Bang!
Sarutobi Asuma clapped his hands together.
This was also a signal, reminding the Konoha ninja who were ready to begin their jutsu.
Suddenly.
Numerous ninja cooperated to cast their jutsu.
First Fire Style, then Wind Style.
This greatly surprised the Sand Ninja opposite them.
The two sides were more than fifty meters apart, and they were in a forest.
Even with combined jutsu, the power of the ninjutsu would be greatly weakened.
However.
The Sand Ninja could not ignore such a large-scale jutsu deployment.
Especially after personally witnessing Sarutobi Asuma's ninjutsu.
While many Konoha ninja were casting jutsu, it was his Wind Style and Fire Style that were the most terrifying.
Of course, the Sand Ninja believed that the Fire Style that Sarutobi Asuma was cooperating with was released by Jiraiya.
Rumble!
A firestorm swept through.
Wherever it passed, large trees turned to ash at a visible speed, and the sea of fire rapidly spread towards the Sand Ninja.
The Sand Ninja immediately cast Wind Style in response to counter it.
A firestorm and a pure storm collided with a deafening roar, kicking up clouds of smoke and dust that scattered everywhere.
And this was exactly what Sarutobi Asuma wanted.
He immediately took Jiraiya and flew to the sky above where the Sand Ninja were.
Chakra arms extended, and then a sharp, piercing friction sound rang out as multiple Scorch Release Rasenshurikens were condensed.
On the other dragon head, Jiraiya simultaneously cast Sage Mode - Wind Style: Rasenshuriken.
Even with the smoke obscuring their vision, even with the storm and roar caused by the clash of ninjutsu, such powerful chakra fluctuations immediately caught the attention of Chiyo and the others, who were being engulfed by the fierce winds in the forest.
"Someone's in the air!"
"What is that?"
"Damn it, that ninjutsu!"
...
The forest had already been reduced to flat ground. Some Sand Ninja used Wind Style to blow away the smoke and dust, and then they saw several giant pinwheels.
Chiyo instinctively felt a sense of foreboding, knowing they had fallen into a trap.
In the air, Sarutobi Asuma and Jiraiya simultaneously threw the ninjutsu in their hands.
Sarutobi Asuma threw four Scorch Release Rasenshurikens, targeting the edges of the Sand Ninja forces.
As for Jiraiya, his target was the center where the Sand Ninja forces were concentrated.
Seeing the giant pinwheels whistling down, Chiyo's pupils constricted, and she quickly shouted, "Block them! We absolutely cannot let the ninjutsu land!"
Chiyo was not the only one who reacted quickly; there were not a few capable individuals among the Sand Ninja.
Some scattered, while others leaped onto the treetops, casting various ninjutsu or throwing hidden weapons like kunai and shuriken towards the five descending giant pinwheels.
It had to be said that the Sand Ninja's judgment and response were completely correct.
Under such circumstances, the first priority was to make the ninjutsu explode at a greater distance, and the second was to scatter. Only in this way could casualties be minimized if interception failed.
However.
Since he was using this plan, how could Sarutobi Asuma not know the flaws of the Rasenshuriken technique?
Uchiha Itachi had said that no ninjutsu was perfect.
Even Wind Style: Rasenshuriken or Scorch Release Rasenshuriken were not uncrackable.
However.
In this battle, the primary objective was not to kill the Sand Ninja.
And Sarutobi Asuma did not intend for the Rasenshurikens to detonate upon direct impact with the ground.
Moreover, with his Chakra Control and Jiraiya's Sage Mode, whether it was Scorch Release Rasenshuriken or Sage Mode Wind Style: Rasenshuriken, they were not so easy to snipe.
Various ninjutsu and hidden weapons flew towards the sky, but they still did not stop the five Rasenshurikens from falling.
Towering trees were cut down, and about twenty meters from the ground, five Rasenshurikens detonated under the control of Sarutobi Asuma and Jiraiya, transforming into four blue-white orbs and one blinding white orb that rapidly expanded.
In just 10 seconds, the expanding orbs covered an area of over a kilometer, engulfing a large portion of the forest.
This scene left many Konoha ninja, who were close enough to witness it, stunned and swallowing hard.
They had never seen anything like it before.
However, Hatake Sakumo, Namikaze Minato, and Sarutobi Amayo, who had witnessed similar events, were shocked but managed to remain calm and issue decisive orders.
The coverage area was less than two kilometers in radius, but this was only the core attack range; the subsequent storm would definitely sweep across an area of tens of kilometers.
Even though this was a vast forest.
Furthermore, Hatake Sakumo knew that the subsequent storm of a regular Wind Style: Rasenshuriken did not have much destructive power, but the heat storm of the Scorch Release Rasenshuriken could cause burns and scalds to those nearby.
Therefore.
As the orbs rapidly expanded, orders were quickly relayed.
And so.
Earth Walls rose from the ground throughout the forest, and the Konoha ninja orderly retreated.
15 seconds later.
Accompanied by a massive roar, a terrifying storm swept through.
Vegetation was pulverized, and the Earth Walls were torn to shreds by the storm.
Even after retreating a certain distance and using the Earth Walls for cover, the scorching hot air made the Konoha ninja feel as if they were in a furnace.
Some even failed to take proper cover and were injured by the heat storm.
However, compared to what the Sand Ninja endured, this was child's play.
Although the attack was widely distributed and the response was timely, some Sand Ninja escaped the ninjutsu's coverage range, and Sarutobi Asuma's four Scorch Release Rasenshurikens did not target the most densely populated areas.
Those who were first incapacitated by Chakra Needles and then vaporized by the high temperatures died quickly, but they were a minority.
However, the terrifying high temperatures and lack of oxygen caused by the collision of the heat storms and the storms formed after the ninjutsu's detonation made the engulfed Sand Ninja suffer immensely.
For the Sand Ninja, this was a storm of death!
In the air.
Jiraiya and the two Sages standing on the dragon's head looked at the expanding orbs and the storm sweeping in all directions, and they too were stunned.
Even with their extensive experience, they were shocked by the scene.
Especially the heat storm, as Jiraiya felt the scorching airflow sweeping towards him, he couldn't help but say, "Asuma, your Scorch Release Rasenshuriken is even more powerful than my Sage Mode Wind Style: Rasenshuriken!"
His Wind Style: Rasenshuriken could only be thrown with the aid of Sage Mode, and at the same time, amplified by Sage Arts, its power surpassed that of a regular Wind Style: Rasenshuriken.
He had not expected Sarutobi Asuma to have further developed the Scorch Release Bloodline Limit and integrated it into the Wind Style: Rasenshuriken, making this S-Rank Ninjutsu even more terrifying.
A Wind Style: Rasenshuriken, as long as one was not in the core area of the ninjutsu's detonation, was unlikely to cause immediate death.
But with Scorch Release, anyone caught within the expanding orbs without powerful defensive capabilities was doomed to die.
Because the extreme heat alone was enough to kill a person.
In other words, within a hundred meters of the detonation of Sarutobi Asuma's Scorch Release Rasenshuriken, the vast majority of ninja would be certain to die.
In fact, this range could be even wider!
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