Warlock Invasion of Naruto.

Isshiki and Orochimaru exchanged a glance, both noticing something unusual in each other's eyes.

"Alright then, I'll wait another half month," Yi Shi said calmly, then walked out of the laboratory.

Orochimaru stared at Shennong's retreating figure, his pupils constricting slightly. After four years of getting along, he had long since noticed the abnormality in Shennong, feeling as if Shennong's body had been invaded.

Especially when Shennong said he would help the organization leader cultivate containers, his caring attitude seemed a bit too enthusiastic for an organization member.

Orochimaru had many interactions with Shennong and knew him quite well. He was definitely someone who would give up everything for profit.

How could someone like that possibly be willing to work wholeheartedly for others?

Just like Orochimaru himself, Haku was very good to him, but he was not willing to risk his life for Haku, or rather, he wanted to forge his own path.

He joined the organization that Shennong mentioned, but he didn't actually believe in the so-called leader or the Otsutsuki clan. He just believed that there was something to be gained from it.

Becoming Bai Yu's subordinate is a fallback option for him, but it is by no means his best option.

So after discovering Shennong's abnormality, Orochimaru decided to take a gamble.

into the night.

Ishiki, who was lying in bed sleeping, suddenly opened his eyes and then quietly left the room.

He returned to the innermost room of the laboratory.

Since only Orochimaru, Isshiki, and Shin lived in the laboratory, and the others were experimental subjects, the seal was only placed in the cells where the experimental subjects were kept; the other places were not sealed.

However, even with the seal, it is not difficult to overcome Yi Shi.

Isshiki didn't trust Orochimaru, or rather, he never did. He could sense Orochimaru's ambition, so he decided to take advantage of Orochimaru's absence to complete the replacement of the container.

As for improving cell activity, that can be done gradually later.

Upon entering the room, Isshiki approached the petri dish, opened the glass cover, and examined the container. After confirming that Orochimaru had indeed left no chakra inside, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

With the activation of the 'Karma' seal, Shennong's body surface was instantly covered with a large number of dense black runes, mobilizing all of his chakra.

Immediately afterwards, Yishiki placed his hand on the top of the container in the petri dish and began to pour all of his primordial chakra and the life force of Shennong's body into the container, starting to change the container.

thump!

After an unknown amount of time, Shennong's body fell straight to the ground, then shattered into pieces like porcelain, turning into dust.

The man lying in the petri dish was surrounded by powerful chakra, and a diamond-shaped 'Karma' mark appeared on his chin. Then he opened his eyes.

Orochimaru stood next to the petri dish, staring intently at him.

At that moment, Orochimaru suddenly stretched out his neck and bit Isshiki's neck. The Heavenly Curse Seal quickly condensed, and the black curse seals crawled densely onto Isshiki's face and spread towards his chest.

"Orochimaru, are you asking for death!?"

He felt a tingling sensation throughout his body and immediately mobilized his chakra to remove the curse seal.

Orochimaru's body expanded rapidly, transforming into a gigantic eight-headed serpent that enveloped Isshiki's body along with the entire culture dish.

'Reincarnation of the Undead' activated!

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[Chapter 246. Chapter 239 A Narrow Victory! Orochimaru's Counterattack!]

Orochimaru transformed into Yamata no Orochi, with all eight snake heads simultaneously biting Isshiki's reborn body, infusing it with paralyzing venom and cursed seals.

The Reanimation Jutsu is a new S-rank forbidden technique developed by Orochimaru based on the Orochi Technique and the Spirit Transformation Technique.

It is a ninjutsu that allows one to transfer their spirit into another person's body, thereby gaining eternal life.

Although this forbidden technique is very powerful, it has many flaws.

First, one must use the Reincarnation of the Undead, and each reincarnation must be spaced 3 years apart.

In addition, the spiritual power of the container must be weaker than that of the caster, otherwise the caster's soul will be at risk of being devoured.

Besides, the technique of resurrection from the dead has two relatively obvious flaws.

First, it will damage the caster's soul when used, and there will be a period of weakness after reincarnation to adapt to the new body. The damage to the soul can only be slowly recovered after a period of rest.

