Chapter 60 - 60 (1/2)

As Ryo shouted out the name of his technique, Gamahiro felt that the pile of ice was being given life.

He felt that it had a pressure like that of a fearful creature. Obviously it was just a pile of ice, but the immense pressure it had was almost suffocating to Gamahiro.

This pressure was different from that brought by a tailed beast. If was closer to the fear that a child has when seeing a dignified elder.

He didn't know that this technique was one never used before in this world. It was inspired from a Taoist magical technique that Ryo saw in previous life; it was based on a state called, the Way of Heaven.

The 1st time that Ryo saw this technique was when he watched the cartoon ”Journey to the West”, and saw the fight of Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen. The two of them fought using that way.

At that time, Ryo as a child was really interested in this magical technique with which the Monkey King became taller than a mountain.

Because of this interest, Ryo read quite a few books on Toaism before crossing over.

After crossing over to the world of Naruto, Ryo became too busy with working on his strength and forgot all about the Way of Heaven.

It wasn't until Kushina made him meet Kurama that he thought about it again. That was caused by the feeling of powerlessness that he had before the immensity of the Kyubi.

However, when in Konoha, it was never convenient for Ryo to explore that topic again. He could only cast aside that idea.

However, the pressure of the moment and the need to get stronger made Ryo decide to take the risk and resort to that technique that he never tried.

The Way of Heaven was a state mentioned in Taoist ancient records, and its fundamental aspect was ”Tao”.

Far from being a Taoist priest, Ryo wasn't able to understand what this so-called ”Tao” was, all he could do was work on combining his energy with Nature's.

His consciousness, the ice, and the natural energy; all three were fused to create an Ice Giant with Ryo in the center of it.

Ryo's consciousness and body were integrated with the ice giant, and he was controlling it like it was his own body.

On the other side of the barrier, Jiraya, Fukasaku and Shima all sensed the incredible gathering of Natural energy outside.

”Boss, Ne-chan, what's happening outside?” there, Jiraya couldn't tell what was happening on the battlefield, he was only able to ask Fukasaku who had superior perception abilities.

”I don't know, I just sense Natural Energy acc_u_mulating outside, and this acc_u_mulation is making me feel a little dizzy!”

”Ma is right, this force is terrible!” Fukasaku said with a heavy face.

”We don't know what's happening with the kid, boss! We should work harder in here!” Jiraya was worried about Ryo's safety, and he felt more of a burden put upon him. Rasa was no longer able to fight back; he was just barely able to resist him. On the other side, Chiyo's shape was no better.

Outside the barrier, Ryo felt that he has become an ice giant. But to everyone else's eyes, it looked like Ryo became huge in size, and was covered with a layer of ice. That was due to the fact that Ice Colossus looked just like him.

”Hey Choki! Ryo is a Yamanaka! How come does he have the skills of an Akamichi?” The representative of the Nara clan asked their Akamichi companions.

”Rokk, you should ask Ryoko. She's a Yamanaka so maybe she knows!” As Choki, the Akamichi representative finished his words, he went right back to fighting his Sand opponent.