On the thick stone slab, the white cloth on Baki's left face fluttered slightly in the wind.
Kitsuchi raised his hand to form the Confrontation Seal, and Baki also raised his hand to form a seal.
In this situation, he could not afford to be disrespectful. But in the next instant, Baki's figure suddenly blurred as he intended to launch the first attack. He vanished from his original position.
Swish, swish, swish—
A dozen shuriken shot out like blue streaks, and Kitsuchi's eyes narrowed. This was a characteristic only present when they were poisoned.
Good heavens, although this was normal, it still made Kitsuchi a little displeased.
Just then, the dozen Shuriken strangely changed direction mid-flight, aiming directly for Kitsuchi's vital points.
At the same time, Baki completed his hand seals, his cheeks puffed out.
Wind Release: Great Vacuum Sphere!
The high-pressure air bullet arrived first, pushing Baki's poisoned Shuriken to their maximum speed.
Seeing this, Kitsuchi quickly formed hand seals and slammed his palms onto the ground.
Earth Release: Multiple Earth-Style Wall!
Several five-meter-thick rock walls erupted from the ground, instantly isolating Baki's poisoned Shuriken.
The incessant clinking sound of Shuriken embedding into the rock walls echoed, and the high-pressure air bullet blasted spiderweb-like cracks into the rock walls.
"Wind defeats earth. No matter how thick your rock walls are, it's useless."
As he spoke, Baki's figure moved like a ghost, dashing close to the ground, raising his hand to form hand seals again.
Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!
A dozen transparent wind blades cut out in a fan shape, slicing through the thick rock walls as if they were tofu.
Boom—
Amidst the flying debris, Kitsuchi's figure rapidly retreated, but Baki's wind blades relentlessly pursued him.
"Tsuchikage-sama, should we call a stop?" Halfway up the mountain, Rasa spoke with an unclear meaning.
"Hmph! Juniors are just juniors, they have no patience at all." Ōnoki glanced at Rasa disdainfully and scoffed.
How could he not know his own son's capabilities? This was just the beginning.
Sure enough, in the next instant.
Kitsuchi, while dodging the wind blades, took the opportunity to stop abruptly, gathering earth-yellow Chakra in his right hand and slamming a punch onto the ground.
Earth Release: Rock Pillar Spears!
Rumble—
Baki, who was in hot pursuit, immediately felt a violent tremor from the stone slab beneath his feet, and in an instant, hundreds of sharp rock spears burst out of the ground.
Baki performed an aerial flip, spitting out several wind blades to cut through the closest rock spears, using the momentum to change direction.
However, Kitsuchi seemed to have seen through his movements, raising his hand to form a seal and then pressing it onto the ground.
Earth Release: Rock Spear Prison!
The rock spears that had burst from the ground instantly writhed like living creatures, rapidly elongating and intertwining to form a field of ground-piercing spikes that firmly trapped Baki.
"Can it trap my wind?"
Baki's eyes narrowed, his figure flickering and shifting within the prison, dodging the rock spears that periodically attacked him.
'Impressive.'
Seeing this move from Kitsuchi through the screen, Shinji couldn't help but praise him.
This technique, which transformed the originally rigid rock spears into writhing Earth Release Nature Transformation, definitely surpassed most people in the current Ninja World. No, it should be said that he was already one of the few in the Ninja World.
Moreover, if his guess was correct, Kitsuchi had activated the Rock Pillar Spears with a single hand seal earlier. Yet, the number and strength of the Rock Pillar Spears still didn't diminish much, truly an Earth Release master.
Seeing Baki utter those words, Kitsuchi displayed a simple, honest smile. This smile, in Baki's eyes, was like the arrival of disaster, causing his heart to tremble.
Earth Release: Tearing Earth Turning Palm!
Before Baki could react, Kitsuchi directly activated his killing move.
The entire prison area instantly collapsed. It should be known that the thick stone slab was only located at the foot of the mountain, not suspended in the air.
