Chương 96: Just one point away, just one point away

Chapter 96 So close, so very close In the Ice Crystal Palace, fine ice crystals swirled like smoke and dust, accompanied by the booming sound of air being cleaved open. The air in the void, along with the fine ice crystals, twisted into a series of abrupt and ferocious slashes.

Sixteen invisible, formless scythes danced wildly around Yukiro like raging waves. Two scythes at a time relentlessly pursued Yukiro, who was desperately fleeing through the ice crystals. The coordinated, dual-wielding strikes transformed into an invisible, deadly net of cuts. Under this relentless pursuit, Yukiro could barely breathe and struggled to hold on.

Fast! Too fast!

Fast, tight, and intense!

How many knives did she have? The continuous sonic booms of slashing filled my ears, and sharp, invisible blades sliced through the air, creating visible air barriers. My senses told me that there were at least a hundred knives being swung simultaneously, an endless stream, like a vast river of swords slashing. And what was most terrifying and deadly was that this slashing was invisible.

If it weren't for the specially made ice crystal fragments she had placed in her space, which contained her chakra and allowed her to barely catch a trace of her, and the ice layer that cushioned her slashes, a normal ninja would have been hacked to pieces by her frenzied attacks the moment they met.

Compared to a single sword, two swords have a higher overall attack frequency. This dual-sword characteristic has an extremely high barrier to entry, mainly because dual-sword requires greater coordination of both hands. If the coordination is not good, the two swords will interfere with each other and cause problems. When the number of swords increases dramatically, the most significant characteristic is a more terrifying and breathtaking slashing frequency.

Therefore, it requires even more terrifying physical coordination and mental strength.

Yura is a demon and cannot be compared with humans. After becoming a demon, when she walked on her hair as if it were flat ground, Yura discovered that she had an unusually terrifying ability to coordinate her body. No matter how difficult the balance beam technique was, Yura could do it with ease and maintain her balance. This was the basis for Yura to control a large number of hairs at the same time to perform extremely complex operations.

Yura is able to process a large amount of information from the limb system more quickly and accurately, and make corresponding muscle reactions. The nervous system plays a key role in balance and coordination. With the superhuman nerve reflex system, Yura's nerve reflex speed is much faster than that of ordinary people.

Within the ice, they moved rapidly, not daring to linger in the same spot for even a moment. Yuki glanced at Yuki, who was standing in the middle of the field, making no special movements.

She just stood there, as if she hadn't done anything.

They were so close, yet so hard to reach; there wasn't even a moment to free up a hand to form a hand seal.

Seeing that she couldn't silently freeze Jieluo to death with her deadly cold, Yuki gritted her teeth slightly. The next moment, her entire body sank rapidly into the ice layer, disappearing from the top floor in the blink of an eye and landing on the ceiling of the next floor. Her figure emerged from the ice crystals, and the ice crystal mirror faced the ice crystal mirror on the floor.

The instant her reflection appeared, Yuki shot out and floated in mid-air, raising one hand in front of her chest and quickly forming a hand seal.

In a brief moment of less than a second, the hand seal was completed, and the person sank into the ice crystal mirror on the floor.

Under Yuki's pursuit, Yuki dared not expose herself in the air for even a second longer.

In that instant, a piercing cutting sound suddenly rang out from the thick ice ceiling above. In just a moment, a ten-meter-long circular hole was cut open, and the ice block fell from the ceiling, crashing heavily onto the floor. Amidst the tremors, Yuki, who was on top of the falling ice block, turned her head to look at Yuki, who was moving like a fish on an ice mirror wall. Yuki turned back to look at Yuki.

"Your ice mirror world is quite interesting," Jieluo laughed.

"It seems there are two ways to move and transfer."

Like a cat playing with a mouse, a cruel, indifferent, and slightly manic smile played on his face.

"One is like a fish, swimming quickly in connected ice crystals."

A movement method similar to Earth Escape.

"As long as the size allows, and it can fit a whole person, it can accommodate you through ice crystals of any thickness, possessing certain spatiotemporal characteristics."

Upon hearing this, Yukihime's pupils contracted slightly.

"Secondly, through the reflection of the mirror, you are projected onto a distant mirror, achieving the effect of spatial transfer."

"The drawback is that it can only move in a straight line, along the path of light reflection."

"Furthermore, you cannot use other ice-style ninjutsu while inside the ice crystals."

"It seems the upper level has been completely destroyed by me. You don't have much room left to stand, so you have to move the battlefield."

Inside the ice crystal wall, staring at Jie Luo, a drop of cold sweat slid down her cheek, then instantly froze into an ice droplet by the low temperature, cracking and falling from her rounded chin.

He secretly mobilized his chakra, preparing to launch a sneak attack silently.

"As a speed-type ninja, your two abilities are extremely difficult for most ninjas to counter."

The battle between Haku and Naruto was the last time Ice Release was used in the ninja world. Haku's performance was remarkable. With just the speed of his ice crystal transfer, he was able to defeat Sasuke without any chance to fight back, forcing Naruto to unleash the Nine-Tails for the first time. But that was by no means the limit of Ice Release.

"but..."

Jie Luo lowered her eyes. All around her, on the walls, ceiling, and floor, a large number of strands of hair silently spread and climbed, covering the entire sixth floor like vines.

A single strand of hair silently climbed onto the ice crystal where Yukihime was, the tip of which was less than a centimeter away from her face on the mirror.

"Click..."

A tiny crack suddenly appeared on the mirror's surface. Yukihime lowered her gaze, her eyes sweeping over the crack that had suddenly appeared on her face.

Jie Luo raised an eyebrow, noticing something again...

"Despicable!" Yukihime roared, her left hand, still in a hand seal, held upright in front of her chest, and the previously prepared technique was detonated.

At the same time, Jie Luo snapped his fingers crisply.

Suddenly, the entire sixth floor, covered with strands of hair, began to strangle each other. In an instant, the world of ice crystals shattered before their eyes, and endless fragments of ice crystals flew and broke apart simultaneously, like shattered mirrors. Under the refraction of light, the overlapping figures of Yuki and Yuki were reflected in the mirrors.

The ice crystals surrounding Yukihime shattered, exposing her to the air. At that moment, Yukihime had already pounced on her like a ghost, moving at an almost instantaneous speed, and suddenly grabbed at Yukihime's face with one hand.

Reflected in her pupils was the gradually enlarging hand. On Yuki's body, icy white chakra suddenly erupted, like a layer of flames swaying around her. The temperature around her dropped sharply. On Yuki's fingers, hovering around her, was another giant hand made of hair, longer than an arm, poised to grab Yuki's body. A layer of crystalline ice rapidly spread out.

Success!

Ice Release: Setsuna looked at Yura's small hand, which was still half a foot away from him, and the huge, invisible hand that was about to touch his body but was frozen and stopped. His face twitched violently.

So close, so very close...

And that's how we ran into them.

but...

"I won! Demon Princess!"

A terrifying chill erupted, accompanied by a violent burst of icy white flames! It swept outwards in all directions!

As the icy white, ultra-low temperature chakra aura rushed towards him, Jie Luo narrowed his eyes slightly.

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