Chapter 383: Endgame
The Ice Style Explosion Jutsu originally originated from the Shadow Clone Explosion Jutsu.
In the manga content that Sakura still vaguely remembered, Itachi used this move to beat Kakashi and others into a sorry state. Inspired by this, Haruno Sakura imitated this jutsu and developed an Ice Style-exclusive clone explosion jutsu. When this move was used in conjunction with a large number of ice clones casting the Ice Body Flicker Technique, it became the combination technique Mutually Multiplying Ice Clone Explosion Technique, which was extremely powerful. Even figures like Orochimaru had suffered under this jutsu!
Later, as Sakura's understanding and mastery of Ice Style deepened, her use of the Clone Explosion Jutsu also became more flexible. She was no longer limited to the explosion of ice clones, but could detonate ice blocks containing her chakra at will, from the simplest ice ninja tools to the man-sized ice shuriken created by Swallow Snow Storm, and then to the boundless ice field constructed by Frost Funeral.
Finally, there was this super-giant ice ball under her feet.
Rumble—
The booming sound was like thunder, echoing among the clouds, shaking the heavens and the earth.
It took a long time to calm down.
With a light pat, Haruno Sakura touched the ground with her toes and floated down as lightly as a butterfly.
The location where she was was a large crater created by the ninjutsu. It was a crater several meters deep and hundreds of meters in circumference left after the deep soil layer was plowed by the violent explosion.
Outside the crater, within the range affected by the explosion, the original puddles and grassland landforms of the Land of Waterfalls were completely gone. Vegetation was uprooted, rivers and pools were swept clean, leaving only an empty wasteland, interspersed with a few crystal ice shards remaining after the explosion.
The vast white wasteland spread from near to far beyond the horizon, until the end of the field of vision.
And in this pale scene, a scarred figure lying on the ground was particularly eye-catching.
He was covered in blood and filth, with blood holes deep enough to see the bone covering his whole body, especially terrifying.
A large sword was bent into a grotesque shape as if twisted by huge force at will, completely losing its function as a sword.
"Hoshigaki Kisame," the girl looked coldly at the person in the distance and said his name indifferently.
"You're finished."
In Sakura's perception, Kisame's chakra aura was already extremely weak, like a candle in the wind, which could go out at any moment.
Samehada also had no aura at all, declining to the extreme. It seemed to have used all its chakra to maintain itself and Kisame's life.
Without chakra, even if Samehada possessed extremely strong healing ability, it was like a clever woman unable to cook a meal without rice, powerless to save Kisame and reverse the defeat. What's more, it was also heavily damaged itself and could hardly protect itself.
The gurgling blood flowing continuously from the huge wounds on Kisame's body was further draining life from this comatose burly man, making him slowly slide into the dark abyss of eternal sleep.
His life had entered a countdown.
Haruno Sakura could see it. Even if she did nothing, Kisame wouldn't live long.
But Sakura didn't have the habit of leaving the enemy with a last breath to listen to their last words.
There was no pity on her pretty face cold as frost, and the look in her clear eyes was as cold as snow.
After using a ninjutsu of such magnitude, the meridians all over Haruno Sakura's body were aching due to overload, but she still continued to form seals regardless, giving her opponent no chance to turn the tables.
Moving forward lightly a few steps, while walking, the ninjutsu in her hand was slowly and firmly completed at the same time. A transparent water ball suddenly appeared in the girl's right palm.
The Konoha ninja flicked her hand casually. The water ball made a sizzling sound, and a crystal water line shot out along the girl's index and middle fingers, cutting a deep mark on the vast white ground, becoming sharper and sharper with the circulation of chakra.
"Water Style: Severing Wave—"
At the final moment of the sharp water line's activation, just as it was about to shoot towards Kisame with the turn of her slender fingers.
A sudden change occurred!
Swish swish—
Under her feet, several arms suddenly stretched out, accompanied by sharp whistling sounds, swinging kunai to slash at the girl's right calf!
That posture looked as if they wanted Haruno Sakura to exchange her calf for Kisame's life!
Sakura's face was cold, and a cold smile appeared on her lips.
"Finally willing to come out? Little mice!"
The water line in her hand was withdrawn, a blue light flashed on her leg, her right foot lifted violently, dodging the kunai, and then stomped down fiercely!
"Nin-Taijutsu: Heavenly Foot of Pain!"
The Monstrous Strength Technique inherited from Tsunade combined with Sakura's leg technique instantly brought infinite power to Haruno Sakura; under the precise enhancement of chakra, the girl's slender and exquisite ankle instantly became harder than steel, transmitting the power enough to split mountains and crack rocks to her heel, venting it into the earth, trampling the White Zetsus hiding in the ground for a surprise attack into several lumps of bloody mud and meat paste!
A small earthquake suddenly occurred in the deep pit. Cracks spread like spider webs, and the soil layer was forcibly lowered by several meters.
Filthy blood soon seeped out from under the mud. The chakra sense and life aura under her feet were completely cleared to zero and dissipated.
A mantis trying to stop a chariot.
This phrase suddenly popped up in Haruno Sakura's mind, but the movement of her hand did not pause at all. Seeing her right slender finger move slightly, the white misty water line appeared again, shooting into the soil.
But more White Zetsus appeared one after another. In her chakra perception, dense new auras emerged under her feet, directly in front, and on the left and right sides, jumping out of the soil and pouncing from all directions like moths to a flame, obscuring her vision.
