Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

The blazing sun still stood proudly in the sky, its gray light enveloping the vast paradise of death.

"Neji, what exactly is that thing?"

"It seems to be the same gray light that enveloped Konoha before!"

Lee and Tenten's faces were ashen, their eyes filled with worry. Neji looked up at the sky, but the rest of his sentence stuck in his throat.

That gray color, which seemed even brighter than flames, had been seen once in the entire Hidden Leaf Village three days ago, and he had seen it five years ago in the Forest of Death.

That's the color of gray glass.

Rumble!
A violent sound accompanied by a terrifying earthquake caused Neji and the others to look around in panic, only to find that the entire White Bone Hell seemed to be trembling.

Is this an earthquake?

On the edge of the bone hell, Jugo gathered chakra in his feet, forcibly stabilizing himself on the bumpy ground.

Kimimaro, panting heavily, drew his bone sword and plunged the blade into the ground to stabilize himself.

Having already exchanged blows twice and witnessed the enemy's strength, Gaara's expression changed slightly, and he quickly ascended into the air with Temari and the other two.

"This is……"

"It's the movement of tectonic plates!!"

Kankuro and Temari looked terrified. Beneath their feet, the entire earth seemed to come alive, frantically changing shape.

Countless deep cracks of regularity appeared in the land of bones, and they quickly sank, flipped, and transformed, with strange peaks rising out of thin air as if they were squeezed abscesses.

The earth's veins rise up in ravines, resembling the muscle lines of a human body.

The land of bones was completely shattered, and swamps of unknown origin moved and pieced it back together, revealing rows of brownish-red stone pillars amidst the bones.

They could even see many lower-ranking ninjas, their faces filled with terror, running frantically through the various sections of the map, like ants trying to escape the sudden natural disaster.

Temari and Kankuro quickly recalled the scene outside Konoha that night, their faces filled with terror. Compared to this catastrophic scene, their perilous Chunin Exams seemed like nothing more than a child's game.

Gaara stroked the seal on his stomach, finally understanding what Shukaku truly feared.

Not only was Shukaku afraid, but he also started to tremble.

Even if he used up all his chakra, he could only create a desert a kilometer long. It's hard to imagine how much chakra it would take to play with Death Paradise like a jigsaw puzzle.

The magnitude difference between them is incalculable.

Thinking of the masked woman in the night sky, Gaara's intuition told him that the person who started all of this was definitely involved with her.

Neji, Gaara, and their team were affected, and Kurotsuchi, Akatsuchi, and even Karin, Naruto, and Sasuke, who were near the giant bowl, were all struggling to survive in the ever-changing Death Paradise.

Every change in the world is a catastrophe for the ninjas within it. The changes in the environment affect every battlefield and everyone in the area.

Compared to these unfortunate souls caught in the crossfire of the battlefield, Orochimaru, who had truly experienced the power of Takamagahara, was already in a state of utter chaos.

Whizzing!

Orochimaru, transformed into a python, frantically fled through the swamp, the surrounding scenery constantly shifting backward. He had no idea how long he had been running.

But... why can't we get out?

She abruptly stopped her gliding body and looked around:
Hundreds of brownish-red stone pillars were driven into the swamp, and on the yellowish-green swamp where marsh gas was bubbling up from the ground, a long, strip-shaped track covered with shards of ice appeared in front of her.

"I was here just now!"

Orochimaru's purple eyeshadow deepened; she had gotten lost here!

Possessing the infrared perception of snakes, even the chakra-filled Hidden Mist Technique couldn't confuse her sense of direction, yet she still got lost while moving in a straight line!
The silt and swamp churned and churned, making a sound like ocean waves. The slight tremors of the earth disappeared around her, and even the water cannons that were constantly bombarding the sky vanished inexplicably.

Orochimaru looked up at the sky, where the ashen sun still hung high. Startled, he overlapped his thumbs, forming the 'Hai' seal with his left thumb on top!

"Spiritual communication...!"

Her golden vertical pupils contracted in shock, and the ashen sun grew larger and larger under her gaze, until a protective gauntlet enveloped in wind and thunder completely filled her vision.

boom!
The viscous mud was instantly blasted into a deep pit by the impact. Orochimaru felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, and the surrounding space began to spin wildly. His whole body ached as if it were falling apart.

Rumble!
Countless sharp stone pillars were knocked down by the figure that swept up wind and thunder; the hard rocks were more fragile than the cookies eaten at breakfast in front of it.

With sharp wings flashing past, an armored monster, clad in battle armor and resembling both god and demon, smashed through mountains and swamps, charging out of the swamp hell and disappearing into a land of craggy bones.

Its eyes, visible through its mask, gleamed with a ferocious gray light. It gripped the head of a massive python and pressed it to the ground, smashing a trench into the earth of bones like a bulldozer.

"Woooo..."

Orochimaru, whose face was being grabbed, writhed wildly but couldn't utter a single word. His snake-like body dragged and rubbed against the ground, leaving a gruesome mark of flesh and blood.

