Chapter 99: Yagura and Ice Release! (Seeking Subscriptions!)
Yagura's timing was impeccable, and with that block, Sarutobi Asuma had lost his advantage.
As his body landed, heavy earth walls rose from the ground before him, interspersed with large trees.
RUMBLE!
A torrent of water surged forward, the earth walls crumbled, but the water dispersed in all directions, posing no threat to Sarutobi Asuma or the Konoha ninja arriving behind him.
However, the Mist Ninja had achieved their tactical objective.
Before the Konoha ninja could react, the thick fog had already spread.
This was the second Ninjutsu the Mist Ninja had prepared:
Water Style: Hidden Mist Jutsu!
Visibility within the forest plummeted, and soon, everyone except the Hyuga clan members couldn't see more than a meter ahead.
Furthermore, this fog contained chakra, which also interfered with Chakra Sensory Ninjutsu.
This meant that within this fog, aside from the Hyuga clan ninja, most others could only rely on sound and smell for perception.
"Be careful of the Mist Ninja's silent assassination techniques!"
The Konoha Jonin realized the Mist Ninja's objective and issued warnings.
The first wave of Water Style wasn't just for attack; it was to create a humid environment, making Water Style ninjutsu easier to activate and more powerful.
Hidden Mist Jutsu was one such technique.
By obscuring vision, it perfectly played to Kirigakure's specialty in assassination.
While this jutsu couldn't counter the Hyuga clan's Byakugan, Konoha didn't have the Byakugan on everyone. Even if they could announce enemy positions, their reaction time would still be a beat slower, including Sarutobi Asuma.
Clearly, Konoha was preparing, and the Mist Ninja weren't just standing by.
The tactic unfolding before them was specifically aimed at Sarutobi Asuma.
However, the Mist Ninja didn't know that Sarutobi Asuma was no longer the same as he was in the past.
He now possessed the Electromagnetic Eye. Even with the fog coverage, his infrared vision made the Mist Ninja even more apparent to him.
Most importantly, in the past, Sarutobi Asuma had rarely demonstrated any Water Style ninjutsu to the Mist Ninja, at least not any large-scale, powerful ones.
Then.
Crack!
Watching the "red figures" stealthily charging at him, Sarutobi Asuma didn't use Wind Style to disperse the fog.
Water Style: Water Collision Wave!
In an instant, the large volume of water generated by the Mist Ninja just moments ago, along with the moisture in the air, rapidly converged towards Sarutobi Asuma.
The fog was gone!
The water was gone!
The Mist Ninja, who had intended to surround and assassinate Sarutobi Asuma and the other Konoha ninja stealthily, were stunned.
Even Yagura, who had already deployed a Water Clone and surrounded Sarutobi Asuma, intending to use the Water Mirror Technique to eliminate Sarutobi Asuma's Shadow Clone, was taken aback.
He never expected the Hidden Mist Jutsu to be broken like this!
Nor did he expect Sarutobi Asuma's Water Style abilities to be so formidable.
After all, the fog contained the chakra of numerous Mist Ninja, which was why it could nullify Chakra Sensory Ninjutsu.
But now, Sarutobi Asuma had directly stripped the Mist Ninja of their control over this mist.
This was truly astonishing!
"Not good!"
Seeing the massive volume of water swirling around Sarutobi Asuma, Yagura's expression changed drastically.
His ninjutsu…
BOOM!
Water mirrors shattered, along with several Water Clones.
The ninjutsu Sarutobi Asuma was using was too immense, requiring too much chakra, which prevented his Water Mirror Technique from reflecting a full image.
"Retreat quickly!"
Yagura shouted, rapidly backing away.
With this scale, even Fire Style wouldn't be able to block it.
At this moment, purple lightning crackled from Sarutobi Asuma's body, infusing into the swirling water around him.
Lightning Water Collision Wave!
The water surrounding Sarutobi Asuma, mixed with lightning, surged powerfully towards the Mist Ninja.
This stream of water was even larger than what the Mist Ninja had unleashed together earlier.
It spanned over two to three li, reaching a height of a hundred meters.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The terrifying stream of water descended like a water mountain, crashing down.
"Run!"
"Get to the treetops!"
The Mist Ninja screamed and shouted.
As soon as a Mist Ninja leaped into the air, they let out a scream and were smashed into the ground by the water, their internal organs pulped, and electric currents coursing through their bodies.
