Have We Fallen Out with Konoha?

In Uchiha Shingen's eyes, a large amount of Chakra appeared, obscuring Orochimaru's presence.

As one of the original ace units of the Hokage system, he has plenty of experience dealing with Sharingan.

After being easily defeated by Uchiha Itachi Genjutsu the original timeline, Orochimaru plummeted, turning him from a boss into a mere experience point. However, Orochimaru, who managed to survive until the finale and even redeem himself from darkness to earth, becoming one of the Legendary Sannin, is no pushover.

In terms of the nature of Chakra they possess, Orochimaru, like Sarutobi Hiruzen, is a master of all five elements and is predominantly Yang.

Regarding Yin Release, in Uchiha Shingen's opinion, Orochimaru's resistance to Genjutsu is quite good.

His battle with Orochimaru had already begun long ago, and Orochimaru had skillfully dispelled all his Genjutsu. Perhaps Orochimaru had anticipated this?

Or perhaps... I'm actually a master of Genjutsu, the kind who crushes novices?

Uchiha Shingen disagreed with this, saying his Genjutsu defense was excellent, wasn't it?

The stalemate between water and fire resulted in more and more water evaporating and turning into white mist, causing the ground beneath Uchiha Shingen's feet to tremble.

The earth suddenly split open, and the burning land receded, spewing water from the crack.

This isn't Water Release; rather, the groundwater here has been channeled out.

The groundwater carrying mud extinguished the remaining flames, and in the mud, a small snake silently approached Uchiha Shingen, suddenly leaped up, and opened its mouth to bite.

Then he broke Uchiha Shingen's teeth.

With a casual crushing of the snake's head, Uchiha Shingen ascended into the sky using the Light-Weight Rock Technique. The chaotic and substantial Chakra below effectively interfered with his senses, including his Sharingan's perception.

But it doesn't matter, just destroy it.

White Chakra surged from his left shoulder, transforming into a giant arm, and a Tomoe condensed on his large palm.

Uchiha Shingen threw it, sending it flying towards a spot on the ground below.

The high-density Chakra polymer called Yasaka Magatama is far less impressive than the Tailed Beast Ball, but within its effective killing range, its power is just as great.

The blinding light and the thunderous roar occurred simultaneously; where the light disappeared, everything tangible vanished as well.

A huge crater appeared where it had just been thrown and struck.

"It seems a bit insufficient."

Seeing that the Earth Release Earth Release below had not stopped, Uchiha Shingen's right shoulder also surged with Chakra, and he extended another Susanoo arm.

With a clapping and a pulling motion from the two giant hands, a string of Tomoe was pulled out.

"Get out of here!"

Like a barrage of bullets, more than a dozen beams of intense light, accompanied by earth-shattering explosions, shattered the ground below.

The roaring Earth Release technique destroyed the entire land.

Orochimaru's Chakra is now clear.

If Naruto Uzumaki was the chosen one of the original timeline...

Orochimaru, on the other hand, was the one with the strongest destiny in the original timeline.

With over a dozen eight-foot-long Yasaka Magatama falling, very few Ninja World could withstand them unscathed.

Orochimaru just ate it anyway.

I have to say that he is really good at earth escape. The speed of earth escape cannot catch up with the speed of his earth escape.

He just emerged from another patch of land.

However, as soon as he appeared, he was met with a Totsuka Blade.

Uchiha Shingen immediately unleashed a hundred-meter-long sword strike.

Ordinary ninjutsu is indeed not very effective against Orochimaru, and even the Sand Magnet Release isn't much better. But since he gave it to the Uchiha Clan in the original timeline, Uchiha Shingen naturally had to respect that experience.

Furthermore, to be fair, using Susanoo in a partial form not only saves chakra but also increases agility.

Orochimaru reacted quickly; the Totsuka Blade almost grazed his nose as it slashed down.

He split the hill in two on the spot.

After Uchiha Shingen covered the distance a hundred meters several more times, there were no more hills in that area.

