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Chapter 172 Complete Ice Release
Chapter 172 Complete Ice Release
Black Zetsu is already trying his best to cause trouble!
After discovering that Konoha was in trouble, he immediately made a secret contact with Madara Uchiha underground, who then remotely suppressed Nagato's Rinnegan.
This caused Nagato to cover his eye socket and suffer unbearable pain after using "Shinra Tensei" to shoot down Gamabunta.
But this still couldn't alleviate Black Zetsu's anxiety!
Because Shiba Kiyokawa once again predicted his own prediction, he did not place all his bets on Nagato's invincible Rinnegan!
Both the Akatsuki organization and he himself are gradually getting rid of their excessive reliance on the Rinnegan!
At this moment, the ones annihilating Konoha's elite forces are the warriors trained by Akatsuki itself;
It was Kiyokazu Shiba himself who blocked Minato Namikaze's solo charge!
The Akatsuki of today is no longer the little lamb that could only be slaughtered by others after losing the Rinnegan a year ago!
They've grown into man-eating wolves!
At this moment, facing Shiba Kiyokawa who was closing in using "Water Release: Water Instantaneous Body", Minato Namikaze leaned back and quickly threw a kunai directly upwards.
Just as the blade was about to sever his neck, Flying Thunder God Technique was activated!
Minato Namikaze vanished in a flash, reappearing in mid-air!
He flipped his body upside down, one hand catching the kunai he had just thrown up in mid-air, while the other hand charged up a Rasengan.
Following the direction of his body's rotation, the Rasengan in his hand slammed down!
This is Flying Thunder God Technique, Stage Two!
This move was a carefully designed finishing move by Minato Namikaze; he hadn't even had time to give it a cool and catchy name yet.
However, his decisive move was met with unexpected retaliation!
As Minato Namikaze, who was in mid-air and upside down, looked down, he was surprised to see an ice mirror already laid flat on the ground directly below the branches.
The ice surface reflected the battle above, allowing Minato Namikaze, who was staring directly at the ice mirror, to see Kiyokazu Shiba, whose lower body was still in the water, the crescent-shaped arc of light drawn by the katana, and himself holding a Rasengan and slamming it down!
There are even double images in the ice mirror, indicating that there is another ice mirror suspended in the air directly above it in this vertical direction, forming an intersecting reflection.
In that instant, the overlapping images resembled an illusory, extended dream space, causing Minato Namikaze's pupils to suddenly dilate, become unfocused, and lose their focus.
By the time he came to his senses, the Rasengan had already been detonated. In the mirror's reflection, Shiba Kiyokawa was slashing back at his own reflection in mid-air!
A genjutsu activated using mirrors that reflect each other! Minato Namikaze understood the principle behind his opponent's technique in an instant.
His speed in dispelling the illusion was astonishing, demonstrating his exceptional ninja skills!
But when he activated Flying Thunder God again, he dodged away from the tree branch and landed back on the ground, blood was still flowing down his arm from his shoulder.
He was injured in the end.
From the chilling chakra left in the puddle beforehand to the cross mirrors that were pre-arranged at the location of his kunai, Shiba Kiyokawa's preparations showed Minato Namikaze a great deal of respect!
With such a grand "welcome," how could we not leave something behind?
At this moment, Minato Namikaze raised his head and looked at Kiyokawa Shiba, who was still standing on the tree branch above. His eyes became sharper than ever before.
At this moment, not only were there ice flowers swirling and rotating behind Shiba Kiyokawa, but also many small shield-shaped ice crystals moving and shimmering all around him!
These strange phenomena, including the ice mirror illusion just now, were things that Minato Namikaze had never seen before in their last encounter.
"It's unbelievable that you've made another breakthrough in such a short time!" Minato Namikaze said in a strained voice.
Minato Namikaze was once so confident; he never doubted his talent.
Bearing the name of a genius, he has never looked up to anyone since his debut!
But now, as if echoing the spatial relationship between him on the ground and Shiba Kiyokawa in the tree, Minato Namikaze, for the first time, felt a sense of awe towards his opponent.
