"It's starting."
Inside the temple deep in Ryūchi Cave, White Snake Sage moved his huge body, slowly crawling down from the seat, and the shadow cast covered Orochimaru's small figure completely.
She opened her big mouth, and the sharp fangs reflected a dazzling blue light in the light, approaching Orochimaru's body inch by inch.
Orochimaru took a deep breath, his face tense, but he didn't close his eyes. Instead, he looked up at the opponent's head with burning eyes.
From Kamihane's point of view, this scene was quite terrifying. White Snake Sage opened his bloody mouth, revealing hideous and terrifying fangs, as if he was about to swallow him whole.
Looking at Orochimaru, who didn't take a step back, Kamihane nodded with satisfaction. Well, he is not flustered in the face of danger, as expected of his disciple.
But what he didn't know was that Orochimaru's face was pale now, and his pupils were trembling as he looked at the huge fangs getting closer and closer.
White Snake Sage was huge. The fangs alone were the size of an adult. If this thing was inserted into his body, he would die even if he didn't inject natural energy, right?
Just as Orochimaru's brain was spinning rapidly, White Snake Sage took the initiative to shrink his size. The snake's head shrank sharply, and the white scales all over his body wriggled, shrinking inch by inch, and finally turned into a short old woman with a gray scarf on her head in front of the two of them.
The old woman floated lightly in front of Orochimaru, her fangs were revealed in her open mouth, and the amplitude was so large that the wrinkles on her face were stretched open.
"Pfft."
Just as Orochimaru's heart was beating wildly, the old woman had inserted her fangs into his neck.
Orochimaru's face was stunned. To be honest, it was not as painful as he imagined. On the contrary, it was much gentler than when Tagorihime attacked him.
Then, a light and natural breath flowed into his blood vessels along the snake teeth. It felt like being gently brushed by a breeze, and Orochimaru couldn't help but tremble.
White Snake Sage released his mouth and retreated with a smile, returning to his seat again.
"Is this the end?" Orochimaru was a little confused.
However, Kamihane, who had been silently observing, frowned slightly.
In his perception, the seemingly gentle breath contained extremely violent energy. If undisturbed, it would be as quiet as a distant mountain, and would not move at all, but once it broke out, it would be like a storm passing through and a huge wave destroying a boat, which ordinary people could never control.
At this moment, this natural energy, wrapped in White Snake Sage's chakra, began to flow along Orochimaru's meridians. Although it was slow, it was rapidly breaking away from the medium of White Snake Sage's chakra and gradually and truly integrating into Orochimaru's body.
In just a moment, Orochimaru's expression changed.
Pure natural energy invaded his cells, and his body trembled.
He knelt on the ground uncontrollably, breathing heavily, and cold sweat came out of his pores like money.
This was a rather strange feeling. If you had to describe it, it was not pain, but a strange sense of alienation, as if he had lost control of his body.
His hands and feet were completely numb, and even his ears and eyes were not his own...
He opened his mouth wide, and his long tongue drooped down directly. He could clearly see the saliva flowing uncontrollably, but there was no real feeling, as if he was staring at a quietly flowing stream.
Soon, vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch... these basic senses were moving away from him, and were dominated by the power in his body...
This was a different kind of "loss of five senses". Orochimaru could see and hear, and he didn't lose his senses, but he felt that they had become different.
In addition to the changes in his body, his consciousness also floated up and down, as if his soul had turned into a small boat, rising and falling on the turbulent sea, being arbitrarily torn and kneaded...
For a moment, Orochimaru even felt that he did not exist, and it seemed that he controlled everything.
Kamihane's eyes were tightly locked on Orochimaru. What was reflected in the pair of onyx pupils was no longer the gentle-faced teenager, but a monster with a human body and a snake face.
His body became pale inch by inch, and dense scales slowly grew on the surface of his body, like white armor, densely layered, and terrifying...
The narrow eye sockets, the cold vertical pupils, and the cyan black snake letter... all the characteristics were indicating that he was being swallowed by natural energy and evolving in the direction of failure.
The old woman transformed by White Snake Sage crossed her legs, watched coldly, and even spit out a smoke ring.
Kamihane frowned in thought. As far as he knew, if a ninja wanted to use Sage Art, he had to enter Sage Mode.
And to enter Sage Mode, first of all, one must rely on oneself to "see" the natural energy that is wandering between heaven and earth, and then use secret methods to absorb it with the body and store it in Chakra.
In the original timeline, when Naruto Uzumaki was learning Sage Art at Mount Myōboku, he first applied toad oil, a specialty of Mount Myōboku, to his body, which could help him absorb natural energy and progress step by step.
But White Snake Sage directly skipped the step of perception and chose to directly inject natural energy into Orochimaru's body. Although doing so could allow Orochimaru to contact natural energy more clearly and directly, it also increased the danger of this matter by a hundred times.
Once he fails to adapt, it will be irreversible.
Compared with the cultivation method of Mount Myōboku, it is indeed a bit rough and unrestrained.
Looking at Orochimaru, who was gradually turning into a monster, Kamihane suddenly understood why Sage Mode was more suitable for people with a very large amount of chakra to cultivate.
People with a small amount of chakra are not easy to grasp natural energy and are easily swallowed by natural energy, just like Orochimaru now.
Even people with a huge amount of chakra are equally at risk. If they are swallowed by natural energy, they will be transformed into a part of nature. For example, the failed cultivators of Mount Myōboku have all been transformed into stone frogs, and those of Ryūchi Cave have all become monsters.
Just as Kamihane was hesitating whether to take action, Orochimaru's breathing suddenly calmed down.
He got up slowly, and while raising his eyes, the mutated body had returned to its original appearance.
White Snake Sage exclaimed in surprise and took off his pipe for the first time, looking at the young man below with open eyes.
"Well, it's done," she said softly.
Kamihane flashed to Orochimaru and pressed his hand on the top of his head. After a search, he exclaimed in surprise.
"Those natural energies have disappeared?"
White Snake Sage said with a smile: "Born from nature, naturally it must return to nature. The cycle is just such a reason."
Orochimaru showed a look of escape, "I... did I really succeed?"
White Snake Sage said leisurely: "The operation just now was actually just to test your potential for perfect integration with natural energy. The body, spirit, and natural energy only need to reach a balance for a moment, and that's it..."
Kamihane patted his disciple on the shoulder, "Do a good job. In the next time, you will stay with White Snake Sage to learn Sage Art."
"Teacher, what about you?"
"Me?"
"Yes, do you want to cultivate Sage Art?" Orochimaru nodded, "If it is you, you can definitely do it too!"
Kamihane shook his head slightly and said meaningfully: "I'll watch you practice it once first."
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