Jigen and Urashiki

"How... how is that possible?!"

It wasn't just Orochimaru. Outside the barrier, Jiraiya, Yamato, and the others, who had only just been thrown through violent emotional upheaval, felt their pupils contract the instant they made out the figures who had appeared so abruptly.

The Four Violet Flame Formation was a barrier technique capable of trapping even the Third Hokage.

It was so sturdy that even someone as powerful as a village's Kage would find it difficult to break through from the outside in a short time.

But these two...

How had they gotten in?

Even the Sound Four maintaining the barrier had not noticed a thing!

"Sakon! Tayuya! What's going on?!" Orochimaru barked sharply.

At the four corners of the barrier, the Sound Four responsible for maintaining the formation were just as horrified and bewildered.

"L-Lord Orochimaru! We... we don't know!" Sakon's voice came through the barrier, trembling noticeably.

"The barrier hasn't been attacked at all! The chakra flow is completely normal! They... they just appeared out of thin air!"

"I can't sense them! I can't sense their chakra fluctuations at all!" Tayuya shrieked, cold sweat beading on her forehead.

"It's like... they don't exist at all!"

Chakra that did not exist?

Orochimaru's golden pupils narrowed slightly, his gaze locking tightly onto the two figures in the air.

No, it wasn't that it did not exist.

Rather, the nature of their chakra was completely different from any chakra known in the Shinobi World.

It was a higher-level chakra that ordinary sensory ninjutsu simply could not effectively capture.

"Th-this is..." Hiruzen Sarutobi used every ounce of strength he had to lift his head, his cloudy old eyes looking toward the two white figures in the air.

When he clearly saw Urashiki's white clothes, the red-glowing fishing rod, and those overly pure