Tsunade killed two men in quick succession, then caught up to Yun Duanyou. Yet she still managed to accelerate late and overtake the ordinary-looking young man.
This young man had an ordinary face, ordinary hair, and an ordinary build. He looked utterly unremarkable, but his expression was exceedingly cold. There was nothing remarkable about him at all, yet Tsunade knew he was even more dangerous than the other two. The Chakra wrapped around her fists was already close to the Chakra Scalpel technique. If he took a hit from her, he would probably be cut straight in two.
Yet he moved as slickly as a shadow. In an instant, he turned into a dark silhouette and merged into Tsunade's shadow. Tsunade remained on guard where she was for three or four seconds before realizing that he had long since fled.
There had been five of them, yet Tsunade had only killed two—and that was with Oguri Hayashi holding off the strongest one. As one of the Three Sannin, she found that deeply embarrassing.
She immediately began pursuing them. No matter what, she had to uncover the mastermind behind their impersonation of Konoha ninja!
For the moment, let us leave Tsunade as she relied on her ninja training to chase after the three of them.
Several kilometers away, explosions rang out without pause, like both sides on a modern battlefield wildly firing RPGs and grenade launchers. The rumbling blasts never ceased.
"Damn, he can take a beating!" Oguri Hayashi was covered in a pale blue film of Chakra, his body fully entering the strongest state of Dynamic Stillness Roar One. In this state, he was confident enough to face the Fourth Raikage, yet his opponent's speed, strength, and even resistance to punishment were no weaker than his own!
If his technique had not surpassed his opponent's by several levels, this would have been a hard battle.
His opponent was a powerful monster capable of taking A-rank ninjutsu head-on. Every one of Oguri Hayashi's punches bypassed his defense and struck an opening. Each punch was his self-created Collapsing Fist, capable of smashing an Onix to pieces. Yet even after landing over a hundred punches, each one merely tore his opponent's muscles. None could penetrate deeply enough to shatter his bones, tendons, or meridians.
For a Collapsing Fist capable of smashing an Onix apart, this was simply unbelievable.
Yet the moment his fists tore through the opponent's muscles, those muscles healed again instantly. His opponent's physique was just that absurd, making Oguri Hayashi feel extremely stifled.
However, if his opponent thought he could wear Oguri Hayashi down with that physique, then he had miscalculated badly.
The two fought for three kilometers, smashing through who knew how many dirt mounds, trees, and rocks along the way. Yet both of them seemed protected by diamond armor, completely unmoved.
Kong Zhange felt increasingly miserable as the fight went on. He had inherited the legacy of Toriko; as long as there was food, he could continuously evolve. Aside from the Gourmet World, only Infinite Hall possessed such countless varieties of food with no upper limit.
Food could bring happiness, but what truly brought strength was Gourmet Cells.
Using the cheap resources in Infinite Hall, his Gourmet Cells had already reached a very high level. What he needed next were ingredients from the Gourmet World that required extremely difficult captures.
Only then did he discover just how difficult it was to take another step forward.
Even so, with Gourmet Cells and food as his foundation, his strength in Infinite Hall had come infinitely close to five stars—the level of Kage-level experts in Naruto.
But even so, the power and casting speed of his skills far surpassed those of Kage-level experts. Killing opponents above his level was no problem at all.
But no matter how powerful a skill was, it still had to hit someone.
Oguri Hayashi's combat experience was outrageously extensive. After Kong Zhange missed twice with Tuning Fork—the combined technique of Toriko Fork and Zebra Sound—and Tempest Kick during their brief earlier exchanges, Oguri Hayashi never gave him another chance to use a skill.
Even among close-combat fighters, there was a difference between short-range striking and powerful fist techniques. Unfortunately for Kong Zhange, Oguri Hayashi was proficient in both.
Unable to fight effectively at close range, Kong Zhange had practically been pinned down and struck hundreds of times by Oguri Hayashi's self-created Collapsing Fist. Though the Gourmet Cells had granted him an astonishing physique, even that had its limits.
Kong Zhange roared, unleashing a sonic boom that knocked Oguri Hayashi away. Panting twice, he began taking chunks of superior meat, white as jade, from his Space Ring and stuffing them into his mouth. The moment the meat, veined like white jade, appeared in the air, it released an aroma that made mouths water. But Kong Zhange did not leave it exposed for long. Opening his huge mouth, he crammed the meat inside in one gulp, chewed twice, and swallowed it like a cow chewing a peony.
What a waste.
Oguri Hayashi swallowed. Meat like that had to be properly cooked to bring out its flavor.
Food, sonic attacks, and immense strength... If Oguri Hayashi still could not guess what path he had taken, then he had watched all those anime for nothing.
Toriko?
What a pity.
Oguri Hayashi gently shook his head. He had originally planned to leave a mark on him, spare his life, and let him return to Infinite Hall. Then, when he had the time and opportunity, he could visit Infinite Hall himself.
But now, it seemed the Space Ring on his hand was simply too tempting. Oguri Hayashi had no idea when he would encounter something so valuable again. With a Space Ring, he could easily store things like night-vision goggles, an Invisibility Cloak, and Omni-directional Mobility Gear. Explosive Tags, food, Soldier Pills, kunai—it would all be effortless.
Moreover, the ring could be used in combat. With a turn of the hand, he could pull out all sorts of things. Treating a Space Ring as nothing more than logistics equipment was truly foolish.
The Space Ring was too tempting for Oguri Hayashi—tempting enough for him to abandon his previous plan and decide to kill Kong Zhange here.
Oguri Hayashi pulled an iron weight from his ninja tool pouch and tossed it high into the air.
Lightning instantly gathered around both of his hands.
They formed powerful positive and negative poles.
When the iron weight fell between his fingertips and his hands closed around it, his fingers instantly formed a magnetic field like that of a copper coil. Then, propelled by that magnetic field and electric current—
The iron weight shot out like a cannonball in an instant, carrying a beam of light the size of an infant's fist as it hurtled toward Kong Zhange.
Question: if a seven-gram arcade coin completely evaporated after flying fifty meters at three times the speed of sound, then how long and how far could a twenty-gram weight fly after being accelerated by an Electromagnetic Cannon, and how powerful would it be?
This was the ninjutsu Oguri Hayashi had easily completed three years ago, as well as his further development and application of Lightning Release: magnetism.
Electricity producing magnetism was basic knowledge for middle school students. But the power created by combining it with ninjutsu was enough to shame everyone in this world.
This weight could strike from a kilometer away, accelerate to the speed of sound, shatter a mountain, and produce an effect like bombardment.
Unable to react to such speed at all, Kong Zhange's chest was instantly carved through as though swept by a laser, leaving a wound the size of an infant's fist. Then, because of his tough muscles, the projectile was stopped like a bullet.
A massive wound the size of a basketball instantly appeared on his back.
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