"Rip!"
Pitch-black slime surged back through the fleshy tubes beneath the ground. Kabuto Yakushi let out an inhuman scream as half his pale face was instantly covered in black muck.
The slime seemed alive as it desperately burrowed into his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, trying to seize control of his body.
"Get out! This is my body!"
Kabuto Yakushi shot back more than thirty feet. His right hand transformed into a sharp Chakra Scalpel, and without the slightest hesitation, he slashed brutally across his own abdomen.
"Splurt!"
The thick fleshy tube connected to the Leyline was severed at its root. Black, tainted blood gushed out, dyeing the puddles beneath his feet pitch-black.
He panted heavily, the purple snake markings at the corners of his eyes twisting into bizarre shapes from the pain. Though he had decisively cut off the source of the backlash like a lizard shedding its tail to survive, the unbalanced Senjutsu Chakra within him had completely gone berserk.
"No matter what that thing is... don't think you can stop me!" Kabuto Yakushi suddenly raised his head, his golden slit pupils filled with madness.
His hands formed an extremely complex and strange seal.
The out-of-control Senjutsu Chakra flooded wildly through his feet and into the rock layers.
"Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation!"
The stalactites on the cavern ceiling exploded with a roar. Hundreds upon thousands of sharp stone spikes poured down like a torrential rain, while the surrounding rock walls transformed into dozens of thick stone pythons that lunged from every direction at the three men in the center.
There was no blind spot.
"Chidori!"
Kakashi made the first move. Blinding blue-white lightning burst from his palm as his body turned into a bolt of lightning and charged directly into the stone rain falling from above.
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