Boom-!!!
An energy beam more than fifty meters across blasted toward the White Snake Sage like a sword of divine punishment!
Space itself warped slightly in its wake!
Sensing mortal danger, the White Snake Sage shrieked and unleashed every last bit of the Senjutsu Chakra she had accumulated over a thousand years!
"Sage Art: Coiling Snake Guard!"
She coiled her enormous serpentine body into a mountain of snakes, mixing dense Senjutsu Chakra with her primal snake venom to erect layer after layer of incredibly sturdy defensive barriers before her.
But-
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The torrent of energy tore through every layer of her defenses with overwhelming force before slamming into her coiled body!
" Hiss-!!!"
The White Snake Sage screamed. Scales flew from her enormous body as the blast mangled her flesh, even exposing stark white bone!
Before absolute power, her defenses proved utterly fragile!
Just two moves!
One inflicted minor injuries, the other dealt a devastating blow!
This was the power of a fully realized Azure Dragon!
Below, the snakes of Ryūchi Cave saw the White Snake Sage, whom they had believed invincible, suffer such grievous injuries in a single encounter. They plunged into sheer panic and began fleeing in every direction.
The Snake Princesses, including Tagorihime and Ichikishimahime, were deathly pale, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.
Too powerful!
They were not even on the same plane!
The White Snake Sage struggled to raise her enormous head. Her serpentine eyes were filled with fear and defiance, but above all, a despair born of the instinct to survive.
She understood now that she was no match for this Azure Dragon.
If she kept fighting, only death awaited her!
After a thousand years of cultivation, she had finally reached the threshold of Dragon Transformation. She did not want to die here!