Chapter 902

Since he had spoken, and Orochimaru's originally fierce offensive also paused for a moment, Jiraiya suddenly saw a Rasengan appear before his eyes, shattering those aggressively pressing venomous snakes into pieces.

The smile on Orochimaru's face finally vanished, replaced instead by a look of disgust.

"Just a temporarily hired babysitter, why should I envy you!" Immediately after, the grass was spat out from her mouth.

"Oh oh oh! Orochimaru, you're getting more and more unfathomable."

"After being rejected by Tsunade, you actually set your sights on me."

"Jiraiya!" Orochimaru, while fighting at close range, forced Jiraiya to retreat step by step.

From time to time, along the way at certain specific positions, he formed hand seals with one hand. Jiraiya naturally noticed the small movements, but unfortunately, without using any trump cards, he simply couldn't stop it. At this moment, his power already faintly showed a tendency to surpass Jiraiya's, although both of them were among the foremost shinobi in the Shinobi World.

Hearing Orochimaru say such strange words, the unprepared Jiraiya took a tumble. His face, originally painted like a period-drama actor, now scrunched up its brows and made faces as if he had already swallowed it—very shocked, very uncomfortable, and with a touch of anger at having his sore spot poked.

"Your venomous tongue really is… I'll get serious now. Orochimaru, that suits me just fine—let me have a proper taste of whether you've made any progress lately."

Clang-clatter, this pair of good buddies were fighting it out in the trial grounds, locked in an inseparable brawl. If there were uninformed onlookers around, they'd think some kind of attack incident had occurred.

"Are we starting to weed now, or waiting for them to finish fighting?" Hugging his beloved dog Akamaru, Inuzuka Kiba lowered his voice to ask. The battle before his eyes had already exceeded the bounds of his imagination, so he instinctively asked the person in the team with the most say—Hyuga Lin Cheng. After all, someone from a great clan must surely have seen big scenes—what kind of logic is that?

"Is that so… I see…" At this moment, it was Aburame Shino, who had been silent all along, who spoke first. A parasitic destruction bug was still resting on his finger, clearly one he had released earlier.

"The chakra around here is getting more and more unstable—it really resembles two substances of opposing attributes facing off. And this chakra is very special; my parasitic destruction bugs simply can't feed on it. If I had to say, the destruction is truly astonishing! Amazing, amazing, wow…"

Shino had finally managed to say so much in one breath, but he didn't expect Inuzuka Kiba's attention to be entirely on the confrontation before his eyes.

Lin Cheng had maintained that calm appearance all along; from beginning to end, her attention was on the confrontation. Even though there was nothing unusual on the surface, in reality her Byakugan was already activated.

The gaze of all of Konoha was now fully observing the entire village—of course the focus was still on the two who possessed bloodline transmissions: Uzumaki Naruko and Uchiha Sako.

After a period of observation, she could already confirm that the dormant power within these two girls had not yet awakened. This was very good news. Because she herself was unable to unleash the full power of her true body, Kaguya no longer dared to casually discard the shell that was Lin Cheng. If these two greatest threats still did not possess the ability to expose her, then from here on, she could step into the next phase with greater peace of mind.

Take, for example, the one before her called Orochimaru. Kaguya-hime could recognize at a glance the other's power, origin, and the Kusanagi Sword in his hand. One had to admit that the White Snake was seriously cultivating this person. She couldn't help but recall, a thousand years ago, when the White Snake Sage was still just a little milk snake.

Letting her contractor serve as a force for her return was clearly the most fitting choice........

The key was how to make the other party accept her existence without triggering the wrong response. Kaguya-hime subconsciously touched her own left side, the position of her last rib, and suddenly recalled that her true body at this moment was still bound hand and foot, imprisoned far away on the distant moon.

Just imagine—after learning that a thousand-year-old monster had taken over the body of one of Konoha's three great clans' heirs, how would Orochimaru view this matter? Even if the other party seemingly held great enthusiasm for unknown and unsolved mysteries, once it involved something detrimental to Konoha, one could assume he would show no mercy.

During this period, Kaguya-hime hadn't made any particularly large moves. She continued playing the role of Hyuga Lin Cheng. Fortunately, Lin Cheng had been under her shadow since childhood, so the slight changes in personality and the no-different-from-usual words and deeds didn't arouse the suspicion of anyone, including relatives like Hyuga Hiashi. Every night, when everyone had fallen into deep sleep, she would hand little Zetsu over to the Land of Moon.

Using the essence already gathered within, she tempered Lin Cheng's body.

A thousand years of slumber, and there were quite a few interesting things—like the people of the Hyuga clan being very strange. They perfectly inherited the power of the "Byakugan." Kaguya-hime only needed to give it a little push, and Lin Cheng's eyes were fully developed. Correspondingly, perhaps precisely because generation after generation they possessed powerful bloodline-limit ocular techniques, accompanied by those enviable eyes, the Hyuga clan also possessed another special constitution—despite having meridians no different from others and normal chakra, they could only ever produce pure chakra that was forever incapable of undergoing nature transformation.