Ryūchi Cave deep.
Sasuke stood in the center of the grotto, with his right hand resting on the handle of Kusanagi Sword's knife.
A dozen meters away from him, a giant snake coiled its body. Its head almost reached the top of the grotto, and its dark brown scales were layered on top of each other. Every time its abdomen contracted, the gravel on the ground would roll with it.
On the stone platform not far away, White Snake Sage's huge snake body is entrenched above.
Kabuto stood at the edge of the grotto, holding a recording scroll in his hand, his eyes never leaving Sasuke.
Sasuke is standing in the center of the grotto, Kusanagi Sword is still hanging on his waist.
The giant snake coiled in front of him, its huge body wrapping around the nearby stone pillars, occupying almost half of the grotto.
It's already a little impatient.
Snake letters kept popping out of its mouth, and its tail moved slowly on the ground, causing a sound of gravel rubbing together.
Sasuke closed his eyes and his breathing gradually slowed down.
The surrounding Natural Energy began to gather towards him.
The water droplets on the stone wall were pulled and slid downward along the cracks, and the scattered gravel on the ground also trembled slightly.
After a while, Sasuke opened his eyes.
The scarlet Sharingan rotated slowly, and its pupils were more slender than usual. Tiny white scales appeared along the eyelids, extending to the end of the eyes, connected with the lavender lines on the temples.
Some black and purple fine lines also appeared near the neck.
His face didn't change much, but the moment he opened his eyes, his whole aura was completely different.
The giant snake was the first to attack.
Its coiled body suddenly popped open, and it opened its big mouth and rushed towards Sasuke. The sharp fangs were pressed down from above, and the venom flowing out from between the teeth had already emitted a pungent smell before it hit the ground.
Sasuke kept looking ahead.
At the moment when the giant snake pounced, he suddenly took a step to the left.
The fangs grazed the corners of his clothes and bit the air.
Before the giant snake had time to raise its head, Kusanagi Sword was already unsheathed.
Zheng!
Sasuke slashed the side of the giant snake's face with his backhand sword.
The blade collided with the scales, and large sparks suddenly burst out. The giant snake's head was chopped to the side, leaving only a shallow white mark on the scales.
Sasuke jumped back using the force of the counter-shock.
As soon as he left the spot, the thick snake's tail swept from behind.
Kabuto's eyes narrowed slightly.
Sasuke didn't look back at all, as if he had seen it a long time ago.
Before the snake's tail got close, he turned his body over in mid-air and dodged the blow.
Then after landing, his figure disappeared from the spot.
The next moment, he climbed up the snake's body along the snake's tail!
The giant snake swung its tail vigorously.
Sasuke ran forward along the scales, his body constantly changing direction with the swing of the snake's tail. His speed was getting faster and faster, and the white clothes pulled out an afterimage behind him, and in the blink of an eye he had rushed to the top of the giant snake.
Kusanagi Sword chopped it off again.
This time the target is the snake's eyes.
The giant snake immediately closed its eyelids.
Dang!
Kusanagi Sword slashed at the scales covering the eyes, but still failed to break them.
The giant snake took the opportunity to twist its body and try to throw Sasuke off its head.
Sasuke exerted force on his feet and jumped up high.
The giant snake raised its head and chased into the air, opened its mouth and spit out a large amount of venom. The dark purple liquid spread in the air, sealing almost all the places where Sasuke could land.
Sasuke's feet are attached to the top of the grotto.
He landed upside down on the rock wall, and as soon as his body came to a stop, he ran quickly along the rock wall above his head.
Venom fell after him.
The sound of chi chi sounded one after another.
The hard stalactites were corroded by the venom, and large amounts of white smoke soon appeared on the surface.
The giant snake raised its head and its vertical pupils followed Sasuke.
When Sasuke ran directly above it, he suddenly broke away from the stone wall and fell down from a high place.
The giant snake opened its mouth and bit again.
Sasuke put away Kusanagi Sword in mid-air, made a fist with his right hand, rotated his body with the force of the fall, and punched the giant snake on the upper jaw.
Bang!
The giant snake's head slammed down.
The huge body caused the ground to shake together, and several nearby stalactites were affected and broke from above one after another.
Sasuke jumped up again by stepping on the giant snake's head.
A broken stalactite fell from beside him. Sasuke reached out and pressed the side, which suddenly changed the direction of its fall.
The boulder flipped over and hit the giant snake.
The giant snake swung its tail and shattered the stalactite from the middle.
Rubbles flew in all directions.
Sasuke passed through the scattered stones, and Kusanagi Sword unsheathed it again, slashing at the giant snake's neck continuously.
The sword light kept falling.
The scales on the giant snake's body emitted sparks one after another, but never really cracked.
Kabuto stood at the edge of the grotto, lowering his head and recording the changes of Sasuke on the scroll.
Under Sage Mode, the perception range of Sasuke is no longer limited to the direction that Sharingan can see.
As soon as the giant snake's muscles tightened, he could judge in advance where the attack was coming from. The snake's tail launched several sneak attacks from out of sight, but in the end they all missed his body.
Even more obvious is the power.
After blocking the giant snake's attack head-on, Sasuke's wrists were not affected in any way, and he was even able to forcefully change the direction of the giant snake's head with his fists.
But Kabuto soon noticed another thing.
Every time Sasuke swings the sword, a small amount of Senjutsu Chakra will stay in place.
Some are hanging in mid-air, some are staying near the snake's scales, and some are mixed with gravel and broken stone Hashirama.
They quickly blend into the surrounding Natural Energy and are almost impossible to detect with normal perception.
