Chapter 880

"Your Konoha's Anbu are already done for? You actually let all of them get through!" Zabuza was already engaged with three or four Mist ninja at this point. It was obvious these people's strength was top-tier, and without the Hidden Mist Technique and White's assistance, Zabuza, dealing with so many people at once, appeared overwhelmed.

"Sorry about that, the browless one can't spare a hand to help you!" Raising the blade, stepping forward, sheathing the blade—in a single instant, completing the displacement between two positions, front and back. After unleashing the purple blade, Young Yuanzi's combat style became even more concise and swift. Using the exact same technique, the enemies she had cleanly taken down already numbered quite a few.

Jiraiya of course wasn't idle. Because he had been sustaining Gamabunta for a long time earlier, considering the battles to come, he had no choice but to abandon the idea of using Rasengan to repel the enemy, relying instead on the least draining taijutsu to fight.

"Don't stray too far, protecting the target is most important! Hm!?"

Suddenly, Jiraiya saw Samehada, the oddly shaped great blade, on the ground not far from the ice house protecting Lin Cheng and Xiao Jue. He whipped his head back to look at Xiao Mei and Kisame over there, who were fighting like gods, constantly producing towering water pillars and forests of ice towers. A very bad thought flashed through Jiraiya's mind.

"Not good! Quickly stop that blade!"

"Huh?" Young Yuanzi, being the closest, clearly didn't understand what Jiraiya's words actually meant, but since he said to stop it, the meaning was probably not to let this blade get close to Lin Cheng and Xiao Jue.

Thinking this, Young Yuanzi came to Samehada's side, wanting to pick up this blade and toss it far away.

"Owowow 〃〃!" The instant she touched the hilt, Young Yuanzi leapt far back. Even though she let go immediately, her palm was still cut. Looking at the wound on her palm with heartache, Young Yuanzi glared fiercely at Samehada, which was making strange sounds on the ground as if snickering.

"Oww, you broken blade, just you wait… one day I'm gonna stew you into softshell turtle soup!"

Samehada, which had been laughing with its mouth wide open, suddenly contracted once, as if about to sneeze.

"Lin Cheng, do you know what the 'Byakugan' truly means to our Hyuga clan?"

One day, during a conversation with Lin Cheng, Hyuga Hiashi suddenly brought up the "Byakugan."

"The true meaning?" For a moment, Lin Cheng completely couldn't understand her father's question.

It wasn't an ordinary Kekkei Genkai; there was a far deeper reason. Hyuga Hiashi looked at the moon hanging high outside the window. He didn't expect Tian to answer him correctly, so he merely paused briefly before continuing: "In the very beginning, because they were ostracized by ordinary people, many clans weren't like now, proud of their own Byakugan. This isn't a particularly attractive story, but the young Lin Cheng was, for the first time, learning from Hyuga Hiashi the origin of the Byakugan, the Kekkei Genkai passed down through the generations of the clan. At the same time, in her heart, she once again confirmed the countless ties between the 'Byakugan' and the moon—or rather, with some existence upon the moon.

So now, facing the crisis, Lin Cheng decided to go all out! The moment she compromised with someone in her heart, the Moon Princess's laughter echoed in her ears, but what replaced it was the power surging within her body, and the countless techniques in her mind that had never belonged to her.

"Clang!" Young Yuanzi held the strange purple North Wind horizontally with both hands, her small form wrapped in an odd chakra that disrupted the Byakugan's vision, suddenly blocking in front of Lin Cheng and the black shadow. Like a fragile blade, she forcibly withstood the slash of Samehada's great blade.

"Heh… ah roar ga!" Young Yuanzi taunted Kisame, exerting force with her hands to lift, forcibly pushing Kisame back. And Kisame, whose surprise attack had failed this time, showed no sign of dejection on his face. As he retreated slightly, a single side-step let him dodge Jiraiya, who was charging from behind with a Rasengan.

"… 'Ah… this is…'" Lin Cheng felt something wet on her forehead. Subconsciously raising a hand to wipe it, her hand came away with fresh red blood.

"An invisible movement method… no, it should be that it escaped my naked-eye observation!" Kisame retreated over a dozen steps in a row, driving Samehada heavily into the soil before him. He formed hand seals in an extremely short time. Completely on a different level from the Water Release: Water Shockwave released by other ninja, almost in the blink of an eye, a massive amount of water was created by Kisame. The forest that had just looked like a flood had passed through, a scene of utter devastation, once again became a giant lake.

"Dammit, the power of this Water Release is almost catching up to Tobirama's." With one hand wearily dragging Lin Cheng and the other still carrying North Wind, Young Yuanzi retreated while complaining in a low voice. Having barely escaped that massive Water Prison Technique earlier, she didn't want to be trapped again in an environment favorable to the enemy. Glancing sideways, she saw Jiraiya carrying Xiao Jue on his back, retreating at a speed similar to hers. Slightly relieved, she focused her attention once more on that shark-like man.

The overall outward-impacting water flow produced an anomaly. Beneath Xiao Mei's feet, the water that had been spreading according to fluid dynamics came to a halt, gathering and condensing at extreme speed—almost faster than the speed of water creation. A giant sperm whale composed entirely of ice appeared.