In less than fifteen minutes, Gojo Yoru and Uzumaki Kushina arrived at the abandoned training ground.
Seeing the Chakra blade on Gojo Yoru's back, Orochimaru was slightly surprised: "You're also skilled in swordsmanship?"
"No, I use a blade because that's the only way to unleash the maximum power of that technique," Gojo Yoru shook his head.
"Oh? It seems that besides the Rasengan, you've developed other techniques. I'll wait and see then." Orochimaru appreciated Gojo Yoru even more. Such Ninjutsu talent made him the perfect candidate to inherit his mantle.
Gojo Yoru signaled Uzumaki Kushina to watch from a distance, then looked at Orochimaru and asked, "Orochimaru-sensei, are we fighting directly like this?"
"I originally wanted to play a little game with you, but it seems unnecessary now." Orochimaru beckoned to Gojo Yoru. "Use all your methods and attack me with the intent to kill."
"Then I won't hold back."
Gojo Yoru grinned, his hands rapidly forming seals to create two phantom clones.
Then, the main body and the phantom clones simultaneously drew the Chakra blades from their backs and charged at Orochimaru.
Seeing this, Orochimaru looked somewhat puzzled.
If he wasn't mistaken, the seals Gojo Yoru just used seemed to be for the most basic Clone Technique, right?
Why create two intangible phantom clones to attack him?
Was it to confuse him? But his main body was clearly so obvious!
Orochimaru didn't believe this Ninjutsu genius would perform such a low-level operation, so he was full of interest in Gojo Yoru's subsequent attacks.
Gojo Yoru and the two phantom clones assumed a formation like the Dance of the Crescent Moon.
The phantom clones and the main body coordinated from the left, top, and right, attacking Orochimaru's vital points. The "main body" of Gojo Yoru leaped into the air.
Orochimaru, who hadn't seen the Phantom Body Flicker Technique before, was even more confused.
Instinctively, he took out a kunai from his ninja tool pouch and threw it at Gojo Yoru's main body in the air.
Unable to move in mid-air, in Orochimaru's view, Gojo Yoru could only choose to swing his blade to deflect the kunai.
The next second, however, Orochimaru's pupils constricted.
Gojo Yoru in the air didn't swing his blade to deflect the kunai but allowed it to land on his body.
But the scene of blood splattering did not appear.
The kunai... passed through Gojo Yoru's body.
Wasn't he the main body?
Ignoring his doubts, seeing Gojo Yoru attacking with blades from the left and right, Orochimaru formed seals with one hand, condensing a wind vortex in his palm that turned into two invisible wind blades, throwing them at the two Gojo Yorus again.
The result... they still passed through!
This time, Orochimaru finally showed a look of shock.
Looking at Gojo Yoru slashing down from the air with his blade, Orochimaru formed seals with his other hand again.
Slash—
With a flash of the blade, Orochimaru's body was split in two from the middle.
However, no blood splattered from Orochimaru's body either; instead, it turned into two puddles of mud on the ground.
Earth Release: Earth Replacement!
"Incredible. How did you do that?"
Orochimaru emerged from the ground not far away, looking at Gojo Yoru with disbelief in his eyes.
Such an expression hadn't appeared even when he saw Gojo Yoru training the Rasengan.
Because Gojo Yoru's technique broke the cognition of the Ninja World.
As the most popular Three Body Technique in the Ninja World, phantom clones were intangible and dispersed upon contact; this was common knowledge.
But now, Gojo Yoru had broken this rule.
Even more incredible was that when Orochimaru released his Sensing Technique, he couldn't sense any Chakra on these three Gojo Yorus.
Yes, not that he couldn't sense the main body, but he couldn't sense any Chakra at all.
It was as if these three Gojo Yorus were just illusions, not even phantom clones.
After all, phantom clones were also created by Chakra, and the Chakra they contained could be captured by the Sensing Technique.
But Gojo Yoru's phantom clones had none.
