That soul-chilling purple lightning, radiating the aura of death, pierced through Koharu without slowing in the slightest. Like a venomous serpent that had locked onto its prey, it shot toward Homura with the force to destroy everything!
The violent arcs of electricity even singed the hair before his forehead, and the shadow of death completely enveloped him.
He could clearly feel his skin stinging from the ionized air. He wanted to speak, but his throat seemed to be gripped by an invisible force, allowing only raspy, leaking breaths to escape.
At that critical moment!
"Five Releases: Great Combo Bullet Technique—Seal!"
An aged yet commanding roar rang out!
Raging flames, rushing torrents, sharp earth spikes, fierce wind blades, and heavy boulders—five streams of chakra with different natures did not attack Chasing Fang. Instead, they cleverly intertwined, collided, and annihilated one another between him and Homura, forming a chaotic yet powerful chakra barrier that forcibly stalled the deadly Purple Lightning for an instant!
As the smoke and dust began to clear, the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, appeared at the doorway. His face was so grim it seemed ready to drip water. One hand rested on the New Adamantine Staff, while the other remained in a hand seal.
His gaze swept over Koharu's charred corpse on the ground, then turned to Homura, who was still reeling from terror and had wet himself, before finally settling on Chasing Fang, whose killing intent had yet to fade and whose body was still wreathed in Purple Lightning.
"How did it come to this... how did it come to this...?"
The Third Hokage's voice was full of grief and exhaustion, as though he had aged another ten years in an instant.
He looked at Koharu's corpse, his lips trembling, his eyes filled with deep disappointment and confusion.