However, as the earth and rocks flew into the air, Orochimaru successfully made a retreat once again.

Uchiha Shingen did manage to hit his target, but he simply opened his mouth, swatted at it, and slipped away.

This guy truly lives up to his reputation as the front-line commander among the Legendary Sannin.

Uchiha Shingen felt that it wasn't the Uchiha Clan that countered him, but rather the brothers Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke.

Otherwise, why didn't we see him tidy it up in a couple of quick moves?

They were running around so happily!

"Orochimaru, isn't it boring with you running around like this?" Uchiha Shingen shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Shingen, this is simply my fighting style."

Orochimaru responded to Uchiha Shingen from a distance.

However, Orochimaru also felt that he had no way to deal with Uchiha Shingen either.

After a series of tests, he had a pretty good idea of Uchiha Shingen's strength without the Rinnegan.

Its attack and defense capabilities are both explosive, and crucially, it can fly, making it virtually untouchable at close, medium, and long ranges.

It is very well-balanced, with no weaknesses.

At least that's how it works in terms of attack. As for defense, given Orochimaru's attack methods, that's about all he can figure out.

This is one of the inconveniences after the Legendary Sannin disbanded.

In the past, outputting damage was mainly handled by Jiraiya.

Because of this clear division of labor, he always ordered only meat.

As for attacks, he was aware of Hanzo's ease of using poison, so he mainly used various methods of capturing and poisoning.

But the Susanoo of the Uchiha Clan is just too useful, so his skills in that area are useless.

[Fine, let's give it a try.]

Orochimaru, seeing Uchiha Shingen diving down towards him, did not dodge for the first time since the start of the battle.

He activated the power of the Cursed Seal within his body.

He knew perfectly well what kind of things Uchiha Shingen had modified with his Cursed Seal technology, and he didn't think much of it.

As it turns out, it was Uchiha Shingen himself who truly benefited from this technology. The number of people in the Uchiha Clan who successfully transplanted the Cursed Seal was less than a handful, and the amount of Two-Tails Chakra they could withstand was extremely limited.

He's different; his Cursed Seal can be transplanted and used.

It has a much better reach; the first batch of Cursed Seal users has already emerged in the Sound Village.

His body suddenly swelled up.

As a degraded form of Ryūchi Cave's power, the Cursed Seal can be considered another shortcut to obtaining the power of Senjutsu for those who cannot perfectly master Dragon Cave Sage Technique.

Moreover, it also inherits the power of form.

The tiny child swelled into a gigantic creature in the blink of an eye.

Uchiha Shingen, who was diving, stopped his momentum and looked at the morphing creature in front of him, whose appearance was becoming more and more familiar.

"This technique was created around this time..." Uchiha Shingen raised an eyebrow.

Before them stood a colossal beast with eight snake heads.

This is the so-called Eight-Headed Serpent.

Uchiha Shingen wasn't too surprised by this; once Orochimaru had developed the Cursed Seal technique, this would naturally follow.

Although this thing relies on physical force, its physical strength is indeed quite impressive, and it can also regenerate. It is impossible to kill it by ordinary means. In the original timeline, after Orochimaru used this technique, he was sent to sleep by Uchiha Itachi's Totsuka Blade.

The Totsuka Blade Technique will have different effects depending on the user.

In the original timeline Uchiha Itachi primarily focused on mental suppression.

However, Uchiha Shingen's main focus was on exorcising demons and destroying the physical body.

Although he also absorbed spiritual energy, after consuming the Ten-Tails 'Chakra, Uchiha Shingen had honestly lost interest in absorbing other people's chakra.

There's nothing I can do, my tastes have become too picky.

The Eight-Headed Serpent was very large; when its several heads were raised, it was even higher than Uchiha Shingen's position.

The two Susanoo arms retracted into Uchiha Shingen's body, and he communicated with Matatabi once again.

