The Aftermath

The Ice Release's explosion technique originated from the Shadow Clone Explosion Technique.

In the manga that Sakura vaguely remembered, Itachi used this technique to make Kakashi and the others look quite bad. Inspired by this, Sakura Haruno developed the Ice Release's exclusive Clone Explosion Technique. When this technique is combined with a large number of Ice Clone to perform the Ice Body Flicker Technique, it becomes the combination technique Ice Clone Mutually Multiplying Explosive Technique, which is extremely powerful. Even Orochimaru and his ilk have suffered from this technique!

Later, as Sakura's understanding and mastery of Ice Release deepened, her use of the Clone Explosion Technique became more flexible. She was no longer confined to the explosion of Ice Clone, but could freely detonate ice blocks containing her Chakra, from the simplest ice tools to the ice shuriken made by Swallow Snow Storm that was as tall as a person, and then to the boundless ice field constructed by Frost Ice Burial.

Finally, there's the enormous ice hockey puck beneath my feet.

Rumble--

The deafening roar, like thunder, echoed and reverberated through the clouds, almost shaking the earth.

It took a long time for things to calm down.

With a soft thud, Sakura Haruno touched the ground with her toes and floated down as lightly as a butterfly.

The spot where she stood was a large crater created by Ninjutsu. It was a pit several meters deep and hundreds of meters in diameter, left behind after the ground was plowed away by a violent explosion.

Outside the crater, within the area affected by the explosion, the original puddles and grasslands of the Land of Waterfalls had been completely destroyed. The vegetation had been uprooted, and the rivers and ponds had been swept away, leaving only an empty wasteland with a few glittering ice fragments left over from the explosion.

The vast, white wasteland stretched out from near to far beyond the horizon, until it reached the very end of the field of vision.

In this pale and desolate scene, a wounded figure lying on the ground stands out conspicuously.

He was covered in blood, with deep, bone-revealing holes all over his body, making him particularly gruesome.

The large sword looked as if it had been twisted arbitrarily by immense force, bent into a bizarre shape, and had completely lost its function as a sword.

"Kisame Hoshigaki..." The girl coldly gazed at the person in the distance and indifferently uttered his name.

"You are done."

In Sakura's perception, Kisame's Chakra aura was extremely weak, like a candle flickering in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment.

Samehada was also completely devoid of energy, its power waning to its lowest point, seemingly having used up all its Chakra to sustain itself and Kisame's lives.

Without Chakra, even Samehada's powerful healing abilities are useless; it's like a skilled cook trying to cook without ingredients—it's powerless to save Kisame or reverse the defeat. Moreover, Samehada itself is already severely injured and barely able to survive.

The continuous flow of blood gushing from the massive wound on Kisame's body was further draining life from the unconscious, burly man, slowly causing him to slide into the dark abyss of eternal slumber.

His life is already on a countdown.

Sakura Haruno could tell that even if she did nothing, Kisame wouldn't live much longer.

However, Sakura did not leave the enemy with his last breath, nor did she follow the habit of listening to his dying words.

There was no pity on her beautiful face, which was as cold as frost, and her clear eyes were as cold as snow.

After using such a powerful Ninjutsu, Sakura Haruno's meridians were already aching from the excessive strain, but she continued to Hand Seals regardless, giving her opponent no chance to turn the tide.

She took a few graceful steps forward, and as she did so, Chunin, and a ball of transparent water suddenly appeared in the palm of her right hand.

The Konoha Ninja flicked her wrist, and the water sizzled as a stream of water shot out from between the girl's index and middle fingers, carving a deep gash in the white earth. The gash grew sharper with the flow of Chakra.

Water Release: Wind Blade Slash --

The final moment of the sharp water line being unleashed, just before it would shoot towards Kisame with a turn of her slender fingers.

A sudden change occurred!

Whoosh--

Several arms suddenly stretched out from beneath her feet, accompanied by a shrill cry, wielding Kunai slash at the girl's right leg!

It looked like Sakura Haruno was asking Kisame to trade her own leg for his life!

Sakura's face was cold, and a chilling smile curled at the corner of her lips.

"Finally decided to come out, you mice!"

He deftly retracted the water line in his hand, a flash of blue light appeared on his leg, and he suddenly lifted his right foot to Kunai, then stomped down fiercely!

"Nintaijutsu: Guarding Foot!"

The Monstrous Strength Technique Tsunade, combined with Sakura's leg techniques, instantly granted Sakura Haruno boundless power; with the precise enhancement of Chakra, the girl's delicate ankles instantly became harder than steel, transmitting power capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks to her heels and unleashing it into the earth, crushing the White Zetsu who were ambushing from the ground into several piles of bloody pulp!

Boom!

An earthquake suddenly struck the deep pit, causing cracks to spread like a spider web, and the soil layer to shrink by several meters.

The filthy blood quickly seeped out from under the soil, and the Chakra sensation and life force beneath his feet were completely wiped out and disappeared.

A mantis trying to stop a chariot...

The word suddenly popped into Sakura Haruno's mind, but her hands didn't stop moving at all. With a slight movement of her slender right fingers, a white line of water reappeared and shot into the soil.

However, more and more White Zetsu appeared one after another. In her Chakra perception, she could feel new auras emerging densely from the ground, leaping out of the earth and rushing towards her from all directions like moths to a flame, obscuring her vision.

