At this thought, Orochimaru immediately performed the Summoning Jutsu, intending to summon Manda and ask what exactly was going on.
Yet after using the Summoning Jutsu, Orochimaru sensed that something was wrong. Where had Manda gone?
Not a single snake answered his call!
Th-this wasn't right!
"What's going on?"
Orochimaru used the Summoning Jutsu again, only to summon nothing once more. Looking at the towering giant serpent, he finally realized that something might have happened at Ryūchi Cave.
"Orochimaru, get out of here!"
Tobirama Senju came running over, calling for Orochimaru to flee.
The two immediately retreated from that Dead Silence Domain, reaching a distant mountaintop in the blink of an eye.
"Xi! Uchiha Yue... now is the time for you to die!"
A voice that felt familiar to Orochimaru, yet magnified countless times over, rang out. Violent winds surged, thunder exploded, and the earth was torn apart. Trees, soil, and mountains were all hurled into the air by the White Snake Sage's high-speed movement.
The mountains blocking the White Snake Sage's path were smashed apart by her head-on impact.
Even the peak where Orochimaru and the others stood began to shake.
"The White Snake Sage—it's her, that's the White Snake Sage's voice! This is the White Snake Sage! What happened to Ryūchi Cave?"
Orochimaru covered his ears, feeling as though he was about to go deaf. But that voice truly belonged to the White Snake Sage.
He was utterly bewildered. He could not understand what had happened to Ryūchi Cave, nor why the White Snake Sage had become so powerful again.
Yet while the outside world shook and trembled as if the entire world were about to be destroyed, the Dead Silence Domain remained as calm as ever. Even the tremors in the earth vanished the moment they approached