Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 891 Battle
Time passes minute by minute.

Originally, Qingming thought that since Orochimaru and Jiraiya had already left the town, a battle would break out soon.

However, they never expected that they would not stop for more than two hours.

Qingming also followed them and ran for more than two hours.

During this period, he also discovered some traces of Anbu ninjas.

But unfortunately, these people didn't follow them for long before they lost track of the two men.

Taking this opportunity, Qingming vaguely realized the thoughts of Orochimaru and Jiraiya.

Perhaps it was their pride as the Three Ninjas that made them unwilling to lose face in front of others, or perhaps they simply did not want to reveal their own information.

In short, the two of them tacitly left everyone behind.

And their plan was successful. Now, except Qing Ming, no one followed them.

Qingming looked at the forest ahead, and his intuition told him that the final battle was about to come, and the forest ahead was the best battlefield.

As it turned out, his hunch was correct.

Shortly after Jiraiya and Orochimaru entered the forest, an explosion was heard.

Qing Ming, who had been on the battlefield, was very familiar with this kind of explosion. It was exactly the sound produced by the explosion of the detonating talisman.

Qing Ming stopped, thought for a while, and then performed a very practical ninjutsu - Earth escape technique - Fish Reflection in the Earth!
As one of the first ninjutsu he learned and mastered to the maximum level, its effect is to hide underground and use chakra as a medium to observe the movements above.

The whole process is like a fish in the water, silently peeking at the scene on the shore through the water surface.

This is a ninjutsu that focuses on lurking and surveillance. It is least likely to attract the attention of others. It is most appropriate to use it now.

The soil under his feet softened, and Qingming sank into it. Then, like a fish, he swam into the depths of the forest.

At the same time, spy on what's going on above.

That explosion was like a switch, and within a short period of time, explosions were heard one after another in the forest.

Among them, most are detonating tags, but there are also some ninjutsu, especially the movements caused by fire ninjutsu.

After walking forward cautiously for a distance, Qingming finally saw Jiraiya and Orochimaru.

At this time, the two men were standing in a burned forest, more than ten meters apart from each other, looking at each other breathlessly.

Even hiding underground, Qingming could feel the depressing atmosphere in the air.

Time passes minute by minute.

After a few moments of silence, Jiraiya finally spoke first: "Orochimaru, are you really going to betray the village?"

When saying this, Jiraiya looked serious, and there was a hint of depression in his tone.

Hearing this, Orochimaru did not make any response, but just sneered a few times.

Seeing this, Jiraiya still didn't give up and asked again: "Can you tell me why you did those things?"

Orochimaru naturally knew what Jiraiya meant by "those things". He didn't want to answer, but he considered that this might be the last time he saw this old friend.

Well.
At least it's the last time in a short period of time.

So, after thinking about it, he said, "Jiraiya, do you remember that night?"

"Which one?"

Jiraiya asked.

"That night when we repelled the enemy, you, Tsunade and I sat around the campfire, talking about our dreams." Orochimaru replied.

Hearing this, Jiraiya recalled briefly, then smiled and said, "Oh, it was that time, I remember, what happened?"

"That night, you asked me what my dream was, and I couldn't answer."

Orochimaru spoke calmly.

Jiraiya nodded and said, "Well, I remember you seemed to say that you wanted to improve the ninjutsu you learned to the extreme and become stronger, but you didn't have a dream."

"Yes, it's rare that you remember it so clearly." When Orochimaru said this, his expression softened a little.

But then his tone suddenly became fanatical.

"Jiraiya, I didn't have a dream then, but now, I do."

Without waiting for Jiraiya to ask, he continued, "I want to learn all the ninjutsu in this world, study their principles, and then find a way to achieve immortality from them."

“Immortality.”

Jiraiya murmured, then shook his head and said, "Is this your reason for playing with life?"

"Playing around? No, not playing around."

Hearing this, Orochimaru shook his head and said, "I just let them realize their own value.

In this world, the vast majority of people will just live their lives in mediocrity and will not create any value.

Rather than wasting their lives like this, it would be their honor to become my experimental subjects and help me climb the ladder to immortality."

Seeing Orochimaru say such cruel words so calmly, Jiraiya remained silent.

He looked at Orochimaru's fanatical eyes and knew that it would be impossible to persuade the other party with words alone.

"In that case, we have no choice but to fight."

Jiraiya thought so in his heart.

No matter what, he must bring Orochimaru back. This is not only a promise to Minato Namikaze, but also his true inner thoughts.

He couldn't let Orochimaru make such mistakes again!

Feeling the change in Jiraiya's aura, Orochimaru also became serious.

He habitually stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, then said in a calm but slightly excited tone: "Jiraiya, I remember we haven't really had a fight yet, right?"

"Now, let me see your true strength!"

As he spoke, he threw out a shuriken, then quickly completed the hand seal and performed an A-level ninjutsu - Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!
In an instant, dense shurikens appeared out of nowhere and shot towards Jiraiya.

Seeing this familiar ninjutsu, Jiraiya didn't know what he was thinking of. A smile appeared on his face, and then he dodged all the shuriken attacks.

Not only that, he also took the opportunity to throw three kunai, shooting at Orochimaru's throat, heart and lower abdomen.

Seeing this, Orochimaru's golden vertical pupils shrank slightly.

Then, his body twisted into an S shape as if it had lost its bones, and he avoided Jiraiya's counterattack with the smallest amplitude.

Seeing Jiraiya still approaching him, he didn't waste any words and immediately formed hand seals again. When Jiraiya was approaching him, he waved his hand and performed the ninjutsu - Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!

Call ~
Then a strong wind blew by.

Jiraiya only felt that the air in front of him seemed to have turned into substance.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of wind blades attacked him, cutting into various parts of his body.

"Can't resist!"

Jiraiya made a judgment in an instant, then raised his hand and performed the "Substitution Technique".

In an instant, a wooden stake appeared and blocked Jiraiya, absorbing the damage of the wind blade for him.

Jiraiya took the opportunity to dodge and came to the side of Orochimaru, then kicked him with a "Konoha Gourami Whirlwind".

bang~
A dull crashing sound sounded.

Orochimaru raised his right arm and blocked the attack firmly.

At this moment, time seemed to stand still.

The two people in the field, one attacking and one defending, were stuck in place, like two sculptures.

(End of this chapter)