Orochimaru's Little Scheme

Hinata was a little shy.

After all, her whole body glowed green; if people from her past life saw her, they would definitely laugh at Hinata mercilessly.

Tenseigan Chakra Mode, and Truth-Seeking Orb appeared Hinata.

With a thought from Hinata, the nine Truth-Seeking Orb instantly merged into one, transforming into a cone-shaped spike that shot rapidly toward Garaga's head.

Perhaps due to extreme confidence in his defensive capabilities, Garaga did not immediately retaliate after seeing himself being intercepted. Instead, he first glanced at Hinata and then turned back to look at Orochimaru.

"You are! Orochimaru, you..."

'Pfft...'

The Truth-Seeking Orb pierced through Garaga's skull without any hindrance, then disintegrated inside Garaga's brain, turning into nine smaller Truth-Seeking Orb Balls that flew out from nine different directions before returning to Hinata's back.

"I..."

'Thump!'

Garaga's eyes gradually lost their luster, and the entire snake collapsed limply to the ground.

In his final moments, Garaga's serpentine eyes stared intently at Hinata, who was flying through the air, and with his last breath, he asked, "... Who exactly are you?"

However, before Hinata could answer its question, Garaga completely lost its breath.

"Nailed it!"

Hinata cheered, but looking at Garaga's enormous body, Hinata was troubled again.

"Orochimaru, how are we going to carry something this big back?"

Hinata could use gravity to carry Akaboshi back, but that would be too wasteful of Chakra, Hinata wasn't sure if she could sustain such a distance.

Fortunately, Hinata had already handed over the battle plan to Orochimaru for deployment, so Hinata looked at Orochimaru without any psychological burden... Orochimaru, hurry up and think of a way!

Orochimaru gave Hinata a deep look; he had no way of defending against that Ninjutsu.

Orochimaru looked away from Akaboshi's corpse and began to Hand Seals!

"Impure World Reincarnation!"

The Second Tsuchikage slowly emerged from the wooden coffin. Judging from his expression, he was likely a dead person resurrected using ordinary offerings.

"We'll fly back from the sky!"

As Orochimaru finished speaking, the Second Tsuchikage Hand Seals and placed them on Akaboshi's corpse.

Earth Release: Light-Weight Rock Technique!

The Second Tsuchikage, with one hand supporting Akaboshi's body, slowly flew into the air.

"Sharp!"

Hinata gave Orochimaru a thumbs-up with both hands. "As expected of Orochimaru, his plan was very thorough!"

Ōnoki could even drag away Turtle Island, so dragging a snake would be a piece of cake for Ōnoki master.

Orochimaru looked up at Hinata: "The control of the Impure World Reincarnation has no range limit, so we can return the way we came."

"What about you? Are you going back to Konoha first, or would you like to visit my base?"

The teleportation distance was too far, and 'All-Knowing, All-Powerful' was still on cooldown. Moreover, to avoid being caught by Hanabi for not returning home at night, Hinata also left behind Shadow Clone to impersonate her.

"Let's go to your base first! And we also need to deal with Akaboshi's corpse."

Orochimaru nodded without saying anything more, then leaped and sprinted towards the base. Hinata followed closely behind, silently keeping up with Orochimaru.

As dawn broke in the east, Orochimaru finally couldn't contain his curiosity and asked, "Hinata, what are you going to do with Akaboshi's corpse?"

Hinata scratched her head, looking somewhat troubled, and said, "Let's eat the snake meat! As for the snake gall, I'd like to use it to make wine..."

"By the way, Orochimaru! Your base should have some big glass containers, right? Let's use those to soak the liquor!"

Orochimaru's hoarse voice came from ahead. "It is true that you can obtain the power of the Akaboshi through the human body's digestive function, but that's all."

Hinata asked, puzzled, "What do you mean?"

Orochimaru explained, "It's like how fusing Hashirama Cells can grant you the power of Wood Release, but it has nothing to do with how much you fuse. The First Hokage's power is the limit!"

Hinata nodded slightly upon hearing this.

External power has its limits; absorbing the power of others can only bring you to a level comparable to them.

Not everyone has Hinata Talent Cheat and unlimited potential.

Seeing that Hinata remained silent, Orochimaru continued to explain, "As for what you said about 'quantitative change leading to qualitative change,' that's also unrealistic. The amount of Senjutsu Chakra doesn't have a significant impact on strength."

"Kindness..."

Hinata considered it seriously for a moment and said thoughtfully, "If eating snake meat can help one cultivate Sage Mode, then that would be a completely different story."

If eating snake meat can improve physical condition and allow ordinary ninjas to train in Sage Mode, then the value of this snake meat would be immeasurable.

Cultivating the Sage Mode requires aptitude, which may be related to physical constitution or soul.

However, cultivating Sage Mode by eating snake meat is probably similar to Madara Uchiha absorbing Senjutsu Chakra after fusing with Hashirama Cells; both involve controlling Senjutsu Chakra through external forces.

Hinata felt that this was very likely.

Orochimaru unconsciously slowed down slightly... He wasn't suited to Hinata's method.

Orochimaru obtained his immortality through the 'Living Corpse Reincarnation'.

In other words, if Orochimaru wants to live forever, he must constantly change bodies.

Therefore, Orochimaru has always focused on researching 'techniques' and has rarely worked on the essence of the body.

If Hinata's method works, Orochimaru will have to eat snake meat every time he changes bodies before he can train in Sage Mode.

Although it's a bit troublesome, it's still possible to do it.

After witnessing Hinata's method of achieving immortality, Orochimaru felt that the ' Living Corpse Reincarnation waste of his talent.

Over the years, Orochimaru's constant changing of bodies has caused some damage to his soul.

Therefore, Orochimaru is now eager to have a perfect body, or to possess the Sharingan or the Byakugan, before he can study Natural Energy.

If one could cultivate Sage Mode by eating snake meat, Orochimaru believed he could definitely research a method to achieve immortality using Natural Energy.

Only...

Orochimaru's gaze was somewhat gloomy.

Sasuke has already escaped, and judging from Sasuke current rate of growth, when Sasuke reappears, he may be completely unafraid of Orochimaru.

Especially when Sasuke awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, Orochimaru truly had no chance at all.

As for the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan... the Hyuga Main Family has always been well protected. Not to mention Konoha's defenses, the Hyuga Clan is personally overseen by Hinata also possesses the ability to conduct remote surveillance and Space-time ninjutsu.

Even if members of the Main Family occasionally went out of the village on missions, Danzo was already dead, so Orochimaru couldn't get any information.

Furthermore, Hinata is currently the only one who has mastered the evolution of the Byakugan. In the history of the Shinobi World, the Hyuga Clan has never had eyes like Hinata's.

Without Hinata's help, even if Orochimaru obtained the Byakugan, he would not be able to evolve Byakugan.

The road ahead is blocked!

Orochimaru couldn't help but turn around and glance at Hinata.

When Orochimaru mistakenly believed that Hinata wanted to subdue him, he was indeed unwilling, but he had no choice but to submit. He even planned to kill Hinata one day to get rid of her control.

However, now... without Hinata's help, Orochimaru's path to immortality will be completely cut off.