Inside Ye Liang's body, he clearly sensed an extremely terrifying dark energy—something the Ye Liang who had injured him never possessed!
"You're not him? Who exactly are you?" Orochimaru quickly asked.
"None of your damn business!"
Ye Liang shot Orochimaru a glare. He pulled Amal's body out of the System Space and placed it before Orochimaru. "Heal her—immediately! Or die!"
"Why?"
Orochimaru nearly blurted out in English!
He nudged Amal with the tail of the White Phosphorus Serpent, only to discover she was already dead. "I'm not a god! How could I possibly save this woman?"
"You don't know Impure World Reincarnation? Just bring her back using that!"
"Impure World Reincarnation?"
A series of question marks appeared on Orochimaru's face. "I don't know that technique at all!"
"You don't know it?"
Ye Liang stood there, stunned. "That's impossible! In the original story, you already learned The Second's Kinjutsu before you defected. How could you not know it now?"
"I truly don't know it!"
A bitter smile flickered across Orochimaru's face. "I had originally planned to steal and learn The Second's Kinjutsu, but then suddenly met someone who looked exactly like you—he screwed me over!
I had no choice but to defect early..."
"What?"
...
Three hours later.
From Orochimaru's vivid explanation, Ye Liang finally understood what he meant.
Orochimaru hadn't even begun to master Impure World Reincarnation!
Because his defection happened earlier than before!
That Fake Ye Liang appeared out of nowhere, exposing Orochimaru's Cursed Seal plan, completely ruining all his research.
Everything spiraled into chaos!
"How could it be like this! If Orochimaru doesn't know Impure World Reincarnation, then Amal is truly beyond saving!"
A wisp of black smoke flickered in Ye Liang's eyes. Just as Orochimaru was confused, Ye Liang punched the ground. This punch drove the earth downward more than ten meters.
!!!
Orochimaru was so frightened that he immediately knelt down on the ground.
"Subordinate Orochimaru is willing to devote his entire life to serving my master!"
Ye Liang looked at his own fist, his pupils widened in shock.
"Is this my strength?"
He shook his head slightly, deciding not to dwell on it.
"Fine! Since you're willing to submit to me, you'll follow me from now on."
Witnessing Orochimaru's loyalty, Ye Liang had no reason to refuse. Besides, even though Orochimaru didn't know Impure World Reincarnation now, he could still research and recreate it!
Based on Orochimaru's abilities, if he could obtain The Second's version of Impure World Reincarnation, he could replicate and perfect the technique!
Convinced of this, Ye Liang retrieved Amal's corpse.
"Master, where shall we go now?" Orochimaru scratched his head as he saw Ye Liang preparing to leave.
"Let's return to the Land of Sky first."
...
Months later.
A bitter smile flickered across Ye Liang's face.
Orochimaru had already settled in, but problems arose with Impure World Reincarnation!
Originally, he wanted to sneak back into Konoha to steal the technique, but unexpectedly encountered another version of himself in Konoha!
That impostor!
Damn it! Why does that guy keep showing up to ruin my plans! How long can this go on like this!
Ye Liang was furious.
Today had been a terrible day for him, especially with the Zero-Tails constantly whispering nonsense into his mind. Although he couldn't understand what the Zero-Tails was saying, Ye Liang's mood had hit rock bottom.
At that moment, a terrifying thought suddenly struck him!
White Zetsu!
"Damn it! Since you're forcing my hand, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
Ye Liang was ready to deploy White Zetsu!
With a massive number of White Zetsu, even that impostor wouldn't stand a chance!
Over the past few days, he had checked out that impostor's strength. Nearly Kage-level, but with very poor stamina. Definitely could be exhausted to death with a large number of White Zetsu.
Although Ye Liang wasn't exactly sure how to produce White Zetsu, he had the perfect scientist for this task. If Orochimaru could develop the Impure World Reincarnation, he could certainly figure out how to create White Zetsu.
"As for the basic theory of White Zetsu production... Heh heh, I'll just have a little chat with Black Zetsu later."
He planned to give Black Zetsu a surprise.
He acted immediately.
After making thorough preparations, he instinctively headed toward the Land of Water.
The Land of Water was Madara's hiding place. Since Black Zetsu wanted to tempt Madara, he should also be near the Land of Water. Ye Liang intended to search around this area.
When he arrived nearby,
He dismissed Orochimaru first.
To effectively locate his target, he needed to cast a wide net.
He carefully approached Kiri.
"I think Madara's hiding place is in the mountains near Kiri. Black Zetsu should be somewhere close by too." Ye Liang swiftly dashed through the forest.
At this time, Kiri was under the rule of Yagura.
Controlled by Madara's genjutsu, Kiri was now in a fascist era, turning life for its inhabitants into an unbearable existence.
Many of the elder ninja had been driven to death by the tyrannical Yagura.
Ye Liang stopped on a large tree trunk.
Ahead of him was a battle taking place. The combatants were both Mist ninjas—one side belonged to Yagura's faction, while the other consisted of elder, veteran ninja.
"This is interesting. Yagura is in such a hurry to eliminate the older generation. It seems his identity has already come under question." Ye Liang flashed his body and appeared in the middle of these two factions.
"Who are you!"
The ninjas from both sides shouted.
Ye Liang's pupils shifted slightly as he directly used a simple genjutsu to control the veteran Mist ninja.
"A friend of yours." He smiled as he looked toward Yagura's faction.
Since Yagura has ties to Madara, naturally gaining favor with Yagura's subordinates would make approaching Yagura himself easier. Once he got close to Madara, tracking down Black Zetsu would be a piece of cake.
"Friend? When has Mist Village ever had friends?"
"We didn't have friends before, but now we do." Ye Liang chuckled. He took control of those veteran ninja and marched straight toward the opposing side.
Yagura's faction was startled!
These veteran ninja weren't particularly powerful, but they were experienced and had mastered various rare ninjutsu. For Ye Liang to subdue these veteran ninja with just one move was simply unbelievable!
"Just what exactly do you want! Don't think that just because you helped us subdue these rogue ninja, Mist Village will reward you."
"Hahaha, why would you think like that?"
Ye Liang burst out laughing. "I've just heard that Mr. Yagura of Mist is an extremely powerful individual, and I wanted to take this opportunity to get to know him."
"That's it?"
The Mist ninja immediately relaxed. "You should've just said so! I thought you were a passing bounty ninja."
"Bounty ninja?"
Ye Liang was taken aback. How come they thought of him like that? "Do bounty ninja often appear around here?"
The leader of the Mist ninja stepped forward.
"Not before, but recently, bounty ninja have been frequently showing up around Kiri. Many of our comrades have already been attacked and killed."
"I see."
Ye Liang nodded slightly, without giving his opinion.
Before long,
he followed this group of Mist ninja from the Yagura faction through the gates of Kiri.
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