Chapter 60 Both sides suffer losses
There is no doubt that the Sand Ninja was defeated, because the Fourth Kazekage was defeated by Orochimaru.

The Kage in a ninja village is usually the strongest ninja in the entire village, or at least one of the strongest ninjas.

In the eyes of the ninjas of the major ninja villages, the Kage of a village and a Kage-level powerhouse are two different concepts. The defeat of the latter will greatly reduce the morale of the ninjas, but the defeat of the former will directly cause a morale collapse!
If it was the Third Hokage who defeated the Fourth Kazekage, the blow to Suna might not have been so great. After all, the Third Hokage was famous, and the Fourth Kazekage succeeded to the throne in a hurry, so it was normal that he could not defeat the opponent.

However, it was Orochimaru who defeated the Fourth Kazekage. Although Orochimaru was also known as one of the Three Ninjas, he was not the strongest ninja in Konoha after all. The title of Three Ninjas alone meant that there were two other ninjas in Konoha Village who were on par with him.

The most powerful ninja of the Sand Village, the Fourth Kazekage, couldn't even defeat one of the Three Ninjas, so how could his own village possibly defeat Konoha?
With morale completely collapsed, even though Chiyo used poison gas at the beginning to kill many Konoha ninjas and completely disrupted the battlefield, in the end it only made the Sand Ninjas' defeat not so ugly.

At the same time, Uchiha Feiyu also knew why Yekura did not follow Chiyo. It was said that the Fourth Kazekage was beaten unconscious by Orochimaru, and it was Yekura who stood up and barely stopped Orochimaru, allowing the entire Sand Ninja to complete the retreat.

It was also because Orochimaru consumed a lot of chakra in the battle with the Fourth Kazekage, and his condition was not very good, otherwise the already injured Scorch Release User would definitely be dead.

After hearing the news, a glimmer of excitement flashed in Uchiha Feiyu's eyes. After saying goodbye to several Konoha ninjas, he rushed towards the gathering place they pointed out.

The entire defense line of Kikyo Mountain was almost destroyed. However, when Uchiha Feiyu arrived at the location, he saw a house built with earth escape. Some Konoha ninjas who still had scars on their bodies saw Uchiha Feiyu coming and immediately showed joy.

"Is this Feiyu-kun? Please come in, cough cough cough..."

There was a sense of lack of strength in Orochimaru's deep voice, and he even coughed several times at the end.

When Uchiha Feiyu walked into the gate, he saw Orochimaru with a slightly green face. He slightly shrugged his nose and said:

"Senior Orochimaru, are you poisoned?"

"Ahem, that's right. Luo Sha's magnetic escape is much worse than the Third Kazekage's. However, the poison on the gold sand is more difficult to deal with than the iron sand of the Third Kazekage."

With Orochimaru's various life-saving methods and the Orochimaru's Substitution Technique, ordinary injuries can be healed by simply consuming chakra. The Fourth Kazekage only has some extremely difficult toxins that can make Orochimaru suffer.

"But in the end, you win, Orochimaru-senpai, don't you?"

After hearing what Uchiha Feiyu said, Orochimaru's mouth curled up slightly:
"Haha, this is all thanks to you, Feiyu-kun! With the cultivation secret recipe you gave me, the silver-scaled venomous snake I cultivated has an amazing effect."

"The Fourth Kazekage was poisoned by the Silver-Scaled Viper. He must be ten times more miserable than me now!"

Uchiha Feiyu was slightly stunned and said in surprise:
"You have already cultivated the silver-scaled venomous snake! It has only been half a year, the speed is so fast!"

With a light chuckle, Orochimaru casually hooked his hand, and a ball of silver light suddenly burst out from the scabbard next to him. Upon closer inspection, it was a silver sword that looked quite strange.

The image of this sword is just like the Golden Snake Sword in the movie The Sword of Royal Blood, except that it is silver in color. However, Uchiha Feiyu took a closer look and was immediately shocked:
"This is actually a silver-scaled poisonous snake? It's beyond my imagination!" Yes, the silver sword in front of him is actually nine silver-scaled poisonous snakes entangled with each other to form a sword body. Looking at its silvery appearance, Uchiha Feiyu thought it was metal at first.

Orochimaru gently swung the silver snake sword, and with a swish sound, it cut the corner of the table into two pieces, which immediately made Uchiha Feiyu stunned.

Even though Uchiha Feiyu had long known that the silver-scaled venomous snakes were invulnerable to swords and guns, and that they would become even tougher after being transformed by chakra in the Naruto world, he still felt that the performance of these snakes was a bit exaggerated.

He could even feel the extremely powerful chakra from these nine silver snakes. Judging from the chakra alone, each small silver snake was almost as powerful as an ordinary special jonin.

I think the Fourth Kazekage was defeated by Orochimaru because he was bitten by this silver snake sword. I never expected that the battle between these two Kage-level powerhouses would end with both of them being poisoned.

"Hehe, now that I've poisoned you, the Sand Village will have to get a new Kazekage this time. The war will probably be over soon."

Although Orochimaru's tone was arrogant, Uchiha Feiyu didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Even though the Sand Village has made great achievements in poisonology, this Silver Scaled Venomous Snake is a highly poisonous creature that is qualified to compete for the title of the world's most poisonous poison in the world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes trilogy. Uchiha Feiyu is not optimistic that the Sand Village can detoxify it.

"By the way, where's Ye Cang? How's his situation now? And didn't Senior Akimichi Toukaze say he would help hold one of them back? Why did it end up with Chiyo and Ye Cang fighting me alone?"

After hearing what Uchiha Feiyu said, Orochimaru showed a bitter smile on his pale face:
"When that Burning Escape Master arrived, I was already poisoned, but her condition wasn't very good either. After we fought for a while, we both couldn't hold on any longer, so we each retreated."

"As for Senior Qufeng... he was ambushed by Qiandai's puppet and was also poisoned!"

"Well... after a battle, three out of six generals were poisoned... this is really speechless."

Uchiha Feiyu complained that the poison that could be used by people like the Fourth Kazekage and Chiyo was certainly not an ordinary poison. Ordinary medical ninjutsu could only suppress it with difficulty, and if one wanted to treat it, one would have to slowly recuperate.

Unless Tsunade, the medical genius, returns, Orochimaru and Akimichi Tofu may only be able to exert about half of their combat power in the short term.

Of course, the opponent may be in an even worse situation. Chiyo lost a hand. Although she may use puppetry to make a prosthesis in the future, now she can only control five puppets with one hand. The number of puppets has been reduced by half, and the combat effectiveness may be reduced to only three levels.

The Fourth Kazekage is in even greater danger. What he should consider is not whether he can fight, but whether he should have a feast.

There is only one Ye Cang left, and the problem is not serious. He can recover to his prime after two or three days of recuperation - the wound is easy to heal, but it takes some time to replenish the excessive blood loss.

"Wait... if it seems so... the only Kage-level person in this battlefield right now is me!"

(End of this chapter)