NABC Chapter 182 One extreme slides into another.
Chapter 182 One extreme slides into another.
Chapter 182 From One Extreme to Another
Noticing the unusual sharpness of the slash in the snowstorm, Jiraiya finally realized that something was wrong.
In this critical moment, there was no time to form hand seals, and he could only place all his hopes on the Rasengan without any hand seals!
Upon seeing this scene, Minato Namikaze, who was perched on Jiraiya's back, peacefully closed his eyes.
He'd been fighting this enemy for so long; how could he not know whether the Rasengan was effective or not?
As expected, when Jiraiya's Rasengan was imprinted on the hand, the tactile feedback was completely empty!
In the blink of an eye, Jiraiya realized that the enemy's actual location was two meters away!
Shiba Kiyokawa's usual illusionary techniques misled Jiraiya, blurring his sense of distance.
In Shiba Kiyokawa's view, truly masterful illusion magic does not require creating a vast and expansive illusory space; it only requires slightly misaligning key information in reality to create astonishing effects!
For example, it moved the blade of light in the swirling snow forward by a mere two meters.
This caused Jiraiya to misjudge the distance, and the Rasengan exploded right in front of him at point-blank range.
By the time he realized what was happening, the sharp blade light, mixed with wind blades and ice and snow, had completely enveloped him!
He barely managed to jump out, his clothes torn to shreds, his body covered in wounds and frost, and one eye smeared with blood.
Jiraiya, however, continued to fight tenaciously by forming hand seals.
"Ninja Art: Lion's Mane Technique!"
He wanted to use the same trick again, to control the Akatsuki leader once more with the same combination of ninjutsu!
But this time, by the time his hair had gotten tangled around him, Shiba Kiyokawa had already taken a step back and disappeared into the ice mirror.
"Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"
By the time the flames Jiraiya blew burned down his hair, there was nothing left in the spot.
"How is that possible? It wasn't like this just now?!"
On his back, Minato Namikaze was forced to undergo another baptism of frost along with his teacher. His voice grew weaker and weaker as he spoke urgently.
"Teacher, let's go quickly, you can't handle the Akatsuki alone."
Jiraiya's mind was now in even greater turmoil!
He wasn't like this on the mountaintop just now!
He frantically looked around for cover, but the enemy never reappeared.
As more and more ice mirrors rose up around Shiba Kiyokawa, a dozen seconds later, the other party emerged from another piece of ice.
However, when he reappeared, the katana in Shiba Kiyokawa's hand was no longer frost-white, but had turned blood red.
Shiba Kiyokawa deliberately brandished his sword in front of Jiraiya, leaving a trail of blood.
Blood splattered out, spreading out in a radial pattern on the ground, as if blatantly mocking Jiraiya—
You can't protect anything!
With a slight sense of what was happening, Jiraiya was horrified to discover that all the remaining Konoha ninjas around him, including Maruboshi Kosuke, had now been killed in battle!
Just now, they were all killed and slaughtered by Shiba Kiyokawa, who could move freely in and out of the ice mirror!
Reappearing now, Shiba Kiyokawa calmly gazed at Jiraiya.
"I gave you a chance to leave, but you didn't. So I'll have to kill these people to send you off. If I stop you again, don't take the people you're carrying back with you."
At that moment, a bone-chilling cold permeated Jiraiya's heart and lungs.
Only then did he realize that it wasn't his combined ninjutsu that had trapped the enemy on the mountaintop, but rather that the young man in front of him had deliberately spared his life.
He regarded it as his own achievement, disregarded the Akatsuki organization, and thought he could save even more people.
As a result, the Konoha ninja in this area were implicated.
It was only then that Jiraiya understood why his disciple Minato had been urging him to leave.
It turns out that he was the one who was always clueless!
Perception feedback: There is indeed no longer any fighting activity in the surrounding mountains and forests.
This forced Jiraiya to accept the fact that the Konoha troops that had advanced to this point had been completely wiped out!
Without daring to linger any longer, Jiraiya quickly secured Minato Namikaze on his back, took a deep look at the young man in front of him, as if he wanted to imprint the other's image deep into his soul!
Then he left without looking back!
This time, he didn't dare to stop any further.
After watching Jiraiya's departing figure for a long time, Shiba Kiyokawa finally let out a long sigh of relief.
We won the bet! It's really over now!
In fact, his physical strength and chakra were not much at the moment.
In total, he single-handedly fought against two peak-level powerhouses, Minato Namikaze and Madara Uchiha!
After fighting for so long, he was naturally quite exhausted, and even the physique of the Uzumaki clan couldn't withstand such a strain.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have let Jiraiya go as soon as he saw him on the mountaintop.
Fortunately, at the last moment, he had the Akatsuki organization behind him and successfully fooled Jiraiya!
The battle in the forest was indeed over, but it was actually the result of the coordinated efforts of the six battalions of the Akatsuki!
It was only because Shiba Kiyokawa had just used the Ice Mirror's teleportation to roam the battlefield in an instant and snatched many low-health kills that Jiraiya's mental defenses were broken down in a short time!
Furthermore, since he did indeed hold back on the mountaintop, it was easy for Jiraiya to misjudge the situation.
From initially underestimating it to later becoming overly fearful!
Finally, let me borrow a powerful and domineering pronouncement to completely ignite the climax of this magnificent misleading scheme!
After a series of combined attacks, Jiraiya was unable to maintain a calm mindset to objectively and fairly evaluate Shiba Kiyokawa's combat strength.
Ultimately, they can only slide from one extreme to another.
During this time, Minato Namikaze's urging also provided many assists for Kiyokawa Shiba.
With multiple factors combined, the exhausted Shiba Kiyokawa only needed to strike once, yet he managed to frighten away Jiraiya, who was in almost perfect condition.
Incidentally, it also planted the impression in the minds of the two commanders of Konoha that the leader of Akatsuki was invincible.
This was a huge profit!
Moreover, after the enemies of Konoha completely withdrew, the Akatsuki organization cleaned up the battlefield and discovered even more fruitful results.
Not long after, an Akatsuki member came to report: "Chief Qinghe, we have captured a key prisoner."
"Oh? How crucial is it?" Shiba Kiyokazu asked subconsciously.
Before the organization members could answer, Shiba Kiyokawa turned his head and was slightly stunned when he saw what was happening. Then, a smile slowly spread across his lips, which he couldn't stop.
"I never expected to have such a great harvest."
The elderly ninja, who was unconscious at the moment, had his headband removed, revealing his smooth forehead.
Based on the prominent veins on the other person's temples, their identity is almost obvious—
Hideki Hyuga, an elder of the Hyuga main family!
In this operation by Minato Namikaze, the person Konoha least wanted to lose miraculously survived and was captured alive by the Akatsuki!
At that moment, the little devil in Shiba Kiyokawa's heart couldn't help but burst into laughter, just like Uchiha Madara.
Truly, the ending has never been so wonderful!
(End of this chapter)