CHAPTER 242: CHAPTER 135: PERSEVERANCE

"Uh!"

As a sharp pain hit his neck, Orochimaru felt bad. He reached into his waist bag for the first time, but the enemy floated away from him lightly.

The view in front of him suddenly blurred for a moment, as if he had lost all his strength. An inexplicable heat flowed along the blood vessels. Orochimaru struggled to turn his head, and a fluttering white figure came into view.

"You are not simple to pass the test of Tagitsuhime and the others, but..." Tagorihime said in a delicate voice, licking her red lips, "Unfortunately, your third test is not a battle, otherwise I would have won a long ago."

Orochimaru pursed his lips tightly and did not respond to Tagorihime’s words. What he took out of his waist bag was not a kunai, but a syringe containing an antidote.

He calmly pulled out the needle, pierced his forearm, and decisively pushed it in.

As the light purple reagent entered the blood vessels, his tense face also eased a little, only the cold sweat on his forehead was still glowing slightly.

Because he was too focused, he didn’t even notice that there was only Tagorihime left around him, and Kamihane’s figure had disappeared at some point.

"Hehe, since I guarded the third trial of Ryūchi Cave, I have personally used this trick to attack countless immortal seekers. They either attacked me for the first time, or were so scared that they peed their pants. This is the first time I have seen your response."

Tagorihime quietly floated in the air, overlooking Orochimaru like a fairy descending to the world, with white mist floating around, like a dream.

"I am also quite experienced in snake venom," Orochimaru slowly stood up straight.

"If you think this will work, hehe..." Tagorihime covered her mouth and chuckled, and the bright face turned into a hideous white scaled snake face again, "The final outcome must be... eaten by me!"

"I have not yet achieved the immortality I yearn for, how could I fall here!" Orochimaru took a deep breath.

As the white mist filled the air, it merged with Tagorihime’s white clothes. A breeze blew, and the clothes fluttered. A flame pattern was added to the corner of the white clothes at some point, curling up like flowing clouds. The face of the person in front of him changed, and a man in a Hokage robe walked out of the mist.

"Immortality? Is that why you left Konoha?"

Orochimaru stared blankly at the man in front of him. This familiar and unfamiliar figure was his former teacher, the Third Hokage of Konoha Village, Sarutobi Hiruzen!

"Third Hokage? Why are you here?" he asked subconsciously.

"Not ’teacher’?" Sarutobi Hiruzen snorted coldly, "Orochimaru, I have always thought you were a sensible and obedient child. Now it seems that you really disappoint me."

"Disappointed? What qualifications do you have to be disappointed?" Orochimaru regained his composure, "Although you and I once had the name of master and disciple, I don’t owe you anything. Although I was born in Konoha, I have never owed Konoha anything."

Sarutobi Hiruzen’s face was gloomy, "For your own selfish desires, you betrayed the village and your companions and became a rebel who followed Uchiha Kamihane. Isn’t this a fall!"

Orochimaru clenched his fists silently, "Shut up, you are not allowed to use your mouth to insult my benefactor!"

"To me, he is my ’teacher’, not ’teacher’. He led me to find the meaning of life and gave me a platform to realize my dreams, and Konoha... is just a casino for you high-level people to fight against each other, and the chips in your hands are often the blood and lives of your companions. It is a waste of time to stay there!"

The white mist floated, and Sarutobi Hiruzen’s figure disappeared like a mirage, and another figure appeared behind Orochimaru.

"Orochimaru, come back, everyone misses you very much."

Jiraiya stepped out of the mist, followed by Tsunade with an angry face.

"You guy, you left without saying a word. Do you know how long we have been looking for you?"

Orochimaru turned around silently, his eyebrows raised slightly, "It’s been a long time, I didn’t expect you to look like this after you grew up."

Jiraiya was tall and his messy white hair was scattered to his waist. His appearance was firm and he hadn’t changed much from when he was a child, but his eyes were a little deeper.

And Tsunade grew more and more graceful, like a flower bud about to bloom, with picturesque eyebrows and a slender waist. Her eyebrows were filled with a youthful and beautiful atmosphere. Although she was angry, she was quite beautiful.

"Come back."

"Come back quickly!"

Orochimaru smiled slightly, but the smile seemed thin and cold, "Why should I go back?"

"You know, although I don’t want to admit it, the teacher values you the most," Jiraiya said helplessly.

"Based on your words, you might be able to become the Fourth Hokage when you return to Konoha!" Tsunade crossed her arms and pouted slightly.

"Hokage?" Orochimaru chuckled, "Compared with what I am pursuing now, the so-called Hokage is like a joke."

"Are you just abandoning us like this?" Jiraiya took a step forward and pointed to his chest, "Aren’t we companions who were born and died together?"

"Hey, you guy, do you really not care about us at all!" Tsunade was immediately furious. If Jiraiya hadn’t stopped her, the super strength punch would have been thrown up.

"So you are reluctant to part with our bonds? Since that’s the case..." Orochimaru tilted his head and slowly extended his palms to the two of them:

"Why don’t... you come over too."

"What!" The two were stunned, and in Orochimaru’s almost sarcastic sneer, their figures dissipated together.

The white mist surged like a tide and gathered again into a young figure.

Black eyes and black hair, clear bones, and the handsome figure made people have to look up, with a casual light smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Teacher?"

"Orochimaru, you know, it took a full 7 years to replicate the achievements of Senju Tobirama in less than 1 year. I am very disappointed in you..." Kamihane shook his head, "Really disappointed..."

"What?" Orochimaru looked puzzled.

"Still don’t understand? I said you are not as good as Orochimaru in the slightest."

Kamihane carried his hands on his back, "Actually, I only liked Orochimaru at that time. You are just a side gift."

Orochimaru was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

"Tagorihime, your means are really low-level."

The white mist floated, and only Orochimaru’s voice echoed in the wilderness.

"Enough, if you are just testing my heart, you can end it here."

"Continuing, will only make me more and more despise your methods."

After a moment, a rather regretful female voice came from the mist:

"Hey, have you been discovered? How did you notice it?"

"I have long known that this is an illusion, because my teacher will never put pressure on me with such words," Orochimaru showed a confident smile.

The white mist dissipated inch by inch, and the light erased the darkness bit by bit. Orochimaru suddenly found that he was standing in front of a rather simple temple.

In front, there was an antique palace, although it was not as magnificent as the palace of Tagitsuhime in the first level, it was majestic and gave people a more real feeling.

"Yo, you woke up," Kamihane’s clear voice came from behind.

Orochimaru heard the sound and turned his head, his eyes widened instantly.

Tagorihime, who was quite arrogant and arrogant in the illusion, was now being strangled by Kamihane, hanging in the air like a chick, her beautiful face was flushed.

"Teacher... this is?"

"Oh, suddenly attacked me, probably wanted to make me fall into illusion too?"

Kamihane smiled lightly, "Well, but since you passed the test, let her go."

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