In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 459 White Stimulation Technique
"Xin Ya and Wan She are the two strongest snakes among the group of snakes in the cave. They occupy the two largest territories on the shore, so they often fight for territory."

Shinya used to be stronger, but now it has lost an eye. Although snakes don't rely entirely on their eyes to perceive the outside world, it is still a wound. During battles, Shinya has to be careful to protect its weakness. Meanwhile, Manda is with Orochimaru and has plenty of offerings, so it is well-fed, strong, and in better condition.

Therefore, in the past two or three decades, it has been the monstrous demons that have gained the upper hand, and in recent years, they have been the ones seizing Xin Ya's territory.

Princess Ichikishima sat cross-legged, floating in mid-air, and explained to Shimizu.

So it turns out it was the Third Kazekage's fault after all.

"Manda is Orochimaru's summoning beast, right? What do you think I should do if I were to..."

Shimizu made a throat-slitting motion.

"This... isn't a good idea. This is Ryuchi Cave after all. If there are personal grudges, it would be best to..."

"I understand, I understand. If no one... no snakes die, then there shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"I don't know, but if the snake doesn't die, it shouldn't be a big problem. Even if it does, it's not unsolvable, but the White Snake Immortal will probably ask for some compensation."

"Illustrious Princess Tianxin said, resting her chin on her hand."

She understands the White Snake Immortal.

"How about we deal with the Ten Thousand Snakes for you? The price will definitely be lower than the White Snake Immortal's! I only need... um, how many offerings would be appropriate?"

Princess Tsuratsu asked Shimizu, then turned to look at Princess Takoto.
"I don't know. How about we just trade it for Manda's weight?"

"Great idea! Can we trade humans for them? Preferably ninjas, alive and fresh! They taste good!"

"That's not good. It's too much of a loss. Wanshe is quite strong. Even if the three of us join forces, it won't be a problem to take her down, but it will still take a lot of effort. If we get injured, it won't be worth it."

Shimizu glanced at the three goddesses who were discussing things together, and then at Shinya, who was slightly losing ground in the battle against Manda.

"What if we add Shinya? He must hate Manda to death, right? What if we could persuade him to join us in fighting Manda?"

Two large snakes, like dragons stirring up trouble in the clear water, appeared in the pool.

"Okay, then we can make it cheaper. Two hundred human sacrifices for each of the three of us, and they have to be ninjas with chakra, and they have to be alive!"

"Yes, yes, I remember there was also a green snake. It wasn't as strong as Wan She and Xin Ya, but it was still pretty good. Wan She had driven its hunting grounds outside the cave, so it could still be of some help."

"Should we call for other snakes then?"

"Isn't that enough? The few of us should be sufficient. What if we make a big fuss and the White Snake Immortal gets angry?"

Isn't this big enough already...?

Shimizu felt that these three goddesses seemed a little dim-witted.
who cares!
Anyway, since there's trouble inside Ryuchi Cave, it's a good thing that they were able to take down Orochimaru's summoning beast!

"Six hundred ninjas? That's too many. How many ninjas are there in the ninja world outside? You guys are quite bold to even mention it."

Shimizu was haggling with the three snake princesses.

Even a large ninja village outside only has ten or twenty thousand ninjas. If you add up all the ninjas in the entire ninja world, including those small ninja villages and the rogue ninjas who are outside the ninja villages, it's hard to say whether you can even gather 100,000.

If we ask these three to act once, we need 600 of them. If we ask them to act ten times, we would have to send them to half a large ninja village. Which ninja village can withstand such a consumption?
The total number of rogue ninjas, spies, and hostile ninjas imprisoned in the Sand Village prison over the years is only enough for the Three Goddesses to make a move once.

"Huh? Six hundred is a lot? Is Manda bragging?"

"I think it should be that they ate a hundred ordinary people, but they said they ate a hundred ninjas."

"He must have eaten ninjas before. He followed Orochimaru on the battlefield and must have killed quite a few people."

"So what price should we ask for?"

"do not know."

"Once we're sent out by spirits and see what the outside world is like, we'll know what a reasonable price is."

"Should we let him pay on credit first?"

"it is good!"

Shimizu listened speechlessly as several goddesses loudly plotted behind him.

Is it really okay to talk about cannibalism in front of me, a human being?
However, it seems that some types of snakes do eat other snakes.

It might seem like a perfectly normal thing to them.

