Orochimaru's body bowed slightly, like a snake about to pounce on its prey.
On that pale face, the smile finally faded a bit and was replaced by a serious look.
"Then let's end the playing house."
As soon as he finished speaking, he crossed his hands and bit his thumb, then slammed it on the ground.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
"Bang--!"
Huge plumes of smoke rose up, obscuring the battlefield.
In the smoke and dust, two huge figures slowly emerged.
They were two giant pythons, each twenty meters long, with brown and yellow scales glowing coldly in the sunlight.
They spit out scarlet letters and made a hissing sound, and their cold vertical pupils were locked on Ning Xue.
At the moment when the smoke and dust were about to dissipate, their huge bodies suddenly slid quickly on the ground. Their speed set off a gust of wind, dispersing the surrounding smoke, like two out-of-control trucks, rushing towards Ning Xue.
Ning Xue saw this and did not retreat.
He Hand Seals with one hand, sprayed out a large amount of viscous liquid from his mouth, and landed on the ground in front of him.
"Water Release, Water Syrup Capture."
The mucus spread rapidly, spreading out on the ground into a viscous area about twenty meters wide and twenty meters long, like a huge swamp.
The two giant pythons rushed into the sticky area, and their bodies were immediately stuck and their speed slowed down sharply.
Their scales are covered with mucus, and every inch of sliding requires a huge amount of effort. Their bodies twist hard in the sticky mud, making a dull friction sound.
The effect is remarkable.
But at the moment when the first python was trapped, its mouth suddenly opened.
A figure suddenly shot out from inside, covered in snake body fluids, but its expression was very abnormal and excited.
Orochimaru.
Ning Xue seems to have expected it.
The moment Orochimaru shot out of the snake's mouth, he had already dodged sideways, and at the same time, he condensed a pure white Flower Seed in his right hand.
"Ice Burst."
"Whoosh--"
Flower Seed burst out of the air with a harsh sonic boom, accurately hitting Orochimaru who was still in mid-air.
"Boom!!"
The ice thorns exploded, and countless sharp ice crystals pierced Orochimaru's body crazily, instantly turning his body into a hedgehog.
The body froze in mid-air, and then fell heavily to the ground, splashing with ice chips and blood.
But Ning Xue still did not relax his vigilance.
The next second, a white snake suddenly emerged from the cuffs of the body that was pierced by ice thorns.
The white snake was only as thick as a wrist, covered in mucus, crawled out of Orochimaru's cuffs, landed on the ground, and then slowly opened its mouth.
Orochimaru came out of that mouth.
In good condition, the smile is still there.
"It's so dangerous."
Orochimaru stood up, shook the mucus from his hair, looked down at the body covered with ice spikes on the ground, and there was a hint of vigilance in his eyes.
"I almost got killed by you."
He raised his head and looked at Ning Xue, with some complex emotions surging in those golden vertical pupils.
"Your powers of observation and perception... are a little off."
He wiped the mucus from his hair and said as if he was confused and thoughtful.
"This is the first time such a covert sneak attack, you can sense or predict it in advance.
Whenever I change my position, you can lock it in immediately.
It's not like you can do it if you can see through it..."
As he spoke, he took a step forward and changed his strategy.
Since sneak attacks are useless, we can only use absolute force to crush them.
"In that case..."
He bit his finger, Hand Seals again, and slammed it on the ground.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
This time, instead of two, there were five.
Five giant pythons rushed out of the smoke, each one was forty meters long, and their bodies were as thick as an ancient tree in the sky. Their brown and yellow scales shone in the sun.
They raised their heads, opened their huge mouths, exposed four sharp fangs, and let out a deafening roar.
But this is not the end.
Orochimaru's hands didn't stop.
I saw him pressed to the ground again.
This time, what he summoned was a truly behemoth.
"Bang--"
The smoke cleared, and a giant purple snake nearly a hundred meters long appeared at his feet.
Its body was thicker than the five giant pythons put together, its head was like a hill, and its purple vertical pupils reflected the entire battlefield.
It spat out messages and made a low neighing sound. The sound was like a muffled drum, setting off a gust of wind on the ground.
Manda.
On the other side, Ning Xue jumped away hundreds of meters away the moment Orochimaru summoned those giant pythons.
He stood there, watching the five forty-meter-long giant pythons rushing out of the smoke, and was shocked for a moment.
Then, he saw Manda.
A purple body nearly a hundred meters long slowly emerged from the smoke, and its huge size made the ground tremble slightly.
Its head was like a hill, its green vertical pupils reflected the entire battlefield, and the letter it spat out stirred up a gust of fishy wind.
Manda is entrenched at the feet of Orochimaru, with its body layered on top of each other. Even if it maintains a crouched posture, it is still more than fifty meters high.
Ning Xue was silent.
Not fear, not fear, just simply thinking about how to fight?
