After leaving the border of the Land of Keys, Lin Ze slowed down, recalling Ari's peculiar ocular technique.
The Shinobi World really does run deeper than I imagined, he sighed inwardly.
All sorts of bizarre Kekkei Genkai, secret techniques, and ocular techniques kept emerging.
If he had not known something about Ari today and held a little goodwill toward her as a relatively positive character in the original story-if anyone else had dared to pry into his memories like that-
He would not have minded giving her a blast of Bolo Breath.
Two days later.
Following the intelligence he had obtained in the Land of Keys, Lin Ze arrived deep in the woods near Kikyo Mountain.
He had already investigated the first marked location, and the result had been disappointing.
It had indeed once been one of Orochimaru's bases, but it had long since been abandoned. Only some inconsequential experimental remnants remained, and it had clearly been relocated recently.
A crafty rabbit has three burrows. Orochimaru probably has more than thirty.
Lin Ze was not surprised.
At that moment, he concealed himself in the crown of a large tree, blending into the surrounding natural environment.
His gaze fell on a cave entrance not far away, concealed by vines and a genjutsu barrier.
Lin Ze activated his unique sensory ability and silently extended it into the cave, passing the outer traps and warning talismans to probe deeper inside.
The scene within the cave slowly took shape in his mind like a three-dimensional map.
Several winding passages led downward to a number of spacious stone chambers.
In one chamber, several people with weak chakra signatures were busy working.
In a larger chamber beside it stood several enormous glass cultivation tanks!
Indescribable biological tissues floated inside the tanks. Some had twisted human