Manda's huge vertical pupils shrank into a thin line due to extreme fear, staring at the Tailed Beast Ball that was constantly condensing and emitting destructive waves. It could clearly feel the terrifying energy contained in it, which was enough to completely erase its huge body from the world! The shadow of death tightly grasped its heart.
"Ouch--!!!" It neighed in terror and futility, struggling with all its strength, trying to break free. However, all its struggles seemed so feeble in front of Naruto's superb Sealing Jutsu that even Tailed Beast could suppress.
Orochimaru! You bastard! Hurry up and undo my Summoning Jutsu! Hurry up!!"
Manda finally panicked and roared in despair, no longer caring about the dignity of the strong.
At this time, Orochimaru's situation was equally bad. After using Snake Substitute Jutsu one after another, the little chakra left had almost bottomed out, and his body was in an extremely weak state. Why didn't he want to remove Summoning Jutsu immediately?
Manda is the strongest Summoning Beast in his hand. Although each summon requires a hundred living people as sacrifices, for him who has many sources of "test subjects", it is only a "somewhat troublesome" resource consumption.
But right now, there is only one way to forcibly remove the channeling - to forcibly cover or crack the [Four Symbols Seal] imposed on Manda with Sealing Jutsu's attainments that far exceed Naruto.
This is simply an impossible task for him in his current state.
The reason why Naruto wanted to kill Manda was simple and direct - human sacrifice.
Orochimaru doesn't have any human cloning technology now... It turns out that when Orochimaru and Danzō Shimura were working together, in order to create Wood Release Ninja, they secretly kidnapped sixty innocent children as experimental subjects and acted as human traffickers. In the end, only one child survived by luck.
In the past, Orochimaru fought on the battlefield under the name "Sannin". When summoning Manda, it could satisfy its appetite with the enemy's Ninja, and could barely cover it up with "acts of war"...
But now, the completely corrupted Orochimaru, the "sacrifice" he provided to Manda... where else could the source be?
"Boom--!!!!!"
Tailed Beast Ball hit the center of Manda's huge head at a very close distance! The destructive energy exploded instantly, completely swallowing Manda's entire head and even less than half of its body!
Manda couldn't even utter a desperate cry. Its hard skull and scales instantly vaporized and decomposed in front of the absolute power of Tailed Beast Ball! The terrifying explosion shock wave spread outwards in a spherical shape, and wherever it passed, the soil, rocks, and trees were all crushed into powder!
However, Naruto noticed that around him, the golden chakra automatically condensed again, forming a solid fox head shadow, which firmly blocked the violent aftermath of the Tailed Beast Ball explosion.
He didn't take the initiative to control it... The only one who could do this was that arrogant big guy.
When the smoke and energy turbulence from the explosion slowly dissipated, only a shockingly huge charred black pit remained where Manda originally occupied. On the edge of the pit were scattered some huge charred and broken skeletal remains from the snake's tail.
The weak Orochimaru was violently thrown away by the terrifying aftermath of the explosion! Of course, before launching Tailed Beast Ball, Naruto had already separated out a Shadow Clone, and brought the not far away Gaara to a farther safety zone in advance.
"Bang!"
Orochimaru's body hit the trunk of a giant tree hard and barely came to a stop. He struggled to stand up again, with blood spilling from the corners of his mouth, looking in a terrible state. When was the last time he was in such a mess...? He had almost forgotten this feeling.
However, before he could take a breath, a golden light flashed before his eyes! The body of Naruto was approaching again!
"Bang!"
Another heavy blow fell on his shoulder, and the huge impact caused him to fly backwards uncontrollably again and fall hard to the ground.
Orochimaru raised his sinister eyes and stared at the approaching Naruto. However, even at such a desperate stage, there was no despair or fear in his eyes.
As long as... the successor of Curse Mark is still alive, his soul can be reborn in a new container... He will not really die! This is his biggest trump card. What's more, it is far from the point where he needs to rely entirely on that kind of back-up.
"Old man! Found it! Here, the guy Orochimaru has been subdued by Naruto!"
At this moment, a familiar and loud voice came from the woods not far behind.
Naruto turned around to look. He saw Jiraiya pushing aside the bushes and pointing here excitedly. Following closely behind him was Hiruzen Sarutobi with a solemn expression.
It seems that the earth-shattering explosion of Tailed Beast Ball just now led them here.
Naruto turned his head and locked his eyes on Orochimaru again, "Don't worry, I won't kill you."
This sentence made Orochimaru obviously startled.
Of course, Naruto did not kill Orochimaru out of kindness or mercy. On the contrary, it was because he knew that with Orochimaru's life-saving method, this guy would most likely be resurrected in other containers through [Curse Mark], and he would only hide deeper, which would be troublesome.
Therefore, the safest way is to let him "alive" but lose all ability to resist and do evil. First completely seal him, and then... find a way to use the power of those Mangekyō Sharingan to fundamentally modify his will!
"I will seal you." Naruto took a step forward with a cold voice, "Don't even think about escaping. Even if you hide in Ends of the Earth, with this, I can find you."
He glanced at Orochimaru's shoulder - there, a Flying Thunder God mark that belonged to him was clearly imprinted on it.
Realizing that he was at the end of his rope, Orochimaru stood up slowly and staggeringly. However, to everyone's surprise, instead of despair, he lowered his head and slowly raised the corners of his mouth, outlining an extremely strange arc.
"The old man has high hopes for you, and even wants you to become Hokage..."
Orochimaru's voice was filled with a strange excitement. This bizarre statement not only made Naruto frown, but also Jiraiya and Third Hokage, who were originally slowing down due to Naruto's decision not to kill, were also stunned.
"However, I will completely cut off his unrealistic wish now!"
"Uzumaki Naruto!"
Orochimaru suddenly raised his head and shouted hissingly at Naruto in front of him, his eyes burning with an almost crazy excitement.
"Why do you, an ordinary civilian Ninja, possess such amazing Space-Time Ninjutsu and Sealing Jutsu Talent?!"
"Why did you become Kurama's container?!"
"Why didn't anyone even tell you who your dead parents were?!"
This series of questions made Third Hokage's face change suddenly!
"Stop talking!"
Third Hokage shouted sharply and rushed towards Orochimaru desperately!
"There is only one answer!" Orochimaru ignored Third Hokage's stop, and his voice became sharper with excitement.
"Shut up!"
Jiraiya also instantly understood his intention, and rushed forward with livid faces, trying to stop him.
Amidst the chaos and shouting, Orochimaru used his last strength to make an announcement.
"Uzumaki Naruto! Because you are the biological son of Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze who sacrificed his life to protect Konoha and seal Kurama!!"
"Whoosh--!"
The moment he finished speaking, several bright golden chains shot out from behind Naruto, accurately and quickly wrapping Orochimaru's body layer by layer, tightly imprisoning him!
However, at the last moment before the chains were tightened, the expression of shock, confusion, sadness or disbelief that Orochimaru expected from Naruto did not appear on that young face.
All he saw was peace. It was as if what he had just thrown out was a fact he already knew.
After Naruto completed the last seal, he just expressionlessly pressed his palm wrapped with sealing runes on the chest of Orochimaru, who was bound by chains and could not move.
"Eight Trigrams Seal!"