At such close range, Su Xiao almost reached Ono in an instant.
Ono's expression remained calm in midair. He suddenly brought his hands together.
With a boom, earthen spikes burst from the ceiling and the ground, attacking Su Xiao from above and below.
Su Xiao immediately leaped up. His body curved in midair as he swung his blade at the stone spikes overhead. These spikes gave him a dangerous feeling. Strangely, they were neither sharp nor particularly sturdy.
The long blade swept through, and several stone spikes above Su Xiao snapped apart. As for the spikes beneath his feet, he had already formed an Energy Shield under his soles, allowing him to stand on them without being pierced.
"Not bad, kid."
The instant Ono finished speaking, countless more stone spikes emerged around Su Xiao. Front and back, left and right, above and below—everywhere he looked was covered in spikes.
This left Su Xiao puzzled. He had not seen Ono form any hand seals at all. The other man had merely brought his hands together.
Clang, clang, clang...
Blade light flashed throughout the underground prison. Su Xiao leaped through the air, surrounded by broken stone spikes. He pierced one of the shattered spikes with Dragon Slayer Flash and quickly noticed something unusual.
Su Xiao landed and pressed a hand against the ground. His expression turned somewhat grim.
The entire underground prison was made of stone, and Su Xiao sensed fluctuations of Chakra within the rock. These stone spikes were ninjutsu Ono had prepared in advance—or rather, they were a secret technique.
Ono must have consumed a great deal of Chakra. After going to such lengths, was he really only trying to create these stone spikes? Even if their sheer numbers allowed them to hit Su Xiao, they could at most injure