In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 332: Obtaining the Kusanagi Sword

If it was a head-on encounter, he could still barely fight back against Orochimaru, but this was an ambush set up by Orochimaru long ago, with many means prepared. In addition, his chakra was suppressed by Orochimaru's snake venom, so he was no match for Orochimaru.

At this time, Mifune was tightly entangled by Kakuzu and could not escape.

"Mr. Mifune, if you are willing to hand over the Kusanagi sword to me, then... hm?"

Orochimaru suddenly stopped moving.

The next moment, a sickle wrapped in chains fell from the sky.

Orochimaru's head was instantly chopped off by the sickle.

On the other side, a brilliant blue blade flashed.
Kakuzu's body was instantly cut in half by Shimizu, and was even cut into several pieces.

The sword light was still moving towards Sanchuan with undiminished force.

"Dang!~"

The newly-made exquisite ninja sword in Shimizu's hand collided with the Kusanagi sword in Mifune's hand, making a clear sword sound.

Mifune showed a look of horror, and he retreated violently, hitting the wall heavily and spitting out blood.

On the other side, Orochimaru tore through his remaining body and crawled out of his headless corpse, covered in slime. He looked at the Kusanagi sword that had fallen into Hanzo's hands with a gloomy expression.

Got cheated!
The sudden attack by the two old bastards really caught the guys off guard.

"Damn it!"

Black lines surged, Kakuzu looked at Qingshui and cursed.

One of his water escape techniques had his heart pierced by the water!
"Orochimaru, 30 million ryo is not enough for me to help you snatch the Kusanagi sword!"

Kakuzu's implication was that either he paid more money or he would withdraw.

If he was just dealing with two people from the Iron Kingdom, he would have no problem, but with the addition of these two, the difficulty has more than doubled.

Hanzo has been dominating the ninja world for many years and is hailed as the pinnacle of the ninja world and an absolute Kage-level figure.

And Shimizu has also been recognized by Kakuzu.

A future star of a ninja village like him will definitely be put on a bounty by the rival ninja village, and the bounty amount is often not low.

If he was an easy target, Kaku wouldn't mind making some extra money, but judging from the attack just now that broke one of his hearts and repelled Mifune, Shimizu was definitely very strong and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to overestimate him.

"Orochimaru, your strength has improved a lot over the years."

Hanzo stood on the wall, holding a chain sickle in one hand and the Kusanagi sword in the other, looking down at Orochimaru, just like the time when he stood above the head of the Salamander Ibuki and gave the three ninjas their names.

"Hmph, what will happen to you in a few more years? Hanzo, even you cannot resist the power of time."

Orochimaru sneered and looked at Hanzo with eyes as cold as a venomous snake.

"There will always be young people who will step up, and old guys like me just need to pave the way for the young while there is still time."

Hanzo looked very open-minded and said to Orochimaru.

Orochimaru did not answer, but very decisively bit his thumb and summoned a huge purple snake.

"Orochimaru, this time I want to..."

"Two hundred, help me hold it for a while."

Orochimaru did not stand on top of the Ten Thousand Snakes, but let the Ten Thousand Snakes surround him as a cover.

"Three hundred!"

"If you don't help me out of this trouble, none of them will."

Orochimaru said coldly, stretched out his hand to form a seal, and created a shadow clone. Then the clothes on his body fell off, and he turned into countless small snakes swimming around.

The shadow clone also summoned countless snakes at this moment, cooperating with thousands of snakes to attack the surroundings indiscriminately.

He was about to run away, so Wanshe stayed behind to stop the enemy's pursuit.

When Wanshe can no longer hold on, he will cancel his spiritual power and return to Longdi Cave.

Orochimaru escaped very decisively, and Hanzo did not summon the Salamander Inobushi to assist in the battle.

The sword is already in hand, there is no need to cause trouble.

The one who ran as decisively as Orochimaru was Kakuzu.

He has to run, or he's lost another heart!
No matter how much money you have, you have to have a life to spend it.

Shimizu glanced at Kakuzu who was trying to escape by repairing his body with black thread in a panic, and exchanged sword fights with Mifune again.

"Breathing of Li·Land Form·Dance of the Dragon at Night!"

"Swordsmanship: Sky-Splitting Slash!"

The sharp sword energy managed to cut the Chilong in half. Mifune held the Kusanagi sword tightly with both hands, breathing heavily.