Others managed to reach the treetops, but the trees were immediately snapped by the terrifying torrent. Even if they landed on the branches, they were entangled by purple electric currents, letting out shrill screams before falling back into the water.
Watching the Mist Ninja being swept away by the water, Sarutobi Asuma spread his hands, and the water on both sides surged towards the center.
Behind Sarutobi Asuma.
Numerous Konoha ninja stared in disbelief.
Was this Water Style?
They had truly never seen Water Style with such a wide range and terrifying power.
Oh no, there's Lightning Style too!
When the force of the water impact weakened.
In the devastated forest, Mist Ninja corpses floated everywhere.
A Hyuga Clan ninja instinctively swept his gaze, counting them, "A total of sixty-three people!"
"One jutsu eliminated more than half of the enemy... As expected of Lord Asuma, you're too powerful!"
On the other side.
Yagura's expression was solemn, breathing heavily, with lingering fear.
He believed his Water Style was already extremely powerful, and even within Kirigakure, he was definitely among the most outstanding.
But compared to Sarutobi Asuma, he naturally fell short.
Moreover, what stood before him was a Shadow Clone.
"If it were his real body..."
Yagura thought to himself, "Such a person is truly terrifying!"
Not far away, a Chunin who had narrowly escaped death looked at the corpses floating on the water, his heart filled with terror. "Someone like this is not on the same level as us at all!"
Yagura shouted, "Retreat quickly!"
With more than half of their forces dead or injured, the remaining people could not hold on.
He no longer had the confidence to defeat Sarutobi Asuma's Shadow Clone.
The Mist Ninja obeyed the order and turned to retreat.
Sarutobi Asuma moved at this moment as well.
Purple electric currents wrapped around his body, and he slid rapidly across the water's surface, breaking the sound barrier in an instant.
Suddenly, streams of water rose from the surface in front of Sarutobi Asuma, splitting into thousands, then transforming into ice, whistling towards Sarutobi Asuma.
"There's an Ice Release ninja too!"
Sarutobi Asuma raised an eyebrow, but his speed did not decrease. The purple electric currents on his body suddenly erupted, and the incoming senbon needles immediately exploded.
"Ordinary ninjutsu, even powerful bloodline limit secret techniques, would struggle to block him, to restrain him!"
Yagura, who was also responsible for covering the retreat, shouted, and water walls rose one after another, but they were immediately broken through by Sarutobi Asuma.
Then, the Water Mirror Technique reappeared.
Sarutobi Asuma broke through the last water wall and was met with an identical copy of himself.
The same rapid sliding, the same purple electric currents.
Sarutobi Asuma raised his hand, and purple electric currents shot out. The jutsu Lightning Style: False Darkness instantly erupted, piercing the mirrored self.
The next moment, he appeared in front of Yagura and punched through his chest.
Bang!
Yagura exploded into a mass of water, then bound Sarutobi Asuma like a python, and instantly turned into ice.
Bang!
The ice shattered under the eruption of lightning.
But at Sarutobi Asuma's feet, water surged and then rapidly turned into ice.
The ice repeatedly shattered under the lightning's eruption but quickly regenerated.
Sarutobi Asuma's figure was fixed on the ice surface, and accompanied by faint cracking sounds, he was rapidly frozen, forming a colossal ice sculpture.
"Lord Asuma!"
The Konoha ninja following behind exclaimed in surprise and attacked, but they were blocked by Yagura and the Mist Ninja Jonin who were covering their retreat.
"Ice Release: Icebound Explosion!"
From dozens of meters away, next to Yagura, a man whose handsome features were almost feminine raised one hand.
BOOM!
The ice shattered, turning into powder along with the frozen Sarutobi Asuma.
"Retreat quickly, my chakra is running low!"
After dealing with Sarutobi Asuma's Shadow Clone, the Ice Release Mist Ninja quickly said.
Using the same secret Ice Release ninjutsu, he had consumed several times the usual amount of chakra to freeze Sarutobi Asuma's Shadow Clone.
Sarutobi Asuma's Shadow Clone felt more powerful than described in the intelligence reports.
He even felt that if the other party hadn't been low on chakra and was a Shadow Clone, an easily broken existence, his secret technique just now wouldn't have been able to freeze them.
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