At the center of the forest battlefield, Hozuki Zangetsu was about to raise his leg and take a step as usual when he suddenly realized his legs were no longer obeying him. His entire body instantly lost balance. Fortunately, he quickly planted the long blade in his hand against the ground and stopped himself from pitching forward, preventing a fall.
"What's going on? My legs..." The sudden loss of control made Hozuki Suigetsu cry out in panic. He hurriedly looked down and discovered dozens of holes of varying sizes all over his body! The areas around those holes had turned transparent under the effects of the Hydrification Technique! Yet the pierced areas had not turned into liquid. Instead, they had taken on a jelly-like "solid form," leaving the wounds unable to heal and creating transparent holes of all sizes! His legs were especially bad. With the wounds packed too densely together, nearly every part aside from the holes had turned into jelly, making them look like two slabs of transparent cheese!
Hozuki Suigetsu tried using the Hydrification Technique to turn the intact parts of his body into liquid and fill the holes. After they fused, the "solid" parts showed signs of being "diluted," but the process was far too slow and the effect negligible. At this rate, his whole body might turn into "jelly."
"This is... Lightning Release! Was it those ninja tools just now?" Hozuki Zangetsu finally understood what had happened to him. Skywalker must have used some method to infuse Lightning Release into the ninja tools, causing parts of his body to become "solidified." At the same time, the Lightning Release had numbed his perception of his body, so he had failed to notice any of it.
No wonder Skywalker had spoken so sarcastically, and Pakura had looked