"What? Unwilling?"
Yao's face darkened: "Orochimaru, did I give you too much face?"
"I originally wanted to trade fairly with you, each taking what we need. Why do you refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit?"
Orochimaru's face sank.
The arrogance of a senior made it impossible for him to tolerate threats from a 12-year-old brat:
"Brat, what do you want to do? Don't forget your situation!"
"My situation?"
Yao acted as if he had heard a joke: "Orochimaru, I always thought you were a smart person."
"It seems you are still too arrogant to see the situation clearly!"
Saying this, Yao took a step forward, and a terrifying chakra suddenly erupted from his body.
Kabuto's face changed drastically, and he retreated half a step in fright, ready for a formidable enemy.
Yao stared at Orochimaru, speaking word by word: "I can kill you and still get the Impure World Reincarnation technique!"
"I will always find a way to locate those research notes of yours."
"The only difference lies in whether you hand them over alive, or... turn into a corpse for me to search slowly."
"Kill me?!"
Orochimaru seemed to have been greatly insulted, laughing in extreme anger, cold light shooting from his golden vertical pupils:
"Brat! Do you know who you are talking to?"
Even with his hands useless, he was still one of the Sannin who made people tremble with fear, a senior who mastered countless forbidden jutsu!
Being so slighted by a junior made Orochimaru feel humiliated.
"It seems necessary to make you recognize the current situation."
Yao snorted coldly, wasting no more words. His right eye suddenly focused!
The three pitch-black tomoe that were slowly rotating suddenly accelerated, transforming into a four-pointed pinwheel pattern.
In the deep scarlet background, the pinwheel pattern rotated slowly.
"Th... This is... Mangekyō Sharingan?!"
The anger on Orochimaru's face froze instantly, replaced by unparalleled shock and fear.
That terrible memory of being tortured by Uchiha Itachi with Tsukuyomi until he wished for death was hooked up again, and his soul seemed to ache faintly.
"Orochimaru, in front of these eyes... all your jutsu... are ineffective..."
The words that terrified him echoed in Orochimaru's ears again.
"Damn it!!!"
Orochimaru squeezed out an unwilling roar from between his teeth, feeling suffocated in his heart!
He really wanted to rush up and tear this Uchiha brat apart.
But reason told him.
He couldn't form hand seals now, his strength was greatly discounted, and facing a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan with unknown abilities.
His chances of winning were negligible, and he might really die here.
Weighing the pros and cons and enduring humiliation for the greater good had always been what he was good at.
After a few seconds of suffocating silence, Orochimaru seemed to have had his spine removed, his voice full of humiliation:
"...Fine!"
"I... agree!"
"Wouldn't it have been better to be this straightforward earlier? Wasting everyone's time!" The coldness on Yao's face vanished instantly.
Orochimaru's chest heaved, suppressing his anger, and he tilted his head towards Kabuto:
"Kabuto, bring the summoning contract scroll of Ryūchi Cave and the complete scroll of the Impure World Reincarnation technique!"
"Yes, Lord Orochimaru!"
Kabuto took a deep look at Yao and quickly turned into the depths of the secret room.
A moment later.
He returned with two scrolls of different styles and handed them to Yao.
Yao first took the summoning contract scroll and unrolled it directly.
He saw that many names were already written on it, the last one being Orochimaru.
Yao bit his thumb and solemnly wrote his own name in the blank space after Orochimaru's name:
Uchiha Yao!
As the name was written, a faint light flashed on the scroll, and the contract was established.
Yao returned the summoning scroll to Kabuto, then took the scroll recording the Impure World Reincarnation technique and scanned it quickly.
Then he compared it with the Impure World Reincarnation scroll found in the Root base and found that Orochimaru's version was much more detailed.
Obviously.
This was the improved version!
"Pleasure doing business with you, Lord Orochimaru!"
Yao smiled slightly, then waved to the two of them:
"I hope next time we meet, you will have healed your hands. Don't be so... wretched!"
"After all, you are a senior I respect. Being too wretched really damages your image in my heart!"
"Goodbye!"
As his voice fell, Yao disappeared completely, as if he had never appeared.
Orochimaru stared fixedly at the spot where Yao disappeared, his golden vertical pupils flickering with humiliation, malice, apprehension, and of course... greed.
"Uchiha... Yao... I'll remember you! I hope next time we meet, you won't fall into my hands!"
Orochimaru whispered the name in a low voice, as if wanting to chew it to pieces.
...
Yao returned to Konoha and went straight to the depths of the back mountain downstream of the Naka River.
Here, the forest was deep and the water murmured; it was a good place for cultivation.
Yao found a relatively flat open space to study the Summoning Jutsu.
The so-called Summoning Jutsu was essentially a Space-Time Ninjutsu.
Pre-sign a blood contract to establish a connection channel with the special space or habitat where the summoning beasts are located.
Then use chakra formulas for positioning and summoning.
As for which specific summoning beast would be summoned, it depended on which beast was "free" or "willing" to respond to this chakra fluctuation.
Of course.
Once familiar with the summoning beasts, one could summon the desired beast according to one's will.
As for the beginning...
It was all luck!
The jutsu itself was not complicated; the core lay in the connection perception with the contract scroll and the precise output of chakra.
"Let's try first!"
Yao took a deep breath, bit his finger, swiped across his palm, and his hands flew through the seals for the Summoning Jutsu:
Boar! Dog! Bird! Monkey! Ram!
"Ninja Art: Summoning Jutsu!"
He slammed his palm onto the ground.
Poof!
A puff of white smoke exploded.
When the smoke cleared, he saw coiled on the ground... a small snake, completely emerald green and not much thicker than a finger.
It raised its small triangular head, a pair of bean-like snake eyes staring at Yao, and actually spoke human language:
"Hey, brat over there! Are you the one who summoned the great me? Do you know the rules? Where's the sacrifice?"
"One hundred living human sacrifices! Not one less!"
"..."
Yao was a little speechless.
Were all summoning beasts from Ryūchi Cave like this?
Demanding sacrifices right off the bat, with a tone bigger than Manda's. One hundred living humans, could you even eat them all?
"Is your dad Manda?"
Yao couldn't help but retort.
"Lord Manda is a high-ranking official of our Ryūchi Cave! Is he someone a brat like you can discuss casually?"
The little green snake immediately hissed, flicking its tongue arrogantly: "Cut the crap! Sacrifices! Or else the great me will cancel the summon and go back immediately!"
Yao couldn't be bothered to talk nonsense with this little snake that wasn't even as long as his "little brother." He cut off the chakra supply directly.
Poof!
The little green snake disappeared in a puff of smoke with a stunned expression of "how dare you ignore the great me."
"These guys..."
Yao shook his head.
"Again!"
Yao formed the hand seals again. This time, he didn't spare any chakra.
"Ninja Art: Summoning Jutsu!"
BOOM!!!
A burst of white smoke, hundreds of times louder than before, exploded. The shockwave flattened the surrounding grass.
The smoke contracted rapidly.
A massive cyan snake lay coiled in the clearing.
Its body was thick and strong, scales gleaming with a cold, metallic luster.
On its triangular head, a pair of pale yellow snake eyes looked down calmly at Yao below.
Although its size and power couldn't compare to Manda, it was a world of difference compared to the one just now.
"Is this... Aoda?"
Yao recognized this giant snake that had also appeared in the original story, remembering it was Sasuke's summoning beast.
Aoda lowered its head slightly, sizing up Yao, its voice deep:
"A new contractor? It's strange that Orochimaru would give the contract to a brat!"
Aoda didn't demand sacrifices, its attitude much gentler: "So, why have you summoned me?"