A Divine Artifact Delivered Right to Your Door Is Not Something to Refuse

A Divine Artifact Delivered Right to Your Door Is Not Something to Refuse

Just as Sasuke was lost in thought, Orochimaru extended his five-meter-long tongue, wrapped it around Naruto, and pulled him before him.

Naruto struggled in midair. "Let me go, you dead snake freak!"

"The Nine-Tails brat? Even the seal has surfaced. I might as well reinforce it for you."

Orochimaru ignored the fists Naruto was wildly swinging in the air.

Instead, he spread open his palm. Purple Chakra of five different attributes—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—gradually appeared on his five fingers.

"Five Elements Seal."

Orochimaru struck Naruto's abdomen with his palm, adding another layer of Sealing Jutsu over his original seal.

The Nine-Tails' vertical pupils in Naruto's eyes were gradually replaced by blue ones.

"D-Damn it."

As the Nine-Tails' power was sealed away, he also fainted from excessive Chakra consumption.

Orochimaru stared at Naruto for a moment, the corner of his mouth lifting slightly. Then he violently flung his long tongue backward.

The unconscious Naruto flew like a kite with its string cut, crashing into a tree trunk before falling downward.

"Naruto!"

Sakura swiftly threw a kunai. It accurately passed through Naruto's clothing, pinning him to the tree.

After Sakura's relentless verbal assault, Sasuke was finally talked back to his senses.

"I'm not a coward."

Having recovered, Sasuke instantly activated his Two Tomoe Sharingan and stared fixedly at Orochimaru.

Orochimaru dispelled his Summoning Beasts, stretched out his tongue to lick his nose, and chuckled. "Let me test your strength."

The two charged at each other and engaged in close combat.

Watching them made Feng An drowsy, and his head occasionally nodded.

Before long, Fūka noticed something was off about him and gave him a disdainful look.

"Hey, didn't you say we were here to gain experience? Why are you falling asleep again?"

"What?!"

Feng An instantly woke up.

Yudzuki hurriedly covered his mouth and made a silencing gesture.

Only then did Feng An remember that they were currently lying in ambush.

"Who's there?"

Orochimaru's gaze turned cold as he spat a kunai from his mouth toward the grass where Feng An was hiding.

Fūka was alarmed. "Oh no!"

She hurriedly gathered Chakra, and an Ice Crystal gradually formed before her.

Feng An rushed out first and slapped the kunai away.

He looked straight ahead, his lips moving slightly.

"Don't expose your Ice Release in front of him."

Orochimaru stared coldly at Feng An.

"Where did this rat come from?"

Sasuke and Sakura also turned their gazes toward Feng An.

After seeing his face clearly, Sakura covered her mouth in shock. "Feng An?!"

Why was he here?

Sasuke asked flatly, "You know him?"

"He's Feng An. He's in our class."

Sasuke frowned.

Feng An?

"That dead last who's about as bad as Naruto?"

Once he remembered, his brows furrowed even tighter, and he stopped looking at Feng An.

In his eyes, someone with no awareness of their own limits who still dared to spy on this fight was simply courting death.

Sasuke threw a Shuriken at Orochimaru and charged toward him.

"This isn't a battle a dead last like you can take part in. Hide already!"

Feng An froze.

"Worried about me? You're actually pretty nice."

Orochimaru also attacked Sasuke again. As long as Feng An did not interfere, he could not be bothered with him right now.

Fūka whispered from behind him, "While we have the chance, let's slip away."

"Slip away? He cares about me so much! How could I leave? He's my very, very best friend at the Ninja Academy!"

Feng An shouted in feigned anger.

He had no intention of leaving. This was exactly the time to show what he could do.

His original plan had been to strike when Orochimaru planted the Cursed Seal and cut off Orochimaru's head, but now he was forced to put the plan into action early.

Fūka and Yudzuki wore strange expressions.

He had this helpful side to him?

