Uchiha's personal opinion

Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya remained silent with grim faces, quietly circulating their chakra to make final preparations.

"The rest of you should leave. I don't want to cause any more bloodshed." Hanzo the Salamander pointed his scythe at the other Konoha Jonin.

"I'll kill you!"

A Jonin from the Sarutobi clan, enraged, was the first to launch an attack.

"Fire Release: Great Flame..."

Before he could even unleash his ninjutsu, a figure emerged from the puddle beneath him like a ghost, easily slicing him in two from bottom to top with a scythe.

This time, the killer was a water clone!

"Leader Hanzo's Water Release techniques are truly masterful." Orochimaru commanded the other Konoha Jonin to retreat. "It seems that even the Mizukage of Kirigakure may not have such refined and profound Water Release skills as you."

Relying on a low-level Water Clone Technique, he easily killed a relatively senior Konoha Jonin from the Sarutobi clan. It's hard to tell whether Hanzo was too strong or the Sarutobi Jonin were too weak.

It seems the plan to besiege them has fallen through.

For top-tier experts, numbers don't really matter much.

Tsunade secretly directed the other Konoha Jonin to retreat using coded signals.

On the battlefield, only Hanzo of the Salamander, standing tall, and Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya continued their standoff.

"There are no useless ninjutsu, only useless ninjas..."

Hanzo the Salamander replied casually, "This guy is from the Sarutobi clan, right? He's certainly strong, but he's severely lacking in combat experience, impulsive, easily angered, and careless with his defenses. If he doesn't die, who will?"

"No wonder he's a 'demigod'!"

Orochimaru coldly formed hand seals.

He really had no desire to continue his verbal sparring.

"I've heard that you are all descendants of the three sacred lands of summoning beasts. Don't you intend to let me see the splendor of the sacred lands?" Hanzo the Salamander remained unmoved and continued his provocative words.

Orochimaru spat out a snake from his mouth, and from the snake's mouth emerged a sword. The sword was covered in a sticky slime, and even the battle-hardened Hanzo of the Salamander couldn't help but frown, finding it utterly disgusting.

"Ninja Technique: Hidden Shadow Multi-Snake Hand!"

Orochimaru launched the first attack with a teleportation strike, his Kusanagi sword tucked into his waist, and with his left hand, he unleashed six intertwined, flying venomous snakes, heading straight for Hanzo the Salamander.

"call!"

Hanzo the Salamander exhaled a powerful breath of poison forward, then vanished in a flash.

Orochimaru quickly withdrew to avoid Hanzo's poison gas, and his first attack naturally failed.

Just then, in the puddle at Jiraiya's feet, a scythe silently hooked towards his calf.

"careful!"

Upon realizing the danger, Tsunade punched Jiraiya away, thus thwarting Hanzo's salamander's ambush with his scythe.

"Ninjutsu: Painful Foot!"

Immediately afterwards, Tsunade gathered chakra in her legs and stomped hard on the ground!

"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!"

The ground cracked open with countless fissures, as if it had exploded.

Where Tongtian's foot struck, a crater over two meters in diameter was created, and blood began to seep from the ground.

"Tsunade...you went way too far! You almost killed me..." Jiraiya, clutching his shoulder after taking a punch, walked over. "Huh! You stomped Hanzo to death?!"

Then came strange comments like "violent woman".

The puddle behind them moved again.

"Ninjutsu: Needle Jizo!"

Seeing Tsunade's somewhat surprised expression, Jiraiya quickly activated a secret ninjutsu technique, using chakra to grow hair that covered his entire body.

"Clang!"

Hanzo's blade clashed with Jiraiya's needle-like hair, producing a metallic clang.

Although much of his hair was cut off, it still failed to harm Jiraiya.

"Kusanagi Sword - Sky Blade - Long!"

Orochimaru's Kusanagi sword was aimed directly at Hanzo of the Salamander, and suddenly extended.

Hanzo the Salamander dodged again with a Body Flicker Technique.

"Fire Release: Exploding Flame Formation!"

Tsunade's legs were somehow covered by explosive tags that had connected and spread upwards.

"Ninjutsu: Needle Jizo!"

In a moment of desperation, Jiraiya quickly activated his ninjutsu again, whipping his chakra-enhanced hair around Tsunade, the ends of his hair razor-sharply destroying the exploding tags that were spreading upwards.

"burst!"

Hanzo the Salamander activated his ninjutsu.

