The bloodwind cut like knives.
Stalactites rained down from the cavern ceiling, smashing against the massive rolling body below and instantly turning to dust. It was a pure white giant snake so enormous it defied reason; even its head, protruding from the abyss, was as large as a small hill.
Two blood-red vertical pupils hung in midair, staring fixedly at Hyuga Xiao on the ground.
With every breath it took, a thick stench filled the air, mixed with the cold aura unique to God Tree matter. Orochimaru lay prone on the ground, his remaining right hand digging desperately into the cracked rock. His nails had broken and blood flowed, yet he did not dare take even a deep breath. His mouth was filled with the taste of blood from biting through his tongue. The tangible pressure from this thousand-year-old monster weighed down on him so heavily that he could not even mobilize the chakra within his body.
"Ōtsutsuki insect..."
The White Snake Sage's overlapping, hoarse voice boomed through the cavern, sending the underground river into waves several yards high. "After a thousand years, you finally couldn't resist coming to reclaim this failed specimen?"
She had mistaken Xiao for someone from the Ōtsutsuki Main House. After all, only those lofty starry-sky plunderers could crush a Yin–Yang Release Black Rod with their bare hands while radiating such high-level cosmic chakra.
Xiao stood where he was, his black trench coat snapping in the gale. He tilted his head slightly upward, the starlight in his azure Tenseigan especially dazzling in the darkness.
"If your eyes are failing, then go die." Xiao curled his lips into a cruel smile. "I'm not one of those cowards hiding on the moon. I'm the hunter here to tear apart your bones and rip out your tendons."
"Arrogant!"
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