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"Boom boom boom——!"
Violent explosions rang out one after another!
Flames shot skyward, and thick smoke billowed! The shockwave sent rubble and dust flying high into the air!
Taking this opportunity, Naruto and Sasuke quickly distanced themselves from Kimimaro and retreated to the other side of the courtyard.
He was leaning against a relatively intact low wall, breathing heavily.
Both of them were bruised and battered, their clothes soaked with sweat and blood, looking quite disheveled.
"Naruto!" Sasuke called out urgently, his voice filled with unwavering determination.
There was no need for Sasuke to say anything more; years of constant confrontation between the two had made Naruto instantly understand the tactical intent!
He quickly formed hand seals in front of his chest, and chakra surged and roared through his meridians!
Fire Release: Great Fireball!
Sasuke launched the first attack!
He took a deep breath, his chest bulged, and his fiery chakra gathered in his throat before he exhaled it forcefully!
"call--!"
A huge, blazing, churning orange-red fireball, like lava.
With an aura of burning everything, it charged towards Kimimaro, who had just emerged from the smoke and dust of the explosion!
The air was scorched and distorted!
"Wind Escape! Big breakthrough!"
Naruto's hand seals were completed almost at the same time that Sasuke unleashed his flames!
He clasped his hands together near his mouth and blew them forward forcefully!
"Ugh——!"
A violent, swift, hurricane-like gale roared out!
It didn't attack Kimimaro, but rather struck Sasuke's massive Great Fireball with precision and ferocity!
The already enormous Flame Bullet, amplified by the Gale Release technique, instantly more than doubled in size!
The color changed from orange-red to a blinding, blazing white!
The fireball rolled and roared, its speed increasing dramatically, like a furious white fire dragon.
With terrifyingly high temperatures that could scorch mountains and boil seas, and with devastating impact, it instantly engulfed Kimimaro's tiny figure!
The courtyard ground was cracked by the terrifying heat, the surrounding ruins groaned under the weight, and the air was completely sucked away!
Chapter 186 Combination Attack
"Did you make it?!"
Naruto stared intently at the white flame that was devouring everything.
Sasuke's Sharingan was locked on the center of the flames, its crimson light swirling as it tried to penetrate the raging energy turbulence.
However, just as the flames were about to engulf him, he saw it!
Kimimaro's body began to spin rapidly amidst the flames!
It wasn't dodging, it was like a drill!
Countless sharp, fine bone spurs instantly sprouted wildly from every joint in his body, his spine, and even the top of his head.
It formed a thick, high-speed rotating layer of white bone spike armor!
"Corpse Bone Pulse: Dance of the Camellia!"
"Clang! Sizzle!"
A series of ear-piercing, rapid crashing and burning sounds came from the center of the flames!
The rapidly spinning bone spike armor rubbed and collided violently with the raging flames and wind!
Bone spurs quickly turn charred, carbonized, or even break under high temperatures!
But Kimimaro's chakra surged wildly, and new bone spurs kept growing from his body to replenish what he had lost!
Like a white bone top spinning stubbornly in a fiery hell, he withstood this devastating combination ninjutsu!
The flames gradually subsided, revealing the charred ground in the center and a figure emitting black smoke.
Kimimaro suffered severe burns on half of his body, leaving his skin charred black.
In some places, charred bones were even exposed, and the moon-white kimono had long since turned to ashes.
But he remained standing, the high-speed spin stopped, and the bone spur armor covering his entire body shattered and peeled away.
Those grey-green eyes remained as cold as ever, staring intently at Naruto and Sasuke, as if they felt no pain whatsoever.
"It's not over yet!"
A ruthless glint flashed in Naruto's eyes!
This is the moment he has been waiting for!
Taking advantage of the moment when Kimimaro was struggling against the wind and fire combination ninjutsu, his footing was not firm, and his vision was obscured by the smoke and dust!
Naruto slammed his hands, which had been poised to strike, onto the ground!
"Earth Escape·Yellow Spring Marsh!"
Centered on Kimimaro's feet, the hard ground within a radius of several meters instantly softened, collapsed, and liquefied!
In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a foul-smelling, incredibly sticky, and bottomless black swamp!
Like a gaping maw, ready to devour its prey!
Kimimaro had just withstood the terrifying impact of the flames, and his chakra surged within him. The sudden change in the sensation beneath his feet sent a chill down his spine!
But the stiffness of his body and the terrifying suction of the mud slowed his reaction by half a beat!
His feet sank instantly into the sticky, cold mud!
The mud, as if it were alive, quickly wrapped around his calves, and the powerful suction made his body sink suddenly!
Kimimaro's eyes narrowed, and he tried to break free.
However, the suction force of the mud pit formed by the Yellow Springs Swamp is extremely terrifying.
The more you struggle, the faster you sink!
His lower body was quickly swallowed by the mud!
"Now! Sasuke!"
"Chidori-ryu!"
Sasuke was already poised to strike!
This time, what he held in his hand was no longer a condensed Thousand Birds, but rather a method he had adopted from his adult self!
“Sizzle, sizzle—!!!”
A piercing, sharp noise, like the chorus of a thousand birds, rang out!
A dazzling blue lightning burst forth from Sasuke's right palm.
He slammed his right hand, which was wrapped in violent lightning, into the muddy Yellow Springs Swamp beneath his feet!
“Crackle!!!!”
The raging blue current seemed to have found the perfect conductor.
In an instant, they darted along the damp, sticky mud like countless ferocious electric snakes.
It spread wildly towards Kimimaro, who was trapped in the middle of the swamp, at an astonishing speed!
"Uhhhhhh-!!!"
Kimimaro's body stiffened abruptly!
An unprecedented, excruciating pain instantly swept through my entire body!
His bone veins can harden bones to defend against physical attacks and can also generate bone spurs for counterattacks.
However, it has almost no defense against this kind of high-voltage current that can penetrate everywhere and be conducted along a moist medium!
Blue arcs of electricity leaped and drilled wildly into his charred skin!
The muscles spasm and twitch uncontrollably under the stimulation of the electric current!
The bones seemed to be groaning in pain!
A sharp numbing and burning sensation shot straight to the brain!
He tried to gather chakra to resist, but the electric current severely disrupted his chakra flow!
For the first time, a pained and contorted expression appeared on his usually cold face!
"It's not over yet!!"
Naruto roared, his figure already leaping high into the air!
Between his hands, a huge, azure chakra sphere, far larger than a normal Rasengan and nearly a meter in diameter, was spinning and coalescing wildly!
The violent energy fluctuations caused the surrounding air to hum under the strain!
"Otama Rasengan!"
Naruto fell to the ground like a meteor, his hands raised high above the enormous energy ball containing terrifying destructive power.
With an unstoppable and resolute momentum, it slammed down hard on Kimimaro, who was paralyzed by the electric current and trapped in the quagmire, unable to dodge!
boom--! ! ! !
The deafening explosion resounded through the sky!
It was as if the entire Tanabata district was shaken!
The blinding blue light instantly engulfed everything!