Ten minutes ago.

Goji Yagura was crushed by eight pythons as thick as an adult's arms and all her bones were broken. Like a bag of garbage, Orochimaru casually threw her on the rocky beach.

"As expected of an old man who participated in the Second Ninja War, he actually defeated a Kage so easily. It seems that the leader has arranged a good companion for me this time."

Loquat Juzo panted and sat down carelessly, praising Orochimaru generously.

Many people don't believe it, but Loquat Juuzang has always been a very easy-going person and does not resist dealing with people. He even longs to have (at least) a teammate to fight alongside him like he once did.

"Hoho, although your evaluation of me is very helpful, I always feel that winning today is a bit too easy..."

Orochimaru's golden vertical pupils emitted stunning light in the night.

"If he was just a Mizukage, this would be normal. But apart from that, Yagura is still a perfect Jinchuuriki. Logically speaking, he should have more trump cards, but his performance just now is really not worthy of it."

The word perfect."

Being defeated without even being able to transform into a tailed beast is simply a shame among jinchūriki.

"You are probably paranoid. He has no opponents in Hidden Kirigura Village. He has not fought against anyone who can rival him for many years. It is normal for him to slack off and regress."

Loquat Juzo stretched the end of his beheading sword towards the pool of blood under Yagura's body.

The blood rushed to the blade as if summoned, repairing several obvious gaps in the beheading sword.

"Besides, when I fought with him, it was not easy at all. This guy Yagura chased me like a mad dog, as if he had to kill me, a former rebellious man. At that time, he was fully focused

In my case, you took the opportunity to take action in the dark, and it’s normal to have such a result, isn’t it?”

He doesn't have so many doubts. Sometimes S-level tasks are actually as easy as C-level tasks. This happens too.

"It's barely fair."

After pondering for a moment, Orochimaru hummed in acquiescence.

"It's just that there are too many coincidences that make people suspicious."

He looked around and added, "The personal ANBU of Inikaki Kisame and Mizukage chose this time to carry out a secret mission. When I heard about this, I thought Yagura had discovered us, so he deliberately set a trap

Waiting for us to jump in... But in this situation, they didn't show up, it seems they are really not here."

"Since luck is on our side, let's accept it happily. Good things like this don't happen often."

Loquat Juuzang asked: "Speaking of which, what should we do next? Should we directly bring this guy back to the Land of Rain with the tailed beast in his body?"

"No. He won't live that long. Besides, I don't want to carry a time bomb with me."

Orochimaru shook his head, his slender neck becoming swollen.

The big bag kept rising up Orochimaru's throat, and finally, he vomited out a rough pottery jar like a water jar from his mouth. It looked like a water jar in ordinary people's homes in arid areas.

"This is?" Loquat Juuzang looked at the jar and couldn't see anything special about it.

"Because Sunagakure's sealing technique against jinchuriki has always been difficult to describe, the one-tailed jinchuriki has always had the highest probability of going crazy, so he is often killed."

Orochimaru held the water jar and placed it one meter away from Yagura.

"In order to prevent the tailed beasts and jinchūriki from dying at the same time, resulting in the loss of the village's strongest combat power, the second generation Kazekage used magnetic release to create a container to temporarily imprison the tailed beasts. In this way, when the jinchūriki went crazy and could not be found

When replacing a Jinchuriki, the Sand Ninjas can draw the One-Tail in advance and put it into a container until a new Jinchuriki is selected..."

He stared at the water jar and spat out the snake letter.

"The jar in my hand is one of the tailed beast containers made by the Second Kazekage himself. Normally, the first four tailed beasts with the smallest tails should be able to be put into it."

"It's really an eye-opener. You understand his hometown better than the Red Sand Scorpion."

Loquat Juuzang sighed in praise, becoming more and more satisfied with Orochimaru as a teammate, because the latter completely made up for his shortcomings.

Recalling how he was almost killed by Kakuzu and the Red Sand Scorpion when he cooperated with them before, Orochimaru was as kind as an angel.

As everyone knows, if he had possessed the blood inheritance limit or some secret technique, he would have died in some laboratory by now.

Although Orochimaru is a collector, a mere beheading sword is not worth the risk of offending the Akatsuki organization to kill Loquat Juzo. Besides, he will also need this helper to help with the rest of the matter.

"Next, I will use a technique to transfer the tailed beast chakra in Yagura's body into this jar. The whole process will last about fifteen minutes."

"I will stay here to prevent anyone from disturbing you." Loquat Juuzang promised.

"Then congratulate us in advance on the successful completion of this mission."

Before Orochimaru formed the seal, his eyes glanced at the cliff not far away. The small snakes scattered around told him that there was a person hiding there.

[It’s just a Kirigakure ghost, so you don’t need to worry about it. We’ll take care of him after this is over. After all, it’s a ‘sacrifice’ at the elite Jonin level...]

In this way, Orochimaru started the tailed beast chakra transfer technique.

It was not until ten minutes later, when he had just transferred two-thirds of the tailed beast's chakra, that an uninvited guest suddenly arrived, and before Loquat Juzo, the protector, could react, he quickly chopped off his head with a knife.

