A mass of limp black hair covered Yuzhen. He frantically tore it away and almost crawled out of it on all fours.
Because he had been directly attacked by Jiongu Lu's black threads, by the time Yuzhen emerged, his body was bristling with inactivated threads. He looked like a porcupine whose quills had gone soft.
Jiongu Lu's corrosive ability was extraordinary. The black threads displayed it almost the instant they pierced Yuzhen's body, but in the next moment, Yuzhen plundered all the chakra from them.
Yet in that brief span, they had already "taken root" inside Yuzhen. The black strands had forcibly grown together with his flesh and blood.
Fortunately, Yuzhen was maintaining a high degree of White Zetsu Transformation. His internal organs were protected by White Zetsu cells, and the pain throughout his body had been greatly dulled.
Worried that they might cause further harm, he ignored the secondary damage that violently ripping them out might inflict and immediately tore the black threads from his body.
After enduring such a risky, powerful attack, Yuzhen gained the reward he deserved. Having destroyed three more hearts and replenished himself with three surges of chakra, the balance between his chakra and Jiongu Lu's finally reversed.
"You have no chance of winning anymore," Yuzhen said to the enemy in the distance.
He analyzed the situation before him and reached that simple conclusion.
"You talk too much."
Jiongu Lu did not take it seriously. How could a battle between ninjas skip the process and jump straight to a conclusion?
Yuzhen's words were nothing more than self-satisfied nonsense.
Jiongu Lu did not waver in the slightest. The last elemental mask remaining on his body writhed toward his shoulder, and the black tendrils condensed into an arm once more... The battle was not over yet.
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