For a moment, it gave the girl the illusion of blocking out the sky and sun!
Perhaps under Haruno Sakura's hands, they were just vulnerable trash, but once the number increased, it would take a certain amount of time to deal with them.
Haruno Sakura subconsciously pushed the effect of Sakura Rush Stage Three to the extreme. Her thoughts turned rapidly. At this moment, her mind was as clear as a mirror, immediately guessing that they rushed over so over-confidently not simply to seek death, but to buy time to rescue Kisame.
"Hmph!" She looked up faintly at the White Zetsus who jumped into mid-air blocking her vision, surprised by the number of White Zetsus, but just snorted arrogantly through her nose, "Useless struggle."
Once the gap in strength is too large, no amount of compensation in quantity will help.
The water line slashed down along the direction where Kisame was in her memory. With a flash of silver light, a large number of severed limbs and broken legs and blood filling the sky were created. The pouncing White Zetsus were immediately cleared by a small half, but it didn't hit Kisame who should have been immobile and remaining in place.
He was moved by White Zetsu.
Haruno Sakura raised her eyebrows high, a little surprised; but her reaction was extremely fast, immediately realizing that she didn't need to entangle with this group of cannon fodder.
"Ice Style: Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!"
Swish! Haruno Sakura's figure disappeared into the air here, causing several White Zetsus rushing at the front with determination to die to collide with each other, unable to stop.
Skipping over this group of suddenly popping up half-pitcher plant half-humans, the girl's figure landed steadily on a piece of ice in the wasteland. A pair of lively eyes swept across the ground at an extremely fast speed, quickly searching for Kisame's figure.
In less than half a second, she found the figure of the comatose Kisame not far away—and several panicked White Zetsus around him trying hard to treat him.
"D-Discovered!"
"Damn it, stop her quickly!"
However, it was too late.
"Found you."
Haruno Sakura lifted her foot violently and stepped on the ground with the power of the Monstrous Strength Technique. The ground under her feet immediately split apart, overwhelmed; following was a huge reaction force acting on the girl, pushing her figure to the limit speed—
Swish!
In close-range movement, Sakura's taijutsu Body Flicker was even faster than the Ice Body Flicker. Seeing her figure still leaving an afterimage on White Zetsu's retina, the next moment, she rushed in front of Kisame abruptly!
"Eat my blade!" A White Zetsu protecting Kisame reacted extremely fast. Almost the moment Sakura rushed over, he raised the Samehada sword, chakra suction fully open, greeting the Ice Style girl!
Wait, Samehada sword?
The girl stopped abruptly, forcibly turned her body sideways to dodge a slash, but frowned slightly, opened her thin lips lightly, and looked at Samehada with a bit of surprise. When did it return to normal? Then, her gaze quickly swept over Samehada's restored straight blade, passing over several dried White Zetsu corpses sucked dry by it at the handle, and the answer was already clear in her heart.
The White Zetsu holding the sword forced Haruno Sakura back with one slash, and the second slash followed closely to pursue the victory, slashing horizontally from right to left. This guy's sword technique was actually quite decent!
But, in the end, far inferior to Kisame.
Haruno Sakura could beat even Kisame down, let alone such a small White Zetsu? Relying on her momentary negligence, he might win half a move slightly, but then White Zetsu would have no more chance.
"Water Style: Super Water Pistol Technique!"
High-speed high-pressure water flow shot out along Haruno Sakura's two fingers again, greeting the horizontally slashing Samehada sword!
Joy flashed in White Zetsu's eyes. Samehada's ability to absorb chakra had recovered mostly, being the nemesis of ninjutsu. Haruno Sakura actually used ninjutsu to fight him, simply extremely stupid.
However, he would soon realize who was the stupidest party in this confrontation—
The extremely sharp water blade collided with Samehada. A tooth-aching friction sound suddenly rang out violently. The face of the White Zetsu holding the sword changed drastically. The imagined scene of Samehada completely absorbing the girl's ninjutsu did not happen; instead, the Samehada sword was deeply cut by the slender white line!
How could he know that Samehada can absorb chakra, but cannot absorb the kinetic energy in water! The Super Water Pistol Technique is an extremely special ninjutsu. It uses high pressure to stimulate real clear water existing in nature into an extremely thin water line, thereby obtaining super strong cutting ability. However, this cutting ability is only related to the physical properties of water, and has nothing to do with whether there is chakra inside!
Let alone the ability to absorb chakra, even the ability to absorb ninjutsu can't do anything about this ninjutsu, because after the Super Water Pistol Technique shoots out the water line, the high-pressure water line is no longer a ninjutsu, but a natural phenomenon.
Driven by nearly ten thousand megapascals of pressure, thinner than a hair, the high-speed water flow with a shooting speed of up to several thousand meters per second, the moment it hit Samehada, unceremoniously cut it open forcefully!
"Ji ji ji ji ji—!"
Spikes on Samehada erupted crazily, its body twisting desperately, emitting miserable screams of being heavily injured!
Then, it stopped abruptly.
Swish—!
The silvery-white water line passed through cruelly and firmly. Everything blocking its way, Samehada, White Zetsus, and Kisame protected behind, even the air in front, were cut in two cruelly and decisively!
The screaming sound brought by the high-pressure water line cutting through the air was piercingly chilling.
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