Time returns to the present.

The fire tiger roared by Giyuu exploded with a distant roar, swallowing everything around Orochimaru into a sea of ​​fire. The billowing smoke from the combustion and the smoke and dust rolled up by the explosion went straight into the sky, and the fire dyed a small area of ​​the sky.

Ominous orange.

Yiyong stared over there, his brows furrowed under the mask, and he gently twisted his ankle.

After all, he is not Anjurou, and he does not have a body with strong recovery power. He has been on the road for sixteen consecutive hours, and has used the Breath of Fire, Ichino Style, and Shiranui hundreds of times intermittently, which undoubtedly caused great damage to his legs.

The burden has reached a point of numbness at this time.

In comparison, the lack of chakra is not a problem. When he entered Kirigakure Village, he used the Eleven Form Nagi to convert a large amount of chakra when he withstood the attack, which is still sufficient so far.

"Kurama, is Orochimaru dead?"

Yiyong asked softly.

The little Kyuubi's pointed head poked out from Yui Yu's high collar, "The chakra has been weakened, but we are still far from death."

"...Can't even a flame of nearly 2,000 degrees kill him?"

Considering Orochimaru's difficult ability to protect himself, Giyuu chose to use the breath of fire, hoping to completely turn every cell in Orochimaru's body to ashes.

After all, who knows if the other party has a way to escape by turning into more than a thousand pieces of meat?

Yiyong didn't want to make the same mistakes his predecessors had made again, so he went all out once he made a move.

But now it seems that the situation is not so optimistic. Using all the breath of fire to increase the temperature of the flame, Orochimaru still failed to be killed.

This guy who resembles Muzan Kibutsuji in many aspects is indeed very good at saving lives.

Under the mask, Yiyong's face was as dark as water.

[You can no longer use Shiranui, otherwise Orochimaru's legs will go wrong when he escapes, and he will not be able to ensure a timely pursuit. In addition, it is better to save some chakra before making sure to kill.]

Thinking of this, the chakra knife in his hand gradually changed color, from red representing the fire attribute chakra to ice blue representing the water attribute chakra, and his breathing method gradually switched to the water breathing he was most familiar with.

At this time, a strong wind suddenly blew on the other side, the smoke and dust dispersed, and the fire gradually extinguished, revealing the hidden situation.

A door with a terrifying and exaggerated shape and primitive materials stood among the melted rocks. It looked quite majestic in the twisted air, but a large hole was melted out in the middle.

Orochimaru was behind the big hole, his whole body scorched black, his hands maintaining the seal of Wind Release and Great Breakthrough.

[Can't you even withstand Rashomon? The last time this happened was when Jiraiya's family used senjutsu to use fire escape... Sure enough, this guy's chakra was not quite right. 】

It turns out that at the critical moment of life and death, when all the snakes were missing, Orochimaru had to summon the more expensive Rashomon from hell. This summoned object was rumored to be able to withstand all ninjutsu.

But now it seems that the rumors are just rumors. Facing the special chakra, Rashomon's defensive capabilities are very limited.

Rashomon only shared part of the damage for him, but the remaining fire still seriously damaged his body, which shows how domineering this fire escape is.

"vomit--"

There was no other way, Orochimaru had no choice but to give up this body and spit out a brand new self.

Through the entrance of Rashomon, he looked at Giyong with extremely vigilant eyes.

In less than a minute, he was forced to use the Orochi Style Substitution Technique twice. The last time he was so miserable was when he faced Payne.

[Listening to his voice, it sounds like he is just a kid? 】

Just as he was thinking about whether he should accept the challenge to find out what happened or escape with the water jar, a water dragon rose from a distance and pounced on where Yiyong was.

It was the Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet used by Juzo Juzo, who had just struggled to get up and was still vomiting blood at the mouth. This ninjutsu is the most powerful ninjutsu among Water Release.

"good chance!"

Seeing that Yiyong's attention seemed to be diverted by Loquat Juzo, Orochimaru twisted his body and escaped underground to sneak in, intending to cooperate with Loquat Juzo in a combined attack and explore the depth of this enemy.

In this way, Yiyong fell into a pincer attack from both directions -

Waterspouts fell from the sky, and dozens of venomous snakes with sharp teeth suddenly emerged from the ground beneath his feet, aiming at his vitals like bullets from a sniper rifle. There seemed to be no way out.

"Six Patterns: Twisting Vortex."

Yiyong was extremely calm. His feet gently left the ground and rose into the sky like a propeller. The chakra knife in his hand faced the cold light of the water dragon and pierced its head.

"That's just a change in the form of water attribute chakra. How can you still block an entire water dragon with a thin blade?"

When Loquat Juuzang saw this scene, his eyes burst out with the hope of victory, and the water dragon pounced and bit faster.

However, as Yiyong reversed his body and suddenly landed on the ground, the water dragon bullet seemed to be dragged by the knife, forcibly bypassing the body of Yiyong it was supposed to attack, and plunged into the ground at Yiyong's feet!

"This is--"
To be continued...