Hearing him shout so loudly, Sasuke inwardly cursed him as another hot-blooded idiot.

Sasuke thought, Since when were we best friends? I don't even remember talking to you.

"Here I come, Sasuke!"

Feng An leaped into the air and threw a Shuriken at Orochimaru's back.

Fuka and Yudzuki looked at each other.

"Big Sister, what do we do?"

"He's been doing all the work so far. Let's listen to him."

Fuka nodded.

She carefully watched the battle. The moment Feng An was in danger, she would rush out and rescue him.

Orochimaru hurriedly evaded their pincer attack.

"A filthy rat should stay hidden in a corner, trembling in fear."

Orochimaru coiled around the tree trunk like a snake, rapidly lunging before Feng An as he spat out the blue Grass Cutter Sword.

"Idiot! Didn't I tell you to run?!"

Sasuke roared as he threw a Shuriken toward Orochimaru.

But Orochimaru moved too quickly while slithering around, and the Shuriken could not hit him at all.

Orochimaru opened his mouth wide. His tongue wrapped around the Kusanagi Sword and thrust it toward Feng An's throat.

This unexpected strike was incredibly fast.

If Feng An had not known Orochimaru had this move, he would not have reacted in time and would have been pierced through.

With Cell Activation enhancing him, his body could withstand Shuriken, but he had no confidence in whether it could withstand an attack from the divine Kusanagi Sword.

He suddenly burst forward, quickly twisting aside and grabbing Orochimaru's extended tongue.

In an instant, he chopped down with his hand.

The moment Yin-Yang Release touched the tongue, it was severed into two pieces.

Orochimaru recoiled his tongue in pain.

"Damned rat!"

Feng An tossed away the half of Orochimaru's tongue with a disgusted expression.

He hurriedly cast a simple Sealing Jutsu on the Kusanagi Sword to prevent Orochimaru from summoning it back again.

"Since you've already called me a rat, you don't mind if I take one of your Kusanagi Swords, right?"

He turned and stored the Kusanagi Sword in his pouch.

Sasuke looked at Sakura in bewilderment.

"Is he really that Feng An?"

"Probably..."

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes at Feng An, deep in thought.

If he used his full strength and Hiruzen Sarutobi noticed, it would definitely affect his final plan.

"The test ends here, Uchiha Sasuke."

He gave a sinister laugh and rapidly formed hand seals.

Then his neck abruptly extended toward Sasuke.

In an instant, it crossed a distance of ten meters and bit down on Sasuke's neck.

"Perfect chance."

Feng An held the Kusanagi Sword and slashed toward Orochimaru's neck.

"Sasuke!"

Sakura stood nearby with trembling legs, staring blankly as Sasuke was bitten.

"Stab him in the neck with a kunai!"

Fuka was even more anxious watching from the bushes.

Even while sealed, the Kusanagi Sword in Feng An's hand could still cut through iron like mud. The moment it touched Orochimaru's neck, it easily severed it.

Seeing this, Fuka and Yudzuki cried out, "He did it!"

Everyone present let out a sigh of relief, except Feng An.

He knew that Orochimaru, that cheat, could not be killed so easily.

He immediately thrust his sword toward Orochimaru's decapitated body.

Pfft—

The Kusanagi Sword easily pierced through Orochimaru's body at the heart.

That easily?

Something was wrong!

His expression changed, and he immediately turned back, leaping toward Sasuke.

By then, Orochimaru had already planted the Cursed Seal. He licked Sasuke's neck, and another body instantly crawled out of his mouth.

Looking at Feng An charging through the air, he said coldly, "Red-haired rat, I'll remember you."

After leaving those words behind, he slithered around the tree trunk like a snake and instantly disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Sasuke!"

Sakura hurriedly supported Sasuke, whose face was twisted in pain.

Feng An looked at the shriveled head of the Grass ninja.

"My objective was accomplished, at least."