A hundred-meter-deep pit formed instantly, over dozens of meters wide, and Baki, who had been using the rock spears for leverage, immediately lost his balance.
In the instant of weightlessness, Kitsuchi gave Baki no chance to catch his breath, as a giant rock hand suddenly extended from the pit to grab Baki.
Wind Release: Body Flicker Slice!
Amidst a flash of blue light, the giant rock hand was severed from the wrist.
Baki used the falling broken rock to step and leap into the air, landing with an involuntary stumble. His left foot had clearly been injured by the giant rock hand just now, and blood was dripping from it.
He looked up at Kitsuchi with a grim expression. Body Flicker Slice could be said to be his Body Flicker Technique developed by combining it with his own Wind Release. Yet, he still couldn't avoid it.
"It's over."
Kitsuchi's voice rang out like muffled thunder.
He clapped his hands together over another part of the giant pit, then slammed them down. The stone slab beneath his feet let out a creaking groan, and in the next instant, the stone slab exploded.
The ground on both sides of the mountain foot suddenly swelled, forming an enormous, sky-obscuring arc of rock, like the closing mouth of a giant beast.
Earth Release: Mountain Graveyard!
Dust soared into the sky, and Baki's pupils suddenly constricted. At this moment, he was helpless.
Escape? The range of this technique covered almost half of the mountain foot, where could he escape to?
Endure it? Even the One Tail might not be able to withstand this technique.
Hmm?
Baki noticed that the previously shattered stone slab, now falling, was perfectly wedged in the middle of Kitsuchi's rock formation.
In a life-or-death moment, he unhesitatingly rushed towards the densest area of the stone slab, his entire Chakra bursting forth and burning at this moment.
A streak of green storm was exceptionally dazzling in the dust.
Gambling on Sunagakure's honor!
Wind Release: Great Sickle Weasel!
A super-high-speed rotating wind blade tornado slammed into the rock wall, erupting with an ear-piercing cutting sound. The rock wall was forcefully carved several meters deep, but it was far from enough.
The thickness of the rock formation raised by Kitsuchi's technique exceeded Baki's estimation.
Seeing his prey, which was almost in his grasp, attempting to escape, Kitsuchi would not be soft-hearted enough to let him go.
"Hoo-ah—!"
Kitsuchi roared, his entire Chakra erupting, and the rising rock formations crashed together with a thunderous sound.
Dong—
The reverberating sound of the collision echoed throughout the entire valley, and the sky-high dust rose into a mushroom cloud.
Everyone held their breath, watching the screen intently.
When the smoke and dust cleared, the two curved rock formations fit together perfectly, but there was a diamond-shaped gap in the middle that pierced through the rock body.
"Cough—"
Baki was in a sorry state, the white cloth over his left eye long gone.
Besides his left foot, which was injured at the beginning, now even his right arm was unnaturally twisted.
From the gap to his current position, intermittent bloodstains dripped onto the ground.
At this moment, he tremblingly reached for his ninja pouch, his wind could not stop. At least he couldn't admit defeat, otherwise, Sunagakure's honor would be lost at this moment.
Kitsuchi, who walked over slowly, couldn't help but show a hint of admiration on his face. This man in front of him had guts. However, as long as he hadn't admitted defeat, Kitsuchi would not stop.
"Sunagakure's swift wind cannot move Iwagakure's mountain."
This was the first time Kitsuchi spoke during the duel, and then his right hand was raised high. As he clenched his fist, it transformed into a hard rock fist.
Boom—!
"Stop! Sunagakure surrenders!"
The sound of the rock fist falling and the shout from halfway up the mountain rang out at the same time.
As the dust dissipated, Kitsuchi's rock fist landed to Baki's left, where a radial giant crater had been blasted open.
Baki's forehead protector slid down and fell in front of him, his eyes slightly dim. In the end, he still had to surrender.