Ning Xue didn't speak, just looked at him calmly.
Orochimaru took a step forward, with his hands behind his back, his posture relaxed and lazy.
"Young man, your name is... forget it, your name is not important."
He tilted his head, and the flames behind Ning Xue were reflected in his snake eyes.
"The important thing is, what were you thinking when you did those things just now?"
Ning Xue still has no answer.
"Anger? Sadness? Or... pity?"
Orochimaru laughed lightly and shook his head.
"A kind-hearted person like you should have already seen how bad this Shinobi World is."
His voice was low, with a kind of bewitching power.
"War, hatred, killing, death... From the time we are born, this world is teaching us one thing.
The weak eat the strong.
The strong live, the weak die.
Those people you just killed, don't they have family members?
No children? No reason to live?"
Orochimaru stopped and tilted his head to look at Ning Xue.
"But you killed them anyway. Why? Because they deserved to die?
Or is it because of... your own justice in your heart?"
Ning Xue looked at him and was silent for a moment.
Then, he moved.
No nonsense, no answer, just raise your hand and cut with a knife. Ice Blade draws a cold arc in Kakkō, going straight to Orochimaru.
However, before his knife touched the corner of Orochimaru's clothes, another figure rushed out from the darkness.
Kunai collided with Ice Blade, causing sparks to fly.
The figure was shaken and flew backwards, flipped twice in the air, barely landed on the ground, and took several steps back before barely regaining its balance.
Yakushi Kabuto.
He knelt on one knee, holding Kunai's arm and shaking slightly.
There was a heartbreaking pain in his shoulder. He looked down and found that his entire arm could no longer use any strength.
Dislocated.
Kabuto frowned, gritted his teeth, and pushed hard with his other hand. With a "click", the dislocated joint was forcibly reattached.
He stood up, moved his shoulders, and looked up at Ning Xue, his eyes full of fear.
"It's really scary..."
He murmured in a low voice and clenched the Kunai in his hand.
Ning Xue didn't look at him.
The moment the first sword was blocked, his second sword had already been swung out.
Ice Blade swept across, and the cold light blocked all Orochimaru's escape routes.
But Orochimaru just leaned back slightly, letting Ice Blade pass by the tip of his nose in an almost impossible arc.
The moment he lowered his waist, a hint of approval flashed in his eyes.
And the moment he lowered his waist, Ning Xue's left hand had already moved.
A Ice Cone gathered silently in the palm of the hand, and came out from the blind spot of Orochimaru's vision.
"Pfft."
Ice Cone accurately hit Orochimaru's waist and abdomen, and the huge impact pinned him to the wall behind him.
Smoke and dust filled the air, and gravel flew.
Ning Xue did not hesitate, put forth force with his feet, and was about to pursue the victory.
However, the next second, his pupils shrank suddenly.
On the wall, the figure penetrated by Ice Cone suddenly opened its mouth.
It was not the opening and closing of a normal person, but like a snake Shedding, its upper and lower jaws suddenly opened, and a brand new, intact Orochimaru rushed out of the old body.
Ning Xue instinctively condensed a thick layer of Ice Armor in front of him.
The moment Orochimaru saw Ice Armor, he gave up his fist and instead spread his fingers, tightly holding the edge of Ice Armor.
Then, he exerted force suddenly and pushed Ning Xue towards the ceiling.
Ning Xue didn't expect the opponent's strength to be so strong. Ice Armor made an overwhelmed crunching sound under the huge force.
He gritted his teeth and formed another layer of Ice Armor on his back to cushion the coming impact.
"Boom--!!"
Ice Armor crashed through the cellar ceiling, and gravel and soil poured down.
Orochimaru pushed Ning Xue, like a cannonball, forcibly smashing a vertical passage from the depths of the ground, straight to the surface.
"Whoosh, whoosh."
That was the sound of Ice Armor rubbing against the soil, and this sound continued until the moment it broke out of the surface.
"Bang!"
The moment he rushed out, Ning Xue immediately raised his leg and kicked Orochimaru in the waist.
He also followed this force, using Ice Armor as a pedal, and instantly opened a distance of tens of meters, until the plow made two shallow scratches and stopped.
He stabilized his body and looked up. The sight in front of him shocked him greatly.
I saw Orochimaru's body extending from the underground hole, keeping the appearance of a snake from the waist down, slowly squirming.
That posture didn't look like a person, but more like a real snake.
Ning Xue's brows wrinkled slightly.
He had seen this kind of alien posture a lot in Land of Demons, and he still felt sick when he saw it again now.
Orochimaru, who was kicked down, straightened up unhurriedly, looked down at the area where he was kicked, and reached out to wipe away the blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
He tilted his head and looked at Ning Xue, the cold color in those golden vertical pupils becoming more intense.
Then, he laughed.
It was a smile that made people shudder, with the corners of his mouth opening far beyond the limit of a normal person, revealing the pale gums and slender tip of the tongue.
Then, his mouth slowly opened again.
It still opens in an arc that is impossible for normal people, and the space between the upper and lower jaws is enough to fit an adult's head.
From the mouth that was stretched to the limit, a hand first reached out.
She was pale and slender, and her nails were stained with transparent body fluids from snakes.
Then the head, shoulders, and torso.
A new Orochimaru, covered in mucus, slowly crawled out of the old body.
And the old body also collapsed instantly the moment it came out, like a discarded old clothes, the skin quickly shriveled, losing all moisture and luster.
The newly born man stood in front of the abandoned skin, shook the saliva from his hair, and showed an expression of enjoyment.
"It's really good."
Orochimaru's voice is still that low, hoarse and lazy, and the figure of Ning Xue is reflected in the golden snake eyes.
"Ice Release, close combat, on-the-spot reaction... you are more interesting than I thought."