After so many attempts, Mizuki already understood how to use the advantage of numbers. When facing a strong enemy, continuous attacks are the best means. The alternating use of fire ninjutsu and lightning ninjutsu left the exhausted Hoshigaki Kisame no chance to put down Samehada and use ninjutsu.

After a while, Shuimu's body, which was well prepared, finally completed the preparations for the magic. After the chakra accumulated by the breath-collecting technique for several months was mostly consumed, Shuimu stopped. Correspondingly, the natural energy absorbed into the body was also unprecedentedly large, and the generated magic chakra almost made his body burst.

Then, Shuimu began to condense a scorching ball of fire in his hands. The change in the properties of fire was brought to the extreme by Shuimu. The dazzling blue and white light had a power that could be felt from a distance. With the injection of fairy chakra, the blue and white ball of fire was slowly dyed with a light golden color.

"That's enough, back off!"

There was no need for clones to intercept anymore, and the five clones retreated as well.

Seeing that it was too late to stop it, Hoshigaki Kisame also placed Samehada across his chest, waiting for Mizuki's attack with a serious expression.

"This is my first attempt, so I'm a little unskilled. Don't blame me if I kill or maim you!"

As he spoke, he raised the fireball with both hands. Under Mizuki's control, it split into countless small fireballs, which quickly flew in all directions. These small fireballs were not aimed at Hoshigaki Kisame, but were densely distributed in all the space within sight. The strange thing was that even on the water surface, these high-temperature fireballs showed no signs of extinguishing, and they were still floating on the water surface and burning fiercely.

Hoshigaki Kisame, who was confused, watched Mizuki bite his index fingers, form seals again, and then press his hands on the water.

"Immortal Technique, Fire Escape - Thousand Expedition Orders!"

A strange wave spread out, quickly connecting all the small flame balls. Under the surprised gaze of Hoshigaki Kisame, the flame balls expanded rapidly, slowly turning into a humanoid monster with high-temperature flames all over its body, with slender arms, two dark eye sockets shining with golden flames, and a cracked mouth spitting out streams of flames.

"Are you a fire clone? No, this feeling..."

Hoshigaki Kisame watched nervously as countless flame clones stood up one after another, waving their slender arm-like forelimbs, and slowly began to contact and merge with other clones. In this environment, the temperature of the flame clones became higher and higher, and their bodies began to slowly expand. Finally, the flame clones spread throughout the entire field of vision, turning the entire space into a purgatory-like desperate situation.

"Are you crazy? You'll die like this too!"

Indiscriminate high temperatures will not make life easy for anyone.

"You don't need to worry about it. Just think about how to escape!"

Hoshigaki Kisame tried to use Samehada to attack these flame clones, but after the flames without substance were penetrated, only a little chakra was sucked away, which posed no threat to the huge and scattered flame clones. Helplessly, Hoshigaki Kisame put away Samehada and tried to use water escape to deal with it.

"Water Style - Flood Wave!"

A large amount of water flowed out of Hoshigaki Kisame's mouth again and spread towards the fire clones that were everywhere.

Unfortunately, this time, the flame clone that was given life was not so easy to extinguish. Before the water flow was approached, the edge was quickly vaporized, and the explosion caused by the violent cold and hot expansion suppressed the violent water waves and forced them to retreat step by step. In the end, the power was greatly reduced, forming waves that swept over one after another. Unfortunately, the weightless fire clone just floated on the water, sinking and floating with the current. The power of the flame was basically not affected too much.

"Chakra-quality transcendence? Ordinary water jutsu can't do anything to it!"

Hoshigaki Kisame gave an embarrassed smile.

"Water Prison Technique!"

A concentrated stream of water completely enveloped Hoshigaki Kisame, temporarily isolating him from the high temperature. But after a while, the water in the water prison quickly heated up, and bubbles formed by the vaporization of the water began to appear around Hoshigaki Kisame.

"This won't work. If I wait any longer, I'll turn into a pot of fish soup."

Helpless, Hoshigaki Kisame had to slowly sink his body into the lake below him. But this was not a long-term solution. If he continued to be roasted, the lake water would boil sooner or later, and he would be really stewed in a pot.

"I didn't expect to be in such a predicament. I can only hope Itachi can come to support me soon."

Hoshigaki Kisame still has more powerful ninjutsu and life-saving tricks, but it is not very appropriate to use them now, and he also has to guard against other tricks of his opponent.

…

Mizuki and his clones were not much more resistant to the high temperature of flames than Hoshigaki Kisame. Although as a fire ninja, he had long been accustomed to the high temperature of flames, but this purgatory-like environment was still far beyond Mizuki's ability to withstand. As for the technique of isolating high temperatures, perhaps Xiaochun's ice ninjutsu was a little stronger than his own, but it was also very limited. The real situation was that Mizuki was just relying on the Sage Mode to bear it, and the clones with weaker bodies had already used the Flying Thunder God Technique to stay away, waiting for the change in the battle situation before taking action, leaving only the main body here to manipulate countless flame clones to stir up trouble.

As time went by, a large amount of water vapor began to emerge from the lake. The infernal high temperature quickly heated the air, and the water vapor like white smoke rose rapidly. After it cooled down, it quickly formed a large dark cloud. The violent air convection slowly gathered energy, and a short thunderstorm seemed imminent.

"I don't know if the shark soup is ready. Shimura Danzo ran away, but I didn't expect Hoshigaki Kisame to show up! If I don't reveal my cards, I'll have no chance."

Just when Mizuki and Hoshigaki Kisame were competing to see who could endure longer, one taking a sauna and the other taking a hot water bath.

A light red skeleton giant appeared out of nowhere and broke into the coverage of the water and wood fairy technique at an extremely fast speed. Then he picked up Hoshigaki Kisame from the water and quickly put him under his protection.

"Susanoo? Uchiha Itachi is here..."

Shuimu felt a little regretful. It seemed that Hoshigaki Kisame would not die today. If it was a lava escape technique, Uchiha Itachi might be a little afraid. The high temperature of a simple fire escape technique could not dissolve Susanoo.

“What a pity.”

"It's just that I feel a little uncomfortable letting you guys leave so calmly like this!"

I looked up and saw the dense lightning gathering above my head, and the thought of a final blow came to my mind.

"It would be a waste not to take advantage of this environment. Throwing a big bomb to escape should be the standard configuration..."