Chapter 217: Tailless Tailed Beast
Fukazake Nutou was sent flying backward by Kisame Hoshigaki’s slash infused with terrifying monstrous strength, his arm guard shattered, and his entire right arm transmitted excruciating sharp pain and numbness.
He frantically plowed a deep furrow into the snow before barely managing to steady himself, his face beneath his helmet turning extremely grim..
“Damn bastard!” Nutou was both
He could feel that the opponent’s strike just now had hardly used any exquisite techniques; it was purely the crushing power of strength and chakra!
“What exactly are you?!” Nutou shouted sharply, his left hand quickly forming hand seals in front of his chest, while fully activating his Chakra Armor at maximum power. The damaged right arm guard and the armor on his body glowed with an even more dazzling ice-blue light, emitting stronger coldness, attempting to repair the damage and enhance defense.
The surrounding ice and snow seemed to be drawn toward him, gathering around him.
Kisame Hoshigaki carried Samehada on his shoulder, its barbs cheerfully quivering as if still savoring the Ice Release Chakra it had absorbed earlier.
He bared his mouth, revealing shark-like fangs, his smile terrifying and full of oppression: “Kisame Hoshigaki! Remember this, it’s the name that sends you to meet the Shinigami!”
Kisame Hoshigaki was too lazy to waste more words, stabbed Samehada into the ground, fiercely clapped his hands together, and massive chakra surged out from his body like a volcanic eruption!
That amount of chakra is so immense, far exceeding the realm of ordinary ninjas!
“Water Style: Great Explosive Water Colliding Wave!”
Kisame Hoshigaki opened his mouth and spat, not a thin stream, but like a heavenly river bursting its banks!
Towering giant waves surged forth from thin air, accompanied by deafening roars, crashing madly toward Fukazake Nutou and the Snow Ninjas behind him with the force of mountains toppling and seas overturning!
This is fundamentally not ordinary Water Style ninjutsu; its scale and power are simply like a Tails stirring up wind and waves!
The surging water flow instantly changed the battlefield’s terrain, turning this cold plain into a rolling ocean!
“What?!!” Fukazake Nutou’s pupils contracted sharply, and his face showed horror for the first time!
Water Style of this scale?!
The amount of chakra required for this is simply…!
What the hell kind of monster is this shark face exactly?!
“Ice Release: Ice Dome Wall!” Nutou roared, channeling the power of his Chakra Armor to its utmost limit, slamming both hands down onto the surging water surface!
Coldness madly poured out!
Snap! Snap!
In the midst of a massive rumbling sound, an incredibly thick, arc-shaped ice wall like a small glacier instantly rose from the ground, forcibly blocking in front of the torrential flood!
The flood fiercely crashed against the ice wall, emitting a deafening roar. The ice wall trembled violently, cracking with countless fissures, but ultimately was not immediately breached.
Several Snow Ninja behind Nutou also hurriedly formed hand seals, assisting to reinforce the ice wall, barely blocking this first wave of impact.
“Heh… interesting! Let’s see how much you can freeze!” Kisame Hoshigaki grinned ferociously, his massive chakra seemingly endless, and he formed hand seals again.
“Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!”
“Water Style: Water Formation Pillar!”
“Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique!”
One after another, water dragons far larger than usual roared as they crashed into the ice wall; massive water columns smashed down like heavy hammers; even larger waterfalls descended from the sky, continuously impacting!
Kisame Hoshigaki is simply like a humanoid Tails, recklessly squandering a despair-inducing amount of chakra, carrying out the most violent bombardment with Water Style Ninjutsu!
Fukazake Nutou gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead, squeezing the Chakra Armor to its limits, frantically releasing Ice Release to block.
“Ice Release: Twin Dragon Storm Kill!”
“Ice Release: Ice Rock Dome!”
“Ice Release: Breaking Dragon Fierce Tiger!”
