Orochimaru's arrogance wasn't stupid. To put it plainly, these people aimed to stop him, but how much could they sacrifice?
As for killing him? That's a joke. Even if Shanks came, he couldn't kill him.
And of the four great ninja villages, Orochimaru was sure they wouldn't fight him to the death. This wasn't Orochimaru looking down on them, but respecting them. He knew the people in those villages weren't fools.
Even if Sunagakure Village had deep hatred for him, Orochimaru, was that "deep hatred" really that deep? Impossible.
Faced with Orochimaru's pressure, the strong people of the four villages had to do their best to stop him. Either they would block him, or he would kill all their subordinates.
Of course, they could also attack his subordinates. Orochimaru didn't care.
Could the four villages do that? Of course not.
What's more.
"Orochimaru, you've achieved your goal, but you've overlooked one thing. That is, you've underestimated the strength of our ninja villages."
"Do you really think there's no one else in the four villages besides us?".
"We, the four villages, are naturally not as good as the former Konoha in terms of top experts, but you will pay the price for looking down on our ninjas."
Ohnoki, Raikage A, and the others unleashed their full power. The sky was filled with chaotic natural energy. They managed to stop Orochimaru.
Faced with Orochimaru's threats, even Terumi Mei didn't think they were at a disadvantage. Their mid-level strength was much stronger than the pirates.
"Is that so?".
"If that's the case, then let's see!".
Orochimaru was still arrogant. Only he could see clearly the suppressed will, the constantly refined will. After these pirates had their will strengthened, their true power would be fully released.
Orochimaru was a genius. There's no doubt about that.
In the East Blue, Orochimaru had already made a judgment through his conversation with Haku, and the spread and attraction of Shanks' will: will response.
In the East Blue, Orochimaru, who had never encountered or even knew about "will response", understood it the first time he came into contact with it.
In the following period, Orochimaru had been studying that thing. The final conclusion was that it was beyond what he could do at that stage.
It was difficult to achieve will response. In this era, there was only one person who could do it so easily and on such a large scale: Shanks, who created the new era.
The reason Shanks could do will response so easily and spread it so widely was that the will being responded to wasn't Shanks' personal will, but a will recognized by the world's will, bearing Shanks' personal characteristics.
In essence, it was still the world's will.
However, after this process was completed, Shanks could easily attach his own label to this will at any time.
So, in the East Blue battlefield, Orochimaru was so surprised that Naruto could use the ultimate power of the Ninshu Sect. After the surprise, it further confirmed his guess.
From Shanks' research on devil fruits, the history of the ninja world, Ninjutsu, and reverse formulas, it could be seen that Shanks had an extremely outrageous theory of Ninjutsu.
Why theory? Because during his contact with Shanks, Orochimaru found that Shanks didn't understand many small Ninjutsu, but his grasp of the general direction was correct to an absurd degree.
So, after seeing Naruto use the effect of the Ninshu Sect's ultimate power, "bonds," to achieve will response in such a weak body, Orochimaru was certain of one thing.
That was, Shanks had already done this, knew what the ultimate power of the Ninshu Sect looked like, and had completely understood everything about the Ninshu Sect.
Afterward, Shanks continued to explore the power of the Sage, and eventually opened the path of the reverse Sage.
Orochimaru could never imagine how proud Shanks was.
But at that time, Orochimaru had a sense of Shanks' arrogance.
In the past, Shanks would only lightly say that the reason he had such achievements was just because he was standing on the shoulders of his predecessors.
But after seeing Naruto use the Ninshu Sect's ultimate power, Orochimaru understood the weight of that sentence.
That was: I have completely understood the path opened by the predecessors. The past of this world no longer holds any secrets for me. And beyond that, I have opened up a new path belonging to this era.
Orochimaru knew he could never keep pace with Shanks. In this era, and even for a long time in the future, even in the thousands of years of the ninja world's future, there would be no one like Shanks.
Under normal circumstances, the progress of an era is accumulated bit by bit, but Shanks' appearance completely broke this rule, broke the rules of the entire world.
If the existence of "Shenron" was not accepted by the world, then the same was true for Shanks. In a human body, he became an existence not tolerated by the world.
The more he understood Shanks, the more he understood the man's horror. The stronger he became, the more he understood the man's strength.
Orochimaru looked down at the island. In this ninja world, no one understood Shanks better than him.
On the island, there were still broken buildings, seemingly newly built, with the pirate flag of "Golden Lion Pirates" hanging on them.
Orochimaru frowned.
"That guy, he wouldn't have planted flags on all the sky islands, would he?".
At this time, Orochimaru no longer cared about offending people.
His real pirate group had already begun to be established.
"Although I can't become Shanks, I can still walk the path Shanks walked. What Shanks can do, I can do too."
"It's just will response. Since everyone is different, then right here, let's truly give Beasts Pirates its name!".
"Will added, using my will as response, extreme training of will and body."
Orochimaru watched his pirate group. How could he not care about these "companions"? He, Orochimaru, always did what he said. Since he called them all companions, it meant he had the spirit to accept everyone.
Shanks' spirit can accommodate the entire ninja world, so could he, Orochimaru, not accommodate his "companions"? Impossible.
But it was precisely because Orochimaru cared about his "companions" that he hoped they could become stronger.
He didn't know how Shanks' path was walked, but he knew how his own path should be walked. The path he walked might not be as strong, but it was definitely not weak.
So strong that one day his subordinates would have the ability to replace him and challenge him.
"Kill!!"
