In Naruto, you can become a god through gacha pulls.

"What's the stake?" Orochimaru asked.

“I lost, my body is yours; I won, you will become Root’s assistant,” Yoriichi said calmly.

The moment Yoriichi uttered those words, the two people behind Danzo felt a pang of fear.

"Lord Kenshin...you." Aburame Ryoma suddenly felt a little moved. Someone who could think so much about the "Root" organization was indeed a member of Root's leadership.

Yamanaka Fu sighed softly, and his gaze toward Yoriichi became fervent. Before this, he had even harbored a slight prejudice against this suddenly appearing "leader".

But as it turns out, he truly lived up to his reputation as the person chosen by Lord Danzo.

Looking up at the sky, Yamanaka Kaze had made up his mind. Even if Yoriichi lost the match, he would do everything in his power to protect this new sprout of "root".

"Go, Lord Kenshin, no matter the outcome..."

Orochimaru pondered for a moment, the cunning in his eyes fading with curiosity. He fixed his gaze on Yoriichi with amusement and slowly spoke:

"Okay."

Upon seeing Orochimaru agree, Yoriichi's eyes immediately filled with anticipation.

Being able to fight against the "Legendary Sannin" is an extremely precious opportunity!

Besides... it's also a good opportunity to test out the latest moves!

Yoriichi clenched his left hand tightly, and in his palm was a tender green branch!

Chapter 6: Sage Body Wood Release Technique, Overwhelming Orochimaru

The two arrived at their positions on either side of the arena, and as the competition slogan of Yamanaka Kaze faded, their figures disappeared from the spot at the same time!

"So fast!" Yamanaka Fu exclaimed! At this moment, he was watching the battle from the viewing platform with Shimura Danzo and Aburame Ryoma. Watching the two figures moving quickly, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

One of the two competitors is a disciple of the Third Hokage of Konoha, and the other is the ultimate killing move trained by Danzo Shimura!

Yoriichi was unaware of what Yamanaka Fu was thinking. He was fully focused on the battle, as his opponent was one of the "Legendary Sannin," whose strength had naturally reached the Kage level. Such strength did not allow him to be complacent!

Orochimaru's lower body transformed into a snake, crawling rapidly across the ground as he approached Yoriichi. His eyes, filled with a terrifying and greedy aura, seemed intent on devouring Yoriichi completely!

"Hmph!" Yoriichi remained calm beneath the mask, drew his Kusanagi sword from his waist, aimed the blade at Orochimaru's head, and activated Phantom Body Flicker in an instant!

Countless shadow clones began to interfere with Orochimaru's vision, making it impossible for him to distinguish the location of the real body.

"Oh?" Orochimaru's expression immediately became cautious, and he spat out a long sword from his throat, which looked exactly like the Kusanagi sword.

The next second, Yoriichi swiftly advanced, his blade radiating intense heat. The slash, imbued with the Phoenix Flower Technique, unleashed a fiery phoenix, and in milliseconds, it was close to Orochimaru's head.

Orochimaru, like a frightened bird, widened his pupils instantly.

"Ugh!" In the critical moment, Orochimaru's body instantly detached from his outer shell and flew towards the other side.

Yoriichi's fire sword naturally struck a piece of shed snake skin. Before he could activate Body Flicker again, the snake skin transformed into several rapidly moving small snakes, quickly wrapping around Yoriichi's body. In an instant, Yoriichi was tightly bound by the snakes.

"What!" Yamanaka Fu immediately exclaimed in alarm, "It's the snake-shedding technique!"

"So, fighting a Kage-level powerhouse was too much of a stretch?" Yamanaka Fu seemed very anxious, wishing he could rush forward and rescue Yoriichi.

Aburame Ryoma placed one hand on Yamanaka Fu's shoulder. Yamanaka Fu was slightly taken aback and looked at Aburame Ryoma.

His eyes didn't show much panic; instead, they appeared quite confident.

"Hmm?" Yamanaka Fu looked towards the arena again, only to see that Yoriichi, who was trapped by the snakes, showed no signs of breaking free. At this moment, Yoriichi's mask was torn off by the snakes, revealing a face underneath, a face with a contemptuous smile.

"C4 Garuda!" A loud shout from afar drew everyone's attention. Behind Orochimaru, a masked boy leaned leisurely against the wall.