He had fought with Hanzo many years ago, so he had been chasing Hanzo for many years.

However, when he was fighting with Shimizu at this moment, the feeling that the opponent gave him was even more terrifying than Hanzo!
Mifune feels that even if he faces Hanzo at his peak now, he will not be in such a mess!
Superb sword skills, stronger attacks, and prophetic predictions!
Mifune had a feeling that his swordsmanship was being cracked by his opponent, so he could only keep changing his moves and speed up his attacks, and with the help of the sharpness of Kusanagi's sword, he was able to barely deal with Shimizu.

"It's awesome!"

Qingshui couldn't help but look up to the middle-aged warrior.

In the original time and space, the 65-year-old Mifune was able to fight the reincarnated Hanzo on equal terms during the Fourth Ninja World War, and in the end he reawakened Hanzo's faith, allowing Hanzo to forcibly break free from Kabuto's reincarnation.

Even though that was Hanzo who had lost his spirit, Mifune was already quite old at that time.

You know, there is an essential difference between samurai and ninja.

Although they all have chakra, the former generally do not use hand seals to perform ninjutsu to fight like ninjas, but rely more on ninjutsu that focuses on physical fitness - in the ninja world, swordsmanship is also a type of ninjutsu.

Therefore, the physical condition has a much greater impact on samurai than on ninja.

No matter how hard Mifune trains and takes care of his body, his physical fitness at the age of 65 will definitely not be comparable to that of his middle age.

From Shimizu's perspective, Mifune's current combat capability is roughly at the upper-middle level of Kage.

He is a little inferior to the five contemporary Kages who are at the peak of Kage level, but apart from them, there are not many who can be better than him.

A master of this level can be killed, but it is not easy and will be quite troublesome.

And don't forget there's a Hanzo next to him.

Although the Sand Village and the Rain Village have now formed an alliance, and Shimizu and Hanzo have agreed to join forces in advance, the binding force of the alliance is really limited.

Before the alliance between Amegakure and Sunagakure, the one they allied with was Konoha!
After seeing that Konoha could not help Amegakure win, Hanzo changed sides very quickly.

Now the benefits of a Kusanagi sword alone are not enough for Hanzo to give up the alliance with Sand Village, one of the top two ninjas, but they still have to defend themselves. Not to mention Kakuzu and Orochimaru who just ran away.

These two must have left a backup plan and were monitoring what was happening here, just in case Shimizu and Hanzo had a disagreement over the division of the spoils, or if the two Iron Country warriors were determined to fight to the death and take someone else with them.

As to why Qingshui knew so much, it was of course because he had already noticed the means set by these two people.

Not far away, there were a few small white snakes hiding underground, peeking with their snake eyes revealed.

A little further away, there was an imperceptible black line extending into the distance.

Kakuzu is a contemporary of the first Kage of each village. Having lived for so many years, he must have developed a lot of tricks. Orochimaru is also a man of deep mind and many tricks, so it is not surprising that the two of them have such tricks.

What if they have some new ideas?

Shimizu held the ninja sword with one hand, the blade of which already had a slight chip, and slashed twice more, suppressing Mifune even more thoroughly.

"Dang!~"

Another sword sound

"Do you still want to fight? Lord Mifune, perhaps you can continue to fight me for a while, but Lord Mizukawa may not be able to withstand Orochimaru's snake venom."

There was an obvious hesitation on Mifune's face.

Qingshui took the initiative to stop at this moment and took a step back.

There was a hint of hesitation on Mifune's face at this moment.

However, Shimizu took the initiative to cut the back of his hand in front of Mifune, revealing a wound deep enough to see the bone.

Then he quickly performed a palm magic.

If you don't use it now, this little injury will heal on its own.

In just less than a second, the wound healed and became as smooth as new without leaving any scar.

Hanzo's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Your medical ninjutsu has surpassed that old lady teacher of yours. Among the people I have seen, even Princess Tsunade cannot heal wounds faster than you using medical ninjutsu on the battlefield."

"Yes, just as Hanzo-senpai said, I am a pretty good medical ninja."

Qingshui spoke confidently.

I just used my own body for demonstration purposes.

But in fact, Shimizu's level of medical ninjutsu is already among the best in the ninja world.

Hanzo just said that Shimizu's medical ninjutsu surpassed Chiyo's, and it was not an exaggeration.

