Chapter 171 - Orochimaru's Power

Naruto, Sasuke, and Minato safely appear near Gamakichi and at the same time Obito's body deforms even more showing the sign of the fact that he is struggling to control the Juubi, so much that when he shoots a Gudōdama (Truth-Seeking Ball) he misses and hit himself instead obliterating the right half of his body.

Seeing Minato pulls out six of his marked kunai and says "I'll create an opening, use a combined attack on him without leaving him time to react!" and then throw them near him setting them up for his Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique).

Meanwhile, Obito is struggling to keep control as he roars in pain and is only able to say Rin's name, and as Minato runs toward him yelling "I'm coming!! Obito!" he can only say "Who... Are... Yo... U...?", but just as it seems that he is about to lose himself, Obito pull himself together and finally able to control the Juubi's power, and his appearance changes once again.

In this new form, the scale-half of his body became less prominent and the ten protrusions on his back expanded to form the collar and coattails of a haori. He also had two horns sprouted from his forehead, the left smaller than the right, and six magatama markings appeared across his chest, at the same time the number of Gudōdama he can control increased to ten, of which eight floated behind his back, one behind his left hand, and the last one transformed in a pure black shakujō (Buddish Staff),

He then opens his eyes and says "Finally... Sensei" then blocks Minato's kunai with his shakujō, easily breaking it then with a Gudōdama he blows off Minato's right arm, but Minato is still able to retreat using the Hiraishin no Jutsu, and replies to a worried Naruto with "He got me, but I'm fine, I jumped with Hiraishin", but Obito pointing at Minato's right side asks "Are you sure?".

Then Naruto, Sasuke, and Minato notice the Gudōdama stuck on his right side, which is now disturbingly glowing, but as Minato is about to grab the orb, and Sasuke once again summons Susanoo to protect himself and Naruto, Tobirama quickly appears and grabs the Gudōdama, then he uses Hiraishin no Jutsu to teleport behind Obito, grabbing him and saying "I'll return this to you" as the Gudōdama explodes.

Then Tobirama lands behind Naruto's group and explains "Don't worry... I used my clone... the last time I touched him I put a mark on him" and Naruto comments "Wow!! You can copy my dad!! Old man with the face of the Second Hokage!!" but Tobirama replies "It's the fourth that is copying me... Also, you should address me as Second with respect!".

Then from the crater left by the Gudōdama, a human-sized black ball comes out, that soon reforms in the eight Gudōdama behind Obito's back, showing his unharmed figure, and as he lands, from the distance ten wooded dragons come and attack Obito under Hashirama's command, but Obito with his shakujō easily cut their head stopping Hashirama's Jutsu.

But he brought enough time for Naruto's group to come up with another plan, and taking advantage of his distraction, Sasuke uses Amaterasu to attack Obito, but is able to block it by forming a shield with a Gudōdama and says "I sensed that you were focusing your chakra in your left eye... Your surprise attack won't work on me".

Still, the pair doesn't stop and once again they merge the Futon: Rasenshuriken (Wind Release: Rasenshuriken) and Enton: Kagutsuchi (Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi), at the same time, Minato and Tobirama prepare for the Hiraishin Goshun Mawashi no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Mutually Instantaneous Revolving Technique), they mark each other with their respective seals, then Tobirama teleports behind Obito, while Minato teleports in front of Naruto and Sasuke combination Jutsu, and as soon as he is hit, he switched places with Tobirama to cause the attack to land on Obito.

This time the Jutsu hits Obito, and the next moment he is blown away and enveloped in a torrent of black flames, meanwhile, the fight between Orochimaru and Ren continues, and slowly Ren's advantage became more and more apparent, after begin hit by a powerful blast of pale blue flames, Orochimaru looks much worse than before, he lost his left arm, and 5 of the snake heads on his back, he also as burns and half-melted wounds that seems unable to heal,

But still, with a confident smile on his face he says while looking at the figure of Ren, whose many wounds he inflected quickly regenerate under the effect of his Bankai "You really are like a cockroach... No matter how many times I wound you, you always heal... But while annoying it isn't enough to kill me... Now, I will show you my true power...".

Then he opens his mouth wide and from it, another Orochimaru comes out, only this one not only has all its wounds healed, but he once again grew stronger, he is also bigger and his bone-like armor covers more of his torso, even the spikes on his wrist are longer and sharper.

Licking his lips Orochimaru spreads his arm wide and says "This is my power... As long as I'm near death or about to die, I can save myself by molting... I will not only completely heal but I will also gain strength proportionally to the damage I received!... Kukuku... Isn't it perfect!! Not only you won't be able to kill me, but I will grow stronger with each of your attempts!!!".

Orochimaru then looks at Ren, hoping to see his despairing figure, but he still has that confident smile on his face as he says "Well that certainly is an annoying power... But it isn't invincible... Sure you can almost revive yourself in an instant, but what if you die so fast that you don't even notice it?" and Orochimaru simply replies "Then let me see you trying and failing".

Then he uses Sonido to move in front of Ren, much faster than before, and thrust with his right spike aiming at Ren's throat as he says "Let's see if you can regenerate without your head..." but Ren uses his three right arms to shoot quick Kido blast to use as a thruster to quickly move to the side, but Orochimaru who is now able to follow better his movement, quickly hits him with his tail and soon after the eight snake heads on his back release a volley of powerful Cero that quickly hits Ren causing a gigantic explosion comparable to the one caused by the Juubi's Bijuudama.