Leaving and Waiting for the Right Moment

Underground Laboratory.

In an open area.

Orochimaru was crouching on the ground, carefully inscribing a technique formula so dazzlingly complex it made one's eyes blur at a glance.

At the edge of the area, there was also a Leaf Village Genin who had been tied up.

At this moment, the other party was watching Orochimaru work intently, his eyes filled with fear.

Suddenly, at a certain moment, Orochimaru's movements stopped.

He carefully sensed his surroundings. The faint Chakra fluctuations made him understand that someone was observing this place through some method.

"Telescope Technique?"

Orochimaru murmured.

But very quickly, he shook his head.

As the Third's disciple, he knew Sarutobi Hiruzen's abilities very well.

Therefore, he had long since set up a barrier in the laboratory, blocking the probing of the Telescope Technique.

"Since it isn't the Telescope Technique..."

Orochimaru carefully sensed his surroundings again, then stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, murmuring, "Then... is it the Byakugan?"

"What a convenient ability!"

With a sigh, Orochimaru turned his head and looked in Qian's direction.

At this moment, the two of them seemed to meet each other's gaze through layer upon layer of obstruction.

Although he was the one being observed, and although fighting was still going on outside, Orochimaru's gaze remained calm.

No, it should be said that it was cold.

However, Qian was not frightened by such a gaze. His eyes were equally calm. While observing Orochimaru, he was also looking at the densely packed technique formulas on the ground, and... the civilian tied up off to the side.

This classic scene made Qian involuntarily think of an S-Rank Forbidden Technique—Impure World Reincarnation!

Clearly, in this life, Orochimaru had obtained this technique early on and had already begun researching it.

Perhaps the village's earlier wave of people going