After doing all this, Blaze also launched her counterattack. Being attacked repeatedly had made her extremely furious.
Clenching her fists, she flew high up, and a pair of fiery wings appeared behind her.
"I'll make you the first victim!"
The Kazekage's chain had made Blaze feel pain and humiliation, and now she would repay it tenfold.
Using the thrust generated by the explosion of fire beneath her feet, Blaze shot out like an arrow released from a bow.
When the eyes of the group finally captured her again, Blaze had already arrived in front of the Kazekage!
An extremely dangerous sensation flooded the Kazekage's heart.
The next second, a fist was thrown, smashing heavily into the Kazekage's chest!
But the result was not what was expected; it didn't pierce the Kazekage's chest but rather struck through a pile of sand.
"You scared me to death! Good thing I prepared a clone beforehand."
The Kazekage knew that among the three, his strength was the weakest, and he lacked any life-saving abilities.
So, he had created several clones from the start, placing them in the shadows. Whenever he encountered danger, he would instantly use the Substitution Jutsu to evade a fatal attack.
Were it not for this, the Kazekage would likely be dead now.
"I didn't think you were so slippery, but I can make clones too!" Raging flames ignited in Blaze's wings, obscuring her form. A few seconds later, two identical people walked out of the fire.
Without being commanded, they immediately charged toward the Kazekage and the Tsuchikage.
This negated their advantage in numbers.
The strength of these two clones was virtually indistinguishable from the original, and even if there was a difference, it was not something Ōnoki and the Kazekage could easily defeat.
Therefore, Torifu currently had to face Blaze alone.
"In the end, my target is you. As long as I capture you, the entire ninja world will belong to the Master."
Torifu spread his hands. "Why are you so obsessed with me? What benefit is there for you in capturing me? Your strength is so great, why must you dedicate yourself entirely to Isshiki?"
Blaze smiled faintly. "Less nonsense. You think you can use such a provocation to deal with me? You are far too naive!"
With that, Blaze kicked toward Torifu's waist. Torifu easily sidestepped and shot two ice cones toward Blaze.
These ice cones looked small and ordinary, but they actually contained a large amount of chakra. Upon contact with a person, they would instantly explode into an ice flower.
However, such a massive amount of chakra seemed to alert Blaze. She instinctively felt the danger and dodged with a flicker.
But what she didn't know was that these two ice cones were not meant to deal with her at all.
The ice cones that Blaze had bypassed suddenly split their trajectories, shooting toward Blaze's two clones respectively.
The two who were fighting intensely saw the incoming support and instantly cooperated to lead their opponents into the path of the ice cones.
By the time the clones realized it, it was too late. The ice cones exploded behind them. The resulting shockwave instantly knocked them both backward.
And the formed ice flowers stabbed their petals deep into their flesh and blood.
The Tsuchikage and the Kazekage naturally did not waste this good opportunity and immediately used their strongest ninjutsu to terminate the two clones.
Suddenly, two surges of chakra returned to her body. Blaze was momentarily confused, but from the memories transmitted back from the clones, she understood everything.
"Damn it, how can he be so cunning!" Blaze was an artificial human developed by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's subordinate. Although rare materials were used to bring her strength infinitely close to the Six Paths level.
But her intelligence was clearly not as high as Torifu's, nor did she have as many tricks.
She could be said to completely lack human deceit.
If she wasn't an enemy, this kind of personality would be quite suitable for a friend.
But unfortunately, they stood on opposite sides, and Torifu would not show her the slightest restraint.
After all, because of Blaze, tens of thousands of lives had already been lost in the ninja world, and two wars had been instigated.
This sin was enough to send her to hell!
Without the distraction of the clones, the three were finally able to face Blaze together. But before Ōnoki and the others could fly up, two clones reappeared before them.
"Chakra? I still have plenty. The battle has just begun. The two of you can play slowly."
Then she pointed a finger at Torifu. "You can continue playing tricks, but the chakra in my body is abundant enough to play with you for three days and three nights."
With that, she clenched her right hand and punched!
The surging flame, like a fire dragon, coiled and maneuvered. Its target was precisely Torifu.
"Only three days and three nights? Your chakra capacity isn't very good then."
With a wave of his hand, two giant dragons—one of crystal, one of frost—met the attack. Although Torifu released two, the fire dragon did not immediately collapse upon impact.
Instead, it stalemated with the two dragons.
Finally, an explosion occurred, and all three dragons vanished together.
"Even a casual blow contains a massive amount of chakra. It seems she truly has nothing to fear. Could she have undergone another modification?"
Torifu didn't quite understand the physiological structure of their artificial humans and thought she might have a chakra storage device inside her body that could store large amounts of chakra.
But in reality, the reason Blaze possessed such an enormous amount of chakra lay in the altar in the deep pit beneath Torifu's feet.
"Hmph!" Blaze coldly snorted, then gathered power in her hands. An orange-yellow fireball continuously grew in her hands.
At first, it was the size of a basketball, but in a blink of an eye, it was the size of half a basketball court.
Torifu dared not be careless about this. With one hand, he condensed ice cones, trying to interfere with Blaze and interrupt her charging.
With the other hand, he compressed a large amount of Ice Style chakra into a small ice sphere.
Unlike Blaze, this move of Torifu's would not be too noticeable, but its effect would be similar to Blaze's, perhaps even slightly stronger.
The ice cones were quickly released, but the result was about what Torifu expected: they did not cause any substantial impact on Blaze.
"How will you block this move?" Blaze held an immensely huge fireball in her hand. Its diameter was over fifty meters, close to one hundred meters!
Looking up at her from the ground was like staring directly at the sun—it was incredibly dazzling!
The scorching heat caused beads of sweat to constantly drip from Torifu's face. And right then, Blaze tossed the fireball in her hand! Its target was Torifu.
Torifu didn't continue the compression and immediately threw out the small ice sphere in his hand. He was afraid that if he was too close, even if he blocked the technique, he would be affected.
But when Blaze saw the ice sphere, she burst out laughing. "Kumotsuru Torifu, if you plan to give up resisting, there is no need to do it like this. Just say so. Why make such a ridiculous spectacle."
Blaze's expression was extremely playful, but she was only being verbally harsh. Torifu currently held the advantage, and she wasn't so foolish as to truly believe Torifu was going to surrender.