And cleared a path for Shirino Doman.
Meanwhile, two other fearsome figures swept away the remaining resistance on either side.
On the left was a man over two meters tall, built like a massive bear, charging through the battlefield like a war chariot.
His most striking feature was his thick, pale beard and hair, as dense as a lion's mane.
He was Fujibayashi Kaimon, one of the Iga Style's three great Jonin, renowned for his absolute strength and savage Physical Arts.
"Those who block my path die!"
Kaimon's roar rumbled like muffled thunder.
Armed only with stone-shattering iron fists and legs as heavy as pillars,
he threw a punch directly at a Samurai slashing at him with a blade.
The force of his fist compressed the air with an explosive boom, and the katana shattered on impact.
The swordsman's chest caved in, and he was sent flying until he vomited blood and died.
Even the various summoned shikigami could not withstand a single exchange with him.
When a ninja attacked from the side, he suddenly turned his head, opened his blood-filled maw, and spat several kunai from it, killing the attacker from afar.
When a Ketsuno Family onmyoji gritted his teeth and hurled an explosive talisman that struck Kaimon in the back,
he merely grunted. The muscles in his back bulged sharply as he withstood the fiery blast powerful enough to shatter stone.
Then he roared and charged forward.
Before the horrified onmyoji's eyes, he brutally kicked apart the Pentagram spirit shield, sending him dozens of meters away. Whether he lived or died was unknown.
There was no technique whatsoever in his fighting style.
It was a savage display of pure strength, speed, and an unyielding body.
Every strike carried crushing destructive force.
He was no less formidable than the