Red sand dust

The warm wind blowing from the south brings with it the breath of spring. Most of the Fire Country is already in bloom with mountain flowers. The Tian Country further north is still experiencing the cold from the Ice and Snow Country to the north from time to time. Fortunately, winter has passed despite the test of wind. The trickles formed by melting ice and snow have converged into small streams, flowing into the big rivers and heading southeast.

Plum blossoms and peach blossoms are in full bloom one after another, bringing a touch of joy to this somewhat desolate country. The spring rains that indicate the arrival of the prosperous season of life come one after another, knocking off the petals and falling into the yellow-brown soil. After blending in, bursts of The fragrance of the earth dissipates, making people who have experienced the cold winter feel relaxed and happy.

Orochimaru, who has been staying in the underground laboratory all year round, prefers to spend his precious time exploring the mysteries of the ninja world, but it does not mean that he does not like the beautiful scenery of spring.

"More than thirty years ago, around this time, when I was still full of longing for the future, I received the news that my parents died in the battlefield. Unknowingly, so much time has passed. Even for me, it is inevitable that some older people will Human feelings..."

Standing on a high hill, looking at the sea of ​​flowers about to bloom in the distant canyon, Orochimaru's eyes seemed to penetrate time, and he saw the Konoha Village many years ago, comforting himself after losing his loved ones. Teacher Hiruzen Sarutobi,

"It was at that time that I realized that human beings are such fragile things. The spark of life is extinguished as soon as it is extinguished..."

Not far behind, Uchiha Sasuke, with the Kusanagi sword slung across his waist, supported his waist with one hand, and smoothed his forehead that was messed up by the breeze with the other hand, and said calmly:

"Fragile lives disappear with the wind, but hatred is difficult to wipe out, and even passed down from generation to generation..."

"Oh? I didn't expect you to have such mediocre thoughts! However, it is also a good thing for me..."

Orochimaru smiled evilly, Uchiha Sasuke, who was obsessed with revenge, quickly improved his strength at all costs, which saved Orochimaru a lot of trouble and did not have to worry about motivating him.

"Whatever you want, as long as you let me kill that man!"

Uchiha Sasuke responded coldly.

On the other side, seeing the respected Lord Orochimaru being rudely contradicted by Uchiha Sasuke, the somewhat unhappy Yakushi Kabuto tried to smooth things over.

"Sasuke, you are already very strong now. Even I am not sure of winning. This is all a gift from Lord Orochimaru..."

The certainty of winning?

Gift?

The vengeful boy who was disdainful in his heart certainly knew that Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi had paid a lot of money to satisfy their desires, but this was inseparable from their own hard work. Besides, the necessary price had already been paid.

The person who really made him cross the critical step and step into the threshold of being strong was not the two people in front of him, but another greedy person with a deep scheming and a bigger appetite.

"Kabuto, forget it!"

Orochimaru laughed a few times indifferently. It was absolutely impossible for someone like Uchiha Sasuke to bind him with kindness, at least not now.

Besides, it is just a soul container that is about to be acquired. What does it matter what he thinks?

"I heard that you are a little dissatisfied with the current intensity of training?"

Since cultivating Sage Mode, his strength has been on the fast track. The ignorant Deidara may not be bad in absolute strength, but in a real fight, he can no longer pose much threat to Uchiha Sasuke.

The power of Blood Succession Limit and Explosive Release is indeed amazing, but its weaknesses are also very obvious. It is too obvious to be restrained by Thunder Release.

"Your strength is no weaker than Uchiha Itachi at this age, except for... those eyes..."

That's right!

In Orochimaru's view, the current Uchiha Sasuke is almost the same strength as Uchiha Itachi when he was the captain of the ANBU. Even if he has the reputation of massacring his family and defecting, in Orochimaru's view, he is just a strong man. A young boy with a long way to go.

Because of this judgment, Orochimaru, who thought he had the advantage in strength, took action against Itachi Uchiha.

Unfortunately, Orochimaru got most of his estimates right, except for one thing, and that was the potential of the Sharingan.

With the blessing of the Mangekyou Sharingan, the extremely talented Uchiha family genius has become so powerful that it far exceeds Orochimaru's expectations.

