After Sasuke's words fell, a White Phosphorus Snake suddenly appeared in the deepest part of his consciousness space!
When Orochimaru had planted the Heavenly Curse Mark in Sasuke, he had simultaneously split off a small piece of his soul and placed it inside Sasuke's body.
His goal had been to secretly influence Sasuke.
And this was also the secret behind Orochimaru's Living Corpse Reincarnation.
Under normal circumstances, whenever Orochimaru split his soul, he used it in conjunction with the Curse Seal.
In other words, aside from Jugo, anyone who had been implanted with Orochimaru's Heavenly Curse Mark had a fragment of Orochimaru's soul left within them.
This was also Orochimaru's method of resurrection!
If Orochimaru's original body met with some mishap, he could pay a certain price and be reborn from the body of someone he had implanted with the Heavenly Curse Mark!
This was also the main reason Orochimaru was so difficult to kill.
After all, who knew how many pieces Orochimaru had split his soul into?
At present, there was only one way to kill Orochimaru completely: after eliminating his original body, one also had to kill everyone he had implanted with the Heavenly Curse Mark.
Otherwise, sooner or later, Orochimaru would reappear in the Ninja World.
Hadn't Orochimaru been reborn from Anko Mitarashi's body in the original story?
Sasuke had originally been one of Orochimaru's vessels and resurrection methods as well.
Unfortunately, during the battle where Itachi held back, Orochimaru had been cleverly drawn out by Itachi and then killed.
Only then had Sasuke truly freed himself from Orochimaru's influence.
However, the original Itachi had not understood the effects of the Heavenly Curse Mark. After destroying Orochimaru's backup plan inside Sasuke, he had also erased Sasuke's Heavenly Curse Mark.
This caused Sasuke to directly lose the power