The defensive barrier had actually transformed into a fire-nature variation!
The rain of paper continued pouring down. After a while, the area below had turned into scorched rocks suspended in the sky, like flames burning in the heavens.
The seamless assault of paper surpassed the fire-nature barrier, only to immediately scatter into ashes. The cycle continued.
During the standoff that lasted roughly ten breaths, the flames forming the sky of fire gradually grew smaller and smaller, because Konan's wave of paper-rain attacks was nearing its end.
"Though this area may only be a branch of Dragon Hidden Village, its strength cannot be underestimated." Konan offered faint praise, then a cold gleam flashed through her eyes. Suddenly, two sheets of paper turned golden and struck the barrier one after another. Yet many sheets of paper still covered the surroundings of those two sheets, so the hidden ninjas failed to notice the golden paper.
But even if they had noticed, they probably would have been helpless.
Viiing—viiing—viiing...
The two sheets of paper spun rapidly. The surrounding air had long since been sliced into nothingness, and the sound of their rotation was purely the sound produced by force reaching its critical point.
As countless sheets of paper turned into flames and ashes, one of the two sheets struck the fire barrier.
When the golden paper collided with the Hokage barrier, it seemed as though everything in time and space had frozen—but only for an instant. Then, a brilliant light suddenly erupted from the boundary between the paper and the barrier, before both scattered into dazzling fragments!
One sheet of golden paper had broken the fire barrier!
"Pfft!"
When Huo Ying's barrier shattered, an old man in Dragon Hidden Village suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. The old man had originally been full