Warlock Invasion of Naruto.

The first ten training grounds in the village are open to all ninjas, who can enter and exit freely.

As for the training grounds, they all have specific uses, with a portion of them reserved for the ninja clan.

For families like the Nara clan, who have raised deer for generations, the area around their settlement must have a suitable environment for deer farming, and lakes are essential.

"You've already learned the Summoning Jutsu, so I won't explain it further." Orochimaru stood in the middle of the open space.

Bai Yu nodded.

The art of spirit communication only involves five hand seals, and it is not difficult to learn.

Generally, it is divided into blood pact summoning and non-blood pact summoning.

The former, summoning, allows one to summon a summoning beast to assist the ninja in battle. However, one must sign a blood pact with the summoning beast to summon it, and the size of the summoned creature is related to the amount of chakra the ninja possesses.

The latter can summon items stored elsewhere to assist in battle. For example, Tenten in the original work seems to have an inexhaustible supply of ninja tools in her scrolls, which is a result of using non-blood pact summoning.

After all, a regular storage scroll couldn't hold that many ninja tools.

"Hmm." Orochimaru didn't say much. He bit a small hole in his thumb, and blood gushed out. He smeared the blood on his left palm, then formed a hand seal and slammed his left hand onto the ground.

Bang!

A huge cloud of white smoke rose up.

Immediately afterwards, a large, earth-yellow snake about ten meters long emerged from the smoke. Even with its upper body raised, it was as tall as a two-story building, exuding the oppressive aura of a large, spiritual beast.

When Orochimaru saw Orochimaru, he immediately bowed down, appearing extremely respectful.

"Give me the contract scroll." Orochimaru gently patted Orochi's head.

Upon hearing this, the giant snake retracted its body, tilted its head back, opened its large mouth, and began to writhe.

Soon, Bai Yu saw a bulge appear on the snake's abdomen, and then a huge scroll was spat out, covered with some mucus.

Bai Yu originally thought that Orochimaru would open his mouth and spit out the scroll himself, just like in the original work.

However, judging from the thickness of the contract scroll on the ground, if Orochimaru had kept it inside his stomach, the scene when he vomited it out would probably be quite dramatic.

"Sign your name on it with your blood, and then press your five-finger fingerprint on it."

Orochimaru explained.

Bai Yu opened the scroll, which had a row of rankings and handprints on it. Except for Orochimaru, all the other names had a red "X" drawn on them.

However, the previous contractor, "Sand," had an "X" above his name, but his name was red, just like Orochimaru's. All the contractors before him had black names.

Bai Yu bit his finger to sign the papers, and at the same time asked, "Orochimaru-sensei, why are these people's names in different colors?"

“A name marked with an ‘X’ indicates that the contract with Ryuchi-dong has been terminated, and a black name indicates that the contractor has died.”

Orochimaru said.

Bai Yu nodded and pressed his handprint.

"Give it a try. Use as much chakra as possible in one go. This will make the snakes you summon stronger. But be careful, some of them might attack you as soon as they appear. If you encounter one that you can subdue, remember its chakra characteristics so you can summon it again next time."

Orochimaru said solemnly.

"Yes!" Bai Yu responded, began to gather a large amount of chakra, then quickly formed hand seals and slammed his left hand on the ground.

"Spiritual Communication"

Bang!

A huge plume of smoke rose, instantly increasing the distance between Bai Yu and the ground. His body was lifted into the air and appeared in mid-air.

The next second, he was thrown out.

Bai Yu adjusted her posture in mid-air and landed steadily.

Orochimaru frowned, instantly going on high alert, and flashed to appear in front of Bai Yu.

He had never seen this large, dark blue snake before.

Although there are thousands of snakes in Ryuchi Cave, most of them are of average strength.

A snake this long, exceeding twenty meters in length and nearly half the length of a giant snake, is definitely one of the most powerful summoned beasts in Ryuchi Cave.

Summoning beasts grow very fast in their infancy, and their growth rate only slows down after they reach adulthood.

This dark blue serpent must be a powerful spirit beast that has grown up in recent years.

"Kid, I didn't give you permission to stand on my head!" A deep, magnetic voice rang out from the smoke, and the dark blue serpent lowered its head to glance at Bai Yu and Orochimaru in front of it.

Can it speak?

Orochimaru was slightly taken aback. The fact that this snake could speak meant that it contained a large amount of natural energy and had used it at a very high level, which meant that it had great potential for growth.

I didn't expect Bai Yu to be able to summon such a powerful spirit beast right away.

"Hello, my name is Yagami Shiroha. I was standing on your head when I summoned you using the Summoning Jutsu. Sorry."

Bai Yu gave an apologetic smile.

The summoning beast in front of me seemed to have a pretty good temper. It didn't use much force when it threw me down. Even an ordinary genin would only suffer a little pain if thrown down, but wouldn't be seriously injured or even killed.

This dark blue snake exudes a very strong energy field, clearly indicating it is not weak.

