Anrokuzan reached out and wrapped his hands around the wooden spikes, then abandoned all resistance, letting the sea of spikes coil around every part of his body and envelop him completely.
The sea of wooden spikes kept shrinking and merging, growing harder and stronger...
The sharp spikes kept trying to pierce Anrokuzan's body, only to be firmly blocked by his yellowish-white skin.
They could only cling to the surface of his body, continuously drawing out his power.
The battlefield suddenly fell silent.
"No, that's wrong. This energy-something's wrong!"
Blood spilled from Shiwa's mouth as he sat cross-legged on the ground. A glimmering purple light surged into his chakra pathways, sending his ninjutsu out of control.
His body went limp, and he toppled straight to the ground.
Bang!
The sea of wooden spikes exploded, its curved wooden structures scattering across the ground.
"Shiwa!"
Yunyou, who had just arrived, shouted and glared at Anrokuzan's spiderlike body, narrow at the top and broad at the bottom.
A fiery-red ball of electricity the size of a basketball suddenly appeared, flying toward Anrokuzan with a throw of Yunyou's hand.
"A brand-new ninjutsu?"
"Am I the one from the future, or are you?"
Anrokuzan frowned at Yunyou and waved his right hand. An armored clay puppet suddenly emerged from the earth.
The puppet darted forward to intercept the electric ball.
Crackle!
The electric ball struck the puppet, instantly releasing heat and lightning that melted its armor and left a hole in its chest.
On either side of the hole that pierced clean through, only honeycomb-like pores melted by the heat remained.
Yet even so.
The clay puppet could still move freely, walking step by step toward Shiwa on the ground.
What?
A single puppet blocked my strongest ninjutsu!
Yunyou was startled.
Unlike Shiwa, whose Senju bloodline