From then on, Orochimaru, who was obsessed with various forbidden arts, became more and more eager to get the Sharingan, which led to the subsequent story.

Today's Uchiha Sasuke is undoubtedly very strong. Even without the Mangekyo Sharingan, with the blessing of the barely usable Sage Mode, he is not much worse than Uchiha Itachi.

And this conclusion was also recognized by Uchiha Sasuke, who had obtained a lot of top-secret information from Daimaru. Therefore, no matter how unwilling he was, he could only suppress the anger in his heart and remain silent.

"In addition, according to Kabuto, your strength has improved much faster than expected. Is there such a benefit after cultivating the sage mode? It's really shocking. No wonder that idiot Jiraiya can also break through such a big game. reputation."

"Are you also interested in these?"

Uchiha Sasuke asked coldly.

Uchiha Sasuke doesn't care too much about the so-called mystery of Sage Mode. He has Daimaru to worry about. Although this kind of practice has the ability to comprehensively improve physical fitness, the improvement speed is not too fast. Uchiha Sasuke also vaguely understands this. Yueyue realized it.

What really plays the main role is the mysterious power that Daimaru covets. Although Uchiha Sasuke doesn't know how to use it yet, the benefits it brings are obvious. It not only speeds up the learning of genjutsu, but also improves Ninjutsu. The understanding is also more thorough, and the chakra consumption after opening the Sharingan is even reduced.

Especially when maintaining the sage mode, the opened Sharingan, with the blessing of the senjutsu chakra, vaguely resonates with that mysterious power, making Uchiha Sasuke, the master of the power, feel frightened.

If he hadn't heard Daimaru say that this was his innate talent, Uchiha Sasuke would have doubted whether his body had been tampered with in some way.

After taking a deep look at the wary Uchiha Sasuke, Orochimaru stretched out his long tongue, licked the corners of his mouth, and said with an inexplicable smile:

"I'm not very interested in this kind of unstable power! In fact, the future development potential of the Heavenly Curse Seal on your body will not be much worse than that of the Immortal Mode..."

However, this kind of self-proclaimed rhetoric will definitely not be able to dispel Uchiha Sasuke's doubts.

No one has ever seen how high the upper limit of the curse seal is, but the immediate improvement in strength brought by the immortal mode is the real benefit.

"I'm more curious about how you coordinate the conflict between magic chakra and cursed seal chakra! According to my research, when two powers of the same level meet, it's like boiling oil meets fire. Clean it up, you'll be lucky if you don't explode and die, let alone turn on the immortal mode..."

The difficulty of accomplishing this may be much more difficult than fusing the changes in two chakra properties into the Blood Succession Limit.

It was precisely because Orochimaru could clearly sense that the Heavenly Curse Seal on Uchiha Sasuke was still there, and had not been tampered with by Ochiha, that he tolerated the ulterior motives of the Sand Ninja jumping up and down, even pretending not to notice Uchiha Sasuke's small movements.

No matter what the other party does, as long as he takes Uchiha Sasuke's body and annexes his soul, everything will be his own, so what is there to worry about?

"Chakra conflict?"

Uchiha Sasuke was a little confused. It was indeed easy for different powers to interfere in the body, but it was too exaggerated to say that he would explode and die.

Is it because of my own unique talent, or is it the protection of the magical power in my body, or...

"Both?" 』

Uchiha Sasuke, who has gradually become clearer about his own position, has less and less confusion about the top masters in the ninja world, and his understanding of himself is gradually becoming more accurate.

At the beginning of practicing the sage mode, Daimaru warned him repeatedly that if he felt that he couldn't hold on, he must take measures in time and don't show off.

Later, in the process of practice, there was indeed disharmony, but it was not too intense, and the degree of danger was still within the controllable range, so Uchiha Sasuke did not delve into it. Now it seems that the water is probably bottomless. But Daimaru didn't say a word about this matter.

"Did you anticipate it and be sure that nothing will happen to me, or do you not care about my life or death at all?" To him, am I not even as important as the mysterious power in my body? 』

In an instant, Uchiha Sasuke, who had become enlightened, couldn't help but feel frightened when he thought of the danger behind this.

Seeing the confusion on Uchiha Sasuke's face, Orochimaru understood:

"It seems that you don't know. You just have better luck. Or is it the sage mode training method created by humans, which is more suitable for ninja training and less dangerous?"

