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Chapter 244 The Benefits of Putting Hulk in His Hands

Back then, the Nine-Tails was beaten so badly by thousands of giant hands that it was powerless to resist the First Hokage.

But the Hulk that Xia Zuo was facing was tough and strong; he even enthusiastically swung his fist at the giant hand of the wooden man.

With a deafening roar, the wooden man's large hand collided with Hulk's fist, and two of the wooden man's fingers, which resembled roof beams, broke off.

The force of the impact traveled from the fingers to the arm, causing the wooden figure's shoulder to swing backward. The wooden figure, which was over 30 meters tall, was actually knocked back by the Hulk, who was less than 5 meters tall.

Hulk was slammed back to the ground, creating a large, human-shaped crater.

But as soon as he landed, he jumped out of the pit, and became even more excited. He jumped up again and pounced on the wooden figure leaning back against the building.

The giant wooden figure took three steps back and then leaned against the building covered with pine vines, stopping its retreat.

The wooden figure placed its broken right hand on the building, and the pine trees growing on the building merged into it, rapidly healing the wound inflicted by Hulk.

Seeing Hulk charge again, Shazo manipulated the wooden figure to strike with all his might with his left hand, sending Hulk flying far away, but the wooden figure's left hand was also torn apart by the Hulk's attack.

In the ensuing battle, Hulk launched a frenzied attack, inflicting massive damage on the wooden man with each strike.

Despite his massive size, the wooden man was being overwhelmed by the tiny Hulk. If he couldn't recover by relying on the surrounding trees, he would probably be completely defeated.

This made Xia Zuo realize that fighting the Hulk in hand-to-hand combat was a huge disadvantage.

Before he could come up with a new tactic, Hulk rammed his head into the wooden man's left knee, causing the man to lose his balance and fall to the ground with a thud.

Xia Zuo vanished instantly from above the wooden figure, avoiding Hulk's subsequent pounce.

Undeterred by his failure to catch Shazo, Hulk began to relentlessly pound on the wooden figure's massive head, sending splinters flying.

In a short while, the wooden figure's face was beaten beyond recognition, and its entire head even fell off, completely rendering it unable to fight.

Hulk raised the giant wooden head and roared with excitement in victory.

Xia Zuo showed no sign of frustration. Instead, he clapped his hands and summoned another giant wooden figure.

This time, the wooden figure is also wrapped with a wooden dragon, and judging from its size, it is very suitable for fighting the Hulk.

Seeing a new wooden figure stand up, and a wooden dragon he was seeing for the first time, Hulk became even more excited.

He pounded his chest with both fists, producing a dull, drum-like sound, then leaped up and pounced on the wooden man and the wooden dragon from above.

But how could Shazor allow the Hulk to unleash his power at will?

According to his will, the trees grew tall and tall, like giant spears piercing the Hulk.

He knew this move wouldn't stop the Hulk, but it would definitely stop him or reduce his impact, creating an opportunity for the wooden man and the wooden dragon to counterattack.

In this clash between the two behemoths, Hulk emerged victorious once again.

After a series of battles, Hulk gained a wealth of combat experience. He actually dodged the wooden man's slap and charged directly at the wooden man's lower body.

With his first punch, Hulk broke the wooden man's right leg, causing the giant wooden man to lose his balance and fall to the ground, unable to defend against Hulk's attacks anymore.

Not long after, Hulk broke the wooden man's legs and arms, leaving him a cripple who could only crawl on the ground.

When Hulk easily and happily won, he let out an excited howl and lost all sense of vigilance.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Xia Zuo released a wooden dragon to launch a sneak attack. Hulk was caught off guard and was tightly entangled. The thick wooden dragon began to strangle him like a giant python.

If the tailed beast is entangled by the wood dragon, it will become weak and powerless to resist due to the wood dragon's ability to absorb chakra.

However, the Hulk in the Marvel universe does not have chakra, so the Wood Dragon cannot extract chakra and therefore cannot extract the Hulk's energy through chakra.

Hulk grabbed the wooden dragon that was trying to bite his face, and with a burst of terrifying strength from his arms, he actually ripped the wooden dragon's head off.

He then exerted even more force, tearing the wooden dragon into seven or eight pieces, completely freeing it from its restraints.

The Hulk stood up, spat on the ground, and was about to say something when he saw two more wooden figures standing up in front of him, each with a wooden dragon wrapped around its body.

