"Lightning Style: Lightning Flame Burst!"
With an angry roar, powerful lightning scattered in all directions, fierce flames mixed within the thunderbolts as they continuously swept outward.
Not good! Xing Ruyu cried inwardly. It was already too late to stop it.
There was no good way to block an S-rank wide-area ninjutsu in the first place. Amid the violent lightning and flames, deafening explosions echoed throughout the laboratory. The containers holding the First's clones on both sides exploded at the same time, green nutrient fluid spilling across the floor.
Amid the billowing smoke and dust, ten naked clones fell to the ground. After a brief moment of confusion, they all rose to their feet, terrifying chakra beginning to erupt from them.
Rumble!
Enormous trees appeared within the laboratory and swept about indiscriminately. Even the steel walls could not stop them, and the situation descended completely into chaos.
Xing Ruyu flipped aside to evade a vine rushing toward her. Her beautiful eyes constantly scanned through the smoke, but the scene had already become utterly chaotic. Under the First clones' *, Wood Style continuously burst forth from the ground.
White Fang's figure had completely vanished amid the chaos.
"Bastard!" she cursed under her breath. Her hands rapidly formed seals, and concentrated chakra gathered in three directions behind her. In an instant, three streaks of starlike chakra shot out, blasting a nearby clone away with a thunderous crash.
At the same time, she shouted, "Prepare the sealing array! Seal off every escape route and restrain these clones first. Make sure the enemy doesn't use the chaos to escape!"
Under her command, most of the people gradually regained order. The ninjas outside began setting up defenses and engaged the escaped clones in battle, while farther away, a sealing array was being rapidly constructed.
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