Chapter 63: Hidden Sand VS Hidden Rain (End)
So Hanzo made a decisive move. His surging Chakra erupted instantly, causing the puppets to pause for a fraction of a second from the sudden burst. Hanzo then turned into a streak of light and ruse towards Chiyo's location.
"Sword Technique: Quick-Draw Slash!!!"
Seeing Hanzo instantly kill his way over, Chiyo not only didn't panic but instead showed a perfectly timed smile, then formed hand seals with both hands.
Just as Hanzo's scythe was about to kill Chiyo, at the position in front of Chiyo where Hanzo was now located, a circle of mysterious symbols suddenly lit up on the ground. A white lion with its bloody mouth wide open emerged from the ground, firmly pinning Hanzo down and sealing most of his Chakra.
"Sealing Technique: Lion Closing Roar!"
It turned out that Chiyo had secretly carved the sealing in front of her position long ago, just waiting for Hanzo to bypass the puppets and directly decapitate her. The opening just now was naturally also deliberately sold to Hanzo by her.
Actually, Hanzo knew he had been tricked when he saw Chiyo's smile, but the distance was too close, and he had unleashed almost all of his Chakra in pursuit of a one-hit kill. Even as a grandmaster of swordsmanship, he couldn't forcibly interrupt his attack at this point.
"It's over!" Seeing the plan succeed, Chiyo was immediately about to manipulate the puppets to finish off Hanzo. A slightly chubby puppet carrying the female puppet's twin swords and another red-faced puppet carrying the chain attacked Hanzo from the front and back simultaneously.
However, Hanzo was after all a powerhouse approaching the limit of Kage-level strength, bearing the title of demigod. The sealing symbol set up by Chiyo in a hurry was not perfect. It couldn't control him for too long, nor did it completely seal his Chakra.
Under a no-holds-barred impact, the sealing symbol was quickly broken by Hanzo. In the moment before the puppets' attack reached him, Hanzo successfully used the Body Flicker Technique to escape.
Although he wasn't killed on the spot, Hanzo was still injured. The red-haired female puppet's large sword hits Hanzo's right cheek, and also left a deep wound exposing bone on Hanzo's right shoulder.
Furious beyond words, Hanzo endured the severe pain and formed hand seals with both hands, then wiped the blood from his face with his left thumb and activated the ninjutsu.
"Summoning Technique!"
The huge white smoke dissipated, and the enormous salamander Ibuse appeared beneath Hanzo's feet.
Hanzo had originally been worried that the salamander's poisonous gas would be countered by the Hidden Sand ninjas' proficient Wind Release. In addition, he confidently thought of taking care of the Hidden Sand's top combat power first in a short time and then summoning the salamander to massacre the Hidden Sand's ninjas.
Seeing that he couldn't take down Chiyo in a short time, coupled with the anger of being injured, Hanzo couldn't care about these things anymore at this moment.
"Ibuse!" Hanzo shouted, standing on top of the salamander Ibuse's head.
Without Hanzo needing to say more, the salamander, which had excellent coordination with Hanzo, knew what he wanted to do.
Ibuse opened its large mouth, and the rich purple poisonous gas that had been stored in advance rapidly spread towards the battlefield. When the Hidden Rain ninjas saw the appearance of the salamander Ibuse, they began to gradually disengage from the battle and retreat. Although they all wore respirators, they would still be eroded by the poisonous gas over time.
At this moment, Chiyo couldn't bother to pay attention to Hanzo anymore. She quickly arrived in front of the Hidden Sand forces. She couldn't let the poisonous gas spread any further. Although most of the Hidden Sand ninjas immediately used various Wind Release ninjutsu, some were still affected. Chiyo, who hadn't completely finished analyzing the salamander's poison, didn't have complete confidence in helping them detoxify.
Chiyo controlled two puppets to come to the front, then formed the Tiger Seal with both hands.
As Chiyo's hand seals fell, the two puppets with red and blue paint on their faces also synchronized their hand seals, forming the Tiger Seal. Then, under Chiyo's control, a white-haired puppet steadily landed on the shoulders of the red and blue puppets, also forming the Tiger Seal.
The three puppets formed a triangular formation, and then under Chiyo's control, they opened their mouths, revealing the three mechanisms "Buddha," "Dharma," and "Sangha."
"Puppet Technique: Three Treasures Suction Crush!"
Violent tornadoes with powerful suction were generated from the three puppets. The poisonous gas spreading on the battlefield was continuously sucked into the center of the formation and then slowly completely compressed in the center of the formation.
Chiyo signaled her younger brother Ebizo to take over the control of the puppets. Without finding a detoxification method, she couldn't let the poisonous gas spread any further.
On the other side, Hanzo, who had suffered considerable injuries, had already led the Hidden Rain ninjas to retreat. This decisive battle hadn't achieved its intended goal. Although the ultimate battlefield weapon, the salamander's poisonous gas, had successfully poisoned a large number of Hidden Sand ninjas, his injuries no longer allowed him to continue fighting.
Moreover, Chiyo's puppets were also attached with troublesome poison. Although the salamander poison sac in his body gave him very high poison resistance, not enough to endanger his life, the mixed poison developed by Chiyo still made him very uncomfortable, greatly reducing his combat power.
This great battle ended abruptly in such an anticlimactic way.
However, neither Hanzo nor Chiyo was willing to accept such a result. Hanzo was still thinking of crippling the Hidden Sand in one fell swoop and then concentrating all the Hidden Rain's ninjas to deal with the Hidden Leaf, after all, there wasn't much to gain from the Hidden Sand.
On Chiyo's side, she was thinking of quickly deciphering Hanzo's salamander poison and then leading the Hidden Sand to victory in the war against the Hidden Rain.
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