Yotsuki A slowly unwrapped the black sealing cloth bound to his arm, revealing the archaic "Thunder" character, which shone brightly in the sunlight.
The thick dark cloud that had suddenly appeared overhead immediately dropped a blue-violet lightning bolt, the thickness of a man's arm, the moment Yotsuki A's "Thunder" seal was fully exposed.
Following a thunderous "Rumble—," the lightning struck Yotsuki A's body. "Crack! Crackle—" After a flash of blinding blue-violet light, Orochimaru was startled to see that a portion of the wounds on Yotsuki A's body had begun to heal.
Turning to face Orochimaru, the rough-featured Yotsuki A, now shimmering with the residual power of the lightning, laughed loudly and roared to the sky: "Haha, Thunder God Seal, release!"
With this roar, the archaic "Thunder" seal on Yotsuki A's right arm suddenly burst into light, transforming into a column of electrical light the width of a large bowl, which shot straight into the dark cloud above.
Immediately after, the thick dark cloud—which covered dozens of meters of the clear sky above Yotsuki A—seemed to be fully activated by the electric column. Dozens, even hundreds, of terrifying blue-violet lightning bolts plunged down. Without exception, every bolt struck Yotsuki A's body!
Yotsuki A was completely bathed in this sea of blue-violet thunder, absorbing and integrating the bolts into himself.
With every lightning strike absorbed, Orochimaru sensed that Yotsuki A's chakra and aura recovered a fraction, and the wounds on his body quickly closed and healed at a visible speed. In just a few breaths, he was completely healed.
Not only that, but after Yotsuki A's chakra and aura were restored, his power continued to climb, becoming even more terrifying, more overbearing, and more powerful.
The lightning cloak around his body, which had been faint and almost vanished, returned to full force after absorbing the lightning strikes, and it underwent an even more marvelous transformation.
Piece by piece, blue-violet scales, solid plates condensed from lightning and thunder, gradually fitted together, cloaking Yotsuki A in a formidable Lightning Armor.
The instant the Lightning Armor condensed, the dark cloud dissipated. The completely renewed Yotsuki A truly looked like the Thunder God descended, clad in his Lightning Armor, wreathed in powerful, crackling sparks of electricity, and radiating a terrifying, intimidating aura.
On the Kage's platform, Sarutobi frowned and muttered: "That boy has cultivated the Thunder God Seal!"
Yotsuki Manrō (the Raikage) smiled contentedly: "That Thunder God Seal was cultivated by A in the Cloud Thunder Gorge. It stores the lightning and thunder of the gorge, as well as a portion of A's own chakra! Now, he is using his full strength!"
As the Raikage's words faded, Yotsuki A in the arena unleashed an electrical blade nearly half a meter long from his hand. It streaked out in a blue-violet arc, charging toward Orochimaru.
Orochimaru quickly moved his hands to weave a hand sign: Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!
A solid, thick stone wall, resembling a city rampart, suddenly rose from the desolate, ravaged arena ground.
Yotsuki A smiled excitedly, increased his speed again, and violently stabbed his electrical blade into the earthen wall.
The solid, massive stone wall lasted less than a single breath before Yotsuki A completely pierced through it, shattering it into scattered stones.
Yotsuki A pressed his advantage, instantly rushing up to Orochimaru and slashing his right hand, which flashed with blue-violet lightning, in a diagonal arc.
So fast. Orochimaru's eyes widened slightly in surprise.
Slish—
Even though Orochimaru managed to dodge backward by a few steps, the attack still carved a narrow, ten-centimeter-long wound into his arm. Crimson blood gushed out, though the cut was not deep. The electric shock carried by the lightning quickly cauterized the narrow wound. Although excruciatingly painful, it unexpectedly stopped the bleeding.
Orochimaru shook his injured arm. Standing several meters away, facing Yotsuki A in his strongest state, he also felt the situation was tricky. The smile on his lips was cold and resigned: "I planned to save this for last, but it looks like I have to use it now!"
Yotsuki A heard Orochimaru's murmur, and his body stiffened. He looked at Orochimaru in disbelief: "You were still holding back?"
Orochimaru merely smiled, saying nothing, his gaze chilling as he looked at Yotsuki A, who had managed to wound him!
His aura suddenly paused, then violently surged, fluctuating like a choppy, raging sea just before a storm.
The brilliance in Orochimaru's dark-golden eyes flashed. The mysterious Eight Branches Curse Seal on his chest, under his conscious control, suddenly shattered and disintegrated, transforming into streams of faint golden light that permeated his chakra system. It quickly broke down into pure, dense chakra flow, filling his entire body and granting him incomparably vast power.
Orochimaru's released aura instantly surged, recovering to its peak in just a moment.
But he wasn't finished. After the Eight Branches Curse Seal broke down into chakra, it revealed its second form of transformation under his control!
The murderous intent and killing aura contained within Orochimaru's body, or perhaps his very soul, were released without reservation. The entire sunlit arena instantly felt like it had been plunged into a freezing December day. Chills ran down everyone's spines as cold winds blew.
Under the invasion of Orochimaru's killing aura, Yotsuki A unexpectedly shivered slightly, only to have the feeling immediately masked by his surging battle lust. Then, he suddenly noticed flecks of golden light appearing around Orochimaru.
Tiny, grain-sized golden particles, as numerous as the stars in the sky, were radiating from Orochimaru's body.
Under Yotsuki A's careful observation, these golden particles turned out to be minute chakra spheres.
After radiating from Orochimaru's body, these chakra spheres rapidly condensed behind him, forming a golden python phantom the width of a bucket and dozens of meters long. It coiled behind Orochimaru, hissing toward the sky, yet radiating an astonishing aura of supreme nobility.
Sensing the golden python phantom condensed from the Eight Branches Curse Seal behind him, Orochimaru licked his lips and smiled wickedly. He injected all the terrifying murderous intent and killing aura he had released into the phantom. When the last trace of killing aura flowed into it, the golden python phantom coiled behind Orochimaru became even more solidified, seeming ready to become tangible at any moment!
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