"Lord Orochimaru, you've worked hard during this time."
Inside a cave in the Land of Rice Fields, Izayoi looked at Orochimaru, who had been hiding in Ryuchi Cave and finally came out. He threw a scroll to him and said with a smile, "This is what you wanted."
Looking at the flying scroll, Orochimaru's eyes were burning with desire.
Without Kabuto Yakushi needing to catch it for him, Orochimaru extended his head and opened his mouth to catch the flying scroll.
This scene was enough to scare children and ordinary people so much that they would never dare to enter a cave again in their lives.
Let alone ordinary people, even Izayoi couldn't stand it and couldn't help but complain, "Lord Orochimaru, in the future, when you are in front of me, can you please get rid of that disgusting habit of yours?"
"Hehe... I apologize, I'm just too excited right now." Orochimaru threw the scroll to Kabuto Yakushi and smiled apologetically at Izayoi, "Sasuke has already mastered Sage Mode several months ago. I thought Izayoi-kun had forgotten our agreement."
"If you were worried I'd forget, why didn't you have Sasuke remind me?" Izayoi asked with a smile.
"I believe Izayoi-kun is a man of his word and will definitely fulfill what he promised. The reason for the delay until now must be that you were busy with important matters," Orochimaru said, his words making one feel incredibly comfortable.
"As expected of Lord Orochimaru, that's what I admire most about you."
Izayoi nodded in satisfaction, then reminded him, "The Death God Mask is equivalent to the Dead Demon Consuming Seal without hand seals. You just need to wear it and channel Chakra into it to summon the Death God. However, just like the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, after the Death God leaves, it will take the soul of the caster who summoned it."
"Therefore, if you want to retrieve your soul, you must find someone who is familiar with you, someone you can trust, and someone who is willing to sacrifice their life for you, to become the sacrifice for this technique."
"Keep the Death God Mask for now. When you don't need it, have Sasuke return it to me."
After speaking, Izayoi's figure disappeared without any warning.
Seeing this scene, Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi's pupils immediately constricted.
Kabuto Yakushi said with a trembling voice, "This is... the Flying Thunder God Technique!"
"An unexpected technique, but such talent in ninjutsu is also within reason," Orochimaru sighed, "As one of the protagonists of the new era, these things that seem incredible to us might just be ordinary little matters to them."
The look of shock on Kabuto Yakushi's face didn't diminish at all. As if recalling something, he couldn't help but ask, "L-Lord Orochimaru, the Lord Izayoi just now was the main body, so... did you sense Lord Izayoi's presence just now?"
Orochimaru was slightly startled, then his expression changed drastically.
"He... he's gotten stronger again!" Orochimaru said with disbelief in his eyes, "Could it be that he has also become a super-level existence? But if I remember correctly, he hasn't entered his true growth period yet! How is this possible?"
The weak would feel a suffocating pressure from the strong, just like the suppression in the food chain.
In the original work, the Allied Shinobi Forces felt this way when facing the Impure World Reincarnation Madara during the Fourth Great Shinobi War.
When they met last year, Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi also felt a sense of pressure from Izayoi.
In front of Nagato, Orochimaru was even covered in cold sweat, without even the courage to resist or escape.
Because Nagato at his peak was not on the same level as Deva Path Pain.
Facing the corpse of Deva Path Pain, Orochimaru still had the courage to make a move.
But facing Nagato, whose Chakra and Eye Power were terrifyingly strong, Orochimaru only felt despair.
But just now, Orochimaru didn't feel the pressure of a stronger person from Izayoi.
He didn't even sense Izayoi's terrifying Chakra presence.
It was as if the Izayoi who was standing in front of him just now was just an ordinary person.
It was precisely because of this that Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi were covered in cold sweat.
As Kage-level powerhouses and trump card combatants, they were very clear about what this restraint meant.
This meant that Izayoi's strength had reached an unfathomable level.
If Orochimaru were to use a White Zetsu clone to perform Impure World Reincarnation on Hashirama Senju now, he would find that the feeling Hashirama Senju gave him was exactly the same as Izayoi.
It might be that his strength had reached another dimension above the Five Kage, or it might be the Sage Body's closeness to nature, or perhaps it was a characteristic brought about by the sublimation of Wood Release.
Now, Izayoi had the characteristic of being immune to low-level perception.
Recovering from the shock, Orochimaru couldn't help but grin and say, "Everyone believes that the future of the Shinobi World will be decided by the owner of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. The outcome between the God of Shinobi of the new era and the visitor from the Moon will determine whether the Shinobi World enters the era of the Rinnegan, or if the Tenseigan continues to reign supreme, or even rule the Shinobi World."
"Now it seems that the theme of the new era will be a three-way standoff, a confrontation between the strongest Kekkei Genkai of the modern era and the Sage Eye of the ancient era."
"It's too interesting. I'm really looking forward to the moment when Izayoi-kun reveals his true strength and the Shinobi World is shocked."