In front of him, Orochimaru's shadow was already deeply intertwined with the swarm of snakes.

"Shadow Stitching Technique".

"How is this possible! When?" Orochimaru was extremely shocked, but he had no time to think. His body was immediately dragged towards the snake swarm by the shadow, while Yoriichi, who was bound by the snake swarm, began to compress his entire body, and white light emanated from him.

"Boom!!!"

A violent explosion resounded through the sky, smoke began to billow across the battlefield, and a raging fire broke out on the competition field.

Yoriichi looked towards the location of the smoke and remained vigilant. Although Garuda had not weakened its strength as before, Yoriichi still did not believe that this one move alone could kill Orochimaru, a Kage-level powerhouse.

Sure enough, after a short while, a giant python slowly crawled out from inside the smoke. Even more terrifying was that it was a giant snake with eight heads!

"The Eight-Headed Serpent Technique? Orochimaru's trump card." Yoriichi recognized the move before him and frowned.

A rough laugh reached Yoriichi's ears; it was Orochimaru's laughter. Immediately afterward, Orochimaru's head slowly emerged from the very center of the Yamata no Orochi.

"I really underestimated you. How did you do that just now? It was clearly your chakra inside that body, and the Kusanagi sword was genuine."

"Can't a fake body use a real Kusanagi sword?" Yoriichi smirked, his finger flicking slightly, and the Kusanagi sword was delivered from afar along the shadows swirling from the explosion on the ground.

"Interesting." Orochimaru's emotions became excited. "It's rare to see someone with your combat experience!"

"Unfortunately, I won't be as careless as I was before in this battle!"

The Yamata no Orochi roared to the sky, as if it wanted to collapse the entire Root organization's underground base. The violent tremors reached Yoriichi's ears and were extremely shocking!

Yoriichi's clothes were being blown wildly by the strong wind, as if he were trembling.

The Yamata no Orochi stirred up dust and charged toward Yoriichi, each of its heads fiercely ready to bite him.

Yoriichi smiled dismissively, plunged the Kusanagi sword into the ground, and began to rapidly form hand seals. Orochimaru's eyes immediately showed wariness.

"Wood Release: Advent of the World of Trees!"

When the technique was activated, countless towering trees leaped up from the ground, instantly squeezing the Yamata no Orochi within them and hindering its movements.

"What?!" Everyone on the viewing platform exclaimed in astonishment!

"A Wood Release ninjutsu that only a ninja god can activate!" Yamanaka Fu shouted first.

"So strong..." Ryoma Aburame no longer held back his praise, and admiration appeared in his eyes as he looked at Yoriichi.

Orochimaru's face immediately darkened, and he seemed somewhat at a loss.

"Heh, as expected of a Hokage's technique! But..."

"Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique!" Before Orochimaru could finish speaking, Yoriichi raised the Kusanagi sword, and the blade was instantly wrapped by a fire dragon, the exploding chakra seemingly inexhaustible.

"This is the power of the Sage Body, combined with the massive amount of chakra brought by the Uzumaki bloodline, poured into the sword!"

A fire dragon burst from the sword and instantly soared into the forest, engulfing everything in flames! It began to scorch the entire body of the Yamata no Orochi!

"Ahhh! You're an ahhhhhh!" Unable to hear what Orochimaru was saying, Yoriichi did not stop what he was doing. He would continue to release the Dragon Fire Technique until Orochimaru swore to surrender.

With the enhancement of the Immortal Body and the Vortex Bloodline, this move can be unleashed almost infinitely.

A vast expanse of intense heat and flames instantly engulfed the Yamata no Orochi, its interior resembling a giant furnace.

"Orochimaru shouldn't be defeated so easily, right?" Yoriichi was somewhat at a loss. Orochimaru's voice could no longer be heard inside. He couldn't let a Kage-level shinobi be burned to death like that.

Impossible, absolutely impossible, especially for a super strong person like Orochimaru.

While he was thinking, a Kusanagi sword suddenly shot towards Yoriichi's face from afar.

Yoriichi swiftly dodged the rapid sword strike and looked at the figure, its body charred and blackened, slowly emerging from the sea of ​​fire.

"Orochimaru, he's still alive after all." Yoriichi became wary again.

However, in Yoriichi's view, Orochimaru in front of him laughed loudly.

