With a single exchange, Butterfly pierced a White Zetsu through the throat and flew toward the next.
Countless paper butterflies swiftly harvested White Zetsu lives across the battlefield.
Yahiko was no different. Water Release and Boil Release complemented each other, dissolving the White Zetsu alive into rotten sludge.
"Big Brother and Sister are both amazing. I can't fall behind either."
"Cloud Release—Cloud Sword Technique!"
A slightly youthful voice rang out, and then a rain of bladed swords scattered from the sky!
Sword after sword of White Cloud pierced down through the White Zetsu's heads! In an instant, large numbers of White Zetsu died.
But it was not over yet. Hogen rapidly formed hand seals in midair. "Try this!"
"Crystal Release—Crimson Lotus Technique!"
Hogen's entire body transformed into a blood-red crystal lotus seed before rapidly plummeting toward the ground!
At once, a great surge of Chakra spread out from the earth!
Rumble!
The ground shook violently in an instant, cracks spreading across it!
Countless crystal lotus buds and lotus leaves grew from those cracks!
The sharp buds and new leaves pierced through one White Zetsu after another!
Within just a few breaths, the number of White Zetsu in the entire area was greatly reduced!
Then, the buds and lotus leaves unfurled, and petals as sharp as blades shot out all at once!
Like bullets, they pierced through one White Zetsu after another.
Hogen's form gradually condensed once more within the crystal.
"Sigh, these things don't even have blood. They don't look red at all."
He remembered reading in a book about how his father had once used the Crimson Lotus Technique to wipe out an army of over a thousand from Kumogakure.
Back then, the blood shed by the ninjas had gathered into a "lake," and those crystal lotuses had seemed