On the canyon battlefield.
The surging sea of trees rolled toward Gama Bunta in wave after wave. The pipe-smoking toad had no choice but to complain as he drew his blade and swung it.
Flashing blades sliced through swathes of trees, sending them flying through the air and making the already chaotic battlefield even more of a mess!
Against this chaotic backdrop, Jiraiya stood alone, fending off the combined assault of Orochimaru, the Second, and the Fourth Hokage.
Fortunately, Orochimaru had suppressed the consciousness of the Second and Fourth Hokage's Impure World Bodies. They could only rely on their most basic combat instincts, so Jiraiya was still holding his own.
After punching Jiraiya back, Orochimaru immediately formed hand seals. "Array of Ten Thousand Serpents!"
Then he opened his mouth, and countless snakes poured out. In the blink of an eye, they covered the entire battlefield and lunged at Jiraiya from all directions.
Already struggling to hold off the Second and the Fourth Hokage, Jiraiya saw the snakes closing in from every direction. With nowhere to dodge, he formed hand seals. "Ninja Art: Needle Jizo!"
In an instant,
Jiraiya's long silver-white hair rapidly grew longer and stiffened, each strand like a silver needle. Like a hedgehog, it wrapped around his entire body.
The snakes lunged at Jiraiya and struck his lengthened, hardened hair. In an instant, they were impaled and left hanging from it like blood-filled gourds.
Jiraiya shook his head, flinging the dead snakes off his hair, then formed hand seals again. "Ninja Art: Lion Dance of the Lion Beast!"
His hair rapidly grew longer, each strand like a silver-white whip. It shot out and tightly bound the Impure World Bodies of the Second and Fourth Hokage, trying to drag them closer.
At the same time, Jiraiya's hands were busy