socalfunplaces Chapter 91 Minamoto no Takuno VS Orochimaru
Chapter 91 Minamoto no Takuno VS Orochimaru
Chapter 91 Minamoto no Takuno VS Orochimaru
"Wait!" Orochimaru's voice suddenly rose, carrying a hint of barely perceptible urgency.
His face was so gloomy it was almost dripping with tears, and he was torn between his inner thoughts and his own.
Jugo cells are just too tempting!
As Yuan Tuoye said, the only key is currently in the other party's hands, and if we miss this opportunity, we may lose it forever.
More importantly, Yuan Tuoye was not bluffing; he possessed a research sample far exceeding his own, giving him a significant lead in the field of cursed seal research!
The other party is indeed capable of figuring out the secrets of the curse seal on their own, and may even be faster than I am!
Yuan Tuoye looked at him, his tone carrying a hint of triumphant mockery: "Oh? Changed your mind?"
"In this deal, you've acquired more valuable research materials, while I've saved a lot of time. Why not?" Yuan Tuoye persuaded again at this moment. "Besides, don't tell me you don't have the technology to replicate it."
Orochimaru's narrow, golden snake eyes narrowed slightly, and a meaningful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He stared at Yuan Tuoye and suddenly launched an attack!
One of his arms twisted strangely and instantly split into dozens of ferocious pythons with venomous fangs, hissing and spitting out their tongues, which rushed toward Yuan Tuoye with a stench.
"Hidden Shadows, Many Snake Hands!"
Yuan Tuoye's eyes sharpened, and he reacted quickly, instantly completing the hand seals.
"The Peacock's Wonderful Method: Dragon and Snake!"
In an instant, purple chakra erupted from behind him as if it were a tangible substance!
The pure chakra rapidly condensed and shaped, transforming into several even more magnificent energy serpents, their bodies shimmering with purple light, which, carrying a fierce aura, coiled and pounced towards Orochimaru.
This sudden ninjutsu caused Orochimaru's pupils to shrink sharply, and a look of surprise and doubt appeared on his face.
"The Peacock Technique of the Star Ninja Village?! It seems you also took that meteorite from the Star Ninja Village." His voice carried a rare hint of surprise.
"So you're still going to make a move after all?" Gen Takuno snorted coldly, ignoring Orochimaru's nonsense, his eyes sharp. "Orochimaru, if you want to make another deal, research data alone won't be enough."
"Tsk," Orochimaru licked his lips, a dangerous yet excited glint in his eyes, "That'll have to wait until you defeat me!"
Just as Yuan Tuoye finished speaking.
Bang! The ground beneath his feet suddenly exploded!
A ferocious python, several times thicker than the previous Shadow Serpent Hand, burst out of the ground. Its gaping maw, like a cave, reeked of a strong, stench, and it viciously bit upwards, intending to swallow him whole!
Amidst the flying dust, Orochimaru wore a cold smile.
As far as he knew, the Peacock Technique required a high degree of concentration to control the materialized chakra, which severely limited the user's physical movement—this was the technique's fatal weakness!
However, Yuan Tuoye showed no surprise when faced with the ferocious, gaping maw at his feet.
He didn't even move his feet like a mountain, but simply twisted his waist, lowered his shoulders, swung his arm, and punched the huge snake head hard!
"Strange power!"
Boom!!!
The terrifying roar was like a meteorite hitting the ground!
The moment the fist touched the snake's head, a violent force was unleashed without reservation!
The ground collapsed and shattered layer by layer like fragile glass, and a huge shock wave spread out in a ring, causing even the distant jungle to tremble and collapse!
Orochimaru, who was standing to the side and hadn't expected the punch to be so powerful, almost fell over, but he managed to steady himself thanks to his experience.
Orochimaru's pupils contracted sharply in shock.
The power to shatter mountains and collapse rocks—it's exactly the same as that woman's! No! This pure destructive power is probably no less than Tsunade's!
He was deeply shocked and looked at the giant python again.
Its head exploded completely like a watermelon struck by a heavy hammer, with scarlet flesh and bone fragments flying everywhere.
Its massive body was embedded deep in the broken, sunken ground like a tattered sack, and there was no sound from it.
Yuan Tuoye calmly shook his fist, which was stained with snake blood, and said with a hint of sarcasm, "It seems that you also know the weakness of the Peacock Technique, but unfortunately, I know it too."
Orochimaru fell into a brief silence, his mind racing. His opponent not only possessed the flawless Peacock Technique, but also monstrous strength comparable to Tsunade's, making him a formidable force in both offense and defense, with no apparent weaknesses.
This guy is definitely a tough nut to crack!
"Well then, it's my turn next." Yuan Tuoye sneered, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.
Before he finished speaking, a highly compressed and violently rotating chakra sphere suddenly condensed in his right palm!
The density of this chakra sphere was so high that it slightly distorted the space around it, and the energy fluctuations it emitted were terrifying.
"Wind Release: Rasengan!" With a sudden swing of his arm, he accurately hurled the Rasengan, which was powerful enough to cut through steel, towards Orochimaru!
"What?!" Orochimaru's snake eyes instantly shrank to pinpoints!
How could such a terrifying concentration of chakra, after being materialized, still be able to fly at high speed outside the body?
Instinctively, his arms transformed into a defensive net composed of countless slender venomous snakes, intending to entangle and block them.
However, the tough snake bodies were instantly pulverized the moment they touched the edge of the rapidly spinning spiral shuriken!
It was as if a hot knife had sliced through butter, without causing the slightest resistance! The viscous blood mist and broken scales scattered and flew in the airflow.
