Chapter 149: Eight Pillars Thunder Prison Technique
Orochimaru excitedly licked his lips and immediately controlled Manda to launch an attack.
The colossal Manda, his green snake eyes filled with thick, bloodthirsty killing intent, opened his monstrous maw and violently spat out a toxic gas orb with a diameter of several tens of meters.
The dark-purple toxic orb sliced through the air, rapidly hurtling toward Takayama Haruno.
Although the brothers Aokita and Aokiya had only collaborated with Orochimaru once, their coordination was superb.
The moment Manda's toxic orb flew out, the two brothers completed their hand signs.
Lightning Release: Running Current!
Countless streams of blue-purple lightning current frantically shot out from the palms of their hands, splattering onto the ground. They immediately moved across the ground with crackling sounds, like rapidly moving snakes, rushing toward Takayama Haruno in a pincer movement.
The ground-crawling lightning current was extremely fast, even slightly quicker than the toxic orb Manda fired.
The three attacks were tightly chained. If the frantic current hit Takayama Haruno's body, the resulting paralysis would ensure the following toxic orb struck him directly.
Takayama Haruno, as a seasoned Semi-Kage powerhouse, was fully aware of the effect of the trio's combined attack. Without panicking, he bit his right finger and performed complex summoning hand signs.
Boom! A twin-headed giant bird, with a wingspan of several tens of meters, emerged from the summoning formula.
Its feathers and body were the same earthy yellow color as the vast desert. The two strange bird heads glared fiercely, their razor-blade teeth filling their eerie beaks. A slight shake of its wide wings stirred up a strong gust of wind on the ground.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The strange twin-headed bird carried Takayama Haruno into the air in the blink of an eye.
The lightning currents lost their target, annihilated into nothingness after diving into the forest and snapping a few trees.
The dark-purple toxic gas orb also missed, leaving a terrifying crater dozens of meters in diameter and a meter deep in the ground, accompanied by a chilling sizzle, sizzle, sizzle sound.
The intense dark-purple poisonous gas continued to corrode the earth, constantly emitting faint, dark-purple smoke.
Standing on the bird's back, Takayama Haruno's eyes flickered as he saw the toxic orb's power. He launched a strong counterattack.
Wind Release: Sand Shower!
The rolling yellow sand that hadn't yet dispersed on the ground was lifted into the sky by Takayama Haruno's Chakra, blanketing the blue sky with a thin, hazy yellow veil and obscuring the brilliant sunlight.
Just then, the summoned twin-headed bird beneath Takayama Haruno's feet, sensing its master's intent, violently flapped its wide wings.
The terrifying wings, with their tens of meters of span, instantly whipped up countless fine, invisible wind blades. They swirled and flew, forming a turbulent current of wind blades that ferociously charged toward the three Konoha ninja.
The fine wind-blade current passed through the yellow sand curtain created by the Sand Shower. The surface of every wind blade became coated with a thin layer of yellow sand, transforming them into even stronger, cutting and tearing sand blades. With an earsplitting shriek, they formed a hazy yellow current of sand blades, trailing long curtains of sand, and violently enveloped the three Konoha ninja.
Orochimaru's eyes narrowed. He smiled coldly, sending his thoughts to Manda, signaling him to spit out another toxic gas orb.
A massive dark-purple toxic orb again shot from Manda's monstrous maw.
Orochimaru completed his hand signs, suddenly pressing his ten fingers together in front of his chest to form a hollow circle, condensing pure, refined Chakra onto it!
Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere!
Thud! A dull sound in the hollow circle of Orochimaru's hands, as if something were vibrating the air.
The next instant, a massive, invisible wind sphere, twisting the vision of all observers, and trailing a wail-like sonic boom, was accurately controlled by Orochimaru to penetrate the toxic gas orb.
The dark-purple toxic gas orb seemed to have been suddenly fitted with a jet. Its speed instantly doubled. The internal dark-purple poison, further compressed and condensed by the wind sphere's intervention, vastly increased in power and fiercely collided with the wind-blade current launched by Takayama Haruno.
Boom! A fierce explosion ripped through the air.
Shattered sand blades and scattered poisonous gas flew everywhere, ravaging the forest below once more.
Aokita and Aokiya exchanged glances, seizing the chance. They pumped the Chakra throughout their bodies, completed their hand signs, and heavily slammed their hands onto the ground, unleashing their final move with all their might!
The two brothers, perfectly synchronized in mind and heart, simultaneously activated the Four Pillars Prison Technique. Only twins and Jōnin like Aokita and Aokiya could flawlessly merge two identical and homologous Ninjutsu.
Lightning Release: Eight Pillars Thunder Prison Technique!
Centered on Takayama Haruno's position, the ground and trees at the edge of the circle, hundreds of meters in radius, suddenly crumbled apart, revealing eight massive, pitch-black sinkholes.
Rumble! A giant thunderous roar. Eight columns of blue-purple lightning plasma, each as thick as several people embracing and over ten meters tall, suddenly erupted from the eight sinkholes.
Countless chains of lightning, thick as an adult's arm, along with innumerable fine, dazzling electric sparks, burst from the terrifying lightning pillars.
The flying lightning chains connected and interlaced with one another, instantly forming massive nets of electricity that completely filled the vast space enclosed by the lightning plasma pillars.
The crackling and snapping of the thunder prison sparks echoed across the entire battlefield.
In just one breath, the enormous body of the summoned twin-headed bird beneath Takayama Haruno's feet was trapped by the electric nets, instantly electrocuted into a heap of charred remains and powder. It was so thoroughly killed that it couldn't even return to the summoning dimension.
Takayama Haruno, losing his summoned bird, felt the ground vanish beneath him and fell squarely onto the electric nets.
The endless, fine lightning plasma current coursed and exploded over his body, piercing through him. Even with the physique of a Semi-Kage powerhouse, facing this powerful Lightning Release Ninjutsu, he was bombarded by the terrifying current, leaving him completely paralyzed and heavily wounded.
His large, strong body, like an insect trapped in a spiderweb, or a fish lying on a cutting board, was immobilized and powerless to resist or struggle within the electric nets.
Orochimaru lightly flicked his tongue, smiling coldly and menacingly. Just as he was about to signal Manda to deliver the fatal blow to Takayama Haruno, a sudden, unexpected change occurred!
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