Chapter 314: Manda
Layers of overlapping ice peaks, ice pillars, and ice spikes pierced into the area where Orochimaru was!
A saturation attack that exceeded the range of the Substitution Jutsu's evasion.
But Orochimaru did not choose to dodge.
Since the battle began, Orochimaru formed hand seals for the first time—
"Summoning Jutsu: Manda!"
A huge black magic circle spread out from the ice surface. Surging chakra gushed out, and a shocking giant creature rose from the ice surface, accompanied by thick chakra smoke!
A giant python appeared on the ice layer.
The ice blade thrusts of the Cold Frost Ice Funeral were completely unable to pierce its hard scales!
Orochimaru stood on the top of the giant snake's head, almost towering into the clouds; Manda straightened its body, its thick body blocking a small half of the sky in front of Haruno Sakura!
"He summoned Manda..." Haruno Sakura was slightly stunned. The purple-patterned giant snake in front of her had an extremely large amount of chakra and astonishing strength. It was probably even stronger than the Gamabunta Naruto had summoned!
In her previous life, she had only seen its figure in the manga. This was the first time Sakura had truly fought to the death with such a tyrannical giant beast!
"Hey, Orochimaru!" Manda glanced at the girl on the ice surface, whose chakra was surging and overflowing, and said coldly, "Is the enemy this time that little girl opposite me? Don't give me such a strong opponent every time!"
"Or next time I'll eat you! Also, prepare a hundred living people as sacrifices for me later!" Its voice was as deep as muffled thunder, rumbling loudly, extremely gloomy.
Orochimaru looked coldly at the giant snake under his feet, his patience long since worn away by its insatiable greed.
If the current battle situation didn't require it to handle it, Orochimaru wouldn't have summoned it at all!
Haruno Sakura could use ice blocks as a medium for super-high-speed Body Flicker, and her reaction speed was fast. In the place where she had set up the battlefield, she was simply another Namikaze Minato... So if the ice layer wasn't removed first, his attacks couldn't hit Haruno Sakura at all!
"Destroy the ice layer under your feet, and I'll give you two hundred living people as sacrifices later!" Orochimaru said indifferently.
Two hundred living people... He sneered, recalling Haruno Sakura's stunning water blade jutsu.
Come back alive to the Ryūchi Cave, and then ask me for sacrifices!
"Two hundred... then it's a deal!"
Manda grinned greedily; then, it was about to dive into the ice layer, but saw a silver-white water line slash across the sky below!
"Water Style: Wind Blade Raging Stream!"
This was a water blade that Sakura had pushed with all her might, increasing its power to an unprecedented level in order to deal with Manda!
She clenched her jaw, waving the silver line with her right hand, slashing horizontally at Manda.
SWISH! The hard scales that had remained unmoved under the countless ice blade stabs of the Cold Frost Ice Funeral became vulnerable in the face of the indestructible Wind Blade Raging Stream in Sakura's hand.
With a few crisp crack sounds, the scales were pierced, muscles split, and bones snapped! Manda was actually cut in two by a single blow, and stinking snake blood gushed out wildly!
ROAR—!
The purple-patterned giant snake let out a miserable, loud cry, and its two body segments fell helplessly from the sky!
"Idiot..." Haruno Sakura sneered. "Did you really think Manda could withstand this move?"
Large summoning beasts were almost all naturally countered by her ninjutsu. Orochimaru summoning Manda was just a waste of chakra!
Orochimaru's face changed.
"Trash!"
Although he had expected that Manda would be killed by her sooner or later, he hadn't expected it to be killed as soon as it appeared!
His hands quickly formed seals, and chakra surged to the giant snake's wound. Countless pythons suddenly grew out of the cross-sections of Manda's upper and lower body segments, rushing madly towards each other, tangling together, pulling the two segments of the snake body closer and closer.
At the same time as Manda fell onto the ice layer, its wound finally healed. As soon as this giant snake recovered, it twisted its body and burrowed madly into the ice layer, dodging Sakura's next water blade!
"It didn't die?" Haruno Sakura raised an eyebrow, a little surprised.
She formed seals with her hands and shot out another water line. This time Manda dodged quickly, and this slash only cut off one-fifth of its body; the purple giant snake, with its tail cut off, was in pain, and twisted its body even more madly, drilling into the depths of the ice layer!
The girl snorted through her nose and spat disdainfully, "You think you can dodge?"
The ice layer was created with her chakra!
Sakura suddenly raised her right hand, and the chakra surging on her body instantly lifted her hair violently. Just as she was about to manipulate the ice layer to kill Manda, she was suddenly startled.
Looking up, Orochimaru's attack was already imminent!
"Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame!"
Like the Third Hokage, Orochimaru was also proficient in ninjutsu of all affinities. The Fire Style used by his hands was no less powerful than Kakuzu's Searing Migraine!
It was too huge... A fireball hundreds of meters in diameter, its power so strong it simply made Haruno Sakura's scalp tingle; a Fire Style of such power was enough to cover the entire ice layer. Even using the Ice Body Flicker, she couldn't escape its range!
A suffocating, super-giant ninjutsu...
