them was probably the greatest obstacle to the other's subsequent plans!!

The Sage of Six Paths... and this mysterious monk...

Hashirama Senju gave a slight sigh.

The road ahead was long and the burden heavy;

his own strength was still far from reaching the point where he could ignore everything!!

He lowered his head and glanced at the wound on his body that was already nearly healed,

and Hashirama Senju shook his head.

Jigen had merely been frightened just now by his tactic of trading injury for injury, trading life for life.

In reality,

although the injuries he and Jigen had sustained looked extremely serious,

neither of them was anywhere near a fatal degree!!

Jigen's bodily toughness was extremely high;

even though Hashirama Senju himself had driven a hand blade into his body,

he discovered that Jigen's body density was enormous,

and his own palm was completely unable to move any further,

otherwise Jigen would long since have been sliced in two by Hashirama Senju!!

As for Hashirama Senju himself, his life force was extremely vigorous!!

His body's recovery ability was simply too strong!!

The speed at which Jigen destroyed his body could not even keep up with the speed at which Hashirama Senju's own body repaired itself!!

【Tsunade: This grandfather's body, his recovery ability... I'm afraid even the Slug Sage is far from matching it. I feel like his body is evolving every single second... this simply defies common sense!!】

【Jiraiya28: If that strike from the mysterious monk just now had landed on me, I'm afraid I'd already have one foot in hell. Such a terrifying wound, and it recovered in the blink of an eye.】

【Orochimaru: With a recovery ability of this level, I even feel that even if the First Hokage's head were chopped off, he could recover.】

【Fourth Raikage: The exchange between those two just now has given me some new inspiration!! I now have a better understanding of the direction for physical development!! Strength and recovery ability — those two represent two different directions!!】

【Ohnoki: A First Hokage like this, his strength is already approaching that of the gods, yet he is still in a stage of rapid growth... the ninja who share an era with him are truly pitiful...】

【Madara Uchiha: What do you know?! True sorrow is not having someone stronger than yourself; true sorrow is wanting to become stronger, but finding no path ahead, and being unable to find anyone to grow stronger alongside you!!】

【Tobirama Senju: What a pity. Apart from big brother himself, there is no second person in the Senju clan with his physical constitution and his Wood Release. And with big brother being this strong... I'm afraid... it will be very difficult for him to even have an heir...】

Within the Senju clan's settlement,

passing clansmen saw Shukaku, who looked like a beckoning cat at the gate,

and strange expressions appeared on all their faces!!

Even though several months had already passed,

they still were not used to seeing the scene before their eyes.

Shukaku, one of the nine Tailed Beasts, rumored to be capable of destroying heaven and earth, killing people like flax...

had actually become the Senju clan's gatekeeper cat?!

Thinking of this,

they gained several more measures of awe toward their own clan head!!

Probably now, apart from someone like Tobirama Senju, the clan head's own blood brother,

no one knew exactly what step Hashirama Senju's strength had reached.

And Shukaku, currently squatting at the main gate, naturally also noticed the gazes of these Senju clansmen.

His heart was filled with boundless fury!!!

What kind of looks are those?!

I am the noble Lord Shukaku!!

But he did not dare to show the slightest hint of dissatisfaction.

There was no choice —

the man Hashirama Senju was simply too terrifying!!

After that day of backing down at the daimyo's residence,

Shukaku had already been perfectly fine on his own

and could have left.

Yet Hashirama Senju had disagreed,

GLOSSARY:

- Hashirama Senju

- Tobirama Senju

- Senju clan

- Jigen

- the Sage of Six Paths

- Tailed Beasts

- Shukaku

- Tsunade

- Jiraiya

- Orochimaru

- Fourth Raikage

- Ohnoki

- Madara Uchiha

- First Hokage

- Hokage

- Raikage

- Kage

- Wood Release

- Slug Sage

- daimyo

insisted that his own power was too great,

so it had to be kept under his supervision!!

Seeing that he was no match for Hashirama Senju either,

Shukaku had originally planned to endure it for a while,

waiting for a suitable moment to slip away.

At last, a moment he considered decent arrived—

and the result was a brutal beating from Hashirama Senju!!

Shukaku had never imagined

that he could actually be this weak!!

Faced with Hashirama Senju's Wood Release,

he was no different from a pig or sheep awaiting slaughter—utterly powerless to resist!!

Pinned to the ground and rubbed back and forth!!

After being soundly thrashed a few more times,

Shukaku finally faced up to his current situation.

However,

in his eyes,

this arrangement wouldn't last long either.

How long can a human's lifespan be?

A few dozen years, that's all,

once Hashirama Senju passes away,

wouldn't he be free to go wherever he pleased?!

For him,

a few dozen years was really no different from a single nap,

it would pass in no time!!

……

【Jiraiya: Poor Shukaku…】

【Orochimaru: Poor Shukaku…】

【Tsunade: Poor Shukaku…】

【Minato Namikaze: He has no idea… this Lord Hashirama has already completed the training of the three great senjutsu. When it comes to lifespan, he might actually live even longer than Shukaku himself…】