Chapter 133 Second Hokage vs Orochimaru

Orochimaru and Senju Tobirama are indeed very similar geniuses, which is why they admire each other, but they are also wary of each other because of this.

They both knew very well that once the technique of non-corpse reincarnation was roughly perfected, that would be the time when both sides would turn against each other completely!
Now, both the Second Hokage and Orochimaru have acquired the perfect ninjutsu in their minds, so naturally it is time to start fighting.

Orochimaru could not tolerate the existence of the Second Hokage because he knew very well that the Second Hokage must have prepared ninjutsu specifically targeting him. Even if Orochimaru was good at saving his life, he would definitely not be able to withstand the targeting of the master of forbidden techniques, Tobirama Senju.

As for why Orochimaru was so sure that the other party was involved in this kind of ninjutsu - because Orochimaru also developed targeted ninjutsu against Senju Tobirama!
The White Snake's gaze collided with Senju Tobirama's sharp eyes, and almost instantly, both sides saw the other's murderous intent!
He opened his mouth slightly, and with a whoosh sound, Senju Tobirama seemed to spit out a mouthful of saliva. However, as soon as the tiny drop of water came out of his mouth, it turned into a transparent needle and pierced the white snake's head.

Water escape——Heaven's cry!
This move is not considered a very advanced ninjutsu, but it is very effective when used in combat, reflecting the Second Hokage's extremely high combat wisdom (sinister and cunning).

The water escape technique can be compressed into tiny water needles, without any hand seals, and can even be sprayed out at the moment of speaking to pierce the enemy's throat.

In the past, Tobirama Senju had used this trick to kill many powerful ninjas. Rather than saying that the opponents died from this ninjutsu, it would be better to say that they died from Tobirama Senju's scheming.

The white snake with a pierced head fell to the ground with a bang. Blood slowly seeped out, and its abdomen gradually bulged. Then, Orochimaru, with a sneer on his face, crawled out of its mouth.

"Are you finally brave enough to face me? Junior!"

Senju Tobirama looked at Orochimaru and spoke coldly. Orochimaru opened his mouth and licked his lips lightly with his long tongue:
"After all, you are the Second Hokage whom I admire the most. Naturally, I must be fully prepared before I dare to fight you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the walls of the entire room suddenly lit up with a lavender light. The Second Hokage raised his eyebrows slightly and found that he could no longer sense the coordinates of the Flying Thunder God left behind.

However, Tobirama Senju was not surprised at all, and even felt that it was natural - if Orochimaru couldn't even control the Flying Thunder God Technique, how could he have the courage to turn against him?
Similarly, Tobirama Senju had already prepared ninjutsu to deal with Orochimaru. His body trembled, emitting a strange light, and finally a black chakra sword condensed in his hand.

"The scientific name of this sword should be the Sword of Breaking Evil... The strange energy collected from the corpse of the former Third Raikage must be continuously absorbed by the soul and flesh and blood in order to grow stronger. It took me a long time to grow the little bit of energy I collected to a level that can be used."

"In fact, the greatest effect of this energy is not only to invalidate the defense formed by chakra, but also to harm the soul!"

"It is said that the Third Raikage was killed by your apprentice. It seems that your apprentice has gone a step further in the spiritual path than you... But in terms of being cold-blooded and ruthless and not caring about human life, you two are of the same lineage."

Just from the way the evil-breaking energy is strengthened, one can see how cruel this energy is. Without the bodies and souls of hundreds of people as sacrifices, it is impossible to strengthen enough evil-breaking energy.

This is exactly the evidence that the Second Hokage was cold-blooded and ruthless and didn't care about human life... But after hearing this, Orochimaru just smiled strangely:
"Yes... This kind of cold-blooded and ruthless heart is probably passed down from our lineage from the roots - am I right? Second Hokage... or my master."

After hearing this, Tobirama Senju was a little speechless. If we talk about inheritance, then he and Orochimaru are definitely the most orthodox master-disciple inheritance. Even if you pull out all the ninjas in Konoha, Orochimaru is the one who is most like him and has inherited the most ninjutsu from him.

