Ice Release: Coffin of the Sleeping Ice Giant

The is a unique Ice Release technique crafted by Sargon’s greatest general, Hojo Senryo. This technique takes advantage of the element of surprise by encasing the opponent in large formation of dense ice without any prior set up or warning. The advantage of this technique is that it does not require preexisting ice but it does require at any case moisture in the air in combination with Hojo’s Hyōton chakra. For this technique, Hojo simply needs to focus his Hyōton chakra in the air via the Remote Chakra Manifestation Technique while there is some form of moisture, whether it is precipitation, mist or even their own seat. From here, Hojo intensifies his Hyōton chakra into intense amounts which causes the sudden creation and expansion of ice encasing the opponent. The ice is highly resilient against various branches of Fire Release chakra and it takes on the properties of the moisture that it was created from. For example, if Hojo created the ice coffin from the Grudge Rain technique, it will still retain the chakra absorbing properties of the rain and so on and so forth.

The ice is capable of absorbing heat from those trapped within it and from the surrounding air. The process of extracting heat from the surrounding air allows this technique to remain active for an extended amount of time. As another ability, the ice coffin is able to absorb the life force from those with and through this absorption process, the coffin becomes larger making it even more difficult to escape. Hojo often uses this technique as an effective measure to restraint the movements of physically powerful shinobi or those that utilize Space-Time Ninjutsu preventing their escape. When used defensively, the technique is able to cover within the blink of an eye shielding him from powerful techniques such as the Tailed-Beast Ball or a Rasenshuriken. As a finisher, Hojo can opt to leave the opponent within the ice coffin causing them to pass away from hypothermia or to stab through the ice with his which is able to pierce through the soul of the opponent and remove it from the physical vessel.