Jiraiya and Tsunade, who were protected by the needle-shaped Jizo statue, were blasted and rolled several times on the ground.

"Orochi Style: Instant Sword Slash!"

Orochimaru followed suit, emerging from another puddle behind Hanzo the Salamander and silently wielding his sword to take Hanzo's head.

"Sword Technique: Iaijutsu!"

Hanzo the Salamander drew his sword with his left hand, turned around on the spot, and slashed back at the sword blade that was attacking from behind, completely breaking Orochimaru's sword style.

Orochimaru was knocked back by the immense force of Hanzo the Salamander.

"not good!"

Orochimaru's steps faltered, and he immediately sensed that the situation was dire.

"Sword Technique: Chain Scythe Double Strike!"

Hanzo the Salamander flung his right-hand kusarigama away, aiming for Orochimaru's waist, while forcibly twisting the blade of his left-hand katana, slashing straight at Orochimaru's skull.

"Orochi-style Substitution Technique!"

Orochimaru was cut into three pieces in one move, and a long snake emerged from the ground not far away, spitting out a brand new Orochimaru.

Orochimaru, panting heavily, stared warily at Hanzo the Salamander, who continued to stand with his scythe in hand.

"What a marvelous ninjutsu..." Hanzo of the Salamander expressed great amazement at Orochimaru's secret technique.

"This substitution jutsu must have consumed a lot of chakra... Do you still have the strength to fight?"

Hanzo the Salamander sheathed his katana and formed a hand seal with his left hand.

Tsunade and Jiraiya quickly teleported to Orochimaru's side, and the three formed a combined attack formation.

"Thank you for showing me the wonders of Konoha ninjutsu..." Hanzo of the Salamander spoke calmly, yet his words carried boundless killing intent. "Then, let me show you the secrets of the Amegakure's Water Release lineage!"

"Water Release: Waterfall Mighty Wave!"

The powerful chakra, carrying the accumulated water and rain, instantly created a towering wave tens of meters high.

Hanzo of the Salamander stood on the crest of a wave, coldly watching Orochimaru and his two companions who were waiting in full battle.

"Water Release: Water Dragon's Feast!"

A giant wave crashed down on the three of them, overwhelming them with tremendous force. At the same time, with another ninjutsu from Hanzo the Salamander, huge water dragons appeared from the wave, swirling and attacking the three of them from all directions.

"Spiritual Communication Technique: Triple Rashomon!"

Orochimaru quickly bit his finger, summoning three enormous gates to the underworld.

"Boom boom boom boom!!!"

The power of the giant wave was almost unstoppable. The Rashomon Gate was destroyed by the giant wave after only a few seconds, turning into smoke and dissipating.

"Spirit Spell: Roof Collapse Technique!"

A giant toad was summoned by Jiraiya's summoning technique, but before it could react, it was battered and torn apart by giant waves and water dragons.

"Jiraiya! You king..."

Before the giant toad could finish its thunderous curse, it too vanished in a wisp of smoke.

"I'm sorry, Gamahiro..."

Jiraiya was also filled with remorse.

After two rounds of obstruction, the giant wave and the water dragon slowed down slightly, but under Hanzo's control, they swept up the surrounding water again and rushed towards the three with even greater force.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bite!"

Tsunade quickly formed hand seals and unleashed a Water Release secret technique passed down from the Second Hokage.

A massive whirlpool also formed instantly, rising from below to meet Hanzo the Salamander's giant wave and water dragon.

"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!"

The two water-style ninjutsu collided violently, triggering a massive chakra explosion.

Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru were also torn apart by the immense shockwave and the subsequent giant waves and water dragons.

The Konoha Jonin watching from afar also became anxious and quickly activated their Body Flicker Technique to rush forward and provide assistance.

"Don't come any closer!"

Tsunade immediately called out to them sharply.

Then, he gathered chakra in his hands and used the Palm Healing Technique to heal Orochimaru and Jiraiya, who were the most seriously injured.

Hanzo the Salamander did not continue his attack, but instead manipulated the waves to slowly descend from mid-air.

"Konoha... truly blessed by the Six Paths..." Hanzo of the Salamander stood firmly on the ground, quietly observing the three heavily injured individuals. "Your chakra is almost depleted, isn't it? Can you still fight?"

The three did not reply, and Hanzo the Salamander simply watched them heal their wounds in silence.

After a while, Orochimaru and Jiraiya stood up unsteadily.

"What an enviable village..."

Sansho-yu sighed inwardly.