Chapter 172 Complete Ice Escape Black Zetsu is already trying very hard to disrupt the situation! After discovering that the situation in Konoha was not good, he immediately secretly contacted Uchiha Madara underground and asked Madara to suppress Nagato's Rinnegan remotely. This caused Nagato to cover his eyes and feel unbearable pain after he used a "Shinra Tensei" to shoot down Gamabunta. But this still cannot relieve the anxiety in Black Zetsu's heart! Because Shiba Kiyokawa once again predicted his prediction and did not put everything on Nagato's invincible Rinnegan! Both the Akatsuki organization and himself are gradually getting rid of their excessive reliance on the Rinnegan! At this moment, the warriors trained by Akatsuki themselves were strangling Konoha's elite; The one who blocked Minato Namikaze's solo charge was Shiba Kiyokawa himself! The Xiao of today is no longer the little lamb that could be slaughtered at will without the Rinnegan a year ago! They have grown into man-eating wolves! At this moment, facing Shiba Kiyokawa who was getting close to him using "Water Style: Water Instant Body", Namikaze Minato leaned back and quickly threw a kunai upwards. At the moment when the blade was just about to cut his neck, Flying Thunder God activated!
Minato Namikaze disappeared in a flash and appeared in the air! He turned his body upside down, grabbed the kunai he had just thrown up with one hand, and charged the Rasengan with the other hand. Following the direction of the body flipping, the Rasengan in his hand smashed down! This is Flying Thunder God Stage 2! This move was a carefully designed killing move by Minato Namikaze, and he didn't even have time to give it a cool and loud name. However, the decisive shot was met with unexpected targeting! Minato Namikaze, who was in the air with his body upside down, just moved his eyes downwards, and saw that just below the branch, an ice mirror had already been spread out on the ground. The ice surface reflected the battle above, allowing Minato Namikaze, who was looking directly into the ice mirror, to see Shiba Kiyokawa whose lower body was still in the water, the crescent-shaped arc drawn by the katana, and himself holding the Rasengan and smashing down! There are even double images in the ice mirror, indicating that directly above this vertical direction, there is another parallel ice mirror hanging in the air, forming a cross reflection. At that moment, the overlapping double images were like an illusory extended dream space, causing Minato Namikaze's pupils to suddenly dilate, blur and lose focus. By the time he came to his senses, the Rasengan was empty. In the image reflected in the mirror, Shiba Kiyokawa was slashing at himself in the air with a backhand! An illusion using cross-reflective mirrors! Minato Namikaze understood the principle of his opponent's technique in an instant. The speed at which he dispelled illusions was also astonishingly fast, demonstrating his outstanding ninja skills! But when Flying Thunder God attacked again, he dodged the tree branch and fell back to the ground, blood was still flowing down one of his arms from his shoulder. He was injured after all. From the cold chakra left in the puddle in advance, to the cross mirrors pre-arranged in the position of his kunai, Shiba Kiyokawa's preparations showed that he gave Minato Namikaze enough respect! With such a grand “welcome”, how can we not leave something behind? At this moment, Namikaze Minato raised his head and looked at Shiba Kiyokawa who was still standing on the branch above, his eyes became sharper than ever before. At this moment, not only were there ice flowers circling and spinning behind Shiba Kiyokawa, but there were also many small shield-shaped ice crystals moving and flashing around his body! These strange phenomena, including the ice mirror illusion just now, were things that Minato Namikaze had never seen in the last battle. "It's unbelievable that you have made another breakthrough in such a short time!" Namikaze Minato said with difficulty. The former Minato Namikaze was so confident that he never doubted his talent. Carrying the name of a genius, he has never looked up to anyone since his debut! But now, as if in response to the spatial relationship between him on the ground and Shiba Kiyokawa on the tree, Namikaze Minato mentally looked up to his opponent for the first time. He had never seen such a brilliant young man! How long has it been since they last fought? At their level of strength, how could they progress so quickly? What was the limit of this young man? At this moment, Shiba Kiyokawa, who was standing on the tree branch, smiled slightly, but the words he said were still as murderous and heartbreaking as ever.
"Thank you, Minato-kun. This is all thanks to the generous help from your Konoha Village." Uchiha Shisui's donation is like timely help. If Minato Namikaze knew that his enemy's strength came from the help of his own ninjas, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood. But even if he didn't know the truth, his mood at the moment was not much better. Looking around, Namikaze Minato vaguely discovered more ice mirrors in the mountains and forests! This gave him a very bad feeling! Clearly, he had won a small victory in the last individual duel, but now, he felt the pressure on his shoulders was greater than ever before! "call out!" Throwing out the shuriken, Minato Namikaze quickly formed hand seals! "Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!" This move is not for attack, but more for destroying the ice mirror in the forest! But Shiba Kiyokawa obviously wouldn't let him get his wish so easily! While charging towards the shuriken cluster head-on, the small ice shield around Shiba Kiyokawa suddenly enlarged and kept replicating! Multiple hexagonal ice flakes are linked to each other, forming an eggshell-shaped ice crystal shield on the front! The sunlight shines on the ice crystal eggshell, reflecting the brilliant colors of the aurora. This move is a modified version of the "Ice Release: Hyogando Mu" of the Kirigakure Yukishita clan! Shiba Kiyokawa named it "Ice Release: Aurora Curtain!" The smooth ice surface and the inclined angle bounced off most of the shurikens! Carrying this eggshell-shaped ice shield, Shiba Kiyokawa charged head-on at Namikaze Minato like a heavily armored chariot! "What?!" Minato Namikaze was suddenly startled. Your attack failed to penetrate the enemy's armor! With his eyes fixed, Minato Namikaze raised his hand and scattered a bunch of kunai behind him, then charged up the Rasengan again! If the shuriken doesn't penetrate deep enough, replace it with a meatball! "Crash!" The Rasengan finally succeeded in penetrating the smooth inclined armor of the Aurora Curtain, but amid the sound of shattering glass, Minato Namikaze saw the icy sword light coming towards him! Flying Thunder God attacked again without hesitation! Minato Namikaze retreated to the back, avoiding the sword light. Having learned from the lesson of the last battle, this time Minato Namikaze retreated more than 20 meters away and no longer dared to get too close! Because he clearly remembered that the slashing distance of the enemy in front of him was different from that of ordinary ninjas! But this time it was his experience that hurt him, or it could be said that Shiba Kiyokawa accurately predicted Namikaze Minato's choice! The clearing in the woods is only this big. When Minato Namikaze retreated more than 20 meters at a time, it naturally meant that he had retreated into the depths of the woods! When Flying Thunder God landed, Namikaze Minato suddenly realized: not far away from his side was an ice mirror that he had not destroyed! "It's okay." He was about to comfort himself, "I already know how to guard against my opponent's illusions!" As a result, the next moment, a scene that shocked Minato Namikaze happened! Shiba Kiyokawa who was right in front of him suddenly disappeared! Then a figure suddenly rushed out from the ice mirror at the side, and a knife wrapped in wind and snow slashed towards him with force as fast as thunder and as cold as frost! Only then did Minato Namikaze realize that these hidden ice mirrors did not just have the effect of illusion and hypnosis! The two unique ice escape techniques of the Kirigakure Yukinoshita clan: ice surface refraction and mirror teleportation, have now been copied by Shiba Kiyokawa! At the same time, the knife in his hand also has the violent output that the Yukinoshita clan can only dream of! At this moment, he displayed the complete Ice Escape! (End of this chapter)