Konoha: The Absolute Justice of the Uchiha

Chapter 172 Orochimaru's Trial! The Sins of Ryuchi Cave
After the giant wooden figure unleashed a terrifying punch, carrying magma, that annihilated the monstrous demon.

A terrifying shockwave, far exceeding that of a hurricane, mixed with a heat wave that seemed capable of melting gold and iron, slammed into Orochimaru, who was not far away, like an invisible giant hammer!
Orochimaru only had time to cross his arms in front of his chest, his chakra instinctively gathering.

However, faced with that world-destroying power...

The human body seems to be made of paper.

Orochimaru felt as if he had been hit head-on by a high-speed moving lava mountain. His arm bones made a teeth-grinding "crack" sound, and excruciating pain instantly spread throughout his body.

He was like a broken kite with its string cut, blasted away by this immense force!

boom! ! !
His body slammed heavily against a slippery, cold rock wall behind him like a cannonball. The enormous impact dented the hard rock wall, creating a deep, spiderweb-like crater, and a large amount of gravel fell down.

Orochimaru felt a sweet taste in his throat, which he could no longer suppress. Thick blood spilled from the corner of his mouth again, dripping down his pale, paper-white chin.

He endured the excruciating pain that felt like his whole body was falling apart and struggled to lift his head.

The golden vertical pupils were fixed on the area in front of them where lava was churning.

as well as……

It locked onto the motionless summon beast Manda.

Wanshe… that unruly, foul-mouthed giant serpent… was reduced to half a charred remains, submerged in a dark red lava lake, the corpse still emitting a nauseating burnt smell.

Manda's half-head had disappeared from Orochimaru's sight.

"Ten thousand snakes..."

"died?!"

Orochimaru's voice was dry and hoarse, with a tremor he himself was unaware of.

The composure and coldness that belonged to the three legendary Sannin of Konoha were completely crushed at this moment, leaving only shock and an unbelievable sense of absurdity.

His strongest summoning beast couldn't even last ten moves against Uchiha Izumi?
The cold analysis flashed through his chaotic mind like an instinct.

—Although Manda is enormous, it is as fragile as paper in the face of the extreme heat of Lava Release, which can incinerate everything! Moreover, the larger it is, the more conspicuous a target it becomes.

—And the deadly poison, strong enough to corrode rocks, was completely countered by Wood Release.

—And Manda's movements, in the face of the Sharingan's super-powerful dynamic vision, were clumsy like a slow-motion replay. No matter what kind of attack it was, it couldn't even touch the hem of Uchiha Izumi's clothes.

In short, Manda was killed by Uchiha Ikezumi!

Of course, there is an even more important factor that Orochimaru did not mention.

That is……

In his desperation, he failed to share some of Uchiha Ikezumi's information with Manda in a timely manner, essentially sabotaging Manda's life. Otherwise, Manda could have held on for a little longer.

call out--! ! !
Suddenly, a piercing sound tore through the air, ripping apart the pervasive smoke and sulfurous odor. A torrent of lava, more condensed and faster than before, rapidly expanded in Orochimaru's field of vision without warning.

The scorching heat that rushed in from afar even made his entire body feel a stinging pain, like being pricked by needles.

"Damn it!"

Orochimaru's alarm bells rang in his mind; the shadow of death was once again within reach.

He gritted his teeth, enduring the excruciating pain that felt like his bones were breaking, and his body lurched to the side in an extremely disheveled, almost tumbling, manner.

Shila-

The torrent of lava swept past his tattered robes, and the rock wall behind him, which had just been blasted into a deep crater, melted and collapsed like a wax figure the moment it came into contact with the lava, leaving behind a shockingly huge lava hole.

But the lava torrent did not dissipate after missing its target; instead, it suddenly turned around as if it had come to life.

Like a giant python whipping its tail, it swept towards him again at an even faster speed.

The area it covered was so vast that it almost blocked all his angles of evasion!

"Can't escape!"

Orochimaru's golden snake eyes shrank to pinpoints due to the extreme crisis.

He gritted his teeth and slammed his hands heavily onto the ground!

