The Senju Clan.
The Uchiha Clan.
The war between the two clans had lasted for many years; in a sense, their war history was the history of the Ninja World.
As the war progressed, the battle lines of the two clans stretched longer and longer, leading to supply demands.
Chu Yang, who had just returned from the Soul Palace, immediately received an order from his clan, requiring him to join a small team within the clan to ambush the Uchiha Clan's logistics unit.
This had almost become the norm for this war.
The Senju Clan's logistics also frequently encountered attacks from the Uchiha Clan.
The two sides went back and forth, gradually adapting to these attacks during the war, developing vigilance, and thus, ambushes evolved into a competition of reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance.
Chu Yang's team and the enemy's logistics team chased each other across the grasslands for two full days before pinpointing the enemy's location.
Night fell, and the Uchiha Clan's logistics unit camped downstream of a small river, while Chu Yang and his team ambushed them in the woods not far from the river.
"Although the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan is not as good as the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan in terms of reconnaissance, it still possesses very powerful observational abilities."
"When taking action, be sure to control the flow of Chakra and avoid attracting the enemy's attention."
The captain repeatedly warned the members of the team.
Because these people were all very young and had little experience fighting the Uchiha.
There was even a young man who had just joined the war.
The captain's gaze lingered on Chu Yang, then he secretly shook his head, thinking that someone as young and inexperienced as him was most likely to be sacrificed.
Under the cover of darkness, the team quickly infiltrated the river and slowly swam towards the enemy's camp.
Chu Yang, who was at the back of the team, sensed something was amiss.
The number of enemy sentries was very small and did not fully cover the perimeter of the camp, especially the side near the riverbank, where there was no one in sight.
Moreover, the camp was extremely quiet, as if everyone inside was fast asleep.
These two behaviors were very dangerous in the wild.
Chu Yang wanted to open his mouth to warn the captain, but the latter was leading the charge, swimming far ahead of Chu Yang.
Only after reaching the shore did Chu Yang have the opportunity to voice his concerns into the captain's ear, but unfortunately, the captain, seeing his young age, did not take it to heart.
Chu Yang sighed; since he couldn't convince him, he could only be more careful himself.
The captain quietly crept into a tent...
The other team members dispersed around, waiting for the captain's signal, ready to simultaneously eliminate the resting Uchiha clansmen.
However, instead of the captain's signal, they only heard a piercing scream!
Damn it!
At the same time, lights flared up from all directions, illuminating the entire camp, and black figures scurried about, revealing Uchiha Ninja everywhere!
The next moment...
Chu Yang saw the captain being dragged out of the tent by a Uchiha clansman like a dead dog.
Chu Yang and his team had fallen into an ambush!
"Find a way to break through!"
Suddenly, someone in the team shouted, and instantly, many Ninja, with panicked expressions, tried to break through in different directions.
"Idiots! Dispersing our strength at a time like this is asking for death; they've already prepared a trap for us!" Chu Yang couldn't help but curse angrily.
Sure enough, those Senju clansmen who attempted to break through were cut down by the enemies who had been ambushed beforehand.
This made the remaining Senju clansmen quickly assess the situation and converge towards Chu Yang's position.
"Attack!"
The leading Uchiha clearly did not want the enemy to have a moment's respite.
The two sides began a fierce exchange of blows!
After several exchanges with the enemy, Chu Yang discovered that their combat power was very strong, and they could not possibly be a logistics unit.
This so-called logistics unit was a trap to lure them from the very beginning!
"We must make the Senju Clan pay!"
The enemy was well-prepared, and in terms of both strength and numbers, Chu Yang's side was difficult to contend with, quickly falling into a disadvantage!
But!
The Uchiha Clan had miscalculated!
Chu Yang, having returned from the Soul Palace, had his innate powers surge to three times their previous strength.
His current Wood Release proficiency and Chakra reserves were barely enough to unleash a partial, profound Wood Release Ninjutsu.
Just as the Senju Clan was retreating steadily, Chu Yang stepped forward, his hands beginning to form seals.
The earth trembled.
Countless thick trees shot up from the ground, forming a forest in an extreme amount of time, engulfing all the Uchiha clansmen.
[Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees]
This was the only profound Ninjutsu Chu Yang knew, but it was not the complete Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees, because even if all of Chu Yang's Chakra was drained, this Ninjutsu was only a small fraction of the original.
It was more like the low-tier "Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence" used by Yamato.
Its power also did not reach the profound level, only between S-rank and A-rank.
Even so, it was more than enough to deal with these Uchiha clansmen.
The entire forest, under Chu Yang's control, transformed into man-eating demons, constantly strangling or restraining the Uchiha Ninja.
They were submerged by the forest, with no place to stand; every place they had stood was a battlefield.
Among the Uchiha Clan, there were many masters proficient in Fire Release Ninjutsu; they did not sit idly by, unleashing a large number of Fire Release Ninjutsu, attempting to burn down this forest with flames.
They clearly had not witnessed the power of Wood Release.
The speed of destruction by fire was far from matching the speed of the forest's regeneration.
No matter how hard this group tried, their vision was always submerged by an endless sea of trees, making them feel despair.
And this was only the incomplete [Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees]!
The enemy was absolutely suppressed, and the Senju clansmen seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack!
With the help of other Senju clansmen, most of the Uchiha clansmen were killed in the forest, and in the blink of an eye, the offensive and defensive advantage was reversed by Chu Yang!
This was the power of Wood Release on the battlefield, enough to decide the outcome of a small war!
After the rampage of Wood Release, the remaining enemies chose to flee under Chu Yang's terrifying deterrence, and Chu Yang, already exhausted, did not pursue them.
The surviving Senju clansmen gathered around Chu Yang, all showing grateful gazes.
"Yang! We owe you big time this time, otherwise, we would have definitely died here!"
"I didn't expect you to know Hashirama's Wood Release!"
"I heard that Hashirama took in a group of young people as disciples and taught them his unique Wood Release Ninjutsu. Are you one of them?"
The clansmen looked at Chu Yang in shock.
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Hashirama taking in disciples was not a secret, but the specific list of individuals had not been circulated.
Therefore, the clansmen only now learned of Chu Yang's identity as the clan leader's disciple.
"So far, I haven't heard of anyone successfully learning Wood Release; Yang is the first!"
"Not only that, his Wood Release is very powerful; so many Uchiha Clan experts just now suffered greatly."
"Yang is a genius in Wood Release! He can completely pass on the clan leader's Wood Release!"
The group returned to the clan after completing their mission.
The news that Chu Yang's team had been ambushed and then counter-killed the enemy instantly spread throughout the entire Senju Clan.
What truly shocked people was not how many Uchiha clansmen he had killed, but that he had mastered Wood Release.
No one understood how strong Wood Release was better than the Senju Clan, and Chu Yang was the second clansman to master this Bloodline Limit, destined to gain the attention of the entire clan.
Not long after the news spread, Chu Yang received a summons from Hashirama.
He followed the guards all the way to the clan leader's residence.
Hashirama, always straightforward, did not make Chu Yang wait long and soon appeared before him. Hashirama was always accompanied by his younger brother, Senju Tobirama.
That is, the Second Hokage.
Hashirama smiled, led Chu Yang to the courtyard, and then said to him, "Show me your Wood Release."
Chu Yang complied, performing several of the most basic techniques, all Ninjutsu that Hashirama had taught him.
Watching Chu Yang freely and flexibly manipulate trees without any stiffness, Hashirama's eyes showed admiration.
A single glimpse was enough to reveal Chu Yang's talent in Wood Release.
Bloodline Limits were different from ordinary Ninjutsu; their training difficulty and risk were very high.
If unsuccessful, the fusion of different Chakra natures would leave indelible after-effects on the Ninja at a bloodline level.
Only those with similar bloodlines could minimize this risk to the greatest extent.
Originally, Hashirama had not held much hope for finding a successor until Chu Yang appeared.
The dominance of Wood Release was something most Bloodline Limits could not compare to, and training failure was common.
Failure in Wood Release training would deplete the practitioner's life force to varying degrees.
Even if the same bloodline exempted most of the backlash, most of the young people chosen by Hashirama were confined to sickbeds for a long time.