As for the Konoha and Sunagakure side, everyone's reaction remained relatively calm.
What's the big deal if Seiki awakened a Kekkei Genkai? So what?
It's not even a Kekkei Tota. What's there to be surprised about?
Seeing their reaction, many Iwagakure ninja couldn't help but feel startled—was this kind of thing considered normal in Konoha and Sunagakure?
Now that's terrifying!
Roshi held his breath, fury erupting like magma. "Don't underestimate me! Lava Release: Undersea Needle!"
With his entire body transformed into molten lava, each strike radiated temperatures exceeding a thousand degrees. His heart seemed like an active volcano, his power reaching its peak.
Seiki simply raised his hand, releasing an ice dragon soaring upward with the force to freeze everything in its path.
Although it was an Ice Release, his version differed completely from Haku's style.
In some sense, while Haku's resembled more of a "Mirror" release, Seiki's Ice Release leaned towards extreme cold rather than reflective properties.
Wherever the ice dragon flew, even the moisture in the air turned to frost crystals.
"How is he doing this?! He's actually making me—a lava user—feel chills!" Roshi thought in shock. With a punch of scorching magma, he shattered the ice dragon directly.
Because of the intense heat, the scattered ice fragments melted into water, pouring down over Roshi.
Some droplets instantly evaporated, yet others clung to his body.
"Oh no!" Soaked like a drowned rat, Roshi realized something was wrong—but before he could react, Seiki had already struck.
[Ice Release: Ice Coffin!]
At that moment, the mist solidified into ice, imprisoning Roshi inside.
[Lava Release: Active Volcano!]
The coffin shattered quickly. A dripping-wet Roshi stepped out, sniffling with a runny nose.
"Tch… damn you, bastard!" Humiliation filled Roshi's face. As a fire-wielding lava user, he'd actually caught a chill—and now had a runny nose.
Fueled by rage, Roshi began drawing upon the Bijuu's power sealed within him.
Though still in human form, an additional tail appeared behind him.
"Feel my wrath!"
Hearing Roshi's furious declaration, several ninja burst into laughter. This only infuriated Roshi further.
[Lava Release: Flowing Lava River!]
Like a gorilla pounding its chest, Roshi slammed both fists onto the ground. The earth cracked open, spewing torrents of magma from below.
Seeing Roshi attempt to turn the battlefield into molten terrain, Seiki responded with the Great Waterfall Technique, channeling massive waves to drown the lava flow. Then another technique summoned a blizzard, freezing both water and lava solid.
In an instant, the battlefield's environment reverted entirely.
"What the hell? Where does this guy get so much chakra?" Roshi grumbled inwardly. Large-scale techniques consumed enormous amounts of chakra—he was a jinchuriki, sure, but how dare a regular ninja go all-out like this!
After silently complaining, Roshi slashed through the ice layer with a knife-hand strike, lifting the shattered pieces. He heated them with lava, then launched them as cannonballs.
Like an unstoppable cannon battery, Roshi launched over ten of these ice slabs. Mid-flight, they melted into scalding hot water, splashing toward Seiki.
Seiki exhaled a stream of cold air, sharp and freezing, turning boiling water into hailstones. Then he whipped up a fierce wind to hurl them back.
"I absolutely hate ice!" Roshi snarled, swinging his tail to bat away the hailstones before lunging forward aggressively toward Seiki.
"You really shouldn't talk with a cold," Seiki sighed lightly, feeling somewhat misunderstood.
"Don't blame me for this mess, you little brat!" Roshi roared, raising his right elbow and charging like a wild bull.
Seiki's eyes flickered slightly. He coated his right fist in solid ice, meeting Roshi's charge head-on with a straightforward punch.
If it were Han, he'd have to think twice before going head-to-head like this. Roshi's fierce posture looked impressive, but was actually powered by lava eruptions and intense heat.
Both of those happened to be things he wasn't particularly worried about.
[Lava Release: Kako!]
[Ice Release: Four Gates · Frost Lotus!]
It was as if two meteors had collided. The massive explosion rattled everyone nearby, causing ringing in their ears. Shockwaves radiated outward, snapping surrounding trees and sending them flying into the sky.
After a brief stalemate, the exhausted Roshi was sent flying backward, frost coating his face and body.
"So this little brat actually packs a punch!"
Seiki barely staggered, but his knuckles were seared and bloodied from the impact. Seeing this, he quickly formed a one-handed hand seal to begin healing himself.
Roshi steadied himself and spat out more than a dozen molten fireballs. These projectiles combined the intense heat of fireballs with the solidity of earth walls, resembling falling meteorites from the sky as they hurtled toward Seiki with immense force.
Seiki easily leaped to the left to dodge, but to his surprise, those fireballs trailed right after him.
"They can be remotely controlled?" Seiki thought with slight surprise before rushing toward Roshi's position.
Seeing this, Roshi chuckled, "You think I'd let you trick me into getting hit by my own attacks? No way. I'm not some useless guy who can't even control his own powers..."
Before he could finish speaking, Seiki cast a genjutsu.
Instantly, Roshi fell into a daze.
He hadn't mastered the Four-Tails yet—it had barely started talking back to him. Because of this, breaking free from the illusion naturally took him longer.
As Roshi regained consciousness, he helplessly watched those fireballs, driven by inertia, racing directly toward his face.
"F***in'—!" Before he could get the curse word out, Roshi was hit full in the face with molten rock.
Just as Roshi was stunned by being struck by his own attack, Seiki quietly circled around behind him, stabbing toward a certain area with a kunai wrapped in frost.
[Ice Release: Frostbite A Thousand Years of Death!]
Don't judge this move just 'cause it looks kinda silly. Truth is, it's a legendary jutsu feared across the ninja world—devastating and deadly. That's where the name 'Konoha's White Fang' comes from—the sheer terror this one move could unleash.
But for Seiki, the best part was how it shattered an opponent's mental armor.
Roshi, who believed his mind to be exceptionally strong, felt a chilling, agonizing sensation shoot up from his tailbone straight through to the top of his head the moment Seiki struck him. A long and mournful scream followed.
"Owww~ owww~ aaargh!"
Many ninjas shuddered at his piercing cry. Glancing sideways, they couldn't help but clench instinctively.
"He's spewing blood everywhere! So much of it!"
"Will *that* even work after this?"
Hearing their frightened voices only fueled Roshi's rage further.
"Damn bastard! Let me burn you alive!"
A powerful surge of chakra erupted from within him, engulfing his body. It solidified into a dark-red tailed beast coat.
He had clearly entered Partial Transformation mode.
Seeing this scene, Seiki didn't feel fear at all—in fact, he secretly nodded in approval. "Hmm, finally entering phase three of the boss battle."
He slipped into Sage Mode without another word.
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