"Bang!!"
A pillar-like white air cannon shot out from Naruto's fist, directly piercing through the earth, creating a terrifying, bottomless circular well.
The massive and burly Orochi was enveloped by the huge air column formed by Evening Elephant, its body violently shaking, its indestructible carapace, capable of withstanding humanity's strongest thermal weapons, shattered with a resounding crack!
"Two-Legged!"
"Three-Legged!"
Naruto transformed into lightning, continuously unleashing air cannons from different angles!
Each strike landed solidly, Orochi's defenses were peeled away layer by layer, fragments scattering everywhere. He let out an angry and painful roar, attempting to counterattack with his tentacles and rays, but Naruto's speed was too fast, and all of his attacks missed!
"Four-Legged!"
"Five-Legged!!"
The final two strikes, with their power amplified, were world-destroying, like a colossal air cannon unleashed by a god!
The planet's thick lithosphere was completely pierced through, the thick white air column almost solidifying, nearly impaling the earth and blasting Orochi towards the planetary core. As for the Dragon-level Monsters originally sealed in Chibaku Tensei, the mere aftershocks of their battle had already reduced them to dust.
Deep beneath the earth.
Here, there was an even grander space.
A massive lava cave, with boiling magma, resembled a hollowed-out underground kingdom. Towering stone pillars, like the bones of giants, supported a ceiling that stretched out of sight. The air was filled with an ancient and dense Monster energy, carrying the scent of sulfur and decay. Near the stone walls was a massive altar.
Above the altar was a mural depicting ancient people worshipping a monster similar to Orochi.
Orochi's proud body disintegrated, like a fallen meteor, trailing twisted flames and dense smoke, crashing heavily into the magma lake below the altar.
Naruto slowly descended, hovering in mid-air, looking down at the underground lava lake.
"Hoo—hoo—stupid—human—" Orochi's shattered chest violently heaved, emitting gasps like a broken bellows, "Do you—think this is—the end?"
His remaining tentacles swelled one after another, beginning to greedily absorb the immense heat radiating from the lava lake and the surging energy within the Earth!
Dark red light, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, frantically poured into his body.
Orochi's shattered body began to heal and reassemble at a visible speed, but it wasn't returning to its original state; instead, it was evolving into an older, more fundamental, and more terrifying form!
His body grew even larger, his lower half resembling a giant scorpion, while his upper half had sinewy muscles and dozens of writhing tentacles, each ending in a dragon-like head. The biological armor on his body transformed into a more ancient, dark rock and metal hybrid texture, as if carrying billions of years of Earth's history. Countless mysterious energy patterns, as if naturally formed, lit up on his body, emitting a heart-pounding fluctuation.
The overall form became more abstract, like a divine totem depicted in ancient murals, wielding the great power of nature.
"Do you see? What is depicted on this wall—"
Orochi raised his hand, pointing to the tall, ancient mural above the lava lake altar, which depicted ancient people kneeling before a massive figure.
"That worshipped figure—is not a fiction! He—is this King! I am the manifestation of the Earth's will, I am—
A God!"
As he spoke, the entire underground space began to shake violently.
No, not just this underground space!
Centered around the Monster Association's location, terrifying energy fluctuations spread like ripples throughout the entire planet's interior!
The tectonic plates groaned under the immense stress; globally, volcanoes became abnormally active, preparing to erupt;
On the surface, strong seismic waves swept across, city buildings swayed, and the sea churned with raging waves!
This was not an active attack; it was merely a planetary-level resonance naturally triggered as Orochi absorbed energy and revealed his true form! His very existence had begun to distort the Earth's stable structure!
Catastrophe—
This was the true God-level Catastrophe.
"Has he already ascended from the peak of Dragon-level to God-level?"
Naruto hovered in the air, clearly feeling the painful tremors emanating from the planet beneath him. For the first time, a solemn expression appeared in his Rinnegan.
The energy level the opponent was currently emitting was completely incomparable to before; it was a vast and boundless oppressive feeling connected to the entire planetary network!
"Feel the wrath of God! Ant!"
Orochi, having revealed his true form, spread his arms. At the center of his chest, the already present, more ferocious giant mouth suddenly expanded. Inside was not darkness, but a point of extremely compressed light, containing the power to destroy stars, coalescing.
He was frantically drawing and compressing terrifying energy from the Earth's core!
"Gaia Cannon!!"
An energy torrent, whose color was beyond description, erupted from the giant mouth on Orochi's chest! This beam did not travel in a straight line; wherever it passed, space itself twisted and collapsed! Thousands of meters of rock and soil layers above were like nothing in the face of this power, instantly annihilated!
"Boom"
On the surface, the entire Z-City—no, the vast area where Z-City once stood, along with large surrounding stretches of wilderness, was completely wiped off the map by this single attack.
A massive, bottomless crater, over a hundred kilometers in diameter, replaced the former city, its edges molten, slowly flowing rock, like the entrance to hell!
Viewed from space, this once-whole planet now looked like a bad apple with a wormhole eaten through it.
And this was just the beginning.
The residual power of the Gaia Cannon was not exhausted; the destructive energy pillar tore through the atmosphere, broke through the clouds, and, at a speed that defied all physical laws, shot straight into the sky.
Its target was none other than the bright, clear moon hanging in the night sky!
The light pillar accurately struck the moon's surface!
A silent explosion unfolded in the vacuum.
The side of the moon facing Earth, after enduring this destructive energy impact from the Earth's core, had its surface instantly torn apart, melted,
Vaporized.
A giant crater instantly formed, accompanied by countless spiderweb-like cracks spreading across the entire lunar surface!
Immediately after, from every observable perspective on the planet—the moon shattered!
It did not completely turn to dust, but rather broke apart into several large and countless small fragments, like a death flower blooming in space.
And just as the Gaia Cannon erupted, its coverage completely enveloped Naruto, who was suspended directly above Orochi!
"!?!"
The Gaia Cannon's speed was too fast, even reaching the speed of light, so fast that Naruto couldn't even react.
"Rumble!!"
Naruto's figure was completely swallowed by the destructive light pillar and, along with the main beam of the Gaia Cannon, was blasted into outer space, violently crashing onto the disintegrating moon fragments!
A massive moon fragment was completely reduced to cosmic dust upon impact.