On the city battlements, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Yakushi Nonō, and the samurai of the Land of Iron watched the battle below.
With poison mist and white mist everywhere, the samurai could barely see anything.
But—
A network of passages formed from white mist spread out from the white mist's perimeter, extending straight into the poison mist.
"Hm? Are the Konoha ninja charging in?" a master swordsman asked nervously.
Presumably, Konoha's three chunin were now advancing by "driving the wind"—
Wind Release: Snare!
Inside the white mist, Minato had unleashed this small but precise Wind Release technique.
Snare's defining feature was its alternating currents of strong and gentle wind pressure, which formed a net of airflow. It lacked offensive power, but could restrict an enemy's movements.
This time, however, he was not using Wind Release to restrict movement. Instead, he used Snare's properties to spread the "extra-dense Hidden Mist Technique" into the poison mist!
Normally, moving such thin, interwoven strips of air would do nothing to disperse the poison mist.
But thanks to the white mist's powerful adsorption effect, even a small amount was enough to make the poison settle.
The overlapping nets of wind made the poison mist look as though a white net had divided it into sections, with large quantities of toxins adsorbed and settling out!
Of course, this required particular care. Crossing those adsorptive "boundaries" before the toxins had fully settled meant bathing in concentrated poison mist. Moreover, the ground became far more toxic, so they had to keep their feet coated in chakra to reduce the penetration of toxins.
This settling effect was also something that simply flooding the area could not achieve.
If someone unleashed Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave now, the toxins would not settle. They would dissolve in the water and enter the human