This Water Shadow is very strong, but overly cautious.

This is also confirmed in the original work. During the Three Ninjas War, Mandra fought against the slug and Gamabunta on his own. Although he was defeated in the end, he was still able to fight back and even forced Gamabunta into a desperate situation at one point.

At this time, among the tactics of the three ninjas, it was still Mandra who took the lead in launching the attack.

"Boom!!!!"

Under Orochimaru's command, Manda used his huge snake body to kill Hanzo and Ifu, the Salamander under his command.

Under the heavy rain, the snake eyes of thousands of snakes looked at the salamander as if they were looking at dessert after lunch.

"His !!!"

At that moment, thousands of snakes opened their bloody mouths and bit directly at the Salamander Jingfu.

In response to this, Hanzo of the Salamander remained calm and controlled the Salamander under him to dive into the ground.

"boom!!!"

The horrific bite of Wanshe hit nothing, and at the same time, due to excessive force, it fell to the ground. The loud crashing sound and the large amount of splashing soil and gravel all showed that Wanshe was hit hard.

But soon, the ten thousand snakes raised their heads again as if nothing had happened.

Perhaps because the attack missed, Wanshe became a little angry and embarrassed. Looking at the hole left by the Salamander when it escaped into the ground, Wanshe's pupils shrank for a moment, and then it drilled into the ground through the hole and strangled it.

Don't forget, snakes can dig holes too.

But soon, a somewhat funny scene occurred.

Although both sides are good at digging holes, the smaller Salamander is more agile when hiding underground and can always escape to the surface when the snakes are about to catch up.

Then, when the thousands of snakes chased him again, he would hide underground again.

The game of "snake catching mouse" began to unfold on this vast land. If it were not for the huge size of both sides, it would look a bit like something from a children's cartoon.

As the summoner of Ten Thousand Snakes, Orochimaru is not on the Ten Thousand Snakes at this moment, but on top of Gamabunta's head.

Seeing that Mandra was unable to achieve his goal, Orochimaru immediately turned around and gestured to Tsunade beside him.

Seeing this, Tsunade nodded seriously and instantly understood Orochimaru's idea.

So, Orochimaru no longer hesitated and used the snake-controlling technique to convey orders to all the snakes.

After receiving Orochimaru's order, Wanshe, who was still playing the "snake catching mouse" game, had a trace of unwillingness in his eyes, but still fled to the ground.

After a while, the huge body of Wanshe emerged from the ground, but at this moment Wanshe looked a little embarrassed, with several extremely conspicuous scars all over its dark purple body.

This is exactly the work of Hanzoju, the owner of the Salamander.

Obviously, when facing the pursuit of this evil giant snake, Hanzo Salamander also used his counterattack to make the giant snake suffer.

After the thousands of snakes emerged from the ground, they made way without any hesitation.

And just as the thousands of snakes had just escaped, a large amount of green acid with a pungent sour smell came crashing down.

Tsunade, who had been prepared for a long time, ordered her summoning beast, the slug, to spit out a large amount of strong acid towards the cave on the ground!

Acid poured in through the hole in the ground. It was obvious that the three ninjas intended to use acid to force the salamander out of the hole.

Sure enough, as the slug acid continued to pour into the ground, the figure of the Salamander Jingfu finally emerged from a hole in the ground.

" Chance!!!"

“It’s now!!!”

Standing above Gamabunta, Orochimaru and Jiraiya both had a gleam of light flashing in their eyes.

The two of them formed seals at the same time, and chakra continued to flow out as if it was free.

"call out!"

At the same time, Gamabunta, who had been prepared for a long time, took the lead in aiming at the jumping Salamander Ibu, and then a large amount of toad oil was spit out from Gamabunta's big mouth.

Following closely behind was the ninjutsu carefully prepared by Jiraiya and Orochimaru.

"boom!!!"

Blazing flames and fierce winds burst out of their mouths at the same time.

The moment Jiraiya's fire came into contact with Gamabunta's oil, an even more terrifying fire erupted!!!

The terrifying and blazing flames instantly covered everything in front of him. The powerful fire even evaporated the pouring rain, as if it wanted to burn everything in front of him!

