Hawks from the Land of Light are calling me a dove and an undercover agent in the chat group.

Even knowing that Orochimaru's willful personality and higher position would make it very difficult for him to listen to his orders, Sasuke still shouted out in desperation, trying to stop this pointless invasion.

If Orochimaru refuses to stop, then he must protect Bruce Wayne, even if he can't win, otherwise Yotsuya Miko will be very disappointed in him!

"Run, Bu—"

While trying to stop Orochimaru, Sasuke also wanted Bruce to run away first. He himself was Orochimaru's backup body, so even if he was defeated, he would only suffer. But Bruce was different; he would definitely die.

However, before Sasuke could finish speaking, Bruce had already thrown him away forcefully, kicking him hard in the stomach as he did so, forcing him to fly backward and away from the battlefield. Sasuke could only watch helplessly as the stubborn Bruce and Orochimaru headed towards the battlefield in opposite directions.

"Oh my, you're coming straight at me now? Instead of running away from this ambush, you're moving closer to me? It's rare that my Sasuke is so devoted to you. Heh, since you're so confident in yourself, let me see what you're really made of."

Orochimaru's lips curled into a wicked smile. He wasn't some arrogant fool; if the other party dared to come at him head-on, he would have to be very careful.

"Hidden Shadow Serpent Hand!"

Swish swish!

Although his hands are currently sealed by the Grim Reaper and he cannot perform hand seals, Orochimaru, who has studied the origins of ninjutsu for many years, can still use his chakra to perform the most proficient ninjutsu even without his hands!

Orochimaru's snake eyes were sharp as he stared intently at his enemy, but the next second, he only saw his opponent clap his hands together, and the world suddenly changed. His Shadow Snake Hand, which was about to touch his opponent, suddenly hit the air, while his opponent appeared behind him and delivered a powerful kick as he rushed over.

If his body hadn't been so flexible and boneless, like a snake, that he immediately lay flat on the ground and slid to dodge the kick, it might have had some effect.

"What's going on? Is it a genjutsu? No... The other party doesn't have the Sharingan, and I've studied genjutsu in depth. Even if it's Itachi Uchiha, he probably can't completely pull me into a genjutsu without me noticing anything unusual."

Orochimaru glanced sideways at Sasuke Uchiha and Kabuto Yakushi, who were still flying backwards in the distance. Within half a second, he confirmed their positions and understood: "I see. Space-time ninjutsu. Did you switch our positions? Is there a limit to clapping?"

He's definitely a smart person.

Although Bruce remained silent, he subconsciously admired Orochimaru. Even though he had felt that this so-called Sannin would be difficult to deal with after hearing Sasuke's description in the group chat, it turned out that the other party's intelligence was perhaps higher than he had anticipated.

"That's a really great space-time ninjutsu, but so what?"

Orochimaru grinned crookedly, and his lower body suddenly split open, splitting into numerous white snakes. He aimed at every angle, ensuring that anyone who tried to clap would be injured, forced to either stop clapping or risk being venomously attacked to switch sides.

Meanwhile, Orochimaru's lower body, now transformed into a snake tail, propelled him forward at top speed, gliding towards Bruce. He spat out an incredibly sharp Kusanagi sword, aiming it at Bruce's throat.

In the nick of time, Bruce simply curled up into a ball. The white snakes that had just bumped into his armor were crushed into a pulp by his own act of curling up into a ball.

But it was no use. Orochimaru could sense, through his instincts honed over years of life and death, that the opponent's sturdy armor could not stop his Kusanagi sword!

"boom!"

A burst of light erupted as something far more powerful than an explosive tag exploded into a dazzling fireball in this spot. This was the item Bruce had quietly thrown out while forming the ball to activate it.

Orochimaru suddenly realized that the opponent's goal in forming a ball was to cover their head and thus suffer only minor injuries in the explosion. Crushing the white snakes was just a side effect. The opponent didn't intend to withstand his Kusanagi sword head-on, because under this explosion, Orochimaru would only have his balance of movement broken by the explosion and would no longer be able to move forward.

Under normal circumstances, he could easily use his hand speed to use the Substitution Jutsu to leave on the spot, or use the Clone Jutsu to create a large number of clones to block him.

But with his hands unusable and at such close range, he has no choice but to tough it out!

"No way?!"

Sasuke, who had finally landed after being thrown out, gasped in shock. His three-tomoe Sharingan allowed him to see the brief exchange between the two sides, leaving him utterly stunned. He couldn't believe that Orochimaru had died.

No, nobody told him Bruce was that good.

Wait a minute, if Orochimaru dies like this, where will he find his teacher? No matter how strong Bruce is, he doesn't know ninjutsu, so he can't replace Orochimaru.

I don't want the Kage-level master I finally found after betraying Naruto and fleeing the ninja village to die unexpectedly. There are still so many things he hasn't had time to teach me!

"Big-Snake-Maru-"

Sasuke screamed shrilly, making it seem to anyone who didn't know better that he had a deep affection for his teacher.