Tsk, we need to try to correct these snakes' misconceptions. Humans don't have anything delicious to eat; there are plenty of other delicious things out there.

Hmm, we could collect some specimens to study the taste system of the snakes in Ryuji Cave, use some technology to create food that suits their taste buds, and that should make things much easier.

"Tell them to stop."

Shimizu looked at Shinya, who had been sent flying by a single lash from Manda's tail, and said to the Three Goddesses.

"I go!"

Princess Ichikishima responded, then formed a hand seal and opened the snake's mouth.

"Immortal Technique: The Technique of Baiji!"

A glowing red dragon carrying a bead flew out of Princess Ichikishima's mouth, hovered above the two large snakes, and then disappeared into the bead.

The next second, the bead exploded with a bang. Not only did the explosion generate high temperatures and shockwaves, but it also caused extreme discomfort. It blocked vision and hearing with strong light and sound, and even used air vibrations to interfere with the enemy's muscles, causing them pain and reducing their ability to control their muscles.

Its power was so great that even Qing Shui, who was standing far away by the pool, frowned slightly and felt a little uncomfortable.

Without the soft tissue modifications that Orochimaru underwent to absorb air vibrations, without the iris membranes of snakes to shield against strong light, and without the infrared perception and scent-catching abilities of snakes, one can only rely on their own numerical values ​​to tough it out.

Fortunately, Shimizu's physical stats are decent, and she has strong enough control over her body. Even if things go wrong, her armor can reduce the effects of the oscillations, and she can also use Reverse Rebirth Triple to become immune to these negative effects.

As for the intense light, it did indeed obscure Shimizu's vision, and the Sage Chakra fluctuations from the explosion of the light also had a significant disruptive effect on sensory ninjutsu, which mostly rely on sensory chakra to function.

As for the transparent world, which is like divine consciousness, it is affected to some extent, but much weaker. With Qing Shui's spiritual power, it is still enough to perceive everything that happens in the clearing field.

Shinya and Manda are also snakes, and they have a high resistance to the White Explosion Technique. Princess Ichikishima did not directly attack the two snakes with this attack, but was only slightly shaken by the shock wave of the explosion.

With Princess Ichikishima's intervention, the two snakes were unable to continue their fight.

Shimizu stood at a distance, watching the loli goddess floating in the sky stretch out her fingers towards the two giant snakes below, gesturing and talking, and then pointing to Shimizu's location.

The two snakes stared intently at each other, and then simultaneously flicked their tongues to collect the scent from Qing Shui's body.

The purple snake then darted off into the deeper parts of the pool, its movements suggesting a hasty retreat.

Orochimaru had once summoned Manda to fight Shimizu on the battlefield. This snake had been tormented by Shimizu's puppets and suffered many blows. Upon seeing Shimizu, it immediately felt fear.

On the contrary, Xin Ya quickly swam towards the clear water, stopped at the shore, curled up, and raised the front part of its body high, about seventeen or eighteen meters high.

One of its two golden snake eyes was dim and lifeless, while the other was filled with ferocity. It kept scrutinizing Shimizu and then looked at the Three Goddesses, its murderous aura spreading outwards.

He smelled a familiar scent on Shimizu!
This person must have had contact with that person before coming to Ryūji Cave!
Then, the enormous snake charged towards Qing Shui, seemingly intent on swallowing him whole. "Pull out his Achilles' heel!"

Princess Tashin and Princess Tsuratsu hurriedly moved aside, reminding Shimizu.

Shimizu immediately drew his Kusanagi sword and vanished in an instant.

"Breath of Separation - Land Form - Dragon Night Dance!"

A large amount of escape chakra surged out, transforming into a dragon no less large than Xin Ya, and clashed with Xin Ya in one blow.

This giant snake was indeed tough and thick-skinned, with scales far more durable than any other snake. After being struck by Shimizu, it only showed a few white marks and some barely noticeable small cracks.

In the next instant, two burly, fat puppets appeared from below and delivered two powerful uppercuts to Xin Ya's chin.

The latter hissed in pain, then opened its mouth and spat out black venom, which was then frozen by a series of freezing bombs.

Two blue jumping mouse puppets have appeared on the battlefield at some unknown time.

In the sky, Big Ivan, Miss Qiu, the little boy, and several other figures also began their relentless bombardment.

Meanwhile, Shimizu activated the Aikeen form, transforming into countless forms, sometimes drawing runes in the air, sometimes releasing lightning, sometimes unleashing wind blades, and sometimes casting energy chains, all aimed at Xinya.

