From Hokage to Visionary

"It will eat away at your consciousness little by little until it completely replaces you."

Orochimaru grinned and said, "After being replaced by the vengeful spirit, it will sneak in quietly according to your memory. At that time, guess what interesting things will happen?"

That pale face and evil snake eyes looked extremely cruel to Sasuke.

call out!

Just then, a kunai shot out.

Orochimaru took a few steps back, dodging the kunai, frowning slightly, and looking upward. He crossed his arms over his chest, like a hero, and his voice suddenly dropped several degrees: "What? You don't want to run away, but come back to die?"

Sasuke controlled his eyes and looked at the branches, but when he saw who was coming, he suddenly felt despair.

"Bastard!"

The person on the branch was none other than Uzumaki Naruto who had escaped and returned.

At this moment, veins on his forehead were throbbing, and his originally blue eyes were blood red like a burning flame. He growled ferociously, "Let Sasuke go!"

Stupid. Idiot!

Sasuke was about to curse Naruto in his heart. Since he had already escaped, why did he turn back? !

She is no match for him, so is he coming back to die?

However, when she saw Naruto's legs trembling and he was obviously very scared but still mustering up his courage, a strange feeling flowed through the girl's heart.

"Sorry, I'm not interested in you, Nine-Tails Jinchuriki." Orochimaru said indifferently: "My target from beginning to end is only Sasuke, as for you."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly leaped up like a Tyrannosaurus Rex at an extremely fast speed.

boom!

Naruto couldn't even see what was happening before he was kicked away.

He broke a thick tree that could be hugged by several people, and then fell into the ruins nearby, apparently neither dead nor alive.

"Naruto!"

Sasuke was so emotional that he was able to break free from the control of the vengeful spirit and screamed.

"Oh, I solved a small problem."

Orochimaru turned his gaze back to Sasuke, with uncontrollable praise in his eyes: "Not bad, you can resist the vengeful spirits with your will alone. I really admire you more and more. But unfortunately, in the past, I might have longed for your Sharingan, but now you'd better become my puppet and be devoured by the vengeful spirits."

A powerful spiritual force emerged, and Sasuke's eyes suddenly went dark and he fainted.

"Well, the test is over."

Orochimaru jumped down from the tree, looked at the unconscious Sasuke, and said calmly: "There is no sign of being hypnotized. It seems that they are not that guy's people. Next, we should look for another group of people."

However, just as he took two steps, he didn't know if it was an illusion, but the hairs on his body suddenly stood up.

He turned back suddenly and saw a heart-pounding and terrifying pressure coming from the direction where Naruto had just disappeared, like a landslide or tsunami.

At this moment, Orochimaru's pupils shrank slightly, and he saw Naruto staggering and standing up from the wreckage of the collapsed tree stump.

But, his eyes actually showed pure "golden" color, as if flowing with lava, blazing and hot, emitting incomparable pressure.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 431 Transaction (Part )

Time goes back a few minutes.

Naruto was kicked away by Orochimaru, cutting the thick tree in half and falling in the smoke and dust.

The speed is so fast, and the force is so strong that I feel like my whole body is about to fall apart. Is this the enemy Sasuke is facing?

A series of chaotic thoughts flashed through Naruto's mind.

Suddenly, a familiar figure appeared in front of his sight. It was a well-behaved and cute boy wearing a neat suit and a plain white bow tie. He squatted beside him with a playful look on his face, holding his chin with his hand, looking at Naruto who was in pain, with a half-smile on his face.

"I told you a long time ago, don't come back."

The boy showed his fangs and laughed as if he was watching a play: "Well, now you finally understand, I didn't lie to you."

"Devil Devil"

Naruto's abdomen seemed to cramp and hurt, and beads of cold sweat oozed from his forehead, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted, "Help me, help me."

"Okay, of course I have no objection~"

Lu Mingze showed a sly smile on his face and said, "Well, according to the contract, you need to pay a quarter of your soul and then exchange it with me for a wish. Deal?"

A quarter of the soul. Naruto suddenly remembered that he had an agreement with the 'devil'.

The price of the contract is that for each wish fulfilled, one quarter of his soul must be paid. After four wishes are fulfilled, the 'devil' will take away his entire soul!

Inexplicably, a feeling of resistance welled up deep in Naruto's heart.

It was as if there was a voice in the dark telling him that he must not agree to the "devil's" conditions and must not hand over his soul, otherwise he would regret it for the rest of his life!

Looking at Naruto with a conflicted face, Lu Mingze seemed to have expected that he would not agree so easily.

Immediately, the boy looked at Orochimaru with a vague gaze and said meaningfully: "Naruto, you'd better make a choice quickly. The time left for your teammate is short. If it's too late, I can't guarantee that she will still be alive."

Yes, that's right, Sasuke!

Naruto woke up as if from a dream and suddenly turned his head to look at Sasuke.

Sasuke, who had the aura of a living being just now, now seemed to have the fire in his pupils extinguished, and his whole body was as stiff and pale as a corpse that had been dead for many days.

"The 'ghost' that resides in her body is eating away at the girl's consciousness."

Lu Mingze very 'considerately' explained to Naruto: "Well, according to my estimation, in about three minutes? No, one and a half minutes, she will be completely replaced by the 'ghost'."

"Replace? What will happen to Sasuke?" Naruto asked stupidly.

The boy sneered and said, "Sasuke? Of course he no longer exists."

Mori Han's words, like a sword, pierced through Naruto's heart and stunned him.

If he ceases to exist, does that mean Sasuke will die?

