In the reddish-brown swamp, a giant serpent thrashed madly, mud caking its smooth scales.
"You look a little pathetic, Maboroshi."
A figure flickered in the air. Orochimaru landed on Maboroshi's head like a falling leaf, arms crossed and expression calm.
"Hmph, shut up!"
Maboroshi snorted, took a deep breath, and exhaled downwards. A massive amount of purple venom gushed out like a waterfall, quickly gathering into a hollow on the ground.
The venom contacted the swamp, instantly emitting plumes of white gas. The hissing sound never stopped, and when the gas dissipated, the swamp had dried up, and the previous red mud had all turned into ashen stone.
Maboroshi exerted a little force, and with the cracking sound of brittle stone, the huge serpent's body broke free from the stone. Chunks of stone fell rattling, and the red scales regained their smooth cleanliness.
Suddenly, a pungent smell came from the air. Orochimaru and Maboroshi looked up at the same time, and in their vision, pale yellow acid, like a torrential rain, shrouded from all directions, covering the sky and earth.
Orochimaru narrowed his eyes slightly. The previous four Katsuyu had occupied the four directions of east, west, south, and north, and spat out acid in a pincer movement, trying to dissolve him and Maboroshi.
"That damn slug is so troublesome. It seems I have to use the molting that I hate the most!" Maboroshi looked around and cursed.
Katsuyu's acid should not be underestimated. It contained rich natural energy and must be Shikkotsu Forest's Sage Art, which had a natural restraining ability against Maboroshi's venom. Ordinary people would be dissolved on the spot if they were touched by a drop. Even Maboroshi could only avoid the damage by molting.
"No need!" Orochimaru said suddenly, raising his hand and flicking. Four vipers shot out from his sleeves and landed in different directions.
The vipers landed and immediately coiled their bodies in place, spitting out four new Orochimarus from their mouths. Of course, these were just his snake clones.
Orochimaru crossed his hands. As the acid rain fell from the sky, he and the four snake clones completed the hand seals at the same time. A deep purple light flashed, and with the four clones as intersection points, a huge rectangular barrier quickly propped up, completely enveloping Maboroshi's huge body.
"Four Black Snakes Barrier!"
The barrier was purple and transparent, as solid as a substance. No matter how the acid was poured and splashed, the serpent and human inside the barrier were safe and sound, without being injured in the slightest.
Seeing that his jutsu had a defensive effect, the corners of Orochimaru's mouth turned up unconsciously.
This was a barrier jutsu that he had independently improved and developed after integrating his own characteristics based on the Uzumaki barrier jutsu passed down by his teacher. The sealing effect was no worse than the original version.
Originally, this move was used to trap enemies.
But his teacher said that ninjutsu, dōjutsu, and barrier jutsu were just tools for a ninja. No matter what their original effect was, the one that could solve the problem was a good jutsu!
"How is that possible!"
The acid rain was coming to an end, and Tsunade stared blankly at the gradually disappearing purple barrier in front of her, too shocked to speak.
It was only now that she realized that after not seeing him for a few years, the power that Orochimaru had mastered had completely surpassed the two of them.
At this time, a Katsuyu twisted slightly, and its snow-white body flowed like water. Ripples spread in all directions, squeezing out a burly figure.
Tall, with thick white hair like a mane, it was Jiraiya.
It turned out that when Jiraiya was hit by the Rasengan just now, Katsuyu reacted quickly and immediately drove a division to catch Jiraiya, and used the huge vitality in his body to urgently heal his injuries.
"Orochimaru, that move was very good!" He grinned, moving his shoulders.
Although the black combat uniform on Jiraiya's back had a big hole, his back was only a little red and swollen. Under Katsuyu's treatment, his injuries had recovered to about 70% or 80%.
The mountains and rocks shook, and a giant toad jumped out of the smoke and dust with a "boom" and landed next to Jiraiya, stirring up a whirlwind.
Gamabunta held the short sword backwards, ready to go, obviously a little angered by being easily thrown away by Maboroshi just now.
