Chapter 259: Lava Release

Oh! I never expected that a Leaf Village ninja who upholds the 'Will of Fire' would also have such feelings—it's really surprising~

Since Hai Dou this idiot was rescued by his comrade, Zhao Mei Ming also doesn't mind chatting a few words with him,

It also lets her tired body relax a bit.

His taijutsu is really troublesome—not to mention his strength—and the ninja sword in his hand forces me to be careful with every swing.

"Teammates? Of course I have them too~"

"It's just a pity they're not here!"

This time, the clansmen who came to the Water Country camp were only Zhi Shui's group. However, their main task is to protect the clan's 'future,' so naturally they didn't come with him.

Plus, Boss Orochimaru fully exhibited capitalist traits, giving him no teammates and letting him act alone.

He can't even slack off!

On a life-or-death battlefield, slacking off? You must be looking to die!

What's even more frustrating is that, while he was carefully hiding his presence, he never expected to run into Zhao Mei Ming, who was also concealing her tracks.

Of course, unlike Dong Shilang's pure slacking, Zhao Mei Ming intends to find a suitable target for a deadly strike.

"Hmm! Looks like your comrade is really anxious!"

Seeing the white mist rising from the ninja sword, Dong Shilang, who had been planning to swim, had to start defending against the opponent's attack.

Along with the cold mist rising from the sword, the ground where Dong Shilang stood also rose up in a large expanse of cold mist.

"Is this preparing to use temperature to limit my mobility?"

"How naive~"

Feeling the bone-piercing cold in his hand and the freezing temperature under his feet, Dong Shilang observed with his Sharingan and couldn't help but let out a wry laugh.

"Uchiha·Flame Dance"

As his own chakra erupted, fierce flames began to burn on the ninja sword in his hand.

He swung his arm.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

A flame whip nearly 20 meters long and about two meters in diameter materialized from Dong Shilang's ninja sword.

It was as if what he held in his hand wasn't a ninja sword but a flaming long snake, writhing in the air with his arm's movements, seeking prey.

The bright light it emitted, when burning fiercely, produced a whooshing sound that even drowned out the noise of its friction with the air.

"This guy is really extravagant—no wonder Mei summoned the two of us to deal with him!"

Watching that writhing flame serpent, I saw the opponent coil his body, blocking all my attack angles while also breaking the ninja technique I used to limit his speed.

Qing Shui finally understood why the so-called genius girl Zhao Mei Ming, who masters both Boil Release and Lava Release, had summoned him and Hai Dou beside her.

"Well, now it's my turn—be careful, or you'll really die~"

He swung his arm, and this flame whip, relying on his fine chakra control and superior fire-nature chakra transformation, lunged straight at Kaguya Hai Dou, who had just struggled free from the genjutsu beside him.

As expected of a ninja with the same Otsutsuki bloodline, after taking my strike 'Illusion·Shiranui,' he surprisingly recovered his mobility so quickly.

Should I say he's mentally tenacious, or that he's a beast acting on instinct?

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique"

Before Dong Shilang's attack could land, a water dragon roughly the same size as the taijutsu-specialist Kaguya Hai Dou rose from his side and blocked the assault.

"Nothing's that easy!"

Unlike those ninjutsu where power is set once the chakra is released, Dong Shilang's Flame Dance can continually change its power as he feeds chakra into it.

"Wrap!"

With Dong Shilang's movements, the entire flame whip's body suddenly expanded, its length swelling from about 20 meters to nearly 40 meters.

Like a hunting monster python, it wound and coiled, aiming to completely envelop Kaguya Hai Dou within its body.

By then, even the hard bones produced by the Bone Pulse couldn't withstand the monster's scorching heat.

"Lava Release: Lava River"

Seeing her comrade in danger, Zhao Mei Ming directly mobilized her chakra to create a large-scale lava river, rushing at Dong Shilang, who was controlling his flame whip with ninjutsu.

"Too bad!"

Faced with this large-scale lava river, Dong Shilang had to stop his ninjutsu, letting the flame serpent dissipate into the air.

This technique, though astonishingly powerful, has drawbacks as obvious as its strengths—it requires his full concentration to control those flames.

Once distracted, those exploding flames will no longer obey his control.

It makes him feel that developing new ninjutsu is truly fraught with difficulty.

"Hai Dou! You handle the close-range attack, while I and Qing Shui strike with ninjutsu!"

After using that ninjutsu, Zhao Mei Ming also didn't naively think that a single large-scale ninjutsu could defeat the bastard opposite her.

Instead, she went to her comrade's side, intending to use their numerical advantage to clash ninjutsu and defeat the opponent.

This was also her original plan, but she didn't expect her comrade to be so eager, charging straight at the opponent.

"Let's begin! Qing Shui~"

After signaling to her comrade, Zhao Mei Ming began forming seals; their side had two ninja skilled in ninjutsu attacking one person, which inevitably gave them the advantage.

"Lava Release: Lava Tsunami"

Using the lava river she had just created, Zhao Mei Ming directly produced wave after wave of lava tsunami, charging at Dong Shilang.

Meanwhile, her comrade, the Snow Clan member named Qing Shui, was not idle either, likewise unleashing his own method.

"Water Release: Timely Rain"

"Ice Release: Ice Snow Cold Spike"

Directly using Water Release ninjutsu, he created a small-area rain, and before those droplets fell onto the lava, he preemptively used his kekkei genkai to turn each drop into a crystal-clear ice cone, firing them at Dong Shilang.

Although a single ice cone from Ice Release isn't much, once their number reaches a certain limit, even Dong Shilang cannot completely ignore this ninjutsu.

Especially these two Ninjutsu, both are large-range offensive Ninjutsu, so he must be even more careful in dealing with them.