The Avengers of the Uzumaki Family

"What's wrong? Is there a problem, Shuiyue?"

Orochimaru seemed to be able to see through Suigetsu's heart; his slightly forward-leaning posture made his words sound even colder.

As her eyelids twitched wildly, Suigetsu immediately forced out an expression that was worse than crying and said, "No, there's no problem, Lord Orochimaru, I will obey your orders."

"Okay, that's fine then."

Orochimaru nodded in satisfaction.

Then he waved his hand.

Shuiyue left with an extremely frustrated expression.

"Lord Orochimaru, do you really intend to help Menma Uzumaki take control of Takigakure? If you do, he might very well lose control."

After Shuiyue left.

In the shadowy corner on the left.

Kabuto Yakushi stepped out from inside, looking at Orochimaru with a solemn expression.

The intention behind the pockmarked face.

That's practically an open secret.

Not to mention Menma's own later confession, even in the very first operation, Orochimaru's side was already aware of it.

As a village that still ranks among the top five ninja villages, Takigakure is already quite powerful. With the addition of the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, Kabuto Yakushi couldn't imagine what level Menma, who controlled the power of such a village, would reach.

Of course, the difficulty level is definitely top-tier.

But what if?

As Orochimaru's most trusted subordinate.

Kabuto felt it was necessary to give more reminders on this matter.

"Out of control? Kabuto, it seems you've got it wrong. Menma and I have a cooperative relationship, so how can it be about control? Isn't it a good thing that Menma can become stronger? Konoha, Akatsuki, and any other enemies, we all need to face them together."

Orochimaru turned his head and looked at Kabuto with a calm expression.

These are the words that were spoken.

This also left Kabuto Yakushi momentarily stunned.

What the hell?

Did they really think they were allies? Or maybe I guessed wrong?

That's not right either.

A clear look of confusion appeared in Kabuto's eyes.

"There's no need to say more about this. Just tell Tayuya to take a few people with her and go with Menma-kun."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 197 Orochimaru's Thoughts

"Yes, Lord Orochimaru."

Despite not understanding, Kabuto Yakushi would not hesitate to carry out orders, immediately bowing and replying.

"Also, how's the investigation into that matter going?"

Orochimaru raised an eyebrow slightly, a faint glint of coldness emanating from his seemingly calm eyes.

Upon hearing this sentence.

Yakushi Kabuto then suddenly realized what was going on.

'Is that how it is?'

While thinking to himself, he replied with a respectful expression: "The specific location has been confirmed. It is indeed in the western suburbs of Konoha. There is currently no one guarding it, and it seems to be completely abandoned. However, the analysis of the technique is still not complete. Most importantly, Danzo still does not intend to hand over the technique itself to us."

The technique of sealing away corpse demons.

In the original work, Orochimaru successfully obtained the correct solution after two or three years through his own analysis and research. In this life, he has Menma's reminder and some research content as an aid.

In just three or four months.

Orochimaru fully grasped the core of this technique, and the solution was indeed the same as Menma had told him. However, since it had not been systematically and completely verified, Orochimaru would not easily use it for experimentation. It would be best to have the technique itself as a reference.

That's why Danzo needs to hand over the original body of the 'Dead Demon Sealing Technique'.

But Danzo, that old bastard.

It's obvious they intend to hold onto this point as their bargaining chip.

Others may not be aware of the dangers and terror of this technique, but surely Danzo, as a high-ranking member of Konoha, would be aware of it?

The problem is that this technique has too high requirements for the user, and Danzo simply couldn't learn it. Otherwise, given Danzo's personality, he would definitely not have missed such a technique that could be used to perish together with others at the last moment.

Just like he carved the 'Inner Four Symbols Seal' on his own body.

From this perspective, Danzo did possess a certain level of awareness.

Therefore, how could he possibly let Orochimaru obtain the core of this technique so easily? Not to mention that Danzo was already wary of Orochimaru, he was now even protecting Menma, a rogue ninja whom Danzo considered to deserve to die.

There's no way Danzo would obediently agree to Orochimaru's demands.

But this step is missing.

While it's not to say that it's truly impossible to extend further, it inevitably involves bearing the corresponding risks. Even a research fanatic like Orochimaru would need to conduct numerous verifications of such a special forbidden technique.

Therefore, Orochimaru was always willing to grant Menma's requests. In his view, this boy, who was full of secrets, must still be holding back some information and had not told him directly.

Unfortunately, Orochimaru really wronged Menma on this point; Menma had indeed told Orochimaru everything he knew about the Reaper Death Seal Technique.

But Orochimaru didn't know that.

After all, in such a relationship, anyone would feel that the other party is holding back, which is the most reasonable assumption.

"Danzo, humph, don't rush. The analysis of this technique still needs further verification. Let's go and bring back all the masks there first. If there are no problems, then we can check them one by one."

Orochimaru snorted coldly and then said in a chilling voice.

"Yes, Lord Orochimaru."

Yakushi Kabuto immediately bowed in response.

A reverse analysis of the Corpse Demon Sealing Technique.

At this point, when they had reached the final step, Orochimaru probably understood that this was a side effect of a technique that required sacrificing one's life to break. Generally speaking, the best course of action would be to select a subordinate to carry it out.

However, this technique is already among the most difficult in the ninja world.

Not everyone can learn this.

It's very difficult to do, just like with Yakushi Kabuto.

in other words.

Currently, within Orochimaru's faction, only Orochimaru himself can accomplish this, but there's a paradox here: in order to reclaim his hands, he must sacrifice his life?

That's just nonsense!

However, Orochimaru is different from the others.

In order to survive, they prepared quite a few backup plans.

The Eight-Headed Serpent Technique.

The art of curse seals.

This is a special secret technique that has already been shown in the original work.

However, it's not perfect yet, and Orochimaru will definitely need to do a lot of testing before he can realize this.

Before that, we still need to slow down.

In any case, this body can last for a long time, while the seemingly eroded body has certainly been affected to some extent.

Fortunately, no fundamental problems will arise.

Orochimaru can still be patient for a while.

"Oh, right, how's the preliminary testing of the fusion experiment between the various cells and the Sharingan going?"

Sharingan and Rinnegan.

This was one of the most important conditions when Menma and Orochimaru reached an agreement, unlike the previous lack of reservation regarding the Reaper Death Seal Technique.

On this point.

The information and data that Menma provided to Orochimaru were extremely ambiguous. It wasn't that all the information was useless, but compared to the former, the information Menma provided was much harder to verify.

Especially important is Madara Uchiha's standard progression path from Sharingan to Mangekyou Sharingan to Eternal Eye to Rinnegan.

Menma didn't tell Orochimaru either.

It includes the true meaning of all things in the universe.

The description of "mianma" is also very vague and unclear.

therefore.

Orochimaru simply couldn't easily find the right direction for his research.

He could only provide a rough research hypothesis; the rest was up to him to conduct experiments to verify.

But Orochimaru was not discouraged at all.

Because this is a very normal way of unfolding.

Orochimaru was previously unaware of the relationship between the Sharingan and the Rinnegan, but now he has learned that the Rinnegan can evolve from the Sharingan.

That's already taken the most crucial step.

This is a foundational step from 0 to 1.

What remains is to come up with countless hypotheses and verify them repeatedly. Even if it requires thousands or tens of thousands of experiments, Orochimaru will persevere.

After all, he had personally witnessed the existence of the 'Rinnegan'!

Just thinking about Pain's Rinnegan.