"Prepare to meet your death! Dance of the Seedling Fern!"
Kimimaro let out a piercing howl like a dying beast, and the Cursed Seal of Heaven on his neck went completely berserk. Black cursed seal markings instantly covered his entire body. Then his body began to undergo a horrifying transformation.
His skin turned dark brown, a thick dinosaur tail sprouted from his back, and his spine even pierced straight through his skin, exposed to the air. He had completely transformed into a terrifying monster that radiated a savage, primeval aura! This was Kimimaro's cursed seal state two!
Rumble!
As Kimimaro slammed both hands against the ground, the earth began to shake violently and groan. Under the terrified gazes of Shikamaru, Naruto, and the others, the grassland for hundreds of meters around instantly collapsed. Countless enormous, sharp, deathly white bone spikes, as tall as towering trees, burst wildly out of the ground like bamboo shoots after the rain!
In the blink of an eye, the once-flat grassland became an enormous, impenetrable bone spike forest that radiated death!
"Run! Jump into the trees!" Shikamaru shouted himself hoarse, desperately pulling the injured Neji back toward a large tree. Naruto and Kiba also scrambled desperately through the forest of erupting bones, where the slightest misstep would leave them riddled with holes.
Yet Shengu Xuan, standing at the very center of the eruption, still made no attempt to dodge.
Shluk! Shluk! Shluk!
More than a dozen incredibly thick bone spikes, carrying unstoppable force, instantly pierced straight through Shengu Xuan's body without resistance! Blood gushed from his wounds like a fountain, staining those deathly white spikes crimson. His body hung high in the air, looking like a rag doll offered up in a cruel sacrifice.
"Captain Shengu!!!"
Watching from distant tree branches, Shikamaru and the others