It withstood one repulsive attack before, and then took full damage from the second one at extremely close range.
As Orochimaru flew backward, his aura became extremely weak, and he was unable to transform into a snake again to escape.
Leaving aside whether he could escape, Orochimaru's special Substitution Technique requires preparing a large number of summoning snakes in advance, and it also consumes most of his own Chakra.
At this point, Orochimaru was in no condition to activate that technique.
Orochimaru, who was sent flying backward, crashed heavily to the ground and slid along the ground, but he didn't slide far before Toneri blocked his path with one of his feet.
"How dare you, a lowly creature, covet the treasures of the Ōtsutsuki Clan?"
The Toneri sneered at Orochimaru, then prepared to finish off the already dying Orochimaru.
"That's not necessarily true. Besides, you should be the original body, right?"
Even as life slipped away, Orochimaru looked at Toneri, whose eyes were now empty, and still revealed a wicked smile, opening his tightly clenched right hand.
One of them was a Byakugan!
Toneri's empty eye sockets widened, and he was stunned for a moment.
How could that be!
Orochimaru had been waiting for this moment. With his last remaining Chakra, he transformed his right hand into a python and swallowed the Byakugan.
At the same time, Orochimaru opened his mouth wide and bit at Toneri's foot, who was standing right next to him, not caring that he was still wearing shoes.
Two sharp teeth pierced through the shoe and bit into Toneri's foot. The Cursed Seal couldn't be implanted; Orochimaru just wanted to drink some blood.
The sudden turn of events jolted Toneri, who was still questioning his existence, back to his senses. As he pulled out his left foot, he swung his right fist at Orochimaru's head.
Facing the oncoming fist, Orochimaru finally revealed a smile, and then his entire body began to dissolve, turning into a pool of pus.
The Toneri's fist slammed into the lifeless pus.
The Toneri, thoroughly humiliated, raged helplessly alone in the Waning Moon Palace.
The Shinobi World, Orochimaru's underground base.
Bai was standing guard beside a young man who had lost consciousness; the man's body was covered in dense black patterns.
Suddenly, the patterns emitted a dark red light, and then the man's body began to change shape, and his aura also changed.
A short while later, Orochimaru sat up.
At this moment, Orochimaru's aura was extremely weak; if one had to compare him to an ordinary person, he wouldn't be much stronger.
Orochimaru's expression changed several times before finally calming down.
The person Tenseigan this time wasn't even a ninja, just an ordinary person. Orochimaru (Yun Chi) only had a core soul fragment from Orochimaru.
If you want to use the Living Corpse Reincarnation Technique on a ninja, you might end up being devoured, and then everything would be inherited by that person.
"Lord Orochimaru, has the mission failed?"
Although Orochimaru in front of him was incredibly weak, Haku still treated him with utmost respect.
Orochimaru shook his head.
"I don't know, Bai, let's use Summoning Technique!"
Upon hearing this, Bai took out Summoning Scroll he had prepared beforehand and infused it with Chakra.
Three pythons appeared in the room, each spitting out a bottle, after which Bai dispelled the Summoning Technique.
Bai ignored the sticky residue on the bottles, picked up the three bottles, placed them on the tray, and brought them to the bedside.
The three bottles contained different things: a Byakugan, a few drops of blood, and the last piece of flesh.
Are there only two things?
Orochimaru didn't feel he'd lost out. Since it was something he was willing to die for, Orochimaru felt there must be another secret behind it.
Orochimaru picked up the bottle on the far side, poured out the flesh and blood inside, and swallowed it without hesitation. Then, he used the wisp of Chakra he had just gathered to touch the flesh and blood in his mouth.
Orochimaru then closed his eyes, and the room fell silent.
After a long while, Orochimaru opened his eyes again, his eyes filled with wild joy.
Clearly, Orochimaru already knows what he has encountered and what he has done these past few days.
"Bai, take me to the lab!"
Upon hearing this, Haku picked up Orochimaru from the bed, placed him on the wheelchair beside the bed, and then pushed Orochimaru out of the room.
Subsequently, in the laboratory, under Orochimaru's guidance, Haku was used as a tool to carry out a series of research projects.
The first thing to happen, naturally, was the Byakugan that was plucked from the giant orb of light.
Orochimaru originally only wanted to borrow some Chakra, but he didn't expect that the Chakra produced in the laboratory could not only envelop the Chakra overflowing from the large light sphere, but also fail to trigger any defense mechanisms.
Orochimaru didn't hesitate and quickly reached in to scoop something up, and actually managed to pull it out.
Reflecting on what he had seen and heard during this experience, Orochimaru was filled with anticipation for the outcome.
Iwagakure.
Ōnoki is meeting with a ninja.
Two weeks later, the final match of the joint Chunin uprising will be held in Konoha. Not only the Tsuchikage, but also the Land of Earth will be present.
Besides the fact that daimyo are always invited and must attend, daimyo also have a grand procession, so they are accompanied by many nobles.
Such multinational exchange activities inevitably involve businesspeople.
The ninja standing before Ōnoki was the commander of the Iwagakure who had been dispatched to protect the Daimyo of the Land of Earth.