"Hmm... have I reached my limit?"
Watching Blood Shadow Soji completely dissipate into the air, Reanimated Hashirama Senju spoke with a hint of regret.
This battle had not truly produced a winner or loser for him.
"What a pity. I'm only a Reanimation Body now, and he was merely a blood shadow. If I could have met the real person behind that blood shadow while I was alive, he would have made a fine opponent."
Having fought Blood Shadow Soji for so long, Reanimated Hashirama Senju was certain of this.
What Reanimated Hashirama Senju did not realize, however, was that although Blood Shadow Soji had dissipated, his own crisis was far from over.
Blood Shadow Soji's final ultimate move was still taking effect!
The Yuki Clan's strongest Ice Release Jutsu—Ice Prison Cataclysm—was an extremely unusual technique.
Why was that?
Because Ice Prison Cataclysm had an exceptionally high ceiling, but also an exceptionally low floor.
If one had not used a single Ice Release Jutsu before casting Ice Prison Cataclysm, then this technique's power would be exactly zero.
It would not even be able to create a single shard of ice!
And if one had only used a few Ice Release Jutsu beforehand, Ice Prison Cataclysm's power would be mediocre at best.
Only after using Ice Release Jutsu to create vast quantities of ice beforehand, using that ice as "fuel," could Ice Prison Cataclysm unleash its true power.
It could be said that this was an Ice Release Jutsu with no upper limit to its power.
That was why, even within the Yuki Clan, only jonin were qualified to learn Ice Prison Cataclysm.
During the chunin and genin stages, one simply did not possess enough Chakra to support the repeated use of Ice Release Jutsu.
In that case, learning Ice Prison