The Tailed Beasts's Chakra reappeared in his body and then combined with his own Chakra, much like Senjutsu. As the Chakra changed, his Dōjutsu also began to change.

Within the eye sockets, both the pupils and the whites of the eyes began to change simultaneously.

The snakes all lowered their heads, and one of them opened its mouth and bit down at him.

At this moment, Uchiha Shingen, who had already completed his "promotion," gently waved his hand.

Sizzle!

Within the vast universe, it was as if a paintbrush from a higher dimension had drawn a line across this world.

Above this "line," the eight snake heads were silently severed.

Ninigi-no-Mikoto is the name of this Dōjutsu.

Chapter 45: Have they broken ties with Leaf Village?

The eight snake heads crashed to the ground with considerable force, raising a cloud of dust.

When the dust settled, it was clear that most of the eight snake heads were buried in the ground, with only one or two that had landed at a better angle, their mouths agape as if they were biting at the air, seemingly struggling.

Ahead, on the eight severed necks, the cuts were smooth, but there was no sign of them growing back.

Of course it won't grow back, since it wasn't actually beheaded.

Like Uchiha Obito Kamui Uchiha Fugaku's Tenryu Ninigi-no-Mikoto's Boundless Heaven and Earth force is a space-time type of Dōjutsu.

Leaving aside Kamui, theoretically speaking, the Boundless Heaven and Earth is Infinite expandable, while Ninigi-no-Mikoto can manipulate things within that space at will.

However, compared to the very intuitive usage of Kamui and Boundless Heaven and Earth, Ninigi-no-Mikoto is much more abstract and requires a lot of imagination from the caster.

But it's alright, this isn't a big problem for time travelers.

If I can't figure it out, surely others can?

The fake Uchiha Clan only uses Ninjutsu from the Hokage world.

If Kishimoto wasn't satisfied with the real Uchiha Clan, then he would have found someone else to seduce them.

Bubble-like bulges rolled continuously on the neck of the Eight-Headed Serpent Orochi, yet all the changes occurred on the snake's head, which had already been "severed."

They all started to look strange and grotesque; this was because they had "drunk" too much.

Orochimaru wasn't one to just throw his face at the keyboard; he immediately stopped this pointless activity, realizing the trouble that Uchiha Shingen's Dōjutsu was causing. He switched to recycling his Chakra while secretly severing his connection with Eight-Headed Serpent.

Meanwhile, Uchiha Shingen, floating in the sky, had already created bundles of black Chakra rods using the Animal Path's abilities.

To free his hands, he floated to the side using the Light-Weight Rock Technique after he finished making it.

After two cycles, he firmly believed in one principle: whenever there was a possibility of solving a problem with quantity, he would never hesitate to use Chakra, nor would he indulge in some pretentious sentimentality and insist on using some kind of technique as the ultimate goal.

Before Orochimaru's main body had completely withdrawn from the Eight-Headed Serpent, Uchiha Shingen had already created about a hundred of them, creating a large swarm around him.

The next moment, Uchiha Shingen used the Light-Weight Rock Technique to launch all the black rods.

Orochimaru shouldn't have acted like that in front of him, since the bigger the target, the easier it is for him to beat.

With a whooshing sound, the black Chakra rods pierced into the body of the Eight-Headed Serpent without any resistance, immediately fulfilling their basic function—disrupting the target's Chakra circulation.

Orochimaru, who had just extended half of his true form, suddenly found that his lower body was not quite under his control; it seemed he couldn't pull it out for the time being!?

This boss, who always managed to control his expressions quite well, suddenly changed his demeanor.

Uchiha Shingen's Rinnegan was different from Nagato's; their abilities differed greatly and were outside his area of expertise. He realized he had acted rashly.

However, Orochimaru didn't complain in his heart, after all, this was the result of his own preconceived notions.

He immediately opened his mouth wide, preparing to unleash another Snake Style Substitution Technique.

It was at this moment that his vision suddenly went black... no, it was Uchiha Shingen who landed right in front of him with a thud.