Explosive Tags in the Ice Cave

Orochimaru burst out of the Ice Cave at a speed of one hundred meters in two seconds, swift as lightning.

On the snow peak, a frigid wind mixed with countless ice chips howled past, slapping against Orochimaru's face with sharp smacks and calming him down slightly.

He carefully inspected his body and, only after confirming that no stray explosive tags had stuck to him, turned to look at the Ice Cave with narrowed eyes.

An Uzumaki Clan seal, the formula for Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags—there was absolutely no mistake. This had to be Uchiha Houka's secret base!

Thinking of his northern secret base, anger surged in Orochimaru's heart.

He immediately formed Hand Seals, intending to spew a pillar of fire into the Ice Cave and directly detonate every explosive tag inside!

But just as he reached the final hand sign, he stopped.

The explosive power of the tags in those eight wooden crates was enough to level this place. That was not the crucial point—the crucial point was that it would trigger avalanches across all the surrounding snow peaks!

Orochimaru looked around. Every snow peak nearby stood nearly a thousand meters tall. Once a chain-reaction avalanche formed, its destructive force would surely be heaven-shattering.

He could naturally survive, but the Snow Ninja at the foot of the mountains would probably all die.

"Hmph!"

Orochimaru snorted coldly, then created a Shadow Clone and sent it into the Ice Cave to take away all the explosive tags inside!

Meanwhile, the instant Orochimaru broke the seal outside the Ice Cave, Houka, far beyond the Snow Mountain Range, sensed it immediately.

"There are no ninja in the Land of Snow capable of breaking my seal. Orochimaru, I didn't expect you to actually find that place."

Houka's expression turned grave as he swiftly formed