Chapter 151: Earth Prison Dome of Magnificent Nothingness
In Sakura's eyes...
The coordination of the Sound ninja was not very good.
She could see that these few people usually fought on their own and rarely teamed up to deal with one person. Their strength was sufficient to win in a one-on-one fight against an ordinary Chunin or even a Special Jonin. As for stronger enemies—for these small ninja villages, encountering a Jonin as an enemy was already a very rare thing.
Mistakes were frequent.
Kidōmaru's arrow directly pierced through the head of Tayuya's summon and came at Sakura, which was easily avoided by the latter. Sakura hadn't even done anything yet, and the Sound ninja had already lost a combatant due to friendly fire.
It was hard to even say whether this was a coordination mistake on Kidōmaru's part or if it was intentional.
"What an eyesore!" the pink-haired girl said softly with a sneer.
"Ice Style - Swallow Snowstorm!"
While the cat-faced ninja was leaping away to dodge the Sound ninja's attack, she had also prepared a counterattacking jutsu.
Swish, swish, swish— A dozen or so huge ice darts immediately condensed in front of Sakura and shot rapidly towards the remaining four humanoid summons.
This ice jutsu was a ninjutsu she had learned from the Land of Snow. Its activation speed was extremely fast. In Sakura's hands, when cast with real Ice Style chakra, the firing speed was extremely fast, and the darts were very sharp, with considerable power at close range.
The summon that was charging at the very front was directly cut into several pieces by the ice darts, deader than dead. Then the second one was directly pinned to a tree by several half-man-high darts, and the huge wound in its head took away its life force. After struggling for a while, it also became silent.
The remaining two, which were a little further away, managed to dodge the vital parts in time, but their hands and feet were also hit by a few ice darts.
However, this was not the end.
Just like the other ninjutsu that had been greatly modified by Sakura, this Swallow Snowstorm move had also been enhanced by the girl...
"Ice Style - Dart Explosion Technique!"
BOOM—! The chakra remaining on the ice darts was much less than that of the ice clone, so the power of the explosion was also far lower than the ice clone's self-destruction jutsu. However, because the darts had already partially pierced into the enemy's body, this kind of explosion was actually more powerful than the clone's explosion...
One of the summons was directly blown into minced meat, and the other was also full of ice spikes, falling to the ground on the verge of death, unable to fight anymore!
And at the same time as the cat-faced girl was dealing with the summons, the Sound ninja also launched their attack.
The sound of Tayuya's flute instantly changed, from a song that controlled the summons to a medium for casting a sound-based genjutsu—
"Demonic Flute: Phantom Sound Chains!"
At the same time, under the cover of Tayuya's genjutsu, Sakon charged directly towards Haruno Sakura!
"Tayuya, in State Two, the genjutsu she uses can bind the enemy's body, making them completely unable to move. Even I can't defend against this move..." Kidōmaru, hidden deep in the woods, thought to himself as he stared at the battlefield, ready for the next wave of attacks at any time. "Then, let Sakon take the opportunity to rush up. As long as he can touch that woman's body and use the Parasite Demon Demolition Technique, everything will be over!"
"First use the summons and arrows and kunai to attract the opponent's attention, then have Tayuya use genjutsu to bind the enemy, and then have Sakon deliver the final blow with his secret technique. This combination, even Kimimaro might not be able to block it... How will you respond?"
"It's over! Secret Technique - Parasite Demon Demolition Technique!"
Sakon had already rushed to the cat-faced ninja's side. Just as he was about to use his secret technique and have Ukon parasitize Haruno Sakura—
The corner of the mouth under the girl's mask curled into a mocking arc.
"So eager to die..."
Haruno Sakura turned sideways, turned her head, and said softly to the attacking Sound ninja.
Did Tayuya's genjutsu have no effect on her at all?
Sakon was instantly shocked!
No. Under the mask that Sakon couldn't see, a trace of blood had flowed from the corner of her bitten lip, and her lip color, which had been bitten from pink to pale white, indicated that the cat-faced girl was not unaffected.
It was just that, with her powerful spiritual energy and her superb control over her chakra, the effect of the genjutsu on her was far smaller than on an ordinary person. With just a moment of confusion, she had broken the illusion!