"However... I have to live until then."
Thinking of the abilities of Black and White Zetsu, Orochimaru said to Kabuto Yakushi, "Kabuto, let's go."
"Yes, Lord Orochimaru."
Two afterimages immediately flew out of the cave like arrows.
Three days later.
Inside a certain base.
Orochimaru looked at the blue-haired woman kneeling on one knee in front of him and said with a hoarse voice and a smile, "Guren, are you really willing to sacrifice your life for me?"
"Yes, Lord Orochimaru, it is my honor!" Guren raised her head, her face fanatical.
"I have obtained the best reincarnation vessel, and there are no signs of my body collapsing at all now, so I don't need to reincarnate every three years anymore," Orochimaru said, "Guren, you are no longer my backup reincarnation vessel. If you have any attachments in this world, I can cultivate a new sacrifice."
Orochimaru said this from the bottom of his heart.
Unlike the orphans from the Sound Ninja Village like Tosu, Orochimaru deeply trusted and had high hopes for his loyal subordinates whom he had personally trained, such as Kimimaro Kaguya, Guren, and Kabuto Yakushi.
If Guren was unwilling, he could just cultivate another sacrifice.
Hearing Orochimaru's words, Guren, whose memory seal in her mind had not yet been broken, said with a determined expression, "Lord Orochimaru, please allow me to be the sacrifice for your return to the peak. I don't trust anyone else."
"You will die."
"I'm not afraid of death." Guren looked at Orochimaru with adoring eyes and smiled, "If I hadn't met Lord Orochimaru, I would have died long ago. Now, please allow me, like Kimimaro, to do one last thing for Lord Orochimaru."
Orochimaru was silent.
After a moment, he spat out a scroll, which rolled to Guren's front. His voice was hoarse as he said, "Then I'll leave it to you, Guren."
"Yes!"
Guren nodded excitedly, not caring about the mucus on the scroll. After opening it, she formed hand seals and took out the contents.
With a bang, the smoke dispersed, and a white mask resembling a demon appeared on the scroll.
Next to the white mask were four photos, which were the Hokage F4.
Orochimaru said, "Besides the souls of my hands, help me release the souls of these four people as well."
"Yes, Lord Orochimaru!"
Guren recognized the previous Hokage of Konoha at a glance and nodded heavily.
Immediately, Guren took a deep breath, picked up the Death God Mask, and stood up.
Looking at Orochimaru one last time, Guren smiled, "Sayonara, Lord Orochimaru."
"Sayonara, Guren." Orochimaru replied with a smile.
After saying goodbye, Guren didn't hesitate at all. She directly put the Death God Mask on her face and channeled Chakra into it.
Swish—
Her delicate body trembled, and a dazzling Chakra aura emanated from Guren.
"Ah ah ah..."
Guren, whose entire body was enveloped in the Chakra aura, let out a tragic scream, her body swaying.
Orochimaru watched without changing his expression.
Before long, the Chakra aura on Guren's body suddenly disappeared into thin air.
In its place, a bone-chillingly cold aura filled the entire room.
"This is that aura..."
Orochimaru's eyes widened, his vertical pupils fixed on the top of Guren's head.
Although he couldn't see it, he was absolutely certain that the legendary Death God was floating above Guren's head at this moment.
Puchi—
At this moment, a huge cut suddenly appeared on Guren's body, and blood spurted out.
Five fist-sized blue Chakra spheres appeared out of thin air above Guren's head, and then scattered and flew away.
One of the Chakra spheres flew in front of Orochimaru and then seeped into his body.
The next second, Orochimaru's hands were enveloped in a Chakra aura.
Because they had lost their souls, even when reincarnated into the body of a perfect White Zetsu clone, they still had no sensation. Chakra simply couldn't flow to them through the meridians, and any Ninjutsu requiring hand seals couldn't be performed. After nearly a year, his arms finally regained sensation.
Flexible fingers, strong palms, freely moving arms, and smoothly flowing Chakra...
"My Ninjutsu is back!" Orochimaru said with an expression of ecstasy.
Looking at Guren's corpse, which had fallen to the ground with her soul drawn out by the Death God, the joy on Orochimaru's face disappeared. He said softly, "You worked hard, Guren."
Orochimaru looked towards the dark corner and said, "Kabuto, take Guren's body down and bury it."
"Yes!"
Kabuto Yakushi walked out, stored Guren's body in a storage scroll, and instantly left the base.
Orochimaru picked up the Death God Mask from the ground, looked at the demonic face, and sighed, "Dead Demon Consuming Seal, what a terrifying sealing jutsu."
If he hadn't experienced the pain brought by the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, Orochimaru would never have imagined that there would be such a terrifying sealing jutsu in this world.
That invisible Death God... if Hiruzen Sarutobi had even a little strength left last year, what was taken from him might not have been just his hands, but he would have stayed in the Death God's belly forever.