This is not over yet. Orochimaru's wind escape further fueled the blazing flames. The coverage of the already extremely fierce flames instantly expanded by nearly double. It is no exaggeration to describe the momentum of this move as a raging fire.

The Fire Style: Great Flame Bomb that Jiraiya had previously released was already powerful enough, but compared to the flames in front of him, it was nothing.

This ball of flame is probably at least ten times more powerful than the big fire bomb!

Composite Ninjutsu. Toad Oil Flame Bomb! ! ! !

Combining the strength of two humans and one beast, this terrifying attack is the pinnacle of the combined attack of the three ninjas.

If this move could really hit Hanzo, what would a Kage-level warrior do? Even one nearing Kage-level might be able to kill him!

Chapter 497, The Last Struggle

Mandra took the initiative to attack and contain the enemy, Tsunade and the slug controlled the situation, and finally Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Gamabunta combined their strength to launch a decisive attack.

Such a combined attack was flawless, and there was no doubt that this was the peak attack that the three ninjas could launch at this stage.

At this moment, under the raging sea of ​​fire, Hanzo of the Salamander had no way to escape. Almost in an instant, both the man and the beast were engulfed by the blazing sea of ​​fire.

Even Ryosuke Mizunoe, who was standing in mid-air at the moment, was a little surprised by the exquisite coordination of the three ninjas and this powerful combined ninjutsu.

The most important thing is that, from a big picture perspective, time is on the side of the Sannin.

Not only Mizunoe Ryosuke, but even Hanzo of the Salamander did not expect that the three ninjas would take the initiative to attack, and without any concealment, they released their ultimate move right from the start.

The sudden tactical change of the three ninjas and their contrary approach really caught Hanzo of the Salamander off guard.

The terrifying flames dyed everything a bright orange, which looked particularly dazzling in the gloomy weather with continuous heavy rain.

About three minutes later, the terrifying sea of ​​fire subsided completely, and a large amount of water vapor obscured everything around it.

The residual 840 degree heat wave from the high temperature dissipated in all directions. For a moment, the vast water vapor obscured the surroundings, making it difficult for people to see the surrounding scenery for a while.

The three ninjas still stood there vigilantly, not at all complacent because of their successful attack.

When facing an opponent like Hanzo, you must never let your guard down.

It was not until the steam slowly dissipated and the three ninjas breathed a sigh of relief at the same time as they looked at the blackened earth before them.

It seems that Hanzo of the Salamander and his summoned beast, Ibu of the Salamander, were both destroyed in one blow by the combined ninjutsu of the two men and the beast.

After all, even the Sannin themselves couldn't figure out how to resist the surging compound ninjutsu just now.

Just as the three of them breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to evacuate, a voice suddenly rang out in the rain.

"I have to admit that I underestimated you three juniors at first."

"You three are indeed the second best people I've seen in this age group, second only to that man."

Hearing the sound, the three ninjas were all horrified. They were of course familiar with the sound.

It was no surprise—it was none other than Hanzo the Salamander who had been battling them for a long time!

Under the curtain of torrential rain, the three ninjas looked around, trying to find the location of the person who was speaking.

But under this rain curtain, the voice of Hanzo of the Salamander seemed to come from all directions at the same time, making it impossible to tell the direction.

Without bothering to think about how Hanzo of the Salamander had managed to survive such an attack, the Sannin became nervous again.

Because Hanzo, the Salamander, is hiding in the dark and may launch an attack at any time.

"pity"

Under the rain, Hanzo's voice sounded again, but this time it stopped abruptly after just two words.

"Boom!!!"

A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, and the dazzling pale light instantly illuminated the sky and the earth.

The three ninjas looked again and saw that Hanzo of the Salamander appeared a hundred meters in front of them!

The Sannin were even more horrified by Hanzo's supernatural abilities.

Because just a second ago, there was clearly nothing there!!!

Is this man in front of me a human or a ghost?

The three ninjas had just calmed down a little when the pressure was on them again in an instant.

The three ninjas were of course feeling extremely stressed and terrified at this moment.

But who knows the complex and unspeakable emotions in Hanzo's heart at this moment.

