Carrot and Kabuto arrived at Orochimaru's location in an instant.

"Hi, Orochimaru-senpai, it's been a long time!"

Carrot greeted him warmly.

Kabuto's expression remained calm, but his mind was in turmoil! This was definitely not ninjutsu; it was completely different from the Flying Thunder God Technique. Kabuto hadn't sensed even the slightest energy fluctuation from Karot. Watching Karot warmly greet Orochimaru, he realized how little he knew about Karot. This man was terrifying.

"coming."

Orochimaru was quite receptive to Carrot's enthusiasm.

"Is there something new and exciting that you want to broaden my horizons?"

Karot knew Orochimaru's personality all too well. During their time together, whenever Orochimaru made a breakthrough, he would always bring Karot over to see it. Perhaps this was the unique romance of a scientific researcher! It was also Karot's fault; he had boasted about his ideas to Orochimaru, who was momentarily amazed. Such a brilliant mind, yet he didn't pursue research, only focusing on training. But Karot knew his own limitations. He was fine with fighting, but asking him to conduct experiments was worse than killing him. Karot had simply transmigrated, not acquired a new mind. Orochimaru, however, didn't understand this and was determined to pull Karot towards scientific experiments. Therefore, he always called Karot to see the results of his experiments.

"You will definitely find this trip worthwhile."

Orochimaru assured him. He had absolute confidence in himself.

"If Orochimaru-senpai is so confident, then my standards are very high."

"Let's go."

Orochimaru led the way and arrived at a doorway covered with sealing barriers.

Carrot immediately recognized it as a sealing technique from the Uzumaki clan. He turned to Orochimaru. "You used a Uzumaki clan sealing technique to lock the gate. If the Uzumaki clan knew this from beyond the grave, wouldn't they come to haunt you tonight?"

The giant snake hesitated, biting its thumb until it bled, then pressed its hand against the door.

The gate emitted a red light, and the stone door turned into a watery substance.

Wow. That's impressive.

Carrot had expected the stone door to open, but instead it turned into water. This was completely unexpected; it didn't make any sense at all! You're a scientist, and you're not even following science!

As Orochimaru had predicted, Karot looked shocked. Orochimaru was quite pleased with himself; his painstaking research into the application of sealing techniques had not been in vain.

Orochimaru silently finished his attack and passed through Minato. Karot eagerly followed, and with a "pop," it felt like piercing through a sheet of paper. After all three had passed through, Minato gradually returned to its previous state.

"Orochimaru-senpai, you're amazing."

Carrot praised, saying he hadn't expected Orochimaru to be able to pull off such a fancy move after simply breaking through a gate. Scientists are really scary, and a scientist who wields power is even scarier because you never know what kind of method he might come up with to deal with you.

After the door had completely transformed, Carrot turned his gaze to the laboratory on this floor. He was immediately startled; all the researchers here were Orochimaru.

"What, what's going on?"

Orochimaru surprised Karot a lot today.

"These are all me, but you could also say none of them are me."

Carrot understood immediately.

"You successfully cloned it?"

Carrot remembered mentioning cloning to Orochimaru once, but unexpectedly, Orochimaru secretly completed it.

"Yes, I also made some changes. They perfectly inherited our brains and will never go against my will."

Chapter 135 Plan Change

At that moment, Karot really wanted to open Orochimaru's head to see its internal structure and what was different inside. Karot had only said it casually, but he didn't expect Orochimaru to turn it into reality and even upgrade it.

With a thousand words on his lips, Carrot could only utter one.

"Orochimaru-senpai, you are truly amazing."

Orochimaru thoroughly enjoyed Carrot's words: "Since I can't beat you in strength, it's not bad that I'm far ahead of you in the field of technology."

"This is……"

Carrot saw a transparent glass dome containing a naked man. Carrot recognized this man—no, everyone in Konoha recognized him. His image was etched on the Hokage Rock.

"Yes, you read that right. It's the original."

Orochimaru stood next to Karot, and the two stood side by side as he spoke.

"You're really bold, Orochimaru-senpai. If Tsunade finds out, you're definitely in for a world of trouble."

"Do you even need to tell me? You can only enter this place with my permission."

Thinking of Karot's bizarre ability, Orochimaru continued.

"Except for you, of course."

"It's just an empty shell!"

Carrot did not sense the presence of a living person within Hashirama Senju's body.

"This is the place where I originally researched the perfect body for myself. He is one of my candidates."

Orochimaru pointed at Hashirama Senju's body and said.

"But what I didn't expect was that after the cells were generated, his appearance was fixed, and I couldn't change it no matter what I did."

"This is probably the charm of perfect Hashirama cells."

When Orochimaru said these words, a strange smile appeared on his face.