When Naruto thought that Sasuke might die because of this, deep guilt filled his heart, and a look of loneliness and confusion appeared on his bearded face.

"It doesn't matter. After all, she's just a teammate." Lu Mingze added fuel to the fire: "Sacrificing a quarter of your soul for a teammate is not worth it no matter how you look at it, right? Why not just give up and pretend you didn't see it? Anyway, the other party's target is her. What does it have to do with you?"

"No!"

Naruto's heart was stirred, as if there was a fire burning inside. He gritted his teeth and said, "No, it was Sasuke who saved us! If it weren't for Sasuke, we would have died!"

"So, do you want to trade?"

Lu Mingze put away his playful smile and said seriously, "You have to think carefully. Is it worth it to sacrifice a quarter of your soul for others?"

Naruto was silent.

Yes, is it really worth sacrificing a quarter of your soul for Sasuke?

He repeatedly tortured his heart and questioned his soul about this question, and the answers he got were always very simple, just two words.

worth!

"Do what you say and never give up on any of your teammates. This is my way of ninja!"

Naruto's azure eyes were unusually bright, and he looked at Lu Mingze resolutely: "If I give up Sasuke here, my soul will be broken. How can I become a Hokage and gain everyone's recognition in the future? So, take it, devil!"

"Then tell me your wish."

Lu Mingze's pupils were like melted golden water, boiling, blazing, and brilliant, making it impossible to look directly at them.

"I'm going to kill that bastard!"

Naruto gritted his teeth and tried hard to control his trembling lips, not letting the cry from the depths of his soul control his body to shout out words of rejection.

He was very scared and terrified, as if at that moment he would lose something very important.

But.he couldn't refuse.

He wants to save Sasuke, defeat that bastard, and survive with everyone!

"Contract. Done!"

Lu Mingze smiled, opened his arms, and 'melted' into Naruto's body as if hugging him.

At this moment, Naruto could clearly feel that there seemed to be some extremely brutal force, containing tremendous and terrifying vitality, which was forcibly occupying his consciousness.

And.pried something away from the depths of my soul.

Time returns to the present.

"Ahhhh——!"

Naruto roared, his pupils quickly being invaded by gold.

In a flash, he seemed like a different person. Extremely terrifying power was injected into his body, like a giant beast awakening from the ancient times.

Orochimaru's pupils suddenly shrank. Looking at those golden eyes that were as hot as lava, he actually had the illusion that he was being stared at by a predator.

"What kind of eyes are those?!"

His mind was filled with confusion, and he even resorted to the White Tower pathway, the extraordinary ability of a Sequence 6 scholar, to try to "analyze" that power.

However, without any 'knowledge', he forced himself to analyze unknown things. It was like he was looking directly at a 'star'. The profound power of rules contained in it instantly backfired, burning Orochimaru's eyes, and his spirituality was consumed like a sluice gate releasing a flood!

"hiss--!"

Orochimaru quickly stopped the "analysis", but the excessive consumption of "spirituality" still made his temple twitch, and distorted illusions seemed to appear in front of his eyes.

He knew very well that this was caused by excessive spiritual consumption, and the extraordinary characteristics in his body showed signs of being out of control.

What the hell is that?!

Just one glance was enough to drive a Sequence 5 mystic instructor like him out of control!

What on earth happened to the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki boy? !

But before he could think about it, Naruto stomped his foot on the ground, and suddenly it exploded like thunder, propelling his body like lightning, and attacked with a terrifying wave of air!

"The Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes!"

Orochimaru is worthy of being a Kage-level strongman. Even though he was taken advantage of, he still reacted quickly.

With his sleeves raised, countless dense swarms of snakes, like a raging tsunami that connected the sky and the earth, directly raised a snake wall several meters high, and rushed towards Naruto in an endless stream.

Dark clouds are threatening to destroy the city!

"So many snakes?!"

Naruto was startled, but quickly calmed down.

That’s right, he has the power now, so what can he do even if there are more snakes?

Look at me killing them all. Just as Naruto was about to rush over, Lu Mingze shook his head, looking as if he couldn't bear to watch it anymore.

"Hey, now is the first one, a gift for you~"

Lu Mingze floated beside him like a ghost, and whispered, "Remember, this is called 'Word Spirit'. Only the dragons with noble bloodlines can use this skill to communicate with the elements."

Looking at the terrifying tide of snakes, Naruto took a deep breath and pulled himself together.

His pupils were blazing golden yellow, and instead of retreating in the slightest, they were filled with a violent look. Then he slowly opened his mouth, and the ancient and solemn dragon script echoed in the forest.

"Yan Ling·Jun Yan!"

The raging flames visible to the naked eye seemed to appear out of nowhere and exploded directly among the snakes!

Boom!

The blazing flames, with their high temperatures, turned tens of thousands of snakes into ashes.

The horrific heat wave swept through the strong wind, setting the jungle within a radius of several hundred meters on fire. The sea of ​​fire illuminated the entire sky, and most people in the forest could see it.

"What's this?!"

Orochimaru had already used earth escape to move to the side.

But at this moment, his eyes looking at Naruto were full of desire for 'knowledge': "The words just now can release such a powerful fire escape without any hand seals. It's amazing. What kind of power is this?!"

Unfortunately, Naruto didn't want to waste time talking to him now, so he stepped on his toes again.

The ground within a radius of several meters was suddenly collapsed by the powerful force, and a large pit with a diameter of several meters appeared. Smoke and dust waves rose like pillars. Along with the downward force, Naruto's speed soared again, and he actually broke through the sound barrier and shattered layers of air waves.

fast!