In the fog.
Tagorihime looked at Ichikishimahime, who was crawling over in a hurry, changing into her human form with difficulty and with a pale face, and let out a laugh, saying, "Hahahaha, I didn't expect you to suffer such a big loss when facing a human."
Tagitsuhime even imitated Ichikishimahime's tone and said, "Heh, heh, heh, I got there first this time, none of you can steal my snacks!"
"Shut up!"
Ichikishimahime trembled with rage and said, "That guy is definitely not human! He must be some kind of scary monster in human form, he's got more chakra than that turtle, Isobu.... ssss.... Looks like I won't be able to eat for the next few months..."
She took a deep breath and said, "Why are you still holding him here? Just skip it directly..."
"Heh, heh, heh, whether it's a monster or a human, it's all the same once it's in my stomach."
Tagorihime smiled and said, "How can we let it go, really even before we start the test? Just because you got hurt doesn't mean the same thing will happen to me. Didn't you absorb a great deal of chakra from him? Now he must be severely depleted."
"Ha ha..."
Ichikishimahime looked at Tagorihime and let out a mocking chuckle.
In her perception, this person's condition did not change at all during the whole process. Releasing so much chakra did not seem to affect him at all, meaning that this person's actual chakra might be even greater than the one shown.
But when he saw Tagorihime gloating, he closed his mouth, deciding not to talk about it, and began to absorb the natural energy to heal himself.
...
On the other hand.
After Ichikishimahime escaped, Yeruashi continued to advance, and after a while, the fog suddenly cleared up.
A large and magnificent palace appeared in front of him.
Two naked girls stood at the entrance and looked at him with a smile.
"Dear guest, come in and 'relax' with us."
The palace doors opened, revealing a beautiful spring landscape, with a soft white mist rising from the hot springs among the bright blossoming trees.
Yeruashi looked around the palace and shook his head, saying, "Your means are very good, but I don't know if you can resist my strength."
"If you don't try it, you won't know."
The girls standing at the palace entrance covered their mouths with their hands and laughed sweetly.
"Fine."
Yeruashi folded her arms across her chest and approached the steps, taking a step on them.
Tagorihime appeared behind Yeruashi with a smile, looking down at her hand, reaching for one of the girls.
When Yeruashi's fingers touched the girl, Tagorihime opened her mouth wide, showing her fangs and snake tongue, and was about to swallow Yeruashi.
But.
When she was about to pounce on Yeruashi, she suddenly froze abruptly.
Because he saw that the girl who touched Yeruashi's finger did not fall into Yeruashi's arms, but disintegrated into countless points of light.
After that.
Yeruashi withdrew the finger and stepped forward calmly.
With every step he took, the floor tiles he stepped on turned into points of light and collapsed, and then this phenomenon continued, spreading rapidly and soon the entire palace was transformed into numerous points of white light.
"How can this be..."
"This is not just an illusion, it is also my senjutsu..."
Tagorihime was shocked to see this scene, and the next moment, her mind was filled with fear.
Her head had become the head of a snake, but her body still retained its human form. Suddenly, a hand squeezed her human neck, bathed in silver light, and lifted her body, lifting her off the ground.
Yeruashi, bathed in silver light, looked at Tagorihime and said in a low voice, "Do you want to dance too?"
Tagorihime's pupils contracted violently and, with a hiss, her body swelled and increased in size in an instant, transforming into the body of a giant snake, trying to throw Yeruashi.
But even turning into a giant snake, Tagorihime could not get rid of Yeruashi. Yeruashi's fingers were tightly gripping the scales around its neck, and in the next instant it advanced forward.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!!
The silver light that was in the area of the large snake's neck abruptly moved forward and struck the snake on the rock. There was a roar, the rock cracked, it repeated it again and again, breaking the surrounding huge rocks into many small fragments with the body of the big snake, and then threw it aside.
Auge!
It crashed into the rock, creating a deep pothole, and collapsed.
Yeruashi withdrew his hand and looked with satisfaction at the crumbling cliff and said, "That counts as a pass, doesn't it?"
There was no answer, only the sound of falling rocks.
"I haven't passed yet..."
Yeruashi sighed and unsheathed the Kusanagi Sword, and the lightning attribute chakra covered the sword.
At that moment, a frightened and terrified voice came from the broken rocks, "Stop! That's enough! You passed! You passed!"
When Yeruashi unsheathed the sword, Tagorihime felt a severe crisis. Even if it wasn't a fatal blow, she would definitely end up in a very sad state.
Whoosh!
Yeruashi raised a hand, directing the gathered chakra towards the sky.
The silver slash sliced through the mist, flew into the sky and disappeared into the clouds.
Klang!
Returning the Kusanagi sword to its sheath, Yeruashi looked back and said, "Where is the other one? Come out, there's no need to hide."
A silence ensued.
After a while, Tagitsuhime finally came out of the fog and looked up, the split fog had not yet closed, the sun was barely visible through the split.
"Ho...Hello, I'm Tagitsuhime...You just need to pass a test to get the power of Ryuichi Cave Sage. You must answer my question..."
"..."
Yeruashi calmly looked at Tagitsuhime.
When their gazes met, Tagitsuhime felt a great pressure, cold sweat broke out from her forehead, she swallowed saliva nervously, hesitated a little and said, "Are you ready?"
Yeruashi said, "Yes."
"You passed."
"..."
A question mark appeared on Yeruashi's head.
Tagitsuhime's figure became illusory and disappeared, and the surrounding mist dissipated, revealing a huge stone temple.
"Yeruashi!"
Rin appeared at the entrance and immediately ran towards him.
Yeruashi looked around. When he didn't find Tagitsuhime and the other two snakes, he shook his head and went to meet Rin and said, "How did you get here?"
Rin said a little worried, "I used some of Isobu's chakra and came out of the mist.... But I started to worry about you when the White Snake Sage said that those who failed the test would be eaten."
Yeruashi smiled, saying, "Hmm, I guess they didn't even think about that, maybe my flesh isn't very tasty..."
After saying that, he headed inside.
Inside the temple.
In front of them was a large red staircase that stretched to the edge of their field of vision.
Climbing to the top of the temple, Yeruashi saw the Sage White Snake. It was a giant white snake, holding a pipe in its mouth and exhaling puffs of smoke.