Even though it seemed that Hanzo of the Salamander had the upper hand from the beginning to the end, the sudden appearance of the Rain Tiger Shuriken Technique displayed a miraculous momentum.

But only Hanzo himself knew that he had already lost the battle at this point.

Even though he succeeded in defeating the three ninjas in front of him, it was too late.

Because he concluded that during this period of time, the overall situation of the Rain Ninja outside had completely deteriorated, and it was probably on the verge of collapse at this moment.

In a decisive battle involving tens of thousands of ninjas, how could his victory alone be called a victory?

If he had been able to defeat the three ninjas earlier and appear on the battlefield with an absolutely strong attitude, he might still have a chance of survival.

But it's too late now.

As I said, the defeat in this battle was not the fault of the war.

To be honest, before this, Hanzo of the Salamander had never taken these three young Konoha ninjas seriously, but the current battle situation taught Hanzo of the Salamander a good lesson.

Up to this point in the battle, Hanzo had not used his most powerful salamander poison. It was not because he was hiding his weakness on purpose, but because he was forced to do so by the situation.

Firstly, although Hanzo is extremely confident in the toxicity of the salamander, it takes a certain amount of accumulation and time for the salamander's poison to take effect on a strong person.

Originally, what Hanzo of the Salamander lacked the most was time, so he would rather choose a large-scale and powerful water escape technique that would have a more violent attack and produce faster results.

But what Hanzo didn't expect was that the move he had placed great hopes on and regarded as the strongest actually failed to work.

He couldn't even kill or defeat one of the three men, which was undoubtedly a huge strategic mistake for Hanzo.

However, because the Yuhu Shuriken Technique failed to achieve the intended effect, Hanzo of the Salamander consumed a large amount of chakra for this, and was unable to summon the Salamander to release a large-scale poisonous fog for a while, so he could only use close combat to entangle with the three ninjas again.

This would have been fine, because physical skills were Hanzo's strong point, but who would have thought that the three ninjas all had good physical skills, and Hanzo was unable to defeat the three ninjas in close combat, and a lot of time was wasted in the back and forth.

By the time Hanzo's chakra had mostly recovered, most of the time had already passed.

Based on Hanzo's understanding of the current combat effectiveness of the Rain Ninja, he predicted that the Rain Ninja had probably been defeated at this moment.

After all the back and forth, Rain Ninja's chances of victory had been completely destroyed.

Especially just now, the beautiful joint attack of the three of them unleashed a powerful force that completely overturned this veteran ninja in the battle-hardened world.

How could this not make Hanzo of the Salamander feel complicated?

But no matter how complicated it is, even though the Rain Ninja is doomed to defeat, Hanzo Salamander still does not intend to end the fight.

Because it was the Rain Ninja who was defeated, not Hanzo of the Salamander.

At this moment, Hanzo of the Salamander had put away his inner contempt and regarded the three young ninjas in front of him as real opponents.

Afterwards, Salamander Ibushi appeared under Hanzo again, and then Hanzo slowly took off his mask. At the same time, the man and the beast released a large amount of purple poisonous mist at the same time.

The terrifying poisonous fog spread out instantly, as if to devour everything!

The terrifying poisonous fog began to spread everywhere. Anything that came into contact with the purple poisonous fog, whether it was plants or animals, died instantly.

The most deadly thing is that this purple poisonous fog is using the air as a medium of transmission and is constantly spreading around.

In an instant, the ominous purple color that spread out was like the scythe of the god of death, constantly reaping all lives along its way.

In the chaotic battlefield, the two sides have basically decided the outcome of the battle, and only a few Rain Ninjas are still resisting stubbornly.

The Rain Ninjas were defeated and retreated again and again.

Konoha is pursuing the victory and is sure to win.

The battlefield was filled with Rain Ninjas who had been killed, surrendered, or been captured, just as the Konoha Ninjas were enjoying the joy of victory.

The Grim Reaper's scythe slowly approaches.

Purple poisonous mist slowly drifted over.

"Er"

A Konoha ninja who was closest to the center of the battlefield suddenly turned pale and his eyes widened. Then he grabbed his throat with his hands, foamed at the mouth and fell down.