Death of Orochimaru! Erasing the Cursed Seal Vessels in Three Seconds

Orochimaru seized that opening. His mouth suddenly split open to an exaggerated degree, and the head of a white-scaled serpent bearing Orochimaru's face abandoned its original shell and crawled out from within, turning into a streak of white light as it shot straight toward the nearest Sound Ninja vessel!

"Your way of fighting really makes me sick." Facing the three cursed-seal monsters lunging at him, Yuan could not even be bothered to use Susanoo. He withdrew his chakra and relied purely on the peak reactions of his physical body. His left foot lashed out, brutally snapping the first monster's knee, while his right fist swung around, landing a solid Chakra Enhanced Strength Punch squarely on the second monster's chest.

Two crisp cracks of breaking bone rang out at the same time. The two Sound Ninja smashed straight through the stone wall and flew out. The last monster swung a bone blade at Yuan's neck, only for Yuan to seize its wrist, casually slam it into the ground, and smash a huge crater into the stone slab.

"Living Corpse Reincarnation has already begun! You're too late!" the white snake Orochimaru had become let out an arrogant laugh in midair. He was about to burrow into the first youth's body.

"Is there something wrong with your brain? Who said I was going to smash your body?"

Yuan abruptly turned his head, the six-pointed star of the Mangekyo Sharingan in his left eye spinning wildly. In his field of vision, Orochimaru's consciousness was forcibly connecting to the cursed seal on the first youth's neck through an invisible thread of mental power.

His ocular jutsu, "Extinguish," activated!

Yuan's target had never been Orochimaru's slippery true body, but the Cursed Seal of Heaven on that youth's neck!

The concept-level disintegration jutsu crossed space in an instant. The black cursed-seal markings blazing fiercely on the youth's neck looked as if they had been viciously wiped away by an invisible eraser. There was no blood, no explosion. Just one-thousandth of a second before Orochimaru's consciousness touched the cursed seal, the coordinate sustaining the reincarnation—the Cursed Seal of Heaven—vanished into thin air! It was erased cleanly!

"What?!" The white snake Orochimaru had become slammed into an invisible barrier in midair and was flung back. That was the rejection produced after the vessel lost its interface.

"How is that possible! You erased my cursed seal...?!" Orochimaru was horrified to the extreme. This completely defied the common sense of ninjutsu. But he had no time to hesitate. The white snake twisted sharply in midair and shot toward the second backup vessel.

"Keep running." Yuan sneered, and his ocular power locked on again.

"Swish!" The cursed seal on the second vessel was instantly erased by "Extinguish" as well, turning into nothingness.

Orochimaru hit a wall again, and a violent stabbing pain had already begun to flare through his consciousness. It was the side effect of being separated from his true body for too long. Like a madman, he lunged toward the final vessel.

"Stop wasting your strength." Yuan took one step forward and directly blocked the third vessel. Those icy black eyes looked down from above at the white-scaled serpent writhing madly on the ground. His left eye turned again, and the last cursed seal scattered like smoke and clouds.

Despair. Despair that chilled to the bone.

Orochimaru's consciousness had nowhere to go. He could only watch helplessly as his spirit body was constantly corroded by the air outside. There was no white snake to flee in, no cursed seal to reincarnate through, and the three vessels he had painstakingly prepared had now become cripples.

"Impossible... I prepared for three months... my eternal life..." Orochimaru let out a broken, hoarse scream, his voice carrying the fear of truly facing death.

"You prepared for three months. But it only takes me three seconds to choke you to death."

Yuan bent down, clamped his right hand around the white-scaled serpent's vital point, and forcibly lifted Orochimaru from the ground. "I said I was going to kill you, so you're going to die cleanly. Don't even think about leaving behind so much as an earthworm!"

Yuan's right hand was instantly covered in violent lightning-nature chakra, his five fingers contracting viciously like iron pincers. With a "squelch," the white-scaled serpent body Orochimaru was so proud of was crushed into a bloody pulp. But it was not over yet. Yuan's ocular jutsu, "Extinguish," followed Orochimaru's body and poured tyrannically, unreasonably, into the depths of his core consciousness.

Double erasure, from the cellular level to the spiritual level!

Orochimaru's scream stopped abruptly. Starting from the spot Yuan was gripping, his body began to crumble inch by inch like ashes burned to nothing, then dispersed. Not even a drop of blood or a slice of flesh remained.

One of the Legendary Sannin of the Hidden Leaf, the rat who played with life, was completely struck from the ninja world then and there.

[Ding! Killed S-rank · Orochimaru! Obtained Orange Shards ×50!]

[Detected that the host publicly crushed, killed, and erased the target's trump card, triggering a 1.5x drop rate! Final reward: Orange Shards ×75!]

[Shard count reached the required amount! Enemy abilities unlocked: Impure World Reincarnation · Complete Version, Manda Summoning (although he's dead, the contract remains), Orochimaru's Forbidden Jutsu Knowledge Base!]

Yuan stood on the empty altar, listening to the pleasant system notifications in his mind. Vast, complicated knowledge of forbidden jutsu flooded into his brain like a tide. He casually shook off dust that did not exist at all, then turned and walked out of the temple.

After walking out of that dark, damp temple, he found it was already late at night outside. A cold crescent moon hung over the bare rocky mountains.

"Orochimaru... you're finally dead." Yuan raised his head and looked at the moon, a cruel sneer curling at the corner of his mouth. Another name on his revenge list had been crossed out with a heavy stroke. But now, his appetite had been thoroughly enlarged. What he wanted was no longer just revenge, but absolute domination.

He lowered his head and looked toward the depths of the Land of Earth. That was where Iwagakure stood. "These rocks who only know how to roll around in the dirt... it's time to loosen their soil."