Eight lifeless wooden eyes stared intently at Hulk, making the oversized boy feel as if he had been doused with cold water, and his excitement of victory vanished instantly.

But he mustered his courage and shouted, "Hulk!"

A few minutes later, the two wooden figures and the two wooden dragons turned into pieces. Hulk, panting heavily, put his hands on his knees and weakly called out, "Hulk."

However, the familiar creaking sound of wood rang out, and from the increasingly dense forest, the dignified wooden figure rose up.

They were expressionless, and took long strides, closing in from four directions to surround Hulk.

As the battle continued, Xia Zuo kept creating wooden dummies.

After Hulk defeated the four wooden dummies, he had accumulated enough chakra to create four more.

It's not that eight wooden figures can't be made, but rather that Xia Zuo can only manipulate a maximum of four wooden figures; any more and they're just statues.

As he created more and more wooden figures, Xia Zuo continued to try to incorporate other powers into Wood Release.

First, he tried to learn from Naruto's Natsume and use [Electromagnetic Control] to strengthen the wooden doll's body, but found that the effect was only so-so, far less obvious than when used in the Wood Release forest.

He then tried incorporating different bloodline limits to strengthen the wooden doll in different ways.

So Hulk faced a wooden mannequin on fire, a wooden mannequin crackling with electric arcs, a wooden mannequin whose skin would ooze lava or steam when broken, and a wooden mannequin that would explode wherever it hit.

Hulk grew increasingly frustrated as the fight progressed. With each victory, his mental exhaustion increased, and he felt less and less of the physical pleasure of combat.

Xia Zuo found it more and more fun the more he played.

Previously, he and Hokage Xia Zuo had never encountered an enemy that could easily destroy the wooden golem, and their envisioned enhancement of the wooden golem was impossible to verify.

Now that we've encountered the Hulk, we must verify everything at once.

As Xia Zuo grew more and more excited, he couldn't even wait for Hulk to destroy the wooden man, so he created a new version of the wooden man and shoved it in front of Hulk.

Since it's going to be destroyed by him anyway, the precision of control doesn't matter.

Faced with an increasing number of test dummies, Hulk felt a chill run down his spine. He was still too young to understand, yet he was forced to endure constant overtime testing work.

In just half an hour, the wild and unruly Hulk wilted, exuding a familiar, working-class vibe.

But Hulk's sacrifice was not in vain. After his violent test, Shazor unveiled a brand new wooden figure.

The wooden figure has become much thinner and is now dressed in armor, just like Xia Zuo's current attire.

The change in the wooden figure's appearance is the least significant alteration; its core is the complete transformation.

This wooden figure uses Steel Release as its skeleton, Wood Release as its body, Lava Release as its blood, Storm Release for nerve control, and Magnet Release as its means of observation and perception.

The berserk Nuclear Release serves as the energy source that drives everything, especially the Dust Release, which can destroy all matter, and the Dark Release, which can absorb all energy.

This is the maximum power that Xia Zuo could concentrate in a wooden dummy after repeated verification, and it is also the strongest wooden dummy template he could imagine.

With so many powers combined into one, the system is complex and balanced. The biggest change it brings is that the wooden figure has become sentient and is no longer a rigid puppet.

When Hulk saw the wooden figure, he instinctively felt a chill run down his spine. The dejected aura he had accumulated earlier vanished instantly, and he reverted to his original wild nature.

As the skinny, armored wooden figure approached, Hulk felt an even clearer, terrifying threat; this guy could truly threaten his life.

"Awooo—!"

Hulk issued a threat of battle, but took a step back, showing both concession and warning, indicating that he was not afraid, but also did not want to fight the wooden man.

Xia Zuo discovered that Hulk completely regarded this template of the wooden dummy as a real enemy, showing none of the indifference he had shown when facing the previous wooden dummy.

A flash of inspiration struck him, and a new idea came to him.

But it was too late to make any new changes. As the wooden man broke through Hulk's psychological defenses, it ignited his fighting spirit.

"Hulk—!!"

The Hulk roared with unprecedented fury, slamming his hands and feet together to strike his own groin.

As a large hole with a diameter of 20 meters appeared, Hulk transformed into a green light and rushed towards the armored wooden figure.

