Kabuto Yakushi adjusted his glasses. "Does the Jashinist Cult cast a Hidden Mist Technique over such a wide area during its rituals? My intelligence has no record of that."
"Mist?" Longqi gave a low chuckle, sending tremors through the surrounding water. "We didn't make this mist. But it doesn't matter..."
He slowly raised his altered right hand and spread his fingers. "Before absolute power, every scheme is nothing but a futile struggle!"
Before he finished speaking, the calm sea erupted!
Boom!
Five enormous water dragons, each more than three meters across, surged from the sea around Kabuto. Every dragon looked lifelike, and eerie Water Demon Qi gathered in their heads.
They lunged at Kabuto Yakushi from different angles at once, sealing off every escape route!
"Sage Art: White Rage Technique!"
Kabuto Yakushi pressed his palms together. A white orb formed between them, then burst!
Blinding light and violent vibrations engulfed the sea. The five charging water dragons shuddered, broke apart, and splashed down as ordinary seawater.
But Longqi's attack was far from over.
"Useless!" Longqi laughed wildly and thrust both hands upward. "Feel the fury of the sea!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
All around Kabuto Yakushi, the sea rose into a ring of water thirty meters high. The wall did not stand still. It contracted inward at astonishing speed, crushing everything in its path!
Shadows of countless monstrous deep-sea fish swam within it, formed from Water Demon Qi, their mouths open to reveal rows of sharp teeth.
Worse, the sea beneath his feet began spinning into a massive whirlpool. Its terrifying pull threatened to drag Kabuto Yakushi into the Abyss!
Water Release combined with Nature Energy? No, this was closer to a Kekkei Genkai-level mutation.
Kabuto Yakushi analyzed it calmly. Chakra burst beneath his feet, launching him straight up.
But