"Spirit Summoning Technique - First Level Rashomon!!!"

Boom!

A massive, demon-faced gate, even more dilapidated than before and covered in charred and eroded marks, rose from the ground with a heavy rumble.

This is the last Rashomon gate that survived the previous molten metal attack, but it is no longer as powerful as it once was. Now it is scarred and on the verge of collapse.

boom--! ! !
The crimson torrent of lava slammed into Rashomon, causing the broken gate to tremble violently and emit a piercing metallic twisting sound. The stubborn charred marks instantly turned into molten iron and flowed down.

Orochimaru didn't actually expect it to be able to completely withstand the magma.

All he wanted was this brief moment of obstruction!

Just as the magma collided with Rashomon and before the shockwave had fully spread, Orochimaru's body leaped high into the air like an arrow.

He suppressed the dizziness caused by his serious injuries, and with lightning speed, his left hand reached to his waist and ripped off a scroll.

Bang!
A thick cloud of white smoke exploded, and a bizarrely shaped jet aircraft suddenly appeared in mid-air—clearly another scientific research product that Orochimaru had casually tinkered with in his spare time while conducting human experiments.

Without hesitation, Orochimaru stepped onto the cold footplate of the aircraft and slammed his right hand on the control panel.

hum-

call out! ! !
A deep blue tail flame burst forth instantly, emitting a piercing shriek. The powerful propulsion carried Orochimaru like a bird breaking free of its restraints, frantically fleeing into the dark and deep distance of Ryuchi Cave!

The death of Manda completely extinguished his last shred of fighting spirit.

As for whether he felt any pity for Manda's death? Ha, his relationship with Manda was nothing more than mutual exploitation.

In his eyes, Manda was nothing more than a powerful but not very handy tool.

However, just as he had flown a few hundred meters and felt a surge of relief at surviving the ordeal...

Boom!
Boom!
A deafening roar, like the stomping of a giant, accompanied by the tremors of the earth, came clearly from behind him. The sound was like the rapid beat of a death drum, pounding relentlessly on his heart.

A chilling sensation instantly spread from my spine throughout my body.

Orochimaru stiffly and slowly twisted his neck, looking down with an ominous premonition.

The enormous wooden figure, its massive form treading on the still-warm, charred remains of the serpent, strode heavily toward the direction he had fled.

And on that enormous head made of giant wood, Uchiha Ikezumi's figure stood proudly.

He raised his arms slightly diagonally upwards, aiming them at Orochimaru in the sky.

What terrified Orochimaru even more was that Uchiha Izumi's arms, which had already turned completely into lava, were now violently expanding and pulsating like two active volcanoes.

Crimson magma swirled and compressed wildly within the arm, radiating destructive energy.

Orochimaru's pupils suddenly contracted!
next second.

Boom boom boom boom——

Uchiha Izumi's arms suddenly trembled, and countless magma fists, made of pure lava and larger than a person, tore through the air like dense anti-aircraft fire, carrying destructive heat, and poured out diagonally upwards from the top of the wooden doll's head!

In the blink of an eye, a giant lava net covering most of the sky had been formed, leaving Orochimaru with no way to avoid it!
Orochimaru's flying device looked clumsy and ridiculous in the face of such dense and rapid lava fists.

He gritted his teeth and made one extreme evasive maneuver after another in mid-air, narrowly avoiding several lava fists that whistled past.

The scorching heat scorched his hair, and the fear of death gripped his throat!
However, just as he dodged the three magma fists, an even larger and more solidified lava fist slammed into the path he was about to dodge.

Quantitative change can always lead to qualitative change.

boom! ! !
The magma fist didn't hit him directly, but grazed the side of the aircraft. However, the extreme heat instantly melted through the aircraft's alloy shell, and Orochimaru's left ankle and below also melted away like ice and snow the moment they came into contact with the high temperature.

The cross-section carbonized instantly, not even a drop of blood had time to flow out!
"Uh-"

The excruciating pain nearly caused Orochimaru to black out.

The giant wooden figure has caught up!

