What Ronin wanted to restrain was Netero's hands.
It wasn't that he wanted to stop Netero from using the Hundred-Type Guanyin altogether. Rather, he wanted to restrain him during the process of using it, thereby disrupting the motion of pressing his palms together.
In the manga, even with only one arm left, Netero had still been able to use the Hundred-Type Guanyin.
But what Ronin needed to do was not prevent him from using it entirely. He only needed to interrupt the activation.
Only by doing that would he truly have a chance of defeating Netero. If he couldn't interrupt it, then against someone like Netero, who had reached the realm of Heart Drop Fist Listening, any ability Ronin used would ultimately fail because it could not break through the Hundred-Type Guanyin's defense.
And judging from how a single palm strike from the Hundred-Type Guanyin had already cracked his Susanoo, Netero's attack, which also served as defense, was comparable to Franklin's self-destruction under vows and restrictions.
An attack of that level was not something the second-stage Susanoo could withstand for long.
Once Susanoo shattered, Ronin had no stronger defensive ability left to deal with the Hundred-Type Guanyin's attacks.
So at this stage, this battle had become a fight for every second.
He had to find a way to threaten Netero before Susanoo completely broke apart.
Netero sensed something unusual.
His raised hands stopped midway. A tremendous restraining force appeared out of nowhere around his hands.
Even for him, that sudden development was deeply shocking.
No one understood better than him just how little time it took for his palms to come together.
Ever since he began training his Grateful Straight Punch at the age of forty-six, he had thrown ten thousand punches every day, each one filled with gratitude. At first, completing ten thousand punches took him eighteen hours.
But through relentless effort, by the time he was fifty, it took him only one hour to throw ten thousand punches.
From that point on, he devoted even more of his energy to grateful prayer.
By the time he descended from the mountain, many years had already passed, and his straight punch had surpassed the speed of sound.
And now, decades had passed since his punches first broke the sound barrier. During those decades, although his physical condition had begun to decline, his mental state had never slackened.
The speed of sound was no longer the speed at which his Hundred-Type Guanyin attacked.
Twice the speed? Three times? Perhaps even faster—so fast that the naked eye simply could not capture it.
That was his Hundred-Type Guanyin.
Absolute speed.
That was the extreme he pursued as an Enhancer.
And yet, even at that extreme speed, Ronin had a way to stop his rising hands.
Could he actually see his movements clearly?
Was it the realm of Heart Drop Fist Listening?
But how old was he?
And even if he truly had entered that realm, seizing an opening in such a tiny instant and completing an attack was still an unbelievable feat.
He really was a monster.
The curve of Netero's mouth could no longer be suppressed. The instant the formation of his Hundred-Type Guanyin was interrupted, he finally felt a trace of excitement.
Ronin's Mangekyō Sharingan had seen all of Netero's movements.
And activating Ame-no-Tokotachi required almost no time at all. So the moment the aura around Netero changed, and the Hundred-Type Guanyin failed to appear as expected, Ronin had already activated another ability.
Amaterasu.
Pitch-black flames manifested around Netero out of thin air, burning toward him like maggots clinging to bone.
At the same time, Ronin, who had already completed his hand seals, released the ninjutsu he had prepared.
Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave.
If there was any ability that could seize a battle opportunity that appeared and vanished in a flash, then in Ronin's view, there was only one.
Amaterasu.
But could Amaterasu burn Netero to death?
The moment Amaterasu appeared, Ronin already knew the answer.
Impossible.
So the prepared Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave was the key, even though he also felt that this technique was unlikely to pose a real threat to Netero.
But an underwater environment was the only scenario Ronin could think of that might make Netero feel threatened.
A violent torrent burst from Ronin's mouth, enveloping the entire upper half of Trick Tower in a single instant.
And most astonishingly, this massive spherical body of water showed no sign of falling from the top of the tower to the ground. It simply hovered there in the sky as if by magic.
There were two reasons for that.
First, all of the water had been created by Ronin's chakra.
Second, Ronin had applied Earth Release: Ultra-Lightweight Rock Technique to the entire body of water.
Doing so would consume an enormous amount of Nen, but since Ronin knew this battle had to be decided as quickly as possible, he had no intention of conserving his aura.
At worst, he would simply release the Strength of a Hundred Seal.
One reason he had entered Greed Island earlier was to temper and adjust himself. Another was to allow the Strength of a Hundred Seal to store more chakra for emergencies.
The black flames closed in on Netero.
But they never managed to burn his body.
Even though his hands had not completed the prayer gesture, the Hundred-Type Guanyin still appeared behind Netero after that momentary delay.
Among the many arms of the Guanyin statue, two silently appeared beside Netero and cupped around him, holding his entire body in their palms.
The black flames were not wrapped inside those giant hands. Instead, they flowed along with the momentum and burned onto the Hundred-Type Guanyin itself.
But in the next second, the black flames vanished abruptly together with the Hundred-Type Guanyin.
Netero, who had been held in its palms, shot upward and escaped from the black flames that were still trying to surround him.
However, as Netero rose, he was directly swept into the body of water created by the Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave.
Still trying to restrict me?
Netero understood instantly. His hands had already completed a new prayer gesture, and the Hundred-Type Guanyin appeared within the water.
Boom!
A vast vacuum zone instantly opened inside the water.
It had been created by the Hundred-Type Guanyin attacking Susanoo.
But within that vacuum zone, a large number of sharks suddenly appeared.
Those sharks all burst out from the shattered water, their jaws wide open. Their ferocity seemed to surpass that of living creatures.
But they were merely creations of Ronin's Water Release: Water Shark Bullet Technique.
The Hundred-Type Guanyin manifested behind Netero once more.
This time, it was not a single palm. Instead, among the many hands behind it, countless arms suddenly swept forward all at once.
Hundred-Type Guanyin: Thirty-Second Palm.
The Water Shark Bullets shattered instantly.
The entire body of water was smashed apart with them.
And bearing the brunt of the impact was Ronin's Susanoo.
But inside Susanoo, Ronin showed no fear at all as he watched it gradually crack and break.
Because at that moment, a huge spinning sphere had already appeared in his hand.
It was Wind Release: Super Giant Rasenshuriken.
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