Its body had already disappeared due to the friction, leaving only a head held by the handguard.

Grabbing Orochimaru's head, they lifted him off the ground, their wind and thunder power already peeling away the pure white snake's flesh.

Gray flames ignited in Gray Glass's eyes, the immense power of the crustal movements generated in Takamagahara superimposed on the speed provided by the Wind and Thunder Armor.

Her muscles and cells were torn apart by the frenzied power, and then regenerated by the infusion of endless life force. Her body had begun to possess the characteristics of immortality, which enabled her to fuse these two explosive forces into one.

At this moment, she was practically omnipotent!

Click!

The five fingers of her hand were deeply embedded in Orochimaru's skull. The hard bones in her hands felt like a lump of clay. She had to carefully control the power within her body to ensure Orochimaru's survival.

Tear!

Unable to escape the mountain-like pressure on his face, Orochimaru once again used the Substitution Jutsu, tearing open a giant mouth, from which a beautiful and gentle-looking woman crawled out.

He was soaking wet, with a gentle face, but only his golden snake eyes revealed Orochimaru's former appearance.

Hui Li recognized that face; it belonged to the girl who had boarded the Hope with Zabuza Momochi—Shiro!

She had been wondering why, even though the Sound Four and Kimimaro had come to participate, they hadn't noticed Haku, who was also one of Orochimaru's subordinates.

The moment she saw Orochimaru use the Demonic Mirror Ice Crystal, she understood that Orochimaru had completely devoured her using the Reanimation Jutsu.

"Magic Mirror Ice Crystal!"

Revealing her true form, Orochimaru's voice was no longer disguised, and she instantly merged into an ice crystal with a single hand seal.

As the light shifted, the illusory reflection of the giant white snake was reflected in another mirror in the sky. The ice mirror tilted slightly, as she tried to use the same trick to escape Gray Glass's capture.

She no longer wanted to fight Hui Li; she only wanted to escape. If she were to accidentally fall victim to the Bloodline Limit: Killing Gray Bones, she wouldn't have enough lives to survive!

Just as the ice mirror deflected.

Zizizi!
Raging lightning and sharp winds tore through space, and Gray Glass, clad in armor, seemed to traverse space, suddenly appearing between two ice mirrors. Light traveled in straight lines.

The surface of the ice mirror was completely covered by the cold, hard figure clad in armor, and Orochimaru's pale face could no longer be reflected.

The magic mirror ice crystals need to form a mirror reflection in order to be transferred.

To perform continuous, large-scale teleportation, a mirror needs to be deflected. Normally, the speed of this deflection is less than one-tenth of a second. Let alone interception, a normal person cannot react in time, so it is not a flaw.

However, the Second and Fourth Hokage, who both trained in the Flying Thunder God Technique, are dead. Now Orochimaru is facing the fastest ninja in the world—the Martial God Armor: Wind and Thunder Mode!
Seeing Orochimaru's face gradually turn pale, Hui Li slowly turned her head, her right fist leaving a trail of afterimages in the air.

"boom!"

The solid ice, which even the Feng Shui levitation cannon could not break, shattered instantly, and the frenzied wind and lightning chakra sliced ​​the broken ice crystals into dust.

Orochimaru, hidden in the mirror, only then realized what was happening and tried to retaliate, but was instantly pierced through the chest by a fist.

Ice Release: Termination!

Letting his body disintegrate under the wind and thunder, Orochimaru quickly formed hand seals, and a full five kilocalories of chakra disappeared, transforming into extreme cold.

The Demonic Mirror Ice Crystal is a ninjutsu developed by Haku. After acquiring Ice Release, she also developed her own S-rank Ice Release secret technique!
The nature of Ice Release is cold.

The so-called termination means abandoning all forms of change and raising the icy nature of chakra to the extreme. As long as the amount of chakra is large enough, even the thermal motion between molecules can be frozen instantly, and it can even produce the effect of stopping time!

A terrifying chill emanated from the air, instantly turning all moisture in the air into ice crystals.

clack clack...

Time seemed to stand still as icicles clung to Gray Glass's arms and spread rapidly to other parts of her body.

The raging wind and thunder stopped abruptly, and the flow of the gathered electricity could be clearly seen. In the blink of an eye, the armored Gray Glass, covered in wind and thunder, was completely frozen.

Click!

The smile that had just appeared on Orochimaru's lips was immediately replaced by chilling cracks on the frost, causing her expression to freeze again.

Crunch...crunch...

The ice crystals covering his body shattered, and Hui Li shook his neck. His body, which had been stiff under the extreme cold, instantly became scalding hot. The ocean of chakra within him surged, and the Wind and Thunder Armor, which had been dormant, once again emitted a piercing shriek.

Ice Release is indeed terrifying.

Even the vast universe would fall into heat death, and no matter how strong her physical abilities were, she could not withstand the extreme cold.

But as I said before:

Even the most powerful mechanisms need numerical data to support them. To only discuss the mechanism without considering the numerical data is like discussing toxicity without mentioning the dosage – it's pure nonsense.

