#525Chapter 525 This is our passionate joint attack!AI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 525: This is Our Passionate Combo!
The abilities possessed by each member of the Orochi Hakkesshu all originated from the fragmented Orochi, and among them, only the four individuals with superior abilities were the ones who controlled the Blowing Storm, Raging Lightning, Withering Earth, and Destined Flames.
As for the remaining four, their abilities were the Power of Fangs, Power of Darkness, Power of Beasts, and Power of Death.
Just from their names, it's clear they were a step below the Four Heavenly Kings.
However, Orochi's situation was somewhat special.
As an incomplete vessel whose power had not been fully reclaimed, three of Orochi's Four Heavenly Kings had already been sealed by Cheng Tian, along with their soul imprints. This meant that the current Orochi was actually unable to use the three elemental powers of lightning, fire, and earth.
But before Orochi's descent, Gaonike seized the opportunity to reclaim the sacrifices ahead of time. And because three of the four superior powers were missing, those originally subordinate abilities were promoted and advanced to fill the void.
Yamazaki Ryuji's original Power of Darkness evolved into 'Chaotic Dark Erosion,' on par with the Blowing Storm.
Yamazaki Ryuji's Double Return utilized his own body as a medium to absorb flying projectiles. While enduring the pain, he would internalize this energy and hurl it back. With Orochi, the application of Double Return was clearly more extensive and free.
Orochi not only endured all the projectiles but also gathered their power into one. A gigantic, blood-red spirit orb plowed a deep gully into the ground, hurtling towards Cheng Tian with the momentum to destroy everything in its path.
Cheng Tian, of course, wasn't foolish; he wouldn't just stand there and take the hit. Synchronized with the world, he had already ascended into the air.
But just as Cheng Tian had exited the attack path of the blood-red spirit orb, Orochi merely tilted her chin slightly, and the roaring spirit orb also ascended, continuing to pursue Cheng Tian without any hesitation—
"What a massive Spirit Control Orb!!!"
Cheng let out a strange cry. His upward flight path changed, and he immediately began flying in frequent Z-shapes in the air, attempting to shake off this tracking—no, this remote-controlled spirit orb.
Watching Cheng Tian flee clumsily in the air, Orochi's lips curled into a slight, uncontrollable smile.
But her actions, however, showed no slackening.
Kyo Kusanagi was the second person, after Kim Kaphwan, to engage in close combat. His fists, enveloped in blazing Kusanagi flames, struck with an unyielding momentum, aiming for vital points.
However, after the magic suppression ended and her body floated slightly, Orochi truly displayed what it meant to move in a non-human way.
Ordinary movements like dodging or raising a hand to block were completely absent from Orochi.
Orochi's movement was fundamentally spatial axis movement; it was without warning and extremely fast.
If you have no concept of this kind of movement, you can try clicking a shortcut icon on your desktop with your mouse, holding it down, and then quickly shaking the mouse.
And that icon being dragged chaotically across the screen is a manifestation of Orochi's current movement, utterly unpredictable.
If it weren't for her god-like, superior gaze upon mere mortals, she wouldn't even have been affected by the Blue Shock Orb.
Even when struck, an invisible psychic barrier would appear on Orochi's body, fully absorbing incoming melee physical attacks from others.
Theoretically, Kyo Kusanagi had indeed mastered the use of the Final Showdown Ultimate Art, but it was clearly meaningless if he couldn't hit anyone.
Orochi was multitasking: dealing with Kusanagi, pursuing Cheng Tian, keeping a close eye on Kagura, waiting for Iori, and finally, using her last bit of focus to release a large number of zero-frame fire pillars in conjunction with a reflection barrier to restrain the other fighters.
"Are you sure?"
"Less than thirty percent... but it's worth a try."
On the other side, Mina, the dark-skinned archer, nodded in response to Irene's question, then tightly gripped her longbow and began to chant.
"Her safety is in your hands."
Irene instructed Bazett beside her, then dashed out with a gust of wind at her feet.
However, her target was not Gaonike, who was both Orochi and the target of the Rakshiel ritual, but rather Cheng Tian, who had already turned back from the sky.
Under the 『Windwalk』 enhancement, Irene, almost reaching the sound barrier, rapidly closed the distance with Cheng Tian. When they were still about ten meters apart, she leaped into the air, and with the somewhat substantial cushioning on her chest, she embraced Cheng Tian mid-air!
However, due to the interacting forces between them, the two were already spinning clockwise in the air, and simultaneously, their unavoidable decrease in speed caused the chaotic blood bullet pursuing them from behind to get closer and closer.
But just as many people thought this terrifying blood bullet was about to obliterate this pair of desperate lovers, these two embracing figures not only didn't slow their rotation but instead became enveloped in a strange cover as their spinning speed continued to increase.
"Tai Chi..."
Watching the pattern formed by Cheng Tian and Irene embracing and spinning in mid-air, the old man Chin Gentsai, who had precisely dodged Orochi's fire pillar, exclaimed in surprise.
This was Cheng Tian and Irene's Twin Tiger Contract Passionate Combo—
Holy Demonic Tai Chi Orb!
When two teamed-up individuals maintain an embrace, establish a psychic link, and complete alignment and docking, they can activate a contract combination skill called 『Passionate Combo』.
Different leadership between the two parties will cause the attributes of the Passionate Combo to change.
This time, Cheng Tian was the primary, which would normally result in either a "Holy Radiance" or "Demonic Nightmare" attribute. However, the Tai Chi orb-like cover currently signified that Cheng Tian had simultaneously activated both Holy and Demonic attributes.
In Passionate Fighting, fusion techniques only have 4+1 attributes: the four common elements of wind, fire, lightning, and ice, as well as the Twin Tiger's exclusive Golden Light Barrier. These attributes have some differences and characteristics in attack judgment and attack form.
As for the attribute of Cheng Tian's exclusive Holy Demonic Tai Chi Wheel... the blood-red energy bullet, carrying pure Orochi power, collided with the rapidly spinning Tai Chi cover. But the expected explosion didn't occur. Instead, the gigantic blood-red energy bullet, like seawater absorbed by a whale, spun and was sucked into the Tai Chi cover. As the blood-red energy bullet integrated, the Tai Chi cover around Cheng Tian and Irene rapidly expanded.
It eventually transformed into a super-sized Tai Chi orb almost identical in size to the blood-red energy bullet!
However, that wasn't all. Just like the blood-red energy bullet had pursued Cheng Tian earlier, the Holy Demonic Tai Chi Orb followed the gully left by the previous blood-red energy bullet on the ground as its path, rolling and crushing towards Orochi with the momentum of a grand transportation trying to send someone to another world!