"Go."
Lin Ze softly uttered a single word.
Over a thousand ice blades shot forth at once!
Shukaku frantically drove the sand to form layer upon layer of defenses before him.
But the ice blades imbued with senjutsu chakra naturally penetrated the sand defenses!
Shnk!
Shnk!
Shnk!
The ice blades kept breaking through the layers of sand and piercing Shukaku's body!
"Aaaarrrgh-!!!"
Shukaku let out a shrill scream much like Tom's.
The ice blades not only inflicted physical damage, but the cold they carried also kept eroding his chakra and freezing his movements.
Desert nights were already cold, and now the temperature plummeted further as frost began forming on the ground.
Shukaku's movements grew slower and slower.
"Now!"
Lin Ze flashed into view behind Shukaku's flank.
He held both hands as though gripping something, and the surrounding ice fragments and all the moisture in the air converged, forming a massive ice blade eight meters long in his hands!
The blade was transparent, with pale blue senjutsu chakra flowing inside.
Lin Ze took a deep breath and poured all his remaining senjutsu chakra into the blade.
Then he swung with all his strength!
The blade flashed.
Shukaku's enormous tail of sand was cleanly severed at its base!
"Aaaargh-!!!"
A scream even more agonized than before rang through the night sky.
Shukaku's Partial Tailed Beast Transformation instantly collapsed. His body rapidly shrank, returning to the form of Gaara, a boy just over five years old, and fell from the air.
Shukaku had been beaten straight back into his sealed state.
Lin Ze reacted swiftly, catching Gaara with a stream of water and gently setting him on the ground.
Then he looked at the severed tail rapidly crumbling into sand. Fortunately, the Shukaku chakra within it remained.
Lin Ze took the prepared "Sea