Seeing the dust obscuring their vision, Haneda was about to cast a Wind Release Ninjutsu to blow the dust away.
But before he could even form hand seals, a loud roaring voice came from the dust cover.
"Rooooaaaaaaar!!!!!"
The chakra around the demon flared up as it let out an enraged roar, blowing away the dust particles around it.
Thanks to that, Seimei and his group could finally witness the situation of the Chakra Beast.
The demon's entire upper body was covered with a dense layer of frost, which was riddled with multiple cracks.
Still, the ice coating of its right chest was utterly obliterated by the Rasengan, leaving a deep, grotesque, spiraling wound that was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
I see.
It must have used the Ice Generation skill to cover its entire upper body with a thick layer of protective ice, primarily focusing on the right side of its chest where my Rasengan hit it.
Tsk!
What an insane instinct.
Still, my Rasengan should have incapacitated any other Chakra Beast.
But this bastard is a demon.
The literal cockroaches among the Chakra Beasts.
Even though the Rasengan successfully destroyed the protective ice layer, hit the Ice Demon squarely on its chest, and inflicted a lethal wound, it still recovered because of its regeneration speed.
If I could hit the Rasengan at its left chest, this demon would have been dead meat right now.
I should really start practicing adding the nature transformation chakra to my Rasengan.
Anyway, let's focus on eliminating this nuisance as quickly as possible.
With this, Seimei ended his internal monologue and got ready to attack the Ice Demon once again.
His teammates weren't idle either. Seeing the demon still healing its wounds, Sarutobi Yuto instantly sprang into action.
Monkey → Bird → Dog → Ram (Hand Seals)
He quickly formed the four essential hand seals to manipulate the chakra, which emerged from his body before transforming into blazing Fire Release chakra.
Soon, the Fire Release chakra caused a large burst of flames to erupt around him, forming a rotating fireball with a 3-meter diameter and raising the surrounding temperature.
Fire Release: Flame Whirlwind
Yuto launched the rotating fireball toward the demon.
Unfortunately, the demon had already healed 90% of its injury and evaded the rotating fireball with ease.
Boooooom!!!!
The fireball, missing its target, hit the thick tree behind the demon and exploded, radiating an intense heat and shockwave.
Fire engulfed the tree within seconds and charred it from the inside out.
The Ice Demon took this chance to channel Ice Release chakra and activated its innate skill, Ice Spear.
A 2-meter-long, thick ice spear was quickly formed in the air and rocketed toward Yuto, who cast the devastating B-rank Fire Release Ninjutsu just a few moments ago.
Whoosh!
Seeing the large spear racing at him, Yuto quickly activated the Body Flicker Technique to vanish from the spot, causing the ice spear to miss its target.
The Ice Demon was about to charge at Yuto, who reappeared 35 meters away from his previous location.
But it suddenly stopped as it felt an immense sense of crisis all of a sudden, and used the Ice Wall skill to erect three massive, gleaming walls of frost in all three directions except for its back.
Soon, 10 vacuum bullets, one spear of crackling lightning, and a line of shadow hit the ice walls from the front, left, and right, respectively, all at once.
It was none other than Seimei, Haneda, and Shikamo using Wind Release: Vacuum Bullet, Lightning Release: False Darkness, and Shadow Imitation Technique simultaneously.
Boooooom! Crack!! Crack!! Boooooom!!
The vacuum bullets tore through the ice wall in the front, filling it with gaping holes. The lightning spear obliterated the wall on the left before exploding in a burst of lightning, shattering the ice wall on the right and front, too.
And the line of shadow, facing no other obstacles, continued and reached the Ice Demon's location, poised to seize control of the shadow of the Chakra Beast.
However, the Ice Demon was nowhere to be found. It had already retreated and hid itself by taking advantage of the commotion.
But how could it evade the detection of Seimei's Tenseigan?
Seimei immediately found it hiding behind thick foliage 60 meters away and threw three kunai laced with explosive tags, which were already sizzling, ready to detonate.
The explosive tags forced the demon to come out of its hiding location and dodge the kunai.
Booom!! Boooom!! Booooom!!!
The tags exploded, causing crimson fire to erupt on the demon's hiding location.
The resulting shockwave carried the heat of the fire, setting the nearby trees on fire and charring the ground.
The demon, who just survived the blast from the explosive tags, suddenly felt a chill down its spine.
Seimei quickly formed a tiger hand seal and molded a large quantity of Yin Release chakra before launching it toward the demon.
Genjutsu: Bringer of Darkness
The invisible and formless Yin Release chakra quickly invaded the demon's chakra system and activated the Jutsu.
The Ice Demon felt tendrils of darkness coming toward it before covering its entire vision in darkness.
It couldn't see anything. Not even its own body or limbs.
It was pure, intimidating, merciless darkness. As if it had been plunged into a deep, lightless hole.
Boooooom!!!
The Ice Demon exploded its chakra outwards, trying to dispel the Genjutsu. But it was of no use.
Bone-chilling darkness still covered its vision.
It could see nothing. It could do nothing.
The demon felt as if its mind was going crazy.
So, it didn't care about preserving chakra anymore and unleashed its greatest innate skill to protect itself.
Innate Skill: Blizzard
As soon as the demon activated the skill, the area within a 45-meter radius centered on the demon turned into an icy field.
Snow fell, wind howled, and countless icicles and hail rained on Seimei and his team. Even if the icicles didn't hit them, the icy air would soon turn them into ice statues if they couldn't solve the situation fast.
Seimei quickly shouted, "Hide behind the trees and be careful of the icicles. I will deal with this domain right away."
Haneda, Yuto, and Shikamo nodded and immediately hid behind trees to protect themselves from being hit by icicles, hail, and bone-chilling icy wind.
Seeing this, Seimei sighed in relief and quickly formed a series of hand seals.
"I didn't use this Jutsu in battle for a long time."
Seimei kneaded and ginormous amount of chakra and turned it into Fire Release chakra before gathering it in his mouth.
"Let this Ice Demon bear witness to the signature Jutsu of the Dance King, the Ghost of Uchiha—Uchiha Madara."
"..."
"..."
"Wait, it's still under my Genjutsu, so it can't see a thing!"
Meh! Never mind!
Fire Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame
Seimei expelled fire from his mouth in a tight, linear line, which quickly expanded into a fan-shaped sea of flames.
The sea of scorching hot flames moved toward the demon while engulfing the trees, rocks, and foliage, turning them into ashes.
The icy field of the blizzard melted, the frosty air was neutralized, and the icicles evaporated.
Although the demon couldn't see anything under Seimei's Genjutsu, it could still feel the intense heat radiating from the incoming flame.
But it had no time to dodge.
The sea of flames quickly devoured the demon, nullified the entire blizzard, and continued moving forward until it swallowed up everything within 100 meters.
The forest was on fire. The Ice demon tried to counter the flames using its Ice Generation skill, but the flames from Seimei's Jutsu quickly melted it.
"Rooaaar!"
"Roaaaaaaaar"
"Roooooooaaaaaaaaaar!!!!"
The demon kept roaring in pain, fear, anger, and anguish until its entire body turned into ashes after a few seconds.
In the end, even the demon's Ice Release couldn't counter the combination of Seimei's Lv.6 fire affinity and Lv.5 Majestic Destroyer Flame Ninjutsu.
The forest turned dead calm as the demon died, and only the sound of burning trees and foliage could be heard in the background.
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