Chapter 176

Not a trace of timidity showed on Hashirama Senju's face either!!

For him,

the current Ōtsutsuki Aoshi,

although immensely powerful,

was enough to earn his serious attention,

but just on that alone,

it was not enough to make him back down!!

Ōtsutsuki Aoshi had never once tasted defeat since the day he was born,

and when had Hashirama Senju ever tasted defeat?

For Hashirama Senju,

no enemy whatsoever could ever stir a feeling of fear in him!!

Because he believed that he himself was the invincible one!

Even if the opponent's strength surpassed his own!!

The one who survived to the end would definitely be him!!

This was Hashirama Senju's confidence in himself!!

This was also the truth he had come to understand through years of life-and-death struggles!!

He possessed an extremely strong confidence in his own strength!!

Because countless facts had proven it to him,

he alone was the victor who lived to the end!

Hearing him say this,

a look of interest also appeared on Ōtsutsuki Aoshi's face!!

From the way Hashirama Senju carried himself as he spoke, he could tell

that Hashirama Senju was the same kind of person as he was!!

Hashirama Senju had also fought his way out of countless mountains of corpses and seas of blood!

He too had likely barely tasted a single defeat along the way!!

This enemy was the same as himself,

someone who had never lost!!

A man who possessed a heart of invincibility!!

But just like Hashirama Senju,

Ōtsutsuki Aoshi was also extremely confident in himself!!

He likewise believed that he was the strongest existence!!

This was the truth countless life-and-death struggles had taught him!!

And as the two of them spoke, the people in the livestream room and Hinata Kaguya, who stood off to one side,

their hearts all leapt into their throats!!

They knew

that what followed would surely erupt into an extremely fierce battle!!

The terrifying scale of this battle

would surely surpass the one between Hashirama Senju and Ōtsutsuki Hamura moments ago!!

At this moment, Ōtsutsuki Aoshi first let out a soft laugh,

and then,

his body vanished on the spot with a "whoosh"!!

Hinata Kaguya had already activated her Byakugan by now,

yet even she could not make out Ōtsutsuki Aoshi's movements!!

It was as if Ōtsutsuki Aoshi had completely disappeared from the spot!!

And seeing this,

Hashirama Senju could not help but shrink his pupils!!

He too had not seen how Ōtsutsuki Aoshi vanished from the spot!

Ōtsutsuki Aoshi's speed far exceeded what he had imagined!!

And Ōtsutsuki Aoshi's taijutsu also far surpassed that of Ōtsutsuki Shiryū from earlier,

so much so that even Hashirama Senju had to admit

that the current Ōtsutsuki Aoshi's

speed was even greater than his own!!

Likely no one could see his movements clearly!

……

Inside Konoha's training grounds,

Might Guy and Rock Lee, who saw this scene, gaped wide open!!

As two people who had always devoted themselves to the study of taijutsu,

they naturally knew

just how astonishing the speed Ōtsutsuki Aoshi had just unleashed was!!

Especially Guy,

GLOSSARY:

【Hashirama Senju, Ōtsutsuki Aoshi, Ōtsutsuki Hamura, Ōtsutsuki Shiryū, Hinata Kaguya, Might Guy, Rock Lee, Konoha, taijutsu, Byakugan】

He could see even more clearly just how terrifying this scene was!!

Little Lee was only shocked that the speed Ōtsutsuki Aoba had unleashed could reach such an extent!!

But Might Guy saw far more,

he knew,

in that instant just now,

Ōtsutsuki Aoba's speed had even surpassed sound by several times!!

That was the point that made Guy feel incomparably astonished!!

But this was not the part that surprised him the most,

what surprised him the most was still Ōtsutsuki Aoba's body!!

If he opened the Eight Gates,

Might Guy believed he could also reach this speed,

but his body had no way of withstanding this kind of speed,

because using his own body at such high intensity

would cause tremendous damage to his body!!

Therefore,

Might Guy did not believe he could endure such great intensity,

once he employed this mode,

his body would immediately begin to collapse!!

Might Guy's face also lost the usual playful, laughing expression,

he said in a solemn, grave, deep voice.

"Little Lee, for the battle between the two of them next, you must watch carefully…"

"If possible, it's best not to blink at all…"

"If you can grasp even one-tenth of what their battle contains, I'm afraid it will be no small help to the rest of your life!"

Although shocked by the words that came from Might Guy's mouth,

a look of doubt still surfaced on Little Lee's face.

"Guy-sensei, is his taijutsu really that powerful?"

"I see he seems to use Byakugan too — I wonder how it compares to the Hyūga clan behind Neji…"

Hearing Little Lee's remark,

Might Guy gave his disciple's back of the head an irritated smack.

"You're comparing the Hyūga clan to them? …"