How come after throwing the flying knife, it turned around and stabbed into his head again? Well... in terms of being cold-blooded and merciless, taking human life lightly, it seems that he has done a lot.

This farce of one side laughing at the other ended with Tobirama Senju raising his hand and stabbing Orochimaru with his sword. The two most famous masters of forbidden techniques in the ninja world started a life-and-death duel in the secret room of this underground base.

Facing the black sword stabbed by the Second Hokage, Orochimaru also pulled out a Kusanagi sword and blocked it casually - even if the black sword composed of evil-breaking energy could hurt the soul, it had to stab Orochimaru first.

Orochimaru didn't think he was much worse than the Second Hokage. Even when facing the Second Hokage who no longer had the space-time ninjutsu, he felt that he should be the one with the upper hand.

The black and white swords collided with each other, the golden snake pupils and the dark dead eyes looked at each other, and then both of them jumped away.

"I don't want to waste too much time with you, Second Hokage, let's reveal our own cards as soon as possible!"

Orochimaru said this in a cold voice, then stretched out his hand and made a hand seal:
"Secret Technique - Heart and Soul Sealing Technique!"

A strange sealing pattern immediately flowed out from the Impure World Reincarnation body of the Second Hokage. Although the Second Hokage had escaped the control of Orochimaru's Impure World Reincarnation Technique, as the person who summoned the Second Hokage, there was still some inseparable connection between the two.

As a summoner, Orochimaru is undoubtedly in a high position in this connection. With just a little manipulation, he can control the Second Generation Hokage.

With the Second Hokage's talent, this kind of control might take seconds to complete, but in a battle where every second counts, a few seconds or even tens of seconds are enough for Orochimaru to completely seal the Second Hokage using other methods.

Dense spells emerged from all parts of his body, but Senju Tobirama still had a stern expression and spoke calmly:

"That's right, it's time to reveal my trump card. Let me show you the ninjutsu I developed specifically for you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Second Hokage twisted the black sword in his hand and stabbed it towards his heart. The black sword body turned into liquid and instantly enveloped his Impure World Reincarnation body.

Afterwards, a pitch-black shadow directly left the Impure World Reincarnation body, and the Second Hokage's original body was instantly covered with various sealing talismans and was completely controlled.

Looking at the Second Hokage's soul floating in the air like a ball of black smoke, Orochimaru's expression changed slightly:
"Spiritualization Technique!?"

"This is not just the Spiritualization Technique, Orochimaru! After the chakra shell of the Spiritualization Technique absorbs the energy of breaking evil, its lethality to the soul has skyrocketed several times!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Second Hokage turned into a phantom and penetrated directly into Orochimaru's body. Orochimaru groaned in pain, and his original body began to crack and shatter with a crackling sound, gradually breaking into pieces.

As the body was broken, a giant snake with eight heads and eight tails, white all over, and red eyes expanded from Orochimaru's body. However, on the body of this giant snake, there were countless black patterns like fire, which were constantly eroding the body of Yamata no Orochi.

“Damn it, get out of my body… Aaaaaaah!!”

"Give up, Orochimaru. Your soul is incredibly strong. If it were a normal spiritual transformation technique, I'm afraid it wouldn't be able to deal with you. But after condensing the energy of breaking evil, even if you condense your soul into the Yamata no Orochi, you won't be able to withstand the damage of this power!"

"Hahahaha... Hohoho... Ugh! As expected of the Second Hokage... But if you think you can win like this, then I can only say... You underestimate me too much..."

The snow-white body of the Yamata no Orochi suddenly collapsed and turned into countless tiny white snakes, and the black patterns on the snake's body instantly turned into black flames, burning fiercely.

The tiny white snake suddenly pounced on the black flames. Although it was completely burned by the black flames in an instant, it also left a sealing spell in the black flames.

More and more tiny white snakes entered the black flames. Although more and more white snakes were burned, the momentum of the flames gradually subsided and it turned back into the appearance of the second generation Hokage's soul.

Countless white sealing spells are still moving on the outer shell of the soul. Those are the seals set by Orochimaru's white snake with its soul.