The interference of Tayuya's genjutsu on Sakura was far from enough to cover Sakon's approach and use of his secret technique.
This was a trap... She had deliberately pretended to be trapped in the genjutsu, waiting for Sakon to deliver himself to her door!
"I've fallen for it—!" It was too late for Sakon to realize...
"Monstrous Strength Technique - Wing Chun Hidden Kick!"
The girl turned sideways, twisted her waist and hips, raised her left foot, and delivered a middle-level side kick!
Many martial arts of her previous life emphasized that the foot should not go above the waist, because in a real battle, although high kicks were powerful, their openings were too large and their speed too slow, far from being as efficient and safe as mid-to-low-level kicks. This hidden kick of Sakura's was concealed in its delivery and swift in its motion. Even in a normal attack, it would be impossible to defend against, let alone now when Sakon was in a completely defenseless offensive posture!
With the enhancement of the Monstrous Strength Technique, the power of this short-range kick could be said to be enough to pierce clouds and split rocks, to make the earth crumble and the heavens fall. When it kicked Sakon, a horrifyingly loud sound came from the point of impact between the girl's sole and Sakon's body.
Sakon, who had completely taken this side kick, didn't even have the strength to use his secret technique. He only felt that the bones and internal organs in his body seemed to have been turned into powder under the force of this one kick!
Kidōmaru, Tayuya, and Jirōbō—that is, the fat one—who were hiding in the woods, clearly heard the frighteningly muffled sound coming from Sakon's body. The muscles around their eyes all twitched uncontrollably, and they watched helplessly as Sakon was sent flying dozens of meters, knocking down two giant trees before he stopped, lying on the ground, his condition unknown.
"Even Sakon, who has the strongest life force, was beaten like this..." Tayuya was so shocked that even the sound of her flute stopped.
"Earth Release Barrier - Earth Prison Dome of Magnificent Nothingness!"
"Damn it!" The fatso gritted his back teeth and charged forward, taking advantage of the time Sakon had bought him to launch the next wave of attacks—
He slammed his hands on the ground and madly urged the chakra in his body. Countless broken stones and mud plates surged up from the ground, forming an earth prison the size of a soccer field, completely covering the unprepared cat-faced ninja within!
"Did you trap her?" Seeing that Jirōbō's jutsu had successfully surrounded the girl, Tayuya let out a sigh of relief and jumped out, asking with lingering fear.
"Huff, huff, this is a ninjutsu I used with all my strength in State Two. This stone wall is a full seven or eight meters thick, and it can automatically repair itself... Even if she's strong, she absolutely can't break out! Next, I'm going to suck all her chakra dry. Without chakra, she'll be at my mercy!"
"Your backup plan was left in case Sakon's secret technique failed, but I didn't expect it to actually be useful... This woman's jutsu is too dangerous. It's a troublesome ninjutsu that will kill you if you get cut by it even a little!" Kidōmaru also jumped down from the tree, with a trace of lingering shock. He glanced at the lifeless Sakon in the distance. "How's Sakon? Is he dead?"
"Sakon won't die that easily..." Tayuya went over to check on Sakon's condition. "He had his brother bear a part of the damage!"
Sakon's secret technique was to have his brother Ukon sleep inside his body. In battle, they could split into two people to fight, and the damage received could be completely transferred to one of them, allowing the other's injuries to heal instantly... But even so, damage that exceeded one person's tolerance limit could not be transferred. Sakon, who had taken a direct hit from the Monstrous Strength Technique, had completely exhausted his chakra and had long since exited the State Two form. He was now on the verge of death.
"If he's still breathing, just take him back to Kabuto!" Kidōmaru ordered casually, then turned to the fatso with dissatisfaction and shouted, "Jirōbō, you waste, are you not done yet?!"
Jirōbō's hands were pressed tightly against the earth prison, trying hard to activate the chakra-absorbing ability of the Earth Prison Dome. Kidōmaru's reprimand made him a little flustered.
"D-damn it, there's something wrong with this woman! I-I can't absorb her chakra!"
Large beads of sweat covered the fatso's dark red forehead!
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