Orochimaru Impure World Reincarnates Hiruko

Danzo listened to Orochimaru's explanation, his expression somewhat gloomy. "Orochimaru, you were the one who leaked the matter of Uchiha Ryobu, weren't you? How could you let something like this become widely known?"

Orochimaru shook his head. "It wasn't me. I'm not that stupid. If I'd learned right away that he and Hiruko were researching the Longevity Immortality Technique, I would have captured them for certain."

Neither Danzo nor Orochimaru understood. Who the hell was this wicked? Why did they love reporting things to the Village Committee so much?

After giving Orochimaru his instructions, Danzo was just about to leave.

Orochimaru stopped him. "Danzo, send me another batch of Experimental Subjects. I've already used up the last batch."

Danzo snorted, remembering how Sarutobi had roared at him before.

Without the slightest hesitation, he took revenge on Sarutobi's favorite disciple. "Orochimaru, do you really think human lives are leeks? Cut one crop and another grows back?"

Orochimaru gave a cold laugh without looking back. "Aren't they? The Ninja World is in turmoil, wars never stop, and in a place like the Land of Rain, one bowl of porridge can buy a human life."

Danzo fell silent for a moment, then asked, "Orochimaru, you've been using up a lot of consumables lately. What exactly are you doing?"

Orochimaru said, "Nothing much. I'm just trying to deduce Liao Wu's Forbidden Technique. Danzo, you want immortality too, don't you?"

Danzo's breathing instantly grew a little heavy. He said, "Fine. I'll have someone send you another batch, but use them sparingly."

"Before long, Root will be cooperating with Hanzō. Once that happens, refugees from the Land of Rain won't be easy to capture."

Orochimaru nodded. "Got it!"

Danzo left after saying only one final line. "Hiruzen is already wary of you. Orochimaru, be mindful!"

After Danzo left, Orochimaru snorted. "Old Undying, and you still want eternal youth?"

After Root Members brought over a batch of refugees from the Land of Rain, Orochimaru picked out a few sturdy ones and swallowed them into his giant snake. Then several figures left Root's base.

"Follow him. Lord Danzo wants to know what Orochimaru needs so many people for."

Root Members followed after him when they saw this, but in the blink of an eye, Orochimaru had slipped away without a trace.

Orochimaru arrived at the base he had built outside the village and carefully prepared the ritual for Impure World Reincarnation. Then he summoned a living person paralyzed by snake venom from the belly of the giant snake.

Curse Marks and the Magic Circle were drawn one by one.

Orochimaru placed the living person, along with the White Skin Fragment he had found earlier and believed to be tissue from Ryobu's Body, into the Magic Circle. Then he bit his finger hard and drew blood.

Tiger—Snake—Dog—Dragon...

"Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu!"

"Ahhh—"

The living person screamed in agony, as if his soul and body were being taken over.

The markings of the Impure World Reincarnation Magic Circle lit up with white Chakra light, as though it were the light of the Pure Land from the underworld.

Orochimaru's eyes were filled with delight.

Revive! My Ryobu!

But immediately afterward, the light scattered outright, and the living person within the Magic Circle also disintegrated into shredded paper.

Orochimaru's eyes widened. "No, impossible. It clearly already succeeded."

"Could it be—"

Orochimaru took back the white Body Tissue and examined it closely. If his jutsu had not succeeded, then there was only one possibility: this was not Ryobu's DNA Tissue.

"Hmph! Good thing I prepared in advance!"

Orochimaru took out another pile of Body Cells he had found in Ryobu's home: his scalp flakes, the bowl and chopsticks he had used, and even paper from Lu Country.

The Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu required a certain amount of DNA Cell Tissue from the Reanimated Person, and naturally, the more of that amount, the better.

Orochimaru arranged all of Ryobu's messy Holy Relics inside the Magic Circle, then summoned another living person.

"Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu!"

At the same time, Tsunade found Ryobu's stolen goods in the Uchiha Clan Land—that is, the explosive tags he had drawn.

Tsunade's gaze sharpened. Her memory was excellent, and she clearly remembered the explosive tags Ryobu had swallowed that day.

They were the same style as the explosive tags he had drawn.

These Imitation Explosive Tags could still be distinguished from standard explosive tags.

No one had expected Ryobu to be so sly that even the explosive tags he used were ones he had drawn himself.

In that case...

"Ryobu isn't dead!"

"That kid isn't dead—"

Orochimaru laughed gloomily, feeling this was the biggest joke of all. A Chunin had actually fooled the Sannin and the Yellow Flash?

Good! What a fine Ryobu!

Orochimaru had a scientist's mindset, and felt he still could not draw a conclusion so quickly.

This was also his first time using Impure World Reincarnation. If he had failed to master this jutsu, then every inference would be wrong.

He needed a Control Group!

Orochimaru immediately took out Hiruko's corpse, which he had stolen from the Leaf Village Morgue.