He had never seen such a brilliant and talented young man!
How long has it been since they last faced off?
How could someone at their level of strength progress so quickly? Just how high is this young man's potential?
At that moment, Shiba Kiyokawa, standing on the tree branch, smiled slightly and said words that were as deadly as ever.
"Minato-kun, you flatter me. This is all thanks to the generous assistance of your Konoha Village."
Uchiha Shisui's donation was a timely and much-needed help.
If Minato Namikaze knew that the enemy's increased strength came from a gift from his own ninja, he would probably be so angry he'd vomit blood.
Even though he didn't know the truth, he wasn't in a good mood at the moment.
Looking around, Minato Namikaze vaguely discovered more ice-made mirrors in the mountains and forests!
This gave him a very bad feeling!
He had narrowly won the last one-on-one duel, but now he felt an unprecedented amount of pressure on his shoulders!
"call out!"
Minato Namikaze threw out his shuriken and quickly formed hand seals!
"Sword Shadow Clone Technique!"
This move wasn't for offense; it was more about destroying the ice mirror in the forest!
But Shiba Kiyokawa clearly wouldn't let him have his way so easily!
As he charged head-on towards the cluster of shuriken, the small ice shield around Shiba Kiyokawa suddenly enlarged and began to replicate itself!
Multiple hexagonal ice flakes connect with each other, forming an eggshell-shaped ice crystal shield on the front!
Sunlight shines on the ice crystal eggshell, refracting into a dazzling array of colors reminiscent of the aurora borealis.
This move is a modified version of the Kirigakure Yukinoshita clan's "Ice Release: Hyogando Mu"!
Shiba Kiyokawa named it "Ice Release: Aurora Curtain!"
The smooth ice surface and the angle of inclination deflected most of the shuriken!
With the eggshell-shaped ice shield covering him, Shiba Kiyokawa charged head-on at Namikaze Minato like a heavily armored tank!
"What?!" Minato Namikaze was suddenly startled.
Your attack failed to penetrate the enemy's armor!
With a sharp look in his eyes, Minato Namikaze raised his hand and scattered a pile of kunai behind him, then charged up a Rasengan again!
If the shuriken's penetration depth isn't deep enough, then switch to a dumpling!
"Splash!"
The Rasengan finally succeeded in piercing the smooth, sloping armor of the Aurora Barrier, but amidst the sound of shattering glass, Minato Namikaze saw the icy blade light slashing towards him!
Without hesitation, Flying Thunder God Technique was activated again!
Minato Namikaze retreated to the rear, avoiding the blade's edge.
Having learned from the lesson of the last battle, Minato Namikaze retreated more than twenty meters this time, and dared not close the distance again!
Because he clearly remembered that the enemy's slashing range was different from that of ordinary ninjas!
But this time, it was precisely his experience that ruined him, or you could say that Shiba Kiyokawa accurately predicted Namikaze Minato's choice!
The clearing in the woods is only this big.
When Minato Namikaze retreated more than twenty meters at once, it naturally meant that he had retreated deep into the forest!
When the Flying Thunder God Technique landed, Minato Namikaze suddenly realized that there was an ice mirror that he had not destroyed not far from his side!
"It's alright," he tried to reassure himself. "I already know how to guard against my opponent's illusions!"
The next moment, however, something happened that shocked Minato Namikaze!
Shiba Kiyokawa, who was directly in front of us, suddenly disappeared!
Immediately afterwards, a figure suddenly rushed out from the ice mirror beside him, and a blade wrapped in wind and snow slashed down with the force of thunder and the coldness of frost!
Minato Namikaze then realized that these hidden ice mirrors had more than just illusionary hypnotic effects!
The two great ice-style techniques of the Kirigakure Yukinoshita clan—ice surface refraction and mirror teleportation—have now been copied by Shiba Kiyokawa!
At the same time, the knife in his hand also possesses a violent output that the Yukinoshita clan can only dream of!
At this moment, he was displaying the full power of Ice Release!
(End of this chapter)