"I concede, kid. You win this time!"

Chapter 7 The Girl and Ryuchi Cave

"I won?" Yoriichi looked at Orochimaru in disbelief. Shimura Danzo and the others then jumped down from the sky and stood in front of Yoriichi.

"Since that's the case, you can't go back on your word anymore." Danzo shielded Yoriichi behind him, his eyes revealing a shrewd glint.

"We must not have any other ideas."

Orochimaru curled his lips into a natural smile, "Of course."

Orochimaru walked past Danzo, his ruthless gaze fixed on Yoriichi. After a long pause, he silently spoke:

"His future is limitless."

Yoriichi smiled slightly and looked at Orochimaru, saying:

"Thank you, sir. I will continue to strive to become stronger."

After speaking, Yoriichi smiled faintly, his three-tomoe eyes flashing. Shimura Danzo trembled slightly as he walked step by step to Orochimaru's side, whispering something in his ear.

Yoriichi naturally watched the changing expressions in Orochimaru's eyes, from initial shock to deep thought and then to excitement, each scene unfolding before Yoriichi's eyes.

He just used "Kotoamatsukami" to get Danzo to tell Orochimaru about the "Konoha Annihilation Plan".

This means that the Root organization, in conjunction with Orochimaru's Sound Village, will carry out a plan to destroy Konoha!

“Alright.” Orochimaru’s pupils gleamed with a strange light. “After all, I lost the match.” As he said this, Orochimaru’s cursed snake eyes glanced at Yoriichi, but he did not detect any killing intent in them. Instead, he showed more pity for Yoriichi.

Yoriichi smiled. It was natural that he couldn't be the one to inform Orochimaru about something like completing the "Konoha Annihilation Plan." It would be more authoritative for Danzo Shimura to do so.

He was only responsible for remaining behind the scenes until the day the final plan was completed.

With that in mind, Yoriichi silently opened the system panel of the [Strongest Gacha System].

At this point, the stored energy value has reached 7*89%.

In the recent battle against a powerful figure like Orochimaru, the number of card draws increased by more than three times, even more than in the battle against Itachi. This is enough to show that Orochimaru's current strength is still greater than Itachi's. However, once Itachi joins Akatsuki, his combat power will probably increase rapidly and surpass Orochimaru's.

Itachi is still a genius. I didn't kill him because I sensed Obito's chakra fluctuations at the time, and also because a genius like Itachi might be useful to me in the future, as long as I make good use of a key figure—Sasuke Uchiha of Konoha.

Yoriichi's eyes gleamed with a cunning light. Now that he had won over Orochimaru, the coup was just one step away.

Although he has obtained the Sage Body, he has not yet mastered Sage Mode. Only by mastering Sage Mode can the Sage Body and Sage Chakra be used to their fullest potential!

Konoha's Sage Mode... is roughly divided into four categories: Toad Sage Technique from Mount Myōboku, Snake Sage Technique from Ryūchi Cave, Slug Sage Technique from Shikkotsu Forest, and Wood Release Sage Technique developed by Hashirama Senju.

The only way to find Mount Myōboku is to contact Jiraiya, but Yoriichi is not familiar with Jiraiya. Shikkotsu Forest does not have any characters with Sage Mode. Yoriichi guesses that Hashirama Senju's self-created Sage Mode may be related to Shikkotsu Forest, since Tsunade, his descendant, has a special relationship with the slugs of Shikkotsu Forest.

There are no traces of the three ways to cultivate Sage Mode, but there is one last one left: the Snake Sage Technique of Ryuchi Cave. Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi are among those who practiced it, and Kabuto Yakushi obtained Sage Mode.

Yoriichi smiled faintly and looked at Orochimaru's location. Knowing the location of Ryuchi Cave, Orochimaru was standing right in front of him, so there was no need to consider Sage Techniques from other regions for the time being.

Yoriichi slowly approached Orochimaru. Orochimaru, who was secretly negotiating with Danzo, obviously noticed Yoriichi's approaching figure. He smiled slightly and looked at Yoriichi. Danzo also stopped talking and looked at Yoriichi together.

"I remember your name is Kenshin, right? What's the matter?" Orochimaru was somewhat surprised that Danzo had suddenly stopped talking, but he didn't pay too much attention to Danzo's actions. Instead, he turned his suspicious gaze to Yoriichi.