Chapter 263: Alien
The moment the stream was frozen.
Haruno Sakura, without hesitation, used her Body Flicker to leave the instant the Water Formation Wall broke. The Earth Flow Spears pierced her afterimage, and then the Great Flame Bullet, Great Breakthrough, and other ninjutsu followed, also hitting nothing.
"She escapes fast!" Sasori's true body, hidden within a puppet, snorted coldly. He commanded his puppets to continue to surround her. The Earth Style puppets used a few Earth Flow Spears and, while they were at it, shattered the ice layer Sakura had just created.
"Trying to use an ant swarm to bite an elephant to death?" Haruno Sakura said coldly, her face grim as she watched the ice layer she had just created by freezing the small stream become history, rendered useless after only one use.
She no longer had the luxury of paying attention to those puppets that were using Earth Flow Spears, specializing in destroying her ice mirrors.
At this moment, Sakura had an epiphany: in the battle to come, it would probably be difficult for her to find an opportunity to use the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals.
The chakra in Haruno Sakura's body circulated without a moment's rest. She once again extracted a huge amount of chakra. This time, the surging chakra even kicked up a fierce wind, causing the corners of her clothes to flap wildly, her hair to fly upwards!
"Then let's just pray you won't be trampled to death before you bite the elephant!"
Haruno Sakura bit her thumb, and the blood on her hand transformed into a giant sealing formation—
"Summoning Jutsu!"
POOF— A huge cloud of thick smoke rose up.
"Lady Sakura! Are they the enemy?" A giant, several-dozen-meter-high slug appeared on the riverbed. This was the first time Sakura had summoned a slug in battle!
The small slug had never been summoned by Haruno Sakura in battle before—it simply couldn't keep up with the kind of high-speed combat that Sakura usually employed. This time, making a rare appearance, and seeing the vast number of puppets below, it immediately reacted. Sakura is being forced into a war of attrition.
Haruno Sakura nodded. She stood high on the slug's head, looking down. The puppets that had surrounded them below were as tiny as a swarm of ants. She let out a heavy breath. For a moment, the frustration of being besieged suddenly dissipated.
The wind from the high place whistled past, carrying with it the faint, scorching heat of early summer. Haruno Sakura's soft hair danced in the wind. She stood on the giant summoning beast, and a feeling of heroism rose in her heart, making her feel spirited!
"Teach them a lesson," Sakura said in a loud voice, looking down on the puppets below. "Slug!"
"Understood, Lady Sakura!" The slug bobbed its feelers.
It suddenly arched its back, and then forcefully flung its body, spitting out a large amount of green, viscous liquid from its mouth!
"Secret Technique: Tongue Tooth Sticky Acid!"
The superacid of Shikkotsu Forest was spat out by the slug, forming large pools of acid on the ground. Countless droplets of acid also splashed in all directions!
TSS, TSS—
The sand and stones at the edge of the acid pools were corroded by the acidic liquid, emitting thick smoke and bubbles, and making a creepy sound.
The puppets that were unlucky enough to fall into the acid soup melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, disappearing into the solution.
The puppets that were splashed by the acidic liquid were also instantly melted through, leaving a large hole. Parts and mechanisms scattered all over the ground.
Dozens of puppets were instantly finished off.
However, compared to the total number of puppets, this was only a small half. More puppets had already dodged far away when the acid had rained down.
And what Haruno Sakura saw from her vantage point on its head was all bad news: Shino's side, seeing that the situation was not good, had wanted to come and help, but had been stopped by several human puppets. The river water upstream had just been blocked by Sasori's puppets with Earth Style, and it couldn't flow down for a while. Her ninjutsu also couldn't reach that far.
Below, messy ninjutsu would be blasted over from time to time, and were blocked by the thick ice wall that Sakura had created. Fortunately, the puppets were temporarily forced back by the acidic liquid. The acid pool had formed a circle on the ground. They couldn't get close and could only throw a few medium-to-long-range ninjutsu from a distance.
"The puppets are too agile! The one controlling them must be a very powerful puppet master," the slug said helplessly. It glanced at the ground. The puppets that had just been forced back were gradually surrounding them again. A few puppets came forward and cast Earth Style, trying to sink the acid pool into the ground.