If Hashirama Senju, in Sage Mode, were to use Ice Release: Termination, she would have to be on high alert to avoid a disaster. However, the so-called "massive amount" of chakra that Orochimaru consumed was nothing more than a small lake in the ocean compared to the chakra within her body.

Even if you freeze a lake into an ice block and put it into the sea, it won't freeze the sea area; its only effect will be to raise the sea level a little more.

Even setting aside the difference in chakra...

Judging from the range of the ninjutsu, the area frozen by the opponent is at most a few hundred meters in radius. On the surface, her body has been completely frozen, but in reality, only a small area the size of a fingernail has been frozen. Her true body is Takamagahara, which covers an area of ​​hectares.

Their numbers are vastly different!

The wind and thunder armor wrapped around his arm shredded Orochimaru, and as he watched his opponent shed his skin and regenerate, Hui Li had already grown tired of playing with him.

Even Orochimaru, who obtained the enhanced version of Ice Release, could not dance in front of her. Apart from the Otsutsuki family of three, the entire ninja world was her toy.

"I'll ask you one last time, do you want to live or die?"

The girl's voice sounded slightly muffled and hoarse beneath the armor. A deathly gray smoke filled with the smell of decay rose from the Wind and Thunder armor, along with two inhuman gray lights on the cold, hard faceplate.

Orochimaru suddenly felt that compared to Danzo's appearance, he and Danzo looked like two greenhorn thugs, while Danzo was the villain who was going to attack Konoha.

Even Pain, who claimed to be a god with the Rinnegan, was like a nobody in front of him.

"I never expected that the newly born God of Ninja would be just a twelve-year-old girl. I admit defeat!" Orochimaru stood on the ice mirror, his arms hanging down, having completely lost the will to resist.

She was no match for the other ninja; struggling any longer would likely be futile, so she might as well be sensible and avoid a beating.

Although she had shed her skin to heal her injuries, the pain from being cut and pierced by the wind and lightning was absolutely real. She really didn't want to be enemies with the other party anymore, and even the plan to destroy Konoha in her mind had been thrown to the back of her mind.

"I've already eaten Bai. I want to live, but I'm afraid I can't grant your request."

"I only need Ice Release. Whether Haku lives or dies is none of my business!" Hui Li shook his head coldly, the Wind and Thunder Armor on his face naturally disappeared, and even the constantly rising gray mist quickly dissipated.

Orochimaru's eyes flashed rapidly. The ninjas that Kairi demanded were all very specific: Haku with Ice Release, Pakura with Scorch Release, Kari with Explosion Release, and Mu with Dust Release, plus the knowledge of the Seven Natures Fusion Bloodline Limit mentioned by the other party...

Their true purpose is already obvious.

"You want to use the microscopic structure of chakra, such as bloodline limits and bloodline elimination, to find a way to fuse with bloodline nets?"

"clever."

Looking at the second-best scientist in the ninja world in front of him, Hui Li's eyes revealed admiration.

The theory of reversing the Eight Gates' extreme polarity to generate Yin, and using Yin to control Yang, was first proposed by the opponent. Orochimaru's mind is definitely top-notch.

Her theory of fusing five bloodline limits with bloodline limits is currently only a conjecture and cannot be verified. It is bound to have some minor oversights, just like the nascent Eight Gates.

This guy might be able to offer her some good ideas.

Orochimaru's gaze was equally intense.

Her lifelong goal was to master ninjutsu, and the seven-attribute bloodline limit proposed by Hui Li was probably something she had always sought but could not obtain.

"How can I help you?" Orochimaru's attitude changed rapidly, his thirst for ninjutsu knowledge was palpable.

Seeing this, Hui Li revealed a satisfied smile. Orochimaru was good at seducing ignorant youths who needed power, and she could also use the knowledge of the Bloodline Limit to lure them into joining her ranks.

"I need the synthesis structure for Ice Release chakra."

"The method of fusing Ice Release bloodline limit is to add Yin Release as a key link node in Feng Shui."

Having decided to use Gray Glass to explore the secrets of the Bloodline Limit, Orochimaru held nothing back, directly condensing wind and water-type chakra in his left and right hands respectively, and then gradually fusing them into a cold ice release.

Seemingly afraid that Hui Li wasn't seeing things clearly enough, she made the process extremely slow.

The Ice Release technique she had been searching for was right in front of her, and Hui Li didn't hold back.

Her eyes shone with a faint light, and Orochimaru's Ice Release chakra expanded almost without limit, its most essential microscopic structure being engraved inch by inch into her mind.

The Wind Release and Yin Release are combined to create a cold air core from nothing. Then, the flowing Water Release begins to crystallize at the edge of the core. The crystals become longer and thinner towards the outside, with pointed ends, resembling a needle, and eventually take the form of a hexagonal sheet.

The microscopic structure of Ice Release chakra resembles a sharp, hexagonal snowflake! (End of Chapter)