"This power—" Orochimaru was horrified, realizing that conventional defenses were ineffective.
He made a quick decision, abandoning the futile swarm of snakes, and as he retreated, his hands moved with lightning speed, forming hand seals.
"Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall!" Boom! A stone wall several meters thick and incredibly sturdy rose from the ground, blocking the way in front of the Spiral Shuriken.
However, this defense, which is as solid as a fortress in ordinary battles, is now as fragile as paper!
The wind-style shuriken pierced through the earthen wall as easily as cutting tofu, and its terrifying rotational force even "drilled" a passage through the rock!
At this point, it was too late for Orochimaru to completely dodge!
The last thing Orochimaru saw was the deadly Rasengan rapidly magnifying in his eyes.
In an instant, a storm of countless wind-attribute needles, invisible to the naked eye, exploded!
This was not just a physical tear, but a devastating cut that penetrated to the cellular level! The entire area was engulfed by blinding white light!
"Ughhhhhh!!!" Orochimaru's heart-wrenching screams were so agonizing they were inhuman, completely drowning out the roaring sound of his chakra!
As the smoke and chakra turbulence slowly dissipated, only a huge, radially shaped crater, several feet deep, remained on the ground.
In the center of the pit was the mangled remains of Orochimaru, cut to a bloody pulp, his skin torn and flesh ripped open, as if he had been thrown into a meat grinder.
He lay there, barely breathing, seemingly having completely lost the ability to fight.
Yuan Tuoye coldly observed this tragic scene, his tone calm yet tinged with mockery: "Get up."
He had seen through the other party's tricks long ago.
Sure enough, he had just finished speaking.
Cluck-cluck-cluck
A sickeningly painful sound came from the mouth of that dying body!
Two hands covered in sticky saliva suddenly shot out from the "corpse's" wide-open mouth!
Immediately, with both hands, he violently pried open and tore open the corners of Orochimaru's mouth, and a figure covered in slippery mucus struggled out of Orochimaru's mouth as if shedding its skin!
Apart from the torn clothes and the dirt left on the face, the newborn body was completely unharmed.
It's the Orochi-ryu Substitution Technique!
Orochimaru stuck out his long tongue and licked the sticky liquid off his cheek. His golden vertical pupils stared intently at Minamoto no Takuya, and for the first time, a deep sense of fear and confusion truly surfaced within them: "It seems your senses are indeed very powerful," he hissed.
The opponent was not fooled at all by the illusion of death created by the substitution technique.
More importantly, the damage caused by that wind-style ninjutsu was so severe that even his proud regenerative abilities could hardly heal completely!
The pain, which penetrates to the cellular level, still lingers faintly.
This move seems to have been born to counter such a powerful life force as his!
Gen Takuno looked at the reborn Orochimaru with an expressionless face.
Even without a perception-enhancing skill like Kagura's Mind's Eye, he would never easily approach Orochimaru's "corpse."
That would be tantamount to stepping into a deadly trap.
"Should we continue fighting, or—?" Yuan Tuoye slightly adjusted his posture, his gaze locked onto his opponent like that of a hawk.
"Let's make a deal." Orochimaru's hoarse voice rang out, his golden snake eyes flashing with calculating light.
He decisively suppressed his aura and stopped probing. The opponent before him was not someone he had expected to be easily defeated.
More importantly, this forest is too close to Konoha!
Using those earth-shattering forbidden ninjutsu at the drop of a hat would only attract unnecessary attention, which was the last thing he wanted to see right now.
Therefore, what seemed like an extremely dangerous fight was, for the two of them, nothing more than a restrained contest of strength. Both sides tacitly kept their trump cards hidden, and neither was willing to fight to the death in this inopportune place.
"What else do you want from me?" Orochimaru licked his lips with interest.
The research data alone would have been enough to pay the price, but after the failed sneak attack, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
Since he couldn't easily "get something for free," he accepted his fate and was prepared to pay a higher price.
A meaningful smile curved at the corner of Gen Takuno's lips: "A small part—the horns of the Eight-Tails."
Before he could finish speaking, Orochimaru's golden snake eyes suddenly contracted, and a hint of shock, which he could not hide, flashed across his pale face!
How did he know? Unlike the cursed seal, this secret should only be known to him!
In an instant, a chill crept up Orochimaru's spine, and the identity of the mysterious figure before him became more enigmatic than ever before.
The source of this intelligence—could it be beyond conventional intelligence networks? Or perhaps—he possesses "precognition"?
What are your abilities?
This terrifying thought entered Orochimaru's mind, filling him with doubts.
Otherwise, it's impossible to explain how the other party knew he possessed the Eight-Tails' horn.
But Orochimaru was, after all, one of the legendary Sannin who had weathered countless storms, and his shock lasted only a moment.
He quickly weighed the pros and cons. The other party was not asking for the complete bull horns he had cultivated, but only a small portion. He himself did not actually need that many, so its marginal value was not high.
He can afford to pay this price.
"Okay," he replied hoarsely, decisively.
A silent struggle filled the air.
Almost simultaneously, the two formed the same hand seal.
"Shadow Clone Technique!"
Two lifelike clones instantly appeared beside each other.
When they saw that the other party's movements were almost synchronized with their own, a look of understanding flashed in the eyes of both Minamoto no Takuno and Orochimaru's main body.
This unspoken wariness is precisely proof of how formidable the other party is.
No matter who it is, being targeted by such a person, who is thinking about "compensation" or "return gifts," is by no means a good thing.
At this moment, both of them mentally labeled each other as dangerous, warning each other not to be provoked!