Chapter 199: The Purpose of Creating Distance...
Shino and Yūgao were facing an opponent who was recklessly rampaging, relying on his own immortality.
Faced with such an enemy, even the experienced Shino was at a loss for a moment.
Fortunately, the other party's personality was a bit reckless and easily angered. This might be their only chance of victory...
"Hey, you over there, the woman," Hidan shouted, his voice hoarse. "That sword slash of yours just now really hurt!"
He rubbed his neck, a look of casual annoyance on his face.
He stood loosely, completely ignoring the presence of the enemy, and moved his neck on his own. Yūgao's sword had cut through half of his neck along with his cervical vertebrae, but now there was no trace of injury there at all.
In Yūgao's eyes, Hidan was practically full of openings. It was uncomfortable not to slash him a few times. However, the opponent was an immortal with extremely strong recovery abilities. He was an enemy that could not be measured by common sense. What were normally considered openings might just be traps deliberately set by Hidan to lure the enemy into an attack...
Faced with such an enemy, the usual tactics were completely ineffective, and Shino and Yūgao currently had no good way to deal with him.
Therefore, faced with Hidan's provocation, Yūgao and Shino could only respond with silence.
Seeing that they did not respond, the expression on Hidan's face became even more contemptuous. He shouted, "What? Where's the presence you had when you were cutting me just now? You can't do it after just one slash?"
He looked at the two silent Anbu. They were unfazed by his repeated provocations, just staring at him calmly. He knew that with his poor language skills, he would never be able to anger them.
"Since you're not coming over to cut me..."
He suddenly took his large, three-bladed scythe and slammed it on the ground, creating a small pit.
"Then I'm coming over!"
Wielding the huge scythe, the expression on Hidan's face twisted as he charged towards the two in front of him with an ominous posture!
The second round of the slaughter had begun.
And on the other side, Haruno Sakura, who had deliberately led the battlefield away from Shino and Yūgao, after continuously dodging several Earth Flow Spears, seeing that the distance was far enough, also stopped her evasive steps.
BOOM—!
"Nin-taijutsu: Castle Tower Kick!"
By precisely controlling the chakra in her leg and enhancing every fiber of her muscles, Haruno Sakura had erupted with terrifying power.
She stomped heavily on the ground. The insane destructive power brutally smashed the Earth Flow Spears that Kakuzu was trying to raise into countless small pieces of mud.
She had forcefully stomped and broken a ninjutsu.
The girl let out a cold snort. Her pair of green eyes looked at Kakuzu coldly, as if waiting for his next ninjutsu.
"..." Even the widely experienced Kakuzu was speechless for a moment upon seeing this effect.
Stomping an Earth Flow Spear to pieces with one foot? He was very confident in the Earth Style he used, and now he was beginning to wonder if his Earth Style heart had been damaged.
"Monstrous Strength Technique... Tsunade's disciple, you really live up to your name," Kakuzu said faintly.
Like a compliment.
But Sakura saw that his arm, which had been smashed to pieces by her own punch, was being re-stitched into the shape of a hand with the help of his black tentacles. She felt that his words were more like a form of sarcasm.
Sarcasm that the Monstrous Strength Technique, despite its great power, was helpless against him.
"Same to you. Your Earth Style is not bad either," she said faintly. The Yin Seal had been quietly opened. Abundant chakra surged and swirled within her body. The Ice Style Kekkei Genkai made the girl's voice sharp and cold, indifferent and ruthless.
Facing the girl who was as cold as frost, Kakuzu actually revealed a smile.
A sinister smile.
"I'm not just good at Earth Style..." he said playfully, and then glanced at the battlefield. "Have you decided to fight here? Don't worry, before I finish you off, my ninjutsu won't affect them. After all, for a ninja with a name like yours, a complete corpse is worth a lot of money!"
His words seemed to carry a ten-thousand-percent certainty of victory, as if Haruno Sakura's body were an object that he could easily obtain.
Kakuzu had indeed considered that he had seen through Sakura's combat system: a super-fast Body Flicker plus a close-range, infinitely powerful Monstrous Strength assault. This was indeed a combo that would be troublesome for most people. Namikaze Minato back then had dominated the entire ninja world with just his unrivaled Body Flicker.
So the parts that were redacted in the data that Danzo had given him should be the Ice Body Flicker and the Monstrous Strength Technique, right?
Of course, at mid-range, Kakuzu speculated that she also had a formidable Wind Style as a supplementary attack method for when she faced an enemy she couldn't get close to...
In that case, Kakuzu, whose body was mainly composed of resilient black threads and was not afraid of the Monstrous Strength Technique, and who was also full of confidence in a ninjutsu duel, had indeed placed himself in an invincible position.
However, it was a pity.
His guess was completely wrong.
The Body Flicker attack that Sakura had exposed just now, while it was a major focus of her combat system, was also just a part of it.
To think that her skills ended there could only mean that Kakuzu had indeed been somewhat misled by Danzo.
If Sakura knew about this, she probably wouldn't know whether to laugh or cry. That Danzo, had he screwed her over or helped her out? It was really hard to say!
"You seem to think you've already won against me..." the girl said coldly. Although her presence was not as dense as Kakuzu's killing intent, it was clearer and sharper, in no way inferior in their confrontation. "I don't know where you get your confidence."
"I just want to remind you of one thing. The reason I created distance on the battlefield wasn't because I was worried your ninjutsu would affect them..."
She lowered her eyelids, her peripheral vision on the water mass in her palm, which was controlled to the extreme.
"...It was because I was worried my ninjutsu would affect them!"
The killing intent in her voice was bone-chilling!
"Water Style: Wind Blade Raging Stream!"
At the same time, Kakuzu, who had long since detected her secretly mobilizing her chakra and preparing to cast a ninjutsu, also used his own ninjutsu at the same instant!
"Trying to use a Wind Style ninjutsu against me..." The moment he detected Haruno Sakura's movement to cast a ninjutsu, this thought had flashed through Kakuzu's mind.
He subconsciously used a Fire Style ninjutsu that countered Wind Style to meet her attack:
"Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"
And then, he saw a thin, silver-white line, with an absolutely unreasonable, tyrannical posture, cut his ninjutsu, along with himself, in half!
BOOM—
The Great Dragon Fire Technique, which had been forcefully cut off, exploded in mid-air. Under the glow of the giant fireball, Kakuzu's body, which had been split in two, fell to the ground with a thud.
Whether it was the ninjutsu's rank, power, or architecture, or even the elemental counter relationship, the Wind Blade Raging Stream was enough to crush Kakuzu's Great Dragon Fire...
This clash of ninjutsu naturally ended with Kakuzu's complete defeat and the loss of one of his lives.
One could only say that this life of Kakuzu's was lost because of Danzo...
Although...
It wasn't as if he only had one life.
The Wind Blade Raging Stream, with its absolute power, had cut Kakuzu's main body in two. Sakura had thought the battle was over, but the chakra on Kakuzu's body that would not dissipate left her uncertain.
"What's going on..." The girl widened her beautiful, jade-green eyes, staring in astonishment at the body of Kakuzu, which should have been dead, as it began to stir. "After being cut in half like that, he can still be alive?"
Her delicate brows furrowed tightly.
Sakura's tone was full of disbelief.
She simply couldn't imagine that there would be such an enemy!
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