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Chapter 141 Do You Want to Listen to What You're Saying? (Third Update)

In fact, Li Chuan knew that even if he completely destroyed Orochimaru's body now, as long as there were ninjas whose cursed seals Orochimaru had planted were still alive, Orochimaru could still be reborn from their bodies.

To completely kill Orochimaru, you would have to destroy his body and also find and destroy all the ninjas who had been cursed, leaving none behind.

Alternatively, the only solution would be to use the Uzumaki clan's strongest sealing technique, the Reaper Death Seal, to seal its soul inside the stomach of the Grim Reaper of this world.

However, his original goal was not to kill Orochimaru, but simply to stop Orochimaru from placing the cursed seal on Sasuke, and then demonstrate his strength in front of Orochimaru to facilitate later negotiations.

"The Formation of Ten Thousand Serpents!"

Once Orochimaru had recovered his strength, he lay prone on the ground, his mouth opening wider than a crocodile's. Thousands upon thousands of venomous snakes slithered out of his mouth, quickly piling up into a mountain of snakes that surged towards Li Chuan in a dense swarm.

Through their recent encounter, Orochimaru realized that with the terrifying power his opponent displayed, engaging in close-quarters taijutsu combat would be tantamount to suicide, so he summoned a large number of snakes to gang up on him.

"Flying around!"

Li Chuan waved his wand and used a summoning spell to summon Orochimaru's Kusanagi sword before looking up at the countless venomous snakes swimming towards him, their tongues flicking.

If someone with trypophobia were here, they'd probably faint on the spot.

Faced with Orochimaru's Ten Thousand Snakes Formation, he first raised his wand, then put it away and threw it into the mission space.

He can unleash the Fiendish Curse, which attacks indiscriminately, but the nature of the Fiendish Curse is somewhat similar to that of Amaterasu, which is that it will keep burning as long as there is something to burn.

In the end, the snakes will indeed be burned to death, but there is a possibility that the entire forest will also be burned down.

His control over the Fiend Curse is not yet at the level of complete mastery that Grindelwald possesses.

He then raised the Kusanagi sword in his hand, thought for a moment, and put it into the cloth bag he had made with the Seamless Stretch Charm at his waist.

With his current powerful physique and reflexes, wielding the incredibly sharp Kusanagi sword, if he wields it fast enough, he'll be almost as fast as a lawnmower. If he rushes in and spends a little more time, he can still kill all these venomous snakes.

But that would make him covered in blood, which would not only be disgusting, but also damage his image as a prince. It wouldn't be good if the arriving ANBU ninjas saw him like that.

In the end, he decided to use ninjutsu.

In this situation, large-scale fire-style ninjutsu is most effective, but he doesn't know how. He can use the Phoenix Flower Technique instead, since he has a huge amount of chakra in this state anyway.

However, remembering that the Anbu ninja would definitely come to inspect the battlefield after the battle, he gave up. His intelligence on Konoha was that he was not proficient in the five elemental ninjutsu.

After thinking for a moment, he formed a hand seal and shouted:

"Come to welcome Thousand Hands Killer!"

As a ninja monk of the Fire Temple, it's normal for him to know the Fire Temple's secret ninjutsu.

The golden Thousand-Hand Guanyin statue enveloped Li Chuan, and countless venomous snakes shot towards him, but were all blocked by the Thousand-Hand Guanyin.

At the same time, the golden hands behind Guanyin transformed into afterimages, instantly turning all the approaching venomous snakes into mincemeat.

"Acala!"

After all the venomous snakes were killed, Li Chuan changed his hand gesture, and the golden Thousand-Armed Guanyin statue immediately transformed into a different red Myō-ō. Two red fists flew out with a bang, once again giving Orochimaru a severe beating.

"So you learned the ninjutsu of the Fire Temple."

The well-informed Orochimaru recognized the ninjutsu Li Chuan used at a glance, and his brows finally furrowed.

Li Chuan's current display of taijutsu and ninjutsu is already making him feel somewhat troubled. Unless he summons Manda for help, it's basically impossible for him to bypass Li Chuan and catch up with Sasuke.

However, if he summons Manda, things will get much worse, which would be extremely detrimental to his later plan to collapse Konoha in conjunction with the Sand Village.

If the Chunin Selection Exams are cancelled because of this, all the plans we made before will have been for nothing.

Moreover, having been delayed here for so long, it's highly likely that the Third Hokage has already obtained intelligence and dispatched ANBU ninjas to this area.

Therefore, what he should do now is to retreat first and wait for another opportunity to plant the cursed seal on Sasuke.

Anyway, there's still more than a month until the official Chunin Exams.

"I'll remember you, Prince Enkawa of the Land of Fire!"

Orochimaru did not attempt to bypass Li Chuan and pursue the tower where Sasuke and the others had fled. Instead, he left a message and slowly retreated, clearly intending to leave the Forest of Death first.

"The Konoha Crush Plan".

Seeing this, Li Chuan didn't chase after them, but instead smiled and said a few words.

Orochimaru froze, his eyes widening in disbelief as he looked at Li Chuan.

How did you know?

The Konoha Crush plan is currently known only to him and his confidants, the Fourth Kazekage, and Danzo. Could this prince of the Land of Fire be related to Danzo and the Fourth Kazekage?

The Fourth Kazekage is out of the question; the opponent is a prince of the Land of Fire, not a prince of the Land of Wind. That leaves only Danzo.

"Did Danzo tell you that?"

"That's not important. What's important is that I want to make a deal with you. I want to use the spies you've planted in Konoha to help me find out where the forbidden scrolls of Konoha are hidden."

Li Chuan revealed his true purpose for orchestrating this today.

"It seems Danzo didn't tell you. That's interesting."

Orochi was so clever that after understanding Li Chuan's purpose, he immediately knew that Li Chuan was definitely not Danzo's man.

Danzo, as one of Konoha's high-ranking officials, knew better than anyone else where the forbidden scrolls of Konoha were kept.

The prince of the Land of Fire, a ninja monk of the Fire Temple, knew about his plan to destroy Konoha, wanted the forbidden scroll of Konoha, and possessed strength comparable to a Kage-level ninja.

All of this suddenly made Li Chuan seem mysterious, and it also piqued Orochimaru's interest once again.

If before it was Li Chuan's suddenly unusually strong body that piqued his interest in capturing and studying him, now it's because of Li Chuan's identity and purpose.

He didn't believe Li Chuan was just a prince of the Land of Fire, and even thought that Li Chuan might not be a real prince, but rather another expert in disguise, just like he planned to disguise himself as the Kazekage.

"What good would it do me to get the forbidden scroll for you? You know, I just lost a very good piece because of you, which makes me a little unhappy."

Orochimaru stuck out his long tongue and licked his lips, revealing a sinister and perverted smile.

Li Chuan smiled very kindly:

"The benefit is that I won't tell the Third Hokage about your Konoha Crush plan, and I won't stop you from capturing Sasuke anymore."

"Don't you want to listen to what you're saying?"

Orochimaru's eyes turned cold.

(End of this chapter)