Chapter 90: Teacher, Come Help Quickly!
Eleven of the thirteen Mist ninja were instantly killed, with the remaining two—one severely injured, one lightly wounded. Ritsu steadily landed on the water surface, raised his hand with another Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets, eliminating the remaining two wounded.
Immediately after—
"Summoning Jutsu!"
Ritsu slammed his palm on the water surface. White smoke filled the sky, merging with the dense fog. Then dozens of great serpents opened bloody maws, revealing sharp fangs, summoned from Dragon Cave. Their long bodies and strong forms couldn't be concealed even by the thick fog. Lured by the scent of blood, they readily opened their mouths to devour the Mist ninja corpses.
Of course, just these few corpses couldn't satisfy their gluttonous appetites—instead, it stimulated their hunger, opening their stomachs. Without Ritsu needing to urge them, they quickly slid their bodies, with extremely agile and vigorous forms crashing into this barrier that only possessed sensing and counter-sensing capabilities.
At this moment—
The Mist Village camp was somewhat chaotic.
Low morale caused numerous Mist ninja to lose initiative, only numbly and passively accepting orders. But the upper echelons issuing orders were also in disarray—they were organizing personnel to evacuate in batches. Loss of fighting spirit meant they didn't scramble to intercept invaders but instead urged subordinates to accelerate evacuation speed.
Therefore, when these dozen-plus great serpents broke in, not only were they not slaughtered immediately, they instead ran amok, crashing the orderly camp into disarray. Many Mist ninja couldn't dodge in time—either knocked flying by great serpents or directly swallowed.
After all, the great serpents had thick skin and tough flesh with astonishing defense. One or two explosive tags could only injure but had difficulty killing them. In other words, ordinary genin couldn't defeat these brainless beasts. Even chunin needed to expend time and effort to eliminate great serpents.
Even jonin wanting to quickly eliminate these great serpents needed to possess suitable methods. Otherwise, it would still be twice the effort for half the result. After all, many ninjutsu were developed targeting people—completely ineffective against such giant serpents.
However—
This chaos was ultimately temporary.
"Lava Style: Melting Apparition Technique!"
A middle-aged man with long brown-red hair stepped forward, spitting out large amounts of orange-yellow corrosive acid splashing onto the great serpents' bodies. This acid's corrosiveness was so terrible that in just a few breaths, the great serpents' skin and flesh corroded and melted, exposing white bones inside. The massive bodies crashed to the ground motionless.
Then with a bang, the corpses turned into white smoke and disappeared.
Such a scene instantly gave the low-morale Mist ninja a shot of adrenaline.
"It's Clan Head Terumi!"
"Stop just running! Someone needs to stay behind to intercept!"
"Form up! Form up! Don't fight individually!"
With morale slightly revived, some bold Mist ninja turned back, attempting to support the Clan Head Terumi who'd stepped forward.
However—
"If I let you stabilize your formation, that would be my dereliction of duty as vanguard." Ritsu saw the scene before him, then quite decisively released a big move.
He wasn't here to play one-on-one with Mist ninja. Disrupting the Mist ninja formation, causing as many casualties to the Mist ninja as possible—that was his purpose.
"Shikotsumyaku: Dance of the Seedling Fern!"
Ritsu pressed both hands on the ground. Chakra poured underground like water from an opened reservoir floodgate, then white bones six or seven meters long, requiring two or three people to encircle, burst from the earth, lifting the Mist ninja like meat strips prepared for air-drying, hanging them high in the air.
In an instant—
A bloody, cruel bone forest that should only exist in hell appeared on this nameless small island.
This was war—
Cruel and bloody!
However, Terumi head hadn't died.
This Terumi clan head was also outstanding among jonin. Even though caught off guard by Ritsu's Dance of the Seedling Fern, relying on absolutely strong adaptability and a physique that could keep up with his thinking speed, he escaped this crisis at the cost of his right arm, then—
Pressing his hand on the continuously bleeding stump wound, he turned and ran without looking back.
The morale just barely revived was thus ruthlessly knocked back into the abyss by Ritsu once again.
"This is... Shikotsumyaku?!"
Yagura, swimming against the current, looked at the bone forest before him. For a moment he couldn't control his expression, revealing distinct shock. But he couldn't be blamed for this Mizukage making such a fuss—even the Kaguya clan's own jonin were dumbfounded, jaws nearly dropping to the ground.
"This, this is impossible! How could he perform Dance of the Seedling Fern?!"
The Kaguya family's only remaining jonin looked completely incredulous, even doubting whether he'd been sleeping in a daze. Without hesitation, he punched himself, hard enough to draw blood from his mouth.
Yagura glanced back at the Kaguya family jonin, then quickly shifted his gaze to Mangetsu Hozuki, sternly ordering: "Mangetsu, you go stall White Yaksha!"
"Yes, Mizukage-sama."
Mangetsu Hozuki agreed without any hesitation.
Then—
He accelerated forward holding the Twin Swords Hiramekarei, fearlessly crashing into the bone forest before him, heading straight for Ritsu. Their Hozuki clan's hereditary Hydrification Technique feared Shikotsumyaku's physical attacks the least—could even be said to be completely immune.
It had to be said—
This arrangement was indeed perfectly appropriate.
Seeing Mangetsu Hozuki charging over, Ritsu immediately extinguished the thought of another Dance of the Seedling Fern. The Hozuki clan's Hydrification Technique had too high tolerance for physical attacks. It would require the level of Eight Gates—Sixth Gate—Morning Peacock taijutsu, using super-fast speed and super-powerful straight punches to generate through friction with air the massive heat sufficient to completely evaporate a whole person's water content, to possibly kill Mangetsu Hozuki.
Otherwise—
Without exposing Wood Style as a trump card, Ritsu truly had no way to deal with Mangetsu Hozuki.
He fought fiercely with the charging Mangetsu Hozuki, then after several fruitless attacks—whether Gentle Fist or Shikotsumyaku, neither had effect on Mangetsu Hozuki. Conversely, Mangetsu Hozuki discovered Ritsu seemingly had no effective means to restrain and injure him, so he let loose and launched fierce counterattacks, forcing Ritsu to use Rotation twice for defense.
But as the saying goes, one thing overcomes another. The Hozuki clan's Hydrification Technique had its nemesis.
"Teacher, come help quickly!"
Ritsu loudly called for aid.
Behind him, Hiruko's figure appeared in Mangetsu Hozuki's field of vision, and along with it came extremely low-temperature cold air and frost. Thick ice pillars emerged from the ground, slanting toward the Hozuki family prodigy.
"Ice Style?"
Mangetsu Hozuki was greatly alarmed and rapidly retreated.
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