The water jet penetrated Lei Luo's chest, and then flew into the distance, once again cutting off large swathes of trees and setting off billowing smoke.
But now it was within the time-deletion period, so although the water sword came fiercely and its speed was as fast as thunder, it did not cause any harm to Lei Luo.
Walking through the sky-high flames and wading through the blazing sea of fire, Lei Luo quickly ran towards the direction from which the water jet flew.
At this moment, no matter whether it was the tall dead trees that were burned and collapsed randomly, the thick smoke and dust that filled the surroundings, or the fierce heat generated by the flames, none of them had any impact on Lei Luo.
Based on the flying speed of the water jet at the moment it was shot, and after simple calculations, Lei Luo judged that the location was not far from him.
So after running for about tens of meters and discovering a slightly abnormal area, he stopped and scanned the surroundings at double speed, hoping to find the figure.
This place is a slightly spacious patch of weeds, covering an area of about tens of square meters. Compared with the raging fires in other nearby places, this place seems surprisingly calm.
'It should be right here...'
Not seeing any trace of the real body as he imagined, Lei Luo frowned slightly and couldn't help but have some doubts about his guess.
At this moment, a warm wind blew slowly, carrying many sparks floating in the air.
Those sparks are countless, burning leaves all over the sky, and some branches of trees that are about to burn out and will soon turn into ashes.
By chance, some of the sparks first floated from the sky to Lei Luo's head, and then passed straight through his body, falling gently onto the weeds at his feet.
The moment it touched the grass, the sparks were instantly extinguished, and even some of the leaves that had not yet been burned out did not light up at all.
It felt like this small area was completely isolated from the surrounding sea of fire, like a small oasis in the desert.
The corner of his eye inadvertently glanced at this scene at his feet. Lei Luo's heart was moved and he couldn't help but raise his head and look around again, especially at the junction between the weeds and the sea of fire.
Such an observation made Lei Luo notice a small detail:
He found that all the fires that spread over reached the area where he was, and were extinguished without any sound.
It is worth noting that during the process of the flame extinguishing, no water vapor or other substances were produced anywhere on the ground.
It's as if every blade of grass here has been treated to resist combustion, and every inch of space is filled with some kind of inert gas that extinguishes the flame and lowers the temperature.
This abnormal situation that was extremely inconsistent with the laws of nature immediately made Lei Luo realize:
The three-tailed jinchūriki's eighth achievement is here, but the opponent should be in some special state of magic and object concealment, so he can't find the opponent's position.
Five seconds had passed since the time was deleted, and Lei Luo knew that he did not have much time. He had to find the trace before the end of the time and give the opponent a fatal blow in order to force the opponent to completely transform into a tailed beast.
Otherwise, the battle has been delayed for so long. Counting this time, the three-tailed Jinchuuriki has experienced four times of time deletion in succession. No matter how brainless the opponent is, he should have noticed something is wrong.
If he plays an escape trick like the Third Raikage, Lei Luo is really not sure whether he has the ability to intercept a jinchuriki who is wearing the coat of a tailed beast and whose speed is not slow at all.
'This area is not very large. If the body of the Three-Tailed Jinchuriki is really here, then...'
His thoughts were spinning rapidly, and Lei Luo suddenly thought of a good way to search for the opponent's location.
I saw him letting out a soft breath, then raising his hands, stretching his arms as straight as possible, and running towards the front with his arms raised flat.
When he reached the junction where the flames extinguished, Lei Luo turned around and ran in another direction, trying his best to ensure that the path he ran this time did not overlap with the place he ran before.
This method takes advantage of the characteristics of time deletion:
That is, during the time deletion period, he cannot interfere with external matter. When he comes within one meter of the living body, he will be bounced away by an invisible force field.
Although this is a limitation of Lei Luo's current ability, it does not prevent him from using his inability to interfere with foreign objects to infer his position at this time.
Another two seconds passed, and when Lei Luo was halfway through his third return run, he suddenly realized that his right hand seemed to have suddenly touched a wall of air.
Before Lei Luo could react, his right hand was directly flicked to the side, gently floating in the air.
And this also caused him to turn his head sharply, and his eyes were fixed on the empty area in front of him.
"it's here!"
Time moved back one second again, and there were only the last two seconds before the end of time deletion. Lei Luo stood in front of the "perceived" position.
He stretched out his hands, and while calculating the passage of time in the last two seconds, uncharacteristically, he slowly formed three seals.
The reason why the sealing speed this time is much slower than before is to accurately time it and maintain it at a speed that is neither too fast nor too slow, so that the ninjutsu attack can be accurately launched at the moment after the time is over.
This is done to prevent the ninjutsu that is about to be cast from being affected by time deletion, which will trigger the "interference with the outside world" restriction and eliminate the effect of the ninjutsu.
This operation, referred to as "stuck point", is a clever trick that Lei Luo came up with in a flash of inspiration after accumulating experience in using it many times and considering that the defense is not easily broken.
So, he took practical action.
In the process of slowly forming the seal, Lei Luo's heart was not at peace. His eyes flickered slightly, focusing on the invisible but real enemy in front of him. At the same time, he whispered to himself:
"At the end of the first time deletion, you didn't completely avoid my blade. At the end of the second time deletion, you reacted in time to my kunai attack, but you couldn't avoid the thunderstorm."
"If you hadn't had the Tailed Beast Outfit and the second time had ended, you would have been severely injured by me."
"In other words, although your reaction speed is very fast, it is nothing more than that."
"And this fourth time it was deleted..."
After pondering for a moment, when time was about to flow to the last second, Lei Luo suddenly burst out with wisps of electric sparks, and another thunderstorm was about to be triggered.
He squinted his eyes and slowly said the last sentence:
"I want to see, this time, under my long-prepared offensive, can you still avoid it in time?"
At this moment, time finally flowed to the last second, and the fourth time deletion of this battle also ended.