Facing nearly ten times their number of Marines, the pirates were still fearless.
It wasn't that they weren't afraid of death, it's just that they were more afraid of death than the Marines. When they set sail, they had already prepared for death.
As will and body merged, extreme physical power erupted. There was no so-called flash of a blade, but the air was forcibly cut by an ordinary pirate.
"Boom!!"
A crack appeared on the ground. The Marine blocking the pirate was directly knocked away, his weapon completely shattered. After falling to the ground, he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Die, pirate!".
As the pirate attacked, Marines on both sides also attacked. The sound of tearing wind and the cold light of blades directly struck the pirate's body.
Puchi!
The sound of a blade entering the body, hot blood scattered everywhere.
However, there was no joy on the faces of the Marine soldiers, but fear.
"Ho...How is this possible!!"
"How can a mere body block a blade?".
He hit, but his weapon had been stubbornly resisted by the pirate. Beneath that thin body, twisted muscles erupted, and terrifying power firmly bit the blade.
The pirate looked at the blades that had cut into his waist and arms. He was also stunned.
"You guys are really weak!".
The katana in his hand was swung again, without the slightest hesitation. On the battlefield, it was kill or be killed. The best end for the enemy was death.
The blade turned. As all the muscles in his body moved, the airflow on the blade was directly crushed. Under the pressure of great force, the surprised faces of the two Marines had already distorted. Their terrified eyes seemed to have sealed their fate.
"Get back!".
A black shadow flashed.
A katana blocked in front of the two Marine soldiers. A flash of blood passed, and the crushed airflow cut through the broken hair of the black shadow.
A young and somewhat immature face appeared. His eyes were extremely firm. He held the katana tightly with both hands, the back of the blade resting on his shoulders.
Under the great force, the blade forcibly tore a cut on his shoulder.
The white Marine uniform he wore was covered in blood. Hot red blood flowed down his shoulder, staining the word "Justice" red.
The sea breeze blew, and the original hot blood cooled down, sticking the word "Justice" and blood together tightly.
The young man who attacked was the Marine who had been knocked away earlier.
"The price of justice is not small."
The pirate who attacked, facing the already injured young Marine, did not show the slightest contempt. This was respect for the opponent, and also respect for himself.
"I can afford it."
The young Marine gritted his teeth and said.
In the next moment, a fist attacked. The young Marine seemed to have expected it and dodged.
At this moment, it was no longer a fight between two ordinary people, but a clash between a brave pirate responding to Orochimaru's will, whose will and body had begun to merge.
And the Marine who upheld the "World Government's" belief in "Justice".
Since pirates could get response from the New World, there were naturally Marines who upheld the will of the World Government.
These people were not ordinary people. They were all extremely outstanding experts, all worthy of respect.
But how many of these people were there in the Marine? How many people could truly uphold those hypocritical creeds put forward by the "World Government?".
But Orochimaru's pirate group was completely different.
To be precise, the difference was between pirates and Marines.
Putting aside everything else, just comparing the strength of ordinary Marines and ordinary pirates in the entire ninja world, the average strength of pirates was definitely stronger than that of Marines.
One group was tricked into becoming Marines of the World Government in a familiar environment.
The other group consisted of people who already lived in extremely bad environments, or ordinary people, who knew what they would face if they became pirates, but still chose to become pirates.
Of course, those who could enter the New World, those who could enter the Red Line, were all elites.
But between Marine elites and pirate elites, well, there was still a gap between elites.
A gap of nearly one to ten in number? Was that really a gap?
At this time, the pirates on the Beasts Pirates side had only just come into contact with the Marines. The Marines had an absolute numerical advantage and directly suppressed the Beasts Pirates pirates back.
But as time went on, Orochimaru's will response effect appeared.
Unlike Naruto's obvious will response, the pirates' wills began to merge with their bodies. Under the extreme will, spiritual power and physical ability began to be terrifyingly trained.
As the battle continued, the physical fitness of most pirates was improving. The strength of the will represented how much power could be unleashed, and at this time, the strength of the will represented the extent to which the body could be trained.
The stronger the will, the stronger the body could become, and it could even surpass the body's limits. It could lock the body's upper limit with the limit will, and then continue to train based on the locked body upper limit.
This was the path Orochimaru was taking.
Of course, the only flaw in this path was that once you used the will to turn your upper limit into Infinity, and then broke through, it meant that it had exceeded the range that you could bear.
Although it could be exchanged for more power, bearing this power beyond yourself would have a certain impact on mental power.
Once an impact occurred, not to mention the control over the body, the control over Chakra, just the most obvious thing was that the mind would easily become confused.
However, Orochimaru himself knew this flaw. He knew it when he used the Dragon Veins, but his pirates didn't have this self-awareness.
So the speed of their getting stronger was simply terrifying. The will trained, and even the will confrontation of this big battlefield was used to train the body.
At this moment, it was completely out of control.
As the battle continued, the pirates on the Beasts Pirates side became stronger and stronger. Inadvertently, they had formed a balance with the Marines.
Facing nearly ten times their number of enemies, and still being at a balanced state, meant that the Marines had to endure more losses than the pirates. These so-called "losses" were naked lives.
The situation on the battlefield reversed in an instant. Orochimaru's subordinates pushed the Marine's forces back.
And Orochimaru in the sky naturally saw this scene. Everyone saw this scene. This was a price they couldn't afford.
"Withdraw!!"
"Retreat quickly, everyone retreat!".
The Marine generals spoke. They could no longer continue fighting.
"Retreat back to the coast!".
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