Orochimaru had named the combination of the Eight-Headed Serpent's Eight Branches Giant Bomb and Susanoo's divine artifact, the Yasaka Magatama, the Three-Eight Snake God Cannon!
Itachi controlled the Susanoo-Armored Eight-Headed Serpent and fired. The attack crossed hundreds of meters in an instant.
"!" Horrified, Ryoma retreated thirty meters. Shisui stood firm, raising Susanoo's twin blades to block.
BOOM!
After an earth-shattering explosion, fire engulfed Shisui's Susanoo and the surrounding Many-Snake Formation!
Fierce winds raged, and fragments scattered!
The explosion destroyed the heavy armor of Shisui's Susanoo. Its force drove the Yasaka Magatama carried by the attack deep into Susanoo's skeletal frame, completely shattering Shisui's upper body!
Clearly, the combined might of Itachi's and Orochimaru's ultimate techniques far surpassed Shisui's defenses!
Atop the Susanoo-Armored Eight-Headed Serpent's head.
Orochimaru was enjoying himself. "Now, when Shisui-kun regenerates, the poison insects will no longer control him."
Itachi cut him off without mercy. "Then let's split up."
Whoosh! Susanoo's armor vanished from the Eight-Headed Serpent's body.
After landing, Itachi spoke without looking back. "We've split the battlefield. Now we proceed according to the plan..."
Watching Itachi's retreating back, Orochimaru lost his enthusiasm. "Things are beautiful because they're fleeting. I never used to agree, but now I'm beginning to understand..."
Whoosh! The Eight-Headed Serpent vanished. After landing, Orochimaru transformed his legs into a snake's tail and darted past the regenerating Shisui, heading straight for Ryoma!
"Tch!" Ryoma clicked his tongue, turned, and fled. Orochimaru pursued relentlessly, their figures receding into the distance.
Whoosh!
Shisui's body finished regenerating.
Itachi also came to a stop some distance away. The two geniuses of the Uchiha's younger generation faced each other as equals.
"Shisui," Itachi said, "the poison insects controlling you are dead. What's controlling your actions now is the special 'talisman' used by the caster of Impure World Reincarnation.