"!?"
Karin's expression froze, and many questions surged in her mind.
The biggest doubt among them was what kind of 'Space-Time Ninjutsu' Yakumo actually mastered, and how it operated.
However, in the next instant, she gathered her thoughts.
Because the current situation no longer allowed her to be distracted by detailed thoughts.
Yakumo, who swapped space with the blood clone this time, was not holding a kunai as before, but gripping a slender blood blade extending a full ten-plus meters!
Karin was not unfamiliar with this blood blade at all.
She had seen Chino use it more than once. Moreover, she vaguely remembered that before the Chunin Exams, when Chino challenged Yakumo, it was by relying on this kind of blood blade that she forced the then Yakumo into a sorry state and finally won that spar.
And at that time, Yakumo was already one of the leaders among the new generation of the Hidden Leaf, a disciple of the 'Sannin', the genius girl of the Hidden Leaf.
Bearing such a big title, she actually deliberately lost to Chino!
"She hides so deeply!"
Although she was trying her best to restrain her wandering thoughts, this thought still couldn't help but surface in Karin's mind.
Swish...
Yakumo, having completed the space swap with the blood clone, didn't hesitate at all, immediately swinging the blood blade in her hand and slashing down at Karin!
Because of the misjudgment just now, Karin was currently in the state of turning around, completely unable to dodge Yakumo's lightning-fast slash, so she had to activate 'Shinra Tensei'.
Boom
Another powerful repulsive force vented out, not only repelling the slashing Yakumo but also blowing away the two entangled tree seas around them!
Swish...
However, before Karin could catch her breath, a short sound of breaking air rang in her ears. At the same time, her 'Kagura Mind's Eye' warned her frantically. In the perception of her 'Kagura Mind's Eye', a powerful chakra appeared abruptly behind her.
"This!?"
Karin's expression froze.
Previously, she sensed chakra fluctuations behind her, so she prepared to turn around to meet the enemy, but Yakumo's main body appeared in front of her. And now that she finally turned around, Yakumo strangely appeared behind her again.
One must know she had just used 'Shinra Tensei', not only repelling Yakumo but also blowing away everything around her suspected to be space positioning coordinates. Logically speaking, even the Fourth Hokage who mastered the 'Flying Thunder God Technique' couldn't flash to her side again in such a short time!
At this moment, Karin had nowhere to dodge, and 'Shinra Tensei' was also on cooldown, so she didn't even bother to turn back, directly using her body to activate 'Gakidō' (Preta Path).
The ten-plus meter slender blood blade drew a gorgeous blood light in the air, then slashed down fiercely, subsequently slicing into the ground without hindrance, cutting off a large piece of the coastal cliff like cutting tofu.
Rumble...
The shattered cliff collapsed as a whole amidst the rumbling sound, sliding obliquely into the sea, stirring up waves filling the sky.
In the distance.
"Is... is this the Akatsuki organization?"
The patrol team members watched dumbfounded.
This kind of attack method that could easily change the terrain and landscape of a large area made them feel chills from the bottom of their hearts.
Only at this moment did they deeply realize why the powerful Five Great Ninja Villages had to unite, even initiating a general mobilization at the cost of consuming reserves, to deal with the threat of the Akatsuki organization!
On the other side.
"Don't let any accidents happen!"
Haku, who was watching the battle, subconsciously took a step forward, a nervous expression appearing on his face under the dog mask.
He knew the battle between Karin and Yakumo would be earth-shaking, but he never expected that after only a few rounds of exchange, even that coastal cliff was completely shorn off.
And the dust stirred up by the cliff collapse obscured his vision, preventing him from judging how Karin, who took a direct hit from Yakumo, was doing.
Further away.
Shinji, who was originally leaning against the trunk on a tree branch, now flipped to the tree crown with a better view.
"Tsk..."
The scene before him also made him click his tongue.
However, based on his intuition, the confrontation between Karin and Yakumo shouldn't be over yet. Yakumo's continuous surprise attacks with 'Red Dragon' indeed caught Karin off guard, but Karin's overall strength was there, and the final victory or defeat was hard to say at present!
On the battlefield.
In the churning dust and flying wood chips, Karin panted lightly.
She turned her head to glance at her right shoulder, then withdrew her gaze.
At this time, the right sleeve of her red cloud robe was gone, revealing her fair arm inside.
Undoubtedly, Yakumo's strike just now hit her right arm directly, shattering her red cloud robe and injuring her right arm.
It was just that she activated 'Gakidō' in advance, weakening the power of the section of the blood blade in contact with her. Coupled with her own super strong recovery ability, the strange situation appeared where obviously the entire sleeve was gone, but the arm inside was unharmed.
Opposite, seeing Karin once again take her attack almost unscathed, Yakumo's face tightened: "How is this possible? Can't even hurt her like this?"
For a brief moment, she felt discouraged.
But soon she suppressed this emotion and then pondered countermeasures, because the opponent's strength was not an excuse for her to escape!
At this time, Ido floating beside Yakumo clamored: "Yakumo, that guy is ridiculously strong, do you have any more powerful moves? Use them quickly!"
Yakumo shook her head gently: "It's useless!"
Ido was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Yakumo explained while staring closely at Karin opposite: "It's not that our dojutsu isn't powerful, it's that she absorbed the chakra in our dojutsu, weakening the power of the dojutsu! If we don't solve this point, other jutsu won't be able to hurt her either!"
The dual ability of 'Koryugan' - perspective plus insight - helped Yakumo greatly at this moment, allowing her to see through the secret of Karin resisting her dojutsu unscathed.
Whether it was the explosion from detonating the blood clone before or the blood blade slash just now, they were actually powerful enough to heavily injure Karin. The reason they were withstood by Karin unscathed was actually that the intensity of the jutsu had been severely weakened when attacking Karin's body.
Hearing Yakumo say this, Ido also understood, so she asked: "Then what should we do?"
Yakumo still stared closely at Karin: "I'm afraid I need your help!"
Ido looked at Karin with apprehension: "Her chakra is too powerful. Even if I invade her inner world, it's hard to cause much interference to her, maybe I'll even be heavily injured by her instead!"
Yakumo said: "Don't worry, I only need you to buy me one second!"
"One second..." Pausing, Ido curled her lips: "Alright, to defeat a monster like that, taking some risks is worth it!"