Two ice dragons met the water dragon, ice spikes continuously thrust out from the ground trying to block the water flow, a huge ice tiger pounced toward the waterfall…
Roaring sounds filled the air incessantly, water and ice collided madly, evaporating and condensing again, as the battlefield was filled with thick water vapor and ice crystals.
Nutou’s Ice Release indeed possessed remarkable power under the enhancement of the Chakra Armor, freezing large swathes of water with every strike, but Kisame’s Chakra seemed truly inexhaustible, as the ice layers that had just been frozen were instantly shattered and engulfed by the even more ferocious subsequent Water Style!
The water momentum is getting bigger and bigger, fiercer and fiercer!
Nutou felt like a small boat in a storm, each block exhausting his energy, the energy of the Chakra Armor depleting rapidly, even starting to emit overloaded buzzing and overheated white steam!
The Ice Release he was so proud of actually seemed so powerless in front of the other party’s pure, quantity-suppressing, disaster-like massive Water Style!
“Impossible! Your chakra… how could it possibly be more than my armor…” Nutou was gasping for breath, his eyes filled with disbelief and fear.
The range of his ice wall was getting smaller and smaller, and the freezing speed was increasingly unable to keep up with the speed of the flood’s impact.
“Is your Ice Release only capable of this much?” Kisame Hoshigaki seized an opening when the opponent was exhausted, his eyes flashing with murderous intent!
“Water Style: Thousand Shark Feast!”
He slapped both hands on the water surface, pouring massive chakra into it.
Suddenly, the entire churning water area seemed to come alive!
Countless ferocious and vicious sharks emerged densely from the water, hundreds and thousands of them!
They bared their sharp Water Fangs like a pack of hungry wolves, charging madly at the exhausted Fukazake Nutou from all directions—up, down, left, right, every angle!
At this moment, Fukazake Nutou seemed to have fallen into an ocean hell composed of sharks!
He fearfully swung his still movable left hand, condensing ice blades and desperately slashing.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
The shark was continuously chopped to pieces, but it instantly reformed again, endlessly!
They tore at his Chakra Armor, emitting a teeth-grinding friction sound.
The energy of the Chakra Armor rapidly consumed, with more and more cracks, even starting to disintegrate!
The cold river water mixed with the shark’s bites left Nutou struggling to cope, screaming incessantly, with countless wounds soon appearing on his body, and blood dyeing the surrounding waters red.
“It’s over!” Kisame Hoshigaki roared, manipulating the final school of sharks, and launched the final strike!
Over a thousand sharks opened their giant mouths, intending to completely devour Fukazake Nutou and tear him into pieces!
Finally, despair appeared in Fukazake Nutou’s eyes!
Just at this critical moment!
A red figure suddenly appeared in front of Fukazake Nutou.
It’s Uchiha Hikari!
She didn’t know when she had already left the earthen wall, those scarlet three-tomoe Sharingan eyes calmly watching the surging thousand senbon shark flood coming at her.
Uchiha Hikari formed hand seals with both hands, tapping her right hand to her lips.
“Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!”
A surge of chakra gathered at the back of the throat, spitting out a massive expanse of flames like seawater ahead, with such a vast range!
Like a tsunami composed of flames!
Boom——!!!
Over a thousand sharks fiercely crashed into the wave of flames!
The Senbon capable of destroying an army, the moment it collided with the fire wave, instantly shattered into pieces!
On Kisame Hoshigaki’s face, his shark-like eyes suddenly widened: “What?!!”
This B-rank Fire Release Ninjutsu Great Fire Annihilation is not some rare ninjutsu; plenty of Kirigakure ninjas know how to use this technique.
But even during the Third Great Ninja War, when over twenty Kirigakure Ninja joined forces to perform Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation, it did not have such great power!
Kisame Hoshigaki was also filled with shock at the strength of the girl in front of him who appeared to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.
Uchiha Hikari slowly lowered her hand, and the sea of flames dispersed accordingly.
