Chapter 162: Earth-Shattering Meteorite Technique
Orochimaru gave a cold smile and was about to make his next move when his heart suddenly stirred. A tender voice, filled with deep reverence for Orochimaru, clearly entered his ears: "Master, I'm awake!"
Orochimaru was overjoyed to hear Yamata's voice. It was truly heaven's aid. Yamata, who had transformed into a golden cocoon and slept for three long years, had awakened at this most critical juncture.
Orochimaru immediately rushed forward to relieve Uchiha Kagami, whose Chakra was largely depleted.
From the moment Yamata woke up, Orochimaru clearly felt a surge of unidentifiable, powerful energy well up in his chest.
If Orochimaru's clothing were lifted, one would see the bowl-sized golden cocoon at his heart, formed by Yamata, was emitting a soft, noble, and bright light. Its surface rapidly dissolved, turning into pale golden streams of airflow, as thin as hair strands, that drilled into Orochimaru's body.
As the light cocoon gradually dissolved, a coiled snake shadow began to appear within.
The pale golden air currents, once they entered Orochimaru's body, quickly poured into his Chakra system, flowing like a great, surging river to every corner of his body.
Orochimaru distinctly felt the depleted Chakra in his system rapidly recovering. His body's fatigue and all the minor, old injuries accumulated over three years instantly vanished, making his entire physical strength even greater and more astonishing.
With his internal Chakra quickly restored, Orochimaru felt a surge of heroic pride and deeper confidence. He looked at the One-Tails, Shukaku, roaring furiously in the forest, and the excitement and madness in his dark-golden snake eyes intensified.
At this point, Yamata, having awakened and crawled out of the light cocoon, slithered onto Orochimaru's shoulder. Its mouth opened, and its crimson snake tongue flickered, seemingly letting out a silent hiss.
A pale golden avatar of Yamata, piercing the sky and spanning the heavens, suddenly appeared behind Orochimaru, bolstering him.
Unlike the last time in the secret room, the Yamata Avatar now manifested three heads and three tails. Though still an ethereal phantom, it was entirely gilded, constantly releasing the noble and arrogant aura of the Serpent King.
Under the Yamata Avatar's influence, Orochimaru distinctly felt that he subtly understood something, though he couldn't quite articulate it. He could only sense that the power of his Jutsu seemed to have increased greatly.
Seizing this perfect opportunity, Orochimaru wouldn't hesitate. With a thought, he drew out all the Chakra accumulated from the dissolving light cocoon at once.
His pale, long fingers quickly wove a series of complex hand signs, unleashing the most powerful combination Jutsu he currently possessed.
A terrifying Chakra fluctuation, as if capable of destroying the world, suddenly erupted from Orochimaru's body.
The astonishing Chakra surge made Manda, who was supporting Orochimaru's body, instantly feel as if it were holding not Orochimaru, but a mountain that towered into the clouds. Its massive body suddenly lowered, trembling under the pressure.
The hand signs in Orochimaru's hands glowed brightly due to the colossal, highly condensed Chakra, and it seemed as if a deep-blue star had appeared in the sunlit sky.
Combination Jutsu: Earth-Shattering Meteorite Technique!
The thick earth within several hundred meters of the One-Tails, Shukaku's feet suddenly shattered, as if a pane of glass had been broken.
A scorching, boiling presence, containing a terrifying high temperature that could instantly vaporize a normal person, surged out from underground in massive quantities.
The moment the scorching high-temperature air rushed out of the ground, it immediately exploded into clouds of thick water vapor in the air.
The dense steam filled the area around Shukaku. This extremely uncomfortable atmosphere made its already furious mood even more irritable.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle. Strange sounds appeared. From the fissures where the steam erupted, massive, seemingly endless amounts of underground magma suddenly burst forth.
The fiery red magma converged, forming vast rivers of lava that instantly covered the ground within a hundred meters of Shukaku's feet. It flowed surgingly, occasionally raising huge lava waves that slammed heavily onto the One-Tails' massive body. Each strike of the wave burned large, ink-black scorch marks onto the Tailed Beast.
Roar!
Shukaku let out a deafening roar of rage.
Not having recovered its full power, it refused to engage Orochimaru head-on. The violet Wind God markings all over its body emitted a soft, glowing light. Immediately afterward, a thick curtain of yellow sand suddenly appeared around the One-Tails.
The yellowish-brown sand curtain spun, condensing into a gigantic earthen sand sphere, completely enveloping and protecting the One-Tails.
The surging lava waves continuously struck the giant sand sphere, emitting a chilling sizzle, sizzle, sizzle sound of burning, but they couldn't shake the sphere in the slightest.
Orochimaru saw Shukaku's "turtle shell" and gave a chilling smile, brazenly initiating the second phase of the combination Jutsu's offensive.
While rivers of lava surged below, a drastic change also occurred in the sky above.
A mysterious black opening, stretching hundreds of meters across the sky, suddenly tore open in the air.
Like a fissure ripped in this piece of the heavens, a heart-stopping aura of destruction emanated from within.
In the span of a single breath, five mountain-sized giant rocky meteorites, entirely engulfed in masses of fire, trailing long tails of flame that spanned the sky, suddenly descended. One after another, they slammed heavily onto the sand sphere Shukaku had condensed.
Boom! Boom!
After two violent crashes, the first two massive fiery meteorites struck the sand sphere squarely.
The enormous sand sphere's thick, yellowish-brown surface instantly developed large swaths of fine, long fissures, like a spiderweb.
The streams of fire generated after the meteorite impact immediately covered the sphere's surface. The fierce, scorching heat forcibly burned a thin layer of sand into large patches of yellowish-brown sandstone crystal, which crackled and fell into the lava.
Boom!
Another mountain-sized meteorite struck. The yellowish-brown sand sphere, now covered in cracks and completely overwhelmed, immediately exploded with a crash, scattering into large and small specks of sand, revealing Shukaku's massive body.
The final two terrifying meteorites rapidly descended.
Uchiha Kagami, who was already speechless in astonishment at the Jutsu's power, was amazed to see a look of intense fear appear for the first time in Shukaku's diamond-shaped beast eyes.
Shukaku desperately launched two deep-blue Drilling Air Bullets, but they were useless, only succeeding in knocking off a layer of streaming flame from the surface of the fiery meteorites before being utterly nullified.
Rumble!
The battlefield shook as if struck by a magnitude twelve earthquake.
Orochimaru looked closely and saw that half of Shukaku's massive body was heavily indented, constantly shedding surging yellow sand. Coupled with the arm that Uchiha Kagami had previously severed, the giant One-Tails' Chakra fluctuation, and even its overall aura, was diminished by nearly half. Its diamond-shaped beast eyes, fixed on Orochimaru, were filled with fury.
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