That ominous chakra felt close at hand, even from a hundred miles away.
Yu and Orochimaru stood amid the wind and snow, gazing toward the distant horizon, unable to decide their next move!
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a pitch-black vortex appeared above them. The source of that ominous presence was about to descend!
Orochimaru covered his face with a hand, his slit pupils trembling. "What overwhelming pressure! This is unlike any enemy we've faced before!"
Yu said thoughtfully, "Orochimaru, head back."
"But..."
"I can handle things here myself. Go back and help everyone deal with the other enemies!"
Orochimaru thought, Even if I stayed, I'd only be a burden to Yu as I am now!
"Yu, be careful!" Having weighed the stakes, Orochimaru made his decision.
"I will." Yu nodded gently.
Rustle!
Orochimaru's legs turned into a snake's tail, and he swiftly withdrew from the battlefield.
Whoosh!
The storm abruptly intensified, swallowing Yu's figure, but his eyes remained bright as he stared intently ahead. "So it really is you... Hun Shi."
Ōtsutsuki Konshiki slowly descended to the ground, looking completely different from before. The middle-aged man had become an old man with drooping sidelocks, his face lined with weathered wrinkles. With his unruly white hair and beard and the red scepter in his hand, he bore some resemblance to an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
He wore only black trousers, leaving his sharply defined, muscular torso bare. All his exposed skin gleamed with a metallic black sheen, as though electroplated. Jagged white stripes stood in stark contrast to his complexion, originating at the third eye on his forehead. The two enclosing white circles somewhat resembled the markings on Hashirama's forehead in Sage Mode!
The three horns atop his head had moved to his shoulders and back. The four Byakugan arranged symmetrically at his temples