Tch! Haruno Sakura bit her lower lip and had to put Manda aside; the chakra on her body surged to the other side, pulling a huge amount of seawater from the sea outside the ice layer!
Sakura gritted her teeth, veins popping on her forehead, and let out an angry shout. The endless seawater, under her chakra manipulation, turned into a huge water wall across the girl's front—
"Water Style: Water Formation Wall!"
The sky-filled flames almost covered the entire sky. The scorching fireball burned fiercely, emitting a scorching heatwave. Even across the thick water wall, it was faintly hot.
BOOM!!
Two equally huge ninjutsu collided with a roar in the air. The transparent water wall was instantly evaporated by half, turning into a scorching steam and water mist, covering half the sky!
The collision of super-large ninjutsu made even the thick ice layer groan in the aftermath. Long cracks hundreds of meters long appeared on the ice surface. The iceberg condensed by Haruno Sakura already showed signs of disintegration...
Coming hand in hand with Orochimaru's Fire Style was Manda's attack.
The fireball had just been blocked by Sakura. Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, a tremor came from under her feet. In the next second, Manda's giant mouth opened wide, bursting out from under the ice layer, wanting to swallow the girl in one bite!
Haruno Sakura reacted extremely quickly. The moment the ice layer trembled, she exerted force and jumped up, dodging this blow.
The giant snake's horned head shot out from in front of Sakura, biting empty air.
"Missed... what a fast reaction!" Manda was shocked, but its body's movement did not pause in the slightest. After missing a hit, it quickly retracted its head and hid deep in the ice layer.
"Trying to run?"
Haruno Sakura sneered. It had only survived just now because she was dealing with Orochimaru's attack; instead of hiding honestly below, it dared to pop its head out to attack. It was simply courting death!
She put her hands together in front of her chest, continuously changing hand seals, and once again extracted a large amount of chakra from the Yin Seal: "Ice Style: Ice Golem Jutsu!"
The ice blocks under her feet rose brazenly, bulging into the shape of a giant. Then, further sculpted by Sakura's exquisite Ice Style shape transformation, it turned into the girl's own appearance.
This was a ninjutsu created in imitation of the First Hokage's Wood Golem Jutsu. Although it couldn't compare to the fierce might of the First using Wood Style to suppress the Nine-Tails, it was also full of power!
Haruno Sakura stood on the huge forehead of the giant version of herself.
With a fierce wave of her hand, the iceberg blossomed layer by layer, exposing the purple-patterned giant snake hidden deep in the ice layer. The Ice Golem reached out and grabbed Manda, its right fingertips turning into ice blades and piercing deeply into the giant snake's flesh and blood. Immediately, a series of huge tearing sounds of cloth and flesh rang out, and blood gushed like a river from the wound, spraying wildly!
The Ice Golem grabbed the giant snake firmly and lifted it up.
Manda was in pain. The intense pain aroused its ferocity, so it turned around and wrapped around the Ice Golem. Its thick and powerful body wrapped tightly around the Ice Golem for a few turns, firmly binding the Ice Golem instead!
It exerted force madly. The body wrapped around the Ice Golem suddenly contracted, squeezing the ice blocks until they creaked. The giant snake then opened its bloody maw, almost to one hundred and eighty degrees, and bit again at Haruno Sakura standing on the Ice Golem's head!
Waves of foul-smelling wind hit her, and Sakura immediately frowned.
"Since cutting you off with the Wind Blade Raging Stream allows you to reattach... then I'll just beat you into a pulp!" Haruno Sakura said coldly.
Facing the giant snake's devour, she did not dodge. Instead, she jumped up from the Ice Golem's head and met Manda's crazy snake kiss!
"Nin-taijutsu: Castle Tower Kick!"
This time, she used the Monstrous Strength technique that concentrated all destructive power on the tip of her foot, inherited from Tsunade. One kick could break a small mountain!
BANG—!
Manda's tough and powerful upper jaw met an unstoppable, immense force.
The sharp and hard teeth were as fragile as tofu in front of the giant force that was enough to move mountains and overturn seas, and were instantly kicked off. The girl's heavy kick did not diminish in power, slamming into the thick muscle layer in Manda's mouth. The tough and powerful muscles instantly shattered into meat dregs, mushing into a ball; then it continued with the force of a thunderbolt, crashing into the bones, kneading and deforming the hard bones like noodles, shattering them into powder.
With this kick, Haruno Sakura smashed Manda's mouth, along with half of its head, into a bloody pulp with the force of splitting bamboo!
The defenseless Manda took this kick and was instantly severely injured, with only half a breath left; on the verge of death, it weakly turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared from here, reverse-summoned back to the Ryūchi Cave.
Leaving only a messy ice layer.
And Haruno Sakura and the tattered Ice Golem beside her.
The girl took a deep breath. After the successive big moves, even with the Yin Seal providing sufficient energy, she still felt a little out of breath.
She calmed her heaving chest and then turned her gaze to Orochimaru standing in the distance.
After this fight with Manda, Orochimaru had taken the opportunity to prepare his ninjutsu on the side.
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