Chapter 294: Sparring
Chapter 294: Sparring
When Ishiro put away the scroll and looked at Orochimaru, he found that Orochimaru was still deep in thought, likely pondering the content of the intelligence Ishiro had given him.
Ishiro was not in a hurry and waited quietly in mid-air. The two pieces of intelligence he had provided were, respectively, the method of evolving the Sharingan to the Mangekyō Sharingan, then to the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and finally to the Rinnegan; and the speculation that the Shikotsumyaku and Byakugan could combine to form the Tenseigan.
This kind of information was not of much use to an ordinary person. For example, Ishiro himself had known this since the beginning of his transmigration, but he had never thought of transplanting a Sharingan or the First Hokage's cells.
The main reason was that he couldn't get over the hurdle in his own heart.
The four words "human experimentation"—when Ishiro didn't see it, he could treat it as a kind of scientific research project in the ninja world. But the feeling after seeing it with his own eyes would definitely be different.
Not to mention doing it to his own body; this was something Ishiro could never accept.
As a transmigrator, although many of Ishiro's mentalities had changed—for example, killing people, even some good people, some people unrelated to him, Ishiro would no longer hesitate—some things were more or less retained. For example, Ishiro had always seen himself as a person, not a monster. He didn't want to turn himself into an experimental subject that was neither human nor ghost.
Even if this experimental subject had special abilities in certain aspects.
After a long while, Orochimaru came back to his senses. He looked at Ishiro a few times and said, "Your Excellency Tsuchikage, I would like to make another intelligence trade. You can pick one more ninjutsu in exchange for the source of this information."
Ishiro thought for a moment and said, "Alright. I want the Spirit Transformation Technique."
This time, Orochimaru was even more straightforward. He immediately summoned another small white snake, once again took a scroll from its mouth, and threw it directly to Ishiro.
After receiving it, Ishiro gave it a cursory glance and then put the scroll away.
After putting away the scroll, Ishiro created a Shadow Clone. The clone landed on the ground, extended a finger to gently tap the ground, and began to cast a sensory ninjutsu. Ishiro's main body also simultaneously extended his Mind's Eye's perception to its maximum.
"Senior Orochimaru, I won't write down the source of this information. I'll just tell you directly."
After a moment of contemplation, as if organizing his words, Ishiro finally began to speak after a while.
"A thousand years ago, the ninja world was not yet called the ninja world. A god came to this land. No one knows where she came from. But her power was enough to destroy heaven and earth, so people called her a god: the Rabbit Goddess."
"What happened during the reign of the Rabbit Goddess, I do not know. I only know that the Rabbit Goddess was later defeated by her two sons. One of her sons is the Sage of Six Paths, who possessed the Rinnegan."
"I am not sure what kind of eyes her other son possessed, but the specific situation I have already written in the intelligence on the Shikotsumyaku."
"The Senju, Uchiha, Uzumaki, and other clans should have inherited the bloodline of the Sage of Six Paths. While the Hyuga, Kaguya, and others should have inherited the bloodline of the Rabbit Goddess's other son."
"As for the source of my intelligence, although our Iwagakure does not have any special bloodline, we have inherited the ninjutsu of the Rabbit Goddess's other son."
At this point, Orochimaru's heart stirred. He recalled the time in Kirigakure when Ishiro had used Bansho Ten'in to dodge his summoning animal's sneak attack.
Ishiro continued, "I found this intelligence through this line of inquiry. As for the specific investigation process, I won't say much more."
"Oh, right. The Rabbit Goddess originally had a Tailed Beast within her, called the Ten-Tails. After the Sage of Six Paths and his brother defeated the Rabbit Goddess, they extracted the Ten-Tails and split it into the current nine Tailed Beasts."
After listening to Ishiro's account, Orochimaru digested this information again. To be honest, without having seen a real sage, Ishiro's words actually didn't have much credibility.
But Orochimaru was no ordinary person; he had his own criteria for judgment. In Ishiro's account, there was no biased stance, no causal link, only the inheritance related to ninjutsu.
For Orochimaru, this actually had higher credibility. So he said, "Alright, the transaction is complete."
Ishiro also smiled and said, "Transaction complete. Next, let's talk about joining the Akatsuki. The leader of the Akatsuki possesses the Rinnegan."
Orochimaru's pupils suddenly shrank. He took a deep breath but did not speak, his mind constantly pondering the origin of this pair of Rinnegan.
Orochimaru was a Konoha rogue-nin. Before his defection, he was a designated successor to the Hokage. He knew many secrets of Konoha that were not known to outsiders.
For example, the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, had studied the cells of his older brother, Hashirama Senju. For example, Konoha had the body of the First Hokage, Hashirama, but not the body of Madara Uchiha, who was clearly stated to have died in battle.
For example, Madara Uchiha had a younger brother, who was also exceptionally strong but died at the hands of Tobirama Senju. This younger brother seemed to have also awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
And, since Madara was dead, why was Tobirama still so wary of and targeting the Uchiha clan?
Orochimaru had already had some speculations about these things. Now, after listening to Ishiro's description, an outline gradually formed in his mind, and he felt that all the pieces were about to be connected.
In addition, through Ishiro's description just now, Orochimaru felt that he was already close to touching the essence of the ninja world, or rather, touching the truth of chakra.
At the same time, Orochimaru also became interested in Nagato's Rinnegan.
