Bone blades ahead, Flame Flow at his side, and chakra-draining gold dust beneath his feet... Orochimaru had nowhere to dodge!
Hiss!
The Scorch Release Flame Flow grazed Orochimaru's body. His skin instantly turned black and dry, then peeled away in brittle sheets like paper, rotting apart!
The terrifying dehydrating effect struck his flesh directly!
"Aah!" Orochimaru let out a pained hiss.
But it wasn't over yet!
Beneath that ruined skin lay... another layer of perfectly intact skin!
"Skin Shedding Technique: Orochimaru-Style Substitution Technique!"
Like a snake shedding its skin, Orochimaru violently cast off his charred, rotting outer shell, leaving behind a complete, blackened human skin!
He burst out of that skin, slipping free of his shell, and charged toward the only opening not completely sealed off-the gap left in the wake of Yako's Scorch Release Flame Flow!
"Trying to escape?!" A Mu's gaze turned cold. Her figure flickered, accelerating with Transparent Release as her bone blade stabbed straight toward Orochimaru's back!
Tufeng also shaped his Dragon Crystal Sand into several golden sand pythons to cut off Orochimaru's escape!
Storm Release lasers and bone spikes sealed off the sky!
Orochimaru gritted his teeth, forcibly twisted his body in midair, and rapidly formed hand seals.
"Ninja Art: Shadow Clone Technique!"
Poof! Poof!
Two identical clones of Orochimaru appeared, each meeting either A Mu's or Tufeng's attack. His real body used the brief chaos they created to accelerate again, shooting toward the valley's edge like an arrow loosed from a bow!
"After him!" Uchiha Makoto's order was brief and cold.
A Mu destroyed the clone in an instant, while Tufeng crushed the obstacle before his sand pythons. Together with Yako, they raced after him in a triangular formation!
But just as they were about to catch Orochimaru's real body!
That Orochimaru suddenly looked