Facing this assault, Xia Yan remained sufficiently calm.
He knew full well that if he failed to stay calm in battle, he might be the one left sleeping underground forever.
With a slight turn, Xia Yan deftly dodged the Third Kazekage Puppet's iron spear from behind.
Then he formed hand seals with one hand, and just as Hiruko's enormous tail spike was about to strike him, chakra burst from his body.
Bang!
A huge cloud of dust and smoke spread through the forest, and a peculiar look entered Sasori's eyes.
He suddenly realized that the fellow he was dealing with had outrageously fast reactions, and his grasp of basic ninjutsu seemed excessively good as well.
Looking at the block of wood impaled on his tail spike, Sasori casually flicked it away. The moment before his strike landed, that fellow had used the Substitution Technique to evade it.
He had also noticed that this white-haired brat seemed outrageously fast.
Xia Yan had no idea what Sasori was thinking. Hidden in a tree under cover of the smoke, he took a deep breath, then began rapidly forming hand seals.
Against Sasori, even a Sasori who was merely playing cat and mouse, the means at his disposal were still somewhat inadequate.
He suddenly felt that Kakashi was an absolute jinx. Before Kakashi joined his squad, when had he ever encountered such terrifying opponents?
Over the past five or six years, the most troublesome ones had only been at the elite jonin level, according to the system's assessment.
Yet on their very first mission after he joined, they had encountered Kakuzu.
Although Xia Yan had gained some benefits from the subsequent missions, such as Lizard Maru.
He had barely gained those benefits before turning around and encountering Sasori. Xia Yan really found this disaster-bringing