Naruto: Immortal Spirit

"Xujun really kept me waiting for a long time..."

It had been a few days since I saw Orochimaru again. He was still the same, but his brows were a little more tired. He was leaning against the big tree, waiting for Kato Oo's figure.

He closed his eyes slightly and seemed to be enjoying this moment of tranquility. It wasn't until Kato Oo came closer that he turned his head and stared at Kato Oo with his golden snake eyes. There was an indescribable emotion, but a slight hint of light slowly lifted from the corner of his mouth. laugh.

"Teacher Orochimaru..."

"haven't seen you for a long time……"

The wind on the seaside seemed a little more quiet at night, gently blowing Orochimaru's hair. The bright moon shone on the waves, reflecting the sparkling light, which also flickered in Kato O's eyes.

Looking at Orochimaru, Kato O smiled.

For some reason, when I think back on those days when I struggled to survive alone on the long road in the dark night, I don't always feel lonely and painful. There seems to be the magnificent sea and the bright stars.

"It seems that Xujun is living a good life these days..."

Orochimaru chuckled lightly and walked slowly towards the seaside, his voice slightly cold.

"Probably a normal person..."

"A mediocre normal person?"

Orochimaru sneered and ignored Kato Oo. His footsteps lightly stepped on the beach without making any sound. The waves surged, completely hiding his footprints, as if he was just a passerby on this sea without leaving any trace.

"Master Orochimaru's research has reached the most critical moment, right?"

"Xu Jun, you are indeed as smart as ever..."

Kato Ou smiled softly, slowly stretched out his right hand, and looked straight at Orochimaru. His eyes quickly became sharp, and he looked at Orochimaru without saying a word.

The snake eyes in the night looked a little inexplicably weird. He just stared at Kato Oo's outstretched right hand with a strange expression. Looking at Kato Oo's slightly solemn look, Orochimaru chuckled and squinted slightly. Eyes, slowly raised his arm.

"The Seal of Opposition?"

"It seems that Xu Jun has a lot of confidence in his own strength..."

Kato O didn't speak, but took action the moment Orochimaru raised the Seal of Opposition.

"Magic·Multiple Darkness Techniques!"

The huge dark space formed by the Dark Art suddenly appeared above the sea. It was black that seemed to merge with the whole world. Different from the ordinary Dark Art, the surge-like black space seemed to be also there. As the waves continue to spread, illusion and reality may only be a split second.

"Amazing..., a genius-like improvement..."

Orochimaru dodged, leaving only countless snake shadows walking through the dark space. He thought for a moment before slowly speaking, as if he felt the sensation of being in the dark space through these colorful snakes.

"Tu Dun · Tulong Spear!"

Countless sand and gravel mixed with mud on the shoal suddenly spurted towards Kato Ou. He just dodged left and right to avoid all the mud and mud. Kato Ou's eyes flashed slightly, and countless fluorescent lights shot out from his hands.

"fall!"

The soul fire bugs scattered everywhere suddenly flickered with blue light in the dark night, and the light path flickered on and off, strands flickering in the deep sea, reflecting the dreamy blue light, like a dream scene in a fairy tale.

"Since Mr. Xu is so elegant, he will naturally accompany him to the end..."

The faint blue light also shone in Orochimaru's eyes, but it didn't have the slightest impact. He just clasped his hands lightly with a bit of a smile.

"The Array of Ten Thousand Snakes!"

Countless venomous snakes of various sizes suddenly crawled out of the soil scattered everywhere. They seemed to be guided and controlled in an instant, twisting their bodies to form a dense blockade, and rushed towards Kato Oo.

"burst!"

With a soft drink, countless faint blue light spots attached to each poisonous snake, seeming to give them an illusory and transparent brilliance.

But suddenly, what was flying in the sky and what was lurking in the water seemed to bloom like countless fireworks, scattering countless brilliance.

"Teacher Orochimaru, as always, is unpredictable..."

"Partially spiritualized!"

Kato Oo jumped into the air, clenched one hand, and punched Lingxu, but suddenly a huge fist shadow appeared and hit Orochimaru almost instantly.

"Has the art of spiritual transformation been developed to this extent by Mr. Xu?"

Orochimaru dodged and watched as the shadow of his fist passed through the ground as if it were nothing and submerged completely into the earth, his eyes slightly condensed.

The attack that ignores physical defense is exactly the same as when he first met Kato Oo, but now he seems to have overcome the biggest drawback of the spiritual transformation technique.

"In this case……"

"Grass Pheasant Sword!"

Sighing in his mouth, a slender artifact was slowly pulled out from his mouth. He seemed to be a little interested and turned his attention to Kato Ou standing on the sea.

"Xu-kun really surprised me that illusion and ninjutsu can reach such a level..."