"You're quite polite, I forgive you." The Green Snake slowly said, "I did feel the power of the contract, you can call me Green Snake."

"It's just a small gift, please don't be shy." Bai Yu took out a thunder bull leg that was half the height of a person from his storage scroll.

Thunder ox is a top-grade ingredient; just this leg alone is worth 100,000 taels of silver. However, compared to the size of the green snake in front of us, this ox leg is probably not even enough to fill a tooth gap.

"You think you can subdue me with this?" the Green Snake said, but still swallowed the Thunder Bull Leg in one gulp.

"Here's another roasted one." Bai Yu took out a roasted Thunder Ox leg from another storage scroll.

"Cooked?" The green snake inhaled, then swallowed it whole, and said, "The taste is a bit strange, but it's alright."

"We didn't have enough time this time. If you like, I'll prepare twenty roasted cows for you next time," Bai Yu said with a smile. Since the green snake could accept cooked food, they could use regular beef next time.

"Half is enough; I want to eat the other half raw." The Green Snake asked, "What is your purpose? It's impossible for me to obey you unless you defeat me. And you can't let your contractor help you."

"I just want to be friends with you."

"friend?"

"It's just occasionally helping out at crucial moments, the kind of help that doesn't require fighting," Bai Yu explained. His goal was to obtain the blood and cells of powerful snakes.

"This... is acceptable." The green snake hesitated for a moment before finally nodding in agreement. After all, if it wasn't needed to fight, there was no need to settle the score with this brat in front of it.

"By the way, Green Snake, do you eat people?" Bai Yu asked. He thought of Wan She. If Green Snake ate people, he would have to consider finding another snake. That was his bottom line.

"I don't eat people!" Green Snake shook her head and said, "If you have nothing else to say, I'll be going now. Goodbye."

"Goodbye." Bai Yu waved with a smile.

Bang!

The green snake turned into smoke and disappeared.

Orochimaru was completely bewildered.

Does this work too?

He went through a fierce battle to subdue the ten thousand snakes.

In the end, he did not defeat Manda, but only barely gained Manda's approval.

Furthermore, Manda had made a pact with him that each time he summoned it to fight, 100 people would be needed as sacrifices.

Therefore, Orochimaru would never summon Manda to fight unless he faced a life-or-death crisis.

During the Second Shinobi World War, Orochimaru only summoned Manda once, which allowed it to devour more than a hundred enemies.

Wanshe holds an extremely high position in Longdi Cave, second only to the White Snake Immortal and a few other immortals.

Although the Green Snake was not as strong as the Manda, it was clearly no less powerful than an ordinary Jonin. If it cooperated well with Bai Yu, it could even fight against an elite Jonin.

The key is that two beef legs are enough!?

The green snake is clearly gentle in nature. It's estimated that once it gets to know Bai Yu better, it will be willing to fight for Bai Yu even without being defeated.

"I didn't expect the Green Snake to be so polite and easy to talk to. It seems that not all the giant summoning beasts in Ryuchi Cave are..."

Bai Yu smiled and said, but paused halfway through his sentence as he thought of Orochimaru's Manda.

Even ninjas from the same village would try to stay away when Orochimaru summoned Manda to fight.

Because Manda fights without distinguishing friend from foe, this is Orochimaru's only "black mark" so far.

Orochimaru fell silent. Although Bai Yu hadn't finished speaking, he understood what he meant and couldn't hold back any longer.

Seeing Orochimaru's embarrassed expression, Bai Yu chuckled awkwardly and said:

"Thanks to Orochimaru-sensei's reminder, I was able to prepare a gift in advance. It seems I've encountered a gluttonous snake this time."

Orochimaru remained silent for a long time before uttering two words: "Let's go."

After saying that, he turned and left.

Bai Yu quickly followed. He didn't ask the green snake for blood right away. Once they were on good terms, getting a little blood from it wouldn't be difficult.

It seems the experiment can be accelerated!

......

In late November, a major event occurred in Konoha.

The Hidden Cloud Village has dispatched an envoy to Konoha to formally form an alliance with the village.

The alliance process went very smoothly.

After all, for the major ninja villages, alliances are just a formality during peacetime. When war breaks out, who cares whether they are allies or not?

Historically, there have been instances of betrayal.

The Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, died during the First Shinobi World War. A Konoha delegation went to Kumogakure to form an alliance with the Second Raikage, but was ambushed by Kinkaku and Ginkaku during the meeting, resulting in the Raikage's immediate death. Tobirama, severely wounded, escaped with six disciples.

Tobirama Senju developed the Flying Thunder God Technique, possessing unparalleled speed; if he wanted to escape, no one could stop him.

However, in order to ensure the survival of Konoha's next generation of elites, he gave up his own hope of survival and chose to stay behind, facing alone Kinkaku and Ginkaku, who possessed the Nine-Tails' chakra and the Six Paths Tools, as well as dozens of Jonin, and ultimately died in battle.

Since then, the relationship between Konoha and Kumogakure has been rather tense.

This alliance may bring new development opportunities to both sides.