Signing the Contract and Heading to Ryūchi Cave

A few days later, Orochimaru prepared for work as usual.

His latest project involved experiments to enhance Hidan's immortality.

Otsutsuki cells were even more invasive than Hashirama Cells. Every test subject he had selected had failed.

Only Hidan's immortal body could barely withstand the invasion of Hashirama Cells. Orochimaru was now trying to replicate Hidan's immortality and studying the injection of Otsutsuki cells.

After all the torment he had endured, Hidan had more or less accepted his fate.

Hidan wasn't afraid of physical torture. Even the five-speed electric fan—what Orochimaru considered the ultimate agony—had only made him curse louder.

But Orochimaru was undeniably resourceful.

Once he realized physical torture wouldn't break someone as stubborn as Hidan, he didn't keep pushing it. He switched straight to psychological torment.

He sealed all of Hidan's power, bound his limbs, then tossed him to the obedient prisoners who had chosen to serve Orochimaru rather than become his test subjects.

Those men had been locked up for who knew how long. Repression had long since driven them mad.

Hidan might have been rough-looking, but his heavily muscled body was exactly what those desperate prisoners wanted.

With all his power sealed, Hidan had even been blindfolded.

It wasn't hard to imagine what happened when he was thrown into that hell.

A day later, Orochimaru let Hidan out. He was completely docile after that.

Hidan might have been unhinged, but he wasn't into men. He never wanted to suffer such utter humiliation again.

Orochimaru was insane. How had he even thought of a way to torment him like that?

Now Hidan did whatever Orochimaru told him to do. He didn't resist even when Orochimaru injected him with unknown cells and solutions.

Besides, Hidan could feel his strength soaring under Orochimaru's experiments.

His immortality gave him plenty of