Double-transformation: I, Sakura Haruno! Will crush the pirates!

boom!

A series of cracking sounds rang out as Rashomon was pierced through layer by layer.

However, the iron-clad defense of the Asura Gate, summoned from hell, ultimately deflected the power of the impact after the icy mist dissipated.

Three huge doorway grooves were left in the ground, along with two impact tracks filled with ice spikes that were torn apart from the middle.

"You're quite capable!"

Sakura's figure darted swiftly through the wind and snow.

After the first attack ended, the next attack, imbued with Armament Haki, was already upon Orochimaru.

"Again?!"

Orochimaru's eyes widened, and a massive amount of natural energy surged into the cursed seal on his arm.

He then waved his hand and unleashed a large number of venomous snakes, which intertwined and coiled around Sakura, restricting all her movements.

Unfortunately, even with the cursed seal involved in the spell, the snakes couldn't climb onto Sakura's body.

She still couldn't avoid being frozen by the extreme low temperature, and with her frantic struggles, she turned into ice shards scattered all over the ground.

"Hahaha, that's not enough, Orochimaru-sensei!"

Amidst hysterical, maniacal laughter, Sakura leaped high into the air once more.

With each swing of his fists, he unleashed an intense, pure white, chilling light.

Orochimaru sensed danger and spread his hands, releasing a large number of venomous snakes, with sharp blades hidden in their mouths.

Just as Sakura's pink fist came down, it suddenly extended and pierced upwards.

The jungle of sharp blades tore through the wind of the fist, and the wildly growing forest of sword clusters seemed to be covering the girl in the sky.

Sakura took out a kunai and hurled it forcefully at Orochimaru, who was standing far above Manda's head. The kunai whistled as it sliced ​​through the air.

Orochimaru's golden snake eyes caught sight of the cherry blossom-shaped mark on the kunai handle, and his gaze immediately sharpened.

"Flying Thunder God Technique, ah, what a nostalgic technique!"

Recalling the Yellow Flash who was once active in the Third Shinobi World War, Orochimaru dared not relax his vigilance in the slightest.

With a flick of his wrist, he raised the head of the venomous snake in his hand and slashed at the kunai in mid-air with a Kusanagi sword, precisely cutting the cherry blossom mark on the hilt in two and destroying the spacetime anchor hidden within.

"Tsk."

Sakura gasped in astonishment upon seeing this.

As a space-time ninjutsu, the Flying Thunder God Technique is indeed incredibly fast, but most of the strong ninjas in the ninja world who understand this technique have their own solutions for dealing with it and destroying the space-time anchor points.

Whether it was preventing Sakura from getting close before, or now severing the kunai's mark, Orochimaru has made ample preparations to avoid a surprise attack from the Flying Thunder God Technique.

"Ten Thousand Snakes, bite her!"

Orochimaru, who jumped down from the top of Manda's head, gave commands to the summoning beast behind him, while raising his hands to form hand seals.

Manda: "Huh? Me?"

Just as she was about to shake her head, her astonished pupils were filled with dazzling light. The girl's delicate pink fist, mixed with unparalleled domineering aura and frost, smashed towards it.

"Orochimaru, I curse you..."

boom! ! !

The mountain-like behemoth was infused with unparalleled power into its brain, while storms and frost relentlessly suppressed its body, and the collision of wills originating from the soul level expanded violently.

Manda was knocked unconscious by this attack, with a large amount of blood splattering from his eyes, mouth, and nose, and his aura weakening.

The threshold of the summoning jutsu was immediately exceeded, and Manda exploded into a large cloud of smoke, providing Orochimaru with a final cover.

In the distance, Orochimaru completed his hand seals, and his body swelled up. The outermost layer of human skin was torn apart, revealing the fine, tiny white snakes that formed his body. When he lay down on the ground again, he had transformed into a gigantic snake.

——Ninpo Technique o Orochi Usage Technique!

"Kid, ninja battles are never about making a big show of it! A single, decisive blow is our style!"

Countless snake bodies wriggled alternately, and Orochimaru, with his streamlined shape, moved rapidly, rushing towards Sakura like lightning.

"Really? But I think young people these days prefer my style!"

Sakura took her stance, her Observation Haki spreading out in a net-like pattern throughout the forest.

Although the user can sense Orochimaru's attack direction, the user's speed will increase to an extremely terrifying level with the participation of natural energy.

Just like in the battle between Pain and Jiraiya, it wasn't that they didn't want to kill Jiraiya instantly, but rather that, despite the combined abilities of all his clones, they were always one step behind Jiraiya in the speed contest.

Unable to predict the future, Sakura could only reach out her palm and grasp the white-scaled serpent. She manipulated the large amount of cold air to condense it into ice spears, which then rained down from the sky.

Unexpectedly, the white-scaled serpent that traversed the ground seemed to have eyes in the back of its head, twisting and dodging in an S-shape, wriggling and climbing through the gaps in the rain of ice spears, its speed not decreasing at all.

Just as it was about to approach Sakura, the White Phosphorus Serpent opened its many mouths, and clusters of Kusanagi sword blades extended, instantly transforming the entire serpent into a hedgehog, spinning rapidly as it slashed towards Sakura.

"The Kusanagi Sword can be used like this?"

Sakura raised an eyebrow and stretched out her hand to collide head-on with Orochimaru, who had already turned into a meat grinder.

"There's a lot you don't know, young man!"

The white-scaled serpent grinned menacingly, its body covered in sharp blades.

Sakura's slender hands were slashed with wounds, and her body was pierced by sharp blades.

However, with his five fingers clenched tightly, his Armament Haki had firmly grasped Orochimaru's body.