Anyone who had killed before knew that killing was easy; disposing of the body was hard.

Liao Wu had already thrown Hiruko into a toilet, but the Inuzuka family dog still found him and sniffed out Liao Wu's scent, thereby convicting Liao Wu of murdering a village compatriot.

The smell was somewhat strong, so Orochimaru had paper balls stuffed up his nose as he prepared the magic circle.

But there was no choice. If he wanted to get what he wished for, he had to endure suffering ordinary people could not bear.

Enduring what ordinary people could not—that was what made a ninja.

Although Orochimaru sneered at Jiraiya's whole set of ideas, in secret he still silently bore everything alone.

While Jiraiya was drowning himself in pleasure at the chicken shop, Orochimaru was in the dim laboratory, keeping company with rotten corpses.

While Tsunade was being slaughtered left and right in the casino, he was earnestly stealing and studying the Leaf's forbidden techniques.

When it came to endurance, he could endure more than every ninja in the village.

Because Orochimaru, like Madara Uchiha, was someone who had broken free from low-class amusements.

In their eyes, there was only success.

"Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu!"

This time, it succeeded!

Orochimaru showed delight. Although he had failed to resurrect Liao Wu, having mastered the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu still counted as a presentable trump card for Orochimaru.

The moment Hiruko's consciousness cleared, he turned his head and loudly offered a warm greeting.

"Liao Wu, Cao Ni Ma!"

"Orochimaru?!"

"What is this?"

Hiruko looked at his body, which seemed sewn together from porcelain shards. He felt that this body was as stiff as a puppet.

Hiruko looked at Orochimaru, whose nose was plugged with paper balls.

"Orochimaru, what exactly did you do to me?"

Orochimaru gave a cold chuckle. "Hiruko, isn't it obvious? I used the Second Hokage's forbidden technique to resurrect you. From now on, you are my puppet."

"A puppet? Damn it!"

Hiruko's stiff face could not make an ugly expression, but his terrible mood could still be heard from his tone.

Hiruko was jealous of the Sannin's achievements. He was from the same batch as the Sannin, but could only sit at the children's table.

That was also why he wanted to research the Chimera Technique—to surpass the Sannin.

Like Liao Wu, he was narrow-minded and could not stand seeing a classmate driving a Land Rover!

However, Hiruko felt that Orochimaru's restraint over him was not that great, and that he could move freely.

"Ninja Art—"

Just as Hiruko was about to cast a technique, Orochimaru seized him by the neck.

"Hiruko, don't play tricks in front of me!"

Hiruko was different from Liao Wu. Although his talent was not as good as the Sannin's, that did not mean it was worse than everyone else's.

He was a jonin, and a very hardworking, ambitious jonin at that.

Being backstabbed by a weak, fragile ninja like Liao Wu was the greatest humiliation of his life.

That kid had liked standing behind people since he was little. Those who did not know might have thought he disliked the limelight, but it turned out he had been looking for an angle.

Although Hiruko was a jonin, the ninja before him surpassed ordinary jonin—an elite jonin, one of the Sannin who ranked among the strong of the ninja world: Orochimaru.

In Orochimaru's hands, Hiruko had not the slightest ability to resist. He glared at Orochimaru, so angry his teeth were about to shatter. "Orochimaru!"

Orochimaru looked at Hiruko with a cold smile, thinking that while the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu was good, it was good, the reanimation body summoned did not obey the summoner.

He still had to prepare puppet talismans in advance!

"Hiruko, you are already dead now. I was the one who dragged you out of the Pure Land. You have to listen to me."

"Orochimaru, give up on that idea. I will never cooperate with you."

Hiruko looked at Orochimaru, filled with hatred.

Hiruko could cooperate with Liao Wu because Liao Wu had it worse than him.

But Hiruko was jealous of Orochimaru and Jiraiya. If he had also had a teacher like the Third Hokage, his achievements would not have been lower than theirs.

Orochimaru suddenly smiled. "Hiruko, Liao Wu was the one who killed you. Don't you want to find him and take revenge?"

"Liao Wu!!"

Hiruko growled Liao Wu's name under his breath, his hatred even greater than the hatred he had for Orochimaru.

"Where is that kid? He stole my Chimera Technique and has gone rogue by now, right?"

"Heh heh..."

Orochimaru gave a cold laugh. Orochimaru was also very tempted by a secret technique like the Chimera Technique, which could seize other people's Kekkei Genkai.

But compared to the Eternal Life Secret Method Liao Wu had derived from the Chimera Technique, the Chimera Technique was somewhat insignificant.

It was not as if the ninja world had no forbidden techniques that seized other people's Kekkei Genkai. Orochimaru could even replicate them with science.

Liao Wu's Eternal Life Secret Method was clearly far more stunning than Orochimaru's Living Corpse Reincarnation. It was a forbidden technique he absolutely had to obtain.