Although it seemed that the soul of the Second Hokage was sealed, Orochimaru was not having it easy at all. Not only was his physical body completely shattered, but even the white snakes that represented his soul were mostly dead. Only a dozen tiny white snakes were left, which condensed together and eventually turned into the pale-faced Orochimaru.

"Orochimaru, I underestimated you. I didn't expect you to be so cruel to yourself that you even transformed your soul!"

"Are you a human or a white snake now?"

"Haha, it's just a little bit of white snake gene. Even the first generation of Hokage's wood release cells contain a lot of plant genes. What's the problem with me mixing a little bit of white snake gene into myself?"

Orochimaru chuckled and spoke, but when he found that the soul shell of the Second Hokage was gradually shattered and then escaped from the seal, the smile froze on his face.

The soul shell of the spiritual transformation technique is actually made of a layer of pure Yin-tun chakra. The second generation Hokage was a genius and mixed some evil-breaking energy into it to greatly enhance its lethality.

But to put it bluntly, this is still just a shell. Even if the shell is broken, the damage to the soul will be minimal - if it is really a pure soul, the Second Hokage would not dare to mix evil spirits into it.

The soul that had separated from the outer shell returned to the inside of the Impure World Reincarnation body almost instantly, and the seal that had been entangled around the Impure World Reincarnation body began to shrink rapidly after the soul returned.

Originally, when Orochimaru used the Impure World Reincarnation Technique to cast the seal, he had no idea how long he could control the Second Hokage, so the sealing effect was the strongest at the beginning and then gradually decreased.

Not to mention that Orochimaru had just used a large number of white snakes as consumables in his attempt to seal the Second Hokage - you have to know that those white snakes were fragments of Orochimaru's own soul. The death of a small number of them would be fine, but the death of so many was definitely a huge blow to Orochimaru.

With his soul severely damaged, the power of the sealing technique he cast would naturally be weakened. This also led to the Second Hokage breaking free from part of the seal as soon as he returned to his Impure World Reincarnation body.

"I can't let you succeed so easily!"

At this point, Orochimaru had nothing more to say. He suddenly formed seals with his hands, and suddenly a large number of sealing talismans appeared in the whole room, emitting a strange light.

The Second Hokage, who had partially broken free of the seal and was able to move, but was unable to mobilize his chakra, felt a sharp pain in his soul under the illumination of this strange light and immediately fell to the ground:
"This... this is... what kind of ninjutsu is this..."

"Hehe... If I have to give it a name... this ninjutsu should be called the Hunyuan Treasure Box Technique... Well... I finally managed to successfully transform this room with great difficulty..."

"I didn't want to use this move... I copied it from a treasure given to me by my student..."

Orochimaru's already pale face now had a layer of deathly gray color, his body was trembling and sweat was dripping down his forehead.

Seeing Orochimaru's reaction, the Second Hokage gritted his teeth and snorted coldly:
"It seems that this jutsu... should also be a little harmful to you!"

"Can your soul now... still withstand... the damage of this ninjutsu?"

"Hehe... then I won't bother you... Master! Although... I can't be completely immune... to the damage in this room... but I've been prepared... and I can handle more than you can."

Moreover, if all else failed, Orochimaru would swallow his pride and go to his apprentice to ask for some soul pills.

Over the past two years, Orochimaru had obtained a lot of soul pills through the deal with Uchiha Toba, otherwise he would not have been able to transform into the Yamata-no-Orochi, and even use his powerful strength to hold on to the soul shell that sealed the Second Hokage.

Therefore, he knew the effect of the soul pills. As long as his soul was not broken to the extent that he could not maintain his thinking ability, he could rely on a large number of soul pills to save it. It was with this confidence that he dared not take his soul seriously and risk his life with the Second Generation Hokage.

After all, I am that guy's teacher. The most important thing is that my scientific research ability is still very useful to Uchiha Feiyu. At most, I will have to bear the research debt for a few decades. Anyway, after the development of the Reincarnation of the Dead, my life span will be endless. As long as I can win, everything will be fine!

But even so, Orochimaru secretly groaned in his heart - his soul was now broken and was far inferior to the Second Hokage, so even if the ninjutsu caused little damage to him, it was unknown who of the two would be able to hold on in the end.

(End of this chapter)