"Orochimaru, use your strongest poison mist and melt him into a puddle of blood!"
Manda, smashed into the bottom of the deep crater, let out an utterly agonized, humiliated roar. More than half of his iron-hard scales had shattered, and his purple blood stained the surrounding rubble. As the great serpent of countless generations from Ryūchi Cave, when had he ever suffered such disgrace? A human brat without even a trace of chakra had swung him through the air like a torn sack. If word of this reached the summoning realm, how could Manda ever show his face again?
But Manda also knew perfectly well that the black-haired boy's physical strength had surpassed the limits of carbon-based life. If he fought him with brute strength, he would only be beaten to death.
Hearing Manda's furious roar, Orochimaru stood among the distant ruins, his face dark as a storm. A flicker of crazed viciousness flashed through his eyes.
"Shengu Xuan, your strength truly frightens me. But in this Shinobi World, brute force alone won't keep you alive for long!" Orochimaru roared hoarsely. Though his crippled hands could no longer form hand seals, he could still perform certain special ninjutsu through his mouth.
Orochimaru abruptly drew a deep breath, his chest swelling violently like a bellows. Then he opened his venomous, snake-like mouth, and an incredibly dense cloud of nauseating purple-black poison mist erupted from it like floodwater bursting through a dam!
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
While spewing the poison mist, Orochimaru actually forced out Wind Release Ninjutsu through the vibrations of his throat. The raging wind carried the purple-black mist, potent enough to melt steel, turning it into a deadly cloud that blotted out the sky and swept toward Shengu Xuan with overwhelming force!
This poison mist combined Ryūchi Cave's deadly