Secondly, the soul will have varying degrees of rejection reaction to the vessel. Theoretically, the stronger the physical quality of the vessel, the stronger Orochimaru will be after reincarnation. However, if the vessel and his soul are not compatible, it can easily cause a significant decrease in his strength and more severe damage to his soul.

After Orochimaru defected from Konoha, he went to his base in the Land of Rice Fields to lie low. Because he was ambushed and seriously injured by the Third Hokage, he used the Reanimation Jutsu six months later to reincarnate into the body of a subordinate who volunteered to offer his body.

However, Orochimaru discovered that this subordinate's body was not suitable for him, so even after more than three years, his soul had not fully recovered.

This is why, when he encountered Bai Yu on the continent of the Water Kingdom, his weakened soul was immediately apparent.

Afterwards, Orochimaru obtained the "Companion Python Meditation Method" and Shiraha's blood from Shiraha. He once wanted to absorb Shiraha's blood, but ultimately refrained from doing so.

Orochimaru didn't want to admit defeat in this area; he wanted to continue developing the Reanimation Jutsu until he perfected this forbidden technique, leaving no flaws whatsoever—this was his pride.

After meeting Hakuba, Orochimaru sensed the enormous difference in their strength and finally decided to reincarnate again. This time, he changed his vessel to a female subordinate who admired him.

Contrary to Orochimaru's expectations, this female subordinate was only at the level of an ordinary Jonin, not as powerful as the previous vessel, but she was a perfect match for his soul.

So Orochimaru continued to use this body until 56 years into the Konoha calendar, when 'Shennong' came to him.

After receiving the cloning and physical regeneration techniques from Shennong, Orochimaru, through years of research, not only mastered these two techniques but also made a major breakthrough in the technique of corpse resurrection.

The Reanimation Jutsu has been improved, and Orochimaru no longer needs to forcibly seize another person's body in the original way. Instead, he can directly use his own cells and cursed seal to reincarnate.

This would avoid the dangerous soul battles required when seizing someone else's body. After all, the subordinates who willingly offered their bodies were not very strong, and Orochimaru no longer considered them suitable. None of the vessels he could find were willing to offer their bodies voluntarily.

Especially after mastering cloning technology, Orochimaru used Shin's special physique, highly active Hashirama cells, and cells from the Uchiha and Hyuga clans he had collected in his early years to cultivate a completely new vessel over a long period of time.

From the very beginning, Orochimaru harbored suspicions about the so-called Otsutsuki clan.

There are very few people he can trust. He doesn't even believe in Shennong, and their relationship is just about exchanging benefits. So he is even less likely to trust an Otsutsuki clansman who has never even shown his face.

In addition, after four years of getting along, Orochimaru sensed various abnormal behaviors in Shennong and decided to test him.

Ultimately, Orochimaru came to the conclusion that the Shennong before him was not the original Shennong at all, but rather that his body had been taken over by a forbidden technique similar to 'Reanimation Jutsu'.

The so-called cultivation container for the leader is actually for 'Shennong' to cultivate himself.

Orochimaru had actually prepared the vessel more than half a year ago, but he kept delaying it in order to transplant his own cells into the vessel and continuously inject his own chakra to nourish the body, so that the compatibility between the vessel and him would continue to improve.

Of course, Orochimaru carefully avoided 'Shennong' during this process.

Given Shennong's expertise in medical ninjutsu, a careful examination would likely have revealed some clues, but he did not.

The Reincarnation Technique allows one to obtain all the memories of a new vessel after changing its container, but this method is similar to watching a movie from an outsider's perspective, rather than directly merging the memories.

If the 'leader' were to invade Shennong's body using a similar method, it would be impossible to fully master the techniques in Shennong's memories without careful research afterwards.

Shennong was unaware that Orochimaru possessed a test subject with a special physique, Xin. Given Orochimaru's understanding of Shennong, he wouldn't even share his physical regeneration techniques with him, so it was even less likely that he would share his cloning technology.

The only possibility is that Shennong's body was possessed, but the possessor was not skilled in human experimentation; they only had the memories but not the skills.

Therefore, when Shennong was getting impatient, Orochimaru pretended to appear. If Shennong wanted to take over the vessel, Orochimaru would have to take the initiative.

"Ah! Orochimaru! How dare you..."

The voice, filled with shock and anger, abruptly stopped.