As his shout faded, Orochimaru's corpse, charred beyond recognition by the explosion and rolling to the ground, suddenly produced a pair of even paler hands from its mouth. These hands tore open the corpse's mouth, ripping it open, and a brand new, unharmed Orochimaru was reborn from within.

"Your willpower is still not enough, Sasuke-kun." He glanced at Sasuke in the distance with a sinister look, and gave a cold, crooked smile. "You care about me so much that I'm almost reluctant to use you as my reincarnated body."

Kabuto pushed up his glasses, his expression calm. He knew that Lord Orochimaru was far from being so easy to kill.

"Stop saying those disgusting things that make me want to vomit!" Sasuke cursed under his breath. "This isn't over yet, so get serious and don't die so soon!"

Upon hearing this, Orochimaru immediately turned around and saw Bruce holding a nail and a hammer, as well as Orochimaru's corpse—or rather, part of his charred corpse.

"Did you even have time to tear off that part back then? Bat-man, you bastard..."

Bruce remained silent, tossed the nail, and hammered it heavily into the charred corpse. In that instant, Orochimaru felt a dual pain in his body and soul, a tearing agony.

Although this pain was nothing to him in terms of his endurance, and it didn't affect his activities, the actual damage caused was very minor and within an acceptable range. It seemed to be weak and much less powerful than the ninjutsu that involved clapping to change positions.

Orochimaru was very interested in this kind of ninjutsu that allowed him to attack remotely using a part of someone else's body, and that involved the soul.

"Is that not allowed...?"

Bruce is now using the sorcery of Kugizaki Nobara from the world of sorcery. As mentioned before, he created bat suits for all sorcerers in the sorcery world, and each different suit can use a different sorcery.

Just after the explosion, during Orochimaru's recovery, he flicked his cloak and quickly switched equipment under its cover, changing from Toudou Aoi's set to Kugizaki Nobara's set.

The original intention was to generate output, but it seems that it's not going to work out.

While Kugizaki Nobara's spells can affect souls, the damage depends on the difference in spell power between the two sides. If the opponent's spell power is much higher than ours, the damage will be extremely limited.

The effect of this spell is tied to the human's own magical power, not to how many energy items are loaded into the bat armor.

Since in the Gotham world, the people he could capture for experiments were all ordinary people, and there were no supervillains available for experimentation, he was never quite sure how this suit would perform against enemies with special powers.

Now it seems completely tasteless, utterly useless.

Although chakra is not curse power, it is essentially a special kind of energy. In any case, it will be compared. Compared to a Kage-level master like Orochimaru, Bruce's current concentration of curse power would obviously not be able to produce any real output if he used Kugizaki Nobara's curse set.

"drink!"

Just then, Orochimaru let out a low shout, and the charred part that was nailed to the mask suddenly tore open, from which a white snake leaped out and pounced straight at Bruce's cheek that was not covered by the mask.

This time it was more dangerous. Although I barely managed to avoid being bitten completely, I still got a cut and then managed to squeeze the white snake to death with one hand.

"Hehe, a tit-for-tat exchange, are you happy, this uninvited and unpleasant guest?"

"Uninvited guest?" Bruce remained expressionless, swiftly pulling a universal antidote from his cloak and applying it to his face. With an unwavering demeanor, he calmly looked at Orochimaru. "Is this how one of the legendary Sannin treats guests? A sneak attack and ambush like a shameful rat?"

"A rat that can't be seen by others."

Orochimaru seemed to agree and nodded. "Yes, that's a very apt way to describe you. Secretly contacting my Sasuke-kun in private, what, are you trying to steal my spare body, or were you planning to target me from the start? Not teaching Sasuke-kun how to improve his acting skills beforehand was your mistake."

He paused here.

"Hehe, excuse me, or... I should probably address you as 'you all,' don't you think?"

Upon hearing this, Sasuke's heart skipped a beat, and he could hardly remain calm. He started to have wild thoughts, wondering if Orochimaru could actually vaguely see his chat group, otherwise how would he know there were multiple people in it?

But Bruce remained calm. He had fought this kind of psychological battle countless times, and he knew without even looking that Orochimaru was trying to trick him into revealing information.

However, there's no way around it; given Sasuke's expression that reveals his inner thoughts, the fact that there are multiple people behind him has already been exposed.

Objectively speaking, Sasuke's expression wasn't very obvious. Although he felt guilty, he still managed to control his expression, which was enough to fool the others. He was definitely not a bad teammate; he was a very good teammate.

Unfortunately, Orochimaru was clearly a master of psychological warfare as well, and Sasuke was still too inexperienced in front of such a master.

Bruce's mind raced, and he spoke in a deep, husky voice: "No need for unnecessary pleasantries, Orochimaru. You can't even beat me. Delving into how many powerful figures are behind our organization will only lead to your own destruction."

"You think this is the end for me?" Orochimaru chuckled. "Don't make me look down on you, Mr. Bat."

Bruce countered, "So you think this is the end for me?"

