Konoha: Who says that hunters can't play in the ninja world?

"Even if Lord Orochimaru obtains the Sharingan, he is more likely to become a weak member of the Uchiha clan. Facing a genius like Uchiha Itachi, he will still be an unmatched opponent. After all, his flaws are too big." Kazama's clone spitted everywhere. After making his position clear, the clone fully demonstrated Kazama's eloquent style, which was to fool and analyze, pretending to be considering you, but in fact promoting his own ideas.

"It seems that Kazama-kun knows me better than I know myself. Hahahaha, I'm more curious about the information in Kazama-kun's mind." Orochimaru's face was pale, and he looked sick and crazy.

"Lord Orochimaru has actually already touched the threshold of immortality, but he chose the seemingly safe, but actually wrong, path of reincarnation."

"Go on, Kazama-kun, if you want to save your friend, please show enough sincerity." Orochimaru regained his sanity and calmly folded his arms across his chest.

"Based on Lord Orochimaru's knowledge, has anyone in the ninja world achieved immortality? You don't need to answer. I can tell you the answer. No, even the Six Paths Sage did not achieve immortality. What does this mean? Ninja is not the path to immortality. Therefore, always pursuing immortality with the thinking and methods of a ninja is equivalent to pursuing the right result with the wrong method. How can it work?"

"But from another perspective, are there any creatures in the ninja world that have achieved immortality? The answer is, yes, and Lord Orochimaru has come into contact with them. Why bother looking for something far away?"

"Are you talking about the three holy places and the immortals in the three holy places?" Orochimaru was stunned, then he realized that this answer was unexpected but reasonable.

"Yes, it is the three holy places. No one in the ninja world has achieved immortality, but there are living creatures who have. The sages of the three holy places have existed since the time of the Six Paths Sage. Such a long time, can it be considered immortality?"

"Of course I do, but it's a pity that Kazama-kun seems to have taken it for granted. Although the Sage Mode can give people great power, it is not enough to make people immortal. There are even great dangers in practicing the Sage Mode..." Kazama's words did not impress Orochimaru. Of course he envied the Sage Mode, but the price to pay was his life. How could he, a person who could live forever, put himself in such an uncontrollable danger?

"Don't get me wrong, I never said that the Sage Mode can make people immortal. I said it was the Three Great Sages. Obviously, the Sage Mode is a technique that the Three Holy Lands came up with and selected ninjas as their spokespeople. It looks powerful, but it's actually the same as ninjutsu. So I said, the ninja's path is not the path to immortality. The Three Great Sages are not ninjas either. There is a difference."

"..." Following Kazama's words, Orochimaru fell into deep thought. When Kazama was halfway through, he already believed some of what he said. Because these were facts that were laid out in the open, he couldn't help but believe them. Moreover, he seemed to have really fallen into the ninja mindset, always thinking about using ninjutsu to solve problems. What if the path to immortality really couldn't be solved with ninjutsu? If it was really as Kazama said, the ninja path was not the path to immortality, then wouldn't it be the biggest mistake for him to use ninjutsu to pursue immortality?

This is the good thing about smart people. Once their minds are opened, they can figure out the rest in their imagination.

Orochimaru, who was so lost in his thoughts, was probably not in the mood to fight in the short term. Kazama secretly praised himself and fooled another fool, "Sasuke, take charge. How are you going to thank me?"

The real Kazama received information from the earth clone and knew that he had escaped this time by talking. Now what he had to do was to catch up with the little strong men. He didn't know if Kimimaro and the others could handle it.

Following the traces of the cockroaches, they tracked them.

As for the Twelve Little Warriors, Kimimaro chased them at full speed, but it was really hard to shake him off. He was even facing the threat of being killed at any time. Rather than being chased like this, Shikamaru decisively counterattacked.

With Nobuko and Ichiro as the foundation, and the cooperation of the Twelve Little Strongmen, I hope we can hold out for a while.

"Water Style. Water Dragon Bullet." Nobuko's Water Style was never about power, but to pave the way for the following assassination, so Water Style was actually a supplement to Nobuko's assassination attack. But this time, the melee assassination encountered Kimimaro who almost restrained Nobuko. After determining that the assassination was not effective, the attack method had to be changed, and Water Style was Nobuko's only choice.

The previous battle has proven that water escape has a great restriction on Kimimaro, so now it is natural for Nobuko to take the main attack.

"Water escape, water wave."

"Water Style, Heaven's Crying Technique" three consecutive Water Styles, with no other meaning, just to create a water environment. Without the threat of Kazama in the dark, the only ones who can take the lead are Ichiro and Nobuko, and Nobuko will not back down when the time comes.

Water escape had the widest range of all ninjutsu. After three consecutive water escapes, the entire forest looked like an ocean. Kimimaro was like duckweed on the water, with no worries about his life, but he was always within the range of the water escape.

Kimimaro, who had seen Nobuko's water jutsu, didn't dare to get involved in it easily. Facing the overwhelming water jutsu, he would dodge if he could, and use his speed to avoid it if he couldn't. As a result, the two of them were in a stalemate.

Kimimaro was difficult to approach, and Nobuko was unable to get away.

"It seems that I have to show some real skills. " Xinzi murmured to himself. In the past battles, the three of them cooperated. Xinzi did not have to take on the main attack task. The assassination methods combined with water escape were enough to deal with the enemy.

"Water escape technique, water clone technique." Nobuko's water clone looked like a defective product. It barely looked like a human being, holding a long sword made of water, and rushed towards Kimimaro.

"Why is Sister Nobuko's water clone so ugly and doesn't even have facial features?" Naruto is the only one who can notice these things while he is in the battle.

"This..." The others were also speechless. Is your attention a little off?

They were taught to release Ninjutsu as perfectly as possible, and never to release Ninjutsu perfectly or to release imperfect Ninjutsu intentionally. This is their ideological bias. Releasing imperfect Ninjutsu does not mean that Ninjutsu is not suitable for the current battlefield. After all, the battlefield is ever-changing, and no one can guarantee what situation they will face.

Right in front of us, the water clones were obviously used to besiege Kimimaro, or to attract firepower. Since they were destined to be cannon fodder and be blown up, why did they release them so perfectly? Wouldn't it be better to save some energy?

Under Nobuko's control, the water clones rushed towards Kimimaro in a crooked and slanting manner like zombies. There was no tactics or coordination, they just rushed forward in a rush.

Kimimaro was not afraid of this kind of siege. He stabbed, punched, and kicked casually, and the water clone was exploded into water splashes.

But then, Kimimaro realized that something was wrong. Wasn't this a deliberate act? When the water clone was blown up in close combat, some of the water would pour onto Kimimaro. Once too much water soaked his body and clothes, he would fall into the previous battle rhythm again.