Powerful chakra surged from Isshiki's body, constantly eroding Orochimaru's snake venom and cursed seal.

However, Orochimaru continued to release snake venom and curse seals, and the two were locked in a stalemate.

"As expected!" Orochimaru, now transformed into the Eight-Headed Serpent, flashed a cold light in his eyes as he sensed the extremely pure chakra within 'Shennong,' feeling both surprised and delighted.

The eight snake heads began to absorb the chakra within Shennong's body simultaneously, causing their size to expand rapidly, and even the scales on their bodies began to become brighter.

boom--!

Sensing something was wrong while enveloped by the Yamata no Orochi, Isshiki finally began to mobilize his soul power and use his primordial chakra.

He hadn't taken Orochimaru, this so-called 'Kage-level' native ninja, seriously at all, so he didn't use his source power immediately.

After all, after being severely injured by Naruto and Sasuke, his original chakra was reduced to less than one percent after passing through the Dragon Vein.

Even with Shennong's body undergoing recovery, it took several years to recover less than 3%. This was mainly because Shennong's constitution was too ordinary, and he did not have any special bloodline, which led to the slow recovery speed of Yishi.

After being transferred into the container's body, Isshiki immediately felt a high degree of compatibility between the container and himself, so he quickly used his primordial chakra to merge into his body.

Although this will consume his original chakra, it will allow him to integrate with the vessel sooner. At the same time, given the vessel's special constitution, his original chakra may be able to recover to about one-tenth of its original chakra within a few months.

However, Isshiki never expected that Orochimaru had already harbored ill intentions and had also kept a backup plan. After transforming into the Eight-Headed Serpent, Orochimaru began to absorb the primal chakra that Isshiki had integrated into his body. In such a short time, Isshiki felt that nearly one percent of his primal chakra had been lost, which made Isshiki completely panic.

boom!

The Yamata no Orochi's body was subjected to a terrifying chakra impact, causing its inner scales to shatter rapidly, accompanied by a spray of indistinct pieces of blood and flesh.

Orochimaru's body convulsed in pain; the chakra was not only damaging his body but also assaulting his soul.

Seeing this, Orochimaru decided to take a desperate gamble, and his entire snake body began to merge into Isshiki's body.

The two streams of chakra entered into a tug-of-war.

Although Orochimaru overestimated Isshiki's chakra strength, he found that he underestimated Isshiki when the battle truly began.

Fortunately, he had added his own cells to the container beforehand, so he quickly took the lead and occupied the body.

With the support of the vessel's physical strength, Orochimaru's battle with Isshiki in the soul space returned to a state of evenly matched strength.

At this moment, in the soul space.

The entire space was covered by purple tentacles resembling a mountain of flesh.

At the very center, Isshiki's soul was tightly bound by tentacles. Every time he struggled, the tentacles around his body would burst open. However, the mountain of flesh beneath him seemed endless. Every time Isshiki broke free, more tentacles would wrap around his body.

Just as Isshiki was locked in a stalemate with the tentacles, Orochimaru's soul slowly emerged from beneath the mountain of flesh.

At this moment, Orochimaru's soul was surrounded by a large number of tentacles and was moving closer to Isshiki's soul.

"You really aren't Shennong!" Orochimaru stared intently at Ichishiki, who was constantly shattering tentacles. Ichishiki's soul was far more powerful than he had imagined.

Even after he gained physical dominance and home-field advantage, he still couldn't defeat his opponent.

You should know that he had been preparing for this day for more than half a year and had calculated all the possibilities, but he never expected that Yi Shi's soul body would be so powerful. This was not like a human soul body at all. Even Bai Yu, who had given him strong mental pressure five years ago, probably did not have such a powerful soul body.

In particular, the soul form of the first style has been weakened by him several times.

"Orochimaru, I never expected you to go to such lengths. Now, withdraw from this body and release me from my soul space. I promise you, after I merge with the vessel, all the conditions I promised you will be fulfilled. Only by cooperating with me can you obtain what you desire."

Isshiki calmed down at this moment because he realized that although Orochimaru had been stalemate with him, he did not have the ability to defeat him, and his soul was still much stronger than Orochimaru's.

If Orochimaru hadn't seized the initiative and allowed him to devour his own chakra, Isshiki could have completely turned the tables at this point.