Chapter 384: Spore Technique
The silver water line traced a beautiful trajectory. After striking down the White Zetsus and Kisame in front of her, Haruno Sakura did not pause. With a light flick of her right hand, she drew a large arc in the air, catching up with the group of White Zetsus who had missed their pounce and were left behind by Sakura.
Swish, swish!
The soft clear water transformed into an indestructible sharp weapon at this moment, carrying the Ice Style girl's fierce killing intent, slashing mercilessly.
With the turn of her slender fingers, the silver-white thin line slashed down vertically and horizontally in the air. Under the incomparably sharp cutting ability, the White Zetsus had no power to fight back, collapsing almost at the first touch. As the silver line passed, several heads and countless severed limbs fell off silently. In an instant, blood flowed like pillars, surging high like fountains!
The dense swarm of White Zetsus was quickly cleared away under the girl's ruthless moves. The remaining few White Zetsus who had escaped into the ground early and were lucky enough to survive were insignificant and couldn't cause any waves.
Looking at the mutilated corpses of White Zetsus on the ground, Haruno Sakura did not feel the joy of ending the battle. Instead, doubts arose suddenly:
"Not Shadow Clones, all are real physical bodies existing in reality... and the number is extremely large, looking like mere cannon fodder for the Akatsuki... Could they really be clones?"
"Does Orochimaru's cloning technology actually have an inheritance?"
While pondering, Haruno Sakura suddenly felt itching all over her body, and a sudden change occurred!
"Hiss—"
With a few soft sounds, several pieces of white, soft flesh suddenly grew on the itchy spots on the girl's arms, shoulders, and chest, moving as if alive, and then expanding rapidly like blowing up balloons!
"Spore Technique!"
The counterattack of the White Zetsus finally arrived late.
"Chakra is being absorbed by them..." Haruno Sakura felt the strange changes on her body, her heart slightly chilled.
"Really careless, actually parasitized by spores!" A White Zetsu lingering on poked his head out of the soil and sneered sarcastically.
That lump of flesh absorbed the pure and energetic chakra from Haruno Sakura, growing extremely fast. Soon it spread all over her body, enveloping most of the girl, making her slender figure instantly bloated and swollen.
Immediately afterwards, a new change occurred on the lump of flesh: seeing its surface squirming, a new White Zetsu grew out of this lump of flesh. The head with only half a face looked particularly disgusting; and underneath where it couldn't be seen, the lump of flesh actually extended roots, growing and spreading downwards. The tips of the roots were restless, repeatedly trying to pierce Sakura's skin and penetrate into the flesh, attempting to extract more chakra!
"Hehe..." White Zetsu laughed weirdly at Haruno Sakura and said, "The spores will insert roots into your body, absorb your stamina and chakra as nutrients to continue growing, until you are completely sucked dry...!"
The expression on the girl's face did not panic as White Zetsu expected. Instead, she remained calm all the time, composed almost to the point of disdain for reacting to such a clumsy trick.
"Is that all?" Haruno Sakura looked at him and said calmly.
White Zetsu was suddenly startled and suspicious. Sakura's expression was too calm, as if... as if their ninjutsu was just a crude and inferior trick in her eyes!
Then he heard Sakura's cold voice—
"Like absorbing chakra, huh?" She said, killing intent lingering between her lips and teeth and in her words, and the chakra fluctuation became dangerous.
"Then suck enough!"
Ice Style chakra spread from the girl, white mist carrying a thick chill, instantly freezing the lumps of flesh on her body into stiff dead meat. Haruno Sakura casually broke them off, peeling them off piece by piece!
White Zetsu's ninjutsu could be called weird and hard to guard against. Used on ordinary Genin and Chunin, it would probably be successful every time... But for the current Haruno Sakura, a jutsu of this intensity was only at the level of "a little interesting." Compared to Kisame and Samehada, it probably didn't even count as trouble!
If Haruno Sakura hadn't intentionally wanted to experience White Zetsu's moves to probe the intelligence of this mysterious creature, perhaps this Spore Technique would have been destroyed by Sakura casually as soon as it was used!
"Hmph... meaningless petty tricks."
"As expected... a jutsu of this level can't work on you at all." The frivolous smile on White Zetsu's face disappeared, but he wasn't very disappointed, seeming to have expected it. "But... is it really meaningless?"
Yes, he never expected such a jutsu to defeat Haruno Sakura, whose strength was even greater than Kisame's. This futile act was just to attract her attention and buy time!
Haruno Sakura was still in the state of Sakura Rush at this time. Her thoughts ran extremely fast, and she immediately realized White Zetsu's true purpose. She turned her head abruptly, just in time to catch the last scene of the White Zetsus quietly taking the remains of Kisame and Samehada underground.
Samehada was pulled into the mud by the strange half-human half-plant beings, making a muffled sound of sinking underwater.
"Wait! Don't think about running!" The girl raised her eyebrows fiercely and shouted angrily. Not to mention that Samehada was her spoil of war, the corpse of a ninja was also an important source of intelligence, and it couldn't be stolen by the White Zetsus just like that!
The dark blue chakra light on her body flowed like water. Just as she was about to intercept the White Zetsus, a sharp and wild啸声 coming from afar abruptly interrupted the girl's movement.
Haruno Sakura's heart moved, and she looked up. In the distance mid-air, an orange-red light soared into the sky, rushing straight into the clouds. The orange light was scorching and dazzling, drawing a brilliant straight line, and then disappeared abruptly.
"That is..."
Sakura felt Sasuke's familiar chakra fluctuations. How could she not be familiar with this move! That was exactly the move she taught Sasuke hand in hand—
Railgun!
But at this distance, the chakra fluctuation was still clear and conspicuous, showing how much chakra Sasuke had condensed in this move...
Haruno Sakura was not a sensor-type ninja. Relying on her powerful spiritual energy, she could forcibly sense other people's chakra at close range, but at a long distance, this brute force approach was not very effective; so although she observed attentively, she couldn't figure out for a moment to what extent the battle over there had progressed.
The only thing she could sense was that Uchiha Itachi's unique and massive chakra sense had not declined significantly...
Did the Railgun miss, or was it deflected?
On the contrary, Sasuke exhausted all his strength at once, and his chakra dimmed instantly in her perception.
Even without sensing, she could guess that the trump card struck with full force did not work, and Sasuke fell into an extremely dangerous situation instantly.
Haruno Sakura's expression, which had just relaxed, immediately became serious.
She turned her head. The messy scene on the ground just now full of severed limbs and broken swords was cleaned up completely by the remaining White Zetsus in the blink of an eye, leaving no clues for Sakura to explore intelligence.
"Tch." Sakura snorted sullenly. Between intercepting the underground White Zetsus and supporting Sasuke, two options requiring immediate decision, she chose the latter without needing to consider anything.
No time to entangle with such small characters.
"Letting you off this time..." The girl frowned.
Turning to look into the distance.
"Hold on a bit, I'll be right there."
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