"C-Clone Technique?!"
Hinatsuru was stunned.
She had no idea how the old man had turned into several figures in an instant.
To her eyes, every one of them looked utterly real.
It was as though several Fūma Ichimeis were attacking Xia Xi at once!
Instinctively, she threw several Kunai at a figure slightly farther out to the side.
She wanted to take some pressure off the Dawn Hashira.
Yet the old man could not even be bothered to acknowledge the young Ninja's attack.
Those were sharp weapons coated in poison.
If they actually struck him,
even the slightest opening would prove fatal in a clash between experts like this.
But...
The Kunai seemed to pass through phantoms, encountering no resistance whatsoever.
They went straight through his "figure."
Meanwhile, Fūma Ichimei's remaining figures had already closed in on Xia Xi.
Blades flashed around the Dawn Hashira.
Slashes from the side, behind, and head-on
arrived almost simultaneously.
The continuous whistles of blades cutting through the air formed an impenetrable web of slashes beneath the moonlight.
And Xia Xi?
He seemed to have anticipated every trajectory his opponent would take.
With equally swift movements, he kept evading those deadly flashes of steel.
Both men were moving faster than before.
They traded several more exchanges.
Only then did the Kunai Hinatsuru had thrown strike distant tree trunks with a series of thunks.
"Old man, what are you showing off all that fancy footwork for?"
To ordinary people, and even Ninjas like Hinatsuru who lacked sufficient strength,
Fūma Ichimei really did appear to have split into several figures.
But to stronger fighters with excellent dynamic vision,
what the old man was doing now... was rather comical.
He was merely using special footwork to keep stopping abruptly, accelerating, and even reversing direction beside Xia Xi.
It