With just a hint of knowledge, Orochimaru could tell with just two short moves that Kato Oo's illusion skills were already extremely profound. His ability to control so many soul fire insects at the same time and his improvement in spiritual transformation techniques all revealed his outstanding abilities. Chakra control and ninjutsu abilities.

"Did Orochimaru-sensei decide to have a good fight with me?"

Kato O looked at the Kusanagi sword in Orochimaru's hand, pursed his lips slightly, and formed a seal.

The pitch-black hilt slowly emerged from the void. He held the hilt tightly and pulled it out. The ink-like blade seemed to be condensing and forming from another space. A cold aura of extermination suddenly swept across the entire beach.

"Creation of Chakra? The breath of sealing technique..."

I don’t know when the kid who could instantly kill someone with a stone has grown to this point.

Orochimaru looked at Kato Oo with an expression that seemed to be in a daze, as if he could see some other people through his figure.

Kato Oo didn't know who those people were, but this was the first time that Kato Oo noticed such delicate emotions in the eyes of the cold Snake Lord in front of him.

Orochimaru suddenly stopped what he was doing, and just let out a laugh, with a bit of appreciation and a bit of complexity in his eyes.He gently put down the Kusanagi sword in his hand, smiled and extended his hand to Kato Oo.

"No need, Mr. Xu..."

"I approve of you..."

When the fingers were lightly clasped and the seal of reconciliation was formed, Kato Oo just smiled, very happily.

"Maybe this way, Mr. Orochimaru will no longer regard me as a child in need of help..."

"Are Xujun complaining that I didn't pay you enough?"

Orochimaru smiled, but did not speak again. He just walked quietly under the moonlight, seeming to be thinking about something. Although there seemed to be nothing unusual, Kato Ou seemed to feel some inexplicable silence on Orochimaru's part.

Probably thinking of someone from the past...

He probably knew that compared to the fact that he had never felt any sense of belonging to Konoha, Orochimaru, who grew up in Konoha, had countless 'bonds' here. Perhaps it was the repeated disappointments that finally made him leave. After embarking on such a path, his decision may be a hundred times more difficult than his own.

After a long moment of silence, Orochimaru slowly spoke, seemingly once again completely hiding his exposed emotions.

"I have never worried about the possibility of Xu Jun's strength growing to what it is today, but now Xu Jun seems to be putting on the shackles of such strength..."

"To escape from reality, you have to fill your empty heart with false emotions, fall into the quagmire of emotions and cannot extricate yourself, and eventually fall into the so-called 'happiness trap'."

"Xujun..."

"Your heart is empty..."

Orochimaru's eyes seemed to see through Kato Oo's body and see what he was thinking. Compared to Kato Oo's perception, such accurate judgments based only on thinking and experience would always make him marvel at Orochimaru's understanding of Insight into the human heart.

"Friendship, family, love, what a beautiful thing, but emotion is just a need, a more greedy dissatisfaction.

If Kato-kun is lonely, I suggest you find some women, just like that guy Jiraiya, maybe you can experience a more empty feeling and let you know what it feels like...

It's just that I don't think Kato-kun will satisfy such low-level needs.Probably still imagining something..."

"It's just that maybe what you haven't figured out yet is that only loneliness is eternal."

Kato Oo listened to Orochimaru's words silently. Orochimaru rarely had such moments of emotional expression. It seemed that his words had become a little more talkative, a little less cold, and a little more intimate.

He also seemed to gradually understand why Orochimaru became like this. Kato Oo looked around the endless deep sea, thinking about Orochimaru's words, and then slowly spoke.

"Continuous loss will make people feel insecure. If there is some betrayal, then there will be nothing in this world that can truly open a person's heart again."

"What is a genius? I think it is not someone who is born with knowledge, nor is he someone who can quickly imitate a certain skill.

Rather, they can detect mistakes in certain choices as soon as they appear, because they gain their own insights by observing the lives of people around them. "

"Is Mr. Orochimaru a genius? No one disagrees with this title. However, sometimes, perhaps only personal experience can understand the intensity of these pains."

"I just want to feel the pain, regret, and unwillingness of this world first. When these sharp blades like knives completely penetrate my chest, it may be the moment when I regain my life."

"Only cutting off the bonds with my own hands may make these pains more intense, and perhaps make my heart firmer..."

Kato Oo's voice was not loud, but it rarely made Orochimaru fall into deep thought. His eyes shone with an even stronger light, as if he had reacquainted himself with the young man in front of him, who was weak, innocent, and childlike in his memory. His appearance could not coincide with the figure in front of him.

"What a wonderful speech. Such a sober Xujun seems to be too scary. I can't help but want to kill you..."

"Perhaps you should have done this when we first met..."