Its left arm, made of gnarled giant wood, carried a terrifying power capable of crushing mountains. With its five fingers spread out like swatting a fly, the arm, wrapped with the substantial wind pressure created by compressing the air, slammed down fiercely towards Orochimaru, who was falling out of control in mid-air.

The shadow instantly enveloped Orochimaru's tiny body.

There is no way to avoid it!

Unstoppable!

"Ninja Art: Serpent Body Hardening Technique!!!"

Orochimaru's eyes were bloodshot, and at the last moment he unleashed almost all of his chakra, forming a hand seal in front of his chest.

The wooden figure's giant hand slammed solidly into Orochimaru's body.

Click!

puff!

quack!

The chilling sounds of bones cracking, flesh being crushed, and internal organs rupturing blended together like a symphony of hell.

Orochimaru's facial skin and muscles collapsed like mud, and his hard skull dented and shattered in an instant; more than a dozen ribs broke and shattered instantly, with sharp bone spurs piercing deep into his fragile internal organs; his limbs twisted and broke at various bizarre angles, with white broken bones piercing through the flesh and exposed to the air.

Orochimaru's mouth, nose, ears, eyes... his seven orifices were like ruptured water bags, with bright red blood mixed with fine tissue fragments spraying wildly.

"puff!!!"

A large mouthful of filth, mixed with fragments of internal organs, broken teeth, and thick blood, gushed out like a fountain from Orochimaru's mangled mouth.

His body was violently slapped away by this irresistible force.

Its speed was so great that it even created a series of ear-piercing sonic booms in the air.

Like a flesh-and-blood cannonball launched at full power.

boom--! ! !
Orochimaru's mangled body crashed to the ground like a meteorite, the terrifying impact creating a huge crater more than ten meters in diameter, with smoke and blood mist shooting into the sky.

In the center of the deep pit, Orochimaru's almost inhuman body lay quietly amidst the pool of blood and rubble.

Only unnatural, slight twitching proved that a trace of life still lingered in this pile of rotting flesh.

Blood gushed out from his mangled body like a stream.

It quickly stained the ground beneath them red.

"Uh...ha..." A faint gasp, like a broken bellows, escaped from the shattered chest cavity.

A hand, stained with blood and with broken, twisted fingers, twitched weakly, again and again, in a pool of blood.

Each spasm causes the broken bones to pierce the internal organs, bringing even more intense pain.

But in his single remaining golden vertical pupil, a near-obsessive flame of survival burned.

With his last ounce of willpower, he stroking his battered fingers, attempting to complete a simple yet incredibly difficult hand seal...

One... failure...

twice……

the third time……

Under extreme pain and burning willpower, the twisted fingers finally managed to form a hand seal with great difficulty.

puff!

After a grating tearing sound, a brand new arm, covered in slime and blood, with skin so pale it was almost bloodless, suddenly emerged from the crack in the mutilated body's face.

Next came the equally pale newborn shoulders and neck...

A brand new Orochimaru, like a venomous snake emerging from its cocoon, is slowly crawling out of that pile of "old shells".

"Huff... huff... ho..."

Having only crawled out a third of his body, Orochimaru was already panting like a dying beast, each breath carrying a heavy smell of blood and the pain of ruptured internal organs.

The excessive consumption of chakra and the enormous burden of continuously using this forbidden technique made him feel like his body had been completely drained.

An unprecedented feeling of weakness overwhelmed him like a tidal wave.

Just as he struggled, trying to use his new arms to prop up his upper body and pull his waist out of his old body...

call out!
call out!
Two cold, sharp lights descended from the sky without warning.

puff!

The first black kunai, with a piercing sound, pierced his hand that was bracing itself on the ground with perfect precision. The powerful force pinned his hand and the rock beneath it to the ground.

"hiss--!"

The excruciating pain made Orochimaru gasp!
Just as Orochimaru gritted his teeth, trying to pull out the kunai, another flash of cold light appeared, and a ninja sword fell from the sky, pinning his outstretched hand heavily to the ground.

"Ugh!"

Orochimaru let out a suppressed groan of pain, his golden vertical pupils trembling violently with intense pain and despair.

And he recognized the ninja sword—it was his Kusanagi sword!