The slug spat out another mouthful of acidic liquid. Apart from forcing the puppets back again, it did not kill many. Its effect was minimal. Sasori had clearly seen through its monotonous attack pattern.
"Lady Sakura, there are a few too many enemies. I may not be able to hold on for too long!" the slug said, swaying its feelers.
"Leave it to me!" Haruno Sakura said, while forming hand seals, a smile tugging at the corner of her lips. The ice wall, while protecting her, also obstructed the launch of her Wind Blade Raging Stream. The seals in Sakura's hand were for another jutsu.
This jutsu should give Sasori a little surprise... she thought. The chakra in her body, which had just recovered for a while, began to surge at high speed again, using the Water Style shape transformation to create the image in her mind from the acidic liquid in the acid pool—
"Water Style: Xenomorph Rush!"
Sasori's puppets had finally used Earth Style to create a deep pit, sinking the acid pool. But very quickly, a black claw climbed up from the edge of the deep pit, and the huge, crowned head-crest of a Xenomorph Queen was revealed. Then, more and more ferocious figures emerged densely, climbing up from the edge of the pit onto the ground...
"What is this?" Even the experienced Sasori couldn't recognize what kind of creature it was. But that long, pointed head-crest, the dark exoskeleton, the sharp claws, the nimbly waving tail, and the swift, running figure told him that this creature created by Sakura was definitely not to be trifled with!
A dense bombardment of ninjutsu, sharp blades, and sword shadows quickly submerged the Xenomorphs' charging route. Amidst the splendid ninjutsu attacks and the loud, rumbling explosions, a large number of Xenomorphs fell to the ground, turning into puddles of acidic liquid.
However, more Xenomorph Drones, Xenomorph Spitters, Xenomorph Praetorians, and even a Xenomorph Queen were being born from the acid pool, climbing out from the edge of the deep pit!
Very quickly, a few fish had slipped through the net, broken through the blockade of ninjutsu and various ninja tools, and had begun to fight in close combat with the front-line puppets.
The Xenomorphs' sharp claws, powerful tail spikes, and swift figures put a lot of pressure on Sasori's puppets.
A few puppets, while in close combat with the Xenomorphs, were taken down in one blow by the sharp inner jaws that shot out from their mouths.
There were also a few that, after cutting down a Xenomorph, were instead melted by that puddle of acidic liquid and were completely scrapped.
A huge Xenomorph Queen broke through the ninjutsu blockade, covered in wounds, and roared as it charged into the group of puppets, crashing into several of them, charging through the enemy lines as if in an uninhabited land.
The vast ocean of Xenomorphs had the momentum to drown Sasori's puppet swarm!
"An interesting ninjutsu..." Sasori, who was hiding in the dark, sneered as he watched more and more Xenomorphs surge over like a tide.
He had to admire Sakura's imagination, to be able to use Water Style to create this kind of unprecedented creature. It was very sharp in close combat, and that inner jaw was also of great practical value. In the future, if he were to create a close-combat puppet, perhaps he could refer to it.
But, compared to his human puppets, these Water Style creations, which couldn't use ninjutsu, were still too weak!
And...
Sasori raised his hand and glanced at the large white bird soaring in the sky. He had deliberately stalled for time by talking, and he had not only been waiting for his puppets to get into position—
"Deidara, you've finally arrived!"
Sasori said coldly.
And Haruno Sakura, who had been looking down at the ground, constantly using her chakra to create an army of Xenomorphs, had not noticed anything unusual about the large white bird that was flying close to the battlefield, until a huge object appeared in the corner of her eye—
Only then was she suddenly startled!
"What is that, Slug?" What Sakura saw was a white doll, its appearance similar to a Daruma doll with wings, falling from the sky!
What alarmed her the most was that the doll contained a huge amount of chakra. At this distance, Sakura could already clearly sense it...
No matter what that is, it must be an extremely dangerous thing!
There was no time to think. The giant doll was falling at an extremely fast speed.
Sakura, with her head raised, just subconsciously formed the hand seals—
"Water Style: Wind Blade..."
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