She glanced at Fukazake Nutou behind her, who was covered in wounds, barely clinging to life with his last breath, his eyes dull and filled with the terror of a survivor, then turned to the shocked Kisame Hoshigaki, her cold voice still flat:
“Kisame Hoshigaki, your strength… I acknowledge it. As expected of the one Lord Shura values.”
She paused, then raised her head to indicate Fukazake Nutou slumped in the water: “However, Lord Shura still has other uses for this guy’s life.”
Previously, Menma had instructed his subordinates to be careful when encountering powerful enemy jonin from other countries, and to capture them alive if possible.
Kisame Hoshigaki also recalled Lord Shura’s instructions, took a deep breath, and slowly relaxed his tension.
He looked at Uchiha Hikari’s petite figure and those unfathomable Sharingan eyes, and for the first time, he put away all his contempt and resentment.
This woman… is ridiculously strong!
No wonder Lord Shura had her come to take command.
“I understand, Lord Hikari.” Kisame Hoshigaki responded in a muffled voice, saying no more.
But this one honorific already indicated Kisame Hoshigaki’s recognition of her strength.
And with Uchiha Hikari’s move, this battle should also come to an end.
At the other end of the battlefield, the Snow Ninja who had been putting up stubborn resistance witnessed with their own eyes their invincible Daimyo being beaten by Kisame Hoshigaki with no power to fight back, and finally being picked up like a little chick by that red-eyed woman who suddenly appeared, their last bit of fighting spirit completely collapsing.
“Your Excellency the Daimyo has been captured!”
“Your Excellency… Your Excellency has been defeated!”
“Run fast!”
No one knew who shouted, but the remaining Snow Ninja immediately scattered in all directions like frightened birds and beasts, fleeing in panic.
“Want to run?!” Kimimaro and Yukimi, along with a group of Star Ninja who had been waiting for a long time, immediately gave chase.
Kimimaro’s Byakugan locked on, his figure like a ghost, instantly catching up to Tōma Hyōri, one of the Snow Ninja Jonin trying to escape.
“Ten Finger Bullet!” The cold bone bullets precisely shattered the energy device of the Chakra Armor, while piercing Tōma Hyōri’s knee and shoulder, making him scream and collapse to the ground, unable to get up.
On the other side, Hiyuki Fubuki tried to use the blizzard to create chaos and escape, but was firmly entangled by the Byakugan.
“Demonic Mirror Ice Crystals!” Countless ice mirrors instantly blocked Hiyuki Fubuki’s path, senbon shot out like a violent rain, precisely knocking down the kunai in her hand, and nailed her limbs to the ice mirrors, rendering her unable to move.
The remaining Snow Ninja were also intercepted, defeated, or captured one after another by Hotaru, Gōta, Yukimi, and the other Star Ninja.
A battle that originally seemed evenly matched ended in the Land of Stars’ absolute victory with the capture of Fukazake Nutou and the intervention of Kisame Hoshigaki and Uchiha Hikari.
On the cold plains, the flood gradually receded, leaving behind devastation and cold corpses.
The Star Ninja began cleaning the battlefield, collecting spoils of war, and guarding the captives.
Uchiha Hikari tossed the unconscious Fukazake Nutou to an Anbu Ninja for custody, then instructed the group: “Gōta, Hotaru, handle the subsequent suppression in the Land of Shadows. Kisame, you take the Anbu first squad, penetrate deep into the Land of Snow, and strike at the heart.”
All the elite of the Land of Snow have been buried here by Fukazake Nutou, with only some scattered ninjas left in the rear, which are not a concern. Kisame Hoshigaki only needs to bring a small number of ninjas to suppress the resistance forces of an entire country.
“Yes, Lord Hikari.” Kisame Hoshigaki shouldered Samehada, standing in the muddy snow water, looking at Uchiha Hikari’s back, his shark face showing solemnity and a trace of respect.
Soon, an Anbu squad, twelve Chunin assembled, and under Kisame Hoshigaki’s lead, charged toward the Land of Snow Capital City.
