Orochimaru struggled out of the seawater onto a rocky shore strewn with jagged, oddly shaped stones.
He reached up and felt his unnaturally crooked neck.
An agonizing pain shot through his cervical vertebrae.
That punch had not struck his body directly.
But its violent physical shock wave had actually knocked his bones out of alignment!
"Orochimaru-Style Substitution Technique!"
Orochimaru opened his mouth, and a brand-new white snake slithered out of his battered shell.
This was the life-saving secret technique he took such pride in. By shedding his skin, he could instantly repair every injury to his body.
However.
When Orochimaru straightened up again and tried to move his neck.
His expression abruptly changed.
His neck was straight again, but he discovered that his body felt unusually heavy.
As though it had been filled with lead.
The overbearing power lingering inside him had not dissipated when he shed his skin.
Instead, like a festering infection clinging to his bones, it relentlessly suppressed his muscles and nerves.
"What kind of power is this? Even my skin-shedding technique can't completely remove it?"
A flicker of horror passed through Orochimaru's slit pupils.
He had spent half his life researching the human body and chakra, yet he had never encountered such an unreasonable lingering physical effect.
It was a pure will, brimming with the urge to destroy!
For the first time, Orochimaru felt that this Senju Kenya before him might not be some perfect experimental specimen at all.
But an utterly unreasonable monster!
"Well? Orochimaru, done shedding your skin?"
Kenya's lazy voice sounded behind Orochimaru like a ghost.
Every hair on Orochimaru's body stood on end, and he instinctively tried to dive forward.
But the heaviness in his body slowed him by half a beat.
"Smack!"
Two large hands like iron pincers had already clamped firmly onto Orochimaru's legs.
Because of his Orochimaru-style techniques, Orochimaru's lower body was now a thick snake tail.
Kenya held Orochimaru by that tail, a cruel smile curling his lips.
"Come on, let's keep exercising. Loosen up those muscles and bones."
Before he had finished speaking.
Kenya abruptly exerted strength through both arms.
"Boom!"
Orochimaru's vision blurred.
His entire body was swung up by Kenya like a tattered burlap sack.
He traced a semicircle through the air and slammed hard into the solid rocks on the right!
"Bang!"
The rocks shattered instantly.
Orochimaru let out a piercing scream, feeling as though all his internal organs were about to be smashed out of him.
But it was not over yet.
"Again!"
Kenya laughed loudly.
Holding Orochimaru's snake tail, he used the rebound to swing him up again.
This time, he smashed him hard into the rocks on the left.
"Boom!"
"Bang! Boom! Bang!"
As Haku watched, utterly dumbfounded.
The arrogant Orochimaru, one of the Konoha Sannin, was actually being used as a pair of nunchucks by Kenya!
He smashed him wildly back and forth across the rocky shore!
Every impact unleashed a deafening crash.
Deep craters were smashed into the hard rocks, sending fragments flying.
Orochimaru's long body was swung through the air like a giant windmill.
"Senju Kenya! You lunatic!"
Dizzy from the repeated impacts, Orochimaru endured the excruciating pain and roared furiously.
When had he, an illustrious member of the Sannin, ever suffered such humiliation?
"Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes!"
Orochimaru forced himself to form hand seals in midair, opened his mouth, and spat out thousands upon thousands of venomous snakes.
Like a black torrent, the venomous snakes surged toward Kenya from every direction to coil around him.
They tried to block Kenya's unreasonable monstrous strength through sheer numbers.
"All flash!"
Kenya snorted coldly.
He did not stop the "sledgehammer swinging" motion of his hands at all.
With just a thought, jet-black Armament Haki instantly covered his entire body.
Before those thousands upon thousands of venomous snakes could even approach Kenya's body.
They merely touched the violent wind pressure raised by his swinging Orochimaru and the repulsive force of his Armament Haki.
"Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft!"
A series of muffled, teeth-grating sounds rang out in succession.
The venomous snakes seemed to have struck an invisible wall of steel-hard air.
They shattered inch by inch!
They turned into a sky full of bloody mist and shredded flesh, fluttering down over the rocky shore.
They had not even managed to touch a single hair on Kenya!
Orochimaru watched all the venomous snakes he had summoned get wiped out in an instant.
The fear in his heart finally overwhelmed his anger.
He discovered that all his ninjutsu and techniques seemed so laughable and powerless before absolute strength.
The man before him did not need to form hand seals at all.
His absurdly powerful body was the strongest weapon!
"Bang!"
Another heavy impact.
Orochimaru's body smashed a deep crater into the rocks, and who knew how many bones throughout his body had broken.
Blood kept spilling from the corners of his mouth, staining his pale cheeks red.
Orochimaru's head buzzed, and even his consciousness began to blur.
If he kept being smashed like this.
Even his body, modified countless times, would definitely be smashed into a puddle of minced flesh.
Orochimaru gritted his teeth, a flicker of resolve flashing through his eyes.
"Earth Release: Golden Cicada Shell Shedding!"