Undoubtedly, this was an extension technique of the Clone Technique unique to Gojo Yoru.
Just as the Second Hokage didn't learn the mainstream Five Elements Clones but developed the Shadow Clone Technique.
"This is the Phantom Body Flicker Technique I developed. I didn't disappoint you, Orochimaru-sensei, did I?" Gojo Yoru revealed a triumphant smile.
"Quite remarkable. Without collecting intelligence on you in advance, an enemy would likely be killed by you in one strike." Orochimaru gave a very high evaluation.
"Then I'm going to continue, Orochimaru-sensei."
Gojo Yoru and the two phantom clones attacked Orochimaru again.
"Then I'll have to get a bit serious too."
Gojo Yoru's Phantom Body Flicker Technique successfully aroused a hint of fighting spirit in Orochimaru.
To figure out the principle of this technique, Orochimaru decided to experience it at close range again.
Thus, he formed seals with both hands, creating two Shadow Clones, and then charged at Gojo Yoru and his phantom clones with kunai alongside his main body.
Like everyone else, Orochimaru's main body subconsciously chose the Gojo Yoru who had just spoken as his opponent.
When the kunai collided with the Chakra blade, the kunai passed through the blade.
Orochimaru, who had expected this, wasn't surprised this time but raised his vigilance.
After passing through Gojo Yoru's body, he immediately turned and used his kunai to block a sweeping attack from Gojo Yoru sideways.
The sparks flying this time indicated that Gojo Yoru had turned from intangible to tangible.
Seizing this opportunity, Orochimaru raised his other hand, and a long snake drilled out of his sleeve to bite Gojo Yoru.
The result was it passed through his body.
"Phantom Body Flicker Technique... what a powerful Body Flicker Technique," Orochimaru murmured, observing the other two phantom clones with his eyes while remaining vigilant against the Gojo Yoru in front of him.
In the following rounds, every attack from Orochimaru and his Shadow Clones passed through Gojo Yoru's body.
If Orochimaru's Shadow Clones weren't equally powerful, they might have been burst by Gojo Yoru, who suddenly turned tangible, just like Uzumaki Kushina's Shadow Clones.
After just a few rounds of exchange, Orochimaru figured out Gojo Yoru's Phantom Body Flicker Technique.
Gojo Yoru's main body was right there, but he used a ghostly soundless Body Flicker Technique to instantly swap positions with those two special phantom clones, creating the effect of turning from intangible to tangible and vice versa.
Moreover, Gojo Yoru's main body's Chakra wasn't always in a vanished state.
Orochimaru secretly used the Sensing Technique and could sometimes sense Gojo Yoru's main body's Chakra.
He was using some method to hide his main body's Chakra, and perhaps the phantom clones operated on the same principle.
A Hiden technique, or a Kekkei Genkai?
Orochimaru couldn't help but speculate.
After figuring out the principle of the Phantom Body Flicker Technique, Orochimaru stopped engaging in close-quarters combat with Gojo Yoru.
Coordinating tacitly with his Shadow Clones, after luring Gojo Yoru and his phantom clones into a line, Orochimaru suddenly used a large-scale Ninjutsu without regard for martial ethics.
"Earth Release: Earth Flow River!"
The ground turned into mud, binding Gojo Yoru while also flipping up to form a giant wave roaring towards him.
Because the flipped-up mud blocked his vision, Orochimaru didn't see the hesitation flashing in Gojo Yoru's eyes.
After making a choice, Gojo Yoru finally decided to abandon that thought. His main body easily broke free from the mud's binding and, tapping his toes as if on solid ground, leaped into the air.
Holding a blade in one hand, he condensed a blue energy sphere in the other palm and plummeted towards Orochimaru's main body.
On the way, the energy sphere in Gojo Yoru's hand gradually changed from blue-white to orange-red.
"Fire Release: Rasengan!"
Gojo Yoru shouted the name of this Rasengan.
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