As for Zetsu, he wasn't much better. He had already disintegrated many times into Black Zetsu and White Zetsu to avoid attacks. If not for Hashirama's cells, he might have already died. It could be said that Byakko didn't use much strength at all. Just a tiger was enough to suppress the two of them to the point where they almost had no strength to resist. Three years ago, no one knew how strong Byakko had become, and no one had forced him to use her strongest strength.
Because Byakko had almost never fought before, for more than three years, she had lived with Ryoha and this group of monsters. Seeing that each and every one of them had improved so quickly, the stimulated Byakko also stayed in the gravity chamber or cultivated in the Snow Plains. Therefore, after more than three years, her strength was even more profound and unpredictable than three years ago. Three years ago, no one knew how strong she was, and after three years of training, no one would know.
After all, Ryoha and Tsunade would not be bored enough to compete with Byakko to see how far she had reached. However, Tsunade, Ryoha, and Kurenai, the three strongest people of the group, had an evaluation of Byakko: Among the Beasts, besides the Great Toad Sage from the era of the Sage of Six Paths, the tigress was the strongest and had the greatest potential. Her innate potential even surpassed the Great Toad Sage.
Right now, Byakko's strength might not be able to defeat the Great Toad Sage, a Beast that had lived for thousands of years, but her potential was definitely greater than the sage's. More importantly, Byakko was only fifty or sixty years old. With her strength and age, among the Beasts, she was extremely young, equivalent to a human being in their teens. The strongest trio of Ryoha's group recognized her massive potential.
"Wait for me!" Hidan was not an idiot. Although he did not die, he did not want to be turned into a motionless ice sculpture. Who knew if he would fall into eternal sleep because of the ice seal? This was no different from death for Hidan.
"Really?" Black and White Zetsu said snappily. To be honest, his main task was to transport people and gather information. He wasn't tasked with combat, but now he was involved. He was in a bad mood, but he could not watch Hidan die.
He knew that Hidan had been cultivating taijutsu and his physique for the past three years. Moreover, Hidan's ability to deal with people who didn't know his background was simply one of the most useful. It would be fine if he couldn't see it, but if he were to be present and watch him die, then it would be unbearable. Thus, Black and White Zetsu separated again, bringing Hidan who couldn't keep up with his speed. He directly used the mayfly technique to execute high-speed movement.
"I can't let her freeze things again. Lightning Release - False Darkness!" Kakuzu's complexion slightly changed. He immediately released his chakra without holding back, raising the power of False Darkness to the maximum. The lightning spear directly struck the ice layer on the ground and exploded, but the ice layer was not damaged at all. It was really too hard. One must know that the penetration and destructive power of this move of his was ranked high among the top Lightning Release jutsus. Otherwise, Kakuzu would not have chosen this move as his signature Lightning Release technique.
"Damn it, it's too hard!" Kakuzu knew that this was bad. Earth Grudge Fear immediately stretched out from his arms and wrapped around a big tree nearby. With a leap, he flew over. Just as his feet left the ground, the place where he was standing had already turned into ice. Haku's freezing speed was really fast and the range was so huge. For some people who could not fly or had no special secret arts to resist or destroy the Ice Age, it was no less than a nightmare.
Unfortunately, Kakuzu did not know space-time Ninjutsu, so he could not escape immediately. However, the freezing speed was faster than his movement speed, so he was in danger now. Not only that, but even Black Zetsu and Hidan were in danger.
"Kakuzu, quickly think of a way. Otherwise, the three of us will die here!" Because Hidan had an immortal body, he never knew what death was. But today, he was afraid of it. No one would want to die, especially someone like Hidan who had never been worried about death. Now, facing the shroud of death directly, he was more afraid of death than others.
"Idiot, don't you see that I'm thinking about it? The only way now is to restrict the speed of the spreading ice or break it, but I don't have a technique that can resist it."
Kakuzu was able to instant-cast high-level ninjutsu, but there was one thing that he was lacking. Because he was not from a big family, nor was he from the Five Great Villages, he did not have any S-rank powerful ninjutsu. Moreover, he did not need to use any S-rank ninjutsu in all the battles he had fought. He only needed to use five of his signature ninjutsu. However, when he encountered a jutsu like Haku's that he had to destroy or resist, Kakuzu would be in trouble.
"Use your Fire Release, Kakuzu!" Black and White Zetsu didn't want to die so quickly, so he immediately shouted. Kakuzu's Fire Release was still very strong.
"This is going to be interesting." Byakko looked at the members of the Akatsuki who were being chased by the layer of ice. Haku chasing three members of the Akatsuki really made Byakko a little surprised. It seemed that Haku's growth rate was beyond her expectations. Suddenly, a strange scene appeared. Byakko's body actually floated in the air, without any assistance from the wind or anything else. As long as Byakko wanted to, she could float anywhere.
This was a technique she developed based on her innate ability (similar to the spiritual power of Bloodline Limit and Kurenai's ability) as well as the nature of the wind chakra. It was specially designed to fly, and the speed was no different from her running on land. After all, the wind came from the tiger, and the cloud came from the dragon. The wind-controlling Byakko was really terrifying. It could be said that Byakko was now the real overlord of three battlefields: sea, land, and sky.
"Let's try it." Kakuzu was also uncertain. His strongest penetrating technique was the False Darkness, and it wasn't even able to leave any traces on the ice layer. It could be seen that the ice layer created by Haku's Ice Age was too hard.
It was much harder than diamond, and the temperature was terrifyingly low. Even if the layer of ice was still far away and did not touch his body, Kakuzu could still feel a bone-piercing chill. Moreover, he also found that the temperature of the air was constantly dropping. It was obviously because of the Ice Age.
"Fire Release - Intelligent Hard Work! Wind Release - Pressure Damage! Lightning Release - False Darkness! and Earth Release - Heavenly Cover!." Kakuzu instantly cast four jutsus in one breath, and these four jutsus were the most powerful among the Four nature transformation that Kakuzu had mastered.
The flames mixed with the high-pressure wind ball and the lightning spear, and the huge pot lid that fell from the sky all hit the closest layer of ice. A series of explosions rang out continuously, causing dust to fly all over the sky, blocking people's vision. It was impossible to see if Kakuzu's skills were effective.