Chapter 318: Mutually Multiplying Ice Clone Explosion Technique
"To fight to this extent..." Haruno Sakura was also panting slightly. "You must be very tired too, Orochimaru!"
With Orochimaru's abilities, he definitely shouldn't have been chased so miserably by two S-rank water dragons... This was because suppressing the Second Hokage's resistance and manipulating his body to fight with full strength had consumed too much of his energy. Moreover, his stamina was not endless!
The continuous casting of super-high-level ninjutsu was also a great burden on his stamina. Just now, when he had used that super-standard "Snake Step" to summon two giant snakes, Orochimaru had actually begun to feel a sense of powerlessness!
Because of the Second Hokage's struggle, the power exerted by him reanimating Tobirama Senju, two Kage-levels added together, was not 1+1=2, but less than 2!
Of course, this was also slightly simpler than him facing Haruno Sakura alone. On the sea, as a Water Style ninja, the strength she displayed was several times higher than usual, which was already enough to crush him!
Just looking at those super ninjutsu just now was enough to know...
The coordinated attack of Orochimaru and the Second Hokage just now had made Haruno Sakura feel extremely uncomfortable. But now, the Second Hokage had just been smashed to pieces and was still slowly recovering. It was Orochimaru's turn to face her power head-on!
"Ice clones?" Orochimaru looked around coldly at the Haruno Sakuras surrounding him, his chest heaving, panting slightly, and said coldly, "This kind of ninjutsu..."
"Are you looking down on me?"
Although he was a little embarrassed now and hadn't caught his breath yet, and couldn't use his full strength for a while, he was definitely not someone who could be dealt with by mere clones!
"No, I just happened to think of a tactic..." Haruno Sakura said calmly, while pouring chakra into the sea regardless of the cost, using the large pieces of broken ice that had been blasted away just now to create ice clones. She wanted to turn all the huge icebergs that had been shattered just now into clones in one go!
Orochimaru's pupils shrank. He didn't say anything more, but suddenly opened his mouth and spat out the Sword of Kusanagi. Under the spur of his secret technique, the blade suddenly surged, extending to over a hundred meters long!
Swish, swish, swish!
With the Sword of Kusanagi in his mouth, he swept it around. The sword shadow traced a perfect fan shape in the air. The gorgeous sword light bloomed like fireworks in the sunlight. With a clash of metal, the sharp blade cut a large circle of ice clones into ice slag, shattering and falling. The densely packed clones around him were instantly cleared!
Haruno Sakura raised an eyebrow. "Right back at you!"
She snorted coldly, and the water line in her hand was also activated at the same time: "Water Style: Super Water Gun Jutsu!"
The characteristic of the Water Gun Jutsu was that its power was slightly lower, but its activation speed was extremely fast. At the same time as Orochimaru extended the Sword of Kusanagi, the silver-white water line also slashed at the unsuspecting Orochimaru in an instant, cutting him in two with a swish.
"Hmph..." Orochimaru's new body drilled out of the corpse that had been cut in half at the waist. What greeted him in front was an ocean of clones whose numbers had once again returned to being endless! Hundreds of clones had died, but the number of ice clones had not decreased at all, but had become even more: with the continuous supply of Sakura's chakra, the ice blocks floating in the sea were still constantly creating endless clones, rushing madly towards Orochimaru.
At this time, the first ice clone was already close at hand!
Many ants bite an elephant to death, huh...
Orochimaru looked at the clones in front of him with cold eyes, killing intent overflowing. He lay on the ground and suddenly opened his mouth and spat!
"Secret Technique: Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes!"
Endless snake sea against endless clone sea!
And at this moment, the first ice clone had already rushed to Orochimaru's side. The moment the ice blade in its hand stabbed at Orochimaru, it was casually killed by the latter.
"This is it!" Haruno Sakura's gaze focused. She had already seen the opportunity to use her tactic. Her hands suddenly formed seals!
"Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!"
Swish— Using the first ice clone as a Body Flicker medium, the girl's figure appeared in front of Orochimaru!
"Ice Body Flicker again?" The snake-eyed man had expected this. "I've been waiting for you!"
The moment he spoke, the Sword of Kusanagi in Orochimaru's hand suddenly stabbed out. The sword light flashed, turning into an afterimage. In the next moment, it had already pierced into the girl's chest. The other party seemed not to have reacted at all, and was pierced through the chest by the blade!
"What's going on..." Orochimaru was suddenly stunned. Haruno Sakura was killed so easily?
Of course not.
Crack, crack...
Sakura's figure turned into a block of ice. It was actually an ice clone! And at the same time, using the two clone corpses in front of Orochimaru as a medium, two new clones flickered and appeared in front of Orochimaru!
With two swish sounds, the sword light was swift. Orochimaru's attack was as fast as thunder. The moment the ice clones appeared, he killed them again. But he had already realized that something was wrong...
Then, the third wave that appeared in front of him was four clones!
The Sword of Kusanagi extended and surged rapidly, flashing with a sharp light, cutting through the air with a whoosh, killing all the clones.
The fourth wave of ice clones, a total of eight, appeared in front of Orochimaru again!