I don't know if it's a deliberate move by Sasuke or a defect of Sage Mode.
The tip of Kabuto's pen paused for a moment.
He pushed up his glasses and looked into the field again.
Sasuke is still attacking.
Kusanagi Sword kept slashing at the giant snake, leaving only a shallow mark each time. The giant snake also gradually discovered that this black-haired boy was extremely fast and had amazing strength, but he could not really break through his scales.
It started to get bolder.
The giant snake no longer deliberately protected its body and swept out with its tail close to the ground, forcing Sasuke to move towards the center of the grotto.
Sasuke ducked sideways.
The snake's tail smashed the stone pillar, and the large rock fell down.
The giant snake took advantage of the dust and suddenly coiled up its huge body. It lowered its head and stared at Sasuke with vertical pupils through the dust.
Sasuke stood on the same spot, Kusanagi Sword pointed diagonally at the ground.
The giant snake suddenly opened its mouth and bit him.
Sasuke suddenly flashed back.
But the giant snake did not stop attacking. He failed to succeed and rushed over again, his huge head smashing the rocks in front of him one after another.
Sasuke flipped his body in mid-air, landed on the stone wall with his toes, and then rushed upward along the vertical wall.
The giant snake turned its head and pressed its fangs against the stone wall to pursue it.
Debris kept flying out from between the two.
Sharingan of Sasuke rotates quickly.
Just when the giant snake was about to catch up, he stopped and Kusanagi Sword thrust forward suddenly.
But there is clearly nothing in front of it.
The tip of the sword passed through the air, and then he quickly took it back.
Kabuto looked at Sasuke in surprise.
This sword neither stabbed the giant snake nor touched anything. He couldn't understand why Sasuke wasted an opportunity to strike here.
The giant snake didn't stop either.
It opened its big mouth, smashed the rocks in front of it with its huge head, and rushed straight towards Sasuke.
Sasuke took a few steps back. When the giant snake approached, it suddenly crushed the ground beneath its feet and flew into the air.
A fierce light flashed in the giant snake's vertical pupils.
It has long been on guard against Sasuke's move.
The thick snake's tail was already hidden on the other side. As soon as Sasuke jumped up, the snake's tail tore through the air and whipped him hard in the air.
Sasuke is in the air, with no place under his feet to draw strength from.
Kabuto's heart also lifted.
Just when the snake's tail was about to touch Sasuke, Sasuke suddenly raised his left hand and put two fingers together in front of his eyes.
"Sage Art, echo!"
Bah!
Dazzling lightning suddenly lit up behind the giant snake.
Kabuto suddenly turned his head and realized that where Sasuke had stabbed the air just now, another Sasuke appeared out of thin air!
The figure was completely condensed by thunder and lightning. It also held a Kusanagi Sword made of lightning in its hand. Even the posture of holding the sword was exactly the same as when Sasuke stabbed into the air just now.
But at this moment, there is no longer an empty cave in front of it.
The giant snake chased Sasuke so far away that the back of its neck stopped just in front of the sword.
Lightning Clone stabbed forward violently.
Poof!
The concentrated lightning Kusanagi Sword passed between the scales and pierced the back of the giant snake's neck without any hindrance.
A large amount of lightning poured into its body along the wound.
The giant snake froze, and its erect snake pupils suddenly shrank, but the snake tail that had been swung out still carried huge inertia and hit Sasuke hard.
Sasuke raised his right hand and held Kusanagi Sword horizontally in front of him.
Dang!
The snake's tail hit the sword hard.
The huge force followed Kusanagi Sword and hit his body. Sasuke was sent flying backwards, and the hem of his white clothes flipped violently in the air.
After he flew more than ten meters, his feet landed on the stone wall, and his knees sank with the impact. The rock under his feet cracked, but his body stopped steadily.
On the other side, the giant snake had fallen heavily to the ground.
The Lightning Clone still maintained its thrusting posture. After a few seconds, its body turned into scattered thunder and lightning, which quickly spread along the giant snake's scales.
Kabuto looked at the disappearing figure, then turned to look at the spot where Sasuke had just stabbed the sword, and finally understood.
It turns out that Senjutsu Chakra, which Sasuke left in place, is used like this.
He left the sword there and then detonated it at the right time.
"That's enough."
At this moment, the voice of White Snake Sage came from the stone platform.
Sasuke fell from the stone wall.
White Snake Sage looked at the giant snake lying on the ground, and then turned his attention to Sasuke.
"Your use of Senjutsu is mature enough."
"You can leave now."
Sasuke did not answer, but put Kusanagi Sword into its sheath and nodded to White Snake Sage.
Kabuto lowered his head and hurriedly wrote down what he just saw.
But when he wrote Sage Art: Echo, his pen tip paused for a long time.
He was not sure how much reverberation Sasuke left behind.
I don't even know how long those reverberations can last.
What they don't know is that deep inside Ryūchi Cave.
Far away from Trial Grotto, there is a more hidden cave.
It's empty here, without any decoration, just a wild mountain cave.
But the rock walls around this cave are densely covered with knife marks.
There are also some traces of ninjutsu explosions.
No one knows how they formed.
No one knows what happened in the cave.
(What comes to us is, Senzuo vs. Complete Orochimaru. In fact, Orochimaru's combat power is very confusing, and I don't know what his level is. Let's say he is strong. He was defeated by Itachi in one move, and his expressiveness in the drama is not very strong. But let's say he is weak. He and Jiraiya are both one of the Legendary Sannins. Jiraiya is on the other side and is killing people randomly. Orochimaru is beaten here by Sasuke and can only be beaten. It feels a bit abstract.)