"Maboroshi, fighting two against one, do you have a chance of winning?" Orochimaru asked, his voice hoarse.
"Hmph, are you kidding me?" Maboroshi looked disdainful and flicked his tongue.
Orochimaru flew to the ground, moved his wrists, "I, on the other hand, have quite a bit of chance of winning."
The three's eyes met, and they instantly confirmed the fighting spirit in each other's eyes.
Maboroshi roared and took the lead in starting to move. The huge body wiggled forward, like a speeding train, rushing straight to bite the slow-moving Katsuyu.
Tsunade bent her knees slightly, and sprang up from the top of Katsuyu's head, tearing through the air with her body like an arrow, and slammed a heavy punch at Maboroshi!
"Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!"
Orochimaru raised his arm, his sleeves bulging, and six strangely long rhombic vipers shot out in an instant, arriving later and entangling Tsunade's calf, dragging her down from mid-air.
Under his obstruction, Maboroshi successfully crashed into Katsuyu's arms, opening his mouth and biting the other party's soft body, but before he could inject the venom, Katsuyu used the same trick, splitting countless slugs of all sizes, swarming up and wrapping Maboroshi layer by layer.
Bunta found a chance and slammed a knife out, the huge blade tearing through the sky!
The snake's tail swept across the air and slammed on the side of the blade with a "Pa", and the violent force instantly broke the short knife that had accompanied Bunta for many years!
The three huge creatures fought together, the mountains shook wildly, and dust rolled up.
On the ground, the battle between the three became more and more intense.
Seeing that her legs were bound by vipers, Tsunade immediately dived down. Following the direction of Orochimaru's pulling, she nailed into the ground like a nail with a "bang", and then bent over and pulled up all the vipers with her backhand.
"Ah!!!!!"
She shouted, and a beast-like force erupted from her graceful body. She actually swung Orochimaru like a windmill, and used centrifugal force to throw him far into the sky!
"Jiraiya!" she shouted.
"Oh!" Jiraiya completed the hand seal, his chest bulging and his mouth bulging high.
"Fire Release: Dragon Flame Bomb!"
The fire flowed, the air became hot, the vision was distorted, and a mass of crimson flames twisted like a violent dragon, rushing towards Orochimaru in mid-air. White gas evaporated along the way, which was the water vapor on the coast being evaporated by the heat wave.
The fire soared into the sky, and the surrounding temperature soared, plating a layer of red on the coast, and lighting up Orochimaru's eyes.
"This is... his technique?"
Orochimaru opened his hands, letting himself fall towards the fire dragon. His eyes pierced through the distorted air and fell on Jiraiya's and Tsunade's faces respectively.
At this moment, time overlapped, and memories of his youth couldn't help but flood into his mind. It was the scene when the three of them became teachers.
Orochimaru's pupils were gentle, and he couldn't help but feel emotional.
"Unfortunately, you are still you, and I am still me!"
In the blink of an eye, a certain firmness appeared in his eyes, and his palms "clapped" together.
"Sage Mode, open!"
The airflow surged, and a cold and powerful aura suddenly erupted from Orochimaru's body, and the majestic natural energy spun endlessly!
The purple eye patterns at the corners of his eyes quickly elongated, a sharp black horn protruded from the center of his eyebrows, and dense scales grew all over his body, attaching a jade-like texture to his already pale skin. His black hair turned white, and scattered like white feathers in the wind.
"Sage Art: Giant Rasengan!"
Orochimaru held his hands in a circle, and in the flashing blue light, a chakra ball the size of an Izakaya quickly condensed and formed, and slammed down like a dunk!
The Giant Rasengan stirred up a storm and collided with the fire dragon. It only stalled for a few seconds before the fire dragon was torn apart by the storm, and the sea of fire collapsed along with it.
In the sky full of blue light, Orochimaru fell like a leaf.
Jiraiya and Tsunade were stunned, because not only had Orochimaru's appearance changed drastically, but even his aura had actually soared more than tenfold!
"The playing house is over."
Orochimaru stood on the raised reef, looking down at the two of them, a hint of arrogance in his amber vertical pupils.
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