Chapter 155: The True Companion Jutsu for Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals
No, no, no, to call it a small trick was to excessively underestimate Kidōmaru.
While Haruno Sakura was fighting with Jirōbō and Tayuya, Kidōmaru had created tens of thousands of sticky gold kunai at once!
A dense mass of kunai, with a wave of his hand, instantly shot towards the ice mirrors that Sakura had created.
"If I shatter all the ice mirrors, you won't be able to use that Body Flicker jutsu, right?" A cold smile appeared on Kidōmaru's face.
He was panting heavily. This move had consumed a huge amount of his stamina, but it was all worth it.
The chakra-infused ice was abnormally tough. To shatter so many ice mirrors, ice blocks, and ice darts was not a simple matter. However, Kidōmaru's secret technique, Spider Sticky Gold, also had considerable killing power. After he had specially strengthened the hardness and sharpness of the kunai, he had still successfully destroyed all the ice mirrors in his field of vision.
Kidōmaru's previous conception was to use the fatso's stone walls to create a complex terrain to avoid facing Haruno Sakura directly. He would harass her, and then Tayuya's summoned corpse puppets would be responsible for creating the white worms to be the main attack.
Who would have thought that the new ninjutsu Sakura suddenly used, the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, would have such strong battlefield mobility, directly and completely erasing the meaning of the stone walls' existence, and then even finishing off Jirōbō in a few moves.
However, Kidōmaru had quickly discovered the secret of this ninjutsu and had even more quickly seized upon the jutsu's weakness to launch a counterattack.
At least now, Sakura couldn't move freely across the battlefield as she had just now, right?
At the cost of another member falling, the Sound ninja had finally organized a decent offensive.
"Hn, the fact that the ice mirrors and ice blocks are easily destroyed is also a weakness. And it's best to leave a few ice mirrors hidden that are not easily discovered..." After all, this was the first time she had used this ninjutsu in actual combat. Using the enemy to help find problems was also one of Haruno Sakura's goals.
Kidōmaru's brain works really well...
However, a move like Swallow Snowstorm was still too petty. When facing Orochimaru, she would have to use a more impressive ninjutsu. The true companion jutsu for the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals should be this—
"Ice Style - Cold Frost Ice Funeral!"
"You like breaking ice mirrors, do you? Let's see how you break this jutsu!"
A bone-chilling cold, with the casting of the ninjutsu, spread wantonly and wildly across the entire land.
Crack, crack. The hard ice grew crazily.
During the Chunin Exams, she had used this ninjutsu in battle for the first time, but the jutsu at this time and that time were worlds apart:
This time, the occasion for its use was no longer a sparring match under the watchful eyes of the crowd in the Chunin Exam arena, but a life-or-death battle in the wild.
The opponent was no longer a comrade, Uzumaki Naruto, against whom she had to hold back, but the Sound ninja under Orochimaru with whom she was in a life-or-death struggle, and it would even be one of the Sannin, Orochimaru himself.
The caster was no longer the tender rookie ninja, Sakura, who had just mastered Ice Style, but the Anbu ninja Haruno Sakura, who had gradually delved deeper into the research of Ice Style and whose chakra amount could not be compared to before.
And this jutsu, Cold Frost Ice Funeral, was no longer a gorgeous ninjutsu for showing off and displaying oneself in front of thousands of spectators, but a high-level Ice Style jutsu used to construct an Ice Style home field and to fight against the strong!
"Heh—!" She took a deep breath. The huge amount of chakra surging in her body gradually calmed down with the completion of the ninjutsu.
Sakura landed on the ground and looked into the distance.
The entire land was frozen over. A thick layer of ice covered the ground, turning the area within a few hundred meters into a world of ice.
In the boundless frost, the ice transformed into sabers, spears, swords, halberds... endlessly growing and spreading from within the ice layer like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. The ice blades were sharp and keen, the glint of the blades and swords was fierce, and endless kunai and darts covered the entire ice layer and extended high into the sky!
This field-clearing AOE instantly shattered all the illusions of Kidōmaru and Tayuya.
The corpse puppets, whose hiding places were unknown, were pierced by a myriad of ice blades, their livers and guts ripped out, and they died completely. The white worms that the Sound ninja had placed their hopes on also disappeared along with them.
Even Tayuya herself, because she was not good at taijutsu and defensive ninjutsu, was also struggling in this wave of clearing attacks, beaten until she was covered in wounds. She soon exhausted her stamina, exited the curse mark state, and fell to the ground, unable to get up.
On the field, only Kidōmaru, who had survived this round of clearing by relying on his Sticky Gold Armor, was left.
The move that the opponent had used with great effort had not caused him any harm. Kidōmaru should have been happy.
But he was so desperate.
"The entire land has turned into ice..." The Sticky Gold Armor fell off Kidōmaru's face, revealing his pale, bloodless face. "In other words, this entire area has become a medium for you to cast your Ice Body Flicker!"
Yes, the meaning of this ninjutsu, Cold Frost Ice Funeral, was no longer to clear the field, but to set the stage... to lay out the home field of Ice Style for the next move, the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!
"That's right, you guessed it." Kidōmaru's mind reacted really fast. Sakura confirmed this point again, but it was already meaningless to have guessed this point. "Now you can't destroy the ice mirrors anymore, can you?"
Kidōmaru was silent and did not respond to her words.
Can't think of a way to crack it? Sakura looked at his ashen face and confirmed this point. So this ninjutsu can be considered to have no major flaws for the time being.
Well then...
"The game is over..." she said faintly.
Her killing intent condensed like frost.
"Finally, a special reminder for you. This move is not called Ice Body Flicker..."
Her figure disappeared from in front of Kidōmaru.
"Its name is Ice Style - Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!"
SWISH—
Kidōmaru's head flew up in response.
Somewhere on the border of the Land of Fire.
A sudden change occurred.
"So you've finally come out of your snake pit, Orochimaru...!"
An elderly man with thick bandages wrapped around his head stood high on a stone pillar, looking down at the two men at his feet and said coldly!
Not long after Orochimaru and Kabuto had left the underground base, on the necessary path from the border deep into the Land of Fire, they had encountered an unexpected person!
"Shimura Danzo..." Orochimaru's gaze instantly became cold and icy, his killing intent uncontrollably leaking out.
To have encountered Danzo here, what it meant was already self-evident!
"Was Sasuke a trap you deliberately set? No wonder the intelligence was obtained so smoothly..."
Orochimaru's face was very gloomy.
His face was usually pale enough. At this moment, it was so gloomy it was as if water could drip from it!
"If I hadn't done this, how could I have lured you out of your dark and hidden snake pit? Orochimaru, you are too obsessed with the Sharingan and the Uchiha!" the bandaged ninja on top of the stone pillar, the leader of Root, Danzo, said coldly.
Orochimaru's eyes narrowed dangerously.
The feeling of being fooled had not appeared on this Kage-level powerhouse in a long time.
Orochimaru had to admit that because he was too eager to get Sasuke, he had overlooked some suspicious points, and as a result, had made a mistake.
"So, Sasuke's appearance there was also false intelligence?" Orochimaru's pair of cloudy yellow snake eyes looked coldly at the few Konoha Root ninja standing on top of his head, like a venomous snake greedily eyeing its food.
Especially that Danzo, who gave off a gloomy feeling even when standing in the sun!
Shrouded by Orochimaru's endless killing intent, Danzo was not moved in the slightest, as if that sharp presence was just a gentle breeze in front of him.
"No, Sasuke really is there... It's just a pity that you have absolutely no chance of getting near that place!"
Danzo's words carried a resolute certainty!
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