25: Chapter 25 Psychological Game: Orochimaru's "Investment""However, your method of prolonging life by constantly changing bodies seems to be a defective product."
Those words were spoken softly, yet they instantly froze the fanatical infatuation on Orochimaru's face.
For the first time, his deepest, most secret, and core pursuit was described with such a contemptuous term as "defective product."
"Hehehe.you little devil, you're playing with fire."
The hoarse laughter turned sharp and piercing, no longer mocking, but pure rage from someone whose sore spot had been touched.Orochimaru suddenly lowered his body and slammed his hands on the ground.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
"Earth Escape·Earth Flow Wall!"
He held nothing back, executing two powerful ninjutsu techniques in an instant.
A raging hurricane whipped up sand and rocks, creating a devastating torrent powerful enough to flatten a small hill.
At the same time, a thick earthen wall rose from the ground, blocking all of Naruto's escape routes, and together with the Wind Release technique, formed a deadly cage.
Faced with the thunderous rage of this S-rank rogue ninja, Naruto Uzumaki didn't even change his posture.
He simply raised one hand calmly.
An extremely cold aura surged from the invisible armor of the [Possessed by Evil Spirits - Ice Demon].
Click!
With a crisp freezing sound, a huge and thick ice wall rose from the ground at a speed faster than a wall of earth.The ice wall was crystal clear, but its surface was covered with vicious frost patterns, radiating absolute zero that could freeze everything.
Boom!
A destructive torrent of wind and sand crashed heavily against the ice wall.
It did not budge an inch.
All the impact was absorbed by the indestructible ice layer, without even a crack appearing.
The attack was ineffective.
Naruto stood behind the ice wall, as if he were in another world.
This brat can actually stand up to me head-on!The strength of that Ice Release technique is definitely not something a genin could possess.
Through the translucent ice, he gazed at the man outside whose body was slightly stiff, and continued their previous conversation.
"You see, what you're pursuing isn't immortality, but 'knowledge'."
His words pierced through the roar of the ninjutsu and reached Orochimaru's ears clearly.
"You are just afraid that death will take away the knowledge you have accumulated throughout your life, and that the truths you have not yet explored will be buried with you as you decay."
"That's why you use this inefficient method of constantly changing containers to prolong the time you hold knowledge."
"Your soul is filled with the fear of being forgotten."
This brat not only has strength, he.he actually saw through me!He dissected my soul, exposing my deepest fears, which I had deliberately avoided, nakedly to the sunlight!
For the first time, Orochimaru felt uncomfortable.It wasn't the tension of facing a powerful enemy, but a naked feeling that all his secrets had been seen through, leaving him nowhere to hide.
"What exactly are you?" he asked hoarsely.
Naruto didn't answer the question.He decided to give this "scientist" a little shock.
He deliberately released a trace of the aura of the [Spell: Tent].
That's neither chakra nor natural energy.
It was a pure, irrational force of "rules".
Buzz.
In an instant, a pitch-black, invisible "domain" centered on Naruto flashed by.
In that split second, Orochimaru's golden snake eyes suddenly shrank to two tiny pinpoints.
The moment that realm unfolded, all his connections with this world were severed.
His chakra perception failed.
His serpentine spirit beast's perception stopped working.
His hearing, smell, and even his basic perception of airflow all became a void.It was as if he had been ripped out of the world and thrown into an absolute "nothingness" devoid of any information.
"What.what kind of power is this?"
He screamed, a scream that comes from a scientist who has discovered a phenomenon that completely defies the laws of physics, a scream that is a mixture of extreme horror and ecstasy.
"It doesn't belong to chakra!It doesn't belong to the rules of this world!"
[Ding!You have received 8000 units of ultimate [shock] from Orochimaru!]
[Ding!You have received 12,000 units of the ultimate [Greed] from Orochimaru!]
Naruto watched with satisfaction as the numbers on the system panel surged, then slowly withdrew his aura.
The world has returned to normal.
He smiled as he looked at the man whose body was trembling slightly from the tremendous impact.
"I can give you a chance to see 'true immortality'."
Naruto, in turn, extended an invitation to the legendary Sannin to cooperate.
"As long as you can pay enough 'tuition fees'."
He emphasized the word "tuition fee".
"For example.your research findings on 'cursed seals'."
Orochimaru stared intently at Naruto, his chest heaving violently.Shock, greed, doubt, fear—countless emotions intertwined in his snake-like eyes, ultimately coalescing into a relentless, all-consuming thirst for the unknown truth.
He needs to study this teenager.
At all costs!
"Hehehe.Interesting, what an interesting little devil."
Orochimaru let out a hysterical laugh; he had suddenly come up with a brilliant idea.
A brilliant idea that could both express "sincerity" and drag another precious experimental subject into the mess.
He suddenly turned his head and looked in another direction of the forest, releasing a special chakra fluctuation.
A moment later, a lithe figure darted through the forest; it was Uchiha Sasuke, who had been drawn by the commotion.
When Sasuke saw Naruto confronting the man who exuded an ominous aura, he immediately assumed a fighting stance.
"Naruto!That guy is."
HoweverBefore he could finish speaking, Orochimaru moved.
His neck stretched out at an eerie angle in an instant, becoming a blur, so fast that even Sasuke's Sharingan couldn't fully capture it.
"ah!"
Sasuke only had time to let out a short cry of pain before Orochimaru bit him on the left side of his neck.
A cold and evil chakra surged wildly into his body, leaving three black tomoe-shaped marks on his neck.
Intense pain instantly swept through his body.Sasuke screamed, his body convulsed, and he collapsed to the ground, losing consciousness.
Orochimaru retracted his neck, stuck out his long tongue, and licked the blood from the corner of his mouth.
He turned to look at Naruto, his snake-like eyes filled with a maniacal smile.
"This is my 'sincerity,' my 'bargaining chip.' The Uchiha body, plus my most perfect creation.I want to see how you, with your so-called 'true immortality,' will handle this 'talent.'"
This is his investment.
It was also a test on his part.
He threw a hot potato to Naruto.
[Ding!You have received 5000 [Cooperation Intent] from Orochimaru!]
[Ding!You have received 4000 units of ultimate [Pain] from Uchiha Sasuke!]
[Ding!You have received 3500 units of Ultimate Chaos from Uchiha Sasuke!]
Naruto looked at Sasuke, who was lying unconscious on the ground, his body convulsing due to the power of the cursed seal, and felt no emotion.
Orochimaru threw a scroll at him.
"This is how you contact me."
After saying that, his figure slowly sank into the shadows on the ground and disappeared completely.
When he left, he no longer felt anger, but only an endless desire to explore and possess Naruto and that power of "rules".
The clearing in the woods was quiet again.
Only Naruto, who was standing, and Sasuke, who was lying on the ground, remained.
In the distance, in Konoha Village, in the Hokage's office.
The image inside the crystal ball had long since turned completely black.
Hiruzen Sarutobi's hand holding the pipe was somewhat unsteady.
A masked operative knelt on one knee and reported everything that had just happened in a flat, emotionless tone.
"Reporting to Hokage-sama, the final findings of the investigation of Exercise Field No.44."
"Orochimaru made contact with Naruto Uzumaki and had a brief exchange of blows before.taking the initiative to retreat."
"Uchiha Sasuke is unconscious, struck by an unknown cursed seal.Uzumaki Naruto.is unharmed."
Snap.
Hiruzen Sarutobi's pipe fell onto the table.
Naruto has completely escaped his control.
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