The dazzling blue lightning struck the invisible wind barrier, like Thunder God's Spear stabbing into a wall of sighs. Let it shine all it wanted; I remained unmoved.
The top-tier visual and sound effects of [Lightning Style: False Darkness] were simply confiscated by [Wind Wall], without even causing a ripple.
It couldn't be helped. Wind countered lightning—elemental advantage was just that unreasonable.
"Kid, you've got some skill."
Kakuzu glanced at Araki, who had made the move just now, with his emotionless dark green eyes.
As a veteran powerhouse who could be called a living history of the Shinobi World, Kakuzu might have had many shortcomings in talent and personality, but his combat experience was real.
Because his body had been modified by [Earth Grudge Fear], he could use all five standard elemental transformations, giving him an extremely varied range of tactics.
To some extent, he and the Third Hokage were actually the same type of ninja, with similar combat styles.
However, the Third Hokage possessed the top-tier summoned beast Enma and Konoha's many forbidden techniques, while Kakuzu was superior in strangeness and immortality. If they met for the first time, Kakuzu might even be able to use his intelligence advantage to give the Third Hokage a nasty first-meeting surprise!
Seeing that his Lightning Release sneak attack had failed, Kakuzu immediately changed tactics. After rapidly forming hand seals, he slapped a palm onto the ground.
"Earth Style: Earth-Splitting Palm!"
Rumble!
The earth shook and the mountains trembled. The ground beneath Araki and the others split apart, forcing them to dodge to opposite sides as their six-man formation was broken up.
And Kakuzu's attack was not over yet.
"Earth Style: Earth Rising Spears!"
The already fractured ground suddenly began sprouting spikes!
Sharp earthen spikes rose from the ground one after another, stabbing