Seeing Orochimaru like this, Karot was overjoyed. Only an Orochimaru like this could cooperate with him. Both of them had an unyielding spirit; only in this way could they go far.

"You must have tried using this body before, Orochimaru-senpai, right?"

Carrot knew about Orochimaru's obsession with Hashirama cells, so there was no reason for him to remain indifferent to having such a perfect experimental subject right there.

"Of course, but every time it ends in failure. It's as if this body is rejecting the foreign soul."

"The moment the soul enters the body, it is strangled."

Orochimaru simply couldn't accept this outcome. Having a treasure trove but being unable to use it was incredibly painful, which is why he invited Carrot here. Although this location had been exposed, given Carrot's personality, he wouldn't say a word.

"Is there only one possibility: that the power of the soul is insufficient, and thus it is destroyed by the power of the body itself?"

Carrot offered his explanation: This is Hashirama Senju, the man known as the "God of Shinobi," whose strength is beyond doubt. After the battle, his soul strength would be second to none in the shinobi world.

Carrot's words made Orochimaru fall into deep thought. Orochimaru had not considered this reason, since other experimental subjects succeeded as soon as their souls entered their bodies, so Orochimaru had never thought about it in this direction.

“What you say makes a lot of sense, but right now, where in the entire ninja world can one compare to Hashirama Senju?”

"Why search within the ninja world?"

Karot's words gave Orochimaru a sudden inspiration. "Yes, why did I only think of searching in the ninja world? I could summon Hashirama Senju back from the Pure Land!"

Orochimaru smiled, and Carrot already knew Orochimaru had a plan. Before summoning, Orochimaru would definitely have made all the preparations, after all, it was Hashirama Senju. Of course, that was from Orochimaru's perspective. For Carrot, if Orochimaru couldn't handle the situation in the end, it would be a simple matter of one hand; one hand could easily destroy Hashirama Senju. The only thing that could make Carrot want to act was the Six Paths realm. He wondered if the Six Paths realm possessed the strength of any "gods."

With a clear direction, Orochimaru's spirits improved considerably; Karot had finally solved a problem that had been troubling him for a long time.

After examining Hashirama Senju's body, Orochimaru led Karot to another glass enclosure. Inside, everyone had the exact same face as Orochimaru.

"Orochimaru-senpai, what's going on here?"

Carrot knew Orochimaru wouldn't have brought him here for no reason. Orochimaru wasn't that bored; he always did things with a purpose.

"The engulfing power of the first-generation cells is too strong; my cells can only withstand 60% of that power."

"The bodies you see all possess 60% of the strength of the First Generation."

"These are my perfect bodies. Do you think they can withstand the power of the Ten-Tails?"

It's unexpected that Orochimaru intended to use this method. Previously, Karot and Orochimaru had discussed having Orochimaru possess Madara Uchiha's body with Karot's help, using it as a vessel for the Ten-Tails to ascend to the Six Paths. It's surprising that Orochimaru has taken a different approach. It seems Orochimaru still prefers his own body.

"It might work!"

After all, Carrot wouldn't dare make a guarantee without having experimented with it.

"Sometimes I wonder, does becoming one of the Six Paths mean I can only become the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki?"

"This question has been swirling in my mind. The Ten-Tails is simply a beast. I really don't believe that the first person to reach the Six Paths would think of this method of becoming the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki."

"The Ten-Tails should be like a battery, providing energy to the Jinchūriki. That's how the One-Tails through the Nine-Tails are. Why is the Ten-Tails an exception?"

"Could it be that the power of the Ten-Tails is different, just like the difference between natural energy and chakra? Using natural energy can make you a sage, so using the power of the Ten-Tails can make you the Six Paths?"

Orochimaru's words caused Karot to explode on the spot, and the method Orochimaru mentioned was indeed feasible.

"That might actually be possible!"

"You think so too, right? Based on this view, I've paid a huge price these past few years to find this power. A third power, different from chakra and natural energy."

"This time, by chance, a sudden inspiration flashed in my mind: could different types of chakra in the human body be combined to create a new power?"

"Persistence pays off! After a lot of experiments, I really found the pattern: some powers can be fused together, but these powers need to come from the same person. So cloning technology has been a great help to me. These clones are rich in chakra of all attributes."

Orochimaru waved his hand excitedly, pointing ahead to where the clones had been defeated, and said to Karot.

Chapter 136 An accident

"Then why are they still like this? Why don't you merge them together?"

This is what Carrot doesn't understand: since there's already a successful direction, why not implement it?

Orochimaru stopped speaking in riddles at this point.

"The fusion of any two attributes requires the assistance of another powerful force to compress them, and the force increases exponentially with the number of attributes."

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