In the distance, a large purple snake's head emerged from the water, its two snake eyes watching the familiar battle scene in the distance, flicking its tongue, full of schadenfreude.

Suddenly, Shimizu, sensing Manda's movements, turned her head and glanced in Manda's direction.

Because of the distance, Wanshe's eyes could not see Qingshui's movements clearly, but the snakes' innate infrared perception ability made up for this deficiency.

Startled, the giant snake dived back underwater and fled, not daring to show its face.

The three goddesses also floated in mid-air, spread out, and sat cross-legged in unison, watching the battle below.

"The Water Immortal is really powerful! Shinya probably won't be able to withstand many more moves."

"Yeah, no wonder I got beaten up like that when he first came in!"

"He's much more powerful than that contractor of Manda! He can definitely find us more and better sacrifices than Orochimaru!"

"Why doesn't he use magic? He can clearly do it."

"Didn't I say before that the immortal technique of the Water Immortal is not yet perfect, which is why he came to Ryuchi Cave to seek guidance?"

"Oh, that's true!"

"Look, the reverse scale has been removed."

"It's not just his Achilles' heel, he... got beaten up pretty badly."

Shimizu held a large red scale in his hand, retrieved several puppets, and looked at the large snake lying on the edge of the pool.

"So you're Xin Ya? Now you can listen to me properly?"

"I am, you and..."

"That person asked me to pass on a message to you."

Shimizu looked at the large snake, whose expression had calmed down considerably.

"I have nothing to say to that person."

"I'll just pass on a message and, as he asked, treat your eyes as well."

"I've already said there's nothing more to say."

Xin Ya snorted coldly, but then he thought of how Wan She felt restricted in battle because of his eye injury, and he also thought of the territory that Wan She had taken from him in the past two or three decades.

Finally, recalling the scene of being brutally beaten by this guy, and feeling the pain and the opening of his wounds, he finally lowered the snake's head and stopped in front of Qingshui.

"You can treat my eyes, but could you also treat my other injuries?"

Xin Ya said sullenly.

He didn't want to be beaten up by Mansaku again because of his injuries after Shimizu left.

"Okay, stick your head out here."

Qingshui waved to Xinya.

Xin Ya obediently brought his head close to the water.

Shimizu took out a bottle of anesthetic from his ninja tool bag, looked at the palm-sized bottle, then at his head which was almost as tall as himself, and simply put the anesthetic back. Then he stretched out one palm, placed it on the edge of Shinya's blind eye, released chakra, and condensed it into a chakra scalpel.

First, sever the nerves around the eye so that the tooth won't move around due to pain.

Then, using a chakra scalpel, the large eyeball was gouged out. The Creation and Regeneration Technique was then activated to stimulate the surrounding surviving cells, regenerating the eye and finally reconnecting the relevant nerves.

Because he was unfamiliar with the anatomy of snakes, Shimizu replicated the eye on the spot by comparing it with the structure and size of Xinya's other intact eye. In addition, Xinya's eyeball was very large, about the size of a car tire, so it took him more time.

It took about ten minutes for Xin Ya's eyes to fully regrow.

Next, there were the wounds on the snake's body caused by the water.

Xin Ya fought Wan She for a long time, but the injuries on his body were not even half of what Qing Shui had done in just a short while.

This time it took a little longer, about twenty minutes, to finish treating all of Xin Ya's injuries.

"Thank you."

Xin Ya felt his eyes and body healed and thanked Qing Shui.

Even just recently, he was being beaten up by Shimizu, and most of his injuries were caused by Shimizu.

After his "reverse scale" was removed, this guy's personality changed quite a bit. At least compared to when he was fierce, he can now communicate normally.

Xin Ya asked the clear water again:
"What did that person want you to convey?"

“He said that he did not intend to abandon you, but that doing so was the only way for the two of you to escape with your lives from the encirclement of the Iwagakure army.”

Clear water was rinsing Xin Ya Dao.

The large red snake remained silent for a few seconds before raising its head.

"not enough."

"Hmm? What's not enough?"

“He’s not sincere enough. He needs to come and explain to me in person. If he doesn’t feel he has let me down, why hasn’t he dared to come and see me for thirty years? I won’t do anything to him, but I want him to come here in person and apologize to me. Otherwise, I will not forgive him.”

(End of this chapter)