Azure fury ablaze
Jiraiya stood atop Gamabunta's head, his Adam's apple bobbing violently, his hand holding a cigarette frozen in mid-air.
The perfect fusion of form transformation and Yang Release nature demonstrates Chakra control that transcends human comprehension.
Naruto channeled his Chakra into his leg muscles, using the momentum of the attacking jaws of the Manda to propel himself forward. He was like a golden hammer, crashing down into the gaping maw.
Golden light exploded inside the upper jaw of the Manda.
The extremely yang and vigorous life energy cut into the snake clan's meridians like a sharp blade, flowing backwards.
The Manda let out a pitiful roar, their massive bodies thrashing wildly in the mud, their tails lashing haphazardly, completely leveling the ruins.
A charred hole two meters in diameter was blasted into the upper jaw, and the flesh around the edges was suppressed by the Yang Release technique, making it impossible for it to regenerate.
Manda, writhing in agony, lost all reason. His body convulsed as he raised his head and roared into the void, "Enough! Let's call it even! Orochimaru, this human is our nemesis! From now on, Manda's Cave will not answer your summons!"
A huge plume of white smoke exploded, Manda, disregarding orders, unilaterally broke the contract and fled in disarray.
Orochimaru, having lost his footing, fell from mid-air.
He twisted his lumbar spine in mid-air, and when he landed, his knees carved out two extremely deep furrows.
Fine beads of sweat finally appeared on that perpetually indifferent face.
He watched Naruto fall from the sky, bit his tongue, and formed intricate hand seals.
The surface of its body peels off layer by layer, like dried tree bark.
A white snake emerged from the mangled body and quickly burrowed into the ground.
Before disappearing, a chilling voice drifted in the morning breeze. "Naruto-kun... Sasuke is already in my cradle. If you want to find him, come to Otogakure. I'll be waiting for you in the north."
A half-damaged map, soaked in slime, fell from Orochimaru's shed skin, with the corners clearly marked as the outer transfer point of the Otogakure.
Naruto landed steadily. The continuous high-intensity output had pushed his weakened muscles to their limits, causing his knees to bend slightly by half an inch, and his shoes to leave very shallow marks in the mud.
He bent down to pick up the map, wiping away the mud and water with his fingertips.
[Brother, tell me the truth, treating me to such a nice meal, you're not thinking of... me, are you? This door-to-door delivery service is really touching.]
He muttered to himself, a hunter's calm composure as he locked onto his prey.
The battlefield returned to calm.
Gamabunta sheathed his short sword, gave Naruto a deep look, and then vanished in a puff of white smoke.
Tsunade strode across the scorched earth and walked up to Naruto.
His amber eyes swept over his blood-stained coat, finally settling on his trembling wrist.
She didn't speak, but placed both palms on his left shoulder, pouring in his pure Strength of a Hundred Seal Chakra without reservation.
Naruto looked down at her serious profile, a playful smirk playing on his lips. "Lady Tsunade, are you so worried about me?"
Tsunade's hand, causing Naruto to gasp, but her voice was low and conciliatory. "Enough talk. Go back to Hidden Leaf. I'll take over the Fifth Hokage's position."
At the end of the distant official road, carrier pigeons are flying towards Hidden Leaf, facing the rising sun.
Meanwhile, deep underground in the far north, on the back of Sasuke's neck, which was wrapped in layers of snake molts, the hidden Snake Seal and the Yang Release mark were silently battling in the darkness.
A real purge has only just begun.
Just as Tsunade's Strength of a Hundred Seal Chakra returned to Naruto's left shoulder, an unexpected change occurred beneath the ruins.
The charred, blood-soaked hole rapidly expanded on the upper jaw of the Manda, and the extremely yang and powerful Chakra, like scorching steel needles, completely destroyed the sanity of this serpent overlord.
Instead of dissipating into white smoke as it had just claimed, its massive body forcibly reversed its vital energy and lifted half of its head out of the mud pit.
The snake's tongue twitched wildly between its teeth, a foul stench swept through the broken walls and ruins, Manda mad roar escaped from the depths of its throat, "You ignorant brat, I'll chew you up and swallow you whole!"
Before the words were finished, a thick snake tail swept across the ruins from the east, crushing the remaining three rows of broken walls into dust.
Gamabunta drew his sword and stepped forward to block, Jiraiya pressed down on his Chakra to steady himself.
