Chapter 201: The Ninjutsu Clash is Just a Feint
Sakura's Ice Style Zerg Rush, although it looked vast and boundless, after she recovered from the initial excitement of recreating the fantasy in her mind with her own hands, she had to admit that even a ninjutsu like this might not be able to do anything to Kakuzu.
In any case, Sakura did not dare to underestimate the enemy before her.
It wasn't just the opponent's immortal body.
She also couldn't say for sure what degree of damage the Water Style: Wind Blade Raging Stream had caused to Kakuzu just now. The opponent's main body might just be that mass of black tentacles, and his vital points were the things behind his masks that were like chakra sources. Including Kakuzu's main body, there were a total of five. One of them had already been taken out by her... but whether this deduction was accurate, Haruno Sakura couldn't guarantee.
Nor was it just the opponent's endless stream of powerful ninjutsu—Earth Style, Fire Style, and Wind Style, when cast from his hands, all had a destructive presence.
As a ninjutsu master who cultivated both Ice Style and Water Style, Haruno Sakura knew how difficult it was to cultivate three. Even with her talent, it had taken her six or seven years to lay the foundation of Water Style to achieve today's accomplishments, and her Ice Style was just beginning.
It was also because of the opponent's superb battlefield observation ability and rich combat experience. With just a glance, he had seen through the essence of the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals! And she believed that the opponent had also seen through her tactical intentions for this move.
So, faced with this move, what will you do, Kakuzu!
With Kakuzu's combat intelligence, he should be able to guess that this ninjutsu was not just for attacking. If it was not dealt with in time, once he was caught in the infinite Body Flicker of the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, he would completely lose the initiative in battle!
And Kakuzu's reaction, as expected, was to choose a head-on clash.
Also, as she had expected, the remaining tentacle-masked monster connected to Kakuzu by the black, thin threads could also independently use another ninjutsu of a different affinity—Lightning Style.
The only thing that was beyond her expectations...
"He turned into a tentacle monster?" The expression on the girl's face changed from grave to slightly terrified and disgusted.
She had never thought that her opponent would be such a monster wearing human skin.
Haruno Sakura stared deadly at Kakuzu on the ground, who had completely unfurled his Earth Grudge Fear. Endless black tentacles extended from the human torso named "Kakuzu," flying and dancing in the air without any wind, turning into a black tentacle monster several dozen meters in size!
Yes, Kakuzu could no longer be described as a person with countless black tentacles growing out of him. If one had to say, it should be a human shell growing out of a giant ball of tentacles...
And among them were also three humanoid monsters condensed from black threads, wearing strange masks.
This bizarre appearance, just looking at it, made Sakura's scalp tingle!
It wasn't just that the appearance was abominable, twisted, and disgusting.
What was even more terrifying was that those three masked monsters, which only had a slight "human" shape, could each use a different, powerful ninjutsu—
Four ninjutsu, each of which had taken nature and shape transformation to an extremely high level, were simultaneously spat out from the mouths of Kakuzu and the masked monsters, meeting the Ice Style Leviathan in the air, and the cat-faced girl standing majestically on its horn!
"Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"
"Wind Style: Vacuum Super Great Sphere!"
"Earth Style: Earth Flow Spears Technique!"
"Lightning Style: False Darkness!"
A fire dragon, a wind bullet, a rock pillar, and a dazzling lightning glow pounced forward with a vast presence, as if they were going to completely swallow Sakura along with the giant beast under her feet.
And on the ground...
The madly waving black tentacles were not only abnormally tough, but after being infused with chakra, they also had the ability to instantly become as hard as iron. The ice-style spine crawlers that were attacking from all directions, as soon as they rushed into the range of the tentacles, would be immediately strangled, pierced, or even chopped to pieces by the countless tentacles!
"Am I being suppressed?" The girl's expression was grave. The fierce wind blew her pink, shoulder-length hair into a chaotic dance. The oncoming firelight reflected on her white cat-face mask, turning it orange-red. Under the mask, Haruno Sakura muttered.
In an instant, the Ice Style ninjutsu that had been so majestic just now had been beaten into countless ice shards by Kakuzu.
The ice bugs on the ground, which had been used for harassment and as a medium for the Ice Body Flicker, had been completely cleaned up by the countless black tentacles.
And the Ice Style Leviathan in the air, although its size was huge and it had the affinity advantage of a Kekkei Genkai, when facing four powerful ninjutsu of different affinities, had also fallen into the predicament of an ant swarm biting an elephant to death!
This was Haruno Sakura's crisis, but it was also her opportunity.
Even a ninja as strong as Kakuzu, after losing one heart and then using four super-strong ninjutsu at once, was also a very strenuous matter. At this moment, he was already panting heavily, standing in place and waiting for the result of the ninjutsu confrontation.
He had complete confidence that even a Kekkei Genkai ninjutsu could not possibly have the ability to withstand the four ninjutsu he had used with all his might!
He was right. The Leviathan created by the Ice Style could not contend with his ninjutsu.
However, Haruno Sakura had no intention of winning in a ninjutsu clash.
She directly pulled out the giant single horn on top of the giant beast's head. Under the activation of the Monstrous Strength Technique, the 40-meter-long giant horn was a huge contrast to the girl's figure, yet in Sakura's hands, it was wielded as freely as a kunai!
SWISH—! The horn was thrown with all her might by Haruno Sakura, shooting towards the enemy, Kakuzu, on the ground.
The horn, infused with a large amount of Sakura's Ice Style chakra, passed through the gaps in the ninjutsu without any effort, broke through the interception of the Fire Style, and shot straight at the tentacle monster on the ground.
BOOM—!
In the sky, the Leviathan, fighting one against four, was defeated in a head-on confrontation with the powerful ninjutsu cast by Kakuzu.
In the collision, the behemoth let out a mournful and sharp cry.
And then it exploded with a roar!
Amidst the earth-shaking explosion, it turned into countless ice shards and thick water vapor.
BOOM—!
And on the ground, the giant horn shot towards the ground. The earth-shaking blow, however, had missed.
The slightly tired Kakuzu, with the help of his black tentacles, had dodged it in a somewhat pathetic state.
And then, as expected, Haruno Sakura's figure appeared under the ice horn with a Body Flicker, also dodging Kakuzu's ninjutsu.
"Slippery bastard!" Kakuzu's face was gloomy as he said hatefully in his heart.
An enemy who could use the Body Flicker so quickly, even with Kakuzu's experience, he found it a headache. He couldn't beat Body Flicker masters like Hanzō of the Salamander or Namikaze Minato. And against Haruno Sakura, he could only limit her movement by continuously clearing away the ice blocks.
Otherwise, no matter how strong a ninjutsu he used, it would be in vain. The other party would just dodge it with a Body Flicker.
His reaction just now had been extremely decisive. He had used all his strength to shatter all of her Body Flicker mediums, intending to force this Ice Style ninja to fight him head-on. But he had slightly overexerted himself. When the girl had thrown down the ice horn, if he had still had a bit of strength left, he should have been able to cast a ninjutsu to shatter the ice horn, so that she couldn't use it as a Body Flicker medium and would have had no choice but to take his ninjutsu head-on!
But fortunately, the Monstrous Strength Technique, taught by Tsunade, was also helpless against his main body, which was composed of soft tentacles.
As long as it didn't hit a heart, blunt strikes were ineffective against him!
And in the instant the girl had appeared in front of Kakuzu, she was already prepared to use the Monstrous Strength Technique.
"Nin-taijutsu—"