The final wooden figure of Xia Zuo was different from all the previous wooden figures. Although it was also a giant humanoid figure with a height of 30 meters, its movements looked as agile as those of a normal person.

It should be noted that the wooden figure is 16 to 17 times the height of an ordinary person. Although it looks the same as an ordinary person, its punch speed is naturally more than 16 times that of an ordinary person.

So when the wooden man swung his fist, a white sonic boom appeared at the tip of his fist, and before Hulk could react, the fist slammed into him.

As we all know, speed equals power.

The wooden figure's fists were so fast that the power it unleashed naturally increased dramatically, by a hundredfold.

Moreover, the wooden figure has become so lifelike that its movements are no longer rigid and straightforward, but rather a more accurate representation of Xia Zuo's original movements.

Therefore, the massive wooden figure could also display physical skills. At the moment of striking the Hulk, the surging punch precisely contained its force, delivering the full power to the Hulk without much leakage.

Therefore, Hulk was not blasted away, but was frozen in place.

All the power was trapped inside Hulk's body, tearing at his flesh and fascia, shaking his internal organs and brain.

Hulk was stunned for the first time; he stood there dumbfounded, frozen in place.

Xia Zuo didn't hold back. He immediately manipulated the wooden figure to step forward and exert force, delivering another powerful punch.

The recoil force from the ground was transmitted through the legs, waist, chest, shoulders, and arms to the fists, and finally, together with the surging chakra power, it poured into Hulk's body.

With a whoosh, the punch produced a deafening sound, the deep and melodious chime resonating and shaking people's hearts, as if they were hearing divine music from heaven.

The grand and resonant chimes spread far and wide, and to everyone's surprise, the sound traveled through the atmosphere to reach the entire globe.

On the other side of the earth, when the bells resonated, they once again produced a high-pitched sound, and the resulting echoes could even travel back to the tip of a grain of rice and back to Wall Street in New York.

Although this happened two days later, MiLiJian's various testing facilities around the world have already detected the unusual propagation of this bell sound.

Although the sound wasn't particularly loud, it could travel throughout the entire Mili Point and could even be heard on the West Coast.

This propagation distance far exceeds the sound waves produced when mushrooms are grown, which are powerful enough to tear apart skyscrapers.

Countless scientists noticed this, sparking varying degrees of curiosity, and began to study the secrets of this sound wave.

That bell sound was truly extraordinary.

Using the maximum power he could currently achieve, Xia Zuo unleashed his full strength, causing Hulk to lose consciousness. A trace of the essence of his life force was revealed in the form of a bell.

The nearest station, Shazo, intercepted a portion of the data, as did seismographs and listening stations around the world. The majority of the data, however, was obtained by Skye, who was approximately 90 kilometers (55 miles) away.

Minutes after Shazo stunned Hulk with the wooden dummy, Skye heard the bells ringing in her Long Island villa.

The girl, who was exceptionally sensitive to vibrations, experienced a sensation far beyond that of ordinary people; even her soul felt cleansed.

At that moment, the television was also broadcasting the live chimes, which were slightly out of sync with the chimes transmitted through the air for a few minutes, but this mismatch created a wonderful resonance.

Unconsciously, Skye's body began to vibrate with the sound of the bells, constantly adjusting its own vibration frequency until it gradually became in harmony with the two bell sounds, resonating in perfect harmony.

The girl felt that she had gained something from the sound of the bell. Not only did her vibration ability undergo a qualitative change, but her body also underwent visible changes.

The girl's bones cracked and popped as she grew 3 centimeters in just a few minutes.

As the bones are adjusted, the girl's bone structure approaches perfection, which translates into a more graceful figure and an alluring charm.

Her muscles and skin became firmer, her senses became more acute, and even her nerve reflexes became faster.

The girl inexplicably received a huge benefit, but she had no idea what had happened. She was bewildered to find herself covered in sweat without even realizing it.

Moreover, the sweat contained some unknown substance that made it appear blackish-red like rust, and even emitted a nauseating odor.

The smell was like a young girl wearing stockings for a week without taking them off.

Skye's sense of smell became extremely sensitive, and she almost vomited after smelling the odor. She could no longer watch TV and rushed into the bathroom in a panic.

The girl didn't even have time to take off her clothes before standing under the showerhead, turning the faucet on full blast, and giving herself a thorough wash.

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