"Ninja Art. Multiple Snake Binding Hands."
Orochimaru swung his arm, and countless slender snakes rushed toward Uchiha Ryun at once.
Although Orochimaru was running low on chakra now, he still used ninjutsu, because his strongest means was ninjutsu. He could not lose to his student in ninjutsu.
Ryun swung his kunai to cut off the snake heads coming at him, but these creatures seemed endless. Cutting one brought ten more, cutting ten brought twenty more...
Soon, Ryun was tightly wrapped up by the snakes.
"Useless, sensei. Such methods still can't hurt me... Chidori Current."
Ryun's calm voice came from within the ball of snakes. The power of lightning made the snakes scream in pain, and the current also traveled through the snakes to the caster, forcing Orochimaru to cut off his connection with them.
"You..."
Looking at the youth standing atop a pile of charred dead snakes, Orochimaru felt deeply troubled.
'Without realizing it, this child has fully grown up.'
"It seems sensei is also running low on chakra... But I still have some left. Let's end this battle with this move."
Seeing Orochimaru panting heavily, Ryun spoke while rapidly forming hand seals.
"This hand seal sequence is..."
Seeing the seals Ryun was forming, Orochimaru immediately sensed danger. He quickly ran toward Jiraiya, appearing as if he feared this technique.
"Lightning Release. Lightning Leopard."
As the last hand seal was completed, bright lightning gathered in Ryun's hands. A blue lightning leopard took shape in an instant, dashing toward the fleeing Orochimaru with incredible speed.
The leopard's trajectory was like lightning streaking across the sky, its speed rivaling real lightning, too fast for ordinary people to react.
Amidst the dazzling flashes of lightning, Orochimaru was bitten in half by the charging lightning leopard.
"What. Orochimaru."
"Ah."
Tsunade and Jiraiya momentarily forgot their fight, stunned as Orochimaru seemed to have died right before their eyes.
The pool of blood on the ground indicated that this was indeed a flesh and blood body, not an illusion.
"Oro...Orochimaru... dead." Jiraiya stared wide eyed at the corpse on the ground.
Ryun gasped heavily, exhausted. This technique consumed a lot of chakra. If not for its extreme speed and high accuracy, he wouldn't have used it so readily.
'Lightning Leopard' and 'Chidori' were both A rank techniques, but Ryun personally felt Lightning Leopard was more practical. Chidori was less useful, even inferior to Chidori Current, which was why he rarely used Chidori.
"Hmm."
Ryun suddenly widened his eyes, leaning back to dodge a kunai thrust at his throat from below.
Orochimaru's figure emerged from the ground right in front of Ryun.
Now Ryun's three tomoe Sharingan glowed with a strange red light. After a moment of shock, he simply stared at Orochimaru.
The earlier bisected Orochimaru was just a shed snakeskin stuffed with small snakes, creating the bloody scene that made it seem like Ryun's technique had cut him in half.
After dodging the lethal strike, Ryun counterattacked by thrusting his kunai toward Orochimaru's abdomen.
But the next moment his wrist was firmly grabbed, Orochimaru's hand instantly transforming into a snake binding technique while his neck elongated like a serpent's.
A large mouth bit straight toward Ryun's neck.
"Chidori..."
Ryun wanted to activate Chidori Current, but this time Orochimaru clearly gave him no chance or time to use lightning. Sharp fangs sank into his fair neck.
"Over..."
Tasting blood, Orochimaru let out a hoarse laugh.
"Not necessarily."
Ryun's cold voice suddenly rang in Orochimaru's ear, making his pupils constrict to pinpoints.
Thud.
The sound of a blade piercing flesh reached Orochimaru's ears. Feeling intense pain in his abdomen, he immediately dispelled the genjutsu and retreated rapidly.
Somehow, the fair neck he had been biting had turned into a snake in his hand.
"Genjutsu. How." Orochimaru looked utterly incredulous.
"Before the Sharingan, nothing is impossible..."
Defeating Orochimaru with ninjutsu would have been extremely difficult. But catching him off guard with Sharingan genjutsu was achievable.
Seeing these blood red eyes, Orochimaru instantly understood the saying about facing the Uchiha clan: "One on one, you should flee."
He never expected to fall for a genjutsu. These three tomoe Sharingan with exceptionally strong visual prowess had trapped him unknowingly.
"Sensei, when fighting someone with three tomoe Sharingan, remember not to look into their eyes."
Ryun earnestly warned him, giving his teacher a harsh lesson now so he wouldn't lose to outsiders later or lose his conviction.
Orochimaru remained silent, looking at him with deep wariness.
Ryun struck ruthlessly, holding nothing back, only drawing blood. Stabbing his teacher was something he truly dared to do, and truly went through with it... Orochimaru's abdomen was clearly bleeding.
Seeing Orochimaru retreat quickly, Ryun had no intention of "beating a retreating snake." He turned his gaze to Jiraiya and Tsunade fighting intensely nearby.
In taijutsu, Tsunade held a slight advantage, but Jiraiya appeared relaxed. Ryun knew she was no match for Jiraiya.
"Using this move should be enough to help Tsunade nee san win..."
A sly smile appeared on Ryun's lips as he took out three shuriken from his pouch and hurled them at the battling pair.
"Ninja Art. Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique."
Instantly, the three shuriken multiplied into dozens, their attack range so wide that even Tsunade was covered.
Ryun had "attacked" his own ally.
"Bad."
Seeing this, Orochimaru exclaimed.
He immediately realized Ryun's purpose in attacking this way.
That damn simp was about to be in big trouble...
But he had no time to rescue or warn him.
"That is."
Jiraiya soon noticed the barrage of shuriken incoming. And due to the angle, Tsunade was completely unaware of the "betrayal" attack.
"Look out."
Jiraiya shouted, his white hair rapidly growing to shield Tsunade from the "traitor's" assault.
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