Orochimaru's words were cut off by a wild, almost insane laughter.
Hidan had already plunged a metal rod into his heart, but he was laughing maniacally as if nothing had happened.
Orochimaru, meanwhile, spat out blood in mid-air before collapsing to the ground.
Kakuzu was unfazed, his expression unchanged.
Itachi and Hiruzen Sarutobi exchanged a glance, then nodded at each other.
"Is that the immortal youth from the Land of Hot Springs mentioned in the intel?"
Having witnessed the entire process, Itachi quickly deduced how the Jutsu was activated, then shared his speculation with Hiruzen Sarutobi via a subtle Genjutsu.
"Kakuzu, you see? I still had to step in. Now, the Akatsuki Organization's traitors have been dealt with!"
Kakuzu, who had some understanding of Orochimaru's resilience, didn't believe Orochimaru had died so easily.
"Hidan, I'm retreating. Pack up, let's go quickly."
Thinking about Hiruzen Sarutobi's shocked and flustered expression just now, Kakuzu, who had been clashing with Hiruzen Sarutobi for a while, felt that the situation was about to get complicated.
This mission was completely ruined. Instead of wasting time here, it was better to go for other missions.
"Kakuzu, why are you retreating? Don't you want the bounty? Leave the other two to me!"
While Hidan was still boasting, Kakuzu directly grabbed Hidan by the waist of his clothes and leaped several meters away.
"Damn Kakuzu, what are you doing—"
However, Hidan's peripheral vision quickly caught sight of several giant, thigh-thick snakes emerging from where he had been standing, destroying the ground as their mouths snapped towards the center.
Hidan's eyes widened, his face filled with extreme regret.
"Damn it, you hateful bastard! Kakuzu, let go! I'm going to torture these beasts to death with the most cruel methods!"
Hidan clearly hadn't realized that these snakes were Orochimaru's doing.
Several giant snakes opened their mouths, spitting out countless smaller snakes. These smaller snakes then coiled and twisted together, forming a human-like shape.
Where Orochimaru had fallen, his body rapidly shriveled.
The human-like form made of intertwined snakes gradually changed, and then Orochimaru's figure reappeared.
"It turned into a person! Kakuzu, look, these beasts turned into that Orochimaru!"
Hidan, who wanted to share something new he saw, exclaimed again after saying that.
"How is that possible! Why aren't you dead yet?"
After standing firm, Orochimaru spoke to Kakuzu.
"Kakuzu-san, your companion doesn't seem to have much brains."
Kakuzu nodded in strong agreement.
"Hey! You're saying I don't have brains, aren't you? Don't think I can't tell! Damn it, Kakuzu, why are you nodding?"
Orochimaru ignored Hidan's shouts, a sinister look appearing on his face. That last attack had indeed been unpleasant. He then formed a hand seal and spoke.
"It's a pity, Teacher Sarutobi and the two of you from the Akatsuki Organization, you will all stay here today."
Orochimaru's three coffins had already been burned to ashes, along with the people inside, by Hiruzen Sarutobi and Itachi's Fire Release Jutsu.
As for Edo Tensei, developed by Senju Tobirama and refined by Orochimaru, how could it be broken so easily?
The Impure World bodies had already been completed; without the coffins, only the element of surprise was slightly diminished.
Following Orochimaru's hand seal, the dust on the ground gathered, forming paper-like objects that rapidly began to stack on top of each other.
Three figures gradually began to appear, their facial contours and clothing slowly becoming clearer.
Kakuzu's body trembled violently as he looked at one of the blurry figures. What kind of Jutsu this was no longer mattered; he immediately dropped Hidan and fled rapidly in one direction.
Meanwhile, as Orochimaru used Edo Tensei, about a kilometer away, Bai, seeing the coffins suddenly disappear before his eyes, poured Chakra into a pre-carved spell without reservation.
On the Battlefield, Kakuzu, who had already ditched Hidan and was making his escape, suddenly looked up at the sky.
An enormous transparent ice wall appeared out of nowhere, rapidly spreading in all directions. Looking around, several other places also had massive ice walls appearing.
Within a few blinks of an eye, they connected, forming a gigantic, dome-like ice cover that encompassed a very large area.
"Lightning Release: False Darkness!"
Kakuzu attempted to launch a Ninjutsu at the ice wall within his sight. Black runes instantly appeared on the ice wall, but Kakuzu's Ninjutsu left no trace.
"I can't escape!"
Kakuzu thought with some despair, then turned back.
Bai looked at the sealing barrier before him, his eyes filled with worry, but after watching for a moment, he left without looking back.
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