"Ice Style: Mutually Multiplying Ice Clone Technique!"
The corner of Haruno Sakura's mouth curled up, revealing a smile!
After integrating Yin Release into Ice Style, although it was only a crude application, there were already various strange changes!
Adding the nature transformation of Yin Release to the ice clone and infusing it with more spiritual power could make the clone more intelligent and spiritual. Not only could the duration become longer and the clone's autonomy higher, but the ice clone could also use more ninjutsu.
For example, the Ice Body Flicker.
This jutsu required spiritual power to locate the space-time coordinates. Previously, ice clones could not use it, but after using Yin Release to infuse spiritual power into the ice clones, the clones possessed the ability to use the Body Flicker!
After the first ice clone rushed up, the first wave that used its body to flicker was only one clone. The second wave was two, then four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two...
The tenth wave would already have 512 clones!
If he didn't find a way to stop it, in just a few seconds, the enemy would be overwhelmed by the flickering clones!
Next, whether using the clones to attack or detonating the clones, it was a good method for a war of attrition.
This was the Mutually Multiplying Ice Clone Technique, modeled after the idea of the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags!
"If I can't end the battle quickly, I'll use this tactic to wear you down to death!" Haruno Sakura sneered, watching as Orochimaru fell into the ocean of clones!
When the fourth wave of eight clones rushed over, Orochimaru had already realized the problem. He suddenly jumped up. "Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
A fireball spat out from Orochimaru's mouth, growing in the wind, instantly expanding into a giant fire bullet, evaporating the clones along with the ice blocks on the ground with a boom!
However, the other clones were not idle during this period: the sea of snakes created by Orochimaru was cut open by the more agile ice clones. Even if they used the advantage of local numbers to surround and kill a clone, they would then have to face the clone's self-detonation jutsu. Often with a roar, a small area of the snake group could be cleared.
In the face of the continuous clone attacks and self-detonations, the snake group quickly shrank. The endless snake tide was like a receding tide, rapidly drying up and depleting, leaving only sections of broken snake bodies falling into the sea and disappearing without a trace.
On the front, the ice clones attracted Orochimaru's attention through mutually multiplying flicker assaults. On the side and back, clones took the opportunity to rush up. Three clones simultaneously swung ice blades at Orochimaru, and at the same time, new clones had already teleported over through mutually multiplying flickers!
"Hmph, troublesome..."
Sensing the changes behind his head, Orochimaru's face became even more gloomy.
"Has my power declined to this extent, that even clones have become a threat!" he said coldly in his heart!
He cast a Water Substitute, instantly swapping places with a water clone not far away. The original Orochimaru was hacked to death by the clones, turning into a puddle of clear water. But the real body still hadn't escaped the area distributed with ice clones. As soon as the Substitution Jutsu was completed, an ice clone noticed the strange movement, turned around, and slashed at Orochimaru's head with a blade!
Orochimaru didn't even look at her. He slashed down with his sword. With a flash of sword light, he cut the clone, along with the blade and the person, in two. His hands were already forming seals, preparing for the next Water Substitute. Then, as expected, the girl's figure appeared beside the ice block again with a flicker.
Dealing with this kind of clone was effortless when there was only one, but when there were many, it was a headache.
Orochimaru still swung his sword down regardless, the sharp Sword of Kusanagi tracing a perfect arc, seeming to reap another clone. Then, with a smack, Orochimaru was suddenly startled. His wrist had been grabbed by the newcomer!
"This is the main body!" His pupils shrank violently!
He subconsciously wanted to use the Substitution Jutsu!
However, Sakura was faster. Her left hand seized Orochimaru's sword-holding wrist, and her right hand held a short blade. The butterfly short blade was unbelievably fast, instantly cutting Orochimaru in two with one slash!
Who said Haruno Sakura had to use ice clones for the mutually multiplying flicker? Orochimaru was momentarily careless and took her horizontal slash head-on. His intention to escape the clones' pursuit instantly vanished into thin air. With this delay, more ice clones flickered over with swish, swish sounds, swinging short blades and long swords in unison, cutting Orochimaru's corpse into several pieces.
Before more clones could appear here, the corpse's mouth suddenly opened, and Orochimaru launched an attack directly from inside the mouth. The Sword of Kusanagi fiercely stabbed at Haruno Sakura's main body in front of him.
But Haruno Sakura, having succeeded in one hit, had long since used the Substitution Jutsu to swap places with an ice clone not far away. Orochimaru's sudden attack only pierced the clone's head!
Haruno Sakura, standing on the side, sneered. A large amount of chakra gathered on her body, stirring up a whirlwind that gently blew her long hair behind her head.
"Ice Style: Mutually Multiplying Ice Clone Explosion Technique!"
"Hah!" The girl shouted loudly, using all her strength to cast the clone explosion jutsu.
The clones that Orochimaru had killed, was about to kill, and hadn't discovered, under the control of Sakura's chakra, all exploded with a roar in an instant!
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—
Continuous explosions rang out incessantly! The terrifying thing about this ninjutsu was that the ice clones could endlessly flicker over and then explode, until all the clones created by Sakura were consumed!
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