"You're so slippery, you've got nowhere to run now!"

Sakura, amidst the cluster of swords, raised her right fist, which was crackling with dark lightning, and the chakra boiling over her body released steam capable of dissolving everything.

—Armed Boil Release: Unparalleled Strength!

"not good!"

Orochimaru's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, and he began to struggle violently.

Even Logia-type Devil Fruit users couldn't escape the Armament Haki restraint, let alone Orochimaru at this moment.

"Ah--!"

Amidst the girl's furious roar, her fist, imbued with chakra and domineering power, swung out.

It smashed through the armor woven from the Kusanagi sword on Orochimaru's body, and slammed solidly into his chest, piercing him through with a single punch!

Peng! !

A domineering roar, and immense power surged forth.

Orochimaru almost lost consciousness from that punch, flying backward and smashing into the ground, leaving a long, narrow trail.

The earth and giant trees hundreds of meters behind him were shattered by the aftershocks of this attack.

Sakura pulled out several shards of Kusanagi sword that were piercing her body, and her white skirt was stained crimson.

However, the wound healed rapidly under the combined effects of Yang Release chakra and Life Return.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Orochimaru crawled out of the ruins, clutching his chest, blood streaming from his seven orifices, looking extremely disheveled.

Sensing the dwindling chakra within him, he knew he couldn't continue like this, or the trump card he'd reserved for the old man would be prematurely used on this genius.

Orochimaru's sinister gaze swept over Sakura, and as he looked at the pink-haired girl in front of him who was seemingly indestructible and had incredibly high damage output, a thought flashed through his mind.

"It seems we have to call it a day? Before you leave, as your senior, I'd like to offer you some advice!"

"Don't even think about running away!"

Sakura activates the Flying Thunder God Mark she left on the other person's head when they first made contact.

Unexpectedly, Orochimaru was even more resolute, spitting out the Kusanagi sword from the mouth of a small snake and piercing through his own head along with the Flying Thunder God mark.

Sakura's spell failed to activate, and the spatial and temporal backlash caused her to take a small step back.

Orochimaru had already used the Orochimaru Substitution Technique, and incidentally inserted his own body into the soil.

"Konoha has rotted into a man-eating monster! Sooner or later, the people you cherish will be chewed up and swallowed by it!"

"At that time, how will you face the village for which you have dedicated everything and fought your whole life? Hehehehehe!"

With a meaningful laugh, Orochimaru turned into a puddle of mud and flowed down into the crack in the ground, using Earth Release to escape at high speed.

This level of earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of technique used in martial arts)...

Sakura, who had caught up, threw a punch that froze hundreds of meters of ground under the heat.

Despite their ability to perceive and smell deeply underground, they detected absolutely no signs of life.

"Did it get away? That stinky snake."

None of my family members understand how a renowned expert could allocate all their skill points to escaping and survival.

Shaking her head, the girl turned her gaze to the approaching Jonin and Anbu ninjas in the distance.

A line of golden text appeared under his eyes; it was an achievement point notification from the system.

[Notification: You have obtained the achievement 'I, the snake, am incredibly resilient!' and are hereby awarded 110 achievement points.]

"Hey, you stingy guy, are you trying to block my path of repeatedly grinding achievements?"

After complaining about the system, a somewhat tired Sakura leaned against a tree and closed her eyes.

Orochimaru's words before he left still echoed in my ears, finally turning into a soft sigh.

"Sigh, that guy... I might as well report it. In the end, I won't be the one who suffers the headache."

Chapter 131 Black Soil: No, hehe

"What exactly happened...?"

The ANBU ninjas, following a powerful Jonin, finally broke through the blockade of the surrounding cold waves and barely managed to enter the forest that had turned into a snow country.

Since many of them wore dark armor that offered no protection against the cold, they could only shiver while hugging their shoulders.

When they entered the very heart of the battle, they saw a scene that resembled a frozen hell, and a pure white girl resting against a tree.

The secret agents stared wide-eyed, speechless for a long time.

"Sakura, are you alright?"

Kakashi rushed out of the crowd and hurriedly ran towards the girl.

But as he approached her, his legs were frozen by the solid ice on the ground, and he stumbled.

Sakura, awakened by the noise, slightly opened her snow-white eyes: "Oh, it's Kakashi-sensei, you've come."

"What exactly is going on?!"

Using chakra to shatter the ice on his feet, Kakashi moved his ankles and carefully stepped forward.

"Look, Orochimaru. We fought him, but he escaped."

Sakura gestured towards the snake meat jelly in the distance, indicating to the others.

Listening to Sakura's words and glancing at the battlefield whose terrain had been permanently altered, the ANBU ninjas' eyes twitched.

Sister, that's Orochimaru, the legendary Sannin of Konoha who once dominated the ninja world, now an S-rank rogue ninja.

Could you please stop describing your fight like it's like going to the supermarket downstairs to buy rice? It makes people like you who can't even afford rice look bad.

"You idiot, why didn't you call for help when you encountered such a dangerous ninja?!"

Kakashi's usually deadpan eyes became serious for once.

"They forgot about it when the fighting started~, and the distress flare was on Sasuke's arm."

Sakura waved her hand dismissively, responding to Kakashi with nonchalance.

The girl was equally frustrated, having been stabbed right through by the snake and only managing to land a punch.

"You, you, and you, clean this place up, and remember to report this to the Hokage."

Sakura tapped her finger a few times, skillfully instructing the spies collecting traces to do their jobs.

The ANBU members who were pointed at by her subconsciously followed Sakura's instructions and used Fire Release on the surrounding ice.

It took them quite a while to realize what was happening.