"Perfect opportunity!"
Despite spitting blood, young A maintained his Lightning Armor after enduring the ice crystal bombardment head-on. Blood continuously streaming from his mouth and nose stained his upper body crimson, making him look particularly terrifying.
With the ice statues no longer continuously outputting freezing air, young A regained his high mobility and charged straight at Feng Bai.
"Demonic Ice Crystal Mirrors!"
Facing the Raikage's sandbag-sized fist, Feng Bai didn't dodge. After creating several ice mirrors, young A punched his head clean off with a single blow.
The headless corpse swayed for a moment before crashing to the ground, transforming into scattered ice crystals that attempted to cover young A.
"Ice clone—where's the real body?"
Easily avoiding the ice crystal attack, young A quickly retreated to Killer Bee and Troy, who had just arrived.
"Cough, cough—big help there, Troy."
Young A thanked Troy while studying the ice mirrors before him with a serious expression.
"Mm."
Troy, with a scroll clenched between his teeth, nodded in acknowledgment.
"Big bro, your injuries..."
Seeing young A's wretched state, Killer Bee also put aside his rapping, looking at his older brother with concern.
"It's nothing—just some lung damage. I've already used chakra stimulation to expel those foreign substances. Be careful though—the enemy can invade your body by exhaling ice mist."
Young A waved his hand, indicating he was fine.
"I see. Impressive as always—using that method to counter Frozen Cloud Jutsu."
Feng Bai's figure appeared within the ice mirrors, genuinely praising his opponent.
"Hmph. Kid, having such strength at your age—no wonder the transport team was no match for you."
Watching Feng Bai's form continuously appearing in the ice mirrors, young A once again covered his entire body with Lightning Armor: "What's your name?"
"Shimura Feng Bai."
As Feng Bai's words fell, an ice mirror suddenly appeared behind Troy, immediately followed by three poison-tipped senbon thrown out.
Troy didn't even turn around, relying purely on instinct to duck forward, dodging the senbon attack and backhandedly swinging his giant square shuriken to shatter the ice mirror behind him.
"The opponent can teleport instantly through ice mirrors!"
The brief exchange allowed young A to understand Feng Bai's attack method.
Hearing young A's words, Troy immediately threw numerous square shuriken from his sleeves toward all the ice mirrors present, preparing for another round of precision guidance.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
His face severely swollen but barely regaining consciousness, Shimura Ikku used Wind Release to halt Troy's action.
"Doesn't matter—I'll handle it!"
Memorizing all the ice mirror positions, young A prepared to use his speed advantage to smash all the ice mirrors in one go.
"Zen, go help quickly!"
On the other side, Zen also shook his head groggily as he came to, immediately hearing Ikku's loud call.
"Huh?"
Yamanaka Zen struggled to focus his eyes, finally managing to track young A's flickering figure.
The next second, his years of combat instinct made him instinctively roll away, as several square shuriken precisely struck the area where he'd just been lying.
"Don't even think about it!"
Troy, who could speak freely even with a scroll in his mouth, frantically hurled shuriken at the two men, preventing them from supporting Feng Bai.
"One mirror, two mirrors, three mirrors... only one left..."
Young A, having consecutively destroyed multiple ice mirrors, looked at the single remaining mirror before him, believing victory was within his grasp.
"Who told you I can only move through intact ice mirrors?!"
Bursting from a shattered mirror fragment, Feng Bai swung a massive fist formed of ice toward young A's back. Due to their extremely close proximity, young A had no way to dodge and could only take the hit directly.
"Sealing Technique: Ice Coffin Imprisonment!"
Ice crystals from the fist rapidly spread to young A, who had been blasted to the ground. Numerous sealing formulas emerged, preparing to completely pin young A in place.
"Big bro!"
Killer Bee shouted loudly while whipping out his massive octopus tail, halting the sealing formulas' spread.
Feng Bai dodged the octopus tentacle attack, slapped his palm onto it to leave a Flying Thunder God formula, then retreated into one of the ice mirror fragments. He appeared from another direction, saw the half-completed seal, and quickly made his decision:
"Since I can't seal you, then let's settle this with this move! Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere!"
"Foolish! The ice crystals you used to seal me will reduce your Wind Release's power!"
With only his head exposed, young A looked at the massive Wind Release attack, mocking Feng Bai's lack of combat experience.
"Is that so? Ice Release: Ice Explosion!"
This technique was developed under Hiruzen's guidance after mastering the five basic release types, achieving ice crystal detonation by injecting conflicting chakra natures into ice-attribute chakra.
Before the Wind Release reached young A, the massive explosion triggered by the ice crystals directly shattered his Lightning Armor, immediately followed by the Wind Release attack.
BOOM!
After the explosion and dust settled, young A stood swaying in the center of the battlefield, his back a bloody mess, no longer able to maintain his prized Lightning Armor.
Beside him, large chunks of octopus tentacle flesh testified to the Wind Release's power. Without Killer Bee's last-second intervention, young A would likely have completely crashed.
"Truly tenacious. Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!"
Marveling at young A's incredible vitality, Feng Bai began his finishing move.
Without Lightning Armor, A's remaining mobility was nothing to fear—equivalent to a living target.
"This is bad."
On the other side, Troy, who had been tying up Yamanaka Zen and Shimura Ikku, noticed young A's defeat. While using Magnet Release to force back the two men, he threw his square shuriken toward young A's direction.
Killer Bee also extended his octopus tentacles once more, trying to protect his big brother.
The sharp wind blades directly severed the octopus tentacles. Thanks to Killer Bee, young A managed to endure his body's pain and form Lightning Armor once more at this critical moment.
Amid the sound of hard collisions, Feng Bai's Wind Release tore through the Lightning Armor's defense, leaving a massive cross-shaped wound on young A's body with a tendency to cut deeper.
Just then, Troy's shuriken finally arrived. Upon contact with young A, he activated Magnet Release, using magnetic attraction to pull young A toward his location, saving him from being torn apart.
Supporting young A's body, Troy helped him to Killer Bee's side. Just as he was about to inquire about young A's condition, he felt a sharp pain at his waist. Before realizing what had happened, he saw a senbon being thrust into his body by a pale, small hand.
Flying Thunder God Technique.
Using the formula on Killer Bee's body, Feng Bai completed this assault.
The reason he chose Troy as his target was because Killer Bee had somehow sensed his intention first and immediately protected young A, forcing Feng Bai to drive this poison-tipped senbon into this background character-looking uncle instead.
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