Naruto stood still, his shoes leaving two deep marks on the ground, not taking a single step back.
He raised his arm and wrapped it around Tsunade's waist, using the force of his turn to throw her accurately against the soft back of the Katsuyu behind him.
Immediately afterwards, he grabbed his tattered shirt, stained with blood, with one hand and ripped it off forcefully.
The fabric ripped, revealing the well-proportioned and explosive muscle lines of the shoulders, back, chest, and abdomen.
The residual internal injury to the Gate of Limit was forcibly pushed down, causing the meridians to churn like lava.
"Eight Gates, Sixth Gate, Gate of View, open fully!"
A haughty growl slammed heavily onto the ground.
Centered on the sole of his boot, a huge circular pit collapsed outward from the bluestone slab beneath his feet.
A blinding blue flame shot up from his back like a volcanic eruption.
All the gravel on the ground was lifted into the air by the airflow, and the air was compressed by the extreme pressure to produce a muffled sonic boom.
The Katsuyu clones behind sensed this inhuman energy and instinctively curled up into a ball.
Shizune clung tightly to the Kabuto Yakushi by the ropes, her throat bobbing twice with difficulty, but she couldn't utter a single word.
The first to be attacked, the Manda, stopped roaring.
The fierce and savage look in those huge vertical pupils was forcibly suppressed.
It sensed a pure, destructive aura emanating from Naruto, transcending the boundaries of species. The hard scales on its back rose uncontrollably, and its body tensed and recoiled before its will could even register.
It wanted to retreat, but it was too late.
Just as the snake's tail swept three zhang in front of him, Naruto stomped down hard with his toes.
The sound barrier was broken, leaving only a diffused ring of air in its place.
The blue trajectory cut a straight line in mid-air; he arrived first despite being behind, appearing directly above the head of the Manda.
"Try taking my punch."
Naruto clenched his right fist.
The Sixth Gate blue flames enveloping the arm bone were silently coated with a ring of dazzling golden Yang Release flames.
Pure physical strength is forcefully intertwined with the very essence of life.
The first punch landed solidly.
The hardest scale on the head of the Manda was like a fragile thin layer of ice, with a spiderweb-like crack spreading outwards along the bone.
The enormous snake head was slammed into the ground by this incomprehensible violence, its lower jaws digging deep into the soil, carving a trench hundreds of meters deep.
The shockwave blew two-ton boulders off the sides like pieces of paper.
The aftershock pushed Gamabunta, causing his large foot to slide several steps along the edge of the ditch, and the pipe he was holding in his mouth fell directly to his feet.
Jiraiya stood atop it, his raised hand frozen in mid-air, veins bulging on the back of his hand, completely speechless as he stared at the scene before him.
The Manda let out the most piercing scream of its life, its massive body tumbling wildly on the ground, its tail lashing erratically.
Naruto shifted positions rapidly, stepping through the gaps in the swirling scales; his blue figure moved so fast that it was merely a blur.
The second and third punches, like precisely calculated rock drills, landed precisely at the deepest point of the same crack opened by the first blow.
The snake's bones were pierced, and a thick column of black blood shot straight into the sky from the crater.
Orochimaru's sinister aura was finally revealed.
More than a dozen white snakes shot out from beneath the scales hidden on the back of the Manda, lunging straight at Naruto's back and spewing out neurotoxins powerful enough to paralyze a giant elephant.
The venom landed on the rocks, instantly corroding them and creating tiny black holes.
Naruto.
At speeds exceeding the limits of sound propagation, he merely shifted half a shoulder casually.
More than a dozen snake shadows all missed their mark, grazing his ear.
Immediately afterwards, he slammed his palm down hard on the back of the writhing Manda.
The pent-up Yang Release Chakra surged forth from his palm like a bursting dam, flowing backwards along the snake clan's cold meridians.
The scales on the entire back of the Manda simultaneously flipped and cracked open, and golden light, like a red-hot iron, pierced through the gaps in the skin.
"Manda! Spit Poisonous Mist! Smash him with your bodies!"
Orochimaru's voice, losing its composure, came from deep within the cracks of his scales, carrying an undisguised urgency.
The Manda had only opened its massive jaws halfway when Naruto used the momentum to propel himself directly in front of the abyss's gaping maw.
He raised his right arm high, and the power of the Sixth Gate and the Yang Release Golden Fire were completely compressed into a halo that distorted the air.