In certain areas, Shimizu's medical ninjutsu has surpassed Chiyo's, especially in medical ninjutsu like the Creation and Regeneration Technique, which requires extremely meticulous work, at least cellular-level perception, and a huge amount of chakra to perform. Shimizu can do better than Chiyo.

In this regard, even Tsunade may not be as fast as Shimizu, because the creation and regeneration technique consumes too much chakra.

Basically, it requires multiple jonin-level medical ninjas to work together to construct a magic circle in order to barely perform a reduced version of the creative regeneration technique, the living regeneration technique.

Currently, there are only two people in the ninja world who can perform this technique alone.

Tsunade has the blood of both the Senju and Uzumaki lines, and is the granddaughter of the first Hokage, so her chakra capacity is naturally huge. She can barely perform this ninjutsu, but if she wants to use it multiple times or for a long time, she has to open the Yin Seal and perform the Hundred Healings Technique.

Before the amount of stored chakra is consumed, she has the immortality to heal all wounds instantly.

Clear water is simple, it simply has a large amount of chakra and recovers quickly.

The perfect demonized body gave him super physical recovery ability, huge chakra amount and incredibly fast chakra recovery ability, just like Hashirama Senju who possessed the body of a sage.

He hardly needed to invent a regeneration technique for himself.

Before all the energy stored in his body is consumed, he can regenerate his body indefinitely, and he can also use the art of creative regeneration on others multiple times in a row.

The amount of chakra alone makes most people in the ninja world inherently unqualified to learn the art of creation and regeneration.

Those who have this amount of chakra are either the Jinchūriki of the Tailed Beasts, or like Tsunade, have innate advantages such as bloodline. The total number of people added up will not exceed twenty.

Except for Shimizu and Tsunade, the others either have enough chakra but their medical ninjutsu level is far from enough, or like Chiyo, their medical ninjutsu level is enough and they can even perform forbidden techniques like Kisei Tensei that can resurrect people, but they don't have such a huge amount of chakra.

Of course, in terms of pharmacology, poison making, detoxification, and treating various strange and difficult diseases, Shimizu still has a long way to go compared to Chiyo and Tsunade.

"General Mizukawa, I can not only cure the poison in your body, but also the hidden injuries you have sustained over the years. I think you have noticed that your health is deteriorating faster than you expected. If you don't receive timely treatment, I think within two or three years, Mr. Mifune will be able to become the new general."

Qingshui turned his head again and looked at Mizukawa on the other side.

He was now covering his wound, holding a spare wakizashi dagger, and staring at Hanzo vigilantly.

"These hidden injuries are all caused by Hanzo!"

The shadow that Hanzo left on him and the warriors of the Iron Kingdom was so great that it even turned into PTSD.

Seeing Mizukawa like this, Hanzo remained calm.

Even though I beat you up badly back then and now I've beaten up Kusanagi Ken, what does this have to do with me?

Isn't it because you're a bad cook?

"Ugh……"

Mifune reluctantly put down the Kusanagi sword along with its scabbard and threw it to Shimizu.

"This sword is yours, sir. You and Mr. Hanzo are both swordsmen whose skills are superior to mine, and are more worthy of a divine sword like the Kusanagi sword. I also hope that this friend of the Sand Village will keep his promise."

Shimizu took the Kusanagi sword with a guard in one hand and looked it up and down.

The sword is long and straight, of moderate weight and stable center of gravity. It is easy to use and is definitely a good sword.

It's just that the hilt and the guard are a bit too old. It can be seen that Mifune and his group of samurai have carefully restored it, but the craftsmanship is mediocre. Although it feels good, there are still some slight flaws.

This is just a small problem. Qingshui can go back and make a new set by hand. Based on the weight, length, center of gravity and shape of the sword, he can use mathematical tools to create the hilt and guard with the most perfect feel.

"very good."

Shimizu put the Kusanagi sword back into its scabbard and walked towards Mizukawa.

Mizukawa turned his gaze away from Hanzo, his mortal enemy, and looked at Shimizu, then looked at Mifune who shook his head helplessly at him, and finally nodded, and finally sighed.

"It's up to you, Mifune. This is your idea, so you'll be in charge of everything from now on. From tomorrow on, you'll be the general of the Iron Nation."

Mifune had a guilty look on his face and was about to speak when he was interrupted by Mizukawa.

"Don't make a fuss. Let the doctor detoxify and heal my wounds! I still want to live a few more years. I don't want to bother with these trivial matters!"

(End of this chapter)