It's likely that when he was sent flying earlier, the Kusanagi sword slipped from his hand and was caught by Uchiha Ikezumi.

He used his own Kusanagi sword to nail his own arm shut...

Is this the twisted sense of humor of that righteous madman?
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The heavy footsteps approaching from afar struck Orochimaru's heart.

The colossal wooden figure, towering and imposing, blocked out the dim light of Ryuchi Cave. It stopped at the edge of the deep pit, its shadow like a curtain of death, completely enveloping Orochimaru at the bottom of the pit.

Orochimaru gritted his teeth and slowly raised his head, which was covered in blood and slime.

The gaze moves upward along the wooden figure's thick, mountain-like legs.

Finally, the image settled on the figure above the giant wooden figure, the one who looked down at him with the coldness of a judge from hell.

Their gazes finally met in mid-air at that moment.

Orochimaru then realized that the Mangekyou Sharingan of the Uchiha clan was so eerily crimson...

The moment Orochimaru saw those eyes, he suddenly felt the whole world lose its color, and those Mangekyou Sharingan appeared exceptionally clear in his blurred vision.

All that seemed to be left in front of me were those two eerie scarlet spots.

Orochimaru felt as if his entire soul had been sucked into those blood-red abysses!

"Oops……"

Deep within Orochimaru's golden vertical pupils, the pattern of the kaleidoscope was instantly magnified infinitely. An indescribable and irresistible force, like billions of red-hot steel needles, pierced fiercely into every corner of his soul, spirit, will, and consciousness!
"Uhhhhhhhh!!!"

Orochimaru's mind was utterly ripped apart and shattered, his brain feeling as if it had been forcibly shoved into a boiling furnace. The faces of countless "materials" he had personally sent to the experimental table, dying in despair and pain, flashed wildly through his mind like a revolving lantern.

The twisted limbs, empty eyes, and shrill screams of countless test subjects... all the pain, fear, despair, and resentment endured by those "sacrifices" whom he had deliberately forgotten and taken for granted... were now magnified and amplified infinitely by those eyes.

It rebounded like a tsunami, amplified thousands of times, bombarding his supposedly cold and ruthless mental world.

That wasn't an illusion; it was a judgment of absolute justice!
"Hiss!!!"

A shrill, inhuman scream, like a soul being torn apart alive, erupted from the depths of Orochimaru's throat.

The sound was filled with unprecedented pain and despair.

His newborn body convulsed and spasmed violently as if struck by a high-voltage electric shock; tears, snot, and saliva flowed out uncontrollably; a stench filled the air, and he completely lost control of his bladder!
Orochimaru, one of the "Three Legendary Sannin of Konoha" who once toyed with lives, now resembled a worm that had been skinned and thrown onto a scorching hot iron plate.

From the depths of the pit, Orochimaru's heart-wrenching, inhuman screams echoed through Ryuchi Cave, which reeked of sulfur, burnt flesh, and blood.

His newborn body writhed and convulsed wildly amidst the blood and filth.

Each spasm would pull on the arms that were pinned to the ground, bringing even more intense pain.

Uchiha Ikezumi stood atop the giant wooden doll's head, like a cold-blooded judge of hell, looking down at Orochimaru below.

His icy voice pierced through the screams, ringing out clearly, each word like an ice pick striking the depths of Orochimaru's soul.
"If someone like you, the source of all evil in the ninja world, were to die a quick death... that would be a defilement of the word 'justice,' and an indulgence and inaction towards the heinous crimes you have committed."

"The pain you are experiencing now... will haunt you like a maggot, forever. Whether you linger on or return to the Pure Land; no matter how many bodies you possess, or how twisted your soul may be..."

"You will be just like that Danzo Shimura... every minute, every second, until the end of time. You will be sinking and wailing in the abyss of extreme pain! This is the final judgment of absolute justice upon you."

The moment the words left his mouth, Uchiha Izumi's other Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly activated!

A glaring line of blood, like a tear streaked with blood, slid down from the corner of his eye.

