After getting Asuma's blood, Hidan leisurely returned to the cursed formation and activated his Curse Jutsu: Death Possession Blood, which allows him to share damage with others.
At that moment, he also happened to eat Asuma's Fire Release: Ash Pile Burning attack.
While Asuma was in shock, he got burned thoroughly, and Hidan felt great about it. Then he took out his black scythe and stabbed himself, causing Asuma to suffer another heavy blow.
Just when it mattered, Hidan was controlled by Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique, forced to step out of the formation, and was pierced and fixed by the shadow, then took another hit from Asuma's Decapitating Slash.
The Konoha ninjas were overjoyed, thinking they had eliminated an enemy.
However, while watching, Kakuzu joined the battle, quickly reattached Hidan's head.
Remembering his grudges, Hidan ran back to the formation and swung his scythe at himself.
Asuma was pushed to the brink of death from the shared damage.
"This Curse Jutsu: Death Possession Blood is a bit too twisted, isn't it?"
Asuma had become quite open about his death.
He just wanted to know how he had died at Hidan's hands so he could prepare for him in the future.
To his surprise, he realized he had been killed by Hidan's reflected damage.
"Asuma, you're wrong. The ability of Curse Jutsu: Death Possession Blood is indeed impressive, but it isn't outrageous. This technique must be used in conjunction with Hidan's immortality; otherwise, before he can reflect damage back to the enemy, he would die from his own injuries," Kakashi said.
Asuma thought Kakashi was right.
If Hidan didn't have immortality, then Curse Jutsu: Death Possession Blood would only be a secret technique for a death warrior to take both themselves and their enemy down.
Having both immortality and Curse Jutsu: Death Possession Blood is truly troublesome; it's combining both abilities in one person that is the real problem.
One is immortal, and the other reflects damage. Together, these two abilities are perfect.
In Tobirama's office, everyone was also discussing Hidan's two abilities.
"To be honest, facing Hidan without knowing his abilities can really catch you off guard,"
"Yeah, no one would expect that there is a curse technique like Death Possession Blood in the ninja world."
"As long as he obtains a drop of the opponent's blood, he can use his immortality to finish them off. The combination of these two abilities is indeed quite unfair."
Looking at the screen where Asuma was nearly dead, everyone's expression was grim.
Putting themselves in Asuma's shoes, they realized that when facing Hidan for the first time, they probably wouldn't fare much better than him.
At that moment, Jiraiya spoke up and asked a question: "By the way, why doesn't the Akatsuki organization specifically send someone to get blood from enemies for Hidan? If they did, Hidan could just hide in the shadows and crazily curse-kill others, right?"
"That's a very good question, but don't ask it again next time."
"Why not?"
Little Jiraiya felt unfair; he thought of this question based on Hidan's abilities, not just randomly asking.
Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't explain the reason and just told him not to ask again.
Of course, Little Jiraiya was unconvinced.
"You're smart, but others aren't foolish. Do you think they haven't tried it? Most likely, it's because Hidan's Death Possession Blood has distance limitations, which is why the Akatsuki organization doesn't have a dedicated blood collection team."
"Uh…"
After hearing Hiruzen's answer, Little Jiraiya thought for a moment and realized his teacher was right.
The Akatsuki members were dangerous S-rank rogue ninjas, and with their experience, they likely tried this already and found it didn't work, which is why they stopped.
However, if Hidan's technique could ignore distance, the Akatsuki would have unified the ninja world long ago.
With this in mind, Little Jiraiya immediately thought of a new question.
"By the way, when Hidan activates his technique, he has to draw a formation on the ground. Can we use Earth Release jutsu to destroy that formation?"
"Don't say, but that method of destroying the formation actually has some feasibility."
"Yes." Senju Tobirama nodded and added, "The formation is made of blood, so theoretically, using Water Release to wash away the blood is also possible."
"In addition to Earth and Water Release, we could also cover the formation with animal blood."
"Right, right! Since we want to stop the formation's integrity, we can use other things to cover it besides altering the terrain."
"I think using oil could also work, making Hidan slip and fall in the formation."
Little Jiraiya didn't expect that by just providing a thought, the others would come up with various methods to destroy Hidan's technique.
And it seemed like all these methods could actually work.
At that moment, Little Jiraiya felt a bit sorry for Hidan.
An "invincible" ability was so easily countered.
When the time came to face Hidan, they would try each method one by one. He wondered if Hidan would collapse. (laugh)
[Later, the second pursuit team led by the Konoha's Anbu arrived for support, causing some friction.]
[After all, not long ago, a group of monks had just died, causing a significant impact. Therefore, Tsunade dispatched 20 assassination teams to various places to hunt down Hidan and Kakuzu.]
[According to consistent reports, Asuma's team is the most reliable.]
[Except for the nearby second team, the other teams couldn't reach Asuma in time to provide support, and even if they did, it wouldn't help.]
[Coincidentally, Kakuzu also didn't plan to let go of Asuma, who had a bounty of 35 million. Not to mention Hidan, who was bloodthirsty.]
[As a result, the leader Pain had to "call" them back at this time to seal the Two-Tails.]
[Hidan could only give Kakuzu some face and retreat, but he vowed to kill Pain in the future.]
[Now that the Two-Tails was sealed, Hidan's trivial information was known all over the world.]
[As the two were leaving, they encountered Shikamaru and others, who had come for revenge.]
"Hah, I want to see how this good student of mine will take revenge for me," Asuma said.
Asuma knew that Shikamaru's combat skills weren't very impressive; he couldn't even compare to some average Jonin, let alone Hidan.
But Shikamaru was incredibly smart.
His high IQ allowed him to come up with various tactics during battles.
Looking at the timeline on the screen, a considerable amount of time had passed since he was killed by Hidan.
During this time, Shikamaru must have already figured out the tactics he would use against Hidan.
Asuma was quite looking forward to it.
[Hidan was forced to leave the battlefield with Kakuzu due to Shikamaru's shadow imitation.]
[He was dragged north to the Nara clan's forbidden area, filled with traps.]
[Shikamaru pretended to have no chakra, and after releasing the shadow binding, Hidan easily obtained Shikamaru's blood.]
Kakuzu: "What the hell is this blood of Shikamaru? This is my blood!"
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