Ishiro could see that Orochimaru was tempted. Although Ishiro had told Orochimaru how to fuse the Sharingan to obtain the Rinnegan, the process was too troublesome. If he could directly obtain Nagato's Rinnegan, it would save a lot of trouble.
However, Ishiro was not worried about Nagato's safety. In the original story, Nagato's body was in that condition, yet Orochimaru was still trash in front of him, let alone in this life.
In this life, Nagato was not burdened by the Gedo Statue. He was traveling light and focusing on developing the abilities of the Rinnegan. The current Nagato's strength was definitely much stronger than at his peak in the original story.
For Orochimaru to deal with Nagato, unless he fused the Shikotsumyaku and the Byakugan and truly obtained the Tenseigan, whose level was not below the Rinnegan, it would be impossible.
Seeing this, Ishiro smiled and said, "The Akatsuki usually has to beat a new recruit into submission. Since Sasori of the Red Sand failed to complete the mission, then let me test Senior Orochimaru's depth on behalf of the Akatsuki's leader."
After speaking, the Shadow Clone carrying his three disciples began to fly to a higher altitude, while Ishiro's main body, along with the Shadow Clone on the ground casting sensory ninjutsu, launched an attack on Orochimaru.
Ishiro's Shadow Clone cast "Earth Release: Earth Flow Crushed Stone." Ishiro's main body then quickly formed hand seals and cast "Water Release: Violent Water Wave" and "Lightning Release: Lightning Vine" in succession.
Ishiro and his Shadow Clone cooperated, launching three B-rank Sage Arts from the start, and a B-rank Sage Art combining three elements at that. In terms of power, it directly surpassed a conventional S-rank ninjutsu.
Orochimaru's gaze narrowed. "Summoning Technique: Triple Rashōmon!"
The first Rashōmon gate was directly smashed, but the impact of Ishiro's combination ninjutsu was also weakened. Seeing this, Ishiro controlled the Water-Earth-Lightning combination ninjutsu to pass the latter two Rashōmon gates and attack Orochimaru directly behind them.
"Summoning Technique!"
This time, Orochimaru summoned Manda. As soon as Manda appeared, before it had time to complain, it was hit by Ishiro's combination ninjutsu.
However, with Manda's enormous size, the water current impact and rock collision in the combination ninjutsu, although it injured it and made it bloody, was not fatal.
What truly made Manda uncomfortable was the lightning in the combination ninjutsu. The paralyzing effect produced by the lightning made it impossible for Manda to dodge. The slow movement allowed Ishiro to timely control the combination ninjutsu to inflict maximum damage on Manda.
The result was that before Ishiro's combination ninjutsu had even ended, Manda couldn't stand this passive beating anymore and, in pain, unilaterally canceled the summoning.
However, Manda still bought Orochimaru time to counterattack.
"Ten Thousand Snakes Formation!" The moment Manda disappeared, countless summoned snakes appeared from Orochimaru's side, rushing towards Ishiro's Shadow Clone all at once.
And Orochimaru's main body took the opportunity to hide within the snake swarm.
A batch of the snake swarm was taken away by the remnants of the combination ninjutsu, but the remaining poisonous snakes still rushed to Ishiro's Shadow Clone and directly engulfed it.
Fortunately, Ishiro's main body was not idle during this time. He gestured a square with both hands, and then a blue light flashed.
"Light Release: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu!"
"Boom." After a loud bang and a flash of intense light, a large crater appeared in the center of the snake swarm. More than half of the poisonous snakes died under the Light Release.
At the same time, the Shadow Clone high in the sky watching over the three disciples also took action. A large number of kunai formed from porcelain, aided by gravity, quickly shot downwards, and finally, the dense kunai plunged into the even denser snake swarm.
A long while later, the effect of the Light Release ended, and the kunai rain ceased. Then Ishiro saw a soaking wet Orochimaru emerge from the remaining snake swarm. From his posture, Orochimaru should have used his special substitution technique.
One round of exchange was over. Because Ishiro had created two Shadow Clones in advance, he had the advantage. With just three B-rank Sage Arts and one round of porcelain kunai rain, he had forced Orochimaru to cast three high-consumption ninjutsu.
Then Orochimaru used the Snake Body Replacement Technique again, which was also a high-consumption ninjutsu.
In this round of exchange, the chakra consumed by Orochimaru was almost several thousand times that of Ishiro.
However, Ishiro's total chakra amount was originally far less than Orochimaru's, and after fusing it into Sage Chakra, Ishiro's total chakra amount had dropped to about one percent of the original.
So this time, Ishiro didn't gain much of an advantage.
And having lost the cooperation of the Shadow Clone on the ground, it was not easy for Ishiro to cast a three-element combination ninjutsu again.
Of course, facing Ishiro in the air, Orochimaru didn't have any good methods either.
So the two sides tacitly did not continue to fight.
In this round of exchange, Ishiro confirmed one thing: from Orochimaru's response, his injuries had indeed recovered.
While raising his altitude with his Shadow Clone, Ishiro said to Orochimaru, "The Akatsuki's headquarters is in the Land of Rain. As long as you go to the Land of Rain, Senior Orochimaru, someone will come to find you."
After speaking, Ishiro left this base of Orochimaru's.
When Orochimaru would go to the Land of Rain was not Ishiro's concern. With the matter Nagato had entrusted to him completed, Ishiro planned to go and handle some other things.
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