His pupil power instantly surged to its peak, and the complex, cold patterns within his pupils spun wildly, as if opening a passage to purgatory.

boom!
Without any warning, a strange, condensed flame was born directly from the void and instantly burst into flames on Orochimaru's chest.

This flame has no temperature, yet it brings a double torment to both body and soul that is billions of times more terrifying than the burning of magma.

It not only burned his body, but also branded him directly onto the core of his soul like millions of red-hot irons.

Orochimaru's screams suddenly rose to an inhuman frequency.

His body suddenly arched upwards, as if he had been nailed to the ground by invisible giant nails.

The flames seemed alive, greedily drawing upon his life force and spirit, determined to burn his existence to ashes.

"--stop!!!"

Just as the flames of divine retribution were about to completely engulf Orochimaru's remaining consciousness, a sharp, angry shout rang out.

Three graceful figures, exuding a powerful and chilling aura, appeared instantly like ghosts on the boulder at the edge of the battlefield.

These are the three snake princesses of Ryuchi Cave—Takoshi-no-Kami-hime, Ichi-no-Kishima-hime, and Tatsumi-hime!

When their gaze fell upon the scene before them.

Even the three snake queens, who had lived for countless years and were used to fighting, couldn't help but shrink their pupils and gasp.

Where is the familiar corner of Ryongji-dong before them now?
It was clearly a hellish inferno!
As far as the eye could see, the earth was cracked, and lava rivers flowed slowly through the cracks like the blood vessels of the earth. The destructive heat that permeated the air scorched and distorted it.

A charred, massive crater; collapsed mountain walls; rocks riddled with erosion...

It formed a desolate, lifeless wasteland.

Further away, the massive, mountain-like remains of the Thousand Serpent lay tragically submerged in lava, its once unruly head and a large section of its neck completely vaporized and annihilated.

At the heart of this infernal scene, a wooden figure formed from gnarled and twisted giant trees stands majestically.

Beneath the wooden figure, in the deep pit, Orochimaru was pinned to the ground by kunai and the Kusanagi sword.

Orochimaru's chest was engulfed in eerie flames that sent chills down one's spine. He writhed and convulsed like a worm thrown onto a scorching hot iron plate.

He was still emitting inhuman screams that even they found chilling!
They completely lacked the demeanor of the legendary Sannin of Konoha.

The culprit behind all this, Uchiha Ikezumi, stood atop Nagito's head. He seemed to have just heard their angry shouts and turned his head without a trace of emotion.

……

The moment Uchiha Ikezumi's indifferent gaze swept over the three Snake Princesses.

A whisper came out of his mouth: "Three red-named villains."

"Kid!"

Tianxin Shenji suppressed her heart palpitations, unaware that she was being watched.

The devastation of the Zhou Dynasty and the tragic state of the swarming snakes ignited the fury of Princess Tianxin.

Her body erupted with powerful Sage Chakra, and an invisible force lifted her into the air. Her gorgeous kimono fluttered without wind, and she exuded a suffocatingly cold and oppressive aura.

Tianxin Shenji's voice was sharp and piercing, like the hiss of a venomous snake: "You, who trespassed into the sacred land of Longdi Cave, not only destroyed Longdi Cave to this extent, but also killed ten thousand snakes, and even disturbed the White Snake Immortal's peaceful cultivation..."

Her vertical pupils were fixed on the pool above the wooden doll's head: "Since the ninja world's power structure stabilized a thousand years ago... no one has ever dared to disregard Ryuchi Cave like this!"

"Little devil, you..."

However, she hadn't finished her threatening and angry words.

call! ! !
Without warning, the giant wooden figure standing in the center of the battlefield, with its left arm made of countless gnarled and twisted trees, brought terrifying wind pressure and slammed down fiercely towards the floating goddess Tianxin.

A huge shadow loomed over the tiny figure of Princess Tianxin!
"what?!"

For the first time, genuine shock appeared on Tianxin Shenji's exquisitely beautiful face.

She never expected that the human brat would be so unreasonable, launching an attack before she could even finish speaking.

That strike, carrying the power to shatter mountains...

It made her feel an unprecedented threat of death!
……

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(End of this chapter)