"Maybe, maybe not." Orochimaru said calmly, as if he were competing with the bat monster to see who had more composure and leeway. He didn't know how many trump cards his opponent had, but after this exchange, he was certain that if his hands were still in their prime, his opponent would be inferior to him.

This means that even though he is now completely disabled and cannot compare to the entire organization behind the other party, he is at least good enough to be compared to this bat, and their status can be considered equal.

Unless it truly comes to a point of no return, and the other side brings out a Kage-level expert from their own organization to besiege and kill him.

But it's obvious that since the other party is willing to communicate with him like this, he probably doesn't have any murderous intent. He's weighing the other party's strengths and weaknesses, and the other party is also weighing his strengths and weaknesses.

"So, how are you going to treat me, this unwelcome guest?" Bruce asked.

Orochimaru smiled and gestured, "Since I'm already a guest, how much more should I treat you? Please come in, Mr. Bat."

A smile can erase all enmity; the kind host and guest like Orochimaru and Bruce will never exist again.

Chapter 228 Ultra Martial Arts Tournament, A Powerful Strike!

Uchiha Sasuke: "?"

No, they were fighting to the death one second and then made up the next?

Well, while such things do happen occasionally in the ninja world, Bruce's identity is that of a special outsider, and more importantly, even Sasuke couldn't understand how these two built a bridge of reconciliation.

Given Orochimaru's personality, he wouldn't be so easy to talk to even if he wasn't 100% sure he could defeat the enemy.

“You…” Sasuke ran back quickly, looked at Orochimaru suspiciously, then looked at Bruce with a confused expression, and hesitated to speak.

He understood some of it, although he didn't know how much Bruce's strength was related to the bat-like bodysuit he was wearing. But based on his current performance, he was roughly above an elite Jonin, but not quite at the level of a well-known Kage.

It wasn't that he was capable of one-sidedly and completely annihilating a Jonin. The main problem was that Sasuke wasn't prepared and didn't dodge, and was ambushed by this filthy adult who lacked martial ethics. At first, he thought Bruce was one of his own, but who knew that this guy would suddenly strike him with his elbow in an instant? Who could defend against that!

"Everything is going according to plan and as expected."

Before Sasuke could even complain or say his name, Bruce preemptively adopted a profound demeanor, as if to say, "I knew Orochimaru had already discovered you. My goal is to cooperate with Orochimaru without any conflict." He put his hands behind his back and started spouting nonsense like a master.

“You did very well, Sasuke. I now officially bestow upon you the codename [Hakimi], just like my name [Batman]. Now you are a true member of our [Dark Alliance].

Ah this...

Sasuke was speechless. It wasn't that he didn't understand what Bruce meant by this attitude; wasn't it just that he didn't want to reveal his real name and make a big fuss about it?

The problem is, if you're going to pretend, why do you have to give me the codename "Hakimi"? Do you really think that Sasuke Uchiha doesn't know what that means? You're belittling him again. Damn it, how many times have I told you, that's not just his breath. He's serious every time he gets angry!

"The Dark Alliance?" Orochimaru smiled. "It doesn't sound like an organization that the Sage of Six Paths or Ultraman would establish, does it?"

Bruce's eyes flickered slightly, and he sneered in a low, husky voice: "I really didn't expect that the mighty Sannin would actually believe the content of the tokusatsu dramas that even children wouldn't believe, and actually think that Ultraman is real? Your imagination is truly remarkable."

“Humans always have a hard time coming up with things they haven’t seen before, don’t they?” Orochimaru stretched his neck and moved his head in front of Bruce. “You’re not using chakra, are you? And this outfit is out of place in the ninja world. I’m curious where Mr. Bat came from.”

"You think only those who use chakra to perform ninjutsu are called ninjas?"

Bruce raised an eyebrow, his face full of disdain, and snorted: "Sage of Six Paths, huh? The so-called Sage of Six Paths actually went astray. Our branch of ninjas, descended from that foolish brother of the Sage of Six Paths, is the true ninja. You rely too much on chakra!"

"This ninja world should have been set right long ago. If it weren't for the kindness of our ninja sect, which gave you chance after chance behind the scenes, this ninja world would have been back on track long ago. But now it seems that our ninja sect should not have gone into seclusion a thousand years ago, and should not have handed over the ninja world so easily!"

Although he didn't even know the Sage of Six Paths' name, let alone the so-called brother of the Sage of Six Paths, such a person was never mentioned in Sasuke's account of the history of the ninja world.

but it does not matter.

Because there is no such person, Orochimaru finds it even more difficult to verify his claims, no matter how much nonsense he spouts. After all, in this world, the Sage of Six Paths is a figure from a thousand years ago, and is said to have died long ago. It would be extremely difficult to investigate his bloodline.

As for why he doesn't directly acknowledge Ultraman's existence and admit his connection to Kasa, there would be too many variables involved.

On one hand, Kasa has just finished visiting the DC world and doesn't have enough points to come to the Ninja World yet. Even if he has enough points in the future, Kasa won't stand up for others in this kind of matter.