This mask possesses the power to ignore the difference in strength and perish together with the enemy as long as it touches them.
"However... it should be ineffective against those with super-standard combat power," Orochimaru thought of Izayoi's indifferent attitude and couldn't help but sigh.
Facing a powerhouse from another dimension, merely touching the opponent was a luxury.
Just as Orochimaru was about to put away the Death God Mask and recover his hands to prepare for the next plan,
A indifferent voice suddenly came from his ear.
"So that mask is in your hands."
"Who is it?!"
Orochimaru's expression changed drastically, and he quickly looked in the direction the voice came from.
When he saw the owner of the voice, his face instantly turned pale, and he said with a look of fear, "Why is a strong person like you here? I'm just a small fry, how could I attract the attention of a big shot like you?"
"My eyes have been monitoring the Shinobi World. All the strong people in the Shinobi World are my targets."
Toneri Otsutsuki, disguised by Izayoi, floated in the air with his arms crossed, looking down at Orochimaru and said, "I've always been curious why that guy would target you. So you have the ability to communicate with the Death God. That mask is the Death God Mask recorded by the Uzumaki Clan, right?"
Orochimaru didn't speak, but turned into an afterimage and disappeared.
But just as he disappeared, his figure appeared a few meters away, his feet off the ground, flying towards Izayoi.
"Wind Release: Wind Blade!"
Orochimaru converted the Chakra emanating from his fingertips into Wind Release nature transformation, turning it into invisible wind blades, and swung them towards Izayoi.
Seeing this, Izayoi's hand, which was releasing Attraction, glowed with green Chakra, and then a green light sphere shot out like a beam.
The beam didn't even aim at the incoming wind blades, it just brushed past them, and the wind blades immediately turned back into ordinary Chakra, as if attracted by a magnet, and flew into the sphere of the beam.
The speed of the beam was extremely fast, and before Orochimaru could land, the beam penetrated his body.
Orochimaru felt a sudden weakness in his body, and the Chakra, as well as the mental and physical energy within him, seemed to be instantly drained.
His body, which had landed, didn't even have the strength to get up.
One second he was a strong person who could defeat the aging Five Kage, and now he had become a weakling with no strength to fight back.
The green light sphere that had drained Orochimaru's Chakra glowed with a greenish-blue light, with faint flames flowing within it.
If Izayoi were to trigger the energy within this light sphere, the entire base would turn to ashes.
The Chakra of a Kage-level strong person was still very powerful.
The light sphere flew back into his hand, Izayoi held the green light sphere in one hand, and in the other hand, he condensed another light sphere and shot it at Orochimaru on the ground.
Looking at the incoming light sphere, Orochimaru closed his eyes in despair, his heart filled with regret.
It's a pity I couldn't be one of the witnesses to the rampage of the new era.
I wonder what the future of the Shinobi World will be like?
As the light sphere entered his body, Orochimaru's expression became dull, and his eyes were lifeless.
Izayoi then threw the light sphere containing Orochimaru's Chakra back.
The beam passed through his body, and Orochimaru instantly revived to full health.
Floating in front of Orochimaru, Izayoi placed one hand on Orochimaru's head, and with the other hand, he condensed another Spiritual Sphere, quickly reading his memories.
Soon, Izayoi obtained the information he wanted.
Immediately, the figures of the two disappeared without a trace.
In the misty area of the Water Country, a Hidden Mist ninja wearing a vest stood blankly in front of two figures.
"Impure World Reincarnation!"
Orochimaru took out the medium from his body, formed hand seals, and then slammed his hands on the ground.
As two lines of incantations spread out, white dust appeared out of thin air, enveloping the blank-faced Hidden Mist ninja.
"Ah ah ah..."
The Hidden Mist ninja, controlled by the Spiritual Sphere, let out a scream, his face and body twisting and deforming.
Before long, the ordinary-looking Hidden Mist ninja wearing a Hidden Mist Village vest turned into a handsome man wearing a Kage robe, with short golden hair and cracks all over his body.
This man was the Fourth Hokage of Konoha, Uzumaki Naruto's father, the ninja Jiraiya called the most perfect... Minato Namikaze.
"The final piece of the puzzle, return to your place!"
Izayoi came in front of Minato Namikaze, raised his hand to condense a green light sphere, and slammed it into his body.
Immediately, Izayoi reached out and pulled, and the orange-red Chakra surged out from Minato Namikaze's body.
The Chakra kept expanding like a balloon, and soon became as large as a mountain.
If this weren't an uninhabited misty area, people in the distance would probably immediately notice this Chakra, which was materializing into a Nine-Tailed Fox, just by looking up.
"My other half of Chakra has been revived!"
The Yang Nine Tails inside Uzumaki Naruto suddenly widened its eyes and shouted in horror, "Who is it? Who is controlling me!"
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