The Fourth Raikage and Killer B saw Orochimaru seal the tentacle and immediately realized they had been tricked.
Killer B and Gyuki flew into a rage at the same time. Killer B roared, "Give me Gyuki's body back!"
As he roared, Killer B underwent Complete Tailed Beast Transformation, becoming the enormous Eight-Tails Gyuki before everyone's eyes. His seven tentacles grew even thicker, and a tiny new tentacle even sprouted.
The ability to regenerate was truly astonishing.
Seeing the Eight-Tails, whose power was second only to the Nine-Tails, reveal its true form, Orochimaru's golden, slit-pupiled eyes filled with wariness.
He hesitated for a moment, but ultimately gave up on using the Eight-Branches Serpent Technique and revealing his full strength.
This state of neither winning nor losing, while holding a slight advantage, best served his interests.
Showing more of his power wouldn't make his subordinates more loyal. It would only make his political opponents more wary and provoke an unpredictable change in the Third Hokage's attitude.
In an instant, his body transformed into eight enormous venomous snakes, each about the same size as Manda. They lunged at A and Killer B, while Manda seized the opportunity to break free and launch another attack.
After Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails' complete form, he immediately used the Tailed Beast Eight Twists, wrapping himself in his tentacle tails and spinning at high speed to form a gigantic storm.
This was a true natural disaster!
Wherever the storm passed, Orochimaru could only dodge. Even the ground, rocks, cherry trees, and the corpses of ninja were swept into the sky and torn to pieces.
At the heart of the battlefield, the Sakura Plains Fortress became the Eight-Tails' target.
The storm's force split the fortress walls open over a wide area. Piles of corpses and rubble shot