"Maybe!"

Uchiha Sasuke answered perfunctorily.

The mysterious power that Daimaru calls "the last trump card" is Uchiha Sasuke's hope for a comeback. Whether he can successfully escape Orochimaru's control may depend on its performance. Naturally, Orochimaru will not know this.

After hearing Uchiha Sasuke's casual answer, Orochimaru couldn't help laughing after being silent for a long time:

"That's good. There are many interesting people in the ninja world, so it won't be boring in the future!"

Researchers who are committed to unraveling all mysteries are not afraid of profound puzzles, but are afraid of the lack of expectations. More unexpected changes may be more worthy of study.

While a few people were chatting, a row of black spots suddenly passed across the sky from far to near, and then disappeared into the distance from sight.

Different from the swept-wing flying ninjas we often saw in the past, this was a large airborne puppet team of more than ten in a V-shaped formation.

In order to facilitate the imperfect helipads and lifts of major ninja villages, large-angle variable wings are used. When cruising at high altitude, the obvious forward-swept wing posture is obviously different from the working status of the combat puppets of the air combat troops.

"It seems that the five major ninja villages have made another big move. Such a large exchange and transportation of materials..."

In the past year, in order to wipe out the peripheral forces of the "Akatsuki" organization, the five major ninja villages have eliminated countless rebel ninja and wandering ninja groups. There must be a large number of unlucky ones among them, and some have slipped through the net, but the atmosphere in the ninja world is The solemnity is obvious.

There were also a few unlucky subordinates under Orochimaru who were harmed.

Because of this, these days, Orochimaru, Yakushi Kabuto and Uchiha Sasuke have been careful to avoid the whirlpool waves sweeping through the entire ninja world.

Fortunately, the target of the five great ninja villages was not them, so they came here without any danger for so long.

As the buffer period for Orochimaru's last forbidden technique, Fuzo Reincarnation, gradually passed, the body taken from Genyoumaru, even though it was carefully prepared and used with great care, still showed a strong repelling effect. Under the pressure of Orochimaru's powerful power, he gradually became unable to hold on.

Orochimaru, who couldn't help coughing a few times, dropped the white handkerchief stained with blood that was covering his mouth and let it float away in the wind.

"time flies!"

Orochimaru was muttering to himself, his pale face showed a sickly red color, and he said weakly,

"In the next period of time, Deidara's mental restraint will be loosened a little, and there will be more strengthening measures. When you can defeat him steadily, I have a task for you..."

"What mission?"

Defeating Deidara, a brainless guy, Uchiha Sasuke no longer takes it seriously, but the task Orochimaru gave him is a bit unexpected. Over the years, apart from the progress of his training, Orochimaru has almost no progress. If you care about anything about Uchiha Sasuke, even if you need manpower, it's not Uchiha Sasuke's turn to take action.

Kabuto Yakushi lost no time in explaining for Orochimaru, who was in poor health:

"Now that stupid woman Guren is no longer here, I still have to assist Orochimaru-sama in conducting experiments. I can't leave. There are some things I can only let you do..."

"Okay! I hope it won't affect my practice and can bring me some surprises..."

Next, a plan to go to the country of Taki to retrieve certain experimental materials that Orochimaru had released a few years ago was explained to Uchiha Sasuke by Kabuto Yakushi.

This task is not too difficult. The troublesome thing is that it requires Uchiha Sasuke to sneak into a ninja village that is not too weak and recover certain supplies without attracting attention.

As for the enemies that may be encountered, there are only a few rebel ninja organizations who have also received some information and are ready to take action, as well as the personnel of the "sniper team" of the five major ninja villages that are specifically used to exterminate villains who may follow.

The only thing that people care about is that Uchiha Sasuke may encounter an old friend.

What Orochimaru is more interested in is whether this person, who has been away from Konoha Village for so long, is as extreme as he usually shows, and whether he will kill his former compatriots.

As for Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto themselves, what they really have to do is to make the final adjustments to Genyoumaru's body, squeeze out all its potential, and make final preparations for the next time they cast the forbidden technique: Fuzo Reincarnation.

There is only half a year left for Uchiha Sasuke to work hard to improve his strength and resist.