Ning Xue noticed the black iron spikes floating beside the Third Kazekage.
Without hesitation, he swiftly raised his right hand. Cold air surged from his palm, and an inverted triangular ice spike condensed out of thin air before him.
The two exchanged a glance, then made their moves almost simultaneously.
One black and one blue attack streaked through the air, colliding precisely with each other.
"Bang—!"
The clash of metal and ice was piercingly sharp. Ice fragments and iron dust exploded through the air, scattering over the sandy ground.
Meanwhile, Deidara's Clay Birds were also closing in on the First Kazekage.
But just before those birds could hit, several tornadoes rose out of thin air around the First Kazekage, enveloping him within their eyes.
The Clay Birds crashed into the tornadoes and were instantly torn apart by the violent currents, turning into clumps of white clay debris that were flung away without even a chance to detonate.
Deidara frowned slightly at the sight.
"Tch, Wind Release really is troublesome."
The next second, the First Kazekage, standing within the eye of the storm, slowly raised his other hand and pushed it forward.
"Wind Release, Tornado Hurricane."
As his words fell, the surrounding tornadoes froze for an instant before reforming in front of the First Kazekage. Carrying countless stones and grains of sand, they swept toward the three in the air like a towering sand wall that blotted out the sky, like an out-of-control truck.
At the same time, the Third Kazekage rapidly condensed countless tiny iron needles beside him and merged them into the hurricane, concealing them amid the sand and wind.
Seeing that his attack had failed and that the enemy had hurled a hurricane at them, Deidara controlled his Clay Bird to dive without the slightest hesitation, ducking behind