Chapter 9

Uchiha Tian Dao and Senju Butsugen were two men standing at the peak of power.

The scene shifted.

The boy Madara on the black screen.

His facial expression clearly showed how shocked he was inside.

Amid his constantly changing expressions,

everyone realized…

Had the boy Madara just activated his Sharingan???

Crimson tomoe suddenly appeared in his eyes.

【Tobirama Senju: Of course! The Uchiha are an evil clan!!! Seeing his brother's strength surpass his own, Uchiha Madara was consumed by envy and directly activated his Sharingan!!!】

【Hashirama Senju: Tobirama!!! How many times have I told you? We must treat others with sincerity! Your prejudice against Madara is too great!!!】

【Orochimaru: Can the Sharingan be activated this way?... So it's not necessary to kill someone close to you to awaken it... Could intense emotion alone trigger it?...】

【Sasuke Uchiha: Hmph!! This is what the Uchiha ancestors were like... Pathetic!! I will surpass you one day, and when I do, I will kill that man with my own hands!!!】

【Nagato: The Sharingan... Pathetic... Before the divine, all ocular techniques are powerless!!!】

At this moment, Madara

unusually did not refute Tobirama.

He remembered, when he first activated his Sharingan,

it was because he faced the imminent separation from Senju Hashirama,

his emotions had built up to an extreme,

and that was why he activated his Sharingan.

But watching the boy Madara in the vision,

Uchiha Madara had to admit...

He probably activated his Sharingan out of anger!!!

He had always believed his strength was nearly equal to Senju Hashirama's,

just a tiny gap apart.

Only later did he realize,

that "tiny gap" might have been a billion-fold difference!!!

How could the proud Madara endure this!!!

How could the proud Madara possibly endure this?!!!

originally, under the leadership of their two clan heads,

the Uchiha and Senju clans were locked in deadly combat.

Yet they all suddenly stopped their actions because of one child.

"Madara, you may leave."

"Let today's events be forgotten."

"In the future... everything I said will come true. You will see."

Upon hearing the boy Hashirama's words,

all the Uchiha remained silent,

offering no rebuttal.

Just moments ago,

the aura radiating from that boy

had made them feel the gap—and fear!!!

Though the Uchiha were all arrogant,

they were not foolish,

they were arrogant toward the weak,

but before those stronger than them,

no one dared to show disrespect to a superior.

The boy Madara's expression was complex; after a long, deep look at Senju Hashirama, he left.

【Orochimaru: Is this the power of the God of Shinobi? At this age, he alone scared off the entire Uchiha clan!!!】

【Tsunade: Wood Release... This is the power of Wood Release!!! Yes, it must be because of Wood Release that he possesses such strength!!!】

【Minato Namikaze: This probably has nothing to do with Wood Release... First Hokage didn't use any ninjutsu... It seems he simply has extraordinary physical strength... How could this be related to Wood Release???】

【Jiraiya: Sigh... If First Hokage were still alive, the later Shinobi World Wars probably never would have happened...】

【Hashirama Senju: What??? You mean, after my death, the Shinobi World immediately plunged into war???】

【Uchiha Madara: Hashirama, I've told you before—everything you built is nothing but a castle in the air... You've already reversed priorities.】

【Uchiha Madara: Hashirama, I told you long ago—everything you've built is nothing but a castle in the air… you've long since confused the means for the end.】

after all the Uchiha had departed,

Senju Butsugen looked at Hashirama with a complex expression.

"Hashirama..."

"Do you know that we and the Uchiha are mortal enemies!!!"

"There is no room for reconciliation between us and them!!!"

"Why... why did you not attack them just now!!!"

"Just now… why didn't you make a move against them just now?!!!"

"You actually let go of our clan's greatest enemy!!!!"

"You... you... you..."

Just as Senju Butsama was about to scold his son,

he happened to meet Hashirama's icy gaze!

10. You are the only one in the Senju clan to have awakened Wood Release!!

Looking at Hashirama's icy gaze.

Senju Butsama felt at this moment as if his very body had frozen solid!!!

He never expected,

that Hashirama's strength had unknowingly already reached such a level.

And judging from Hashirama's previous performance,

he had not at all realized that his son's strength had long since surpassed his own!!!

Thinking of this,

Senju Butsama's heart immediately sank.

His own son,

Senju Hashirama's strength and depth of mind,

were far more terrifying than he had imagined!!!!!!!!

【Orochimaru: It seems this First Hokage my lord is far more terrifying than we imagined... It seems even his father never expected his strength to be this great!!!】

【Shimura Danzo: Hmph!! The man who could found Konoha — how could he possibly be someone of simple mind?! Indeed, only those skilled at hiding themselves can laugh last!!】

【Hiruzen Sarutobi: Orochimaru!!! Do not over-interpret the First Hokage my lord's thoughts — he must have had his own reasons for acting this way!!!!】

【Naruto Uzumaki: What?... So this is the strength of the First Hokage and the powerful shinobi of the Warring States era... I don't think they're all that impressive. Compared to me, I don't feel they're much stronger than I am.】

【Minato Namikaze: Naruto, don't talk nonsense!!! We should show respect to our predecessors!!!】

【Jiraiya: So this is the strength of the one who founded Konoha, the God of Ninja?... If the First my lord were still alive, perhaps the shinobi world's state of affairs over all these years wouldn't be what it is now, and many things that followed wouldn't have happened.】

Inside the Akatsuki,

several members looked at Kakuzu with strange expressions.

They all knew,

Kakuzu claimed he had once crossed blows with the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama,

and lived to tell the tale!!!!

But now it seemed...

This was completely impossible!!!!