Triple Rashomon

Orochimaru felt no emotion at Manda's retreat. That thing was fine for intimidating people, but it was truly useless in a fight.

Faced with the raging blaze rushing toward him, Orochimaru's expression turned slightly grave.

Fire Style plus oil plus Wind Style? There was even some Natural Energy mixed in. Even some Kekkei Genkai were not as powerful as this combination of ninjutsu alone.

Such an intense fire produced not even a trace of smoke. Other than the heat wave rushing straight at them, there was nothing particularly unusual about it.

The flames that could burn everything to ash left behind a corridor of fire in their wake, crystallizing the ground itself.

"Summoning Technique—Triple Rashomon!"

In his battle against Jiraiya, Orochimaru had no intention of taking even a single step back. He summoned the Triple Rashomon on the spot, wanting to see whether Jiraiya's Sage Mode Fire Style could burn through the Rashomon Gates.

The all-consuming flames had truly met their match upon striking the Triple Rashomon. Scorching waves of heat spilled in every direction, yet the Rashomon Gates remained completely intact.

More precisely, even the first Rashomon Gate was still standing perfectly where it was.

"How is that possible?"

Jiraiya's face was full of disbelief. He knew the power of that jutsu perfectly well. It had been blocked so easily? That made no sense.

Once the flames faded, Orochimaru stood atop the Rashomon Gate.

"Jiraiya, is this all you have? If this is all you can do, you will not even touch the corner of my clothes today."

Jiraiya understood that if even a jutsu like that had no effect on Orochimaru, close combat was his only option.

If one looked closely at battles between Ninja, they started with ninjutsu exchanges, moved on to trading verbal barbs in the