Excited!
Thrilled!
Thrilled as he was, damn. Ahem.
This was practically getting a Red Corpse for free—a Quasi-Kage-level corpse whose brain had stopped working properly after being seriously injured by Orochimaru. A genuine steal!
Yellow Corpses were precious too, but Qifeng had come across plenty of them. With the war already underway, he would encounter even more in the future.
But Red Corpses were different.
Even in war, it was not easy for a Quasi-Kage-level expert to be killed.
Just look at Orochimaru. Even someone as powerful as him had failed to stop Tu He from escaping.
Though that was partly because quite a few Iwa-nin had held him back, during wartime, which side did not have dozens or even hundreds of ninja fighting nearby?
Red Corpses were truly things one could only stumble upon by chance.
So far, Qifeng had only encountered one, and he had obtained an exceptionally precious Quasi-Kage Experience Card from it, experiencing what it felt like to be a true powerhouse.
All of a sudden, Qifeng's body stiffened.
He slowly turned his head.
A snake slithered out from a crack in the rocks, its eyes brimming with intelligence.
The snake opened its mouth to an absurd extent, and a slick figure slid out of its jaws, covered in viscous fluid.
Qifeng's eye twitched.
With an entrance like that, there was no need to guess who it was.
Orochimaru!
Qifeng almost instinctively called out, "Lord Orochimaru," but fortunately, he caught himself in time. He was not wearing his original appearance right now.
But—
Qifeng glanced at the faint rumbling in the distance. The battle between Konoha and the Iwa-nin was clearly still ongoing, so this Orochimaru was not the original body. It should be a clone!
With that thought, Qifeng secretly let out a breath of