As the twenty-meter-tall Ice Crystal Bodhisattva rose from the ground, the earth seemed to tremble along with it.
Aaaah!
In an instant, cries of alarm erupted across the night market streets.
The crowd scattered in every direction.
At that moment, cries of alarm, screams, and warnings intertwined, rising and falling without end!
Around the Ice Crystal Bodhisattva, whose hands were pressed together, ice lotuses bloomed one after another.
The lotuses opened, and in moments, a cold mist rising from them shrouded the entire street.
The townspeople in the night market who were close by were instantly frozen into ice sculptures, then shattered across the ground, reduced to ice chips.
Those farther away also struggled to breathe after inhaling the cold mist. Clutching their chests, they staggered and collapsed to the ground.
"Ice Release!?"
Itachi and Juzo Biwa, as well as Kakashi, Kurenai, and Aoba Yamashiro at the other end of the street, were all stunned by the scene before them.
After Kirigakure wiped out the Snow Clan, ninjas with the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai had become exceedingly rare in the Shinobi World.
Under those circumstances, the sudden appearance of an Ice Release user was astonishing enough.
What shocked everyone even more was that the white-haired young man before them had unleashed such a terrifying Ice Release Kekkei Genkai without hand seals.
The Ice Crystal Bodhisattva stood over twenty meters tall, as high as a six- or seven-story building!
Even when the Snow Clan of Kirigakure still existed, none of them had ever heard of Ice Release on such an outrageous scale!
Seeing the cold mist draw near, Itachi and Juzo Biwa immediately leaped backward.
Their enemy's strength was somewhat beyond what either of them had expected.
Kakashi, Kurenai, and Aoba Yamashiro also leaped backward.
Kakashi was all right. He had