He had seen the huge body of Mōryō in Land of Demons. Although it was not as big as that, it used tentacles to attack, which was completely different from the pure behemoth in front of him, made of flesh and blood.
His brain was running rapidly, thinking about how to deal with it?
It takes time for Ice Release to freeze, and Manda is so big that the speed of ice spreading cannot keep up with its movement.
The impact of Water Release is like a stream in front of it.
As for Wind Release, he does not have cutting ninjutsu.
A little troublesome.
Manda moved.
Instead of rushing towards him, he turned his body slightly, and the thick tail stretched out from its entrenched posture, sweeping it gently with a gust of wind.
That blow wasn't even considered an attack, just a casual sweep after stretching his muscles.
But with just one sweep, these ninjas were frozen into ice sculptures by Ice Swallow.
There are more than 100 ice sculptures that maintain the last posture of their lives.
In just an instant, it shattered like glass hit by a hammer, and the broken limbs were flying everywhere.
More than a hundred people were just gone.
Ning Xue looked at the ice crystal fragments scattered on the ground and was silent for a moment.
Those people deserved to be killed, but the way their limbs were scattered was really disgusting.
Orochimaru stood on Manda's head, folding his arms and looking down at him condescendingly.
Seen from that height, Ning Xue is just a small white dot. Under the feet of Orochimaru, this whole area of Camel Mountain appears extremely small.
The white figure was reflected in the golden vertical pupils, with scrutiny, amusement, and a touch of elusive greed.
"Don't kill me."
Orochimaru spoke.
The sound was not loud, but it spread clearly throughout the entire battlefield.
I didn't say it to Ning Xue, but to Manda under my feet, and to the five giant pythons around me.
His tone was understated, as if he was telling his subordinates not to break a beloved toy.
"Living is more valuable for research."
Manda spat out the message and let out a low neighing sound in response.
The five giant pythons also lowered their heads slightly to show their submission, and their cold eyes were still locked on Ning Xue.
And Ning Xue he raised his head and looked at the entrenched giant snake.
To be honest, this was his first time seeing such a big snake.
Manda looks like it's over fifty meters tall when it's sitting in a cross-legged position. If it's fully stretched out, it's probably a hundred meters tall.
This is much larger than the body of senior Snow Wolf who is more than thirty meters tall.
If senior Snow Wolf were summoned... Ning Xue imagined that scene in his mind.
Snow Wolf, which is more than 30 meters high, faces Manda, which is nearly 50 meters high, and there are five giant pythons that are more than 40 meters high.
If Snow Wolf senior stood in front of Manda, he would probably have to jump to reach it.
If there was a fight, senior Snow Wolf would be bitten badly, right? He might be swallowed in one bite, or he might be slapped away by that thick tail.
Ning Xue shook his head and shook this thought out of his mind. After all, there was still a real battle to fight in front of him.
"Come on."
Orochimaru spoke two words gently, with an understatement, as if he was ordering a servant to pour a cup of tea.
Manda moved.
It did not rush over, but slightly raised its thick tail.
The tail was like a huge whip, drawing an arc in the air and then slamming down towards where Ning Xue was.
At the same time, the five giant pythons also moved.
They glided in from different directions at astonishing speeds. Their huge bodies dragged deep ravines on the ground. Dust and gravel were picked up by the air waves, covering half of the sky.
Ning Xue exerted force under his feet, and his body flew sideways like an arrow from a string.
"Boom--!!"
Manda's tail hit the spot where he was standing, and the ground instantly sunk, with gravel and dust rising into the sky, forming a huge crater.
The hole was twenty meters in diameter and more than five meters deep. The ground at the edge cracked into spider web-like cracks, spreading in all directions.
Ning Xue was thrown by the air waves and rolled around in the air. When he landed, he staggered two steps and barely stabilized his body.
He raised his head and Byakugan caught a glimpse of a giant python rushing towards him from the right, with four sharp fangs clearly visible in its open mouth.
He did not retreat, but rushed forward to face the giant python.
Just when he was about to be bitten, his body suddenly dwindled, sliding close to the ground and passing under the python's jaw.
Ice Blade was turned over in the hand and stabbed fiercely into the gap between the scales of the python's lower jaw.
"Pfft."
Ice Blade was submerged into the flesh and blood, and the giant python let out a painful scream, and its head shook violently, throwing Ning Xue and Ice Blade out together.
Ning Xue adjusted his posture in the air, landed on the ground, and plowed two long scratches on the ground with his feet.
He shook off the Ice Blade in his hand and looked at the python's jaw in the distance.
I saw a long wound oozing blood.
The wound was not deep, but for the giant python, that wound was not even enough to affect its movement.
Ning Xue glanced at his Ice Blade, then at the roaring python, and made a silent judgment in his heart.
Ice Blade is sharp enough to pierce the scales, but not deep enough.