For a moment, it gave the girl the illusion of being shielded from the sun!

They might be nothing more than weaklings in Sakura Haruno's hands, but once their numbers increase, it will take quite some time to deal with them.

Sakura Haruno subconsciously pushed the effect of Cherry Blossom Impact: Stage Three to its limit. Her mind raced, and in that instant, her mind was as clear as a mirror. She immediately guessed that their reckless rush was not simply to die, but to buy time to rescue Kisame.

"Hmph!" She glanced up indifferently at the White Zetsu that had leaped into the air and blocked her view, surprised by their White Zetsu number, but merely let out a haughty snort, "Useless struggle."

Once the gap in strength becomes too large, no amount of numerical advantage can compensate for it.

The waterline slashed down in the direction Kisame was in her memory. With a flash of silver light, it created a large number of severed limbs and splattered blood, instantly clearing out half of the White Zetsu that had rushed at her. However, it failed to strike Kisame, who should have been unable to move and remained in place.

They were moved by White Zetsu.

Sakura Haruno raised her eyebrows, somewhat surprised; but she reacted quickly, immediately realizing that she didn't need to get entangled with this group of cannon fodder.

Ice Release: Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!

Whoosh! Sakura Haruno's figure disappeared into the air, causing several White Zetsu were charging ahead and were ready to die to lose their footing and crash into each other.

Passing over the group of half-pitcher plants and half-humans that suddenly appeared, the girl landed steadily on a piece of ice in the wasteland. Her bright eyes swept across the land at an extremely fast speed, quickly searching for Kisame's figure.

In less than half a second, she spotted the unconscious Kisame not far away—along with several horrified White Zetsu members who were trying to treat him.

"We've been discovered!"

"Damn it, stop her!"

However, it was too late.

"Found you."

Sakura Haruno suddenly lifted her foot, stomping it with the power of her Monstrous Strength Technique. The ground beneath her feet instantly cracked and split open; the resulting immense recoil propelled the girl to her absolute maximum speed—

Swish!

In close-range movement, Sakura's Taijutsu Body Flicker Technique was even faster than Ice Body Flicker Technique. Her figure was still a shadow in White Zetsu's retina when she suddenly rushed in front of Kisame!

"Take this!" A White Zetsu protecting Kisame reacted extremely quickly. Almost the instant Cherry Blossom Impact over, it raised its Samehada sword, Chakra absorption power to meet the Ice Release Girl!

Wait, Samehada sword?

The girl stopped in her tracks, forcibly turning her body to avoid a slash. Her delicate brows furrowed slightly, and her thin lips parted as she glanced at Samehada with a hint of surprise. When had it returned to normal? Then, her gaze quickly swept over Samehada's now straight blade, and then over the several White Zetsu corpses that it had drained into dried-up bodies at the hilt. She already knew the answer in her heart.

With a single strike, White Zetsu forced Sakura Haruno back, and his second strike followed closely, pressing his advantage with a horizontal slash from right to left. This guy's swordsmanship is actually quite skilled!

However, she is ultimately far inferior to Kisame.

Sakura Haruno Kisame even defeat Kisame, let alone a White Zetsu like this? She might be able to win by half a move due to a moment of carelessness, but after that, the White Zetsu would have no chance.

"Water Release: Super Water Gun Technique!"

A high-speed, high-pressure stream of water shot out again from Sakura Haruno's two fingers, meeting the Samehada sword that was slashing horizontally!

A flash of joy crossed White Zetsu's eyes. Samehada's ability to absorb Chakra had been largely restored, making it the nemesis of Ninjutsu. Sakura Haruno's attempt to fight him with Ninjutsu was utterly foolish.

However, he soon realized who was the dumbest party in this confrontation—

Cheng!

The extremely sharp water blade collided with Samehada, and a tooth-grinding friction sound immediately rang out. White Zetsu, who was holding the sword, changed his expression drastically. The scene he had imagined, in which Samehada completely absorbed the girl's Ninjutsu, did not happen. Instead, the Samehada sword was deeply cut into by the thin white line!

Little did he know that Samehada could absorb Chakra, but not the kinetic energy of water! The Super Water Gun Technique is a very special Ninjutsu that uses high pressure to amplify real water from nature into extremely fine water streams, thereby gaining super cutting power. However, this cutting power is only related to the physical properties of water, and has absolutely nothing to do with whether there is Chakra in it!

Even if you don't absorb Chakra, you can't do anything about this Ninjutsu, because once Ninjutsu Super Water Gun Technique shoots out the water line, the high-pressure water line is no longer a Ninjutsu, but a natural phenomenon.

Driven by pressure of nearly 10,000 megapascals, a high-speed water jet with a diameter thinner than a human hair and a speed of several thousand meters per second, ruthlessly sliced through Samehada the moment it hit it!

"Chirp chirp chirp chirp--!"

Samehada's spikes erupted wildly, its body writhed desperately, and it let out a pitiful scream of severe injury!

Then, it came to an abrupt end.

Call out--!

The silvery-white waterline slashed across the water cruelly and resolutely, severing everything in its path— Samehada, the White Zetsu, Kisame was being protected behind it, and even the air in front of it—in a single, cruel and decisive stroke!

The piercing shriek of the high-pressure water jet cutting through the air was chillingly shrill.